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What The Fuck Is Wrong With VGA?
by Tomppa1(Acid), Mendator(Twilight)

as appeared in acrylic weekly issue seven.

I usually think in #ansi which is a main place on irc (and always will be where the people are from artscene on Irc) about that why vga is so misunderstood. Scene has started with ansis, thats true and always the main part of it will be among ansis. After some years of the start of artscene programs devoloped and people started to do vga - and now many of the old ansiveterans has changed their medium from ansi to vga. So, why people disunderstand vga as a medium.

There are many reasons:

1. Ansi making itself is a PRIVATE inside world of art. All the ansis that are made are 99.9% made in artscene. Due to this, you can be easily with hard work (ofcourse) one of the topten ansimakers in WHOLE _universum_ if people from higher planets like svargaloka haven't stealed the IBM ansicodes yet. With vga's, we can't say that even a promils promil of vga's are made in artscene. This way, we can't compete -> or we can but the whole competition is in scenepacks. And actually there isn't any competition at all i think. The biggest competition might be between acid and ice -> acid is much better in handdrawn stuff, especially ARTISTICAL works, but ice reigns in rendered works.

2. Some people doesnt want to watch vga's. Leeching packs over a meg is boring to some people and they just leeches the ansiparts of them. Just cause they don't care about the vga's in the packs.

My opinion about vga and general shit.
What I want to see in packs?

Good vga's are hard to find. I usually watch packs from acid, ice and now fire packs too mainly. Other little groups are unworthy to look vga's, not all, but there's such kinds of shit i hate so i drop out the whole pack. I like acid's artistical views very much, because acid has so much VARITY in the packs. We have jason, cat, borian, visigoth and vengeance + me fast mentioned. Every one of us has a OWN style to do pictures which is a best thing i see there. No, a OWN style in whole art medium but in the underground artscene.

That differs acid from other little groups. Ice has also a great vga divison but i don't like their way of releasing policy. Mostly ice is a family that releases all kinds of shit too in the packs, and i dont like the way that they have recruit people to the groups from professionals that releases their OLD stuff from their homepages etc. thats fucking LAME, lame and lame. Also, artscene is for becoming artists or people who supports others with a little competition, not just a place to release and show to 15 year old kids "Hey people, im a professional, i have quality and skills." Anyway, who wants to see high quality renderings in the packs that we see everyday in the tv and stuff? Also, as we know that artgroups like Acid and Ice can't sell the pictures as they are mainly into it, why we see boring commercial shit there?. Is there many requests we get with the website for example? hell, no =).. And poor gays begging on irc some art have any money to pay with HARD work. otherwise they gives you UNWORTHY wares.

The same goes to demoscene where most of the peopleare nowadays doing womanheads pixeled based to scans. Thats lame. It's based to technique the shade with limited palette, not art. Althought there are many very quality graphicians in demoscene too like Cougar and RA, and RWO.. Mainly from Amiga500times. Also, I dont want to see any chick heads pixeled. If would like, I just open tv. Many demoscene people keeps on talking that we are cheating with the usage of photoshop + filters. Most of them just can't handle the truth that we are GOOD to DRAW OWN stuff, and CREATE, like visigoth, not just copy.

Vga should also be much more qualitychecked. For example you can do easily 10 or more eyecandie logos in photoshop in a hour. Ok, just open it, choose a cool font which has designed a other people, fill it if you like with texture explorer for example, put a shade or glow from alienskin to it and if you like, do a kewl background for it with for example aldus gallery effects. Everytime I see these fucked up works in the packs, yes -> fire and ice have released that kinds of works lately - it makes me to think these people are lame. And yes they are as long as they keeps on releasing easy shit. If you can't release quality works, drop the shit out cause releasing is should no be a fashion. As long as you surf on web you see thousands of that kinds of works -> yes, they are NOT for ARTPACKS.

I have thought to found a group that releases ONLY artistical pieces. Not any shit. This is a idea that releases only original works like NO LAME comix rips in ansis. Flame talked about it in last ACRYLIC in a way I liked it. If someone can't know what is a artistical high or the depression with creating own styles and stuff, he will not be invited =) that group should be also above all other Commercial places in web. Or should try to be. Thus it could release with much wide mediums like oilcolors and show them in web. Every artist there should also be a individual person with own ideas and stuff.

My opinion about ascii is that it's a artform too, thus it is very technicalbased and you can't be creative with it. I don't also like that if some one discovers a new style (which he mainly rips from from other asciiartist) he continues with the same shit the whole time. That's lame. ART is to me mainly based on feelings and stuff.

Well, i hope you'll learn something with this. All flames + marriage proposals + death threats are welcome to tomppa1@sci.fi Yes i know i'm a hard people to cope with nowadays but i hope my works in www.sci.fi/~tomppa1 will somehow back up my works.

Also, i'd love to send greeting to people who HAVE created NEW NEW ideas and that kind of stuff. Not to mention any cause you know who you are ;)

-tomi

writte by: tomppa1(tomppa1@sci.fi)
touchups and layout: mendator(mendator@hem.passagen.se)