About
From the mind of Rinaldo Wirz comes an immersive world of watercolor monsters.
Introduction
Monster Book was created by Rinaldo Wirz, who’s done work for Nintendo, Lego, Square Enix, Swarovski, and Shueisha. In the NFT community, Rinaldo is known for being one of the original 2015 artists for Spells of Genesis, the first-ever blockchain-based mobile game.
For almost a decade, Rinaldo had diligently worked on Monster Book, creating his first monster for the world in 2013. What began as a daily habit of water coloring a new monster has turned into 10 Moleskine notebooks full of hundreds of characters and creations. He is now digitizing these artworks and preparing them for NFT release.
While living in Japan, Rinaldo drew inspiration from places like Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka. As a result, many elements of Japan’s culture, environment, and rich history have shaped Monster Book’s world and lore.
Story
Far off in a distant galaxy from Earth lives a unique planet nestled in the darkness. The planet is engulfed in one giant ocean but amongst the waves is one solitary island, Lo-Fo-Teng. This island’s inhabitants were forged by the six elemental guardians born from the ancient artifact, the “Monster Book.”
Card Creation Process
The transformation from physical to digital
- Draw with a blue pen
- Cleanup with a black pen
- Paint watercolors
- Some touchup
- Scan drawing
- Make enhancements and remove the background
- Add it to the card template
Card Structure
Guiding Principals
We have decided never to purchase followers on Twitter, retweets, Discord members, etc. We intend to grow this community both authentically and organically.
We will be implementing card blindness to eliminate the possibility of us, or anyone else, rarity-sniping certain cards. This will ensure total fairness during the mint.
Community Driven Lore
Founders Role community members will have access to an exclusive world-building Discord channel in our server where they can help us develop names, descriptions, and lore for Monster Book. Contributions will allow you to increase your Lore Level, earning free card mints based on your level. This is tracked with a custom Lore Level Bot we built for this project.
Whitelist
A number of our Discord members were assigned the Whitelist role. This came from being early discoverers of Monster Book, winning contests, and making meaningful contributions to our project or the crypto community as a whole. These members will eventually have their roles updated from Whitelist to Founders. Members with a Founders role will have access to many exclusive perks.
Founder Role Perks
- Free Founders NFT that acts as a pass to authenticate access to exclusive perks (Update: this token is FOUNDERCARD on Counterparty)
- Early access to mint and discounted mint price
- Access to write lore and contribute to the world-building of Monster Book
- Discounts on any future Monster Book products
- DAO-like influence by helping to vote on critical project outcomes
- Additional chances to get free card mints
Cards Rarity System
- 101 Unique Monsters / 1010 Total Distribution. This means 10 Copies of every monster.
- 40 Unique Common Monsters / 10 copies of each common monster for a total of 400 Common Monster cards = close to 40% chance to pull common.
- 30 Unique Uncommon Monsters / 10 copies of each uncommon monster for a total of 300 Uncommon Monster cards = close to 30% chance to pull uncommon.
- 20 Unique Rare Monsters / 10 copies of each rare monster for a total of 200 Rare Monster cards = close to 20% chance to pull rare.
- 10 Unique Mythic Monsters / 10 copies of each mythic monster for a total of 100 Mythic Monster cards = close to 10% chance to pull mythic.
- 1 Unique Grail Monster / 10 copies of this grail monster for a total of 10 Grail Monster cards = close to 1% chance to pull grail.
- *If we have a larger than anticipated community scale, to make the cards fully accessible, we have alternative population and rarity scaling models ready to reply.
Satoshicard Creator Special Guest
We are thrilled to share that Herckeim, the artist behind the SATOSHICARD for Spells of Genesis, has joined Monster Book. Herckeim will create a number of backgrounds and help to develop the world in which the monsters live. Perhaps we will see Herckeim’s monsters in a future expansion?
This marks the first of several planned collaborations between Rinaldo and Herckeim.
Herckeim’s renowned Satoshi artwork made for Spells of Genesis
Blockchain
MonsterBook is going to be released on Counterparty.
Release Date
Q1 of 2023
What’s Next ?
This first release of monsters is just the beginning. We have many more monsters currently in development and hope to do future releases, including new monsters, and evolved storyline.
The future of Monster Book is fluid and bright. While we don’t know exactly what the future of this project will be, we have tentative plans to leverage industry connections and pursue making a Monster Book tabletop game.
Conclusion
There’s a monster for everyone in Monster Book. We are working to capture a massive spectrum of feelings, personalities, and types. Join us and find your monster.
Links
Website: https://monsterbook.fougere.ch/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MonsterBookNFT
Discord: https://discord.gg/mUVDFEpGe9
Team
Rinaldo Wirz / Ryo Fougere
Founder
https://twitter.com/ryofougere
The original creator behind the world of Monster Book. He’s worked for Nintendo, Lego, Swarovski, and Shueisha. He is the creative
Director at Momo-Pi Game Studio.
Guillaume Ducos / Herckeim
Artist
https://twitter.com/DucosGuillaume
https://www.deviantart.com/herckeim
Herckeim, also known as Guillaume Ducos, has been a freelance illustrator for over a decade. He’s worked for companies such as EverdreamSoft, Alderac Entertainment Group, Fantasy Flight Games, Osprey Publishing, and individual collectors.
Kamryn Phillips
Co-Founder
https://twitter.com/kamn8r
Technology engineer for over a decade, entrepreneur, creative strategist, and public speaker. Involved in crypto since 2015 and NFTs since 2016.
Michaella Phillips
Creative Writer and Localization
Former chemist turned data scientist with many published scientific papers.