19/08/2022 AFL’s first limited-edition NFT drop sells out in under 12 hours

The limited edition digital packs came at a retail price of 34.39 USDC each, raising over $130,000 after it sold out in the first drop.

AFL’s first limited-edition NFT drop sells out in under 12 hours

The limited edition digital packs came at a retail price of 34.39 USDC each, raising over $130,000 after it sold out in the first drop.

The Australian Football League (AFL)’s first limited edition drop ofnonfungible tokens (NFTs)saw huge takeup on Wednesday, selling out in just under 12 hours.

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On Wednesday, the football league launched Ripper Skipper 2022 through its AFL Mint program, allowing people who joined the “allowlist” to purchase one of 3,800 packs reserved for the drop.

The packs came with a retail price of 34.39 USDC each, with the project estimated to have raised over $130,000 in USDC.

The Ripper Skipper 2022 NFTs feature 78 significant moments and highlights from the 2021 Season utilizing both video and audio.Each pack features three “moments” in a trio of different rarity tiers, common, deluxe and ovation.

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Limited edition digital content is also available; anyone who participated in the first drop has a 10% chance of getting an AFL Mint Genesis Ball.

While the initial mint was sold out within hours, the wider public will gain access to another drop on Aug. 24.

AFL shares Metaverse plans

NFTs are digital certificates stored on the blockchain proving ownership of a digital or physical asset, often an artwork, but AFL Mint has plans to expand on the concept and offer game day events, tickets and the chance to meet players in the Metaverse.

Kylie Rogers, executive general manager of customer, and commercial at AFL, said they hope to use the technology to make better fan experiences.

“Through our AFL Mint brand, we will launch exciting new moments across our Men’s and Women’s competitions, plus celebrate past greats and other product releases that will bring a unique fan experience we haven't seen before.”

The AFL announced their NFT marketplace, AFL Mint, back in April, revealing they signed a five-year partnership with Be Media, a Perth-based subsidiary of Hong Kong NFT gaming giant Animoca Brands.

The marketplace will launch in 2023, allowing the selling and trading of moments between fans and collectors.

Following the lead

With the launch of their Ripper Skipper 2022 NFTs, the AFL has followed in the footsteps of other international sporting codes that have forayed into the world of Web3.

The NBAlaunched their marketplaceNBA Top Shot in2020 to critical acclaim, while theUFC created UFC Strikein February of this year.

Other Australian sporting codes have also followed suit; Cricket Australia (CA) and the Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) signed a multi-year licensing deal with Singapore-based collectibles platform Rario and NFT trading company BlockTrust in April.

While Queensland Rugby League had a 10,000 NFT drop titled The Ultimate Queenslander NFT on the Flow Blockchain.

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Fuku-Shiva
The term “Fuku” refers to fortune or good luck. “Shiva” refers to the Hindu deity who represents strongly polar qualities, both severe and delicate. On a beach inspired by adventures on Phi Phi island in Thailand, three youths cavort. Two are representational figures and the third is psychologically rendered. A dynamic relationship ensues between the triad; a reciprocity of active and passive states. The boy on the right engages in maneuvers of evasion, defense, and is dressed in a speedo which reiterates the colors and symbolism of the caution tape on the left and upper right frame of the composition. In concurrent reaction the psychedelic figure shoots out a rocket powered paper airplane. The nude boy seated in the froth and sand approaches in passive repose, and is met with active attention but equal physical reserve by the psychedelic being. Perhaps the most naked figure is also the least representational. Looming large, dynamic, and active, it engages its companions playfully. Various symbols interject into the otherwise naturalistic scene, most notably a beach ball and two contaminated barrels nested in the sand. The upright barrel reads “FukuShima” in Kanji. The barrel laying down reads “Dharma”. To the left the scene is bounded by caution tape, reiterating the danger of the nuclear waste while also hosting alien archetypes, whose presence, as is the nature of these entities, runs up and just behind the consciousness of the psychedelic figure’s eggshell-like skull.
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José Delbo sent me his striking pencil sketch and powerful inked work, which I then interpreted in oil on canvas. I wanted to create a very painterly piece with obvious brush marks etc, but I was also aiming for a nostalgic feel, a kind of 1980’s superhero comic book look, the kind I grew up with. My goal with this animation was to try to recreate, in part, the creative process that both artists went through with the visual information I had. I was able to showcase my painting process more accurately as I could take photographs of my progress throughout. Consecutive images could then be layered like brush strokes over José’s drawing to create the impression that this was one continuous artwork from pencil, to ink, to completed painting. The representation of the line sketch at the beginning, then pencil/ink and lastly the paint layers being applied demonstrate both artists’ struggle for the right lines, tone, form, and colour until the work is finally completed. As the oil was still wet with each photograph the glare of my studio lights can be seen in the brush strokes. Eventually, the figure emerges and as it does, our hero comes to life, looking directly at the viewer -- but is he grimacing in approval or disgust? We will never know for sure as just before he can say anything, white paint is brushed across the canvas entirely and the process begins again. Only the bat is quick enough to escape.