Jean-Claude Deguara

Jean-Claude is one of the five founding-owners of Milk, a multi-award winning, independent visual effects company based in London. Jean-Claude is a VFX Supervisor & Joint Head of 3D at Milk. Since its launch in 2013, Milk has created a range of innovative and complex sequences for high-end television and feature films, winning an Oscar for feature Film Ex-Machina; an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood's Sherlock (2016); three consecutive BAFTA Television Craft Awards for their work on the BBC's Doctor Who (2014 and 2015) and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2016) and seven BAFTA Craft nominations. Jean-Claude supervised Milk's work as principal VFX provider for Good Omens, Neil Gaiman's adaptation of the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett, for Amazon Studios and BBC. As Milk's VFX Supervisor on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Jean-Claude lead the team to win a 2016 BAFTA Television Craft Award and VES Award and RTS Craft Award nominations. He also led the team that earned a 2016 Creative Arts Emmy Award for Sherlock: 'The Abominable Bride'. Jean-Claude's VFX Supervisor credits at Milk includes three television series of Sherlock, ITV's Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands and David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive 3D and Dinosaurs in The Wild - a special immersive theatrical event, which saw Milk create large-scale CG dinosaurs and their environment and render 78 million 6k stereoscopic frames of complex animation in the Cloud in 10 weeks. Milk's credits span feature films Annihilation, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (Warner Bros.), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Lionsgate); Ben Wheatley's Free Fire and High-Rise; Everest (Universal), The Martian (20th Century Fox), The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Poltergeist (Fox/MGM), Brett Ratner's Hercules (Paramount/MGM), Universal's Dracula Untold; and for television: Channel 4/Amazon/Sony's Electric Dreams; Altered Carbon (Skydance/Netflix); The Alienist (Paramount/TNT); Sky One's 2016 Christmas Day feature The Last Dragonslayer, Class (BBC3), Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands and Thunderbirds are Go (ITV) for television. Prior to the launch of Milk in June 2013, Jean-Claude was Joint Head of 3D/Animation Supervisor and VFX Supervisor for Mill TV & Film for 10 years. His extensive feature film experience includes Alexander, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Alien vs. Predator and 28 Weeks Later. Jean-Claude's television credits include BAFTA, RTS Craft and VES Award-winning work on Doctor Who as well as Merlin, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood and ITV's Primeval for which he was VFX Supervisor. His career began as a Runner at Soho 601 before moving to The Hive to become a Character Animator and later joining The Moving Picture Company.