Antony / Pulse, ex-Dreamdealers                   
                                                                             
                  French musician/graphician on PC/ex-Amiga              
                        English interview by Sacrilege                   
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Hi Antony !  Present yourself, please...                         
                                                                             
Antony:   I  am Antony.  I am a french Pulser, since Pulse started three years
ago.  My major activities are creation using digital and fine arts.          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:   You're  a cool graphist, how did you begin to draw and what's the
year?                                                                        
                                                                             
Antony:   Hum, it started when a young kid when on atari ST, then I had 5 or 6
years  of Amiga scening with Dreamdealers.  At the same time, I was also using
pencils  and inks, and tried to mix many graphic and arty influences...well, I
always  tried to develop my own style.  And I think I still have a long way to
do before being satisfied of my works.                                       
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Who gives to you the desire to be a scener ?                     
                                                                             
Antony:   During  the  first years, I was amazed by the crack intros from many
groups  on  atari  and  amiga.   This  is  how  it  started.  Of course, I had
influence   from   graphicians   like   Uno  and  musicians  like  Walkman  or
Heatbeat...Now  the  groups:  I enjoyed people like Anarchy, Melon, Phenomena,
CNCD, Funky Buddhas, Kefrens...well, most amiga classics in fact !           
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Oh...Do you regret this "St" and "Amiga" time?                   
                                                                             
Antony:   I  don't regreat because life is made of lots of little deaths.  But
sometimes  it is a shame to meet arrogant pc sceners that don't have a minimum
of knowledge of the scene during the past and who don't know who are guys like
Heatbeat or Uno and what they did bring to demos.                            
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  What do you think about the scene, today ?                       
                                                                             
Antony:  The scene (and Pulse above all) is a place where I have a lot of good
friends and enable me to give my works an international dimension.  Today I am
not  really  motivated  to  start big projects with the scene, because I would
like to try other supports like video and to touch more people, but anyway, it
is a place it is always easy to meet people with talent.                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:   OK,  How  do you draw ?  A lot in a little time, or a lot of time
for a little work ?                                                          
                                                                             
Antony:   I  never  stay a long while in front of a picture.  I need to finish
them in one day or two.  It depends of what I have to do refering to my 'real'
graphics...sometimes  people  ask  me  scene  graphics and I have to draw them
really  quick  ..   For  my graphics I use my mouse and a wacom artpad.  I use
tvpaint, and dpaint sometimes.  I am not really photoshop addicted.          
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  What is the best production you have ever made?                  
                                                                             
Antony:   I  don't  know  since  I don't like most productions I did on pc and
Amiga.   I  tried  to  bring something unusual in musicdisks with Fesk/Crystal
symphonies 3.  Reve was a rather nice demo but I think it lacks shape.  It was
done in a rush, and for ex., the textures don't fit the objects at all.      
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Any project with Pulse?                                          
                                                                             
Antony:   There  is  one big project with pulse france.  And maybe another one
with  a  new  french  coder  (jumbo)  that  lately  joined pulse from Movement
(Amiga).                                                                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  We can know more about that?                                     
                                                                             
Antony:  Well, I don't know, maybe they'll kill me...  anyway :  first project
will  be coded by ICE, the guy that coded the 'famous cyber people' intro.  It
should  feature  many 3d animations.  Other project should be experimental and
bring  something  unusual to the demo scene.  Jumbo is the guy that coded 'sex
in a bubble gum faktory' on Amiga, and also many intros with Movement.       
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Well, Do you know defcon mag?                                    
                                                                             
Antony:   Yes I've seen issue 2 of this diskmag...  there was a good tune from
dune  if  i  can  remember...Looks  it  is  difficult to make a good mag today
because it requires a bunch of time.                                         
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  What are the diskmags you read?                                  
                                                                             
Antony:   hum...   I  don't read a lot of diskmags, and I don't watch a lot of
demos  too...I  read  Hugi and Defcon because their editors advertised them to
me..   but  that's  all..   On  Amiga  I was a far better reader of stuff like
Eurochart or Zine or RAW.                                                    
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege:  Now, do you work in the video game?  If not where?               
                                                                             
Antony:   I  don't  work  in  the  video  game, since I don't want to loose my
graphic  style  and  feel  more  interested in other medias.  Well, today I am
doing some advertising art direction (tv&print), also web design, type design,
and  some  fine arts in art galleries.  Lately I finished a 3d animation movie
called  "we  know  who  shot  kennedy"  and that should be released in a video
festival in sao paulo.                                                       
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege: Wahoo, good jod!                                                  
Sacrilege: Now, I'll say some words and you'll have to tell me what it inspire
you (in a word too)...                                                       
                                                                             
Antony: ok!                                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege: Deluxe paint?                                                     
                                                                             
Antony: the roots!                                                           
                                                                             
Sacrilege: popeye :) ?                                                       
                                                                             
Antony: jean-paul gaultier model!                                            
                                                                             
Sacrilege: Ahaha ;) Scans?                                                   
                                                                             
Antony: sometimes useful!                                                    
                                                                             
Sacrilege: reve?                                                             
                                                                             
Antony: better than nightmares!                                              
                                                                             
Sacrilege: miel pops?                                                        
                                                                             
Antony: I did a TV spot for them!                                            
                                                                             
Sacrilege: yeah! The scene?                                                  
                                                                             
Antony: sometimes funny, sometimes boring!                                   
                                                                             
Sacrilege: IRC?                                                              
                                                                             
Antony: chats when having dinner!                                            
                                                                             
Sacrilege: design?                                                           
                                                                             
Antony: powerful!                                                            
                                                                             
Sacrilege: Mad cow?                                                          
                                                                             
Antony: gives inspiration!                                                   
                                                                             
Sacrilege:   :)  Can I have your email for the readers if they want to contact
you?                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Antony: email: antony.squizzato@wanadoo.fr                                                  
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Sacrilege: Ok, thanks for your fun ;) A last word?                           
                                                                             
Antony:   euh,  well,  I  hope you 'readers will enjoy the newest website from
Pulse that will be soon online.                                              
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
Interview taken from Scene City homepage - http://scenecity.planet-d.net/}