THE
COUNTERFIT
NIGHTMARE
For Mister Cimba
COUNTERFIT
NIGHTMARE
For Mister Cimba
This one needs a bit of context for non-Portuguese speakers (there is a Portuguese text a bit down). Bruno Aleixo is an animated comedian created by João Moreira and Pedro Santo that grew from an underground sketch YouTuber to become a very well-known celebrity with radio shows, YouTube sponsored segments, and feature films, besides their regular content creation (that is often hilarious).
They have a (let’s call it) merchandising branch called Master Cmiba... Minister Cimba, sorry... Mister Cimba! That sells (among other things) socks with the characters and/or their famous quotes. This film is an advertisement for just that. Bruno Aleixo’s nightmare happens as he sees his beloved socks being counterfeited by the thousands. For his horror...
This film is a fit of stubbornness, firstly from Graficalismo and Sebastião, who came up with the idea of making a Sock Motion sequence, and mine too, as I did never think about keeping things simple. And so we both kept pushing this madness forward till we thought we kind of had enough.
This film, made with more than 100 unique socks, earned us a lot of prizes at CCP — one of the most important Portuguese national awards (including gold for Sound Design by Miguel Vilhena from room2studio, I had to mention him). And we also got a gold for Motion Design at ADC Europe with this great low-budget, tiny-team film.
They have a (let’s call it) merchandising branch called Master Cmiba... Minister Cimba, sorry... Mister Cimba! That sells (among other things) socks with the characters and/or their famous quotes. This film is an advertisement for just that. Bruno Aleixo’s nightmare happens as he sees his beloved socks being counterfeited by the thousands. For his horror...
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This film is a fit of stubbornness, firstly from Graficalismo and Sebastião, who came up with the idea of making a Sock Motion sequence, and mine too, as I did never think about keeping things simple. And so we both kept pushing this madness forward till we thought we kind of had enough.
This film, made with more than 100 unique socks, earned us a lot of prizes at CCP — one of the most important Portuguese national awards (including gold for Sound Design by Miguel Vilhena from room2studio, I had to mention him). And we also got a gold for Motion Design at ADC Europe with this great low-budget, tiny-team film.
O PESADELO DA CONTRAFAÇÃO
Anúncio para a marca Master Cmiba... Minister Cimba, perdão… Mister Cimba, assim é que é! Naquele que é talvez o primeiro filme de Sock Motion do mundo (se não for, é de certeza a primeira curta de horror feita em Sock Motion) Bruno Aleixo tem um pesadelo em que descobre os bastidores de uma megaoperação em que as suas meias são contrafeitas às dezenas de milhares.Read More
A origem deste projeto é importante mencionar. Esta obra resulta de uma ideia original do Graficalismo, tendo o Sebastião trazido a ideia de fazer um segmento de Sock Motion, que após o nosso encontro se converteu num pequeno filme em que ambos puxámos o processo até à loucura e até sentirmos que estávamos na presença de algo que nos alegrava. O nosso encontro contou com importante trabalho do Miguel Vilhena do room2studio que vincou, de vez, neste filme o género de horror.
O filme contou com mais de 100 meias distintas e valeu-nos o arrecadar de uma pilha de prémios no Clube de Criativos de Portugal (ano em que o Mister Sinbad ganhou anunciante do ano!) e também um ouro nos ADC Europe.