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³¼GRAPHIC REVIEWS¼³
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Well for this issue we got a 'brilliant idea' we thought! Why not give some
of the most well-known graphicians in the scene the opportunity to judge
each other, by telling their opinions about some of the pictures that
competed in the Hurricane Gfx - competition ! So we contacted some
graphicians in hope to get some wise words from them. Well, we must admit
that it didn't turn out the way we had hoped. Mainly because a lot of them
didn't return anything at all, even though an extra disk was included for
the stamp in most cases. Maybe we didn't give the artists enough time for
answering, maybe it wasn't such a brilliant idea afterall, maybe artists
are very lazy or maybe they just didn't had the time. But some answered and
below you can read the words from R.W.O/Kefrens and TMB Designs/Silents. So
thanx to you two cool guys, Rene & Tore !! And also thanks to the ones who
answered, but couldn't find the time for this project, like Cougar/SNT
(Thanx Christian !! Hope everything is going well with you exams!).
The pictures that are reviewed are by Rookie/Upfront(?), Slash/Anarchy,
Scuba/X-Trade, R.W.O/Kefrens, Sauron/Static Bytes, and Thanatos/PMC. All
the pictures ca n be found on Hurricane's gfx-competition disks, which we
warmly recomand for graphic-entuastic people ! If you haven't got the disks
then check you local swapper or write to Top Secret, but include disks and
returnstamps. Anyway we hope that you still can enjoy this little article
even though it didn't quite turn out the way we wanted ! Let's give the
words to Rene & Tore...
³Rookie/Upfront:
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²R.W.O:¹ Well, the background seems a little like rushwork. I also think
that he had chosen too many different colors. If he had chosen less
colors, and spend more colors in the same slight-nuance, the picture
would have got better smoothings. All in all a standard picture.
²TMB Designs:¹ The main feature about this picture (in my eyes) is the very
confusing set-up, and the strange combination of colors. - It's hard to see
what is what, but still, some parts of the picture is very nice. I think
the picture is well completed with a huge! amount of colors, but too
confusing to be a winning picture (Is it copied ? I guess so...).
³Slash/Anarchy:
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²R.W.O:¹ Another masterpiece from Slash. I really like the details on this
picture. Ok, I must say, that the head of the lady is a bit strange.
Anyway, this is certainly not enough to ruin my sight on this
picture. In fact I think that this picture should have been placed
a bit higher. Great picture Jacob; Keep it on......
²TMB Designs:¹ Was this picture meant to be a part of a game ? It looks a bit
like that. Slash has drawn that it is designed by him, and then I guess he
means that he made it up all by himself, with no use of 'Boris-books' (Is
this correct ?). You can very well see some of the typhical (Quality sign)
'Slash-features' like; ways of drawing the mountains,e.g, which is nice.
Also some of the details are very well drawn ( The rope around the neck of
the dragon, the eye of the dragon,...), but it doesn't seem all right. The
whole picture, I mean. I think it is something about the colors (Drawn in
b/w scale, I think it would have gained 'sence of reality'). - There is
also one thing: Behind your icon, Slash, there's the ankh. Did you start
making the picture while being in Kefrens ( And does that mean that the
picture/parts of the picture is maybe, let's say 1 year old ? ( This would
explain a lot, I think)) - In my opinion, Slash has made better things than
this...
³Scuba/X-Trade:
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²R.W.O:¹ The light-effect on the moutains is incredible. Also the sky looks
quite good. In fact I can explain my sight on this picture with
one magic word: Brilliant!!!!
²TMB Designs:¹ A sensitive picture, this . The first time I looked at it, I
almost thought it was digitized. But then, when I look at it now, I can't
help wondering why he used that balck color (Or is it a bug in my copy ??).
It's well drawn, but I think it is all too 'flat'. There isn't much depht
in it (That's a very hard problem working on the amiga, I think). I haven't
got very much more to say about it, it is neat, but it's far from perfect
(But there are veeeery few 'perfect' pictures on amiga !)
³Thanatos/PMC:
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²R.W.O:¹ This picture seems a little simple. The two orgs are ok, but the
landscape is drawn in only one color (hmm...) A funny thing is, that
the picture includes two prehistoric orgs, and in the right side,
you can see two jetplanes. All in all this picture is ok, but not
more.
²TMB Designs:¹ I think this picture would have looked a lot better drawn in
interlace, because then Thanatos could've made a more complete study of
the 'goblins' he've made. Is this a scene from 'lords of the rings' ? I
think there are some small details that make the picture lose some of it's
'originality', and that is e.g. the 'bloody' sword (Too 'cool' I think).
Some of the shadows on the persons are neat , but where's the shadow on the
ground ? There are, in my opinion, some good stuff in this picture, but
they are a bit mis-used. Also, I think that a little more work would have
done good.
³Sauron/Static Bytes: (ex.Equinox)
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²R.W.O:¹ This picture is too dark. His smoothing is very cloudy, which makes
the picture unclear and uninteresting. His comp. picture for the
Gathering in Norway was much better than this one. Maybe this
picture was made in quite a hurry, who knows????
²TMB Designs:¹ One of my good friends, Dali, also drew this picture some time
(I have a kinda disklike to the 'the art of copying pictures', which most
graphicians in the amiga scene seem to enjoy very much, anyway!) I think it
is pretty brave to draw a multi-colored picture in lo-res 5 Bpl ( I would
never have dared!), but then, you never get away with it without dithering,
and I must say that dithering in lo-res is a very risky thing to do. I
think this is a good picture, but not a very good picture ( If you look at
the horse-study as a seldom drawed object in the amiga-scene, the picture
is pretty succesful, though). Anyway, if I was to judge the competition, I
would've let this picture win. In the first place, I would (in afrenzy)
have chosen the picture by Scuba, but while re-studying the pictures, I
found this one the most attractive (Strange ?).
³R.W.O/Kefrens:
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²TMB Designs:¹ In my study of Sauron's picture, I stated that I thought it
was brave to draw a multi-colored picture in lo-res. But it is also hard to
draw a picture in an other format. I am not very happy to this, but I think
that Rene has tried, but failed, in making a good picture with lots of
colors ( I tried to 'adjust' them, just to modify them against each other
and it suddenly looked much better, I think). I don't know whether this
picture is a study or if is pure 'imagination' by Rene , but I would guess!
that at least the dragon and the woman is copied (Is this correct ? I
doubt that the background is copied , because if i t is, it is horribly
copied). Since I am allowed to explein my honest opinion here (Rene, don't
be mad very mad at me (If you aren't mad at me already ?)), I'd say that
this is a pretty poor picture, at least! in the set-up. I can say for sure
that I wouldn't have voted for this picture !