Bang Bang Baby revolves around an introverted 16-year-old girl called Alice who lives with her worker mother in a small town in northern Italy. It’s 1986 and glossy TV ads and sit-coms, in which everyone loves one another and everyone’s happy, beam out from Italian screens. One day, a familiar face leaps out at her from a newspaper: it turns out her father isn’t dead as she thought, as her mother has led her to believe that all these years.For Alice, the discovery represents a loss of innocence and the beginning of a ferocious criminal life following her father’s steps, because love – her voiceover insists – “makes us do things which go against logic and own selves, all in the hope of being loved. But it only takes a moment for the dream to turn into a nightmare”.
Bang Bang Baby is produced by The Apartment and Wildside, in co-production with Enormous Films for Amazon. We were asked by Wildside to produce a 2 minutes animation in an 80’s Anime style to be used in place of an ordinary recap of the previous episodes in the last episode of season 1. We were also commissioned 30 extra animated seconds for the ending of the series.
Credits
Production So What srl
Technical direction ROBOTINA
line producer LORENZO GIORDANO
storyboard and animatic artist MATTIA FORESI
character and prop designer RODOLFO BROCCHINI
model designers SABRINA DE MARCO, CAMILLA PANNONEÂ
background designer GIUSEPPE MAGGIOREÂ
animation supervisors SABRINA DE MARCO, SARA TAIGHER, YASSMIN YAGHMAI
animators SABRINA DE MARCO, PINO NIPPY IENO, RUBEN PIRITO
clean up and inbetween artists ELISA BONANDIN, CAMILLA PANNONE, MARGHERITA GIUSTIÂ
color and shadows artist LORENZO PUGLIESI, DAVIDE BATTAGLINI, COSMIN MOLDOVAN
additional animation and 2d fx LORENZO PUGLIESE, YASSMIN YAGHMAI, FABIO RAMIRO ROSSIN
compositing and fx SARA TAIGHERÂ
FINAL SCENE
storyboard and animatic MATTIA FORESI
3D modeling and camera FABRIZIO CAPUANOÂ
animator PINO NIPPY IENO
clean up artist MARGHERITA GIUSTIÂ
color and shadows artists PINO NIPPY IENO, LORENZO PUGLIESE
ANIME LOGO DESIGN
Graphic design YOSUKE ANDO
2d animation and motion SARA TAIGHER, YASSMIN YAGHMAI