ZX Pilot #38 31 мая 2000

Интервью

Topic - A conversation with renowned artist Fil / Antares proizoschedshaya on Chaos Construction 2000.

               T E M A I I



(C) JUSTINAS



   Chatting with the Antares from Moscow, more
degree with Fil'om.


   Justinas: How long have you been doing to
Spectrum'e with graphics?

   Fil: Well myself Spectrum I have somewhere from 93
, was still the 48 th, that's when I started
myself to try as grafista. First
My picture was drawn in the editor
CoriGraf (?), Spanish, old ... And he worked with the tapes. 
Then he bought a Scorpion, sat nearly a year without a monitor, 
and so nothing could bring to life. Then

a black and white monitor, and I began to torment the 
Art-Studio. Tormented her with a joystick, with I drew him only 
one picture and realized that so it will not go further and 
moved on to the keyboard. With the keyboard I am suffering to 
97-year, ie all the work that were provided on Enlight'96, all 
were painted on the keyboard. Well look there

Strictly speaking there is nothing, it was the first
attempts to do something. Then I got a mouse controller and 
ibm-keyboard, and I began to actively use the mouse. Well

began to draw a mouse, but there are
pictures that never saw the light, they
should enter into our megademu Imagen
(?), But time was lost and we decided to
not release as it is in the form of code blocks
and stayed. By the time the work was
not bad, but now of course we should not
think about her release. And those old pictures,
they also produce is not worth it, they do not
that level. That may someday may be
would do something like my picture
pictures for years, but it's when and pictures
will be more, and I've got some good pieces of 7, but only 
about 10-12 screen'ov, which can be much else to exhibit.


   It is this CC'shnuyu picture I drew in
a break between exams. She is a little on the
Extremely (by Teeray) is similar, but I immediately
I say this not out of Extremely redrawn,
is in 97 th year, when I tried to
PC to paint in Photoshop, zababahal yourself
800 * 600, I thought cool, with
Spectrum passed, now put yourself in 1916
million colors and draw a cool picture. But
nothing good, I did not work, but the idea
of the image was still. I do it then
printed and brought to sisopnik that
I think the winter 97-year was, I brought it
Show Progress'am, ie Mic and its Fux
seen and can confirm that it is neither
from not sketched. On the Spectrum it right
transfer failed. Well, in short, in this
my picture was postponed only by a person
and the rest has come gradually during
drawing. Well, as usual, not always
get what you intended. Well, here
as in this picture, I first drew
face, all over again drawn the lines, contours, well then, all 
filled with filling, attributes of color are placed just ink'om,

and then to these transitions are made smoother
transitions, so part of the picture is drawn. Then I begin to 
think what would more to the picture pririsovat. Here, in this 
case it would be better to paint the sky, well, in general such 
a background, in perspective this curved. I painted the sky, 
all sorts, too, again, lines, textures and colors, ie, All of 
this principle. I drew this picture, well, about two days, the 
first day I painted a basis, but on the second day of the 
completion of the picture. 

   J: Unlike other gfxer'ov you
quite a long time, for example, Enlight'96, has observed the 
good work. 

   F: Unfortunately all the work done
to 97-year, were sketched. True
srisovyvaniem do almost everything
For example TeeRay, took first place in the
Enlight'97 with picture X-Files. Here is the
Work like a sketched or skonverchennaya, well, I suspect either 
he immediately converted it to Speccy, or spechatyval on paper 
first and then make rubbings. But the fact is that there jpeg'i 
on the PC, and many people have already seen. I also worked

srisovyvaniem with books mostly, well, like the one picture, 
Wolfhound. By the way, is also a very interesting technology 
transferred these images, though, I think she's every grafista 
own, but I have is this: taken tracing paper, placed on the 
original image, outline, outlines, pencil, Then it is placed on 
tracing paper notebook sheet, thus obtained the "attributes". 
Well, put a bright greed in Art-Studio, draws all the lines and 
back on to the method: fill, texture, color, shading, texture, 
color, etc. Well then, make rubbings I'm tired, it's certainly 
good, but all still in my conscience began to play, and 97-m

year I had a PC, and I'm somewhere in the year
went the wrong way. I drew a picture, but I did not even know 
whether it is worth it to someone to show. But the attempt was 
unsuccessful, was made is not what I wanted. Therefore, I 
decided to wait until the PC, to accumulate experience in the 
elaboration of ideas and images decided to put on the ZX for 
CC'999 picture. Moreover this time there is little, I am 
learning and because the PC is absolutely no time.

Well, all drawing on the PC is completely different from the 
Spectrum, so it is very just so hard to "go."


   J: Plans for the future ...

   F: Well, here's how CC'999 over, even in
This year the party will be in Kazan, CAFe'99.
Most likely I'm on the Spectrum there is also something
A draw, and if I did not overcome laziness and if I do 
technically get something to draw, I expose what

Something on the PC. Well, here in the end, looking
today's competitive works exhibited at the pc-gfx-compo, I 
realized that from our artists best, apparently, until Terror. 
Well Ash'evskaya picture, too bad, but,

Unfortunately, there are also some bugs.

   J: What is now engaged in Antares?

   F: Well, from my point of view, Konex'a
have their own point of view, but it is fundamentally different 
from mine. The situation was releasing Ecstatic Dub, we started 
doing demos Devotion. The beginning was conceived as a Power

Up, it's cool effects, plus a 4 * 4-animation
But all the effects were awful like Ecstatic Dub, so that if we 
continued to this case, it was better if it was called

DeMouy Ecstatic Dub 2. Ie deme was obtained,
clearly differed level coding
from the previous demos. I am therefore something all
it immediately lose one's attraction, but I'm not ceased to 
want to do, but I realized that nothing worthwhile will come of 
it. Then, just happened that I again went to school, and

Konex could not with me skontaktirovat and
it was decided to postpone demoy. Well
and then request the graphics I have done as far as he could, 
but, of course, is that I gave him - It sucks, I admit. But at 
least that he could no longer finish, I give him something else 
and repainted. But then he did not wanted to do. He graduated 
from the institute, the His work, then he, as I understand,

she is, with the work, he comes very
late and, in short, he has time
are left on the coding. Now
He generally with a power supply that something had happened. 
He says that there is only "to solder two wires, and everything 
will work, and he starts coding. But these "two-wire," he

solder has about a month. In general, in the near future from 
us hardly anything happens. 



   Justinas: A general in Moscow, as the case with
Speccy?

   Fil: Tough question. Just here was
time, I was on the PC, Spectrum, I did not throw,
but somehow it gave him less time. Well, in
generally say: groups that were doing something
in Moscow, now do not do anything. Well, for example, Progress: 
Fux married, he swill have almost no child is even; Mic 
organized a musical group ANRS, in hoi polloi "enrezami" call 
them:) Rom works in publishing, but what I like

I do not know whether the guard, or even kemto. Seeing how 
things are in the Antares, I thought not to do with whether I 
Progress'om something. Oh, and began to talk Rom drive, Rom hit 
on the idea that we should demo make sure, to shake Fux'a

three-dimensional engine. But it's not like that
subsided in Rom, but he apparently also have no time, work, and 
Fux also did not want do.


   J: That was when?

   F: Well, recently, almost somewhere
after FunTop'a, somewhere in the winter. While I do not
know what they want to do and whether they want to
they do. Therefore, both ideological and Progress
collapsed yet. I like the Rom have ideas,
Fux can nakodit anything but Mic'u
music on the Speccy write it does not
problem now is all the more heavily involved with music. But 
now apparently they have no whether the time, or spirit, did 
not even know. 

   J: And what about the ZX-Net'om?

   F: Pro ZX-Net better ask Wlodek
Black'a just my Scorpion went away somewhere,
I gave it to EA, but he is still someone gave it to.
In short, I'll come with CC and it will take
Conversely, it is c-dos modem, and I was
look around the network. And so I basically sit on the Internet 
if access Freestuff catches on channel # Z80 and sometimes # 
Amigarus appear. 

   J: Are you going to leave the scene in
soon?

   F: Good question ... ;))) I like
a PC, Spectrum, I do not, ie I sit
on emulators, but you know, emulators
it's not real, and point out there are square, and well
imagine how the picture looks on the PC
'Shnom monitor, it's terrible. And if the emulator is bad to 
adjust the brightness and contrast, it'll go all crazy. 
Spectrum I'm not going to throw, why ... Well, I met the spirit 
and the work produced here at CAFe I hope to draw not only on 
Spectrum'e, but also on the PC. Emulators, of course, sux, but

I probably will have to work in them,
as on the Spectrum I have no monitor,
so the real, probably does not
will draw. But here I am now finished school and start college. 
Time bulk, and therefore 5 years on the Spectrum I

More precisely sit. And, incidentally,
what I have now won the first place, it
does not mean anything, because the work was really little. So 
I do not Spectrum I think throwing in five years, will 
porisovyvat and see which projects will be in the future, may, 
with some team work well, or will be working as a freelance 
artist. All the same, no matter who draw, the main process 
itself, the idea itself. 

   J: The course whether you're on the state of Spectrum 
Affairs in Russia ... 

   F: In Russia ... I sit on the Internet, download magazines, 
even here with a good Wlodek'om relationship, I'm here to 
translate the scanned pictures Nicron'a. Here is the truth, my 
scanner, why do I need, but to scan and transfer pictures, I do 
not know. In the graphical view I had, unfortunately, do not 
use. That's from Wlodek'a is all the information about affairs 
at Spectrum scene. 

   J: Well, in your opinion, on the stage
progress, regression, or stagnation ... ;)

   F: But this broad question ... But in general
on the scene say this: now reached the stage
a level where it is difficult to something conceptually embody. 
Formerly there were all sorts of scroll'y, attribute of the 
plasma, etc., ie effects of two-dimensional, and based on the 
coolness of coding. Most demos do coders. How do you cool 
effect nakodish, so you and enjoy. Now, the encoding developed 
so that nothing new coding to bring anymore. Now save the idea. 
Therefore, in my opinion, are the ideological need to develop. 
Well three-dimensional, two-engines and all. Well

Where next? Practically nowhere. And what
You can do a bunch of objects and fly all
what we see now on PC / AMiGA scene.
Around and on the Spectrum is the situation. Well
For example, Dema 98-year Refresh.
There's 3D engine, lots of plates, objects and
everything. Looks, of course, cool, but purely
due to the fact that this has not happened. At Spectrum's see 
how things are, but I it seems that gradually, as the PC, will

things were. Well, for example, work on
Real Masters, I do not remember whether to use
there is a 3D engine, but the animation was there for sure.
But I think on the Spectrum have to develop this 3D technology 
to do like assemble a block, well as on the PC, ie

engine is written to him to substitute objects, textures, set 
the plate - flew. But not a single 3D engine man lives, we need

another idea. Well, for example, we have a Rom drive was
idea to make a three-dimensional room, her
hang such pictures, you fly through the room,
in the center stands a pedestal, with a hand with anything else 
=), well, some object, well, again, 4 * 4, you fly in the 
picture, well, there all sorts of effects such as tunnelchikov 
can be something else new to come up with. Well, that is, you 
fly there a lot of effects and flies back into the room. Well, 
so intended. But I do not know, of course, is

Do so to do, like this fly around the room -
it is not original, I think, is
AMiG'e already long ago been done,
need to think of something, I think,
his own. It is hard to imagine, of course, ideas do not
enough ideological say cork. Technology
reached that level, realize that the ideological
quite hard.


    Justinas: What do you think was Chaos
Constructions?


    Fil: From an organizational perspective, here is a
On the one hand: entrance, the show works - I do
liked it. Well, then, that organized a pass visitors several 
times shown a picture, though the work was quite little, though 
time is not very comfortable, only then exams are over, and

here once, and party. It seems to me to CAFe
should be more work, if there any living creature go. People 
over the summer even have time to something to do and set. 
Although because of the small number of papers can be 
objectively something assess it in terms of graphics and music. 
Demo, apparently, simply no one has done, so it was so

little work. And the fact that the projector worked
color only on the AMIGA / PC, it is certainly
large puncture organizers, well, for example, gfx-compo all the 
pictures in black and white. All this, of course, it looked 
awful. And on TV was too much exposed

whether the brightness, or contrast, in short, all
image lubricated. And one
TV with the right edge of the stain was there
apparently handset village. That was 4 on FunTop'e
monitor, and all were all wonderful
seen. Of course, the monitor does not yield better
projector, but I was afraid of the projection from the fact
that would be the point of healthy, well, just like
on the emulator, but even more, and terrible
would look, but it turned out really
nothing. The only thing that's bad, it is
what was black and white image, this
can not be done, and even some sort of a band of
screen constantly traveled. But the organization FunTop'a all 
still a little bit better Of special la, it's by far.


[Suddenly appear other members of
Antares - Konex and EA]


   Justinas: How is Antares?

   Konex: How do you see winners! Well, that is, the winners :) 
But the case is normal ... 

   J: What do you do?

   K: We are looking for a new grafista, since
Fil'om we have a problem. He had forgotten how to draw, 
unfortunately. We and Eternity Industy ry links. They want us 
to provide the graphics. Because our grafist like it ... 
finally grow lazy in the last two years, half the picture, and 
then, since his quality.


   Justinas: In your opinion you have earned
first place right?

   EA: I do not know ... But I think that yes,
because everything I've heard the rest
exhibited was crap.

   K: Well Mouzon "I must to win in music compo" 98-year, he's 
better than this. 

   E: Well, of course, that I wrote two weeks, but this one 
about a week. And in general Mouzon on the components needed 
for about two weeks to write. Every day.


   J: Not necessarily ...

   K: In short he Mouzon, he abruptly ...

   J: Well, what else Mouzon, in your opinion, were worthy.

   E: I was drunk, I do not remember ...

   J: And then you can objectively
evaluate its Mouzon?

   K: And I'll tell you what Mouzon
more or less. 1-st (Apocalpse by MMCM / Sage),
6 th (Birds by Push) and 19 (Find the vacant place by Noise / 
Phantasy), in addition to the 21 th (By EA).


   J: What are your plans?

   K: Yes we have lots of plans, we would have a toy
done if we had another 2-3 encoder
and 2-3 grafista normal netormoznyh.

   E: We've got even a single encoder
Not now.

   K: And not a single grafista.

   E: And not a single musician ... Nobody at all there ...

   K: A musician as it is, but the music still
No demos for ...

   E: Music is always normal, at least
case in terms of ...

   K: Yes, that's a Mouzon is, one would gather that DeMouy 
(Devotion) as soon as possible. 

   J: To communicate with Antares, we can write
at the following addresses:


   Fido: Andrey Sokov 2:5020 / 689.405

                      2:5020 / 689.100


   Inet: zxnet@iname.com

   subj: 500:95 / 405.5