Crazy Creatures on Hedera! King Solomon Interviews CREETS (Part 2)

This interview was originally published by Genfinity.

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King Solomon interviews CREETS as part of the Hedera Corner in the LightHouse by Genfinity!  Brought to you by LightHouse Report sponsor Hedera Hashgraph and in collaboration with our partner and Hedera wallet provider HashPack.

Transcription (12:18-24:34)

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍Do you think, I mean you're such an interest same person to be talking to by the way because this is like totally different and refreshing than the way these things normally go so I'm basically throwing the normal questions out the window. So I mean as far as like the collaborations you've had as far as some of the voiceover aspects. I really do think like especially because we're gonna start seeing kind of AAA gaming and stuff like that coming on Hedera, I'd be really interested to be in your position because I'm guessing, you know in the future, you might have a lot of opportunities for the gamification, voice over stuff that's going on, and everything else. Like who have you worked with so far, and I know you just you kind of briefly mentioned it, but if you could go over it again, and I don't know if you've had that thought process where there might be some aspects down the road, and I know it's not all about Oh my God, I could make a ton of money but as you and I both know, you have to have money, and have you thought about any opportunities may be coming up as the ecosystem grows in the network develops out.

‍CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
‍Oh yeah 100% I'll do the list. Probably the person I work with most is SaucerSwap, they got a video that just came out yesterday that I did, and I think another one coming in the pipeline for single sided staking that I did probably tomorrow. Then, did some stuff for Dovu, I did some stuff for Hangry Barboons obviously, did some stuff Creamies, I did like a kind of a tutorial video, I'm trying to like not just do tutorial videos, but my goal is like since I started doing stuff I was thinking like “hey if I can get some VO work, that’d be great” because if you don't live in LA, getting VO work is tough. Previously, most of the money I made was with audiobooks I do audiobooks, like fantasy stuff on audible, but you know I worked a lot of dreamers in that space and a lot of people that I don't get a lot of royalty sales I’ll tell you that much. But I wanted to see if I could do VO for Hedera videos. That's what I thought originally. Outside of that I don't have a lot of expectations for like how the space is gonna evolve. It'd be cool for Ashfall and some of the games that are being developed on Hedera to even consider me because I'm a guy, I know Brady from Hedera marketing was like “hey maybe me?” and you responded to this tweet, but you know you never know how that's gonna go, but I think you know I think I'd be good and you know good change of pace cause I think they mostly just use Hasker for all their like YouTube video stuff right?

‍Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍From Hedera I know that Zenobia does all the Gossip about Gossip podcast.

CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
‍I'm just talking about like voice over for like you know “Hedera is so great”

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍Yeah I’ve seen Christian do a lot of stuff as well. How many voices do you do? Have you tried to benchmark what that looks like or is it always let me try to push myself and see if I can go in a different direction and try to do something new if I have the opportunity to do it.

‍CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
Well it's like you know, this is the case of most voice actors, it's like you find traits to mix right. So I’ve got accents, I can do accents, I can do accents with my normal voice, and I could do accents in a gruff voice, higher / lower pitch voice, breathy voice, you know stuff like that you mix and match things to get something else. A lot of my voices that I create are based on need or based on experimentation. So like when Hangry was like “hey, you wanna like do the voice of the rebel Boon?” like he didn't give me a lot of direction, I just like was messing around, and you know I love Looney Tunes, so I had to the lisp in, you know “just made him very strange talking kind of guy” because he's a big fan of Brandy Stimpy which I am too. So I was channeling that a bit, it was really fun to work on his laugh because that's something I don't get to do a lot is big maniacal laugh. There's not a whole lot of audio books that have usually ha-ha-ha usually just says he laughed maniacally and I'm like God let me in there. So it's mostly just playing around like even with tutorial videos the voice I use for Saucer Swap compared to the voice I use for Creamies or the voice used for Ledger Works with the recent stuff I've done. Other videos they're pretty different, people get sucked into audio, which is a big benefit, and like just little differences like can mean the world to people, when they're just getting the audio.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍As far as like the Hedera Hashcast aspects, how many of those have you done and what's been the experience as far as like because I did see that you have stuff on Spotify, you have you kind of uploading them across multiple formats, what's been the experience with that thus far do you have any plans for that moving forward? I know you said you've taken a little bit of a break but do you want to get back into that at all?

CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
100% I'm obviously thirsty for it because I've been like creating these like nonsense Twitter spaces. They're like three over the past three days just like one of them nobody joined so I just like had a 40 minute monologue, and I had a lot of fun doing that because I you know I like improv I'm an improv guy I'm not one of those weirdos that makes people come to my improv shows, but I like incorporating the art of improv into what I do, I have opinions on that but we don't talk about that. Yeah I'm definitely gonna come back to the Hashcast a lot of it is, I started getting repeats of a lot of the same projects, wanting to come back and not having a lot of information, so I kind of felt like I was spinning my wheels. YouTube is the most exposure but from doing these Twitter spaces I'm like why am I on YouTube? If I bring back the Hashcast, even though because I you know I care about audio and I like my voice to sound good and you know I know how to mix and master stuff myself. Even though that's the case probably going to switch to Twitter spaces because I have you know a bigger audience there. It's just YouTube is just so, I don't know if it's the algorithm, or what. I remember doing creative stuff on YouTube like 10 years ago, 10 or more years ago, I'm old now and I mean it was pretty easy to get a good amount of views kind of how like Tik Tok is now, where it's like they feed you those early views. But when you're just uploading regular like longer than a minute content on YouTube it's like they just hoard them, the algorithm does not like you.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍Well they're pushing shorts now pretty hard and it's like, I look at YouTube as just a tool but it's like it's really kind of more at least in my opinion, it's visual driven, it's hype driven, it's all the things that really kind of audio is kind of a byproduct of what YouTube exists for, and then even with the Twitter space is like you said I think there's a huge opportunity for creators. Because the Twitter spaces are very much so I think kind of transition into like actual podcasts at least that's what I've heard in the background so you know you have to ask yourself where is the community and where am I getting the most pool from. I did want to ask Warlock like if you could give the community a heads up as far as where you would like them to go to learn more about where what you're doing. Is that through the Twitter primarily, is it through the Discord primarily like where would you like to draw people into to learn more about the character that you are and the characters that you draw and facilitate and everything else.

‍CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
‍Well the Twitter's good. All my promotional videos and stuff that explained all little events I'm doing or on like the WarlockNKey YouTube channel. Just go on YouTube, search for WarlockNKey I should come up I link it to other places too. That's the big place if you want to get a feel of like what's CREETS about you know, come to the Discord chat with some people be like oh these guys are weird, and if you're word too then you'll fit right in it'll be great, but I'm gonna have to like bump up my website at CREETS.club there's like nothing. But like I said I'm transitioning from art, solely art based, we're working on the trading card game I have like a dev team now. I don't know where that came from or why they decided to sign on with me but they did. Which we have seven people total.

‍Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍That's actually really weird so is that kind of where you see CREETS and CREET TOTS like going is kind of into that kind of card game aspect? Because if that's the case like I remember when I was young like I don't know if you remember like you talked about running Stimpy like garbage pail kids and all that stuff back in the day. That was like right on my alley, you know anybody that was growing up in the 90s, like there was a lot of weird crap that was coming out, and I think that's evolved and shaped us into the people that we are today and I loved all that stuff.

CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
‍Yeah, it's a perfect fit and I didn't even come up with the concept myself. Someone approached me was like, “hey, we could have a trading card game that actually just uses the NFTs that connects to your wallet and you actually use them when you're playing, and if you trade it to someone they actually can have it”. Because that's the thing that's claimed a lot with NFT gaming and there's other like NFT trading card projects but none that you can just like I have this trading card I will use it in this browser game and if I want to sell it to someone, trade to someone, burn it, whatever I can do that's coming from my wallet directly we want like half of it to be running on Hedera. Strangely they have the ability to do that, they are very talented, I don't know why they seem to have slipped it into my life, but I'm very grateful for it and there will be a lot more in January.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍I was gonna ask I know it's hard to put a definitive on anything as far as like road maps and stuff like that but like if you had to guess like that's gonna be coming out like maybe first half of next year do you think or what does that look like?

CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
‍We should at least because we’re going to have alpha test, beta test, etcetera. We should at least have the alpha out by early next year. Getting the team together, getting everyone on the same page, there's also some legal stuff we're gonna have to work out. That took the longest amount of time, it also took us a while to find the perfect people for different little jobs, but I'm gonna finish CREET TOTS fairly soon and that's going to be you know CREETS 3, I don't know when the heck that going to come out. The trading card game is going to be my main focus going forward.

Genfinity – King Solomon – Founder & CEO
‍I really appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time out today man like I know how insanely busy everybody is in this space it's honestly been a pleasure. It's good to laugh during these interviews and like have like a real conversation and you know you've been kind of everywhere in the Hedera space and I expect that to continue moving forward. Looking forward to seeing the trading card game I got to take a look at all the CREETS right now because I might not financial advice to anybody out there but I try to support as many projects as possible in the Hedera community and I know CREETS has been on my list so I appreciate your time Warlock and I'm sure we'll be doing another one of these in the future.

CREETS – WarlockNKey - Founder
I'd love to I can always ramble about random weird things it's my skill.