We have witnessed yet again the biggest week in NFTs to date and we couldn't just leave it behind without motherfucking colossal cover, could we? The idea to depict Beeples jabroni face as a buried statue on an alien planet was born on Saturday night.  Let's break down a day in the life of a cover artist.

Su 8:30 AM: Wake up and realize there is a pretty challenging task in front of me. First, I want to tick off the hardest item—his face. Well, you can't just grab "One Beeples face, please" on the asset market. You actually have to sculpt it. Thank god he has a giant nose, and also the well-known grimace helped the model be recognizable.

Su 11:00 AM: Happy with the head outcome, so I am building the environment layout. The scene will be complex, and still not sure how to fiddle with all this lightning and atmosphere. I actually never did this before, which makes me a bit nervous. You guys expecting kickass cover tonight as always. But it is healthy, challenging, and pushing my boundaries every week.

Su 3:00 PM: Let's build some alien base around the statue. Actually, it is starting to shape up, but it takes couple more hours before I can say I am happy with what I see. Before the first renders, I got the idea to add drones researching the lost artifact.

Raw render

Su 5:00 PM: Time to show the first still renders to Redlion: "Where are the aliens? looks amazing, you can make these 3 aliens, one with covid, one with pipe and the other alien, and one is holding a bag with cash, yea they make a deal". There are little aliens on the first render, but we agreed it is not enough. Time is running out fast, so I rush to get us some aliens.

Su 7:30 PM: I manage to put together those fuckers. Redlion: "easy right? u found the models? amazing". After tuning the alien's color and illumination, we are happy with the still image, and there is not much time left to make complex animation. Only the render will take approx 2.5 hours for 5 seconds of video, and we want to drop issue #26 tonight. The RLEG crowds are starting to go crazy.

Su 9:30 PM: The render is in the oven and I can focus on the issue articles on our website. The animation is frankly too simple and short, but it is due to the lack of time for more rendering. As we progress probably we will reserve whole Sundays only for rendering.

Mo 0:15 AM: Render is finished now –  just send it through After Effects and prepare gif for mint.

Mo 1:00 AM: Mint ✅

Mo 1:30 AM: Subscribers issues distribution ✅

Mo 2:00 AM: Sold out ✅

*my time zone is GMT +1 hour