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The Windmill Posted by Justin Cone What better place to stage a recreation of Don Quixote’s windmill battle than in Holland, where students Heerko Groefsema and Giso Spijkerman are studying Communication and Multimedia Design at the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden? But this is no tale of misplaced heroics; it’s an updated metaphor of youth vs. the establishment told in compositing and break-dancing, and Heerko and Giso did an admirable job bringing their fun concept to life. Check out the animatic for to see the evolution of the project. Posted on 6 August 2008 \| VN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) 5 responses to “The Windmill” Comment by Pete: Thursday, August 7th 2008 at 8:56 am \| Pretty good… Any idea what program they used for the windmill? UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Comment by major: Thursday, August 7th 2008 at 9:46 am \| c4d or 3dsm or maya or blender UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Comment by Heerko Groefsema: Thursday, August 7th 2008 at 9:52 am \| The mill is modelled, deformed and boned in C4D. For the post and rotoscoping we used after effects. UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Comment by Giso Spijkerman: Thursday, August 7th 2008 at 3:42 pm \| Yeah what he says Ow man i ~~hate~~ love rotoscoping UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Comment by suprememoves: Thursday, August 14th 2008 at 3:34 am \| Nice work guys. Really inspired. UN:F [1.8.1_1037] Rating: 0 (from 0 votes) Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. You must be logged in to post a comment.