Max Dennison
Max Dennison (born 1969 or 1970) is a digital matte painter and illustrator from Ireland.[1]
Originally from Kildimo in County Limerick,[2] Dennison attended the Villiers School in Limerick city.[1] He attended university in England, and graduated from Leicester Polytechnic (later known as De Montfort University) in 1992.[3]
Dennison, who "landed his first job in special effects in 1996",[1] worked on John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (1998).[4] He also worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series, and was "lead matte painter" at Weta Digital for the trilogy.[5][1] At the 1st Visual Effects Society Awards, held in February 2003, Dennison (along with Yannick Dusseault, Roger Kupelian and Mathieu Raynault) was nominated for the "Best Matte Painting in a Motion Picture" award for his work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.[6][7]
Having worked on Revenge of the Sith for Industrial Light & Magic in 2004, between 2005 and 2006 he worked on X-Men: The Last Stand, The Da Vinci Code and Bryan Singer's Superman Returns.[8] In 2007, he set up a visual effects company, Matte Painting UK.[9]
Dennison worked on the Chernobyl miniseries (2019), and received the Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Supporting Role award for this work at the 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.[2]
As of 2019, he was a visual effects supervisor with DNEG and was living in London.[1][2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "From Mordor to Reactor 4: Limerick man toasts Emmy win". limerickleader.ie. 26 September 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Limerick man, Max Dennison celebrates Emmy win following special effects role in the hit show, Chernobyl". ilovelimerick.ie. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
- ↑ "DMU alumnus wins Emmy for work on celebrated Chernobyl TV series". dmu.ac.uk. De Montfort University. 18 October 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
[Dennison] graduated from Leicester Polytechnic with a degree in Industrial Design
- ↑ "Emmys 2019: Chernobyl". fxguide.com. August 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
VFX Supervisor Max Dennison, based at DNEG London [..] work[ed] on Academy award-winning films such as Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and John Madden's Shakespeare in Love
- ↑ "DNEG TV Recreates The Unimaginable for HBO's Chernobyl". vfxvoice.com. October 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
- ↑ "Visual Effects Society - 1st Annual VES Awards". vesglobal.org. Retrieved 30 May 2026.
- ↑ "Nominations and winners in various award ceremonies for the year 2002". academyawards.20m.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2006.
- ↑ Max Dennison at IMDb[better source needed]
- ↑ "Welcome To Matte Painting UK - About". mattepaintinguk.com. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
Matte Painting UK was established in 2007 by matte artist Max Dennison
External links
[edit]- Max Dennison at IMDb