Inteview with Acryl
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Interview with Acryl of Abyss, Scoopex, Haujobb & Super Power Crew done by Psychic Symphony - taken out of dEMOJOURNAL #73 (surely with the agreement of both, PS and Acryl) Session Start: Sat Jan 08 14:24:50 2000 *** Acryl has joined the IRC channel #demojournalHello ! <|ps|> Hello Mr.Acryl! :) So who are you? :) Well, first of all I am not "Mr.Acryl" ... Plain Acryl! A lot of people confuse me with mr.Acryl from Anadune ... I am Acryl of Scoopex .. Graphican by profession ;D and 22 years old .. <|ps|> Ok plain Acryl :) So who are you then? :) Hehe My real name is ... guess .. Michael and well I suck at interviews .. =D . I work as a texture , skin and general graphican at Zetha Gamez in Paris . In demoscene live I am a member of Scoopex , Abyss , Haujobb and the newly formed Super Power Crew. <|ps|> How did you started into pixel plotting? :) Ehhhh ... That was long time ago ... It started out on the infamous ColourGenie ... On which you had the possibility to do graphics using those strange blocks .. like on c64 .. Later I moved to Atari ST .. first 512 then 1024 ... and I worked a bit with Degas Paint in 94 I bought my first PC .. <|ps|> 94 seems far away Six years to be precise =) My first party where I saw real graphics was TP4 .. That's where I met ppl like Cyclone and Peachy. <|ps|> Tell us about TP4.. :) How was it? :) It was just great .. =D ... I was with the Haujobb guys ... boozing ... ehm shouting pc suxx etc .. hehe . I really knew nobody there . I was what you call a lamer =) <|ps|> Hehe, so when did you got really into demoscene? Hmmmm let's think ... as far as I remember my first demo group was Legend Design .. Anyone remember that one ? I met Pit Bull on Wired`95 and well, he looked for a graphican so I joined =) It was a dream come true to be in one group like Necros and Pitbull. <|ps|> Were you any good at the time? :) I don't think so .. I was quite bad ... Actually I don't like my stuff from that period anymore .. but that's the deal with all artists looking back I guess I don't even remember WHAT I did in that time ;D hehe I guess it sucked. <|ps|> So what happened next with Legend Design? Well ... the group released the "Wired 96" report .. featuring my graphics .. ( well at least the interface , the title pic was done by pl ) And hmmm later Pitbull joined Imphobia and Legend Design was no more .. but I was also member in Acme so it didn't hit me that hard =) <|ps|> When did you join Scoopex? Ehhh I remember quite well ... that was Mekka^Symposium 1997 ... I was boozing with Antibyte and Unreal . And Anti made me the offer to join . Guess how happy I was .. I drank 2 times more than I should =D hehe And with Scoopex I actually was more active than before =) <|ps|> Haha :) And when did you joined Haujobb then? That was last year on my birthday =D ... on LTP 3 ... I don't know why I was not joining before .. <|ps|> Your birthday was at LTP? But I always had very good contact with the guys from Haujobb, jepp! .. probably you don't remember .. but I think I told you =) <|ps|> Your`re right I dont remember :) So that`s why XXX/Haujobb brought so many beer :D to celebrate your bday :) Hehe .. Anyway .. I got 22 so it's no big deal ;D yeah .. =D <|ps|> German beer is weird.. your cans are taller! It was actually very cool that they came the way from Germany Hmmm well I think that's the same with danish beer =) .. And I would say that beer in other countries is weird .. the cans are smaller =P <|ps|> Hihi, So what is your favorite beer? :) Well in Germany it's beer from my hometown Dortmund ... it's KRONEN EXPORT .. I grew up with it .. so I love it =) in France I drink all kind of stuff .. but LEFFE proved to be the most available and strongest =) <|ps|> No carlsberg or Tuborg for you? :) By the way: All people from Dortmund love KRONEN EXPORT =D Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Dortmund is THE beer city .. we got the most breweries .. so why should I drink something else than beer from Dortmund ? =) .. And all beers are brewed according to the german purity law that rules! <|ps|> =) German purity law is nice :) It's like italians with their pasta it's my fav. law =D hehe <|ps|> But italians go to chinese restaurants instead of pizzerias.. really ? <|ps|> yeah :) Well the ones I know pray to the god of pasta =) <|ps|> Italians are nuts :) hehe ;D .. <|ps|> Ok, serious questions now, what advice do you give for ppl starting to do graphics out there :) Well, my advice is not new : Paint as much as you can , experiment, look what other people do and try to develop your own way of working practice is the best teacher imho for inspiration look at comic books at fantasy art ( boris for example ) and check out Simon Bisley ... his style is wild but really really cool =) and .. for god sake .. Don't hesitate to ask other graphicans on how they did something .. If I would not have done that I would still don't know how to use a pixel program =) <|ps|> Who is Simon Bisley? Ehh ... okay .. Sincerly I didn't expect that question ... ok : Simon Bisley drawed Slaine , Judge Dredd , Batman and lately he did the conceptual artwork for F.A.K.K. 2. His style is so cool , it's just amazing . And he is combining different drawing methods like I didn´t see it before. <|ps|> I`m into Marvel not DC comics :) Well I know only a little about comics .. except the fact that I like them ... I mean the ones that are painted well most of the storylines are so confusing .. and you have to buy the whole series to follow . spawn ... That's a cool comic .. but I know nothing about the story .. except that was shown in the movie . <|ps|> =) Ok, so who are/were your inspirations.. besides Simon Bisley :) Hmmm .. Boris was the first fantasy artist that really impressed me. The other inspirations .. hmmm .. dunno .. I got a lot from watching (the movies) Alien and Bladerunner. <|ps|> You`re heavy into sci-fi stuff? I really like the feel from it , these movies inspire me a lot . No I wouldn`t say that .. I also got some influence from old adventure games from Lucas Arts .. like Monkey Island .. thats no joke .. actually when I was a kid I always dreamed of doing computer graphics for games .. well now I am doing it . Tell me what did you expect ? =) <|ps|> Have you made gfx for any "famous" games yet? :) Hehe ... well no as I am working on a project that is to be released this year , it can`t be famous . But some computer magazines already made some good previews on it . So I hope it will be famous one day =) It's called DroneZ =) http://www.dronez.com hehe that's where to find more information on that game *end of commerical announcement* <|ps|> ;) Do Sceners with a "I know Acryl" stamp get a discount? :) Haha =D ... That would be cool . But sincerly I really don't think so ;D .. <|ps|> Darn :) ok.. So are you ready for demojournal's quizshow contest? Oh .. quiz .. I love quiz . shoot <|ps|> 1. What`s your favorite color? green <|ps|> 2. What is the capital of Madagascar? Zuerich =) <|ps|> 3. What is the most interesting book/movie you ever read/seen? Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep / Bladerunner <|ps|> 4. What is your personal record of drinking beers without getting drunk? 0 beers .. what a stupid question .. =) .. <|ps|> :P hehe .. <|ps|> 5. How much wood would a woodcutter cut if a woodcutter would cut wood? Wow .. hard one .. let me guess ... 9 ? 0hhh I love quiz =) btw. Monkey Island questions .. I don´t know the answer! <|ps|> =) So what are your favorite scene gfxians? My fav. graphicans .. ehm .. Cyclone, Dhabib, Craig Mullins <|ps|> Craig Mullins? Ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! You don't know him ! He is a genius in digital art .. www.goodbrush.com He is a true professional <|ps|> Only Brush I know is Guybrush dude from Monkey Island :) And the evil pirate Le'chuck Hehe ;D .. Btw. you nearly got me with question number 5 <|ps|> ;) So now I don`t know what to ask more :) You have any question you would like to see answered by yourself? ;) Well ... do you have a hompage ? and the adress ? answer : YES!!!!! =D ... http://member.xoom.com/pointnpixel =) That's all ;D <|ps|> Oh yeah... do you have an homepage and email for your fans to get in touch? ;) Email ? ehhh ... for fans : Acrylo@gmx.net =) hehe <|ps|> Ok, so may the gods of the evergreen grasshopers be kind upon your soul and stuff :) Thank you for your time :) no problem .. =) bye ! Session Close: Sat Jan 08 15:30:06 2000 Interview done by: Psychic Symphony of Evolve, Frequency - email: ec97104@crazy.fe.up.pt or ec97104@fe.up.pt or psychic_symphony@clix.pt}