VFX house also makes a host of hires
Milk VFX has moved into a new facility in Clerkenwell, London.
The new base has the capacity for 200 artists, with creative teams going in at least two days-a-week in person and some team members remaining fully remote. The move comes as Milk works on Prime Video’s Good Omens, and with Loud Minds on eight part NBC series Surviving Earth, as well as recently completed production on new Sony feature The Woman King from director Gina Prince-Bythewood, with Milk’s co-owner Sara Bennett as overall VFX supervisor.
Meanwhile, the VFX house has also added a number of new faces to its team. These include VFX and real-time technology supervisor and virtual production and immersive specialist He Sun (The Lion King; The Mandalorian; The Fear Index;) who joins from Rebellion Film Studios where he was VFX supervisor and Managing director. At Milk, he will supervise Milk’s team on NBC’s Surviving Earth alongside VFX Supervisor and Milk co-owner, Jean-Claude Deguara
He joins VFX supervisor David Sadler-Coppard (Star Trek: Discovery, Avenue 5 starring Hugh Laurie, Amazon series The Wheel of Time); CG supervisor Enrico Selmi (Avengers: Infinity War; Doctor Strange), and head of rigging and creature FX Will Pryor (Aladdin; Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).
In addition, VFX producer Paul Edwards arrives as head of production (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; Annihilation; No Time to Die) after 25 years in the industry with the likes of DNEG, Cinesite and most recently overseeing Marvel’s Moon Knight at Union VFX.
Edwards isn’t the only VFX producer to arrive, with Katherine Smith (Maleficent; Game of Thrones), Marie O’Brien (Fate: The Winx Saga; I Used To Be Famous) and Chaya Feiner (Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children; Paddington) also joining Milk.
Jag Mundi, Milk executive chairman, said: “Milk’s new Clerkenwell studio is a great new base - in Milk’s busiest year ever - as we build a strong platform for growth, expanding our scale and capabilities creatively and commercially and mentor the next generation of creative talent.”
Sara Bennett, Milk co-owner and VFX supervisor added: “We’re thrilled to have a brand new home and hub for our hybrid working set up in London’s Clerkenwell and to be welcoming such talented new additions to our growing Milk team. This is an exciting time for us all as we deliver a raft of outstanding episodic and feature content.”
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