Ballies are a set of 9,999 unique basketball collectables characterized with attack & defence skills to become players in the Meta-Court. Created by an award-winning digital artist.
First-ever wrapped gaming NFTs!
These are not just NFTs, oh no-no. They’re NFTs 2. 0 powered with new innovative wrapping technology. Imagine the Wrapper as an onion:
BASE: Original basketball character. Art + metadata explaining traits and rarity. LAYERs: Skill token + additional upgrades used in the game.
Owners will be able to unwrap and sell all collateral separately anytime or load additional layers with more skill tokens.
Become the KING of the META-COURT! Owning a Ballie, a dope piece of art, will also give you exclusive access to the basketball metaverse with many perks and opportunities. Dominate first-ever NFT 2. 0 basketball games and tournaments, join exclusive talks with basketball stars, benefit from surprise raffles and competition, VIP chat rooms and a dope community. Created by award-winning young digital artist Keivo.
Do you have what it takes to make it rain on the Meta-Court?
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- Teaming up with Blocsport. one, the award-winning artist is launching a basketball-themed PFP project, ‘Ballies
- What was your upbringing like?
- How did you get into basketball?
- Who were some of your favorite teams and players, as a kid?
- Can you tell us more about your heart condition and how it affected your career?
- When did you realize you wanted to be a professional artist?
- How did you get into NFTs? What attracted you to the space?
- What was the inspiration for ‘Ballies?’
- How did you connect with the ambassadors for ‘Ballies?’
- What do you consider ‘good’ art?
Teaming up with Blocsport. one, the award-winning artist is launching a basketball-themed PFP project, ‘Ballies
Klemen “Keivo” Vodopivec.
Klemen “Keivo” Vodopivec is a Slovenian illustrator and graphic artist with hoop dreams. Though he balled as a youth, Vodopivec was forced to abandon his goal of playing professional basketball when diagnosed with a heart condition — so he turned to his other childhood talent, drawing, to establish a career. Now, with the help of NFTs, he is able to combine both of his passions in an upcoming profile picture (PFP) project created with Swiss sports tech company Blocsport. one, titled “Ballies. ” The collection will feature 9,999 unique basketball-playing alien characters generated from over 170 hand-drawn traits — and has already garnered support from professional players across the globe, including ambassadors such as Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Dino Rađa and Olimpia Milano’s Kyle Hines. The otherworldly ballers will hit the marketplace on April 6, only at Crypto. com/NFT.
Images of NFTs from the “Ballies” collection by Keivo.
Growing up in a small Slovenian village on the border of Croatia, as a child, Vodopivec was first inspired to draw by watching cartoons on whatever Croatian channels his TV picked up. Describing himself as a quiet, shy kid, he began playing basketball at a local club with his cousin in the nearby town of Krško at 10 years old — an experience which had a profound affect on the young introvert. Though he found confidence in sport, his dream of playing for the NBA would soon be dashed.
What was your upbringing like?
I am from a small village. It has around 40 houses. I come from a Christian upbringing, with the motto, “Don’t do unto others what you don’t want others to do unto you
Because my village is located very close to the Croatian border, I was very lucky that our TV was able to connect to some Croatian channels — one of them being Nova TV, which had a lot of cartoons that inspired my first drawings when I was very little and had an impact on me until this day. Some of them are “Batman,” “Superman,” “Pokémon” and “Digimon
How did you get into basketball?
At that time, we had a couple of Slovenian players playing in the NBA. For example, Rašo Nesterović, Primož Brezec, Boštjan Nachbar and Beno Udrih, to name a few. There were a lot of small local clubs all around Slovenia, but the nearest club was in Krško — so we drove 30 minutes to the basketball practice there. My parents waited there for me and my brother for one and a half hours to finish our practice, and then we drove back home. It was definitely not convenient for them to have their afternoons dictated by our practice, but I am very grateful to them for that.
Basketball equipment was harder to get, though. My first pair of basketball shoes was actually a used silver-red pair of Adidas from my cousin. I would never rock them now, but back then they meant the world to me. He gave them to me after he outgrew them.
Who were some of your favorite teams and players, as a kid?
Can you tell us more about your heart condition and how it affected your career?
When did you realize you wanted to be a professional artist?
Another fun project I was part of was for EuroLeague. They created a YouTube series called “EuroLeague Breakdown,” and they needed some illustrations for intros.
But the project I hold dearest to my heart was actually creating a t-shirt illustration of Goran Dragić and Luka Dončić, which was worn by more than 2,000 Slovenian fans in Miami — when the Miami Heat played against the Dallas Mavericks in 2019.
How did you get into NFTs? What attracted you to the space?
I was actually introduced to NFTs through one of my best friends. He was investing in crypto and learned about NFTs. I got a message from him saying I should try to sell my art as NFTs and I did some research to find what the hype is about.
A month later, me and my girlfriend competed in a 24-hour creative competition called Cannes Young Lions, the biggest creative festival in the world. We managed to win the competition with a concept that used NFTs and I thought to myself, “Maybe I should give this a try?”
What was the inspiration for ‘Ballies?’
A mix of different things inspired “Ballies,” really. Growing up, I collected “Pokémon” and “Yu-Gi-Oh!” cards, and played basketball — and doing that, you end up playing NBA 2K. My initial idea was to have basketball-themed cards you are able to play with.
How did you connect with the ambassadors for ‘Ballies?’
As a freelance illustrator, and then working at the Basketball Federation, I have been in contact with various basketball players — and with the help of Klemen Gradišar, we managed to bring a few on board.
Visit the “Ballies” drop page to browse the collection.
What do you consider ‘good’ art?
