VFX studio The Mill was put into administration and shut down after 35 years when its parent company, Technicolor Creative Studios UK Limited, a part of Technicolor Group filed for administration on February 24, 2025.
The Mill was the company responsible for the VFX of around 150 episodes of Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood until 2013, the same year a group of artists and producers from The Mill’s TV department formed their own company, Milk VFX.
The post-production and visual effects company launched in 1990. Along will providing visual effects, they designed the Doctor Who title sequence introduced in the first 2005 Doctor Who story Rose.
Today, The Mill was put into administration and shut down after 35 years. They are the company responsible for the VFX of around 150 episodes of #DoctorWho, SJA and Torchwood.
I also lost my job after nearly 2 years of working at the Mill as a compositor today. Devastated. pic.twitter.com/h2VmycgN7A
— ochenery (@oliverchenery) February 24, 2025
According to a letter from the Technicolor Group to their team, the Group has been experiencing difficulties linked to a variety of factors including the difficult operational situation resulting from post-covid recovery, a costly and complex separation from the previous group followed by the writers’ strike leading to a slowdown in customer orders causing severe cash flow pressures.