Heroes of Bronze: The Memory

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Heroes of Bronze is a personal CGI shortfilm I've been working on for the past 4 years, a labor of love and an introduction to an era that I think is sorely missing from today's film and animation world. I am not a historian, nevertheless, I tried to do the ancient Greece justice. I wanted to depict it as historically accurate as I was able, but at the same time, make it larger than life, the way it lives in my imagination. I am sure I've made errors, despite that, I hope I was able to capture the spirit of the ancient times and the Greco-Persian war period.

I plan to continue this project, but it largely depends on the support of the Patrons. On my Patreon, I will be sharing lots of behind the scenes, exclusive content, some of my 3D files, as well as short stories and larger parts of the Heroes of Bronze story.

I put together majority of the scenes and assets in Blender, where I also rendered the shots. To help the process, however, it helped to use a lot of other specialized tools. Absolutely essential for character meshes and animation was Reallusion's Character Creator and iClone, as well as the Rokoko suit for capturing my own animations. I employed Marvelous Designer for cloth simulations and Substance Painter for texturing most of the assets. The Adobe package served well in postproduction and editing, I used Photoshop for still images, After Effects for compositing the shots and Premiere for editing the video.

Voiceover: Abigail Rice, Richard Antony, Heath Douglas

Two PCs were used to create Heroes of Bronze:
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4,2 Ghz
GPU: GeForce GTX 3070
RAM: 64 GB
and
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K 4,2 Ghz
GPU: GeForce GTX1070 Ti
RAM: 64 GB

#history #animation #shortfilm

[MartinKlekner]

✨Thank you everyone for watching! This is only the first step on my journey to a larger animated project. ✨

[EpichistoryTv]

What an amazing achievement, and what a great tale! I've rarely seen hoplites looking as awesome as this. Great work Martin.

[MonteroKirilenko]

This deserves to be a full blown 3 hour movie. It's absolutely epic.

[merullaart]

Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space. Born just right to see Heroes of Bronze!
Let's go Martin! I got chills just from waiting. :)

[InvictaHistory]

Truly spectacular work! I've been seeing bits of this project in development over the years and am still blown away to see how it all comes together! Absolutely stunning work to say the least. Can't imagine all the effort spent on this!!!

[MicMixAniTuber]

A comment from a young Greek. I swear to God I have never seen a better representation of Ancient Greek culture in any media (movies, tv series, videogames etc). From the depths of my heart thank you! Thank you, thank you dude. Your attention to detail showed how much respect you have for Greek culture! God bless you. I would love to see more.

[fanofellasproductions]

Beautiful. As a Greek, I'm honored that you've done such an amazing art of our ancestors. Thank you

[dstavs]

I was born of Greek parents who left the only world they had known to give their children a better life than they had growing up in the villages of Greece. I was blessed to be immersed in the beauty and majesty of our culture, traditions and history. Now as a father myself, I’ve made it a priority to instil in my son the same love and reverence for his Greek identity. I want him to know that being of Greek lineage is not just a privilege, but his birthright. Videos like yours reinforce the love for my ancestry. Most importantly, it reinforces in me the desire to raise a virtuous man. Thank you for the beautiful work of art.

[apanagapanag]

Truly amazing!
As a modern Greek and being proud of my Great ancestors, I 'd like to express my sincere gratitude to you Sir!
THANK YOU!

[mariuss]

This has so much great potential to become a series of short films, the story could go on and be about Nikophoro's son in the Second Persoan invasion of Greece at the Battle of Plateea or even later during the Peloponesian War between Sparta and Athens where two former alias become enemies

[CGGeek]

Really stunning work Martin! Sure it took a lot of shear determination to finish such an ambitious project! kudos to all your hard work

[georgekouremenos]

As a Greek, i felt shivers in my spine. Gongrats what a masterpiece, well done!

[cgboost]

So proud of you, Martin! What a great accomplishment! 💪

[billdiam]

As a Greek i have to say that this is an excellent video it gave me chills and make us feel honored and proud. Spectacular work amazing result👏🏻

[JAlfano]

Dude I'm VFX artist, the amount of work to do this alone is just unbelievable. You should be proud of yourself. In the future If in the future you need Matte painting help I volunteer

[WillFredward]

It’s genuinely awesome that short films of this caliber can be produced now. If mainstream media falters and gives you shallow characters and nonsensical stories, you can turn to stuff like this instead 👍🏻

[nuduw]

2:42 The way you depicted the Achaemenid Empire at its peak is so splendid, reminds me of a documentary of the actual ruins I watched. The fact that you can depict how it'd have looked as a complete structure in all its glory is mindblowing!

[OhGadzMan]

'We are alive because of men like him' that was epic

[blackraidendragoneye]

For many years I have seen how this project continued to progress, even I would say that it will be the best adaptation in Greek history.

Greetings from my country, Peru, which is in the face of mass protests.😢

[Israelwins]

Wow, I am blown away by this amazing animated shortfilm! Heroes of Bronze truly brings to life the incredible stories of the Persian/Greco wars that were once only told through the words of Herodotus. Martin Klekner's ambitious project is a real labor of love, and it shows in every stunning detail of this production. The characters are so beautifully realized, and the battle scenes are truly epic in scale. I am in awe of the talent and dedication that went into creating this masterpiece.

I hope that Heroes of Bronze will continue to grow and reach even more people, because it deserves to be seen by everyone who loves great storytelling and breathtaking animation.

Congratulations to Martin, a one man army.





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