Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Thiago Pires

#1

Thiago Pires is entered in the “Steampunk Myths and Legends” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Finished Video: Siege of Syracuse - Final Entry

#2

Great challenge!!

Our team will be working on the legend of “Archimedes’ Mirror” and the siege of Syracuse.

Archimedes was one of the greatest minds of all time. As a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer he made contributions to many fields of science and also designed innovative machines and siege engines.

Some say he also created the legendary “Heat Ray”, which was a large array of highly polished bronze mirrors used to focus sunlight on to a ship until it burned.

All of those weapons were used to protect Syracuse from the roman attackers (214–212 BC), and we thought it could be a great chance to put interesting steampunk engines, weapons and flying ships in the middle of a great epic battle.

We’ll post more details soon.
Good luck you all!!

#3

Hello,

This is our second challenge and we hope to do something bigger and more complex than the other one.

We are trying to make a sequence with a lot of different scenes so we think we’ll need a big team to complete this job. We are planning on using different sources as matte-paintings, 3d elements/characters and live action plates/actors.

As for now our team is:

Claudio Peralta - VFX Supervisor
Fabio Mayumi - Motion Designer/ Concept Artist
Luiz Filipe Figueira - Producer
Guilherme Salles - Concept Artist
Leandro Ibraim - 3d Artist
Luiza Waddington - Producer
Milena Hassel - Compositor
Paulo Duarte - 3d Artist
Ronaldo Pucci - Compositor
Thiago Pires - Compositor/ VFX Supervisor

We envited new members to help us finish the challenge:

Carlos Eduardo - 3d Artist
Marcos Silva - 3d Artist
Mauricio Stal - Camera, set director and color grading
Max Loeser - 3d Artist
Pedro Figueira - Compositor
Thiago Facina - Photographer
Valerycka Rizzo - Motion designer

Actors:

Edmar Pereira - Archimedes
Paulo Duarte - greek/roman soldier
Paulo Victor - greek soldier
Ronaldo Pucci - greek/roman soldier

Good challenge for everyone!!:thumbsup:

#4

Here are some information we are using to create our story.

"Syracuse (Italian: Siracusa, Sicilian: Sarausa, Classical Greek: Συρακοῦσαι / transliterated: Syrakousai) is a historic city in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Syracuse. The city is noted for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture and association to Archimedes, playing an important role in ancient times as one of the top powers of the Mediterranean world; it is over 2,700 years old. Syracuse is located in the south-east corner of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Syracuse next to the Ionian Sea.

The city was founded by Ancient Greek Corinthians and became a very powerful city-state. Syracuse was allied with Sparta and Corinth, exerting influence over the entire Magna Grecia area of which it was the most important city. Once described by Cicero as “the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all”, it later became part of the Roman Republic and Byzantine Empire."

wikipedia - Syracuse, Sicily

"Despite diplomatic attempts, war broke out between the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Syracuse in 214 BC, while the Romans were still busy battling with Carthage at the height of the Second Punic War.

A Roman force led by the General Marcus Claudius Marcellus consequently laid siege to the port city by sea and land. The city of Syracuse, located on the eastern coast of Sicily was reknowned for it’s significant fortifications, great walls that protected the city from attack and among the Syracuse defenders was the mathematician and scientist Archimedes…

“…, Archimedes’ devised defensive devices to counter the Roman efforts including a huge crane (see the Claw of Archimedes) operated hook that was used to lift the enemy ships out of the sea before dropping them to their doom. He also created a giant mirror (see Heat ray) that was used to deflect the powerful mediterranean sun onto the ships sails, setting fire to them. These measures, along with the fire from ballistas and onagers mounted on the city walls, frustrated the Romans and forced them to attempt costly direct assaults.”

wikipedia - Siege of Syracuse (214-212 BC)

We have already finished the script and we’ll post the storyboard soon!!

#5

Set Pixels Rulez!!

Bruno Fukumothi
Flame Artist
MPC (www.moving-picture.com)

#6

reference material

#7

Hey Bruno,

Say hello to Thiago Dantas if you see him in Spain!!
And try to visit us here too!!

All the best

#8

Hello everyone. I am one of team members. On our style of steampunk, we resolve don’t adopt the use of gunpowder and even electricity, since we want something more rustic, the most advanced equipments are moved to steam. Then we will have flying boats with motors that will produce impulse, with steam power + wind, catapults and other mechanisms. Soon we will post those concepts.

Thank’s.
Paulo C. Duarte

#9

Finally we have our storyboard. Hope we have time to complete this challenge.

Concepts and some modeling coming soon.

Critics and coments are welcome.
Good luck all!!

#10

Hey Thiago nice team entry! I love the fact that Archimedes existed but his inventions are controversal making it a myth very well picked story! Crazy inventions is well fitted in the steampunk universe! Also nice to know that more Brazilians are joining the contest!! As we say here “its we man!”
looking forward to your topic!

#11

I love the style of your presentation. This looks really promising!

#12

Hey Thiago nice team entry! I love the fact that Archimedes existed but his inventions are controversal making it a myth very well picked story! Crazy inventions is well fitted in the steampunk universe! Also nice to know that more Brazilians are joining the contest!! As we say here “its we man!”
looking forward to your topic!

Hey Fabio,

Good to know that you enjoyed our story!! Thank you for the support and all the best for you too!!

Its we man! hehehe

I love the style of your presentation. This looks really promising!

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the comment, we are trying to post all the steps of the process. We are very busy here at work but we’ll post some concepts soon.

#13

Hey Thiago, great myth choice! I liked the storyboard, good camera angles, can´t wait to see the progress… I´m sure it will be a fantastic work… as Scied said, is very nice to see more brazilians here! Good luck to you all guys!

Jujuba

#14

Hello Jujuba, nice find you here, we will follow your progress too, good luck.

Cheers,
Paulo C. Duarte

#15

Great work! The storyboard looks promising as said before!
Are you guys planning to use any live action footage?

Good luck!
Telli

#16

Hey Thiago, great myth choice! I liked the storyboard, good camera angles, can´t wait to see the progress… I´m sure it will be a fantastic work… as Scied said, is very nice to see more brazilians here! Good luck to you all guys!

Jujuba

Hey Jujuba!!
Thaks for the comment! We will try our best to complete everything we have planned! Nice to see you here.

GOod luck to you too!!

Great work! The storyboard looks promising as said before!
Are you guys planning to use any live action footage?

Good luck!
Telli

Hi Telli,

Thanks for the support! Yes, we are planning on shooting at least two takes. One will be the soldier looking for the flying fleet and the other one will be the Archimedes scene. We will try to shoot some other material as soldiers in diferent situations to composite with the city plates. Our producers are looking for costumes, camera, places, actors, etc.

What we are really looking for is to have fun!!

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#17

These are some of the sketches we are doing to detail the ideas we have talked before.

#18

Here are studies about some city elements.

Unfortunately there are a lot of new projects in house so we’ll have to use our sleep hours for the challenge!!

#19

Here are some studies of the roman flying fleet.

We decided that the floating force will come from steam propulsion mixed with wing-like sails and main sails for direction.

We wanted to escape from the balloon type ship.

#20

Good work so far;) I can’t wait to see the result!