Inteview with Elf
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In Focus: Bjsebo of Venus Art Interrogatory Performed by Kaosmaster of Darkage K: Hi BJSebo!!!!! Has I know you are quite known in poland but not too much outside your contry can you introduce yourself ,please ? B: My real name is Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz,I'm 24 years old student of Technical University of Szczecin. I have choosen 'Computer graphics and multimedia' as my specialization, and now I'm starting to work on my MC. K: Venus Art! an important Polish group! B: What can I say... This is your opinion,i really don't care about so called popularity. K: You are now only 3 member!! it is easy to be productive and have a good quality with so little members?? B:Well...It is easy to cooperate.We are old friends,anyone know exactly,what the other one can do.But if you take a look at credits for our productions,you will see many other ppl,who are helping us. I should mention Wierza/Venture (a great musician) and Smajk(ex Majkel) of Venture.We can always count on them. We have got more members in past,but we didn't liked them ;-).The most important thing is to have a great time doing demos. K: How do you find yourself to code on ppc ?? and who did came out your 2 ppc demo conversions ? B: Coding on ppc is not very difficult.Unless you don't know 'C' ;-) We started to write demos in 'C' about 2 years ago (Evil Empire was written in about 80% in 'C'), so it was quite easy to port our sources to PPC.When noe was in polish army,and we were not working on new wersion of the engine,together with C.A.L.F. I started to rewrite all assembly stuff(like c2p,texture mapping) to C. After 2 months we have got working ppc demos.They are still very buggy,but at least on my machine they work. We have also made versions for SGI(I have runned 'everything dies' on SGI Power challenge - this is great!!) but with no music. K: have you seen Artwork's Megademo IV 2 ? what do you think about it ? B: Actualy I did.First time i saw it,i thought that maybe this is some kind of joke (and I still think so), but after a while i realized that it is great! Maybe a little bit boring,but still something differrent. K: Will you code something new on a PPC ??? B: Our new engine,which we are actually working on,will be probably PPC only.Aslo there will be probably 16bpp CGFX only version. K: Seems that we will see a parallel PPC version of AmigaOS4.0 made by H&P and P5.... B: We will see...I can only have hope,that at least they will work together. K: What do you think about the actual polish scene ? B: Do i have to ...;-( It is difficult to say something constructive about ppl i know... But anyway... Not too much good coders,Zig Informer,Mr.Acryl... and that's it.No new faces for about year... When you take a look at any polish party results,you will see always the same groups...We need some young blood. A lot of great musicians and graphicians. K: I think that comunication in Venus Art is great! ( only 3 dudes! ) =), it's true ? B: As I said - we are old friends,I know C.A.L.F. for about 11 years, we spent 5 years together with Noe,and we know each other very good. It makes a lot of thing easier... K: Can you tell us something more on your next project ? B: Probably a demo at io5 or gravity 3 (both parties are in almost the same time) We are aslo thinking about a demo for Assembly,but i don't think that we can do something really cool, for this party.And i have no money for trip to Finland. Demo will be called 'The field where I died', and this is all i know about this project.We will meet toghether in beginning of June,to talk about scenario and effects. K: Ok.. what about your real life ?? B: I have no life...Most of my free time I spent working on projects for school;-( K: What do your parents think about the scene ? B: My Mum loves scene.Either, she don't understand,why ppl, are doing some stupid demos,and are getting no money for that.But she is also very proud,everytime i'm returning from party,and saying: 'Mum we won again' ;-) And my parents are always saying: Son, you should stop this,you should find a job, girl, get married, and so on... And of course i don't listen to them ;-) K: Well , that's all..... now you have some traditional free lines to write what ever you want! B: Nothing comes to my mind....Amiga rulez? No...everybody knows that... Too hot to invent interesting quota ;-) K: thanx for your time! B:Thank you. Regards Sebastian