Pharrell, Lil Wayne to Headline Doodles NFT Animated Film
Ethereum NFT-driven property Doodles introduced Thursday that it’s growing an animated movie referred to as “Dullsville and the Doodleverse,” that includes contributions from outstanding musicians Pharrell Williams, Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter, and Coi Leray.
“Dullsville and the Doodleverse” is being produced internally at Golden Wolf, the veteran animation studio that Doodles acquired in January 2023, and can be directed by Doodles co-founder and illustrator Scott “Burnt Toast” Martin.
Billed as a “groundbreaking animation and music expertise,” the movie will characteristic music from Williams, who was named Chief Model Officer of Doodles again in June 2022.
The undertaking will launch a soundtrack by way of Doodles Data, a sub-label established with Columbia Data, and launch a trio of music movies alongside the album. Lil Wayne and Leray will each characteristic on the soundtrack, in addition to voice characters within the movie—Lil Wayne as Captain Stoke and Leray as Deysi.
our first ever animated particular can be accompanied by a Doodles Data authentic soundtrack with three music movies, that includes a few of the world’s greatest artists…
…together with @LilTunechi and @coi_leray, who will even be voicing characters within the movie pic.twitter.com/8nzxbc4hDI
— doodles (@doodles) April 4, 2024
“Dullsville and the Doodleverse” will premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition (TIFF) in September following an related “Venture Grey” marketing campaign starting in early summer season. In a tweet thread, Doodles CEO Julian Holguin mirrored on the trail to the movie’s launch.
“Two years in the past, we had been in talks with the largest animation studios within the trade to adapt our IP into a world leisure franchise,” he wrote. “After numerous conferences, with affords on the desk, we determined to pivot.”
Holguin wrote that sustaining artistic management was paramount, and that’s why Doodles as a substitute acquired Golden Wolf and developed the undertaking internally as a substitute.
“Quit management of our personal future?” he added. “Not on the desk.”
Doodles launched as a ten,000 NFT undertaking on Ethereum in 2021 and has since generated practically $650 million price of buying and selling quantity up to now, per knowledge from CryptoSlam. The undertaking has since expanded to the Circulation blockchain with the larger-scale Doodles 2 undertaking, which incorporates avatar customization and gaming and metaverse integrations.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
