The animators employed watercolor and pastel techniques in the short, as they wished to use as little computer-generated imagery as possible.
Director Enrico Casarosa was majorly inspired by the Italo Calvino story "The Distance of the Moon", about a family that was able to travel to the moon and harvest its ground and writer/illustrator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic tale "The Little Prince", about an alien boy who gardened the tiny planet he lived on.
The animators were influenced by the works of writer/illustrator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, animator Hayao Miyazaki and cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli.
The characters are named after Italian terms: "bambino" (child), "papa" (self-explanatory) and "nonno" (grandfather).