Interview with Made
            by 3D Addict,
    re-edited by Ctp/Mawi^Link124
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   (3d) - 3D Addict

 (Made) - Made/Bomb



3d  -  You  are  among  the best scene
graphicians,  and  have  bean it for a
while.   Tell  me  a  little bit about
yourself.

Made  -  Let's  present  myself  :  my
"real" name is Carlos, i'm 20 year old
(01/24/77, for happy birthday wishes &
presents:),  i  live  in Paris and i'm
studying Fine arts & working for brand
new game company.  I'm involved in one
more  racing  game...My  interests are
movies,    painting,   drinking   with
friends , raytracing and smoking...Na!
Life is too goood!

3d  -  He,  he  :))  Ok, what was your
first  computer,  how and when did you
become  involved in the scene and when
did you start drawing?

Made  -  I  got  my  first computer in
1987,  it  was  an  Amstrad CPC6128, a
really  cool  8bit engine.  After some
months  i  created  with  a  friend my
first  group  &  diskmag  called  Disc
Full,   it   was   my   first  "scene"
experience.   I enjoyed coding & doing
gfx  on  CPC,(my first drawing program
was  a self coded program who put dots
and  line in the screen), but i had to
choose  between art and code.  I found
my  unique  & lovely old nickname Made
in  1987,  but  it's  another long and
indescriptible  story...   In  1991  i
bought  my  first  16bit computer, the
Amiga500.   It  was  the  must  for  a
graphician  like  me  to  have so many
colors and resolutions to work; fastly
i get in contact with some guys in the
scene  and  joined HMD (Hemoiroid) and
done some graphics for TCP demo packs.
After some months i joined SCOOPEX and
worked  most  of the time with a great
friend,   Ninja.   We  signed  lot  of
productions under SCX label during few
years.   I  continued supporting Amiga
forces  buying  an  A1200  some  years
after.   Gengis  asked  me to join the
BOMB  staff, it was a pleasure to work
with  him, we worked also in FEARS, my
first  experience  in  a game project.
In  1994,  i started doing some things
on   PC   with  some  friends,  but  i
seriously  worked  on  PC demos in the
begining of 1996 with Impact.

3d - What hardware/software do you use
now   and   where   do   you  get  the
inspiration from?

Made - I have an Amiga1200 and a P180,
i still use the great DeluxePaint 4 on
Amiga  and  Cloanto  PPaint  for  some
Palette  retouching.   But  i'm always
looking  and  trying  new  tools, like
Photoshop, TVPaint...  My inspiration?
Like all graphicians i think, in every
things of the life.

3d - Lazur uses almost all of his free
time  on  making  gfx on his amiga.How
many hours a day do you spend in front
of  your  amiga, and how many of those
hours are used on making gfx?

Made  -  All the time i spent in front
of   a  computer  is  for  drawing  or
surfing   on   the   Net.    I'm   not
interested  in doing something else on
a computer, like playing...Despite the
fact  i draw most of the time on paper
or  computer, i don't draw more than 2
or 3 hours a day on my computer, exept
befor  exeptional  events like parties
or  demos  deadlines.  I can't draw to
much time on the same thing, i quickly
get borred.

3d  -  I  know  from my own experience
that  it can take days and often weeks
to  draw  a good picture.How long does
it  take  to  draw  a good picture for
you,  and  what are the most important
aspects  of  making a great image?Also
how  long  did  it  take  you  to draw
Eden377?

Made  -  I  can't  say you exactly how
much  time I take to do a piture, it's
always a new experience to do one.  It
can  be  few  days, if it's easy or if
i'm   very  motivated  or  it  can  be
months,  for  a big picture.  The most
important  aspects  of  making a great
image for me is to have a perfect copy
of  the begining idea I had on my mind
in  the finished picture.  I can spend
hours,  days  on  few  pixels.  I take
more  than  one  month  to do EDEN377,
that i finished in hurry, like most of
the time before a party!

3d   -  What  do  you  find  the  most
difficult  to draw, and which phase of
your     drawing    do    you    enjoy
most.Personally  I  like mostly making
the  finishing  touches when the image
is about 95% complete.

Made  -  The most difficult for me are
two  things  :   Hairs  and  colors, i
spend  most of the time that I take to
do  a pic correcting hair antialiases,
splines  and  mixing  my  palette.   I
really  enjoy  doing  the  sketch of a
picture,   just  drawing  the  initial
ideas on the picture.

3d  -  Which of your own images do you
consider as the best one and which was
the most difficult to draw?

Made  - My favorites are Animal reign,
Eden377   and   SureShot.    The  most
difficult  to  draw was unhesitatingly
SureShot!   It tooke me about 2 months
of  very  hard  work,  I  started this
picture   in  summer  1996  (the  left
part),   and   finished   it   in  the
beggining of 1997.

3d  -  Being an active scener for some
time  now, you must have seen a lot of
pics  made by other graphicians.Who is
your favourite graphician and why?

Made  -  My  favorite,  and  technical
master  is  RA;  He  has an unique and
unbeliveable    style,    a    perfect
technique  and wonderful colors.  It's
a pitty that he stopped doing pictures
nowdays.   But,  to  be honest, I must
say   that   UNO,   HOF,  JOACHIM  and
ELECTRON   are   one   of   the   best
graphicians of the scene, I love them!

3d  - There is a new slideshow coming,
called  ARTCORE  II,  and  it's packed
with  some  of  the finest gfx made by
you.When is it going to be released?

Made  -  We  are  designing it at this
time...For   this   second   issue  of
ArtCORE I invited great graphicians of
the  demoscene,  like  DANNY,  DESTOP,
ELECTRON,  TITAN and GELMIR to join me
in  the  art gallery.  I hope it'll be
ready for September on Amiga and PC.

3d   -   What   do   you  think  about
raytracing?

Made  -  I  try  to take some times to
learn  more  and  more  in 3ds.  I use
this  tool  for  3 years now, it's for
that  reason  that you could have seen
modelised 3d objects by me in the main
parts of Explora and Shian Lee.

3d   -   What   do   you  think  about
redrawing?

Made - Redrawing is a choice, a little
bit  of  scene  graphicians have taken
the  choice  to don't redraw pictures!
I respect them, it take lot of time to
have  an  original  idea and put it in
pixels   in  a  picture.   Those  last
times, I used to compose pictures with
various sources (like personal photos,
paintings, magazine photos).  I try to
mix  all  those images to have a final
picture   that   exacly  fit  with  my
original  idea  and  style,  not  very
easy,  but  more original than simples
copy.

3d  -  Any future party plans?Will you
be   at  Assembly'97,  Saturne'97,  or
other parties?

Made  - I'll surely go to the Wired97,
BOMB is in the organizers list, I must
be  there!  The Assembly seems to be a
great  party, but it's too far for me,
mum  don't want...  And for the others
parties, I have no idea now.

3d  -  Thanks  for  the interview, and
best  of all in your future plans as a
graphician.  :)

Made - Thanx pal!