Sometimes the idea or concept for our cover is born in seconds, and then it is all about the right execution. And there are times when even long hours of sweating and generating ideas leave us empty-handed.

We knew we would reference to Olympic games in some way, as we try to record significant world events besides capturing the dramas around NFT grounds. I had an idea of showing the online NFT storefront where among other NFTs are also sold Olympic rings separately as 1/1.

What seemed like a brilliant idea came out in the visualization as really unappealing blend imagery. Well, after the very appraised Art Blocks cover, we had to do better. Ughhh, it was already Sunday afternoon, and the canvas was still blank.

🚨 Panic level is rising. We haven't been ever so close to a drop time caught with our pants down. We recalled an idea from Friday where we discussed Japanese mechas and that even Olympic games have their own Gundam robot installation and souvenirs.

Ok, nothing to lose from this point. I grabbed a ready-made mecha asset and adjusted it slightly.  Then set up the scene and lighting using Olympic colors.

Red proposed to implement the rings in the background. I wanted to play it safe as Olympic symbols are very hardly protected, so the rings are not interlacing, and the bottom ring colors are swapped. No, I haven't messed it up, really. That was fully intended. 😂 Finally, let the mecha hold an Olympic torch.

There really wasn't time left to render animation from Cinema 4D, so all the moving parts – article references – needed to be implemented in After Effects followed by audio enhancement. Nevertheless, it is decent creation considering the circumstances and time pressure.

Btw. the Japanese letters in the corner should mean "Tokyo" if you are curious about it.  Take care until next Monday.