Short Film – odd.global https://odd.global Different. By Design. Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:14:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://odd.global/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-odd-icon-32x32.jpg Short Film – odd.global https://odd.global 32 32 Dreams Travel Further https://odd.global/portfolio-item/dreams-travel-further/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:34:35 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2601 “A boy’s imagination takes flight as his handmade rocket carries a heartfelt message to the stars”

 

Created, Produced and Directed by Arthur Machado.

Project Odyssey Top 50 Finalist in the Spec Ad category.

]]> Santa’s Bucket List https://odd.global/portfolio-item/santas-bucket-list/ Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:52:41 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2582 A playful short shows Santa hunting for a post-holiday adventure only to realize every bucket-list item is waiting in Christchurch. AI-generated transitions with Santa getting ready for the many adventures that awaits wrapped the city as the perfect one-stop getaway.

Working solo, Arthur Machado scripted, storyboarded and produced the entire piece with generative tools. Crafted prompts created stylized transitions that whisk Santa between activities while keeping a coherent look and cheerful tone. 

Released on December 10, 2024, the film earned coverage from Campaign Brief and regional media, spreading seasonal goodwill while positioning Christchurch as a world-class destination. 

 

Credits:

Concept, Direction and Production: Arthur Machado
Distribution support: Christchurch Attractions, Paranoid Brasil, Resonate.

 

 

]]> Potion of Pandemonium https://odd.global/portfolio-item/potion-of-pandemonium/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 05:12:40 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2592 Potion of Pandemonium is a  60-second Halloween short that follows a mischievous witch as she brews the legendary potion and accidentally lets chaos loose in an unexpected burst. Created entirely with generative AI, the film pairs ornate digital set pieces with playful timing to deliver cinematic punch. Produced in a few days from script to finish, its quick rollout on social platforms a week before Halloween showed how we can transform a simple seasonal idea into content ready to share in a blink.

 

Credits:

Concept, Producer, Director: Arthur Machado

 

 

 

 

 

]]> Soulmates https://odd.global/portfolio-item/soulmates/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 05:29:34 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2598 Soulmates is a short romance that asks whether two spirits can stay connected when one slips into a parallel realm. Written with Ian Sweeney and produced in a forty-eight-hour sprint for the Runway Gen:48 Competition 2024. The result is a visually poetic short that demonstrates how AI pipelines let intimate stories cross cosmic distances and compressed schedules.

 

A film by Arthur Machado & Ian Sweeney.

]]> A Perfect Match /CulturePop Soda https://odd.global/portfolio-item/culturepop-soda-a-perfect-match/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:32:06 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2577  

Curious Refuge issued a real client brief complete with brand guidelines and product photography for CulturePop Soda, a probiotic sparkling drink that pairs fruit with culinary spices. Working solo, Arthur Machado wrote the script, designed the entire production workflow and delivered a 30-second spot titled A Perfect Match, celebrating the brand’s unexpected flavour combinations.

 

 

The film earned public shout-outs from Curious Refuge organisers and CulturePop brand managers for its faithful yet imaginative take on the brief. It also became a calling card that led People’s Television to engage Arthur for the Pack4Good Sweetfella consultancy, citing the CulturePop project as proof of concept.

 

Credits:

Brand: CulturePop Soda

Writer, AI Director and Producer: Arthur Machado

Client Brief Provider: Curious Refuge

]]> LLM – Modello Linguistico Divino https://odd.global/portfolio-item/llm-modello-linguistico-divino/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:38:03 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2496 An experimental music video that combines the worlds of high fashion and avant-garde art through the lens of AI, exploring the double meaning of “LLM” in Latin Languages.

 

Concept: Arthur Machado

Images: Midjourney

Animation: Runway Gen-2, Luma Dream Machine, PixVerse, Pika Labs

Original Music: UDIO

Lyrics: ChatGPT

 

Festival & Award Highlights
  1. Best Musical Film (Short) – IMVA (Nominee)
  2. Best AI-Gen Film – FFTG Awards, Grand Jury Choice 2024 (Nominee)
  3. Special Mention, Concept – FFTG Awards, Grand Jury Choice 2024 (Winner)
  4. Best New Media – Lonely Wolf Int’l Film Festival 2024 (Winner)
  5. Best New Media &/or Episodic Series – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Winner)
  6. Best Original Score – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Nominee)
  7. Best Original Song & Music Video – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Nominee)
  8. Award of Excellence (Creativity/Originality) – Best Shorts Competition (Winner)
  9. Award of Excellence, Special Mention (Experimental) – Best Shorts Competition
  10. Best Music Score – Berlin Shorts Award 2025
  11. Best Art Film – AI International Film Festival 2024
  12. Best Original Song – AI International Film Festival 2024
  13. Best Production – AI International Film Festival 2024
  14. Official Selection – AI Short Film Festival “Larissa Lumina” 2024
  15. Official Selection – BAIFF Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival 2024
  16. Semi-Finalist – New Wave AI Film Festival 2024
  17. Shiny List Selection

 

]]> Satoshi. The Creation of Bitcoin. https://odd.global/portfolio-item/satoshi-the-creation-of-bitcoin/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:07:54 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2587 The proof-of-concept trailer Satoshi, The Creation of Bitcoin presents a coming-of-age story that spans decades and continents from 1990s São Paulo into 2008’s London cypher-punk underground.

When the trailer dropped it caught fire across the Bitcoin community, surpassing one million views and more than three thousand reposts on X/Twitter within days. The momentum carried to the Bitcoin Film Festival 2025 in Warsaw where the project claimed the Golden Rabbit award for Best Short, the first fully AI film to take the festival’s top honour.

The reaction proved that audience hunger for the Satoshi myth, combined with the reach of AI filmmaking, can turn an independent trailer into a global cultural moment. Produced entirely with AI by Arthur Machado, the piece demonstrates how generative tools can free stories that might never reach the screen. 

 

Credits:

Concept, Producer, Director: Arthur Machado

 

 

]]> ONE. For All. https://odd.global/portfolio-item/one-for-all/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:40:46 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2604 ONE. For All. is a 60-second spec car spot produced in 2022, when photoreal AI imagery still felt like science fiction. We used generative tools to render a full-CG performance sequence with studio-grade lighting, fluid camera moves and realistic surface reflections, proving that an AI pipeline could eventually match traditional VFX workflows.

The film was screened and awarded at festivals and circulated among global creative leads and production companies, igniting early talks about making AI an everyday part of high-end commercial production.

]]> Solace https://odd.global/portfolio-item/solace/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:22:44 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2595 Solace is an AI crafted short that follows Tom, a man adrift in memories that blur truth and delusion as he follows a voice he somehow already knows. Written by Ian Sweeney and produced by Arthur Machado, the film uses AI to create dreamlike worlds around a single, isolated figure. 

 

Premiering at the Runway AI Film Festival 2024 (second edition), Solace went on to win the 2024 Meta Morph Award and screen at ONED Art / Experimental, BAIFF Burano Artificial Intelligence, and Mental Filmness. Its festival run confirms that intimate, mental-health stories can reach global audiences when AI removes the usual barriers to visualising the inner mind.

 

A film by Arthur Machado & Ian Sweeney.

For Tom.

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