Sphynx Ink and OpenSea Accomplice for “Winkles & Flam” Digital Collectibles

Toronto, Canada, twenty seventh March, 2023, Chainwire

• Winkles & Flam™, the ‘Cosplaying Canadian Kitties™,’ are the First Unique Cartoon Duo of the web3 house, launching solely on OpenSea Drops
• Sphynx Ink Inc. contains Oscar®-Nominated Filmmaker Adam Benzine (HBO’s Spectres of the Shoah) & BAFTA®-Successful Illustrator Dele Nuga (The BBC’s The Clangers)
• Non-PFP and non-generative, Winkles & Flam marks a radical new mannequin for Digital Collectibles, with high-quality, hand-drawn illustrations & weekly/seasonal releases
• The primary mission to companion with Mint Foundry, the brand new Visible Metadata Editor from the group behind acclaimed ‘No Code’ NFT service Mintplex Labs

Canadian artwork collective Sphynx Ink Inc. is partnering with OpenSea’s unique “Drops” platform to launch Winkles & Flam, a ground-breaking Digital Collectibles mission introducing the primary cartoon duo of the web3 house.

Created by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Adam Benzine and BAFTA®-winning illustrator Dele Nuga, Winkles & Flam – the ‘Cosplaying Canadian Kitties’ – are adorkable sibling Sphynx cats who costume up in do-it-yourself, video game-inspired outfits. A yr within the works and that includes authentic, hand-drawn artwork, the mission differs radically from present NFT initiatives. It isn’t a PFP (Profile Image). Nor does it use generative components.

Launching April 3 with weekly content material drops, quite than abruptly, Winkles & Flam will run for 5 seasons, with units of hand-drawn photos comprising a mixture of free mint, fixed-price and auctioned choices. Every set attracts inspiration from an iconic online game, with an academic part – Winklepedia™ – specializing in the historical past of video video games.

A Season Go goes on sale right now (March 27) solely through OpenSea Drops, restricted to simply 1,000 copies and guaranteeing consumers all 30 playing cards from Season 1.

Winkles & Flam is the primary main mission to make use of Mintplex Lab’s cutting-edge, visible metadata editor Mint Foundry, which permits creators to edit and replace info in real-time, with out coding information.

Winkles & Flam Creator Adam Benzine says: “Winkles & Flam marks the beginning of ‘Section 2’ of the Digital Collectibles house, specializing in authentic characters, narrative, high quality and reliability, led by doxxed creators with a confirmed observe file.

“The market has grown uninterested in low-quality, rug-pull pump-n-dumps and vaguely conceived, cash-grab metaverses. A gentle stream of rubbish profile photos has turned off shoppers. It’s time for one thing contemporary.”

Winkles & Flam Co-Creator Dele Nuga provides: “We’re thrilled to companion with OpenSea Drops and grateful to the geniuses at Mintplex Labs for devising an answer for our unconventional launch technique. We consider Winkles & Flam would be the first of many initiatives to maneuver to a character-based, weekly launch technique, specializing in character, storytelling and neighborhood.”

Season 1 of Winkles & Flam launches on April 3 and runs for 10 weeks, with weekly free mint playing cards (that includes Winkles) and fixed-priced playing cards (that includes Flam) launched on Polygon. Winkles & Flam: Platinum playing cards (distinctive 1-of-1s that includes the duo collectively in playful eventualities) will probably be auctioned every day on Ethereum. Take a look at winklesandflam.com for more information.

(NOTE: Winkles is the pink kitty with blue eyes. Flam is the gray kitten with inexperienced eyes.)

About Sphynx Ink Inc.

Based by Oscar®-nominee ADAM BENZINE and BAFTA®-winner DELE NUGA, Sphynx Ink Inc. is the Toronto-based artwork collective behind WINKLES & FLAM™, The Cosplaying Canadian Kitties™!

Hyperlinks

Winkles & Flam on OpenSea Drops: opensea.io/assortment/winklesandflam-seasonpass/drop

Winkles & Flam Official Web site: winklesandflam.com

Winkles & Flam LinkTree: linktr.ee/winklesandflam

Winkles & Flam Creator Adam Benzine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/adam_benzine

Mintplex Labs: mintplex.xyz

Contact

Press Enquiries, Sphynx Ink Inc., [email protected]

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