{"id":5370,"date":"2021-12-19T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2021-12-19T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T19:29:49","slug":"jesus-2-will-get-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessemoynihan.com\/?p=5370","title":{"rendered":"Jesus 2 Will Get Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been secretly forming a plan for a year or so on my next phase in life, and how to achieve independence from the major studios in order to make work that speaks directly from me. It may have started even before that, and you can probably see hints of it in my previous posts here in the Lodge and the Temple.<\/p>\n<p>The covid era has been a strange time that has forced me to make serious assessments about what I&#8217;m supposed to be doing. The fact that I couldn&#8217;t find work for 8+ months made me realize that things in the industry were changing significantly, with shorter season runs leading to less job security and so on&#8230; With that sort of paranoia about my future career looming I realized I had to try and make some big moves. The things I&#8217;d been theorizing\/daydreaming about I actually had to try and do. That thing being making independent work, which could lead to making a feature film and perhaps even starting a studio where I could support creators who otherwise have nowhere else to develop their ideas.<\/p>\n<p>How to do it? Well first I&#8217;m going to start small, by developing and refining my idea for the Jesus 2 short. Jesus 2 is an unpitchable idea that I&#8217;ve tried sharing with Sony, Netflix and Titmouse and no one seemed to understand it or want to touch it. Therefore it seems perfect for the Internet audience: the people who enjoy Worthikids videos<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C4w5qUBu23c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nand stuff like Interface<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_V-VJQT6pM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stuff that gains an audience by its own merit and not by development execs who are only looking at mysterious algorithmic success metrics. I have no idea what they&#8217;re looking at actually. I feel like I have to take the future of my creative work into my own hands. I have that with my comics, but I don&#8217;t have that with my animation work. Forming has always been kept afloat by the interest of readers. The readers gave it clout to attract a publisher, but it was always about the power of the internet and building my own audience who just liked what I was making.<\/p>\n<p>So I plan on making a 6-10 minute short, that will be a snapshot of the wider world of Jesus 2, which I can easily expand into a feature if I can raise the money. I plan on raising the money by developing the designs and lore of Jesus 2 as eco-friendly NFTs using the Cardano blockchain. You can read about Cardano <a href=\"https:\/\/iohk.io\/en\/blog\/posts\/2021\/08\/17\/why-they-re-calling-cardano-the-green-blockchain\/\">here<\/a>. I have no idea if this will work, but I was approached by a Cardano NFT company to see if this could be a realistic model for making independent films. I had no interest in that world otherwise, but this lines up with what I&#8217;m already trying to do, which is cartoons, world building and storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that the NFT world is highly controversial and taboo among various groups of people (the NFT world is rather tacky to say the least), but I encourage anyone reading this to look into the new wave of carbon neutral blockchains. Who knows what the future holds for NFTs but I am going to try and make a film while this door is open.<\/p>\n<p>I will be posting my Jesus 2 process on my new Twitter account which you can follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/j_moyns\">HERE<\/a>. But I will continue to post Jesus 2 stuff in the Temple as well. Of course all the NFT business is optional and only worth engaging with if you&#8217;re into that kind of thing. The door will still be open for anyone to see what I&#8217;m making, and hopefully I can make something specifically awesome that comes directly from my intuition, in the same way that I make Forming, without the hindrance of big money studio gatekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more info soon, but in the meantime you can stay on top of stuff at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/j_moyns\">TWITTER<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been secretly forming a plan for a year or so on my next phase in life, and how to achieve independence from the major studios in order to make work that speaks directly from me. 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