VFX house Milk has won another VFX Bafta for its work on the BBC’s Doctor Who episode Deep Breath, screened last summer.
Milk won the award alongside BBC Wales VFX and special effects companies Millennium FX and Real SFX who created the practical effects for the episode.
The focus of Milk’s work on Deep Breath was creating the sinister Half-Face Man character. Milk replaced one entire side of actor Peter Ferdinando’s head in 87 of the 117 digital shots.
It involved creating a CG hollow cage-like structure for the missing half of character’s head, as well as the visible internal workings of his head which resemble the mechanics of a clock, with moving cogs, pistons and rotating mechanical parts.
Milk received the award at the 2015 British Academy Television Craft Awards ceremony held last night at The Brewery, East London; hosted by Stephen Mangan.
It’s Milk’s second vfx Bafta; the company won the award last year for its vfx work on Doctor Who: 50th anniversary special episode Day of the Doctor.
Deep Breath was Peter Capaldi’s debut episode as Doctor Who and was directed by Ben Wheatley. The 80-minute episode was simulcast and screened in cinemas globally on 23rd August 2014.
Milk opened for business almost two years ago and has created visual effects for Doctor Who, Sherlock, Thunderbirds Are Go, 24: Live Another Day, David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D on television; and feature films The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Ex-Machina, Brett Ratner’s Hercules, Dracula Untold, Les Miserables, Get Santa, Dredd 3D and47 Ronin.