Jeremy Bennett

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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.^[1][2]

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.^[1]

For the Half-Life series, Bennett created concept art for Portal, Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Half-Life 2: Episode Three, one of them with Ted Backman and Tristan Reidford. Two of his Episode Two and Episode Three works 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.^[3]

He designed most of the Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 areas.

Contents 1 Work for the Half-Life series 1.1 Portal 1.1.1 Gallery 1.2 Half-Life 2: Episode Two 1.2.1 Gallery 1.3 Half-Life 2: Episode Three 1.3.1 Gallery 2 Notes and references 3 External links

[edit] Work for the Half-Life series

[edit] Portal

• Aperture Laboratories
• GLaDOS

[edit] Gallery

[edit] Half-Life 2: Episode Two

• The Outlands
• The destroyed Citadel as seen from the Outlands
• The Victory Mine
• White Forest
• The Borealis

[edit] Gallery

[edit] Half-Life 2: Episode Three

• The Borealis

[edit] Gallery

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

• Jeremy Bennett at the Internet Movie Database
• Jeremy Bennett at MobyGames

Real world subjects
Half-Life game series		Half-Life: Day One (demo) · Half-Life · Half-Life: Opposing Force · Half-Life: Blue Shift · Half-Life: Decay · Half-Life: Source Half-Life 2 · Half-Life 2: Episode One · Half-Life 2: Episode Two · Half-Life 2: Episode Three
Portal game series		Portal: First Slice (demo) · Portal · Portal: Still Alive (Xbox 360) · Portal 2
Cut games		Prospero · Half-Life: Uplink (demo) · Get Your Free TVs! (technology demo) · Half-Life 2 Beta (leaked content) · Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (technology demo)
Other related games		Codename: Gordon · Deathmatch Classic · Half-Life 2: Deathmatch · Half-Life 2: Survivor (arcade) · Mods · Narbacular Drop
Game soundtracks		Half-Life soundtrack · Half-Life: Opposing Force soundtrack · Half-Life: Blue Shift soundtrack · Half-Life 2 soundtrack · Half-Life 2: Episode One soundtrack · Portal soundtrack · Half-Life 2: Episode Two soundtrack
Game engines		GoldSrc · Source
Other softwares		Source SDK · Steam · Valve Hammer Editor
Game developer companies		Gearbox Software · Valve Corporation
Production staff (composers)		Stephen Bahl · Kelly Bailey · Jonathan Coulton · Chris Jensen
Production staff (conceptual artists)		Viktor Antonov · Ted Backman · Stephen Bahl · Kelly Bailey · Jeremy Bennett · Dhabih Eng · Moby Francke · Chuck Jones · Eric Kirchmer · Tri Nguyen
Production staff (writers)		Stephen Bahl · Chet Faliszek · Marc Laidlaw · Randy Pitchford · Erik Wolpaw
Production staff (other)		Mike Harrington · Doug Lombardi · Gabe Newell · Randy Pitchford
Voice actors		John Aylward · Adam Baldwin · Robert Culp · Merle Dandridge · Michelle Forbes · Jim French · Louis Gossett Jr. · Robert Guillaume · Mary Kae Irvin · Kathy Levin · John Patrick Lowrie · Ellen McLain · Lani Minella · Mike Patton · Harry S. Robins · Michael Shapiro · Jon St. John · Tony Todd
Character models		Ted Backman · Kelly Bailey · Alésia Glidewell · Eric Kirchmer · Jamil Mullen
Other		ApertureScience.com · Commentary notes · Development of Half-Life 2 · Half-Life High Definition Pack · Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar · Mr. Valve · The Orange Box · The Orange Box Achievements · "Still Alive"