How it all began: the tale of the Golden Record
Hedera Aliens is an original, non-derivative Hedera-based NFT project. The Hedera network has been chosen because of its efficiency, low fees, ease of use, and enchanting community, which we are extremely happy to be part of.
The collection story
Hedera Aliens reside on planets around the Alpha Centauri system, the Sun’s nearest neighbour, located approximately 4.2 light years apart. The story begins with the stranded Golden Record, carried by the Voyager space probes. It was found by the Hedera Aliens on one of the planets. The Golden Record shows the location of the Solar System, images, and messages from humans. Ever since then, the aliens have worked mercilessly to visit their human counterparts on planet Earth and learn all about them.
The collection features items, headwear, and clothing from both human and alien worlds. As the Aliens familiarise themselves with the humans and their items, it leads to sometimes hilarious scenes and visuals.
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The art has been inspired by variety of things. Starting from movies such as Marvel movies (The Avengers or Thor), Alien movies, or the South Park TV series, to games such as Crash Bandicoot 3 (Area 51 Stage).
The design process
Each trait, item, and property has been carefully crafted and curated. There are no two NFTs alike in the collection; each of them is unique. It has been a learning process for us, and we hope you enjoy our creations as much as we are having fun making them. In the end, that was the main driver behind the collection — to have fun. We are having a blast making it. Final images will be generated from sets of layers and a little bit of programming (actually, quite a bit) to achieve absolute perfection.
We have been pixel-peeping everything, and many items have been redesigned numerous times. Yet we still find imperfections every time we look at the final result.
By the way, this is our first ever sketch of the alien on an iPad. We find it pretty hilarious!
Excited? We hope so, because we sure are! Anyways, that’s it for today, more to come soon, stay tuned!
- John, the Hedera Aliens team.
