“See there Sancho, upon the plain. Thirty or more monstrous giants...”
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Hero
Loyal friend
Scholar
Supporting cast
The narrator
The giant
The shepherds
Diego & Paulo
The Viceroy & Don Anthony
Our ubiquitous hero and self-styled knight-errant, Don Quixote de la Mancha.
The once prosperous Alonso Quixano has sold many acres of estate to indulge his passion for books of knight-errantry.
With his brain dried up from the reading of books, our hero has taken upon himself the strangest of notions – to travel throughout Spain as knight-errant, Don Quixote, with horse and armour, redressing wrong and seeking to win the favour of his Dulcinea del Toboso.
Quixote embodies the morality and values of the knights he seeks to emulate. Despite the best of intentions, they frequently end in disaster.
And yet, Quixote never looses his zest and drive, nor shirks from his chivalric ideals. In fact, the more our hero faces adversity – the more he is beaten and defeated – the more determined his resolve.
Design and development
Don Quixote must be one of literature’s most instantly recognisable figures – so there is little reason to be attempting to re-design an icon.
An important consideration, though, with building models for a pairing like Quixote and Sancho is their comparative sizes. Quixote – tall, slim and mounted on his horse, Rocinante; Sancho, on the other hand, is short, squat and mounted on his donkey, Dapple.
With a substantial height difference between the pair, it’s important to strike just the right balance so that they’ll appear clearly in shot together.
Did you know...
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this”
- Don Quixote