Millennium FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Prosthetics | Animatronics | Special Make-up FX | Creature FX

Portfolio

Millennium FX is Europe’s leading supplier of prosthetics, animatronics and special make-up FX for film, television, commercials, music promos, theatre and corporate projects.

Please use the filters to browse our gallery for specific types of work.

Dave - Baby Cow Saurus Foam Latex Creature Puppet

Saurus

Foam latex creature puppet created for the Dave fantasy comedy tv series "Zapped" starring James Buckley.

ON THE BEACH On The Beach Foam Character Suit

On The Beach

Foam latex character suit created for the "On The beach" advertising campaign.

Moz the Monster

Moz the Monster

Fabricated and sculpted creature suit created for John Lewis Christmas 2017 campaign directed by Michel Gondry.

CBBC Rowan and Mildred Animatronic Frogs

Rowan and Mildred

Two animatronic silicone frogs created for CBBC fantasy TV show "The Worst Witch".

CBBC Psy-Clopticus Creature make-up

Psy-Clopticus

1950's B-movie inspired foam latex alien make-up created for CBBC children's show "Rank the Prank".

CBBC Ogre Creature make-up

Ogre

Foam latex make-up for children's prank show "Rank the Prank", aired on CBBC.

BBC Three Corakinus Prosthetic Make-Up FX

Corakinus

Foam latex make-up FX and full creature suit created for the BBC Three Doctor Who spin-off "Class", created by Patrick Ness.

BBC Two Line of Duty Silicone head

Line of Duty

Decapitated silicone head created for the BBC 2 drama "Line of Duty".

Focus Features The Forest Prosthetic Creature Make-Up and Gore FX

The Forest

Millennium FX created prosthetic creature make-ups and gore FX for the Focus Features film, directed by Jason Zada. This included several 'Yurei' ghosts and corpses seen during the film as well as a series of injuries and gore 'gags'.

20th Century fox Igor's Hump - Victor Frankenstein Character Prosthetic

Igor's Hump - Victor Frankenstein

Several versions of Igor's famous hump were created for Daniel Radcliffe to wear in the film 'Victor Frankenstein'. These included a version fully 'filled' with pus, another partially filled and a third 'deflated' version following Frankenstein's cure.

20th Century Fox Turpin - Victor Frankenstein Prosthetic glove hand

Turpin - Victor Frankenstein

A prosthetic glove hand was created for Andrew Scott to wear late in the film after he is injured during a fight. It included a disfigured silicone thumb that fit over the performer's own thumb.

20th Century Fox Gordon - Victor Frankenstein Animatronic puppet

Gordon - Victor Frankenstein

This hybrid creature created for 'Victor Frankenstein' had an animatronic head and rod-operated body.

20 Century Fox Prometheus - Victor Frankenstein Prosthetic Make-Up FX

Prometheus - Victor Frankenstein

Full body and facial silicone prosthetics were created by Millennium FX to bring to life Mary Shelley's classic monster.

BBC Baby Susan Animatronic baby

Baby Susan

Animatronic baby created for Series 5 of 'Call the Midwife' which dealt with the Thalidomide scandal of the 1960s.

BBC Wales Flemming Prosthetic make-up

Flemming

Prosthetic make-up created for the Doctor Who Christmas Special 2015 "The Husbands of River Song".

Millennium are the best, the highest standard of work creatively and technically.  They are great collaborators and problem solvers.  

Janet Horsfield, Make-up Designer

About Millennium FX

We create work for film, television, commercials, music promos, theatre and corporate projects.

Millennium FX’s Directors, Neill Gorton and Rob Mayor, are multi-award winning artists with numerous BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards across make-up and special effects categories.

Working with them are Company Director, Kate Walshe; Director of Make-Up Rebecca Butterworth; Projects Supervisor Sharna Rothwell; in-house Designer Chris Goodman; in-house Mouldshop Supervisor Olivia Whitaker; Projects Assistant Rachel Gatt; in-house Prosthetic Technicians Morgan Kimber, Magda Kulig and Ellis Moore with in-house Buyer Terri Hargreaves and Administration by Martina Skokova. 

Together with the industry's best designers, artists and technicians, we have created work for countless productions from major studio features including Saving Private Ryan, The Wolfman, Gravity and Frankenstein, acclaimed television productions such as Doctor Who, The Catherine Tate Show and Critical, to iconic theatre like Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies and Sir Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of the Opera.

Our range of work has included prosthetic character make-ups, animatronic and creature effects work, speciality costumes and puppets, prosthetic medical and gore effects, consultation work, design and also industry training.

We also have a growing range of hire items – from hyper-realistic creature suits and life-like babies to specialty rigs and costumes and have made a range of our screen quality prosthetic make-ups available for sale through our sister company MFX Warehouse.

I've had the pleasure of collaborating with Millennium FX on Bodies, Frankenstein, Critical and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Not only are they an extraordinarily creative team, they're also flexible, diligent and extremely well organised.  MFX are the outstanding practitioners in their field.

Jed Mercurio, Executive Producer

Credits

We create work for film, television, commercials, music promos, theatre and corporate projects.

The Titan Lennart Ruff Nostromo Pictures
Ghayal Once Again Sunny Deol Eveready Pictures
Morgan Luke Scott Scott Free Productions
Victor Frankenstein Paul McGuigan Twentieth Century Fox
Ex Machina (Props) Alex Garland DNA Films
Black Sea Kevin MacDonald Focus Features
Divergent (Lifecasting) Neil Burger Summit Entertainment
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Declan Lowney Baby Cow Films
The Mirror Edward Boase Haunted Mirror
London Fields Matthew Cullen Muse Productions
It's a pleasure to work with the talented team at Millennium FX.  They allowed us to achieve scenes which we could never have afforded in CGI, and the actors all loved having something on set to interact with. 

Marcus Wilson, Producer - 'Our Zoo'

Awards

Millennium FX is an award winning company, having won many and also been involved in innumerable award winning productions and teams.

Since 2005 the team has received a total of 11 major industry awards, and in 2006 were awarded the Royal Television Society's coveted special award for ‘Design and Craft Innovation' for their pioneering work on Little Britain and Doctor Who.

BAFTA Craft

Tracey Ullman's Show

2017 Nomination Make-Up Design

BBC

Tracey Ullman's Show

Winner 2016 Make-up Design

BBC

Doctor Who

2016 Nomination SFX and VFX

BBC

Doctor Who

2015 Nomination SFX and VFX

BBC

Help

Winner 2006 Make-Up Design

BBC

The Girl

2013 Nomination Make-Up and Hair Design

HBO

Catherine Tate show

2007 Nomination Make-Up design

BBC

BAFTA Cymru

Doctor Who

2015 Nomination SFX and VFX

BBC

Doctor Who Series 3

Winner 2008 Make-Up Design

BBC Wales

Doctor Who Series 2

Winner 2007 Make-Up Design

BBC Wales

Doctor Who

Winner 2006 Make-up Design

BBC Wales

Royal Television Society

The Keith Lemon Sketch Show

2015 Nomination Make-Up Design

Talkback

Critical

2015 Nomination SFX and VFX

Sky

Being Human Series 1

Winner 2009 Special Effects

BBC

Being Human Pilot Episode

Winner 2008 Special Effects

BBC

Bodies Finale Episode

Winner 2007 Special Effects

BBC

Little Britain & Doctor Who

Winner 2006 Design and Craft Innovation

BBC and BBC Wales

The Catherine Tate Christmas Show

Winner 2006 RTS Make-up Design

BBC

Bodies

Winner 2006 RTS Special Effects

BBC

Doctor Who

2006 Nomination Make-up Design

BBc Wales

Help!

Winner 2005 Make-Up

BBC

Doctor Who

2005 Nomination Make-up Design

BBC Wales

Other Awards

John Lewis - Moz

2018 British Arrows Nomination Practical Effects

John Lewis

BBC Digital Radio 'D Love' Commercial

2013 British Arrows Craft Award nomination

BBC

Advertising Craft Award Wrigley's 'Frankenstein' Commercial

2003 Advertising Craft Award Runner Up

Hungry Man

Additional Contributions

Our work has featured in many productions that have received multiple accolades from the industry including ‘Saving Private Ryan’ which won Academy, Golden Globe and BAFTA awards, ‘Gladiator’ which won Academy, Golden Globe, MTV Movie and BAFTA awards, ‘Gravity’ which won Academy, BAFTA, Golden Glove and other awards across many award-giving bodies.

Millennium FX work is flawless, the whole process is done with speed, ease and good humour.  The team are fantastic from initial consultations to application.  

Nadia Stacey, Make-Up Designer - Fantastic fear of Everything and Spotless

Hire

Please refer to the individual terms for each item and contact us for further information or to arrange hire.

T-Rex Animatronic Dinosaur Suit
Robots Robots - HP5 and 1PW
Gerald the Gorilla Gorilla Suit 2, Gerald
Animatronic Baby
Otto the Orangutan Orangutan suit, Otto
Nigel Cyborg Alien Costume, Nigel
Anne Alien costume, Anne
Pregnancy Belly Suit Pregnancy Belly Suit
Harriet Alien Costume, Harriet
Skeleton
Severed Leg, Female
Animatronic Baby
Severed Legs, Female
Werewolf Werewolf Mask
Severed Limbs

Contact Us

Address

Unit 5 . Millennium Point
Broadfields . Bicester Road
Aylesbury . HP19 8ZU

Phone

T: 01296 392 010

About the Workshop and Location

Our workshop is located 40 miles northwest of London in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. The site is just off the Bicester Road section of the A41.  Driving from London the A41 can be joined at junction 20 of the M25.  The workshop is 18 miles from junction 9 of the M40.  

Use the postcode HP19 8ZU to find us with your Sat Nav.

Aylesbury has good National rail links to central London with Chiltern Line trains running from Aylesbury Station and Aylesbury Vale Parkway.

We are also close to Heathrow and Luton Airports, both less than 25 miles away with good road links to each.

About Jobs at Millennium FX

We work with freelancers who we engage on a project by project basis. If you wish to be considered for work with us please follow the procedure below:

Send us a covering letter and CV with at least 5 examples of your work either to our email address: cvs@millenniumfx.co.uk or by post to the workshop address. If posting, please only send copies of your work as original photos may not be returned.

In the case of any collaborative work in your examples, make it clear what your personal contribution was.

Unfortunately we cannot acknowledge receipt of submissions, but they are all kept on file and regularly reviewed when we are seeking new freelance staff.

We regret that inquiries that don’t conform to these guidelines may not be considered.

Address

Unit 5 . Millennium Point
Broadfields . Bicester Road
Aylesbury . HP19 8ZU

Phone

T: 01296 392 010