CG Industry

Advisory Board

Our advisory board is made up of professional 3D artists, CG industry movers and shakers, and influential names in TV, film, advertising and design. These are the people we go to for news, opinions, predictions, wisdom recommendations and general industry hubbub.

Advisory Board
  • Stephen Venning Stephen Venning

    Stephen Venning

    The Mill

    Stephen Venning

    Stephen Venning

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    The Mill

    Stephen is Executive Producer, 3D at The Mill’s London studio. He joined The Mill in 2001 and oversees The Mill’s award winning team of 3D artists and producers who create high-end CGI for commercials, music videos and multi-platform films and virals...

  • Robin Shenfield Robin Shenfield

    Robin Shenfield

    The Mill

    Robin Shenfield

    Robin Shenfield

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    The Mill

    Robin is the CEO of The Mill, the world-leading Visual Effects company with offices in the global centres of CG - London, New York and Los Angeles...

  • Paul Franklin Paul Franklin

    Paul Franklin

    Double Negative VFX

    Paul Franklin

    Paul Franklin

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    Double Negative VFX

    Paul Franklin is a VFX supervisor with over 20 years' experience in digital effects and animation. Whilst studying sculpture at university Paul began working with a student film group, serving variously as editor, props-maker and graphic designer...

  • Christian Roberton Christian Roberton

    Christian Roberton

    MPC

    Christian Roberton

    Christian Roberton

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    MPC

    Christian started his career in the traditional drawn animation business in the mid 90’s. Working for a number of London based traditional animation companies on commercial and television series production.

  • Shelley Page Shelley Page

    Shelley Page

    Dreamworks

    Shelley Page

    Shelley Page

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    Dreamworks

    DreamWorks Animation has been responsible for some of the biggest and most ground-breaking titles in the business such as ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’, ‘The Prince Of Egypt’, ‘Antz’, and ‘Shrek’...

  • Anthony Hunt Anthony Hunt

    Anthony Hunt

    Cinesite

    Anthony Hunt

    Anthony Hunt

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    Cinesite

    Anthony has taken the helm at Cinesite bringing with him all the contacts he’s made with major film studios, producers, directors and visual effects supervisors.

  • Dayne Cowan Dayne Cowan

    Dayne Cowan

    VES

    Dayne Cowan

    Dayne Cowan

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    VES

    Dayne is the current Chair of the UK Section of the Visual Effects Society. Having held this role for many years, he is well informed of the challenges and opportunities that the UK film and visual effects industry present.

  • Simon O'Brien Simon O'Brien

    Simon O'Brien

    Evolution

    Simon O'Brien

    Simon O'Brien

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    Evolution

    Simon has been with Evolution since 2001 and has moved through a range of art based disciplines at the studio, from 3d Modeller to Technical Artist and is currently in a role as Art Director.

  • Aaron Allport Aaron Allport

    Aaron Allport

    Blitz Games

    Aaron Allport

    Aaron Allport

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    Blitz Games

    In his current position he is responsible for the research and development of new art technologies, techniques and pipelines for future use in development.

  • Tom Jones Tom Jones

    Tom Jones

    Sony

    Tom Jones

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    Sony

    Tom joined Sony as a Junior Environment Artist in December 2002. Projects he worked on include Killzone, 24 The Game, Medevil PSP, Wipeout Pulse PSP and Heavenly Sword PS3.

  • Ben Hebb Ben Hebb

    Ben Hebb

    Zoe mode

    Ben Hebb

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    Zoe mode

    Ben Hebb is the Art Director at Zoë Mode, the world’s leading independent developer of music, party and social games. There he has responsibility across all the art teams and the visual output.

  • Chris Ford Chris Ford

    Chris Ford

    Pixar Animation

    Chris Ford

    Chris Ford

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    Pixar Animation

    Now entrenched in the position of Business Director for RenderMan, Chris can bring 20 years experience to add to Pixar's stable of films like 'Toy Story', 'Finding Nemo', and 'The Incredibles'.

  • Pete Forde Pete Forde

    Pete Forde

    Aardman

    Pete Forde

    Pete Forde

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    Aardman

    Pete is the CGI Systems Administrator at Aardman Animations. Consequently he knows what makes a world-renowned animation studio tick and he passes it all on to us. Aardman Animations is the famous studios behind 'Wallace and Gromit' and 'Chicken...

  • Mike Haigh Mike Haigh

    Mike Haigh

    Sony

    Mike Haigh

    Mike Haigh

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    Sony

    Mike is Head of Studio (London) for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and has been involved in the development of over 25 titles, including the recent EyeToy and SingStar franchises...

  • Dan O'Rourke Dan O'Rourke

    Dan O'Rourke

    Not To Scale

    Dan O'Rourke

    Dan O'Rourke

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    Not To Scale

    Dan is the executive producer and founder of Not To Scale, an award winning animation studio.

  • Chris Lee Chris Lee

    Chris Lee

    FreeStyleGames

    Chris Lee

    Chris Lee

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    FreeStyleGames

    The studio has been responsible for titles such as the highly innovative, BAFTA nominated 'B-Boy'.

  • Paul McLaughlin Paul McLaughlin

    Paul McLaughlin

    Lionhead

    Paul McLaughlin

    Paul McLaughlin

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    Lionhead

    As Head of Art Paul uses both of these everyday and is an invaluable member of our Advisory Board, letting us understand how we can best adapt to the market’s needs.

  • Jonathan Privett Jonathan Privett

    Jonathan Privett

    Rushes

    Jonathan Privett

    Jonathan Privett

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    Rushes

    Jonathan is Head of CG which covers the whole client range so he's in the ideal position to let us know what they all require.

  • Jim Radford Jim Radford

    Jim Radford

    MPC

    Jim Radford

    Jim Radford

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    MPC

    Jim has been MPC Creative Head of CGI for Commercials & TV since 2000, and has supervised VFX for many high-profile projects. In 2005, Jim won an Emmy and a VES award for the ground-breaking...

  • Will Cohen Will Cohen

    Will Cohen

    The Mill

    Will Cohen

    Will Cohen

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    The Mill

    Will joined The Mill in July 2003 and now leads the film and TV divisions as Group Director of Mill Film and TV...