Max Dennison is a digital matte painter and illustrator.
After secondary education at
Villiers School
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in Limerick, 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
Sir Peter Robert Jackson (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the ''Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003) and the ''Hobbit'' trilogy ( ...
's ''
The Lord of the Rings'' and
John Madden's ''
Shakespeare in Love''.
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
The Visual Effects Society (VES) is an entertainment industry organization representing visual effects practitioners including artists, animators, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and pr ...
for his work on ''The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers''.
Having worked on ''
Revenge of the Sith'' for
Industrial Light & Magic
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when he began pro ...
in 2004, he moved to London and worked on ''
X-Men: The Last Stand'', ''
The Da Vinci Code'' and
Bryan Singer's ''
Superman Returns''.
In 2007, he set up a company which produces VFX for the film industry, Matte Painting UK, which is based in
Shepperton Studios.
References
External links
Max Dennison's Official Site
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Living people
Matte painters
British illustrators
People educated at Villiers School
Year of birth missing (living people)