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Windmill Boy - 2006
An animation short about a boy's dreams of escaping the drudgery of his life trapped in a windmill.
The crew of Windmill Boy surrounding the model of the Windmill© Dan Richards
Director: Dan Richards
Windmill Boy created and directed by Dan Richards, is an animation short by Dan Richards who worked on Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit and is now Animator in Residence at Canterbury Christchurch University.
- Dan Animating © Dan Richards
Windmill Boy is fated to spend his life in drudgery, serving the village he lives in by operating the windmill and baking bread. The evil Mayor has taken away the staircase between the village and the Windmill and thus condemning the boy to a lonely prison where his only joy comes from playing the organ. Feeling trapped in a world of misery the Windmill Boy dreams of escape!
It took 14 weeks of model making and a further 12 weeks of animation after months of preparation to complete Windmill Boy.Dan Richards is currently lobbying for an Animation Studio in Kent and is working towards the next instalment chronicling the adventures of Windmill Boy.
[Pascale Blackburn]
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For more information about Windmill Boy visit www.windmillboy.co.uk
