{"id":270847,"date":"2026-02-06T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270847\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:32:13","slug":"check-out-il-baracchino-blender-made-noir-mixed-media-animated-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/270847\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Il Baracchino, Blender-Made Noir Mixed-Media Animated Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blender unveiled the story of creating Il Baracchino, an adult animated series made entirely within the software. The Annie-nominated mixed-media series was written and directed by Nicol\u00f2 Cucc\u00ec and Salvo Di Paola, with the animation studio Megadrago based in Palermo, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Il Baracchino, an Amazon Prime Original in Italy produced by Lucky Red and Megadrago, immerses viewers in a gritty yet vibrant world of stand-up comedy. The story centers on Claudia, an aspiring art director trying to save a fading but legendary comedy club. To bring it back to life, she assembles an unusual group of performers, like a chain-smoking pigeon.<\/p>\n<p>The project features a stellar cast of major Italian stand-up comedians and actors. What makes the film stand out is that it uniquely mixes various animation techniques, from 3D to stop-motion and traditional 2D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blender unveiled the story of creating Il Baracchino, an adult animated series made entirely within the software. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17844,156,409,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-270847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blender","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}