Regular Guys

1/6 At the end of 2021, I wanted an astronaut PFP, so I decided to make one myself. I designed the base and then dressed it as an astronaut. That same year, using the same base, @thaisvaz created an entire collection. It was a three-month project we worked on just for fun, while caring for a very sick cat, unable to leave the house, not even for groceries.

travel, cats and cute things 🌄🐱💖

2/6 I studied and wrote the code to randomly combine outfits and accessories, generating a collection of nearly 50,000 PFPs.

Songs of a hidden light |

/lightpainting /regularguys

https://superrare.com/takamura?artwork=ONLY_ONE_OF_ONES&artwork

lynkfire.com/ricardotakamura

3/6 I also joined in the fun by creating some special editions: astronauts, divers, and zombies, bringing the total to almost 70,000. After carefully curating them, we finalized the collection with 10,209 Regulars.

4/6 That same code was later adapted, with only small tweaks, to create my Vortex Dreams collection. Throughout all this time, these PFPs were safely kept and cherished, waiting for the right moment to come to light.

After so much dedication, we didn’t want them to stay hidden. And finally, we found a home for them at @shape-l2 
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Multidisciplinary neurodivergent artist crafting the $REAPS universe in /grumreapur through 3D, AI, and toy art.

Wait whaaaaaat?!? I didn't realise I could generate it via websites. I think part of it would be more about the learning. I was contemplating doing hand drawn elements like variants of background, character, accessories, different expressions etc. Just gotta make a solid foundation and then feed the PNGs into an algorithm and see what it comes out with.

It's a good time to do that, today it is much easier than when I created this collection, there is much more information and some websites where you can enter the traits and they generate the PFPs, in addition to the AI ​​to help us!

Thank you for this, I have been tempted to create a collection of one of my main characters "Grum Reapur" for a little while and never quite understood the full process. But it does seem like a fun way of putting together a collection for those of us who like staring at walls of code 🤔