OUR STORY - ONCE UPON A MASKED DREAM

Mind Magic Studios prides itself on providing our clients with a warm, professional, and personal service. We want you to look and feel like a Hollywood star when wearing our silicone and resin masks, prosthetics, and costume pieces, or when using our props. If you smash it, we smash it. It’s a partnership made in magic!

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Owner Steve Braund established Mind Magic Studios in 2014 to share his fascination with creatures and masks. Steve started by making hard-to-source costume parts, screen-accurate masks/cowls, and rubber body armor.  

 

Steve has trained with some of Hollywood and the UK’s best sculptors including Don Lanning, Richard Martin and Gary Pollard. He designs and sells his own hyper-realistic silicone and resin masks, and designs and makes custom masks and prosthetics fx pieces and props. His clients include advertising agencies, film, television, and theatre productions, scare attractions, costumers, and private art collectors.  He also makes mascot/logo masks for bands and games companies.

 

Steve has built a solid reputation for his creativity, attention to detail, and craftsmanship. His on-set experience with film directors and theatrical wardrobe departments, and as a regular mask-wearing comic-con costumer, means that he understands the exacting standards, quality, and wearability that you require. His knowledge of materials and industry-leading production techniques means that the result will be breathtaking whether it’s his designs or your own. 

 

Step into the magic - every mask tells a story, every prop is a piece of the dream.
 

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Production credits

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Mind Magic Studios on IMDb 

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For future release

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• Design, sculpt, and production of a three-part lizard prosthetic - Reptilian Sisterhood feature film by Arooj Shah.
   

• Design and production of lead character mask - Manbaby feature film by Phil Hardy of Art Omnivores
   

• Design and production of Rat masks and costume pieces for The Curb Rats band
   

• Production of silicone goblin mask - title tbc - feature film by John Williams

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2025

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• Fabrication of potato chip mask - advertising campaign by The Union marketing agency
   

2024

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• Sculpt of giant deer heads and hoof - Bambi: The Reckoning feature film

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• Design and production of lead character mask and prosthetic fx pieces - Member's Club feature film
   

• Design and production of horror mask - Fluxx feature film
   

• Production of hyper-realistic resin eyeball prop - Idiomatic short film
   

• 3D design, print, and finishing of knives - Taped Up Families feature film by Steven Noel Sibley
   

• Production of resin skull mask - Torture Day feature film by Steven Noel Sible

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2023

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• Design and production of full-head silicone mask for Academy award-nominated writer and director Steve Oedekerk
   

• Design and production of hair-punched full-head mascot/logo silicone mask for Twin Wizards gaming company
   

• Design and production of lead character creature mask - Beauty and the Beast Christmas theatre production by G.A.D.O.C.
   

• Design and mask production - Fat Eye Blink Blink feature film

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2022

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• Design and production of lead character creature mask - ManFish feature film
   

• Prosthetic wound design and application - Don't Cry for Bombadier feature film
   

 

2019

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• BBC News, Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker European Premiere, silicone mask worn by red carpet parade performer. 

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2018

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• Feature film concept horror mask design and production - Amstar Productions
   

• Design and production of horror mask - House Of Horror scare attraction, UK

 

​2016

 

• ​Channel 4, Britain’s Favourite Superhero documentary, Batman costume and cowl worn by featured costumer.
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• Latex Fashion TV costuming feature, rubber superhero armour, cowl and  claws worn by featured costumers.
   

• Johnnie & Todds Den short docu-film, rubber​ superhero armour, cowl and  claws worn by featured costumers.
   

​2015

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• BBC1, 800th anniversary of the Lord Mayor's Show - Catwoman cowls and claws worn by parade performer 

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