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Brian Best on Look North - Local News 1994

Local North Tyneside News snippet from around 1994 Living in North Shields, I had just started learning how to make Monsters and models... very crude monsters and models at that... but I learned so much from making these, this was my self taught college as I had no effects books to learn from, and the internet was not available back then.
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Batman Begins The making of the Gauntlets

The Gauntlets for Batman Begins were produced by Modelmaker Stuart Curran, seen here are some of his techniques employed to process the final casts. FBFX produced the initiall ornate Gauntlets which Stuart modified to produce these Models for the Black Batsuit.
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Batman Begins The Making of the Cowl mask

Mould-design Supervisor & Modelmaking Supervisor: Brian Best Mould-designers & Modelmakers: Barry Best, James Kernot (Key mouldmaker: Cowl Mask), Rod Hamlin, Robin Schoonraad, Peter Norcliffe, Noel Kellett, Peter Tindall, Stuart Curran Foam R&D Laboratory: Henrik Svensson, Claire Folkard, Nigel Hierons Sculpture by: Julian Murray, Daniel Woodley, Max Patte This 'Making of' video shows the skilled process' in creating the Cowl Mask section of the Batsuit for the movie Batman Begins. The Cowl ...
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Batman Begins The Making of the Batsuit (part 1) Torso

Mould-design Supervisor & Modelmaking Supervisor: Brian Best Mould-designers & Modelmakers: Barry Best (key mouldmaker: Torso), James Kernot, Rod Hamlin, Robin Schoonraad, Peter Norcliffe, Noel Kellett, Peter Tindall, Stuart Curran Foam R&D Laboratory: Henrik Svensson, Claire Folkard, Nigel Hierons Sculpture by: Julian Murray, Daniel Woodley, Max Patte This 'Making of' video shows the skilled process' in creating the Torso section of the Batsuit for the movie Batman Begins. The Torso Mould ...
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Amiga 500 Computer graphics 1993

Here is a collection of various Computer Craphics, both 2D and 3D, This was all produced back in 1993 when I was 16years old. I later decided to change path and construct real models and Creatures rather than Vurtual ones, as computer technology was too expensive back then for me to progress much further than what you can see here. I created all of this footage with both 'Sculpt 4D' and 'Deluxe Paint 4.1' on a Commodore Amiga 500+ Hard to beleive all this was done with only 1.5mb...
Tags: Commodore Amiga 500+ Deluxe Paint 4.1 Sculpt 4D computer Graphics 1990's
Batman Begins (The Making of the Nomex Survival Suit) pt2

Seen here for the first time is the R&D and Construction of the Nomex Survival Suit for the movie Batman Begins (2003/4) Brian Best Supervised the R&D design & build of the suit., described in the script as "A BODYSUIT clear silicone over jointed armour". The suit were completed by his small department of extremely talented Model makers & Mould Designers at Shepperton Studios, England. In the end four versions of the Batsuit were produced, and many duplicates. 1: The Nomex Survival Suit [x 2 ...
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Batman Begins (The Making of the Nomex Survival Suit) pt1

Seen here for the first time is the R&D and Construction of the Nomex Survival Suit for the movie Batman Begins (2003/4) Brian Best Supervised the R&D design & build of the suit., described in the script as "A BODYSUIT clear silicone over jointed armour". The suit were completed by his small department of extremely talented Model makers & Mould Designers at Shepperton Studios, England. In the end four versions of the Batsuit were produced, and many duplicates. 1: The Nomex Survival Suit [x 2 ...
Tags: Batman Begins Nomex Survival suit Mould Design Model making Batsuit












