Toronto, Canada, twenty seventh March, 2023, Chainwire
- Winkles & Flam™, the ‘Cosplaying Canadian Kitties™,’ are the First Unique Cartoon Duo of the web3 house, launching solely on OpenSea Drops
- Sphynx Ink Inc. contains Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker Adam Benzine (HBO’s Spectres of the Shoah) & BAFTA®-Successful Illustrator Dele Nuga (The BBC’s The Clangers)
- Non-PFP and non-generative, Winkles & Flam marks a radical new mannequin for Digital Collectibles, with high-quality, hand-drawn illustrations & weekly/seasonal releases
- The primary challenge to accomplice with Mint Foundry, the brand new Visible Metadata Editor from the staff behind acclaimed ‘No Code’ NFT service Mintplex Labs
Canadian artwork collective Sphynx Ink Inc. is partnering with OpenSea’s unique “Drops” platform to launch Winkles & Flam, a ground-breaking Digital Collectibles challenge introducing the primary cartoon duo of the web3 house.
Created by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Adam Benzine and BAFTA®-winning illustrator Dele Nuga, Winkles & Flam – the ‘Cosplaying Canadian Kitties’ – are adorkable sibling Sphynx cats who costume up in home made, video game-inspired outfits. A yr within the works and that includes unique, hand-drawn artwork, the challenge differs radically from present NFT tasks. It isn’t a PFP (Profile Image). Nor does it use generative parts.
Launching April 3 with weekly content material drops, moderately than unexpectedly, Winkles & Flam will run for 5 seasons, with units of hand-drawn photographs comprising a mixture of free mint, fixed-price and auctioned choices. Every set attracts inspiration from an iconic online game, with an academic part – Winklepedia™ – specializing in the historical past of video video games.
A Season Pass goes on sale at present (March 27) solely by way of OpenSea Drops, restricted to only 1,000 copies and guaranteeing patrons all 30 playing cards from Season 1.
Winkles & Flam is the primary main challenge to make use of Mintplex Lab’s cutting-edge, visible metadata editor Mint Foundry, which permits creators to edit and replace info in real-time, with out coding data.
Winkles & Flam Creator Adam Benzine says: “Winkles & Flam marks the beginning of ‘Section 2’ of the Digital Collectibles house, specializing in unique characters, narrative, high quality and reliability, led by doxxed creators with a confirmed observe document.
“The market has grown bored with low-quality, rug-pull pump-n-dumps and vaguely conceived, cash-grab metaverses. A gentle stream of rubbish profile footage has turned off customers. It’s time for one thing contemporary.”
Winkles & Flam Co-Creator Dele Nuga provides: “We’re thrilled to accomplice with OpenSea Drops and grateful to the geniuses at Mintplex Labs for devising an answer for our unconventional launch technique. We imagine Winkles & Flam would be the first of many tasks to maneuver to a character-based, weekly launch technique, specializing in character, storytelling and group.”
Season 1 of Winkles & Flam launches on April 3 and runs for 10 weeks, with weekly free mint playing cards (that includes Winkles) and fixed-priced playing cards (that includes Flam) launched on Polygon. Winkles & Flam: Platinum playing cards (distinctive 1-of-1s that includes the duo collectively in playful situations) will probably be auctioned every day on Ethereum. Try winklesandflam.com for more information.
(NOTE: Winkles is the pink kitty with blue eyes. Flam is the gray kitten with inexperienced eyes.)
About Sphynx Ink Inc.
Based by Oscar®-nominee ADAM BENZINE and BAFTA®-winner DELE NUGA, Sphynx Ink Inc. is the Toronto-based artwork collective behind WINKLES & FLAM™, The Cosplaying Canadian Kitties™!
LINKS:
Winkles & Flam on OpenSea Drops: opensea.io/collection/winklesandflam-seasonpass/drop
Winkles & Flam Official Website: winklesandflam.com
Winkles & Flam LinkTree: linktr.ee/winklesandflam
Winkles & Flam Creator Adam Benzine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adam_benzine
Mintplex Labs: mintplex.xyz
Contact
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