Generation Z #5,5 20 января 2009

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ascii'2008 graphics review - overview charts with ascii'2008 from diver/4d.

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the past year has left pleasant memories for
all lovers of Spectrum pixel
graphics. and if the year 2007 with great regret
must be acknowledged as a crisis, the year
2008th quite claim to the title of the year
revival, though not many, but
At least the quality of work and people who gave their
us their own little masterpieces.

new names there was virtually no tradition to
Sorry. but they were veterans of the business,
Drawn quality work, they are decorated
or any other party.

this year's strongest party, part graphics
compo, of course, was ascii'2008. 20
decent work, the strongest speccy-artists
modernity. detailed review of diver/4d you
will find below.

a breakthrough on a global level has become
participation Spectrum graphics mixed gfx compo
on rertoeuskal'2008 (with the works of "defender" by
prof/4d, "scener's gallery" by riskej and "astral
vision "by sg / mlt) and pure c64 party -
arok'2008, where I (riskej) took second place
among the 15 works, and sg / mlt came ninth.
We hope that the new 2009th year mixed
gfx compo attract the attention of more
artists. because that is where we spektrumisty,
can make themselves much more than
local and pure speccy parties.

away laziness! each of us, artists must
set a goal to be the best!

"Comeback of the Year" undoubtedly become
pheel with its beautiful gigaskrin-work
"Scene island", runner-up in graphics
compo on di: halt'2008. although, in my opinion,
Work was supposed to be a winner - a great
composition, lighting, and you only Peer,
excellently traced the grass and the sky! all
pheel, 7 years, absent at the scene. "Island
Easter, as I outlined for myself this job
will (and already entered) in the gold collection
nocopy-images.

"Comeback of the Year 2" was, of course,
return to the graphics scene after diver/4d
approximately two-year hiatus!

"Mercenary 2"
In my opinion, the best job in the standard
schedule as ascii'2008, and this year.

classic Spanish style with modern
refinements, detailed elaboration of detail, excellent
Work with the lighting and colors. of "gaps"
especially like to mention about
a simple background and overly zateksturirovannuyu brush
right hand. anyway, welcome back! waiting
another shake-up of works for a long time
favorite with all of the artist.

next return to the pixel-scene
dimidrol pleased with his work "schloss
neuschwanstein "and" stripper ". the first work
exposed to the chaos constructions'2008, to
pain recalled the last author's work
"Mysterious", only a low quality -
because of the abundance of empty picture looks
incomplete.
in-picture "stripper", which participated in the
ascii'2008 abundance of theme nude
female body, is highly controversial both in terms
morally and in terms of simple
factor x, in virtue of which the male part of zx
spectrum scene (and its 99,9%) could raise
high scores only for her one. in any
If the work is very worthy, especially those
that nocopy and executed in a rather good
Technology. disappointed pustovaty background, well, personally
me, nude theme.
if we compare with the "mysterious", then the quality of
remained at about the same level - the same
original textures and fine details, thanks
that's not so hard to find among
other artists.
we wish dimidrol'u not stand still
well as improve the quality of their work,
good talent and skill is evident.

prof/4d year has pleased a strong job -
"Defender", some good and logos
a number of good sketches. "Defender", the word
speaking, we plan not to the party, but
number of reasons, hit it there - at
retroeuskal'2008, where he took second place among
five works.
"Defender" is strong in the first place for originality, 
correct anatomy and perspective. of major drawbacks - a 
relatively simple work with the color u ease background.

personally I think that your normal level of prof
not exceeded, and would like to see something new,
so that really surprised by the new
elements and technical moves.
and yet, despite all the criticism above,
"Defender" - the best nocopy work year, regardless
doubt.

bfox this year unreleased three works, among
which seriously could be called only one
- "Anxiety", took fourth place on forever
nine party. work has been used very
interesting color palette, giving the effect of
"Illuminated" the picture. good impression
and left contours. but drawing the eye not
like totally. more precisely, drawing
eyeballs both characters work - in my
view, overreliance on textures
make eyes dirty, lifeless.
in general, a good copy-work, not a masterpiece,
but still.
It is known that the artist is able to
much greater than shown in the past year, and
is "much more" very much hope to us all
lucky to see in the coming 2009th.

"8bit demoscene", "crazy love" and "city" - as much as
three images from the cacique pleased rather to
greater extent by the fact that they are. its the same
cacique surpass last year's level could not,
although the theme and color palette in the "8bit demoscene"
I am personally very pleased.
still uses the cacique incomprehensible to me
texture, which at times resemble the noise
killing in detail. as, indeed,
not the most optimal use of colors
in (the cheek of the girl in the picture "city"
left me with an unpleasant aftertaste).
anyway, Cusick is currently
One of the most active and high-quality
Artists on the Spectrum. sincerely hope
new works by this author made at the
order of magnitude stronger, harder to surprise!

sg / mlt unfortunately completely stopped
improve themselves in the field of graphics. and
primarily because of excessive congestion
coder'a work. those of his new creations, which
we have seen in the 2008th year are
not the best level at which
capable of this artist. we wish sg
exert more effort to their pictures,
make them heartily, and not just "make it".

surfin 'bird was pleased with its graphics in the game
"Faith" of perspective. indeed workshop
work - a lot of small animated
Sprite, a subtle sense of both style and
proportions. gigantic work!
but, unfortunately, is not pleased
fullscreen-works. last and only in
2008 the picture is "new old frontier"
done, of course, is good, but it is only black and white.
which means that it is still remains a big
question - whether the artist is beautiful work
with the color on the Spectrum.
until we see it was not possible.

Western artist trixs / mb maniacs nothing new
not surprised. and if in the past year I have been
doubts about the copy / nocopy / convert it
works, it is now virtually certain that
his work - is to finish the conversion, and
not original, namely copies of works by famous
artists. clarify this situation has helped me
prof/4d, who found the original work "wing",
exhibiting at ascii'2008 - it is for him, I
made up his mind.
However, the quality and quantity of images that
artist's surprise, regardless of their
origin. it suffices to recall that in this
trixs year released a collection of his graphic
work. and this is well worth it!
quality (in particular textures and work with color)
You can still improve greatly, as seek to draw something 
different. What I wish trixs'u! 

double kick from another European artist
cvm / zeroteam, who took first and second place in the
forever nine party, left a contradictory
sensation. good texture, no extra
noise (unlike trixs, for example), but at the same
time, the overall dryness of work and place excessive
zateksturirovannost, lubricity contours (as in
the work of "whispering"). I would like to see more
work by this author ...

yerzmyey. He is not trying to invent something
new, he's not trying to surprise all the stunning
composition, stunning textures,
original colors. No! he just does what
that he can - simply and originally unique,
without changing neither himself nor his style.
and personally to me it only pleases!

but now seems to have a worthy yerzmyey
competitor, only to have our, native.
brightness, originality, unconventional topics,
Eventually the constant fan and flash (so rare
used in the pictures on the Spectrum!) - all
This is in sharp allocated to me by this artist.

particularly insightful, must have been
guess what I'm talking about mixer'e!

Yes, technology exists which is, yes, all
"Smeared and flashes, but that's the essence, in this and
originality, which is why I so loved
Work mixer'a. keep it up!

"Gone with the wind", a unique picture of
vassa last year as a whole left a pleasant
impressions. She also became the only one in my
opinion, a decent job on artfield'2008,
decorating the event.
nice play with colors, a good theme pictures
quite tolerable proportions and the presence of small
details. most of all I personally liked
colored hair girl and a cat in her arms.
Cthulhu drawing left much to be desired.
enough to remember how skillfully depicted it
sea ​​monster prof/4d year ago at this same
very artfield.
that especially pleases - is that work across
visibility is nocopy, and this plus huge.

of young artists want to note
vegas / simbols, 16-year old boy, my
familiar and more recently our member'a
group. after a agitation and demonstration works best Spectrum 
artists he became interested in drawing on the Spectrum.

and, with my own feed, he chose gigaskrin mode
drawing. At the moment he drew the last 2
work, one of which you can see on
ascii'2008, while the second has never "lit up".

think young people on the Spectrum will not come? I
I think otherwise! everything always depends on us!

Well, there is such an artist as riskej ...
(Ulybayus!)

currently I can only say that because
work and advice of good men - prof/4d,
diver/4d pheel'a and I love to draw on the Spectrum
and at the moment I put this
bar, as to catch up and surpass the level of
graphic work on the commodore = 64. in connection with
that I have been actively studying and learning gigascreen
(Two screen) drawing mode on the Spectrum, but with
some time yet and multigigascreen mode
(Multicolor + gigaskrin). and last year personally
to consider myself to be quite successful: almost all
set goals for myself I have done, and new
yet, I hope to be done in the 2009th
year.

that's all people who wanted to anyway
noted.

rion, who promised to participate in cc'2008 so there
does not appear, what I really (and not only
me) upset.

newart for two years will not meet with the forces
to sit down to paint, although it may make
compete with the best modern zx-artists.

deadie also never got to sit at the
drawing, although such plans had been back in
the end of the 2007th year.

moran, who promised to stand on the schedule
ascii'2008 gfx compo, as there did not appear.

raynoa active on the pc, but forgot about
Spectrum.

but still quite clear where missing klown,
stanly, gas13, schafft, tae.

for those who wonder where vanished paracels, I
let me quote a piece of his writing,
which gave rise to the graphic work
ascii'2008, what, actually, and finished his
little analysis of the modern graphic scene
at Spectrum ...

riskej>
still on TV? :) Clearance for
No creativity?

paracels>
Yes, I'm on NTV. Corresponding management information 
broadcasting. in the news, if in a simple way. If you are under 
the creative means the schedule (on the Speccy, PC or

something else), it seems unlikely. Once I cooled down to
this case. besides, I have now poppy. mi
gave to friends. on the Mac, like, the emulsion Spectrum
not even. if they decide to once again revive old and
draw, then I will do so no longer on the Speccy.
graphical editor for Mac is excellent -
pixelmator.

but honestly, it's all from the discharge
fiction. I have the previous generation. now
New people came. talented, energetic, have
They have the desire, time. I have already on the
it is not enough. Yes, and interests in the life of the new
appeared.

Only veteran diver won everything is kept. ;-) I
he put 7 points, incidentally. do not even know him
work. we had then discussed this in the ICQ.
% -) Well, as you yourself have seen the highest score. IMHO,
1 st place you 100%.

good luck!