The bat is back in the new film Batman Begins, which saw Double Negative charged with creating a digital Gotham City.

border=0 /><BR></div> </p> <p> Batman Begins has swept in as one of the surprise blockbuster hits of this summer’s cinematic releases – and sees director Chris Nolan drag the caped crusader back to his roots. The result is a dark, edgy reinvention of the dark knight that avoids the camp commercialism of previous movies – and it’s all the better for it. </p> <p> Yet reinventing Batman involved more than a new latex costume and retooled batmobile. A vital aspect that Nolan needed was a raft of top-drawer special effects; only, Nolan didn’t actually want them to appear as the centrepiece in the way that films such as War Of The Worlds showboated its VFX. </p> <p> For Nolan, Batman Begins was to feature effects so seamless that if the audience were to watch a reel alongside a CG-generated sequence, they wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Instead of bombarding the audience with special effects, Nolan was determined to create a film that used them with the subtle touch of a master surgeon. </p> <p> <h2>Seamless CG</h2> </p> <p> <div class=inlineimage><img src= Print

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