Steve MacPherson

Chief Technology Officer

VFX industry veteran Steve MacPherson joined the Milk team as Chief Technology Officer in November 2022. In the newly created role, Steve is responsible for all of Milk’s technology strategy and operations including Systems, Pipeline, Editorial and R&D, to support and develop the studio’s rapidly growing creative and technical ambitions as it takes on an expanding roster of premium film and episodic projects. 

Steve brings to Milk his rich technology expertise born from his early days at NASA Ames for Cray Research, at MPC and as a co-founder of DNEG. Steve joins Milk from Framestore in London where he was Chief Technology Officer for ten years.

Steve will also work closely 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 ambitious new eight part NBC series Surviving Earth.

Sara Bennett

VFX Supervisor

Sara Bennett is an experienced, Oscar winning visual effects supervisor and co-founder of Milk, an award-winning visual effects company, based in London.

Sara became the second ever female VFX Oscar winner when she received a 2016 Academy Award for best visual effects in Alex Garland’s feature Ex-Machina, for which she also received a 2016 BAFTA Film Award nomination.

Since Milk’s launch in 2013, the team has created an impressive range of innovative and complex sequences for high-end TV and feature films, winning an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood’s Sherlock; three consecutive BAFTA Craft awards for the BBC’s Doctor Who (2014 and 2015) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2016) and receiving eight BAFTA Craft Award nominations.

Sara recently completed production as overall VFX Supervisor on Sony’s new feature film The Woman King from director Gina Prince-Bythewood. Sara collaborated with Bythewood on her previous project as overall VFX Supervisor for Netflix’ top-rated feature film The Old Guard, delivering the entire project during lockdown in 2020.

Sara’s VFX and 2D Supervisor credits at Milk include Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift; Alex Garland’s Annihilation; The Alienist (TNT/Paramount); Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Lionsgate); Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them; Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise; The Martian (20^th Century Fox); Poltergeist (Fox/MGM); The Divergent Series: Insurgent; Brett Ratner’s Hercules (Paramount/MGM); Dracula Untold (Universal); 47 Ronin and Sherlock (BBC/Hartswood); Thunderbirds are Go (ITV) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.

Prior to the launch of Milk, Sara was Head of 2D at Mill TV & Film for seven years. During this time Sara worked as VFX Supervisor on feature films including Les Miserables, Dredd 3D; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Walden Media / 20^th Century Fox), 28 Weeks Later (DNA Films) and Jordan Scott’s directorial debut, Cracks (Scott Free). Sara was Compositing Supervisor on The Odd Life of Timothy Green for Disney, and on Snow White and the Huntsman for Universal. Sara also worked at The Mill on several high-profile feature films including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal, as well as HBO’s Band of Brothers.

Sara’s TV credits include supervising Merlin (BBC), which won the 2011 BAFTA Television Craft Award for visual effects, as well as BAFTA Television Craft, VES and RTS Craft Award-winning Doctor Who (BBC) and Primeval for ITV.

Sara is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, BAFTA and the Visual Effects Society.

Michelle Martin

Chief Business Development Officer

Michelle is Milk’s Chief Business Development Officer. She recently joined the Milk team from Framestore where she was Head of Business Development, Episodic.

Michelle drives and develops Milk’s growing episodic and film production slate and oversees marketing. She works closely with Milk’s Board and senior management and creative teams to deliver Milk’s ambitious growth plans.

Michelle has over twenty years of global VFX production and development expertise, most recently at Framestore – where she was instrumental in growing the TV/Episodic slate to an award winning level across London, New York and Montreal, overseeing projects including The Crown, Watchmen, His House, Lovecraft Country, The Boys and Black Mirror, as well as the global event series MARS.

Andy Morley

VFX Supervisor

Andy is a highly experienced, award-winning visual effects supervisor, renowned for his work on Avengers: Infinity War, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them and Batman Begins.

Having been introduced to computer graphics in the late ’80’s from his (still working) Commodore Amiga, Andy quickly started blending the creative artistic visuals with technical coding – and fell into the world of VFX. Since those humble beginnings, Andy’s passion has led to his involvement on the smallest indie projects to the huge Marvel blockbusters, working across the globe at many exciting studios from Cinesite and MPC to LucasFilm and Aardman Animations.

Andy’s extensive experience encompasses production on set as well as creating complex visual effects work with incredible attention to detail for groundbreaking VFX features such as Avatar. Most recently he was On-set and CG supervisor on VFX for News Of The World for Outpost VFX.

Off the back of supervising major motion pictures over the last decade, Morley will lead and creatively supervise work on key projects with the Milk team while also working with his own studio based in France. His passion for narrative storytelling is pushing him into areas of real time, motion capture, and newer software products and workflows.

Andy graduated from Bournemouth University with a degree in Computer Visualisation and Animation, and he continues to study with the Open University currently. In his spare time, Andy can be found playing with modern technology in his ancient vineyard in southern France.

Jean-Claude Deguara

VFX Supervisor

Jean-Claude is an award-winning VFX Supervisor and co-founder of independent visual effects studio Milk.

Since its launch in 2013, Milk has created a range of innovative and complex sequences for television and feature films, winning an Oscar for feature Film Ex-Machina; an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood’s Sherlock (2016); three consecutive BAFTA Television Craft Awards for the BBC’s Doctor Who (2014 and 2015) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2016) and eight BAFTA Craft nominations.

Jean-Claude was the VFX Supervisor for BBC/Amazon’s Good Omens, the acclaimed six-part TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s cult novel – which earnt Milk a 2020 BAFTA Television Craft Award nomination. He recently completed production as overall VFX Supervisor on Sky Original drama, eight-part sci-fi series Intergalactic, delivering 850 shots during lockdown.

As Milk’s VFX Supervisor on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Jean-Claude led the team to win a 2016 BAFTA Television Craft Award and VES Award and RTS Craft Award nominations. He also led the team that won a 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Sherlock: ‘The Abominable Bride’.

Jean-Claude’s VFX Supervisor credits at Milk also include Hartswood Films/Netflix Dracula; three television series of Sherlock, ITV’s Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands and David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D and Dinosaurs in The Wild –  a special immersive UK theatrical event, which saw Milk create large-scale CG dinosaurs and environment and render 78 million 6k stereoscopic frames of complex animation in the Cloud in 10 weeks.

Milk’s credits span feature films Rebecca (Netflix), The Old Guard (Netflix), Annihilation, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Lionsgate); Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and High-Rise; Everest (Universal), The Martian (20th Century Fox), The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Poltergeist (Fox/MGM), Brett Ratner’s Hercules (Paramount/MGM), Universal’s Dracula Untold; and for television: Netflix’ Cursed, Channel 4/Amazon/Sony’s Electric Dreams; Altered Carbon (Skydance/Netflix); The Alienist (Paramount/TNT); Sky One’s 2016 Christmas Day feature The Last Dragonslayer, Class (BBC3), Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands and Thunderbirds are Go (ITV) for television.

Prior to the launch of Milk in June 2013, Jean-Claude was Joint Head of 3D/Animation Supervisor and VFX Supervisor for Mill TV & Film for 10 years. His extensive feature film experience includes Alexander, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Alien vs. Predator and 28 Weeks Later.

Jean-Claude’s television credits include BAFTA, RTS Craft and VES Award winning work on Doctor Who as well as Merlin, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and ITV’s Primeval for which he was VFX Supervisor. His career began as a Runner at Soho 601 before moving to The Hive to become a Character Animator and later joining The Moving Picture Company.

Ciaran Crowley

VFX Supervisor

An experienced high end TV and film VFX and shoot supervisor, Ciaran joined Milk in 2018 to oversee the VFX creature shoot and build for Sky’s feature film Four Kids And It – based on Jacqueline Wilson’s modern-day take on E Nesbit’s classic novel Five Children And It – for which the Milk team created the protagonist CG sand fairy character, voiced by Michael Caine.

Ciaran was Milk’s VFX Supervisor on Netflix episodic fantasy-adventure Cursed overseeing the creation of a pack of stylised, ferocious wolves – for which he and the team were nominated for a 2021 BAFTA Television Craft Award. Ciaran recently completed work on Twentieth Century Studio’s hotly anticipated musical drama feature filmEveryone’s Talking About Jamie.

Prior to joining Milk, Ciaran ran his own VFX studio, Windmill Lane VFX in Dublin in 2010, to service key film and TV productions, including Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones for which he served as facility executive producer and VFX supervisor for Oscar nominated Brooklyn; the highly acclaimed Netflix feature film The Siege of Jadotville; Love Eternal; Rig 45; Sonja: The White Swan and twelve part TV series Titanic: Blood and Steel.

 Ciaran spent almost ten years at Double Negative in London, where his credits include senior 2D supervision roles on major feature films Inception, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Iron Man 2, The Bourne Ultimatum and Cold Mountain.

Ciaran hails from Dublin, Ireland and graduated from DIT Dublin with First Class Honours in Design. Moving to London in 1997 he followed a design career working with clients including Jaguar, F1 and Stuart Ford. His fascination with film led him to a Post Graduate VFX course at NFTS. Ciaran is a member of VES and a founding member of IFTA (Irish Film and Television Academy).

He Sun

VFX Supervisor

Talented Art Director and VFX Supervisor, He Sun joined Milk in 2022, bringing with him 14 years combined experience in both the video game and film industries. Most recently, He Sun established a VFX division at Rebellion Film Studios of which he was Managing Director alongside his role as VFX Supervisor. During his time at Rebellion he focused on virtual production, CG game cinematic and VFX, delivering the award-winning Sniper Elite 5 and Evil Genius 2 cinematic trailers, commercials for NIO, HSBC and Lenovo, as well as a virtually produced short film, Percival and VFX for TV series The Fear Index (Sky TV).

He Sun started his career as a VFX Artist in the gaming industry, spending almost 3 years at Eurocom, followed by Jagex and eventually Rebellion, where he became Art Director on game franchises such as James Bond: GoldenEye, Dead Space, BattleZone VR and Sniper Elite.

Following on from his game experiences, He Sun moved into the world of VFX for Film and TV. During his time at MPC as Lead Environment TD, he worked on a number of high-profile projects including the 2019 remake of The Lion King (Walt Disney Studios), The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm), and Maleficent: The Mistress of Evil (Walt Disney Studios). 

Hailing from China, He Sun studied a BA in Animation at Shandong University of Art and Design followed by an MSc in Digital Visual Effects at the University of Kent in the UK where he is also completing a research fellowship at the Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi) and has been a guest lecturer. He Sun is also an Advisory Consultant for both non-for-profit organisation, ScreenSkills and global storytelling community, Future of Film.

David Sadler-Coppard

VFX Supervisor

Talented VFX Supervisor David Sadler-Coppard joined Milk in 2022, following an eight year stint at Outpost, where he progressed from his first role as Digital Compositor in 2013, through to 2D Lead in 2015 to VFX Supervisor in 2017. His credits span TV and Film, with his most recent Supervisor credits including the new feature film based on Edith Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children Return (Studio Canal); fantasy TV series The Wheel of Time (Amazon); episode Anomaly of the Star Trek: Discovery series (Paramount +); The Green Knight (A24); and sci-fi comedy series Avenue 5 (HBO). 

More of David’s episodic credits at Outpost include Watchmen (HBO); Catherine the Great (HBO); The ABC Murders (BBC); Mars (National Geographic); One Strange Rock (National Geographic); Trauma (ITV); Electric Dreams (Amazon); Snatch (Crackle); Agatha Raisin (Sky One); Plebs (ITV); Lucky Man (Sky One). 

Feature film credits include 47 Metres Down: Uncaged (Altitude Film); Widows (Twentieth Century Studios); In the Cloud (Crackle); Gun Shy (Saban Capital Group); Access All Areas (Amazon); John Stephenson’s Interlude in Prague; Life (Columbia Pictures); iBoy (Netflix); Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals; Jason Bourne (Universal); Under the Shadow (Netflix); My Beautiful Broken Brain (Netflix) and Electricity (Netflix). 

 Having studied Fine Art at Havant College, David went on to study a Foundation in Art, Design & Media, Contemporary Fine Art at the University of Portsmouth, finishing with a Distinction, before completing a BA in Animation at the same university with First Class Honours. During his BA, David was awarded the “Best Animation Student” and “Best Animation & Best Editing” at the BFX Competition for his final year film. 

Paul Edwards

Head of Production

Paul is an award-winning, veteran VFX Producer with 25 years experience working on high profile film and TV projects at studios from DNEG to Cinesite.

Paul began his career as a co-ordinator at the original Mill Film back in 1997, where his VFX Producer credits include Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; A Knight’s Tale and K19 – The Widowmaker. 

Paul moved to Cinesite in 2003, where he produced major projects including Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; Girl with the Pearl Earring; Stardust and Moon. Paul was part of the Emmy Award winning team on the HBO mini-series Generation Kill in 2009. 

Paul joined DNEG in September 2012 where he led the VFX production team on the immersive Harry Potter theme park attractions “Escape From Gringotts”  and “Hogwarts Express”. Paul also took the helm on VFX production for feature film projects including Ron Howard’s Inferno; Grimsby; Alex Garland’s Annihilation and the James Bond film No Time To Die.

Paul returned to Cinesite to work on Netflix’s The Last Bus in 2020 before moving to Union the following year where he produced the acclaimed Marvel TV series Moon Knight.When he’s not working at the coal-face of VFX, Paul can be found coaching the next generation on a football pitch in Surrey or failing to play golf!

Matias Derkacz

Head of 2D & VFX Supervisor

Matias is Head of 2D and VFX Supervisor at award-winning visual effects studio Milk. He has been part of the team since 2015, working across high-end television and feature film projects including Amazon/BBC’s acclaimed Good Omens – for which Milk received a BAFTA Television Craft Award nomination; Altered Carbon (Netflix) and Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.).

Matias’ most recent credits include Netflix feature film The Old Guard and Sky’s eight-episode sci-fi series Intergalactic for which he served as Milk’s in-house VFX Supervisor.

Matias was 2D lead on the BBC/Hartswood’s Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, winning an Emmy Award for best visual effects and a nomination for a BAFTA Cymru Award in 2016.

Matias’ credits at Milk also include YouTube Premium’s ten-part 2018 sci-fi series Origin; Channel 4/Amazon’s Phillip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams; Sky One’s 2016 Christmas Day feature The Last Dragonslayer for which Milk received a BAFTA Television Craft Award nomination.

Matias’ feature film credits include Adrift (Balthasar Kormakur); Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and High-Rise, The Martian (20th Century Fox), The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Poltergeist (Fox/MGM), Brett Ratner’s Hercules(Paramount/MGM); Assassin’s Creed (20^th Century Fox).

Matias was 2D Supervisor on special event project “Dinosaurs In The Wild” – a 2017 UK immersive theatrical theme park-style experience which takes visitors 67 million years back to the time of the dinosaurs. The 18-month project required a huge range of complex 6K VFX shots in stereoscopic 3D, incorporating the latest paleontological knowledge.

Matias’ 2D Supervisor credits also include Doctor Who series nine, which won a BAFTA Cymru Award and a nomination for a BAFTA TV Craft Award in 2016 for best special effects. He was also a Senior Compositor on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell for which Milk won its third consecutive BAFTA TV Craft Award in 2016.

Matias joined Milk from Framestore where his credits include Digital Compositor on Guardians Of The Galaxy (Marvel/Disney).

Matias hails from Buenos Aires, Argentina and is a self-taught VFX professional with a previous career in aviation as a Pilot.

Murray Barber

VFX Supervisor

Murray Barber is a VFX Supervisor and co-founder of independent, award-winning visual effects studio Milk .

Since Milk’s launch in 2013, the team has created an impressive range of sequences for high-end TV and feature films, winning an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood’s Sherlock; three BAFTA Craft awards for the BBC’s Doctor Who (2014 and 2015) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2016) and eight BAFTA Craft nominations.

Murray has recently shot the VFX for feature film The Last Letter From Your Lover (Blueprint Pictures); and supervised both Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor and Ben Wheatley’s feature film Rebecca for Netflix.

Prior to this Murray’s credits include VFX supervision work on YouTube’s ten-episode sci-fi series Origin, including four months supervising the VFX shoot in Cape Town, South Africa. He also supervised Milk’s work on Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald.

Murray worked closely with acclaimed director Ben Wheatley as VFX Supervisor on his 2016 and 2015 feature films High-Rise and Free Fire. As Milk’s VFX Supervisor on Doctor Who Murray led the team to win two BAFTA Television Craft Awards in 2014 and 2015, one of which was directed by Wheatley.

Prior to the launch of Milk, Murray was Visual Effects Supervisor and Senior 2D Lead Compositor at The Mill TV and Film where Murray’s credits include 28 Weeks Later for DNA Films, The Hollow Crownfor the BBCand Sky1’s drama Skellig. He was responsible for leading his 2D team on high profile dramas including Doctor Who, receiving a VES nomination as well as a BAFTA Craft Award for outstanding visual effects in 2009 and an RTS Craft Award in 2010.

Murray has a strong film background with extensive experience as a compositor on many feature films including three of the Harry Potter films, Black Hawk Down, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Pride & Prejudice, Sahara and the two Tomb Raiderfilms, Stormbreaker, Sunshine, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Big Fish, Around the World in 80 days, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Da Vinci Code, Amazing Graceand Casino Royale. Murray has worked at a variety of facilities including The Moving Picture Company, Double Negative, Mill Film and Cinesite.

Murray is a voting member of B.I.F.A. (British Independent Film Awards.)

Neil Roche

Head Of 3D

Neil Roche is a highly experienced 3D VFX artist with a passion for creating photo-real CG creatures honed over 20 years in high-end TV and film.

Neil is Head of 3D at Milk and one of the original team members when the award-winning studio launched in 2013.  Originally Head of Rigging and Creature FX, he is one of the architects of the Milk’s rigging and creature FX pipeline, specialising in all types of creature work.

Neil has led the CFX and developed in-house modular rigging systems and CFX pipelines on a variety of high-profile productions at Milk, including BBC/Amazon’s Good Omens and Netflix’ Cursed for which Milk earnt a BAFTA Television Craft Award nominations in 2020 and 2021. Neil recently completed production as Head of 3D on Sky’s eight-episode sci-fi drama series Intergalactic.

Neil’s TV credits include Origin (YouTube); Altered Carbon (Netflix); Channel 4/ Sony’s Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams. Neil was rigging supervisor on Sky’s 2016 TV Christmas special The Last Dragonslayer, which received a BAFTA Television Craft nomination for special effects.  His credits also include creature-focused TV series Beowulf for ITV in 2015, which won an RTS nomination for best digital visual effects as well as Sherlock (BBC/Hartswood) and BAFTA-Award winning Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell.

Neil’s feature film credits include Four Kids And It (Sky) for which Neil supervised the rigging and entire creature workflow for the protagonist CG sand fairy creature voiced by Michael Caine; The Old Guard (Netflix); Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift; Alex Garland’s Annihilation; Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.); Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Ben Wheatley’s High Rise; Brett Ratner’s Hercules; Ex-Machina; Poltergeist and The Divergent Series: Insurgent.  Most recently Neil was the CG Supervisor on Netflix’ re-make of Rebecca.

Neil lead the rigging and creature FX on special event project “Dinosaurs In The Wild” – a UK immersive theatrical theme park-style experience which took visitors 67 million years back to the time of the dinosaurs. The project required over 1,000 days of animation with complex interaction between ten different types of dinosaurs and pre-historic creatures for a huge range of 6K VFX shots in stereoscopic 3D, incorporating the latest palaeontological knowledge.

Neil joined Milk from Mill TV and Film where he was Head of Rigging. While there his film and TV credits included Doctor Who, Merlin, Sinbad, and Ice age Giants, Snow White And The Huntsman, 47 Ronin and Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  Neil was part of the BAFTA-winning team on Merlin and RTS Award-winning team on Doctor Who and was twice nominated for a VES award for his creature work.

Going back further, Neil was an animator and rigger at Moving Picture Company where his credits include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Aliens Vs Predator, Kingdom Of Heaven, Corpse Bride and the Truth about Killer Dinosaurs.

Neil graduated from the University Of Creative Arts with a degree in Animation.

Henning Glabbart

Henning Glabbart - 2D Supervisor & Deputy Head of 2D

Henning Glabbart is an experienced compositor who has worked across a range of television productions, feature films and commercials. He is a 2D Supervisor at Milk and the Deputy Head of the 2D department.

Henning has been part of the Milk team since the studio’s launch in 2013. His credits as 2D supervisor span Netflix’ Altered Carbon; YouTube’s sci-fi series Origin; Season 10 of Doctor Who (BBC); Baltasar Kormajkur’s feature Adrift; and more recently Netflix’ action-packed feature The Old Guard; Britannia (Sky) and Apple TV’s new episodic thriller Suspicion.

Henning’s feature film credits also include Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them; Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise; The Divergent Series: Insurgent; Alex Garland’s Ex Machina; Brett Ratner’s Hercules and Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s recent Earwig. 

Henning’s wide ranging episodic credits include both Good Omens (Amazon/BBC) and Cursed (Netflix) – for which Milk received BAFTA Television Craft nominations in 2020 and 2021 – in addition to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (BBC) for which Milk won a BAFTA Craft Award in 2016; Electric Dreams (Channel 4/ Amazon); The Last Dragonslayer (Sky); Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands (ITV); Sherlock (BBC) and Sky Original’s recent eight episode sci-fi series Intergalactic.

Henning joined Milk from The Mill where he was a Lead Compositor on film projects 47 Ronin; Snow White And The Huntsman (Universal); Dredd (Lionsgate) and worked on BAFTA award winning TV series Merlin (BBC) and Doctor Who (BBC), in addition to Primeval for ITV. He also spent some time with The Mill’s commercial department, working on a wide range of commercial projects and several game trailers.

Prior to this, he was a compositor at MPC with credits including Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. Henning began his VFX career at magic & more in Hamburg, Germany, putting the finishing touches on a wide variety of TV and corporate films and commercials, before moving on to work as a Flame Operator on high end commercials for Spans & Partner.

Henning hails from Hamburg, Germany and can often be found pounding the pavements of East London in a bid to beat his 5K running PB!