Max Dennison

Max Dennison (born ) is a digital matte painter and illustrator from Ireland.

Originally from Kildimo in County Limerick,

Dennison, who "landed his first job in special effects in 1996", He also worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series, and was "lead matte painter" at Weta Digital for the trilogy.

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. In 2007, he set up a visual effects company, Matte Painting UK.

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.

As of 2019, he was a visual effects supervisor with DNEG and was living in London.