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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
                        Cover - Joachim</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 11<br>
                      February 8, 2000</font></b></h5>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b> 
              Were you a DPaint or Brilliance user?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              Only DPaint. I loved Dpaint. You could do the same with mouse then 
              as you can with tablet today, except for the resolution.</font></p>
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            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              You become known largely from your work for Melon Dezign, a group 
              that made the point of focusing on the &quot;design&quot; of their 
              demos rather than the routine-routine-routine approach generally 
              in use. Were you a founding member or did you join later?</font></p>
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                  <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                    <ignoreme>Some of Joachim's work on Pocahontas. (100k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              No, I wasn't a founding member, actually the Danish Melon hated 
              me! But the French guys, who were the real designers, liked my work. 
              Though I had been more of the &quot;artist&quot; type than a designer, 
              somehow Wlat (the designer) loved my design work. (Probably because 
              it was funny.)</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              How many demos did you work on with Melon? Do you have a favorite? 
              </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              I did 3 demos I think. I don't have any favorite any more, at least 
              none of my own, but I respect the work I did on Ninja since I was 
              sweating for 4 months.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              Were you still with Melon when you did the RAW cover?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
              </b>That was before, I think. I joined Melon rather late. (Probably 
              the technique I did on the RAW cover made them want me?!?)</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth: 
              </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The technique 
              on the RAW cover reminded me a lot of Hof's style, do you think 
              that was the case?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
              </b>Maybe, that's at least what I aimed for :). Or more like Uno, 
              who had been everybody&#146;s idol in the old days. I could work 
              on small areas of a picture for months before I learned the technique. 
              Sadly, it's not necessary anymore.</font></p>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b> 
              The RAW cover was a copy of a Kruger caricature if I remember correctly. 
              Did you do a lot of copying (which was pretty standard in those 
              days) or did you generally prefer to do originals?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
              </b>I think that was my last copy! And I'm really happy I stopped, 
              even though they looked better when I copied them. But copying didn't 
              improve my actual drawing skills.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b> 
              So you got out of 'copying' a long time before it becoming fashionable 
              to do 'no copies'.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              I guess I did - maybe that's why I didn't get as famous as many 
              others. But I think the most important thing is to reach for new 
              goals.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              Ninja was certainly a big surprise to those of us who had started 
              to get into your previous style. How did the jump to traditional 
              animation come about?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              Well, I had always loved [traditional] animation. Ninja was a LOT 
              of work! That was the first time that I had to animate characters 
              in different perspectives.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b> 
              It was unique too, I don't think I've ever seen another demo, on 
              any system, like that. </font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              No, that's actually what we hoped to see more of when we did the 
              demo but everybody just continued that design fancy stuff which 
              probably made me quit the scene.</font></p>
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                  <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                    <ignoreme>Joachim's Ninja. (72k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              Did your work on Ninja lead directly to your job at Funcom?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
              </b>No, I did Ninja right after I started in Funcom, which was almost 
              8 years ago. I was still a scene-member at that time.</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              Had you long aimed to get into the game industry?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              Actually, no. I [accompanied] a friend to an interview at Funcom, 
              but it looked so cool - everybody just played games, ate chocolate, 
              etc - that I got tempted :). So I asked for an interview as well 
              and they hired me the next day. I quit school.</font></p>
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            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">[Food interval. 
              Joachim had sandwiches and I went for some 97% fat-free crackers.]</font></p>
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            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              What was the first game you worked on?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
              </b>The first game I worked on was We're Back on the Sega Genesis 
              (based on a movie from Steven Spielberg).</font></p>
            <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
              What games did you do after that?</font></p>
            <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
              Ehhm let's see.. many got canned, but the ones we finished were: 
              <b>We're Back</b>, <b>Days Before Christmas</b>, <b>Pocahontas</b>, 
              and <b>Dragon Heart </b>(which sucked big time by the way).</font></p>
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