Mind Magic Studios blog

Steve Braund, Mind Magic Studios I was thrilled to be featured on the regional news and ITVX recently. Russell Hookey from ITV News Anglia came to visit Mind Magic Studios to film me sculpting, the masks on the shelves, and to ask about how I got here. Last week the piece went out, and contains some really lovely footage of the masks. The short version of the story, for anyone new here: years ago I was made redundant from a completely different career. I taught myself to sc

Steve Braund, Mind Magic Studios During 2025, I had the privilege of working as part of the sculpting team creating armour and helmets for Season 3 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Amazon Prime's television adaptation of Tolkien's world. With the first public reveals now underway, I can finally talk about a project that occupied a great deal of clay. Years at the sculpting bench I've been a full-time sculptor for many years now. In that time I've sculpted for pro