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Inteview with Facet
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on the second of April.. And every-
body before the first of April got
with FACET/ANARCHY them and could use them after 1 A-
by RAMON B5 / DESIRE pril.. So I now have to wait till
July till I get a nice purple
card... Ggggrrrr....
- Please introduce yourself. Name, a-
ge, activity in your group. - So you'r 17 then eh?
- My name is Martijn van Meel, I'm - No, I'm 18.... haven't you read
almost 12 and put down pixels in D- Chit Chat? Inthere you could read
paint for a living! I had my birthday allready!! (You
can still send me flowers, candy's
- Please don't lie and tell us your and so on!)
real age!
- When and why did you join your gro-
- Ohnoo he knows I'm only 10..shit.. up?
now I have to tell him the truth,
or not... ehmm... well Ramon - In the year of 1991,
(L E A D E R) I'm 10... honest! When Facet had gfx done,
He joined the great group of
- What about your OV-jaarkaart then? Anarchy
And there he is and will always be.
- Oee... that was a mean question
since you knew that my birthday was - Oh God he is singing the answers.
But what about VISION? needed so much gfx so I drew a lot
in da beginning .. meanwhile I've
- I suppose I could sing that too, become lazier than that because of
but since I'm not a good singer, my girlfriend and fun... oh.. scho-
though I was once a churchsinger!!! ol is taking a lot of time at the
Well, Vision was my first real gro- moment too...
up and I thank a lot to them. The
reason why I left was mostly that - How do you (You, Dan, Nuke) usually
they lost the spirit and activity communicate in terms of design and
for the Demoscene.. And I needed an ideas which you have together?
active group that could support me
in what I was doing.. (making gfx - Well, usually Dan is the one with
for demos) and at that moment Vi- the strenght of color (Pastel!) and
sion was not that supporting design but I and Nuke also try to
group... Although that I just love supply him with ideas.. So did I
Vision! sort of design the main part of Le-
galise it... in Dpaint.. just for
- I guess you need an active group, the idea.. Dan did use some of my
you make lots of gfx in a very ideas but for my other ideas, we
short time, explain us how you do will use them maybe in LI2. Just
that. wait and seeeeeee....
- Well, it's just the time where I'm - What does your girly think about
living in.. I've been so busy be- you spending a lot of time with yo-
cause I came in Anarchy where they ur Amiga, and does she like your
work? cause in every chart they try to be
representive.. don't they? And one
- She really motivates me in doing thing is for sure.. If my name is
gfx because I want to higher my mentioned in a chart I'm really soo
skills always.. But I usually spend happy and that motivates me ofcour-
more hours with her than with my se...
computer. And I think when I would
give up computering for her I would - When I entered your (messy) room,
have the depressed lifetime of who- the first thing you did was throw
le my life... me some books with pictures. Is
this your greatest source for in-
- Mhh about motivation, I guess char- spiration?
ts motivate you too. Which chart do
you appreciate the most at this mo- - For drawing pictures I ususally get
ment? them from books with artist like:
Boris, Easley, Caldwell, Fred fiel-
- The Worldchart ofcourse since they ds and many more. But for the in-
rank me on number 4... hehehe... spiration for other gfx like logo's
naah.. At the moment I think the I use my imaginatiation.. But all
Stolendata chart is the most repre- the time I'm not behind my screen
sentive chart at the moment becau- I'm searching effects and original
se only skilled demofreaks vote for ideas to use so I can use those in
it.. ps. I don't vote for this uninspiration times.
chart!.. Anyway.. at the moment I
think all charts are quite good be- - Which of the artists you mentioned
above do you like most and why? that is not important. I met
him in Barnsley and we sure
- That is ofcourse BORIS since he IS had a great time! Look in
the best fantasy-art painter aro- several Anarchy productions
und. He can paint those things we to see work from him!
always dream of... And I think
that's soo smart! Just look at my Krest: This quiet guy was surprised
Fantasy dragon, the Introduction so many times by me that he
picture in Stolen Data 8, and look sold his Amiga at once.... ha
at the BORIS conversions from me.. ha... naaahh.. He is quite
good, just look in Krestmass
- Can you tell us something about the leftovers for his great work!
other gfx-dudez in Anarchy like Zo-
om, Mystik, Krest or Slash? Slash: Quite hard to tell you about
him because I only met him
- Zoom: This guy is the best 3D spe- once on a Christmas party two
cialist on Amiga... just look years ago... One thing I do
at his amazing Spring Melodi- know, he has looong hair!
es title picture.. We (ZOOM
and I) will hopefully work - List us your favourite coder/musi-
together on the huge project cian/gfx-artist?
for Anarchy..
- Hmmm... trickquestion eh? well...
Mystik: His gfx are quite good, he's since there are so many talented
not so active but I think and great coders, musicians and
graphicians around I'll just men- ady... It's for ZINE.. isn't it?
tion some I really like in what
they do on da Amiga! - Which of your own pictures do you
like most?
- Dan, Nuke, Tip, Mantronix, Hein,
Tsm, Audiomonster, Bruno, Heatbeat, - The Fantasy dragon which had to be
Zoom, Uno, Havok, Mystik, Krest, in the Gallery for Stolen data and
4-mat, Fairfax, Red devil, Quest, is the main titlepicture for 'the-
Color, Mace, Omega, Moby and Slash. half-year-delayed-because- of-musi-
cal-thing' better called as the
- What's your favourite disk-magazine Anarchy demo HaRdCoRe....
- RAW,Maggy,Mc-DISK and Stolen data.. - What do you think of the Dutch sce-
ne at the moment?
- Do you know for which magazine we
are doing this interview? - The Dutch scene looks so died out
because there are not so many par-
- Hmmmm... FC is what I see....eh.... ties, and since the Dutch groups
(F)ileppetto's (C)odercorner almost only release products on
(F)lummie (C)lummie parties I'm not seeing as much as 2
(F)ood (C)orner years ago...
(F)or a (C)ookbook
(F)ried (C)hicken - I heard some rumours that you will
move to England and work for Core
But since I knew the question alre- design in July. Are these rumours
true? us both but I'm sure we'll continue
our relationship.. For the Dutch
- Oh yes they are.... I have been to scene I'll stay making gfx...So you
England two weeks ago for an inter- CAN expect gfx from me in Mirage
view and afterwards I had myself a and Desire projects!
job.. So in the late of July and
the beginning of August I'll move - Are you already working on a
to Derby/England to work there in- project for Core design?
house...
- Nope.. at the moment I'm practising
- Great nice subject, now I can ask how to do animations. But in August
many questions like: Will you keep I'll get my Core Design game proje-
on working for Anarchy, what about ct...
school, what about your girlfriend
and what about the Dutch scene? - Can you inform us about some secre-
ts of Core design, new games and so
- I'll work along people like Dan, on (har har)?
Nuke and Rush in Core, so we can
make a lot more products because of - Yes... they are very busy to finish
the better communication.. This mo- a game called WolfChild on Amiga
ving will not last all my life, and it looks soo nice... with other
I'll quit school for one year to words... no comment!
see if this is what I really want..
I ofcourse keep on going with Judi- - WolfChild was that not a Psygnosis
th, I know it will be very hard for game? Anyway can you tell something
about new Anarchy releases then? the Chinese wall?
Legalise it II?
- Life is sure something eh? But it
- Yup... Legalise it... II is on the are the depressions that demotivate
worktables of ours at the moment. me at the moment.. It's almost like
Ofcourse we have other ideas of new Move matje #4 but it is not.. You
products but they are only in our can more describe it as a Chinese
minds and might never see the li- wall you talked about.. It's the
ghts... structure that makes me soo ill...
everytime I saw it I thought about
- You, DAN and NUKE seem to be a death and destruction!
trio. Are you gonna do some gfx for
other Anarchists too? - So it is not this interview that
makes you sick?
- If they ask me to do gfx I'll ofco-
urse do them a favour.. but since - No.. I really like to be in the
Dan and Nuke are my triobrothers center of something so interviewing
I'll do all Dan's gfx for his co- me was a tremendous idea!
ming projects! (hoehoehaaaa...) Noo... this in-
terview doesn't make me sick.. what
- Ask yourself a question and answer makes me sick is... juice.. for
it. that.. ask Martin alias Nuke!
- Is it life that makes you so sick - Do you have other hobbys beside yo-
and why is it that you don't like ur Amiga?
now?
- Yes, lately I play a lot of Tennis
that makes me fit... I also go out - I put up priorities my friend.... I
with friends and play pool.. What I use more because of my Super user
also like is to listen to real mu- in my bud... I use plastic and co-
sic like U2, Level 42, Ten sharp, loursubstances for getting oxygen..
etc. This will supply my brain to colle-
ct more molecules to protect me
- Lately? You told me that you play from getting a liftover that could
tennis for eight years now, and brainclean me. And that is what I
where did Guns 'n Roses go? do NOT prefer... would you like
that to happen to a thing you won't
- Well, I do play tennis for eight even know as a toilet?
years but it bored me a lot that I
became and unactive tennisplayer... - If you are gonna change again try
But now I just loove to play the these: Red hot chily peppers, Sonic
yellow ball! About Guns and Roses.. youth or Soundgarden. Next
..that was just a little fragment question: are you bored already?
of my life.. Now I like other sty-
les of music.... people change! - Well, I like one ton of R.H.C.P...
but for those other ones do I have
- How do you do it? I have to go for to go to the library... The real
the third time to the toilet, beca- question is not to be bores..is it?
use of all your drinks and food, .. No no! You want to ask a proper
and you've been only once until question... like.. what's the capi-
tal of spain! of the window try to put the leaves
in the garden to a form of question
- Do you think they are still reading giving power.. Will he succeed in
this interview then? putting them together in time.. the
clock was running down and the num-
- Noo... but we are not doing it for ber was getting smalled.... We were
them.. are we? No no..we are doing both waiting for what had to come..
this because at this moment of life .. what came was a pure nonsense
we feel like having the pleasure of illustrated piece of text without
doing this whatever the result is any proper answer at all...
like... is it.. or isn't it?
For dutch people: (Vaag he...)
- What game do you like best on
Amiga? - If ten birds can pickup one brick,
how many balls should a crocodile
- I really like Agony because of the eat to swim faster then a washing
high standard music and gfx... but machine, it's a colour beneath 10?
old classics like Hero and Pitfall
are my favourites... - For that easy question I can make a
litte program... (I can code ya
- Send some personal greets now so know!)
that I can make up some new intere-
sting questions. prg Sta $30000
Bna ld,$3
- At the moment Ramon is looking out Bsa %15,7676
Interview: FACET -1
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Harold, Quest, Andy, Darren, and a
My smart answer is 8 because he has lot more I just can't come up
allready 2 balls... with... sorry!
- If someone really wants an answer But last I have to thank you
send us 10$. Got some last words? Ramon... For having interviewed me
and drinked the Cola, the and eaten
- Yes ofcourse I have some... I can two pizza's! Green dragons forever!
use this opportunity to greet, men-
tion some guys here... I will not - Thank you for honest answers, Cola,
message them because we have Chit Pizza, The and stuffjes.
Chat for that!
END - FIN - EINDE - ENDE
Dan, Nuke, Rush, Hein, Tsm, Blo, Ko%staplota (Polish dialect!)
KR'33, Thd, 911, Multi, Moxy, Mad-
cap, Krestjes, Ramon, Fairfax, Mae-
Interview: FACET -2