Max Dennison is a digital matte painter and illustrator.

After secondary education at Villiers School in Limerick,[1] and then art school, Dennison established a career producing matte paintings and concept work for the special effects industry.

Dennison worked on several films, including Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love.[2]

In 2003, while supervising the matte painting department at Weta Digital on Lord of the Rings, Dennison was also nominated for the award of "Best Matte Painting in a Motion Picture" by the Visual Effects Society for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.[3]

Having worked on Revenge of the Sith for Industrial Light & Magic in 2004, he moved to London and worked on X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.[2]

In 2007, he set up a company which produces VFX for the film industry, Matte Painting UK, which is based in Shepperton Studios.

References

  1. ↑ "Max Dennison profile". mattepaintinguk.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 Max Dennison at IMDb
  3. ↑ "Visual Effects Society Awards".
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