Royal Monsters

The "Digital Animated Graphic Novel"

Introduction to the Royal Monsters

The "Digital Animated Graphic Novel" is a new graphic style to meet the needs and capabilities of NFTs. It´s a mixture of storyboard, animatic (short animations) and graphic novel.

The world's most famous empress, Sisi, and her younger cousin, the so called "Fairy Tale King" Ludwig II, were born in Bavaria. At the age of 22, resp. 14, they founded a secret society together with another world-famous Bavarian. The third founder was born in the university of Ingolstadt, in the years 1778 - 1780. This date is not vague due to missing data. It was less a birth than a genesis. The third founder was Frankenstein's nameless monster.

At day, they are your average empresses, kings and creatures put together from body parts, just like you and me. At night, the ROYAL MONSTERS fight the crimes of the 19th century. From Europe's high aristocracy down to its darkest slums and encounter men, monsters and mysteries, not at all different from those in our times.

The "Mystery Box" as first drop

First Drop - Royal Monsters "Mystery Box" and Community Token

The Royal Monsters "Mystery Box" serves to generate initial attention for the project around Sisi, King Ludwig II and other very special characters. The "Mystery Box" will be opened and always revealed at the begining of a new month in 2023. The image of the box will then be randomly replaced by one of our beautiful "Character Concept Art Images" of one of our main characters. There will be at least three different concept art pictures of each main character. WHO KNOWS - maybe later there will be an extra surprise for those who own a complete set of the revealed mystery box concept arts.

Both the box in first place and the revealed token afterwards will come with the utility like a "Community Token". All owners will have access to a tokengated project area with secrets and details on upcoming stories. And owners will have eventual early access or reduced pricing for upcoming drops.

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the genesis of the Royal Monsters graphic novels

Revealed Royal Monsters Characters

The "Digital Animated Graphic Novel"

For this project, the team of bayernfire.io chose an unusual style to tell and visualize the stories in the digital world.

"Digital animated graphic novel" is a mixture of storyboard, animatic (animated clips) and graphic novel. You can click on some pictures and watch a short animation. The flood of information provided by a storyboard perfectly matches the variety and possibilities of the NFT world.

Mike Maurus and Prof. Thomas Gronert

BayernFire Team

Mike Maurus - Creative Producer

Zack! Design GmbH (Managing Director)

Mike Maurus was born in Munich and lives in Munich with his family. He is an independent 2D animation professional, illustrator, storyboarder and character designer responsible for the artwork of BayernFire.io.

After graduating as a communication designer at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, he worked as a freelancer in all areas of artistic implementation of advertising, animation and film, including for BAVARIA Film, DISNEY, WARNER Bros., PRO Sieben, Haus d. Bavarian history, WÖHRL, Discovery Channel, ZDF, KiKa, WDR and others. In 1998 he finally switched from advertising and merchandising to animation. There he works for various production companies in different positions (director, creative director) on internationally successful animated TV series, cinema films and computer games, such as "The Moon Bear", "Princess Lillifee", "Ritter Rust", "Moby Dick", " Peter Pan", "Witch Lilly", "Die Wilden Kerle" ....

At the same time, he designs, writes and draws comics and young adult books, which have been successfully published by Carlsen, Ehapa, Coppenrath, Schneider and Random House. This includes the fantasy trilogy "Fantasmania", the book series "Die Wilden Kerle 2.0", the comic novel "1921 - The Oktoberfest Conspiracy, ...

 

Prof. Thomas Gronert

Missing Link Software Solutions GmbH (Managing Director)

Thomas Gronert was born in the Black Forest but has been living and working in Munich for almost 30 years.

After studying media informatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Furtwangen, he worked for many years as a 3D animator before becoming a board member and executive producer in a media company responsible for 3D animated television series.

As a professor for digital film design animation/VFX (since 2012) and managing director of Missing Link Software Solutions GmbH (2004), he is always technologically up to date. He has been dealing with cryptocurrencies since 2017 and with NFTs since 2021.

Through the NewMillenniumArt label, he offers various NFT collections to get to know the market and the different marketplaces better. The collections "Art Of Nuances" on opensea.io and "Organic Sculptures" on solsea.io show 2D and 3D works by himself as an artist. The two profile picture collections "Ostrich Figures" and "Shape the Ape Vo1" were created together with Mike Maurus as illustrator and are available on opensea.io.

 

Links

https://www.bayernfire.io/

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