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As soon as I saw Cad Bane in live-action in The Book of Boba Fett I knew I wanted to sculpt a Cad Bane silicone mask and do the costume. This is the joy of being a mask maker and a cosplayer! Every now and again you see an unusual character who you absolutely fall in love with. Cad Bane, the Duros bounty hunter and Clone Wars hired gun with a specialism in fighting Jedi, is just that character for me. He drips attitude and preserves the spaghetti Western aesthetic of Clint Ea

We blogged back in January 2022 about the silicone ManFish mask (available here in our shop) that DoubleDinner Films commissioned Mind Magic Studios to create, cast and paint. If you missed it then check out that post for the story of how our involvement came about and lots of lovely videos of our panel talk at Romford Horror International Film Festival and our interview with Marc Coleman, the insanely talented Director. Since playing to a sell our crowd in Romford, and recei

It's great to be getting out and about again and the invitation for Mind Magic Studios to do some live sculpting at MegaCon Live at the NEC in Birmingham in March 2022 was very welcome. In this blog you hear more about our live sculpting, read our event review and watch our video cosplayer interviews. Live sculpting and meet the masks Thanks to all the lovely visitors who came and said hi and chatted about the sculpting and the silicone masks, props and prosthetics that we ma

Undead stunner Klawdeen is looking for love on Valentine's Day. Is Uncle Bingo that Clown she's been searching for, or will it be one big circus? Join us for an episode of '90 Day Freak' to find out. Klawdeen female fit silicone mask and Uncle Bingo scary clown silicone mask are original designs by Mind Magic Studios and available exclusively from us. #siliconemasks #realisticmasks #unclebingo #klawdeen #zombie #zombiemask #scaryclown #killerclown #clownmask #comedy #love #va

Scary clowns? Evil clowns? Killer clowns? We love 'em all! Mind Magic Studios are thrilled to launch a brand new original clown silicone mask. Meet Uncle Bingo - he has escaped from the big top and is definitely not someone you want to meet down a dark alleyway. He is a gruesome fella with flayed eye sockets held open by metal pins (silver painted silicone) so he just can't rest and he is REALLY cranky because of it! This freaky clown face mask features the fantastic skin tex

A fishy custom silicone mask request In the deepest, darkest depths of 2021's lockdown, my day was brightened by a request from Director and Writer Marc Coleman of Double Dinner Films to make the lead character's creature mask for his debut comedy horror feature film, ManFish. The brief was a humanoid sea creature who would wash up on shore, with the production being filmed locally in Essex at Canvey Island, the Isle of Sheppey in Kent and in the London Borough of Redbridge.

When someone gives up hours of their time in the freezing British winter to run around dressed as a Christmas Grinch to raise money for charity - well, we think that's pretty special. We thoroughly enjoyed watching the Maldon Grinch create havoc while fundraising in 2020 so, when he re-appeared in 2021, Mind Magic Studios decided to make him a disguise mask gift and film our hunt around the picturesque town of Maldon to find him. In 2021 he managed to raise an impressive £4,

Welcome to some behind the scenes footage at Mind Magic Studios, with a time-lapse video of part of the sculpting process for our ogre silicone mask, Brandlewyn. He is sculpted in Chavant clay, molded in fiberglass, and cast in EcoFlex 0020. We're really excited about Brandlewyn the Ogre as he is the first in our line of original character silicone masks, available only from Mind Magic Studios. #siliconemasks #mindmagicstudios #sculpting #ogre #creaturedesign #timelapse #chav

Mind Magic Studios was thrilled to be asked to do some live sculpting at Norcon, a fantastic Comic Con, where we also launched Brandlewyn the ogre silicone mask. In this blog you can: Learn about how we made the ogre mask View our mask movement video Watch a live broadcast from Norcon How to make an ogre mask that isn't a Shrek mask We designed Brandlewyn to be a friendly ogre who definitely doesn't eat children. With Shrek being such a well known ogre it was important for us

What happens when an ogre hits the town for a big day out? Find out what Brandlewyn gets up to when he tries to live like a normal human. His visits to the shops to buy some new clothes, a drink and get a hair cut don't quite go as planned. Training at the dojo didn't work out too well either. But does it end well for our friendly ogre? Brandlewyn is a full head silicone ogre mask designed by and available in our store now. #siliconemask #mindmagicstudios #sculpting #ogre #cr

It might the summer but here at Mind Magic Studios every day is Halloween, so let's say hi to the gorgeous Klawdeen, who is an original design female fit zombie silicone mask and only available here at Mind Magic Studios. This sexy zombie gal really went through the wars on her journey to becoming undead. She features a bite to her neck and yes, for accuracy, we really bit into the clay to get this correct! Klawdeen also has deep wounds to her face where her victim tried to f

Celebrating the UK Hellboy's debut in his Mind Magic Studios custom silicone mask.

We look at why silicone masks are so frighteningly realistic, how they really can fool you in real life and how scammers are using them.

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