Here’s a little glimpse at some of the incredible projects we’ve worked on over the past year. A huge thanks to all the agencies and clients who we’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with! Here’s to what’s next in 2025!
#creativeireland #commercials #creative
Screen Wexfords final event ‘Remote Working in Post Production for the Future’ kicks off tomorrow 28th November at the Gorey School of Art from 10am-5pm!
Come along (in person or online) to meet and connect with industry leaders and creatives where they will share great insights into their professions and discuss topics like VFX, animation, editing, the future of remote work in post production and lots more!
Windmill Lanes very own John Kennedy and Mick Creedon will be travelling down as guest panellists as well as our Deborah Doherty who will be the conference host and MC!
In partnership with Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, in this episode of Screen Sessions, Abby Greene and Richard Baneham discuss the world of VFX. Richard reflects on his career to date his career, which includes 2 Oscar wins for his work on Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, and provides insight into the industry and his art.
Screen Sessions are supported by the Screen Ireland Audience Development Fund and this podcast was also made possible with the support of Windmill Lane.
Listen to the full podcast now at FilmIreland.ie.
Richard Baneham
Richard Baneham, two-time Academy Award winning VFX Supervisor, Executive Producer and 2nd Unit Director on the AVATAR sequels. Richie hails from a traditional Animation background. He made the transition to CG while working on “The Iron Giant”. From there he embarked into the world of CG where he has also won awards for his work as an Animation Supervisor on “Lord of the Rings”; “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King”. His other credits include “Alita: Battle Angel” and “The Chronicles of Narnia”; “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. Richard also had the opportunity to dive into the world of theme parks where he helped design and co-direct the “The Flight of Passage” and “The Navi River Ride Journey” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida.
Abby Greene @itsmeabbyg.ie
Abby graduated from IADT with a BSc in Creative Media Technologies in 2020. After college she started in VFX, working onset with Disney and Universal before joining Windmill Lane.
It’s great to be back!
Windmill Lane joined forces with @glenhavenfoods for a second time to bring you a new episode of the Glenhaven tales. This time it’s the turn of Finn McCool and the Chicken Tenders of Knowledge! A continuation of Glenhavens warm and detailed world, where animation brings a slightly quirky side to our most famous Irish fairy tales!
Click here to check out the making of:
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@glenhavenfoods@nomos.ie
Windmill Lane Creative Director: Donal O’Keeffe
Windmill Lane Head of Commercials: Jess Felton
Windmill Lane Producer: Emily Burke
Design and Animation: Donal O’Keeffe, Freya Porrittwessman, Sarah Gillick
Sound Design and VO Record: Tom Morris
We are so excited for Team Windmill to make their way to @galwayfilm this weekend!
We are even more excited to see 3 fantastic projects hit the big screens throughout the festival.
@fidilghorm had its beautiful debut Wednesday night, Alessandra Celesia's documentray The Flats has it's showcase on Friday and @kingfrankiefilm helps wrap up the programme on Sunday!
#MakingGreatStories
“Oh my Bridgerton!”
Bringing together a weird and wonderful mix of a period setting, shapeshifting aliens and a hologram sequence that has created quite a stir amongst fans, we are thrilled to see “Rogue”, the latest episode of #DoctorWho and our second instalment of VFX this season hit screens on BBC and Disney+
As huge fans of Doctor Who, we’re so proud to become part of the #Whoniverse, creating VFX for 2 episodes of the latest season of #DoctorWho and what a ride it’s been!
Delivering almost 300 shots that saw us create dystopian cityscapes, time travel (of course!) to Bridgerton-era splendour and manifest musical mayhem around one of the most iconic bands of all time!
We’ve loved every minute of being part of bringing Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor to life and we hope you enjoy our work on The Devil’s Chord and Rogue
Our gratitude to showrunner Russell T Davies, Executive Producers Joel Collins and Phil Collinson, all at Bad Wolf and VFX Producer Will Cohen who had this to say “Collaborating with Windmill Lane on the New Series of Doctor Who has been an absolute delight! The creative solutions they have offered along the way and their smooth execution has made our job very easy and that they have been a lot of fun to spend time with has been an added bonus!”
Our team in Windmill Lane, overseen by John Kennedy and Deborah Doherty was creatively led by VFX Supervisor Fred Burdy, Comp Supervisor Stephen Pepper and VFX Producer Louise Ni Chonchuir.
On working with the team at Bad Wolf, John Kennedy, Head of VFX with Windmill Lane “The process was engaging, communicative, ideas led, creative and decisive with a distinctly positive and upbeat energy.”
Fred Burdy, VFX supervisor added “It’s been an honour and unbelievable fun to work on Doctor Who, an old dream of mine. We were lucky to have two very varied and very creative episodes to work on. It was a blast, and I believe it shows on screen!”
Doctor Who is produced by @BadWolf with @BBCStudios for @bbc and Disney Branded Television.
Season one is available now on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer in the UK and Disney+ in the U.S. and around the world, where available.
We are so proud to reunite with our favourite Cork delinquents for a 4th season of @theyoungoffenders !
If you missed this weekends double bill finale, make sure to check out all 4 seasons on the BBC Iplayer as soon as you can!
Created by Peter Foott
Directed by Jamie Jay Johnson
Produced by Brian Deane & Cormac Fox
WML Team
Assistant Editors Seán Maher & Martin Fanning
Colourist: @mattbcolour
Online Editor: Robbie O'Farrell
Sound Editors: Ed Costello & Michelle McCormack
SoundSupervisor & Re-recording Mixer: Fionán Higgins
Post Production Coordinator: Aaron Carroll
Culture Crush+ is back! Taking place Wed 5th of June 2024 at @smockalleytheatre . Our very own Deborah Doherty will be speaking on Panel 1, diving into the world of VFX in Ireland and Bodkin!
Get your free tickets on Eventbrite here:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/culture-crush-tickets-910412828277
Really proud of our VFX team’s work on Doctor Who - The Devil’s Chord
Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for BBC and Disney Branded Television.
Season one is available now on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney+ in the U.S. and
around the world, where available.
A massive congratulations to all this years IFTA winners, especially Kin S2 for thier 5 wins!
We were delighted to provide full service post and vfx across the series and get to know some incredibly talented people along the way!
It’s with a heavy heart that we share the news that Gina, after nearly a decade of devoted service, has decided to bid farewell to Windmill Lane to dedicate more time to her wonderful family.
During her time with Windmill, Gina has seamlessly transitioned through two key roles.
Starting as the Head of Hospitality, she showcased her dedication and skills. In her most recent post-COVID role as our Office Manager, Gina has continued to excel, ensuring the smooth running of the office and building.
Gina’s commitment, hard work, and positive attitude have significantly contributed to Windmill’s success over the years. This impact has not only been felt internally but has also been recognised by our clients. A special acknowledgment comes from our Advertising clients, as Gina was presented with ICAD’s President’s Awards last year - an honor that reflects her exceptional contributions and professionalism.
Gina, you’ll be sorely missed, and we sincerely wish you the very best in this new chapter of your life.
We are thrilled to share that our Head of Production @deborah_byrnes will be speaking on behalf of Windmill Lane at the @sxsw Panel - Ireland Unveiled: Shaping the World Through Storytelling!
She will be speaking alongside the wonderful Steven Davenport from @screenireland , Katie Holly from @keeper_pictures and Emma Foley from @palerebelproductions .
A big thank you to @enterprise_ireland for organising and hosting this exciting event on March 12th!
We hope to see you there!
#MakingGreatStories
#sxsw2024
