La Pennicanza:
Miniature Christmas.
La Pennicanza is the radio and television programme led by Fiorello with Fabrizio Biggio and Maestro Cremonesi. For the Christmas song of the same-name project, the brief called for a music video that would bring the three protagonists into a small universe of decorations and toys.
The film, about a minute long, had to combine believable animation with a playful, light tone. Faces, expressions and lip-sync, where present, were developed to keep the protagonists recognisable without turning the story into a traditional cartoon.
Production was built through concept, storyboard, generative images and videos, maintaining a believable visual quality consistent with the song’s Christmas atmosphere.
The initial phase focused on the story’s structure. A start and end frame were defined for each storyboard step, serving as references to guide individual clips and maintain narrative continuity.
The snow-covered house, village and interiors form a single, recognisable setting. Each image was developed individually, working on the protagonists’ faces and transforming them, depending on the scene, into toy characters, tree decorations and music-box figures.
Dedicated prompts controlled camera movements, actions and visual effects. The generated outputs were then selected and edited as animated transitions, creating rhythm and consistency between scenes produced separately.
