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But what about the designs that didn’t make the cut? Or the ones that inspired a vision or a scene because of what they captured? Luckily for you, we’ve got 15 pieces of insane concept art for you to delve into the making of the Nolan trilogy all over again. It wasn’t just the gadgets, but the characters too - Heath Ledger’s take on The Joker redefined what we thought of the villain. The Bat-Wing, the Bat-Bike, the utility belt, the Bat-Signal and obviously the Batmobile all were given a reimagining, and the audience lapped it up. I'm happy to say that the average queue time for text-to-image artworks (style transfer actually handled the volume pretty well) is. When I discovered that the servers were lagging behind, I added a heap of new GPUs (like 500) to get through the queue. It was the way Nolan took some of the absurd aspects of the Batman story, and brought them to the present day in a way that didn’t seem stupid. NightCafe's algorithms are very processor-intensive so they need to run on expensive GPUs. RELATED: Un-X-ceptable: 15 Unused Pieces Of X-Men Movie Concept Art Nolan’s trilogy garnered praise from critics around the globe.

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The series focused on using practical effects and stunts instead of CGI - really wanting the audience to believe in the Batman.

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He was to be the product of our society, and would play along themes stemming from post-911 alongside other societal issues. When Christopher Nolan took the reins of the Batman reboot in the early 2000s, the plan was to ground the hero in a reality we could believe in.