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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Taking 
                        Aim at Paul Steed '99</font></i></font></b><br>

                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">By 
                        <a href="mailto:radpipe@loonygames.com">Russell Lauzon</a></font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 5&nbsp; <br>
                      December 6, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <h5 align="right">&nbsp;</h5>
              <p align="right">&nbsp;</p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>And 
                Tanya is just gorgeous in that picture.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks. 
                I like Tanya. It was one of my favorite pictures. You know what 
                I like about that picture is the hands. You always try to improve 
                certain things in your drawing.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You 
                know what else that really comes out in your pictures is eyes 
                and lips. You can really tell &#150;</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I spend 
                a lot of time on that.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think 
                the first picture I saw of yours, you know what, was one of your 
                pictures for your tattoo. I had to look at the face three times 
                because I thought it was a photo picture and I thought, &#145;holy 
                god that&#146;s really good.&#146; And that comes out in all your 
                pictures. Because they&#146;re all really cool that way. And you&#146;ve 
                done a lot of sketches from Playboy too.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yeah. 
                Yeah yeah yeah. I like the newstand editions.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A lot 
                of different sketches, a lot of different poses.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There&#146;s 
                a difference. I don&#146;t like Hustler kind of stuff. Back when 
                they started strip clubs, I wouldn&#146;t go to all nude places 
                because it was kind of like somebody pointing a flashlight in 
                your face. You know I mean? Don&#146;t point that thing at me. 
                It takes away the whole mystery of the thing. I think of women 
                too much as like an art form. In today&#146;s society they use 
                the female form for everything. There&#146;s a reason for that, 
                because it&#146;s just so appealing. On a really basic level, 
                the female form is a provocative thing.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                it&#146;s beautiful.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It&#146;s 
                beautiful.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Beautiful 
                thing.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I know 
                you&#146;re a fellow philogyner so you know what I mean.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>You 
                know you kind remind me of that guy from the movie Skin Deep with 
                John Ritter.</b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh yeah 
                yeah. The glowing condoms in the dark. </font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Yeah 
                exactly. He had a big problem with women. </b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well I 
                don&#146;t really have a problem.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In 
                his case it was a problem.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">He had 
                that whole sex-addiction thing, which I&#146;ve never understood. 
                Because everyone is addicted to sex. Jesus. It&#146;s a problem. 
                Why is it a problem?</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Yeah 
                this guy&#146;s normal. What&#146;s the movie about? Anyway let&#146;s 
                move on here or we&#146;ll never get through. You first gaming 
                job was at Origin. How humbling was it when you first got there 
                and you saw the talent that was around you. </b></font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jesus 
                Christ I was depressed for days. Weeks. I was just devastated 
                because I was so sure of myself, and so full of myself in the 
                way I drew and the things I drew, and the things I thought about 
                were so unique. I thought, geez, because I never met anybody who 
                enjoyed those kinds of things, I guess. And man I go there, and 
                man, it was like everyone there just completely kicked my ass. 
                It was very humbling. But it was cool too. Because I love to be 
                challenged.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                you got to work with these guys.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn&#146;t 
                start as an artist, I started as a gopher there. And basically, 
                I became an artist by going in and trying to learn this stuff. 
                And I tried to learn 3D first, and what I realized is that there 
                weren't very many people that learned to do 3D. So it was kind 
                of like, why isn&#146;t anyone learning 3D? It was just a little 
                studying and stuff. Evidently it was pretty intimidating.</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                soon you were in a field by yourself.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well there 
                were other guys there that did 3D, but they did all the high-poly 
                cinematic stuff. What I ended up specializing in, for no other 
                reason than no one else wanted to do it, was the low-poly stuff. 
                This was back in &#146;92. I did all the planes and stuff in Strike 
                Commander. So, I just got in there and showed them my drawings 
                and stuff, and came the big day and I wanted to apply to the art 
                department. I brought my stuff in and the guys were cool and stuff, 
                and I had already talked to them because they saw me coming in 
                there at night and they asked me, &#145;why you going in the art 
                room&#146; and I said, &#145;I want to learn, I&#146;d like to 
                do this too&#146; and they&#146;re like &#145;ok you go ahead 
                kid.&#146; So, I applied. I finally got my stuff together. I got 
                my 3D stuff, my 2D stuff, I did like some ePaint drawings. And 
                they looked at them and everything and I was pretty proud of them. 
                It wasn&#146;t as good as they did and they knew it, but they 
                saw something there so they go, &#145;yeah you know, your stuff 
                is pretty good. But are you cool?&#146; And I said, &#145;what 
                do you mean?&#146; And then they proceed to ask me all these questions 
                about like what movies I liked and what artists I liked, and a 
                little bit about my background &#150;</font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                what&#146;s your inspiration.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Right. 
                What&#146;s my motivation and everything else. And I was really 
                impressed by that. Because it was like, &#145;you got the ability 
                but that&#146;s not really what&#146;s important. What&#146;s 
                important are you going to fit in with the rest of us?&#146; And 
                I think that&#146;s something that&#146;s lost in the industry 
                today. People don&#146;t focus on the team mechanics enough. They 
                just focus on the corporate aspect of it. </font></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They 
                got no heart.</font></b></p>
              <p align="left"></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah exactly. 
                That&#146;s what it is. It&#146;s heart. And the guys at Origin 
                had lots of heart.</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Illustration 
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