Wednesday, February 06, 2013
It's one of the biggest nights in the visual effects calendar,
and last night Mill attendees from Los Angeles, London & New
York dug out their sharpest suits and finest gowns and headed down
to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles. Having had one of
our strongest years nominations wise, The Mill were thrilled to
hear that Guinness
'Cloud' continued its award roll, taking home the gong in
the Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a
Commercial or Broadcast Program category.
Huge congratulation to Tom Bussell, Neil Davies and all those who
involved in the winning spot!
The 11th annual VES awards was attended by over a thousand
filmmakers, producers, artists and celebrities. Ceremony highlights
of the night included director Ang Lee being honored with the VES
Visionary Award, presented by Dennis Muren and Richard Edlund
awarded with the Lifetime Achievement, presented by Harrison
Ford.
Here is the round up of the rest of the
night's big winners.
Monday, November 05, 2012
A happy Monday indeed at The Mill as for the second year running
the London
International Awards name us Post Production Company of the
Year!
We've also been honoured with a Gold Statue in the Digital
(Navigation/interactivity) category for Mill Touch and a
Bronze Statue for Hallmark 'Motherbird' in Animation.
The LIA's honour creativity and new ideas in Advertising, Design
and Digital media and in their 27th year, the hotly-fought
competition saw 15,418 entries from 76 countries.
Other big winners on the night include R/GA, New York (Agency of
the year), BBDO (Network of the Year) and Soixante Quinze, Paris
(Production Company of the year).
Congratulations to all of our friends, clients and collaborators
who won this year.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
As proud event sponsors, The Mill created a title film and
credits for the 2012 Young Director Award which celebrates the very
best in international new directing talent in Cannes each
year.
Mill director and designer Carl Addy took the YDA theme of raw
talent as inspiration for the piece and takes us inside a child
director's imagination as we see a spoonful of food transform in
the mind's eye. Carl used pop culture and character
references to enhance this approach. We hope you enjoy.
Monday, June 25, 2012
The annual week of celebrating the best in creativity from
around the World has come to a close. This year saw a
festival full of stunning work, breath-taking visuals and a spot of
celebration (well, when in Cannes…).
With a mighty cheer-roar it's fantastic to be able to congratulate
MJZ, USA on receiving the Palme D'Or and Wieden+Kennedy, Portland
on winning Advertising Agency of the Year. As well as our long time
collaborators, BBH picking up the Creative Effectiveness Lion Grand
Prix for Axe/Lynx 'Excite'. A serious achievement!
We were also thrilled to see R/GA New York, USA receiving both the
Cyber Lions Grand Prix and Titanium and Integrated Lions Grand Prix
for Nike 'Fuelband'.
A good take away from this year's Cannes Lions saw UK ad agencies
strike back by picking up some of the biggest prizes at the 2012
festival. It was a really good year overall for UK agencies,
with a number scooping Gold, Silver and Bronze Lions in their
respective categories.
It was great to see BBH's Guardian 'Three Little
Pigs' do so well collecting a raft of Lions in various
categories as well Playstation 3's 'Michael' with Deutsch Los
Angeles awarded a Silver Lion in the Short Format Internet
Film.
And congratulations to all our clients, it's always exciting to
see projects we've worked on pick up awards including Doritos 'Dip Desperado', P&G
'Best Job', Nike 'I would Run To You', Hennessy 'Manny', Barnardo's 'Life Story', ASOS 'Urban Tour', Heineken
'The Legendary making Of The Date', Old
Spice 'Motorcycle', Nissan 'Gas Powered Everything',
Unilever's 'The Dove Ad Makeover', and last but by no means least
the British Heart Foundation's 'Vinnie'.
You can see a full list of all winners and shortlists on the
Cannes Lions website.
Welcome back and well done to all the award winners… same time,
same place next year!
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The glitterati of the UK advertising world gathered last
night for the annual British Arrows Awards, that recognise and
reward the best and brightest in television and cinema commercials
made by British advertising agencies and production companies over
the last year.
A very special congratulations to our long-time friend and
collaborator BBH on picking up Agency of the Year, Paul Rothwell on
his British Arrows Fellowship Award and Rattling Stick for
Production Company of the Year.
A great night for British Advertising and creativity and many
congratulations to all of the well-deserved winners.
Visit the British Arrows website to see the full list of winners and
finalists.
And click here to have a flip through the
British Arrows sponsorship film, out of The Mill's Design Studio
and directed by our Carl Addy.
Monday, January 09, 2012
What a great way to kick off 2012 with news that all three of
The Mill's studios has been nominated for this year's highly
coveted Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards!
The awards - which recognise outstanding visual effects artistry
in 23 categories of film, animation, television, commercials,
special venues and video games - are widely regarding by the VFX
industry as one of the most prestigious on the calendar. Nominees
were chosen by distinguished panels of VES members from across the
globe.
The Mill London has received three nominations for its work on the
Audi A6 'Hummingbird' spot in the
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Commercial or Video Game
Trailer category, Outstanding Animated Character in a Broadcast
Program or Commercial category and Outstanding Created Environment
in a Broadcast Program or Commercial category.
The Mill NY has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Visual Effects
in a Live Action Commercial category for Johnnie Walker 'Rock Giant' whilst The Mill
LA received their nomination in the Outstanding Virtual
Cinematography in a Broadcast Program or Commercial for Mattel's
Hot Wheels spot 'Immersion'.
Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the Visual Effects Society said of
this year's entrants: "The standard of the creative work that is
being considered this year is unbelievably high across all
categories. The judges faced a huge challenge because all of the
work was so far above the norm."
Winners of the 10th Annual VES Awards will be announced at an
exclusive event on Tuesday 7th February at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
and will also air on ReelzChannel.
To view the full list of nominees, click here:
http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/10th-annual-ves-awards-nominees
Thursday, December 08, 2011
We are committed to recognising and developing new talent here
at The Mill, so we couldn't have been more pleased when we heard
that our CG Generalist Andreas Thomsen received the 'Best Student
Project' award at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia, for his work on the
short film 'Last Fall'.
SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 celebrates the future and present talents of
animation industry, and this year's Computer Animation Festival
honoured the top three works through a Best of Show award, the Jury
award, and for the first time ever, the Best Student Project
award.
The SIGGRAPH judges were particularly impressed by the film's
high standard of graphics and animation achieved on a limited
budget. "It has been very satisfying to see the level of talent in
the animation and VFX industry. Working with the jury to curate and
select the best was very challenging," said Computer Animation
Festival Chair, Eric Liu, who had the uneviable job of choosing a
winner from 558 entries from 21 countries.
Our talent team first met Andreas when he was at the Animation
Workshop (where he created the winning film) in Denmark earlier
this year. Shortly after, he came to The Mill's London studio
to do an internship and has now been working as part of our
award-winning CG team ever since.
The SIGGRAPH Asia Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics
and Interactive Technique runs from 12-15 December at the Hong Kong
Convention & Exhibition Centre.
Find out more here: http://www.siggraph.org/asia2011/
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A great start to the week as The Mill was last night named Post
Production Company of the Year at the London International
Awards! The London team was also awarded a Gold Statue in
the Visual Effects category for their work on Volkwagen's 'Black Beetle' spot.
The LIA's honour creativity and new ideas in Advertising, Design
and Digital media, and in what marks the 26th year, the
hotly-fought competition saw 14,283 entries from 79 countries.
Other big winners at last night's event, which was hosted at
London's Troxy, include BBDO who were named Agency Network of the
Year; Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, who took The NEW Category
Grand LIA; Marshall Street Editors who took the Technique Grand
LIA, and Warrior Poets, NY, who took the LIA Special Award.
Congratulations to all of our friends, clients and collaborators
who won last night!
To see the full list of winners, visit: http://www.liaentries.com/winners/
Friday, November 11, 2011
Televisual Magazine has unveiled this year's Commercials 30 -
the annual survey of the UK's commercial production sector - naming
Blink number one commercial production company. Rattling
Stick's Ringan Ledwidge - with whom we most recently collaborated
on Barnardo's 'Life Story' - was named top
Director, and Mother was awarded Top Agency.
We are also delighted that The Mill has been named the 'Most
Rated Post House' and 'Most Used Post House' for the second year in
a row.
As well as this, we are proud to see that six spots our teams
from across the globe have worked on make the Top 10 Ads of the
year, including Nike 'Write the Future' at number one
and Heineken 'The Entrance' in second
place. Our other commercials to make the list include Old Spice 'The Man Your
Man Could Smell Like', Hovis 'Miss Chief', Puma 'After Hours' and T-Mobile 'Welcome Back'.
We'd like to congratulate Blink, Ringan, Mother and all of our
clients, friends and collaborators who have made 2011 another
fantastic creative year!
Friday, October 14, 2011
We are delighted to have been named number one in Televisual
magazine's Facilities 50 for the third consecutive
year!
As well as topping the overall list, we also came first in the 'Ad
Producer Favourite' poll and were voted number one in the 'Peer
Poll'.
London MD Darren O'Kelly, said: "To have achieved the top spot
in the Facilities 50 three years in a row is absolutely fantastic
and we are incredibly proud of all the hard work everyone at The
Mill has put in to make this possible.
"We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our clients and
partners for their continuing support in making 2011 such a great
year."
See the full Facilities 50 list here:
http://www.televisual.com/read-reports-surveys/13/Facilities-50-2011.html
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