STEPHEN VENNING AND JUDY ROBERTS JOIN THE MILL

OSCAR winning visual effects facility The Mill have announced the appointment of Stephen Venning as operations manager of the Mill 3D department, and Judy Roberts as an inferno operator.
Venning joins The Mill from Rushes and Roberts from Smoke and Mirrors.
Pat Joseph, managing director of The Mill, commented: “Stephen's mission in the coming year will be to grow and develop the 3D department within The Mill. The addition of Judy to the talented team of flame and inferno operators already at The Mill is also very exciting. We are delighted that they have joined us and I am sure that they will add to the success of The Mill in 2002.”
Venning has already expanded the Mill 3D team to accommodate high demand.
Mill 3D currently employ a dozen of Europe's top freelance animators working on such projects as a major worldwide campaign for Shell Oil, 3D vehicles and skylines for a New York Life Insurance spot, 3D fish for Goldfish Credit Card, and a mass crab migration which features in the latest Volvo campaign. Before joining The Mill Stephen was a 3D producer at Rushes, prior to that a 3D graphic design producer at BBC Resources.
In the newly created position, Stephen will oversee and develop all areas of The Mill's 3D department.
Roberts joins from Smoke and Mirrors where she spent five years as a flame operator. In the last year Roberts has worked on Fosters and Durex commercials for Daniel Kleinman at Spectre, a Miller campaign with Malcolm Venville at Therapy and recently finished a Garbage promo for Don Cameron at Tsunami. Prior to that Roberts worked at The Framestore.
(GB)