Inteview with Slaine
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He's proved to be something more than just a new talent, and his works already made him 'earn' two consecutive 'Picture of the Month' awards in these very same pages, a result that nobody had achieved before. Yet, who is he? Let's find out! As always, a 'The Charts' exclusiveness: Madame and Monsieur... S L A I N E O F N. G. C. I'm 20 years old, infographist professional. I've been in several groups like Delight, Majic12, Extreme, Digital eleven, Pure metal coders, Flj, Agile, Ivory, Eden...ect..ect.. and now NGC . I like smoking, tasting beer and women, painting, marllboro, cannabis, hirondelle, Nippon country. You have won the last two editions of our 'picture of the month' symbolic award with 'Marble Head' first and 'La Tete a Toko' then, what's your opinion about charts? and above all, why you are still not present in any charts, although you've released at least two great pictures like those? Oh, I like charts but evidently charts don't like me! I don't know why but life is life. I have released 5 pictures on different parties, but it has never happened what I wished. Anyway, I'm oly 20th in the last Eurocharts and I really hope to jump soon higher in the people's spirit. Could you please tell something about the making of both those pictures? MARBLE HEAD 25 days point by point inspiration of Ciruelo. Changed 2 model of him and making little harmony. LA TETE A TOKO 10 days of artwork. 50% copy of Dimacio (painting artist) hard work coz : I changed all textures in the head and I drew my own style in the head. ------------------------------------- This is an artist! Originality is the word to be used for Slaine. With pictures like "Marblehead" and "La Tete A Toko" he has showed the scene that it is still possible to make something totally new that differs a lot from conventional scene graphics. I cannot tell exactly how he makes his pictures but one thing is for sure: He doesn't draw pixel by pixel... He rather uses textures that are applied on the picture which is then modified in some magic way? I suppose he makes his own motives - something that makes this guy close to ingenious. Though, I heard and saw fragments of some mess that occurred at the The Party IV. There was a argue between an organizer and a person that had some kind of hardcopy of Slaines' "La Tete A Toko" picture, but I didn't really get what it was all about. However, it appeared that the person (probably Slaine) with the picture on paper tried to convince the organizer that the picture aimed for the competition was all right. ------------------------Electron------ Was Peachy the right winner of the Party4 gfx-compo? If not, who was the right winner? No! Peachy wasn't the right winner!. I think it was: Joe / s!p Technic texture model : great!! How you rank yourself in the todays graphical scene and who's actually the best graphician in the french scene? Hmm, french scene, I really don't like me and I don't like them! Pretentious people! Not intrested! and very very professional (ah ah ah) Regarding who's the best graphician, I don't know... I'm an old graphician on the scene, but only an artist and not a judge. There are too many unknown people on this world and who probably are better than us. Among all the pictures you've drawn, which you think is the best one and why? MARBLE HEAD: Only 10 days. More technics. More precisions. More speed in realization. -------------------------------------- SLAINE has been around wearing his characteristic bowler hat for some time now. He first reached the big audience with his picture for the Saturne Party 1994 where he had used his special hires lace stencils. Like his next two high standard pictures Marble Head (Assembly '94) and Tete (TP94) he paints with textures as basis. It gives much more solid objects where Slaine's light effects form the shapes. The style is unique because you can experiment and create instead of working hard with every pixel. Marble Head and Tete are in a very similar crystal clear style (partly because of the high resolution) that despite the simple backgrounds are amazing pictures. Slaine is one of the best if he goes on like this. -------------------------Mount-------- We never seen a logo from you, don't you like to draw logos? I did and I'll do logos, but I dont like a lot to draw them. You spend a lot of time for 'nothing'. Is there a graphician with whom you would like to draw a picture together? Yes, and I already did it with two artists, Yolan/NGC and Thanatos/(old) PMC Is there a picture done from another artist, that you'd liked having pixelled? Yes! CELIS by Archmage/Andromeda The quest for artists -using scanners- has always been an actuality in the scene. Now, just imagine yourself not to be a part of the scene and therefore not involved in any kind of scene activities. If you should necessarily choose a name among these five artists, regarding the eventual use of scanners or other similar hardwares, who could be the one that you think would probably hide a handy scanner inside his drawer? FACET FAIRFAX RA COUGAR R.W.O. FAIRFAX FACET RWO FAIRFAX FAIRFAX FAIRFAX FAIRFAXXXXXXEEEEEEEDDDDDD!!!!!! Fairfax take scan to PC and after touch on amiga only light arengement. I have all pics of Fairfax on my computer direct copy of pc friend. Always regarding those five artists, just mention for each of them a quality that they have and that you'll be glad to 'stole' them. FACET : Nothing FAIRFAX : His place on the charts RA: House, Technic, Colors' choice,speed COUGAR : Technic, Colors choice, speed. RWO : REALLY NOTHING Tell us the names of some past graphicians that you admire and why. UNO for all : It was THE FIRST and the best. Tell us the names of some today graphicians that you admire and why. I really admire Archmage of Andromeda. No copy (only virtuality reality), colors, fun. Excellent artist. Not enough seen and appreciated. Any projects? Shall we expect other new pics from you in future? Yes! 1 game on pc and other pictures for other competitions. that.s all thx and bye bye. hi too : x dream ivory delight all ngc old pmc members mrmixx dan darkseed braindead all st falcon scene le bleuuuuu in vivo simon williams andromeda union vention polka/b 1664 the end coyote studio and the rest of my friends. so bye bye. thx for the interview ram jam. -------------------------------------- -- I'd say Slaine is a very underrated artist. He has brought something new that has newer been seen before, but I guess his time will come rather soon as more and more people probably learn about his works of art. --------------------------Electron----