Max Dennison

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Max Dennison is a digital matte painter and illustrator.

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

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

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][better source needed]}

In 2007, he set up a company which produces VFX for the film industry, Matte Painting UK, which is based in Shepperton Studios.^{[citation needed]}

• Max Dennison's Official Site Archived 11 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
• Max Dennison at IMDb