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Interview With Danny
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Written By Radavi/Effect
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And now a little interview that I
(Radavi) had with Danny. Danny is a
graphics artist who has released his
slideshow: "FORGOTTEN" in the
beginning of September '92. This was
a co-production with Crackerjack /
Mirage and Fabian/Desire. This
interview was held in May 1993.
¬2Okay Danny, what about some
information about yourself (age,
school, etc.)?
¬3Ok, my age eeeh, I'm just 19 years old
so that means I'm still schooling!
This year (and the next 2 as well) I'm
studying on a school mainly based on
art and printing techniques. I also
have some other hobby's besides
drawing. My biggest hobby is GIRLS!!!
I guess my pictures show that. At
least I hope they do!¬1
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¬2What was your 1st computer and since
when do you have an AMIGA ?
¬3The very (very) first computer I got
my hands on, was the good ol' C64. I
bought it in 1986 if I remember
correctly. After 1 year of playing
games and trying to be a musician, I
started drawing. After another 2
years I didn't draw anything more than
little spaceships and other things.
The year 1989 was my first Amiga 500
year. I started drawing on small
games from friends of mine. After I
stopped doing that, I really got the
chance to develop my own style. I
started drawing bigger and more
difficult things. My first
full-screen picture (Hostile Wings)
followed. I kept drawing and drawing,
released a slideshow aaaannd here we
are!!¬1
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¬2Why are you not in a group ?
¬3Nice question!
Well before the release of
FORGOTTEN, I hardly showed people my
work. So I got no join-offers and I
don't like to ask. But after the
slideshow, I did get offers from
several groups. As most of you may
allready know I joined up with
ANARCHY. Now since this great group
has died, I'm laying low for a while.
This gives me the time I need for my
studies. But I'm still doing things
for the scene and I'll join a new
group soon.¬1
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¬2How do you start your pictures, and
where do you get your ideas from ?
¬3Aah, this one's difficult.
I'll try and keep this short. After
I know what kind of a picture I wanna
do next, I start making sketches. To
be able to draw very realistic, you
need the right photographic reference
material. This comes in the form of
photo's, film-footage, things from
real life and fantasy paintings.
Once I got all of this, I can start
working in DeluxePaint 3 (coz DP4
sucks). The first thing is to make a
good palette (which I find one of the
hardest things to do). After this I
look for the best point to start
drawing the picture. I immediately
draw everything as good as I can. So
no outline shit, and no making use of
a grid. I continue this until the
picture is the way I want it to be.
Slight changes are made throughout
this process were I think it's
necessary. Well anyway, this is just
a short explanation.¬1
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¬2What do you think about people who use
digitizers ?
¬3Shit man!
I believe that any good artist does
not use a digitizer, coz I know it is
possible to create cool gfx by hand by
my own experience. But if I ever get
to know an (Amiga) artist using digi
equipment and saying he draws it all,
then I'd recommend the whole scene to
completely slag this person off. It's
just unbelievable lame!!!¬1
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¬2Ofcourse everybody knows that you
released a slideshow: 'FORGOTTEN'
(which was the best I have ever seen).
How long did you draw for it, and what
was the most difficult thing to do ?
¬3(Thank you for the compliment !) Very
long! There's some pictures in it
that I drew quite some time ago. And
as for the most difficult
thing...phew.. that's a hard one...
I think it would be the time when I
had to look for the right coder and
the right musician. And I think I
made a brilliant choice with
Crackerjack and Fabian. Great work
guys !!!¬1
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¬2Do you have some reactions from people
on the slideshow ?
¬3Oh yes, I get a lot of reactions from
all kinds of people. I get letters of
people telling me how much they liked
the slideshow.
But of course not every one likes it
all, and I can get in to that. One of
the things an artist likes to hear
best, is that other people like his
work. In this case I would like to
thank all the people who said so.
Thank you VERY much guys!!!
The slide also appeared in CU Amiga
and Amiga Format getting very good
review-marks. Makes me feel good you
know!!¬1
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¬2What are your future plans ?
¬3Draw some more scene-stuff, and draw
for games ! Also after my graduation
I wanna go and study on a school for
animations.¬1
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¬2What is your favourite music, movie,
graphician, musician, coder, (disk)mag
and console ?
¬3Music: I like almost all music except
for the real extreme types of music
like funk and jazz.
Movie: Science Fiction, Barbarian
types of movies and stuff like Naked
Gun etc. Great fun indeed!!
Graphician: Fairfax, Facet, Peachy,
Hof, Cougar, Titan and so many
others...
Musician: I think NHP/Anarchy is the
best. Why ? Well his music is
different than others. It's very
good. Furthermore I like Jester,
Lizardking, TIP and MTX, Axel, Fabian,
Static and the list goes on and on...
Coder: Chaos, Dan, CrackerJack,
Laxity, Hannibal...
Mag: Mean Machines and CVG.
Diskmag: RAW and the late Stolen Data
Console: SUPER FAMICOM (SNES)¬1
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¬2I know you have (a lot of) consoles,
what do you like about them? (isn't
Amiga better than the real thing...)
¬3The Amiga has it's strong points in
being able to create something on it.
So did many Amiga users and forth came
the Amiga scene. But for arcade
quality games I really want something
good. But I also need to draw and be
able to show my work to a great
majority of people. So I came up with
the ultime idea; own an Amiga and some
consoles. WOW what an idea!¬1
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¬2Could you give your opinion, reaction
on: Crackerjack, Facet, Hof,
interviews, the Official Eurochart,
the scene, Wayne's World and Elvis
Presley(?)
¬3CrackerJack: He's a great coder and a
very good friend of mine. He also
likes consoles.
Facet: A damn good friend and artist.
He's got many good ideas.
HOF: Good artist, only I have not
seen anything from him for quite some
time.
Interviews: Is this a trick question?
The Eurochart: A good thing to see
who's hot and who's not.
The Scene: It's great fun except for
the lamers, cheaters and fakers!
Wayne's World: Not always as funny as
stated, but good fun mostly...
Elvis Presley: Who's that?¬1
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¬2I know you are working on a game,
could you tell me more about it (like
the title, the releasedate, etc.) or
is that top secret ?
¬3You really want to know don't ya?
Well it's not top secret, but I have
some bad experiences with telling too
much about unfinished games. It's a
good game of which i'm doing the
inbetween-level-sequences for.
Pictures with some simple animations
to match.¬1
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¬2At the moment, you are still in
ANARCHY. For how long will you stay
there, and what is your opinion about
LEMON. ?
¬3Correction, ANARCHY is dead. So I'm
not an ANARCHIST anymore.
About LEMON.: A great bunch of guys
with lots of talents in their group.
I think the scene will see some really
ELITE stuff from them.¬1
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¬2What is your reaction on RAW 5 ? (I
mean the fact that your pictures are
voted for)
¬3Well, it really gives me a great
feeling to see that people like my
pics. It's very stimulating. Makes
me want to draw more and more. Thanks
for voting guys!!!¬1
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¬2I know your have done a logo for
SCOOPEX, and that you also have done
the picture for CHIT CHAT 10. Do you
have more scene pictures planned ?
¬3I've got so many good ideas lined up
in my mind waiting to be drawn. The
only problem is the lack of time to
draw.
At the moment i'm designing a lot of
pictures on paper. Not many people
know this but I'm originally an artist
that draws on paper. The things I'm
now working on are 100% designed by me
and will be released in the scene
soon. So no more copying from artists
like Boris Vallejo. Keep your eyes on
the screen...¬1
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¬2How do you feel about the fact that
CU-AMIGA reviewed your slideshow and
gave it 92% ?
¬3I was reading several computer
magazines in our local bookstore when
I got to this CU-review. I really
could not believe it. I was so happy
that I wanted to show the review to
the girl behind the counter. I had a
really big smile on my face when
walking home. BRILLIANT!!¬1
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¬2Okay, that's all from me, do you have
some last words ?
¬3Yeah!
Girls wanted for modeling-work!
Thanks for the nice interview dude!