Web3 story studio Toonstar at present introduced the discharge of its new adult-animated collection, House Junk. The office comedy about rubbish collectors in house will likely be out there to stream at spacejunkies.xyz starting Might 19, on the heels of its world premiere at Consensus 2023 on Thursday.
House Junk was created and written by Dominic Russo (Workaholics) and stars Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory) and Tony Cavalero (Faculty of Rock, The Righteous Gem stones). The collection is powered by the Theta media and leisure blockchain.
“We’re thrilled to companion with Toonstar on House Junk, a collection that may reveal to the leisure trade what’s doable if you use blockchain expertise to empower creators and followers to interact and create in highly effective new methods,” stated Andrea Berry, Head of Enterprise Growth, Theta Labs. “As a content material firm, Toonstar has a robust understanding of the facility of Web3 expertise and has executed its imaginative and prescient impressively. We see them as a invaluable expertise developer to deliver a dynamic, interactive expertise to life by constructing on the Theta video infrastructure, a customized Theta subchain and NFT market.”
Introduced as an trade first, House Junk will characteristic a personality voiced solely by AI generated voice software program. That character, a robotic named “Wellbecca,” will work together immediately with the House Junk group, appearing as a artistic co-pilot for group members. Utilizing AI and dynamic NFTs, Wellbecca will assist creators flip their prompts into authentic brief tales set throughout the “House Junk” universe.
House Junk is Toonstar’s third authentic Web3 collection launch, following The Gimmicks and Home of Chico. Based by John Attanasio and Luisa Huang, veterans of DreamWorks, Disney and Warner Bros., Toonstar provides a storytelling mannequin that provides digital token holders the power to take part in narrative improvement, create their very own characters and storylines, and have interaction in distinctive fan experiences. The end result has been engagement ranges that rival gaming trade statistics.
“With every collection launched this 12 months, we’ve pushed the expertise ahead to broaden alternatives for creators and followers to interact with the story world and participate in constructing new hit IP,” stated Attanasio. “With House Junk, we’re taking it even additional, merging nice content material with recreation play that may launch a brand new Web3-enabled mannequin of interactive leisure.”
Heder, co-founder of Verified Labs and govt producer on the brand new collection, stated, “The participatory storytelling facet of House Junk presents a chance to deliver extra creators into the fold to uncover recent tales and concepts which feels particularly essential in at present’s surroundings. Toonstar is totally displaying the broader leisure trade how Web3 can open doorways for brand new creators and create loopy, engaged fan communities and uncover nice new IP for Hollywood.”
The difficulty of house rubbish got here to the media forefront final month when a global group of researchers estimated there are greater than 100 trillion items of floating particles in house. Toonstar collaborated with an aerospace engineer to make sure this looming house junk drawback was depicted precisely on display.
