TRADE THE FUTURE — The Cursed Company Film: https://cursed.company/work/trade-the-future/ Source: https://vimeo.com/1220286635 Brand/project: YEARN Production: TheCursedCo. & Templ Studio Category: Brand film Duration: 41s Resolution: 2160 × 2880 Time reported by production: 3 day(s), from script to post-production. Original dialogue language: en FILM DESCRIPTION An animated film for the Trueo + Yearn partnership, produced by Cursed and Templ Studio. A café scene expands into robot support, electric-car traffic and an alien press conference to explain prediction markets through comedy. PURPOSE Introduce the partnership between Trueo and Yearn through a humorous narrative explanation of the product. VISUAL DESCRIPTION The film introduces a colorful city and a thin man with spiky black hair and an orange hoodie sitting in a café. A question mark appears above his cup. On his phone, ‘YES’ and ‘NO’ buttons visualize the choice between two outcomes described by the narration. Three vignettes develop questions about the future. Robots occupy a customer support office; an angry human driver is surrounded by small cars with robot drivers; and a press room stages an extraterrestrial revelation. A fictional newspaper adds an absurd headline to the sequence’s humor. The story returns to the café as a robot and an alien walk down the street. The ending connects the wait for markets to resolve with the yield message presented by the film. Blue end cards bring together Trueo and Yearn, their addresses, ‘TRADE THE FUTURE’ and ‘EARN WHILE IT UNFOLDS’. Dark outlines and vivid colors support recurring characters, urban settings and exaggerated expressions. NARRATIVE SEQUENCE 1. The café, cup and phone introduce the idea of predicting events. 2. Automated support, traffic and an extraterrestrial press conference illustrate possible questions through comic vignettes. 3. The return to the café connects waiting for results to the partnership’s message. 4. Both brands and the closing lines appear on blue end cards. ON-SCREEN TEXT YES NO PENDING EARNING REPTILIAN BITES THE PRESIDENT! — a fictional newspaper headline within the animation. Trueo + yearn trueo.com yearn.fi TRADE THE FUTURE EARN WHILE IT UNFOLDS English subtitles accompany narration and dialogue. TRANSCRIPT Transcript sourced from Vimeo and reviewed alongside production material. Times are approximate, not synchronized subtitles. [00:02] Narrator: Do you ever feel like you know what’s about to happen? On Trueo, people trade yes or no markets. You pick what happens next. [00:12] Narrator and characters: Will AI replace customer support? Your frustration has been upgraded. Will electric cars take over the road? Get out my way, you clankers. [00:21] Narrator and character: Will aliens finally go public? Hello, Earth. While waiting for the markets to close, you earn yield. So in the weird future, at least your money is working while you’re not. [00:35] Closing line: Trueo plus Yearn. Trade the future. Earn while it unfolds. DEMONSTRATED CAPABILITIES Technology product communication: The YES/NO interface and narrated questions explain the product’s presented mechanism. Comedy writing and editing: Three comic situations develop one idea before the return to the protagonist. Animation and visual continuity: Characters, the city and the palette recur across multiple scenes. Integration of two brands: Closing cards connect Trueo and Yearn in a joint message; the production credits Cursed and Templ Studio and reports three days of execution. CREDITS Production: TheCursedCo. & Templ Studio PRODUCTION DETAILS Company: https://yearn.fi Production: TheCursedCo. & Templ Studio Specs: SPOT 41" 4k 30fps 3:4 Portrait. Time: 3 days from script to post-production. Softwares: Figma Notion CapCut ChatGPT Work Adobe Photoshop Models: OpenAI Codex 5.6 Sol OpenAI Image Gen 2.0 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 v3.0 Suno Pro v5.5 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/