I think everyone agrees that the Batman from Arkham City ranks among the best looking takes on The Dark Knight that we’ve yet seen appear in any video game, comic book, or movie. From head to toe, Arkham Batman is one bad mother fucker. Inspired by the Batman costume from both the Arkham Asylum and Arkham City games, a group of artists decided to pool their talents and create a real life Batman suit modeled after the one appearing in these games. The end result of their work is nothing short of amazing and is quite possibly the best superhero cosplay costume ever constructed.
Posting over on The Effects Lab, one of the artists that worked on this project showed off several pictures of the Arkham Batman suit and provided the following introduction about their work…
“All of us agreed that this was the best movie suit never done as well as the entire game being the film we all wanted to see. And there were so many aspects to it, including the illusive blue and gray of the new city suit, that we wanted to tackle. Some of the goals on the suit were that we wanted the pieces to be accurate like they walked right off the screen. The whole suit would need to be proportioned to the point that all the pieces worked together to complete the image of the character design. This was tricky due to the fact that no human being in the world is the shape of that guy. Especially the cowl. Also the cross texture of the entire suit must be included and it has to run synced up on all panels as the game suit does, so that all lines intersect at an X throughout the entire suit.
We wanted to achieve the right colors and needed them to change dramatically from one light source to another, like the game suit does. Especially the new game where you see a brighter blue cowl in one light and then a seemingly black cowl in another. This went for the gray also as it needed to go dark and also reflect the greens that they used in the game. The whole suit is weathered to match the grittiness of the game suit and made to be worn. We wanted to follow the same basic design of the movie suits meaning separate sizeable torso, legs, etc… all mounted on an undersuit so that anyone could have it tailored to them the same way the movie pieces can be sized. The briefs were done separate so that the movement would be fluid and the entire muscle set-up should look one piece but move easily.”
As you can see, a lot of talent and hard work went into making this thing. If Batman were real (and I’m not yet convinced that he isn’t), this is the suit that he would be wearing. All in all, this is an exceptional piece of work by a group of obviously insanely talented people. I’m not sure it could have been done any better. Very well done.
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