The Mill

Monday 16th March

http://www.themill.com

The Mills Introduction to themselves (present of the mills website):


Twenty five years of innovation has established The Mill as a recognised global brand for creating seamless visual effects, but we are also leaders in design, animation, live action content direction, VFX brand accounts, versioning and global adaptations, digital content creation and distribution. Our ability to package multiple services allows us to deliver both schedule and budget efficiencies and to create with the multi-platform world in mind. This helps clients create great looking content for any screen.

Our passion is for great ideas, beautifully executed, that engage audiences irrespective of platform, device or venue.


We collaborate with groundbreaking directors, creative agencies and visionary brands, who trust us to bring their ideas to life. We value the two-way nature of these partnerships, understanding that our clients give us opportunities to improve our craft and astound their audiences.
Our reputation is built on our people. We find, train and nurture the most talented creative, technical and production teams in the industry and our scale enables us to work individually, in teams or as an international network via our bases in London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.





Open Evenings (starting job Opportunities at the mill)
Runners: "Our Runners are our future talent". 
"The position of runner exposes you to every department and best equips you for choosing your own career path. Runners hold a key client service role, providing the highest standards of assistance and support to both internal and external clients, and ensuring first-rate hospitality."
"We are very keen to hear from you if you are an enthusiastic, hard-working, talented individual with a passion for creative digital media and visual effects. Our preference would be for media graduates or candidates with relevant experience in other areas of the industry.We are continuously looking for new talent with the desire to work in the VFX industry and are always on the hunt to encourage new talent into the industry."
Open Evenings are aimed at those who are passionate about the VFX industry, but are unsure of how to get that foot in the door. 
The evening will be a chance for runner applicants to meet like-minded people as well as some of The Mill's leading talent who will be able to guide you through what to put in your showreels (and what not!), what entry level positions are available as well as lots of their own work which you can pick their brains about.
If you are interested in applying, please send a cover letter, your CV and any relevant work via email to runners.recruitment@themill.com with 'Open Evening' in the tagline.
What Work They Do:
 The website for this company shows the clients they have worked with and the work they have produced to be on a large scale and have created pieces for numerous commercials many of which we will have seen on tv ourselves such as pencil adverts, burger king adverts, nhs adverts and more.

Cancer research the lump:
AMV worked with director Sam Caadman out of Rogue to create a poignant reminder that lumps that go un-noticed and un-treated can be deadly.
The ad highlights how people often ignore the early signs of cancer, featuring a lump in the road, left to grow, being seemingly ignored by hundreds of passers by.
The Mill's 2D team helped to integrate the lump seamlessly into the pavement in Flame, whilst Mill colourist Matt Osborne added a natural grade.


 They also display a lot of their work done for music videos such as marina and the diamonds 'Forget', cocacola, prada,  god of war cinematic game footage promotions and loads more. 



History Of The Mill And A Bit More About It:
The Mill is a visual effects, animation and design studio launched in 1990 with offices in London, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

The Mill is respected for high-end visual effects, award-winning moving image, design and digital projects for the advertising, games and music industries. The Mill is usually well represented at the numerous Advertising and Visual Effects awards ceremonies world-wide each year.

The Mill is involved in a range of visual effects and design projects in the commercial, gaming and music industries. From the design of simple characters to the complex creation of CGI sports stadiums. The company’s supervisors, producers and artists support all stages of production, from pre-visualisation and conceptual artwork, shoot supervision, 3D, 2D and colour grading through to delivery of the finished project

in 1990, Robin Shenfield and Pat Joseph opened The Mill in Soho, London. Starting as a visual effects house for the advertising industry, it was the first VFX company in Europe to use exclusively digital methods. Then in 2002 The Mill opened a studio in New York, becoming the first uk visual effects house to do so.
Following the success of this studio, The Mill was launched in Los Angeles in 2007 - the first UK visual effects house to open on the West Coast - and once again, the new venture was highly successful.
2002 saw The Mill open a studio in New York, becoming first the UK visual effects house to do so. The extension of operations to the US was successful, with the company growing to employ over 100 staff by 2009.
Following the success of this studio, The Mill was launched in Los Angeles in 2007 - the first UK visual effects house to open on the West Coast - and once again, the new venture was highly successful.
  1. "In filmmaking, visual effects (abbreviated VFX) are the processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shot."
Why i chose to look into this company:

The videos available on their website showing the work they have created shows a vast range of the aspects and nieces within motion design showing work that uses CGI, stop motion, Visual effects, 3D, 2D, commercial, music videos, gaming, filming shoots etc and probably more examples than what i have listed. I love the variation and room for creativity that this company offers and find the work they produce massively inspirational. 
I think this studio is a good place for me to start looking into the industry to start to develop my path in the this career and help me find work to inspire my own. It is all precision and pristine work yet the creativity has not been squeezed out and there is still the presence of that creative spark that makes the audience think, or enthralled or question what it is they are viewing etc and is done very well. 

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