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Windmill Lane VFX completed all VFX for US Film ‘Young Ones’
20 Oct 2014 : Seán Brosnan
Irish company Windmill Lane VFX have played an integral role in bringing Jake Paltrow’s dystopian sci-fi western ‘Young Ones’ to the big screen, creating all of the complex VXF work in the film under the supervision of Ditch Doy.

Starring Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, 'Young Ones' is a futuristic Western set in a time when water is a scarce commodity and the land is barren. The film had its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year and was released worldwide on October 17th.

Writer/director Jake Paltrow chose to locate the VFX work in Ireland and he turned to Windmill Lane VFX (WLVFX) to provide the retro-futuristic elements to populate his world with gadgets and technological innovations.

Principle amongst the VFX work is the CG Simulit Shadow, an agricultural, robotic beast of burden that replaces the family's donkey. The Simulit was realised on-set as a partial puppet for the actors to interact with and the VFX team were tasked to seamlessly integrate CG extensions to bring the robot to life. In many instances the practical was not used and a fully digital Simulit was preferred.

Jake Paltrow wanted the Simulit to be devoid of all emotion as it is an unthinking, unfeeling machine which allows the audience to invest their own feelings into it causing it to evolve into a key supporting character.

Windmill Lane’s Ditch Doy supervised the VFX on-set in the landscape of South Africa’s Northern Cape desert. Doy explains: Shooting on film with Anamorphic lenses in one of the hottest, driest places on the planet was extremely challenging, but it all seems worthwhile when you see Giles Nuttgen’s breath-taking cinematography’.

Doy continues: This was the first feature film to take advantage of our recently developed VFX pipeline. With Shotgun providing its backbone, the day to day data management is taken care of which frees up our artists to focus on their creative roles. Having integrated SolidAngle's Arnold renderer, WLVFX were able to achieve the levels of photo-realism required with far greater speed and precision.

Speaking about the work that was carried out at Windmill Lane VFX, ‘Young Ones’ Producer Tristan Orpen Lynch said:Windmill Lane VFX created and animated a mechanical machine that played a central role in film. We knew that the machine had to be completely convincing as a real machine but what I did not expect was the compelling, and in some respects emotional, way that the machine integrated perfectly into this intensely dramatic film.

Young Ones was produced by Spier Films, Subotica Films, QuickFire Films and Windmill Lane with funding from Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board.





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