With a projected increase of $400 billion in the next 3 years, the entertainment industry has been steadily growing big as the demand for higher quality and realistic media has increased. A major portion of this is by the gaming industry, which will account for roughly half of the growth. Many artists and entertainers have embraced the latest in technology and trends, especially NFTs in recent months.
Renowned writer and graphic novel artist Frank Miller is also entering the crypto world by releasing having limited edition through NFTs, the first of many on the new NFT Gala Art platform, backed by world-famous Gala Games.
The Man, The LegendFamous for a darker and grittier approach towards comics and games, Frank Miller has a long and illustrious career in the entertainment industry. He is known for making some of the most critically acclaimed such as 300 (Executive Producer) and Sin City (Film Director, winner of the Austin Film Critics Award and nominations in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival and Czech Lion among others).
He also has a history of working for Marvel Comics and has drawn for Spectacular Spiderman, DareDevil and the spin-off Elektra. His style is surreal, grim and in total contrast to the regular comic books and stories published. One of his projects Cursed a serious and mature version of the legend of King Artur and told from the angle of Lay of the Lake Nimye has been converted into a Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) original series by the same name.
Now, Frank Miller will be releasing his art in the digital sphere through NFTs, special crypto tokens that are one of a kind and will represent ownership of his works. The NFTs are being made available thanks to two entertainment firms, both of which are at the forefront of the gaming industry.
Gala Art and NFTsGala Games is a gaming platform that is utilizing blockchain technology to offer a different gaming experience to players around the world. Founded by the co-founder of Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA), Eric Schiermeyer has established the gaming platform specifically to use cutting edge tools to enhance gameplay. It uses crypto-economy to give real-world value to in-game economics, offers different collectables in the form of NFTs and even gives players control over ownership and operations using its native GALA token. Gala has launched some of the most famous games to hit the market, such as the Echoes of Empire and Fortified. It is currently developing Mirandus, a fantasy MMORPG where players will be able to claim rare items and artefacts using NFTs and will be able to trade and sell these to others.
Gala is now launching a new platform, catered especially towards digital art. Gala Art changes how modern art is bought and sold, offering total ownership to the buyer through the use of NFTs.
Gala Games has teamed up with Concept Art House, an international firm of artists that create art for the top game developing companies around the world. Operating from three different locations (1 in the USA, 2 in China), the gaming art company includes staff and management from top visual graphics and gaming companies such as EA, Lucasarts and Storm8. It has rendered drawings and graphics for top games like Fortnight, PUBG and gaming companies like Warner Brothers Games Ubisoft and Tencent Games.
The collaboration between the companies and Frank Miller is at a time when both artists and games are increasingly using NFTs to monetize different aspects of gameplay and art in ways that were impossible before. Now with Frank Miller’s graphic artwork immortalized through NFTs, players and art lovers from around the world will be able to buy the digital tokens and claim a piece of entertainment history, their ownership written forever in the immutable blockchain.