MILK scoops up a British Academy Television Craft Award in the Special, Visual & Graphic Effects category for BBC’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special: Day of the Doctor.
The annual British Academy Television Craft Awards honour the very best behind-the-scenes talent from television.
MILK created a series of jaw-dropping large-scale CG environments, action and CG spacecraft in stereoscopic 3D to support the BBC’s epic 75-minute special Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode. Broadcast on BBC One in the UK on Saturday 23rd November 2013, Day of the Doctor holds a Guinness World Record as the largest simulcast of a TV drama in history.
MILK’s CEO Will Cohen said, “We are beyond delighted to be recognised by the Academy for our work on Doctor Who. For a company set to celebrate its first year in business at the beginning of June this is a fairytale ending to the year!”
MILK won the award alongside special effects companies Real SFX and The Model Unit who created the practical effects for Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor.
MILK was also a major contributor to the creature effects in Sky/Atlantic Production’s David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D which was also nominated for a BAFTA Craft Award in the Special, Visual & Graphic Effects category.
MILK opened for business just ten months ago and has already completed work on the BBC’s two most recent landmark Doctor Who TV specials: The 50th anniversary special Day of the Doctor and Christmas special Time of the Doctor as well as the third series of Hartswood Films’ Sherlock; Sky’s TV special - David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D (Sky/Atlantic) and feature film 47 Ronin. Milk is currently working on the forthcoming eighth series of Doctor Who featuring Peter Capaldi for the BBC and the new TV drama Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a seven part mini-series (7 x 60’) due to be broadcast on BBC One in the UK in 2015. On the feature film side, Milk is working on MGM’s upcoming Hercules.
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