Today we have the co-founders of Virtue Animation, Bob Bacon and Josh Wagner. It's a web3 animation studio producing innovative, high quality IP for the metaverse. A former EVP at Disney and Paramount Pictures joined forces with the former corporate marketers of Anheuser-Busch and Lyrical Lemonade to create a studio dedicated to building a platform for original IP by leveraging the tools of blockchain technology. Their first creative endeavor is Basemint Gang, an irreverent satirical cartoon focused on NFT rejects finding their path to becoming authentic degens.

Timecodes:

0:00 - Intro

4:20 - How Kobe inspired Virtue Animation’s creation

6:00 - Bobs inspiration to jump into web3 

8:59 - Wags’ background

11:54 - Why the 2017 crypto crash worse than today’s

17:58 - The Basemint Gang mint

23:50 - Tokenomics and gamification in entertainment

28:19 - G makes a question 

34:19 - AI use in entertainment

44:00 - Art Basel activation

46:25 - How many episodes they are planning for season 1

47:53 - How fast can they produce one episode

49:23 - Find more information about Basemint Gang