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³¼INTERVIEW WITH¼³

³¼R.W.O/KEFRENS¼³

¹
This  time  we  have caught one of  the
best   graphicians  around,   R.W.O  of
Kefrens.  So  let's  jump  right out in
this revealing interview !

²Hi  R.W.O,  even  though  most  of  the
readers  probably  know  you,  we would
like you to introduce yourself and tell
us about your scenelife so far.¹

Well,  my  real  name  is  Rene' Wester
Olsen. I'm almost 18 years old, and I'm
a  graphics-artist in Kefrens. I got my
machine back in 1988,  and before that,
I was the lucky (?) owner  of a C-64. I
began to draw  computer-graphics when I
bought  my  Amiga,  and  after  about 2
months,  I  joined  Bamiga  Sector  One
together  with  S.L.L.  After  about  9
months,  we  both joined Kefrens. Later
Kefrens  died,  and  we built Hydronic.
But  after a few months, we rebuilt the
forces   of   the   pyramids,   because
Metallion,  Razmo and Mellica was among
us. Then  the  real Kefrens was born to
last forever......

²Thanks !  Kefrens  has  just released a
big demo, Guardian Dragon II, which won
the competition at the Hurricane party.
Now  that  you  look  back  on the demo
could  you tell us  your impression  of
it ( The  best/worst parts and what you
think could have been better etc.) ?¹

My  own  favourite  parts are something
like: The  lightsourced  megaball,  the
exploding vectorcube and the Dragon-eye
part.  The  worst  parts..... Hmm..None
ofcoz!!!   Ok,  when  you have read the
story in  the  introducing  once,  it's
rather  boring to  read  it  again  and
again,  everytime you watch the demo. I
must  admit,  that I'm not a big fan of
the  about  500.000  dots-joke  either.
Another funny thing  is,  that  somehow
some  people  doesn't  know, that  this
part  was a joke, and really believe in
the about 500.000 realtime dots!!!

²Guardian Dragon II has in my opinion an
excellent  design.   Could  you  please
compare  your  kind of design with some
other   strong   ' design-groups ' like
Andromeda, Silents and Melon Dezign and
how important will you rate the  design
against code & music (graphics) ?¹

I  guess  you  can compare our design a
bit like Andromeda's; Every part has an
' introduction'  ( hmm.. almost).   The
routines  doesn't  just 'pop'  up  in a
row, like Silents' Hardwired. Of course
Silents'  design  isn't  bad  at all. I
just  think  that  'part-introductions'
will  make  the  demo  more  smooth and
pleasant to watch.

²It was a quite impressing demo . Do you
think  that  it  will  help you getting
more  accepted  in the scene, cause you
have  to  admit that some people didn't
think you deserved  the name; Kefrens !¹

Well, the problem was that when we just
rebuilt Kefrens, we had 100% friendship
and  quantity before quality.  The time
has  changed,  and  now  we try to make
quality before quantity. The friendship
is  still  (always will be)  very, very
high  rated in Kefrens, which makes the
group   better,   closer    and    more
powerfull.

²Why  do  you  think  that people in the
first  place  had a hard time accepting
your group after it was reborn ?¹

Difficult  to  say...   Maybe  it   has
something  to  do  with  the   'Promax-
fever'.  Kefrens  was  well  known  for
Promax's and Metallion's superb coding.
At  that moment  we couldn't  deal with
that high coding standard, so we had to
'live'  on  anything  but coding, which
was quite  unreal  for Kefrens. Anyway,
I'm  quite  sure,  that  our   'coding-
problems' are history.

²And do you think  that Kefrens nowadays
are  a  just as strong team as it was a
couple of years ago ?¹

YES!!!! And even stronger....

²I  know that you have had some troubles
getting  your prize for your 1st place.
How are things  going  concerning  this
matter ?¹

Yes, just before  the winners should be
done  official,  Brian  Harfeldt ( main
organizer)  came to our place, and told
us that we had won the demo-competition
for  sure, but  he  was terrible sorry,
that  he  couldn't  pay  us   ANY-THING
because of  a  huge loss (approx 100000
Dkr.). Well, we  got  quite shocked and
pissed,  but   we   ( Laxity   and  me)
discussed  it, and  we  felt  sorry for
him.  Dissapointed  we  took the bus to
the ferry,  to  travel home from a hard
week-end.  2  days  later,  I  got many
calls from some of my friends. After we
left, some other guys got  very  angry,
and sat down in the hall until they was
paid.   Afterall  one  of   the   other
organizers admitted to  me,  that their
loss wasn't that big at all!!!! In fact
they had 7500 Dkr  all  in  all for the
winners.  Some  guys  yelled very loud,
and  they  got  some money. The winners
from the music-comp.  got  some  of the
leftovers (cokes ect.)  for their work.
Well, after the party (?) Brian Harfeld
called me,  and  told that we would get
either 15000 Dkr. or the Amiga 3000 for
sure,   because  he  has   checked  the
economy,  and  their  loss  wasn't that
much. Great!   2  months  after, and we
never heard anything.  Then  we  sent a
letter, that we wanted our money. Later
on  we  got  a  letter  from his lawyer
saying, that we would  get  nothing for
our hard work.  The main organizers had
expected  2700  people,   and   instead
'only'  00 showed up ( I  wonder  where
the  entrance  money is???). His excuse
was,  that  the  organizers didn't know
that   Denmark   should  play  football
against  Germany (Ey, 2-0 rulez!!), and
therefore  they  didn't had a change to
cancel   it!!!    We  wrote  back,  and
mentioned  10-20  good  reasons to this
matter.  He  couldn't  defend our facts
coz he wasn't  present at the party. He
just wrote that  he had nothing more to
say, than he  already had said. And the
moral: Never choose a lawyer, who can't
defend   his   sake ( Like:    Jaeger &
Rambusch/Niels  Junge   -   Kirkegade 1
6701 Esbjerg!!!).

²You  have  some  problems  with   Melon
Dezign.  Do  you  have  any comments to
this matter ?¹

Well, yes there have been some bugs. It
all began  at the Aars '91 party. Under
the demo-comp. our dentro suddenly went
into  a  software-failure. Laxity said,
that it couldn't  break down during the
textplotter.  Some weeks after, Trix of
Anarchy  admitted to Krueger, that Seen
and  Paleface  wanted  the  vectors  to
crash;  simply  by  playing  with   the
level-7 button.  They  choosed  the mem
on/off  button  instead,  and  the demo
began to  freeze  for some seconds, and
went  into  a  guru-meditation.  We got
very  pissed,  and  told,  in an intro,
that we  didn't like them either. After
we  won the  comp. with G.D.2, they got
more angry. They got the 5th place, and
that  was  absolutely  unfair (nahh..).
Then they made a nice anti-intro for us
(Thanx again!).  Anyway,  just after we
rebuilt Kefrens, I heard rumours about,
that Seen and two of the former Kefrens
members  wanted  to  rebuilt the group,
but  we  did  it  before them, and this
could  be  the reason why  he wanted to
ruin our dentro. I'm not 100%  sure  of
the  last  (99%),  but  I  wouldn't  be
surprised!!

²Could  you  reveal  some  of  the   new
projects   coming  from  Kefrens in the
future. I know  that  you  should  have
released     a     slideshow     called
'Masterpieces'.  But  I haven't seen it
yet ! What have happened ?¹

Huh!  Yeah,  Masterpieces  was  a   bit
delayed.  Mellica  and  I got ourselves
new jobs, which  take much time. That's
the  only reason, why the slideshow was
delayed  for  a month (or 2!?). Anyway,
when  the  time  you  read  this, it is
already released (Hope so! ed)... Well,
our  next  release  is very close. It's
some 'guf' for  all  you  techno-freaks
out   there.   S.L.L  has  done  a  new
Multimegamix-alike,  with  only  power-
techno  muzak....   Razmo  is currently
working  on  the  follow-up  to S.L.L's
megamix. Hawkeye's 'Hardware Heaven' is
also  'close  to  the  stairs'.  It's a
hardware-mag. only to be released once.
It contains a lot  of cool and helpfull
hardware  tips  &  tricks,  so  all you
electrician  lovers:     Watch     out!
Furthermore  Vention   and   Zeus   are
currently  working  on  a trackmo to be
released around x-mas.

²Talking about graphics..As a graphician
you   can't   avoid   questions   about
graphics,  so  let's jump right out, in
the questionstorm. So, please tell us a
bit about your style and your favourite
motives/area ?¹

My  favourite area is drawing pictures.
Charsets are really my worst nightmare.
I  really  hate  drawing  those  boring
letters!!   I  use  the  'chess  flour'
style;  setting  every second pixel, to
make it smooth  and greasy. My favorite
motives  are  ( as you probably already
know!?)  monsters  in  all  variations.
Anyway,  in the  past  few months, I've
drawn  some  human  beings too. That is
probably some of the hardest motives to
draw.  If  you  draw a fantasy picture,
you can't say that  something is wrong;
but  everyone  knows how a person looks
like (hmm... really???),  and then it's
very  easy to discover, if something is
wrong.

²A lot of people are saying that you use
a digitizer (As they say about any cool
graphicians).   Have   you   ever  done
pictures  with  that  help, and what do
you  think  about  these  'rumours'  in
general ?¹

Well, the rumours are many!  I've heard
that  Facet uses digitizer too, and Uno
bought  all  his  graphics  from Bitmap
Brothers!  I don't  fucking  believe in
these  rumours!  I've  NEVER  done  any
pictures  with 'help'  from a digitizer
either.  In  fact I'm not even sure how
to use  a  digitizer!!!   I think those
rumour-lovers should think twice before
spreading shit-talk  like  that.  Maybe
it's   just  a   matter  of   lack   of
intelligence,  or  just   some   jaloux
jerks, who think it is impossible to do
something  better   than  they  can  do
themselves!

²I think that you  make some really cool
graphics. But one time I have been very
dissapointed (But then  again, only one
time !).    I'm talking about the first
picture in Guardian Dragon. What do you
think about  that  picture yourself and
have you regret that you included it ?¹

Ha, ha...  Funny you ask! I've regret I
included  this  VERY  old  picture   in
Guardian Dragon many times!  In fact it
was more than 3 years old,  when it was
used.  The  reason  for  this was, that
Laxity  and I were sitting just the day
before the party, with no loaderpicture
at  all.  Well,  we thought that it was
better looking at something, instead of
looking at  an  'empty'  screen  (As  I
regret later!!), so then we used it!!!

²Does   the   graphicians-chart  in  the
eurochart  fit  your feelings about who
is the best graphicians around ?¹

It's very  difficult  to say who really
is  the  best  graphics-artist  i n the
Amiga-scene. Most of the graphicians in
the Eurochart have done something good,
but  also  something  very  bad. It all
depends  on  how much time you spend on
the graphics.  If  you  spend plenty of
time  on every picture you do, they are
all  great then,  but then you wouldn't
have time to release much.  Ok, you can
also  use  too  much time on a picture,
which  means  you will get tired of the
picture  before  finishing it, and then
the   rest   of  it  is  more  or  less
rushwork.   Some  of  the  very  active
graphicians  in  the  Eurochart release
many  pictures,  but  they are all very
simple.  Then again;  You  can't really
say, who is the true number one.

²Please   comment   on   the   following
grahicians:¹

³Angeldawn/Scoopex:¹

I  haven't  seen  any   pictures   from
Angeldawn, but most  of  his  logos and
charzz are really brilliant!!!

³Fairfax/Andromeda:¹

The med-rez king!   Long time ago I saw
some  Awesome-logos from  him,  which I
certainly didn't like. Some time after,
I   saw   the   Titanic-in-the-moutains
picture, and it  was  really cool (keep
it on dude!).

³Rack/Majic 12:¹

Rack has done  some very good menus and
a  few good  pictures. One thing is for
sure,  that  his  smoothings  are  very
good.  It's  just  a  shame  that   his
graphics  are  too alike. He should try
to  use  less  than  16  colors  on   a
'thing', and draw something else on the
picture in other colors.

³Cougar/Sanity:¹

Cougar  is  a  very  talented graphics-
artist.  I  haven't seen much from him,
but what I've seen was really stunning.
Well,  maybe  except  for  some  of his
fonts.  They  were  not  bad,  but  his
pictures  was/are   in  a   lot  better
quality.

³Hof/Silents:¹

Huh!!!  It looks like Hof really  got a
bright future  drawing  Amiga-graphics.
His  picture  in Stolen Data was really
kickin. The smooth, the palette and the
motive are really stunning.  I'm really
looking forward to see more from him in
the near future (Keep it on Hof!!!).

³Walt/Melon Dezign:¹

The graphics in ICE was quite good, but
some of the graphics in Humantarget was
certainly under  the standard!  When  I
first saw  it, I thought it was made by
Seen!  Anyway  Walt:  Pleaze go back to
your old style. It was a lot better!

³Bustman/Crusaders:¹

Hmm.. The man with his very own style!!
I must first admit,  that I'm not a fan
of his style. Anyway, that doesn't mean
that  he  can't  draw, coz he  can. The
best  I've  seen  from  him,   was  the
smoking  ballon-head  used  in  one  of
Crusaders' last charts.

²It   seems   like  Uno of Scoopex   and
Facet/Anarchy are  the two most popular
graphicians   around  at  the   moment.
Could   you  please   give   us    your
impression,  their  skills and  why you
prefer  Uno's  graphics   or    Facet's
graphics ?¹

I  dunno!!!   It's  hard  to say who is
best of  Uno  and  Facet.  Uno  haven't
drawn  much graphics, but almost all of
it are quality.  Facet  has drawn a lot
of   pictures   lately   ( mostly  very
simple!)  I don't really know whose gfx
I prefer.  One thing is for sure:  They
are  both very talented,  and it's hard
to say who is best.

²Ok, as always, the man in question-fire
gets the final words !¹

0hhh.. Hva for noe???? Ild??? Ok, thanx
TFG!  Once again some lamers claimed to
be members of Kefrens,  so here are the
updated list:

Airwalk       (Graphics & music)
Blizzart      (Graphics)
Dice          (Musician)
Hawkeye       (Mailtrader)
Laxity        (Coder & musician)
Mellica       (Coder)
Princip       (Sysop, Interchange)
Raxor         (Sysop, Pyramid Inn)
Razmo         (Music, gfx & coding)
R.W.O         (Graphics)
S.L.L         (Musician)
Vention       (Coder)
Zeus          (Coder, modemtrader)

Anyone  else who claims to be a Kefrens
member is  rather misinformed,  or just
plain stupid!!!!

On the  behalf of the Top Secret staff,
I'll thank  R.W.O  for  answering these
questions.
                      ³TFG/Majic 12¹