Neil Roche

Neil Roche is a highly experienced 3D VFX artist with a passion for creating photo-real CG creatures honed over 20 years in high-end TV and film.

Neil is Head of 3D at Milk and one of the original team members when the award-winning studio launched in 2013. Originally Head of Rigging and Creature FX, he is one of the architects of the Milk’s rigging and creature FX pipeline, specialising in all types of creature work.

Neil has led the CFX and developed in-house modular rigging systems and CFX pipelines on a variety of high-profile productions at Milk, including BBC/Amazon’s Good Omens and Netflix’ Cursed for which Milk earnt a BAFTA Television Craft Award nominations in 2020 and 2021. Neil recently completed production as Head of 3D on Sky’s eight-episode sci-fi drama series Intergalactic.

Neil’s TV credits include Origin (YouTube); Altered Carbon (Netflix); Channel 4/ Sony’s Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams. Neil was rigging supervisor on Sky’s 2016 TV Christmas special The Last Dragonslayer, which received a BAFTA Television Craft nomination for special effects. His credits also include creature-focused TV series Beowulf for ITV in 2015, which won an RTS nomination for best digital visual effects as well as Sherlock (BBC/Hartswood) and BAFTA-Award winning Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell.

Neil’s feature film credits include Four Kids And It (Sky) for which Neil supervised the rigging and entire creature workflow for the protagonist CG sand fairy creature voiced by Michael Caine; The Old Guard (Netflix); Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift; Alex Garland’s Annihilation; Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.); Kingsman: The Golden Circle; Ben Wheatley’s High Rise; Brett Ratner’s Hercules; Ex-Machina; Poltergeist and The Divergent Series: Insurgent. Most recently Neil was the CG Supervisor on Netflix’ re-make of Rebecca.

Neil lead the rigging and creature FX on special event project “Dinosaurs In The Wild” – a UK immersive theatrical theme park-style experience which took visitors 67 million years back to the time of the dinosaurs. The project required over 1,000 days of animation with complex interaction between ten different types of dinosaurs and pre-historic creatures for a huge range of 6K VFX shots in stereoscopic 3D, incorporating the latest palaeontological knowledge.

Neil joined Milk from Mill TV and Film where he was Head of Rigging. While there his film and TV credits included Doctor Who, Merlin, Sinbad, and Ice age Giants, Snow White And The Huntsman, 47 Ronin and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Neil was part of the BAFTA-winning team on Merlin and RTS Award-winning team on Doctor Who and was twice nominated for a VES award for his creature work.

Going back further, Neil was an animator and rigger at Moving Picture Company where his credits include Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Aliens Vs Predator, Kingdom Of Heaven, Corpse Bride and the Truth about Killer Dinosaurs.

Neil graduated from the University Of Creative Arts with a degree in Animation.