In late 2008, CGSociety launched its largest competition to date called “Steampunk: Myths and Legends”. There was $22,000 in prize money for artists to render traditional myths and legends in the steampunk style, “using elements of gears, springs, brass and steam power.”
The instructions were simple:
Reimagine legendary characters from some of the world’s most ancient stories, such as a steam-powered minotaur, or a zeppelin-mounted Thor, hurling lightning bolts from the sky.
If you’re ever searched for steampunk art, you may have seen at least a few of the images that were entered into the competition. It yielded some iconic steampunk artworks.
The competition page no longer exits. The most recent version I can find in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is from September 2010. Sadly, many of the images don’t work.
So I did a bit of sleuthing around the Internet and found the following entries, including Fabricio Moraes’ winning artwork: Steampunk Pinocchio. Enjoy!
![Fabricio Moraes artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Fabricio-Moraes-artwork-656x492.jpg)
![Laurent Pierlot artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Laurent-Pierlot-artwork-492x492.jpg)
![Alex Broeckel artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Alex-Broeckel-artwork-738x369.jpg)
![Olek Zemplinski artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Olek-Zemplinski-artwork-601x492.jpg)
![Guillaume Dubois artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Guillaume-Dubois-artwork-313x492.jpg)
![Roger Nobs artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Roger-Nobs-artwork-265x492.jpg)
![Jack Zhang artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Jack-Zhang-artwork-369x492.jpg)
![Marcin Jakubowski artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marcin-Jakubowski-artwork-341x492.jpg)
![Nigel Quarless artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Nigel-Quarless-artwork-328x492.jpg)
![Antonio Caparo artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Antonio-Caparo-artwork-358x492.jpg)
![Marek Madej artwork](https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Marek-Madej-artwork-738x383.jpg)