Max Dennison

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Max Dennison is a digital matte painter and illustrator.

After secondary education at Villiers School in Limerick,{{cite web | url = http://www.mattepaintinguk.com/about | title = Max Dennison profile | website = mattepaintinguk.com | accessdate = 3 March 2015 | archive-date = 26 March 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120326203640/http://www.mattepaintinguk.com/about/ | url-status = dead }}{{better source needed|reason=This appears to be a primary source. Ideally this content would be verified by a secondary source.|date=August 2023}} and then art school, Dennison established a career producing matte paintings and concept work for the special effects industry.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Dennison worked on several films, including Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love.{{IMDb name|0219601}}{{better source needed|reason=IMDB is user-generated content and not typically considered reliable.|date=August 2023}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Visual_Effects_Society_Awards/2003|title=Visual Effects Society Awards|website=IMDb }}

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.{{better source needed|reason=IMDB is user-generated content and not typically considered reliable.|date=August 2023}}

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|date=January 2022}}