VFX studio Milk has appointed Chris Burn as Group Managing Director.

He will lead the Milk team across the Group’s studios in London, France, Spain and Ireland.

Chris Burn has over 20 years of experience working in the VFX industry. He started initially as an artist and supervisor, before moving into “leadership and strategic growth opportunities” at DNEG and more recently, MPC. His creative credits include The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Alien vs Predator, Batman Begins, and The Matrix Reloaded.

He joins as Milk delivers new eight part NBC series, Surviving Earth.

Jag Mundi, Executive Chairman of Milk said: “We are delighted to welcome someone with Chris’ breadth and depth of experience to our senior leadership team. His expertise, energy and focus will help us realise our vision of building a distinctive independent VFX business of scale, with a boutique mentality.”

Chris Burn said: “I’m pleased to be joining this wonderful team. Milk is all about talented people who love what they do and I’ve admired their creativity and collaborative culture for some time.
The leadership team has great ambition for Milk. I look forward to building on the work already done to enable our talented people to innovate and continue to produce outstanding award-winning work with our production partners.”

Over the last 18 months, Milk has launched new VFX studios in Barcelona, Bordeaux and Dublin as well as the acquisition in October 2022 of Lola Post Production.