ELVEN: The Lost Tribe is the next NFT collection from @theartofyasmeen and drops via Fair.xyz on April 14th 2023. This limited edition collection is Yasmeen’s second generative art collection and her first since the original ELVEN collection launched in September 2021.
So let’s breakdown exactly what The Lost Tribe is all about by taking Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle approach and starting with the Why?
As with all projects within the ELVEN ecosystem, the primary goal is to share Yasmeen’s art with a global audience. Our gifted young artist continues to evolve her style and we know that the ELVEN you’ll meet in The Lost Tribe will be the most incredible looking ELVEN yet. Shrewd holders recognise that Yasmeen is a generational talent with limitless potential and a bright future ahead of her in the world of art and design. Not many artists can boast multiple sold out NFT collections, live performances at international events & government institutions and even a magazine cover by the age of 14. Collecting and holding her art on-chain really does present a unique long-term opportunity.
We also hope to bring new people into our authentic little community. ELVEN continues to offer a safe, welcoming home for those in web3 that are not interested in bad actors, people screaming “LFG” constantly and quick flips. We are more like a family. We don’t make big sweeping promises we can’t keep, we don’t buy influence or fake engagement and we look out for each other.
The Lost Tribe is also a way for us to reward our community of ELVEN holders as the active holders are able to register for free claims of this new collection.
To be transparent, our focus with The Lost Tribe is art and community not profit. With that in mind, 80% of the funds raised from the mint will be put back into the community via:
Replenishing the stock of ELVEN in the community vault (used for giveaways.)
Picking up NFTs to use for project spotlights/triple giveaways.
Rewarding holders via our weekly collectors challenges.
Investing in the development & deployment of a customised, token-gated Metaverse space within the Spatial.io platform.
The remaining 20% will be once again donated to our partners at Make-A-Wish International to help grant wishes for children around the world dealing with terminal diseases.
ELVEN: The Lost Tribe collection will contain just 888 NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. This is a completely new collection that will not recycle any traits from the original collection though the same base model is used for the characters to ensure consistency of size/scale.
The collection will be composed from more than a hundred brand new traits within the same 10x trait categories as the original collection with two slight modifications:
Backgrounds
Back (replacing “Wings” to accommodate some non-wing traits)
Skin
Clothes
Mouth
Eyes
Special (face traits)
Hair
Head (replacing “Horns” to accommodate some non-horn traits)
Ears
Note that Back, Special and Head are rare trait categories that do not appear on every character in the collection. Rarity percentages will be calculated closer to the drop.
Yasmeen wants The Lost Tribe to have some uniformity – to feel like a tribe – and so she is using a specific colour palette for the traits and applying colour theory methodology to ensure that the traits combine effectively to make every single ELVEN in the Lost Tribe look incredible. To help achieve this goal we will be going through the collection one by one after generation and using the excellent “re-roll” function on Fair.xyz to remove any ELVEN which we feel have trait combinations that don’t work well together.
We are also proud to announce that The Lost Tribe features an all-star line-up of guest female artists who have created 1/1 ELVEN for the collection! These incredible, unique pieces will be randomly distributed within the collection of 888.
The roster of guest artists includes:
💜 Viorika - an incredible portrait artist
💜 Valeria - teenage creator of Girlies collection
💜 Yunaria - an amazing manga artist
💜 Maya - a unique cubist artist
💜 Anastasia - teenage creator of Soapy Dads
💜 Eliza - acclaimed fantasy artist
💜 Claudia - creator of Happy Dolly
💜 Aoife - creator of The Foofees
💜 Ray - AKA InbetweenCosmos
💜 Anny - The Purple Queen
Collection Size: 888 NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain
Minting Site: Minting will take place on Fair.xyz
Date: April 14th 2023
The mint will take place in 4 phases. Exact timings will be confirmed closer to the mint.
This phase is reserved for active members of the token-gated ELVEN community. Wallet submission is open now (link just below.) Members of this allowlist will be able to mint 2x Lost Tribe NFT for free (just paying gas).
This phase is reserved for members of partner communities who won allowlist spots. Collab Partners will be able to mint 2x Lost Tribe NFT @ 0.005 ETH each.
All ELVEN holders will be able to mint up to 5x additional Lost Tribe NFT @ 0.005 ETH Those that minted in phase 1 will be able to mint again during this phase.
During this public phase any remaining supply will be available to mint @ 0.009 ETH The limit per wallet in this phase is 10 tokens.
There are a couple of additional points to note regarding The Lost Tribe mint:
The max per wallet is set to 20 tokens total.
The public mint will only take place if supply remains available.
We are in no rush with the launch of this collection. As such the mint will remain open in perpetuity as long as supply remains.
Lost Tribe minters will be able to verify in the ELVEN Discord to access the token-gated community, giveaways, collectors challenges & events.
We look forward to sharing more information about The Lost Tribe mint in the next couple of weeks. Holders – watch for regular announcements in the ELVEN Discord Non-holders - follow @ELVEN_NFT and turn notifications on to make sure you don’t miss out.
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Want to learn all about the original ELVEN project as well as Yasmeen’s work with VR art and her other NFT projects? Then make sure you read our previous article, ELVEN: The Story So Far -
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