Popota
Popota and Leopoldina have been filling Portuguese homes with Christmas joy for the past few decades. In 2020 we were trusted with the mission of bringing them together for the first time ever. We teamed up with Continente and Fuel to tackle what would be our biggest project yet, and the result became legendary, the most successful and best performing Popota film ever!
After making a wish during Continente’s 35th anniversary party, Popota imagines herself performing alongside Leopoldina at a Super Bowl style show… With this brief from the agency we set out to storyboard the entire film, and then design and build two different sets, dozens of characters and two distinctive visual styles for each of the settings.
We designed several different toys that would be part of both the anniversary party and the concert scenes, so each of them had to be rendered in two different styles.
During the Look Development phase we established the look of the toon shaded version of the characters.
The set decorations and lights change throughout the show in order to reveal new elements as the song progresses and reaches its climax.
Both protagonists show up in the two different “worlds”, so we went through several iterations until we found the perfect wardrobe to fit each character’s personality in each of the two different settings.
Watching the show is a crowd of over 3000 Popotos, for which we designed and modelled several different cloth and accessory variations.
Client
CONTINENTE
Agency
FUEL
Production Company
GARAGE
Animation Studio
STUDIO KIMCHI
Director
BRUNO SIMÕES
Executive Producer
MIGUEL VARELA
Post Production Supervisors
PATRICIA TAVARES
BEATRIZ PEREIRA
Music
FRED FERREIRA (NUCLEO AUDIO)
Sound Design
INDIGO
Voice Over
PEDRO ACABADO
Creative Director
JOÃO MADEIRA
Copywriter
RITA CARMO
Art Director
RUBEN SANTOS
Production Director
PEDRO SILVA
Audiovisual Producer
VASCO PAMPLONA
Account Director
TITA MARTINS
Account Executives
CATARINA ANACLETO
MADALENA MENEZES
Production Coordinator
CARLOTA POU
Storyboard Artists
AITOR HERRERO
JUANJO SURACE
REGINA INSENSER
Character Designers
JULIA GALLARDO
CRISTINA AGENJO
LAURA PORTOLÉS
IGNAZIO ACERENZA
MARKEL RAMOS
Matte Painting
REGINA INSENSER
MARKEL RAMOS
Set Design
RAQUEL COSTA
2D Animation
JORGE RIBEIRO
Character Modellers
MIGUEL MIRANDA
ESTEFANIA PÉRES RODRIGUEZ
JORGE ALONSO
Set Modeller
ESTEFANIA PÉRES RODRIGUEZ
Texture Artists
EVA DE PRADO
IGNAZIO ACERENZA
Grooming Artists
ALEX MATEO
ANNA RECZYNSKA
CG Generalists
BRIAN MARTINEZ
ERNEST SÁNCHES RODRIGUEZ
FX
WILLBERT ALVARES
Lighting
EVA MATEO
JUAN CARLOS MOLINA
JOSE MANUEL GARCIA
Making Of
RODRIGO SEVILLA
Character Rigging
NU BOYANA PORTUGAL
ERNEST SÁNCHES RODRIGUEZ
Character Animation
ROCKET FRAMES
Colour Grading
MPC LONDON
In 2021 we “remixed” our own work and delivered an updated version of the film for the Holidays season.
© 2020/2021 Continente / Studio Kimchi