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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 9<br>
                January 24, 1999<br>
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              <h5 align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Under 
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                </font><font color="#904C10" size="6">Joachim</font><font color="#904C10" size="3"> 
                </font></i></font></b></h5>

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                <p align="center"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.11/uc/images/joachim_origin.jpg&amp;w=1151&amp;h=900&amp;alt=Issue%202.11%20Cover&amp;back=/content/2.11/uc/&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="../../images/cover2.11.jpg" width="460" height="360" border="0"></a><br>
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                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  Rowan &quot;<a href="mailto:sumaleth@frag.com">Sumaleth</a>&quot; 
                  Crawford<br>
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                <p align="left"><img src="../../images/letters_new/i.jpg" width="10" height="39" align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">n 
                  the <a href="../../2.4/uc/index.html">Under Cover article for Dhabih 
                  Eng</a> in issue 2.4 of loonygames we mentioned <a href="http://www.sijun.com/">Dhabih's 
                  Digital Art forum</a> as being the in place to be if you're 
                  into digital art, beginner or advanced. As well as giving beginning 
                  artists a place to getting some feedback on their work-in-progress, 
                  and somewhere that professional artists can show some of their 
                  'fun' stuff, the forum has proven to be excellent for at least 
                  one other thing.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Digging 
                  up old-school demoscene artists.</font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They're 
                  everywhere! And just when you think there can't be any more, 
                  up pops another one. And it's actually really fun finding out 
                  what these old-school artists early-to-mid 90's, whether they 
                  forged themselves a career in digital art, and if so, how far 
                  their art had progressed in the intervening years.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I remember 
                  that period well because that's when I started getting seriously 
                  interested in computer based 'graphics'. It was a lot different 
                  back then - technique was more important than the other aspects 
                  because, with only 16-32 colors available per image and a resolution 
                  of 320x200 or so, the viewer got to see every pixel on the screen 
                  and smooth shading was essentially impossible. Artists today 
                  have it so easy.</font></p>
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                      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.11/uc/images/joachim_rambo.gif&amp;w=320&amp;h=256&amp;back=/content/2.11/uc/index.php&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="images/joachim_rambo_sml.gif" width="149" height="119" border="0" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>Joachim does Rambo. (14k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So it 
                  was all in the technique, and learning the technique came down 
                  to carefully studying the images of those artists that had worked 
                  out how to get the best out of the limitations. There were little 
                  breakthroughs now and again which would suddenly see a whole 
                  new 'look' spread throughout the scene, but generally technique 
                  came down to being able to manually create sharp, clean anti-aliasing, 
                  and large areas of smooth shading using just a small range of 
                  colors and one of several dithering approaches.</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One 
                  image that that I remember studying a lot was the cover image 
                  to issue 6 (if I remember correctly) of the leading disk-magazine 
                  at the time, RAW. The image in question was a caricature of 
                  Rambo that made good use of a variety of shading and anti-aliasing 
                  techniques to overcome the lack of colors available. The image 
                  was by demoscene artist, Joachim.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                  guess who surfaced recently on Dhabih's digital art forum? (No 
                  points for guessing correctly but hit yourself if you guess 
                  wrong.) Yes, Joachim! (Too easy.)</font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Joachim 
                  now works at <a href="http://www.innerloop.com">Innerloop</a>, 
                  a game company working on a variety of titles for Eidos and 
                  Sega. Since the end of his demoscene career, soon after the 
                  release of his traditionally animated masterwork, Ninja, he 
                  has concentrated predominantly on Disney-style art, largely 
                  discarding the style that he was known for in his earlier scene 
                  days. So when he said that he was going to bow to peer pressure 
                  and try something in &quot;full color, full detail&quot;, just 
                  like the good old days, for this issue of loonygames, I was 
                  dying to see what he would come up with.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And 
                  does the cover kick ass or what?</font></p>
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                      <div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http:/home/loonygames/loony.timedoctor.org/content/cgi/image.pl?image=/content/2.11/uc/images/joachim_lgsketch2.jpg&amp;w=320&amp;h=247&amp;back=/content/2.11/uc/index.php&amp;name=Under%20Cover"><img src="images/joachim_lgsketch2_sml.jpg" width="121" height="99" border="0" alt="click to enlarge!"></a></font></div>
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                      <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"> 
                        <ignoreme>A sketch of this week's cover. (40k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We recently 
                  sat down (well, I was sitting and I assume he was too) and had 
                  a bit of a chat about the demoscene, making games, and digital 
                  art.</font></p>
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                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sumaleth:</font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                  OK, lets start off with the usual question; anything you say 
                  can and will be used against... Sorry, wrong file. Um.. what&#146;s 
                  your real name?</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
                  </b>Joachim Barrum (donBarrum).</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b>: 
                  So you're one of those rare demosceners that actually used their 
                  'real name' as a handle?</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim:</b> 
                  Well, yes. I didn't know any cooler name than my own, and if 
                  I ever got famous I liked it to be by my own name.</font></p>
                <p align="left"></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Sumaleth:</b>: 
                  How did you get into digital art? Did it begin with an introduction 
                  to the demoscene?</font></p>
                <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Joachim: 
                  </b>Well, I had always done drawing on paper. But about 10 years 
                  ago a friend of mine forced me to draw on the Amiga instead 
                  of playing games, so we joined the demoscene. He was a swapper 
                  and he wanted me to do artwork for his utility disks. Later 
                  we started a demogroup which made me fall in love with computer 
                  as a drawing medium.</font></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Cover illustration 
  &copy; 2000 Joachim. Under Cover is &copy; 2000 Rowan Crawford. All other content 
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