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- Short: Sonik Clique - ASM'96 invitation!
- Uploader: an942400@shsibm.shh.fi (murk%sonik.clique)
- Author: sonik@dawn.joensuu.fi (sonik clique)
- Type: demo/aga
- Requires: AGA + HD
- Distribution: Aminet CD & EuroScene = OK, others ask for permission
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- release notes:
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- ok, 're we are once again. another release from the sonik pub. erm, clique,
- that is. this is one of the biggest (if not *the* biggest) projects we have
- worked on during the last few years. this production has really taken
- advantage of the net, email etc. four coders living apart have been pushed
- to their limits to accomplish this huge invitation. as usual, we didn't take
- the easiest way, instead we tried a more 'professional' approach and here's
- the result.
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- this release is quite unique in another way aswell; it is released on both
- amiga and pc platforms. not only do the invitations look the same, they also
- feel the same. this is something that hasn't been done before in the scene,
- but which hopefully will be the future. this might very well be the last sonik
- production for 2 meg amigas, since it's really worthless to spend hours on
- just trying to fit the production into the memory.
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- credits:
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- art direction - markus grannenfelt [murk]
- programming - juni katainen [eye-q]
- design - markus grannenfelt [murk]
- anim. packer - sami kivisaari [deflector]
- musik - matti tuomela [maza]
- michiel krop [supernao/gforce%lemon]
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- additional credits:
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- dancer - anders! (*smack!*)
- photography - jonas
- feat. pic - stolen from a dsl catalogue
- (dsl spa-7 via dell'industria 36060 molvena)
- (we wear them - we get the hoes!)
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- special thanks:
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- scanner support - sami kuisma @ doctron oy
- video camera - anna t. (me luv!)
- sgi (suxx) - jani (dessu) @ hybrid ltd.
- musik fix - supernao (fast!)
- (maza phukk off, you little twat)
- super skunk - ruben (say hi to james b.ng)
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- general design notes:
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- «i don't think that you can be neutral. you cannot not communicate. if you
- say nothing, that says something. if you don't respond, that's a response. if
- you don't have a religion, that's your religion.»
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- david carson (emigre no. 27)
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- what should i say? this is a big leap forward, at least for me personally.
- new software was used in the production process, new methods, new
- approaches. the project turned out to be much more challenging than i would
- have guessed, and needless to say, more time consuming as well. :)
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- the interlaced mode was chosen beacause the text wouldn't have fitted into a
- lores screen, and the hires quite nicely destroys the proportions of the
- fonts. now, if i would have redrawn all the fonts in hires, you'd probably
- see them in the asm97 invitation.. besides, multisync owners should be
- quite pleased with this. (many of the routines look better in hi/lores,
- but..)
-
- this would be a perfect place to explain what i tried to achieve, and why i
- chose an approach like this, but i'm really too fed up with this project to
- write anythign sensible. let's just say that i wanted the invitation to
- look more like a "magazine" and less like a computer nerdy lores
- invitation. i'm not sure if i succeded, but at least this should stand out
- from the crowd, and of course, no environment maps or phong shadings!!!
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- the "destroy the fonts" style is inspired by the likes of david carson
- (nice spreads in raygun) and other artsts appearing in such publications as
- fuse, emigre etc. (i've seen one or two emigre issues ;)
-
- as goethe once said «life is a series of changes», and we're living in a
- rapidly changing environment. all the hype about the net (yuck!),
- multiplatform software etc. sets up totally new requirements for the
- producers of both business and entertainment software. we're definetively
- going to be a part of the future, so stay tuned for some more mind
- expanding products from the sonik clique.
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- known design faults:
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- lack of animation in most of the screens is quite obvious, really. origianlly
- i wanted to include small anims in all of the screens, but as we ran out of
- time, we decided to drop some of the ideas.
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- the animation packer isn't the one to blame for destoying the picture
- quality. the luuuvely sgi without any video equipment is the real reason.
- anyway, we were in a terrible hurry, so this will have to do.
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- if you think that the graphics are in 640x512 just because ther antialias
- is bad, you're wrong! take a look at some of the shots in the gfx.lzx and
- judge for yourself.
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- the colors aren't very well chosen in some of the screens, but then again,
- you wouldn't have noticed it yourself, now would you? :)
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- a few of the screens look REALLY horrible, and should have been redrawn.
- find the ugly once yourself!
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- technical crap:
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- to avoid memory fragmentation on chip only machines we had to keep some
- data files unpacked, (files 00, 01, 06, 07, 08, 10 and 14). you can pack
- them with stonecruncher or some other (exe) cruncher if you have some
- fast memory.
-
- greetings:
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- melon. = cncd = banal p. = lemon. = virtual dreams = parallax = andromeda =
- matilde = orange = jamm = plant = movement = oxygene = artwork = essence =
- haujobb = jormas= essence = complex = polka b. = passion = pygmy p. = mass =
- balance = stellar = abyss = and the -design gods- at tbl (uuh)
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- no personals this time..
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- contact sonik clique:
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- email:
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- sonik@dawn.joensuu.fi (commercial, girls, joining ..)
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- murk: murk@icon.fi (the old ad is still valid)
- eyeq: jkatain2@cc.hut.fi
- deflector: skivisaa@cc.hut.fi
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- snail:
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- m.g. - t00l0nk. 50d74 - fin-00250 hki (joining >murk)
- t.n. - saiek. 11 - fin-78500 varkaus (trading >model)
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- be good, be sonik. .murk210796
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