Jeremy Bennett

Jeremy Bennett is Art Director and Conceptual Artist for Valve. He is originally from Weta where he has been the Conceptual Designer for King Kong, the Visual Effects Art Director for The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Conceptual Artist for The Water Horse.

Bennett was awarded the Visual Effects Societies award for "Best Art Direction in a Motion Picture" for The Two Towers along with Alan Lee, Christian Rivers and Gino Acevedo.

Bennett created concept art for Portal (GLaDOS), Half-Life 2: Episode Two (the destroyed Citadel as seen from the Outlands) and Half-Life 2: Episode Three (the Borealis), one of them with Ted Backman and Tristan Reidford. His Episode Two and Episode Three artwork were selected for the 2007 and 2008 Into the Pixel Collections. He also made art for a story titled "The Perfect Wave", by his co-worker Marc Laidlaw.