Decentraland Creators Community

by 0x41eb5f82af60873b3c14fedb898a1712f5c35366 (theankou)

Should the following $95,000 grant in the Platform category be approved?

Abstract

Decentraland Creators Community is discord server that I will build.

This community will focus on creating free to use assets, tutorials, documentation, and provide active support to new users and beginner creators in Decentraland.

Creators and users will be able to communicate, learn guidelines, watch tutorials, find and download assets, just in one place Creators Community discord server. Discord with "Forums", "Server Guide" features will allow users to find all information in few seconds.

Grant size

95,000 USD in DAI

Project duration

12 months

Beneficiary address

0x41eb5F82af60873b3C14fEDB898A1712f5c35366

Email address

theankoudev@gmail.com

Description

Decentraland Creators Community idea has began from issues that came with grant proposals regards 3d modelling tutorials and assets libraries. DAO spent thousands of dollars for this grants, and end up with barely usable result.

There are lots of issues that creators and users encounter nowadays without solution:

• low quality free assets (lack of quality, lack of source files, lack of guidelines, user unfriendly content)
• outdated documentation (lack of in-depth information from advanced/expert creators, broken links, missing information)
• builder and curation process issues (builder bugs, thousands of questions regards curation process)
• overloaded awesome repository with lack of assets for 3d content creators (most of awesome repository resources are more focused on source code development content)
• impossibility to find content created with Grant Proposals (video-tutorials, documentations, GitHub repositories)
• lack of communication with curators (forum topic messages limit, inactive curators)
• lack of activity in creators channel at official discord

Solution that community will provide for issues listed above:

Discord Server

This is a core of Decentraland Creators Community.

Link to that Discord Server should be added to Decentraland Documentation and official Decentraland Discord Communities.

With features (server guide, forums, voice chat, text chat, bots), Discord is a great solution for creators community needs. For now, there are no better alternatives than discord.

Community will provide active support to users, do a voice calls, meetings, streams, interviews, write guidelines at Advanced Documentation and do assets for Assets Studio.

Discord Server is solution that will engage and grow new creators and users to Decentraland.

Advanced Documentation

This is a very well managed Discord Forums.

Each forum will contain guidelines, each guideline will contain text information with pictures, link to YouTube tutorial (if needed), and link to Assets Studio repository (if needed)

To achieve best navigation inside forums, "Servers Guide" feature will navigate users throughout all guidelines with simple, sorted way. Optionally, it's able to manually navigate inside forums.

Creators will write guidelines with different levels of difficulty (Basic, Advanced, Expert) for payment from this grant proposal.

Users will use this guidelines to learn, practice in creation of emotes, wearables, and 3d assets.

Assets Studio

Assets Studio is Discord Forum Guidelines and GitHub Repository with assets made by creators and sorted in folders. This solution provide a huge reduce of risks and expenses for DAO.

Creators idea should pass vote through DAO pre-proposal. If vote pass, we will discuss budget and start project.

Assets will include:

• models, textures, thumbnails
• source files
• scripts and addons (optional)
• guidelines and YouTube tutorials (from discord forums)

I will hire creators from Decentraland for each category (Discord Server, Advanced Documentation, Assets Studio) and pay them from this grant proposal budget.

Most of budget money will go to creators as payment for content.

Roadmap and milestones

First 12 months will be main phase of focused hard work on Advanced Documentation and Assets Studio content.

January

• Discord Server Setup
• GitHub Repository Setup (New or Decentraland GitHub?)
• YouTube Channel Setup (New or Decentraland YouTube Channel?)
• Templates for Creators
• Channel Startup

February

• Creators Recruitment
• Documentation Startup

March - December

• Discord Server Maintain
• Documentation Startup and Expansion
• Assets Studio Startup and Expansion

Documentation Roadmap (Example). Full Roadmap will be in Discord.

• Basic Guidelines
  • Your First Wearable
  • Creators Content
  • Curation Process, Builder Issues, Test Servers Issues
• Advanced Guidelines
  • GLTF + Textures
  • Weight Painting
  • Dope Sheet and Curves
  • Creators Content
• Expert Guidelines
  • Particles
  • Advanced Weight Painting
  • Sounds, Props, and Particles
  • Creators Content

Assets Studio Roadmap (Example). Full Roadmap will be in Discord.

• Lightshow Library
• Base Assets HQ
• Flexible Particles
• Hairs Constructor
• Creators Content

As soon as 12 months will pass, we will discuss with community next phase. According to community conclusion, channel phase will move to one of this options:

• If community is useless, server will stay active as library with minimal support and minimal maintain. Do not require grant proposal renewal.
• If community is helpful, but information is not enough or roadmap is unfinished, we will continue expand our server with information and useful assets. Requires Grant proposal renewal and revision of budget.
• If there enough of assets and information for users, discord server will move to maintain phase. Creators will support new users and will maintain their guidelines and assets. Salaries will be reduced to minimum. Guidelines and Assets creation will be reduced to minimum. Only very unique ideas will be accepted for guidelines and assets. Requires Grant proposal renewal with minimal budget for lifetime support.

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp