Turn Those Frowns Upside Down - ZeroPod Ep 2 with Supriyo from "The Rise of Blus, A Nouns Movie"

July 24 2023

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Zero Rights Reserved podcast from The Noun Square collective, in which hosts Toady Hawk and Jack Wyldes interview Supriyo from Atrium and chat all about The Rise of Blus: A Nouns Movie.

Learn about why he decided to transition from a career in tech to making ambitious animated films with a remote team, what drew him to build in Nouns DAO, and what it’s like to make a movie for a decentralized studio with 400+ bosses!

Part 2 of the movie is in production now, and we also got some tasty alpha about what to expect.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Trend of Awesome Animation and Nouns
0:44 - Nouns Short Shorts: https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xd64ce32...
1:34 - Is CC0 a double-edged sword?
4:29 - World-building in a CC0 environment
6:08 - Short clip from The Rise of Blues: A Nouns Movie
6:35 - Introducing our guest, Supriyo
6:44 - His career before Nouns
8:07 - Supriyo’s favorite movies
9:00 - Why go from tech into movie-making?
11:45 - Who are Atrium?
13:40 - Why Nouns?
16:04 - Why fund the movie in parts?
16:35 - Nouns DAO as Executive Producers, first such arrangement.
18:42 - “10 seasons and a movie”
21:30 - What is Nouns: A Movie?
22:51 - Visual aesthetic inspiration for the film
23:13 - The real life 13 y.o. Nouner
24:37 - Inspiration for the world of Blus: Cloud Punk
26:31 - Will the same team work on all the Parts?
28:50 - Is “DAOs as Patrons of the Arts” a new paradigm?
30:00 - Open IP actually empowers artists
31:06 - Behind the scenes footage
32:29 - Nouny Clock’s cameo, and other Easter Eggs
34:34 - We may see other NFT IPs included in the next Part of the Movie
35:55 - CC0 = ez world-building
37:16 - The casting call! Deadline midnight July 24: https://twitter.com/nounsmovie/status...
39:10 - Who the heck are the Frouns?
41:50 - How difficult is it to write a plot with a remote team
44:44 - Response to the Pilot so far?
46:05 - 118K Views so far!
47:21 - Settling the score
50:58 - Recapping the Atrium x Nouns story so far
51:55 - What’s next?
52:50 - What’s it like to work for a decentralized org like Nouns DAO?
55:20 - It’s like “Choose your own adventure”
56:03 - Where to find out more: http://nouns.movie

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