Fantasy Islands for The Sandbox

Fantasy Islands is a wide ranging project from Everyrealm for The Sandbox. It is the first NFT project that combines unique one-of-one villas with a parcel of metaverse real estate in The Sandbox. There are only 100 Fantasy Islands, so owners are part of an exclusive community—and true landowners in the metaverse. 

The villas were originally created very quickly with minimal references by a remote 3D designer. Our job was to elevate them aesthetically and make them more presentable, realistic and desirable by the existing owners. This was a part of transforming the entire brand into a more polished phase.

I worked with Brigade.tv to re-do the villas and release an NFT “Card” to villa owners. It served the dual purpose of being an NFT but also keeping the owners happy, as the villas were not usable until the game Sandbox launched.

The main challenge was to make the villas look high end and aesthetically pleasing while also keeping them connected to the Minecraft-like game where they would eventually live. We tried several versions, and after a good deal of work, settled on an isometric style on a plinth. This allowed us to have fine detail and lighting but to keep the houses game-like and modular in appearance.

The project was successful and was expanded into animations and additional objects. It is still on going. Some of the work can be seen at the below addresses:

https://everyrealm.com/fantasy-islands

NFT assets are listed on Opens https://opensea.io/collection/fi100-membership-cards and playable on the The Sandbox (once it launches!).

In addition to the main villa project, I also directed and created many of the elements including videos, animations and illustrations for the project. Some of them can be seen here.