Max Dennison
Max Dennison is a professional digital matte painter and illustrator.
After secondary education at Villiers School in Limerick,[1] and then art school, Dennison quickly established a career producing matte paintings and concept work for the international special effects industry.
Dennison achieved critical acclaim through his work on Academy award-winning films such as 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[3] for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.[4]
Having worked on Revenge of the Sith for Industrial Light & Magic in 2004, he is now based in London and most recently completed work on X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.[5]
Since then, he set up Matte Painting UK in 2007 based in Shepperton Studios where he and his team continue to produce VFX for the international film industries.
References
- Max Dennison profile, mattepaintinguk.com; accessed 3 March 2015.
- Max Dennison at IMDb
- Visual Effects Society Awards
- Max Dennison at IMDb
- Max Dennison at IMDb