Milk appoints Steve MacPherson CTO

VFX house Milk has appointed Steve MacPherson to its newly created chief technology officer role.

MacPherson will oversee all technology strategy and operations including systems, pipeline, editorial and R&D. He will also work with Milk’s creative team to develop Milk’s real time/Unreal pipeline. In this role he will be collaborating with VFX and real time supervisor He Sun on the new eight part NBC series Surviving Earth.

He arrives at Milk after ten years in the same role at Framestore, and before that had six years with Autodesk and two stints with MPC. He also co-founded DNEG.

This move comes after Milk acquired Lola Post Production earlier this month, and moved into a new facility in Clerkenwell in September.

Jag Mundi, Milk executive chairman, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome Steve to Milk, particularly someone of his calibre and rich VFX technical experience. Steve’s role will be pivotal as we continue to build a strong platform for Milk’s growth; he will sit at the top table helping shape our strategy and expanding our scale and capabilities to deliver premium, high quality film and episodic content to our clients.”

MacPherson said: “Milk represents all those reasons I fell in love with the visual effects industry - a strong, creative team, a dynamic and open culture, technology challenges and great people working on demanding projects. Furthermore, I’m excited by the growth ambition and the commitment by the Milk board to place technology development as a core driving force; it’s a rare and beautiful thing. I’m over the moon to help Milk VFX move forward into the future of entertainment.”