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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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-- 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----