The Bat Cowl Collection: Creating iconic NFTs

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Presented by Daz 3D

Connect with three of the NFTs’ creators, Ty Duperron, Mark Vaughan, and Joshua Faustino as they explore their creative processes behind one of the year’s most ambitious NFT collections.

Batman may be vengeance to the people of Gotham, but for us fans he’s so much more. Batman has remained one of the most iconic comic book characters in the world since his first debut over 80 years ago. He’s dark, yet thought-provoking, as he walks the line of ethics and anger, prowling Gotham’s streets cloaked in shadow.

Across that 83-year legacy, Batman’s appearance has changed a lot. From the blue and gray spandex-like suit with the infamous black bat logo and those unforgettable purple gloves, to today’s brooding hulk of bullet-proof armor and high-tech cowls, the evolution of Batman through the influence of countless artists is spectacular to witness.

With so many years in production and so many iconic iterations of the character, creators of the new Bat Cowl Collection, an epic-scale NFT offering of 200,000 unique 3D Bat Cowls, faced a difficult, albeit exciting challenge: finding out how to stay true to such a long history of Batman, while offering unique and fun variations that still feel like they belong to Batman.

This epic collection has been a massive collaboration between Warner Brothers, DC, Palm NFT Studio, and Daz 3D. It’s not everyday that you show up to work and get to work with a character as iconic as Batman, though it’s something of a norm for the team at Daz 3D. We wanted to take a behind-the-scenes-look at this iconic project and chat with Mark Vaughan, Project Lead, and Joshua Faustino, Lead Artist from Daz 3Dk for the bat cowls.

As Lead Artist, part of Josh’s role was modeling the cowls themselves.