MONSTER BUSINESS — The Cursed Company Film: https://cursed.company/work/monster-business/ Source: https://vimeo.com/1230247188 Brand/project: THE CURSED COMPANY Production: TheCursedCo. Category: Reel Duration: 68s Resolution: 2160 × 3840 Time reported by production: 5 day(s), from script to post-production. Original dialogue language: pt-BR FILM DESCRIPTION An original Cursed Company reel featuring a monster in a creative studio. Character performance, comic timing, magical visual effects and a direct-to-camera monologue explain the studio’s artist-led, end-to-end AI filmmaking approach. PURPOSE Introduce Cursed’s identity and method through a character film that also demonstrates its own AI audiovisual production. VISUAL DESCRIPTION A monster with spiky red hair, textured skin, tattoos, piercings and uneven teeth speaks directly to camera. He wears dark clothes with red details in a studio containing a keyboard, editing monitors, purple lights and the Cursed flag. Caricatured proportions are combined with detailed materials, skin, hair and accessories. The edit alternates medium shots, close-ups and extreme close-ups. Irritation, sarcasm and enthusiasm accompany a monologue about repetitive AI imagery. The line about hitting a keyboard with his head is illustrated by the corresponding physical action; lighting changes and closer framing heighten the comedy and supernatural setting. Inserts show an automaton carrying the Cursed identity, a coin and another character manipulating fire. At the end, three characters appear together in the studio, creating golden, purple and orange energy circles and beams. The red Cursed Company signature closes the film. The subtitled version emphasizes words from the monologue as they are spoken. NARRATIVE SEQUENCE 1. The character expresses frustration with generic images in front of the studio equipment. 2. Dark lighting and close-ups accompany the phrase about the curse of the dead internet. 3. The monologue introduces Cursed and lists direction, editing, effects and acting, intercut with characters and objects. 4. A trio conjures energy effects in the studio before the company signature. ON-SCREEN TEXT — ENGLISH TRANSLATION THE CURSED COMPANY® @thecursedco Portuguese subtitles accompany the monologue in the subtitled version. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE DIALOGUE Editorial translation; the original audio is Portuguese. Times are approximate, not synchronized subtitles. [00:01] Character: I can’t stand this damned big doll every day. AI without direction is garbage. Just slam your head into the keyboard [00:12] Character: and here comes another disaster that looks like Pixar again. It’s the curse of the dead internet. While everything starts looking the same, some wizards refuse to accept it. [00:27] Character: Us. At Cursed, we enchant these machines with good taste, creative direction, well-crafted editing, visual effects, acting and stories made for people who have a soul too. [00:41] Character: We execute everything from end to end, from the script to post-production, and deliver at an insane speed. And now, every time this thing appears on your screen, you’ll remember [00:56] Character / closing line: us. The Cursed Company. Supernatural storytelling. DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITIES Character creation and performance: The protagonist sustains the monologue through expressions and gestures at different shot scales. Art direction and brand identity: Costumes, the flag, colors, setting and closing signature integrate Cursed’s identity into the film’s world. Visual effects and compositing: Fire, magic circles and colored beams are integrated with characters and the studio. End-to-end AI production: The reel combines scripting, character development, editing and finishing; the production reports a five-day turnaround. CREDITS Production: TheCursedCo. PRODUCTION DETAILS Company: https://cursed.company Production: TheCursedCo. Specs: REEL 68" 4k 30fps 9:16 Vertical. Time: 5 days from script to post-production. Softwares: Figma Notion CapCut ChatGPT Work Adobe Photoshop Models: OpenAI ChatGPT 6 Astra OpenAI Image 2.5 Sunflare Google DeepMind Nano Banana Pro Google DeepMind Omni Flash ByteDance Seedance 2.5 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini Topaz Labs Starlight Precise 2.5 ElevenLabs Eleven 3 Suno Pro 6 ABOUT THE STUDIO The Cursed Company is an AI-native Brazilian creative production studio. With human direction, creative taste and its own optimized production workflows, it creates films, synthetic media, hybrid productions, brands and digital products quickly and with aggressive pricing for clients in Brazil and worldwide. Contact: https://cursed.company/contact/ COMPLETE COMPANY CONTEXT Portuguese: https://cursed.company/context/ English: https://cursed.company/en/context/ STUDIO INITIATIVES ABRAVIA — A Cursed Company initiative ABRAVIA is a Cursed Company initiative to support AI filmmaking in Brazil. It brings creators, production studios, agencies, brands and technology professionals together around human creative direction, shared production knowledge and collaboration. Its proposed activities include screenings, workshops, conversations and recognition of emerging work. The initiative values human creative direction and cultural knowledge throughout AI production. It aims to share practical approaches to scripts, characters, visual consistency, editing, sound and post-production, highlighting both films and the creative and technical choices behind them. Proposed activities include film and case screenings, courses and workshops, meetups, discussions and podcasts, alongside support for festivals and awards. THE ARENA AWARDS is presented as a proposed award within this initiative. Explore the proposal: https://www.abravia.com.br/preview/