Archived on 15/05/2025

Nouns : A Movie - Update Changelog

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Hello Nouns and Friends of Nouns,

Wanted to kickstart this forum thread to keep everyone who is not in Atrium discord server to stay up to date on the Nouns Movie.

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‘Nouns : A Movie’ workstream by Atrium was voted on by the DAO through Prop 245.


As per this Proposal, Atrium brings together a group of diverse artists working together worldwide to produce a 77 mins runtime Nouns animated movie with its original plotline.

As part of the overall workflow - This is what the Prop 245 set out to share as deliverable

  • Pre-production & character development
  • Script for the Pilot (3.5 mins) / ACT 1 + Summaries of all subsequent acts - delivered at 90 days
  • Animated Teaser with final look for the show - delivered at 45 days
  • Animated Pilot (Runtime 3.5 mins) with the above mentioned script - delivered at 90 days

I wanted to kickstart this forum post to have a stream of updates always available for people who are not part of the Atrium discord yet. I will Keep posted details here as we go:


March 17, 2023

Initial Logline shared

Genre: Action Comedy

In the bustling, floating cloud city of Blus, every 13 year old’s fate is decided by the revered Noggle ceremony - An official eye exam where you are bestowed with a specific pair of glasses that determine your future profession. But when an audacious 13-year-old Noun discovers the plot of the aristocrats to use an updated version of the Noggles to enslave its citizens, he has to team up with an unlikely band of misfits to save the ones they love.

Comments from Creators:

We discussed many ideas around the noggles. Nothing is concrete yet. But the gist of all the story points was that the noggles were neither good nor bad, but we explore the true meaning behind what it means to be a noun. What do the noggles represent? Maybe by straying too far from the original meaning of the noggles we stray further from the essence of what it means to be a noun. The plight may be to break away from the constraints and conventions imposed on us by society. The final meaning of nouns and noggles will be a positive one, something we drive home at the end of the story. We want to of course highlight the most important aspects of nouns in a positive light. The meaning of the noggles in the story may start off one way, and end up taking on a totally new an inspiring meaning by the end.

March 17, 2022


First moodboard exploring the city of Blus

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March 22, 2023

First wave of our hero character design direction.
You can see that its going after a very blended form of introducing the protagonist. He can be seen wearing “nounish” traits as form of prominent accessory and its part of how he presents / projects himself outwards.

You can see team notes in there as well.
While thinking about the character - think Quirky, slightly odd ball, unconventional. Agile and Nimble.
His similarities from other animation canonical references

Ekko (Arcane TV series) Naruto Aladin Alberto (Luca’s friend from Pixar movie Luca) Hiro (Big Hero 6) Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

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March 24, 2023

Nouns Movie twitter handle is up and running. Sharing early concepts of the city of Blus

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March 31, 2023

Early concepts of our first Nounish heroes revealed

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April 14, 2023

Final version for script and dialogs of initial 3.5 Minutes pilot shared in the Atrium discord. If you want to read it, please DM me or join the atrium server.

April 17, 2023
Our protagonist is a lot more detailed now

Arash

Good luck Bro !:muscle::muscle::muscle::muscle::muscle:

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April 27, 2023

The very first look has arrived! Day version

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April 27, 2023
Second version - Night

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May 9, 2023
First look at Unreal setup for environment design of the city of Blus

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May 9. 2023
First voice cast reveal. Mrs Waxman

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May 11, 2023
More close-up animation loops

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May 14, 2023
Nouns Movie website is live and up-to-date.

Nouns4155

Congrats guys keep on doing it

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May 17,2023
A Behind-the-scenes on Voice acting and its impact on animation + character design

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May 18, 2023
Cast Reveal

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May 24, 2023
First scenes with composition and FX are revealed

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May 30, 2023
Environment shots

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Jun 15, 2023
Nouns Movie Pilot premiere on the 21st
https://twitter.com/nounsmovie/status/1669427980123373568

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Jun 19, 2023
Two days to go until Pilot comes out. A quick BTS
https://twitter.com/ZenDoubt/status/1670778623023009792

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June 21st, 2023

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Proposal 317 is now live to further the story arc in form of chapter 2.

AndrewLaddusaw

I finally got to watch the first part. Really well made. The story had a lot of elements from other movies, but I’m hoping you’ll have some really unique things up your sleeve for the future parts. I’m very excited to see long form video in this style for Nouns and your team obviously has the talent to make it happen. Bravo! Can’t wait to see part 2.

supriyo

Thank you for your support and yes we indeed do!

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A New chapter is now in the works!

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Jul 10, 2023
Kick off the first nounish casting call!

How Can You Participate?

All follow-up casting announcements will be made throughout the rest of the development of episode 2 up until the premiere. Those not cast will be eligible for future casting calls. ⌐◨-◨

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Jul 10, 2023
High-level things that are happening at the moment:

  • yuwil continues to ideate through the draft of the episode internally and we are looking at finishing it up by end of the month. We will be sharing a more rough draft of this fairly soon. The gist in essence expands into more neighborhoods as we see Gi getting introduced to new acquaintances and friends!

  • We meet overall weekly on the story discussions while the production team continues to meet more often. We are currently in the process of concept art creation for some of the core new characters for the episode. We will be sharing more on the new Characters concept art in the coming weeks.

  • We are waiting on the casting call process to conclude in a few weeks time where will be recruiting new citizens into the mix (these are minor roles which will be created on unique renditions of selected characters)

  • With casting call we intend to expand the Blus universe and bring more nounish sub-communities and communities into the fold. CC0

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New Handcrafted PFPs for usage are available here



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July 17, 2023
Bringing other communities into the Nouns Movie universe

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July 19, 2023
First set of concept art were released today.

We wanted to start exploring ideas where we introduce frowns to be clever while being menacing at the same time. A force to be reckoned with.
Fairly distinct trait choices helped in coming up with the first set for ideation.

You can see distinct personalities, body types and overall unique portrayal all around.



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Jul 20, 2023
Expansion continues!

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Jul 31, 2023
More concept art from Blus as Episode 2 goes beyond the Pilot! By incredible concept artist Courtney Page


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Aug 2, 2023
Community Casting for EP2 announced

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Aug 18, 2023
More concept art released

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New Updates

Aug 21, 2023
Dan Waters onboarded onto the animation team

Sept 6, 2023
Behind-the-scenes on how sound design is happening for different artifacts in Blus

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September 11, 2023
Meet Elijah, the voice of Gi. Learn more about his experience and what excites him the most in this exclusive behind-the-scenes ⌐◨-◨

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Publishing Onchain updates instead of this thread from now on.

Please follow-along on Propdates instead.