It has been a loong process to get to this stage. From the initial ideation and concepting, to creating assets and 3D pipeline, and finally animating, rendering and editing the shots - it took me about 4 years from start to finish. These past few months I’ve been able to work on it almost full-time, finally bringing the 6-minute short to a stage where I feel (somewhat) confident presenting it to the world.
Of course, the work is never done and if I wasn’t careful, I’d keep adjusting and improving it for all eternity. However, at the end of the year I decided that this is the point when I simply must say “Done is better than perfect”. And so, I’d like to present the release date of the first major milestone in my Heroes of Bronze project.
So, on the 21st of January 2023, you can expect the premiere of Heroes of Bronze shortfilm on my Youtube, along with a Q&A livestream where you’ll be able to ask questions… and I’ll try to answer them :-D
Before that happens, you can follow my Instagram for more backstory, behind the scenes and latest info. I have been posting there pretty regularly over these past months, so you can learn a lot about various characters and settings of the story.
Heroes of Bronze Novel
Apart from that, I have been busy finishing my first book set in the Heroes of Bronze universe. It focuses on the very beginnings of the Ionian Revolt, a precursor to the Greco-Persian wars, and many of the characters you’ll see in the shortfilm will appear there as well. It is about 250 pages, so basically a smaller novel.
And here’s what’s important - during the course of the next year, I will start publishing its chapters on my Patreon. So if you haven’t already, you can subscribe there and support the project even after the shortfilm is out. If you still like it by then, of course… ;-)
So, see you at the release!
Chairé!
Martin
