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- «c2»«ac»WHY RECYCLE?«»
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- «c1»By Zerox/Gods«»
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- «as»«c7»We have more than one time witnessed that «c6»a few sceners start a trend «c7»and
- the rest follow. One coder began coding bobs, and the rest kept doing that
- for years until ulitmate bobs were achieved. Then the various vectors
- became a trend; line vectors, filled vectors, inconvex vectors, glenz vectors etc.
- We've had the trackloader trend, phongs, bumpmapping, the animations, and much much
- more.«»
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- Even though we claim that the «c6»Amiga scene is so much more creative than any
- other scene, «c7»it's also obvious that most of the sceners here copy
- eachother one way or another. But of course they add their own personal
- touch to it all, and there's nothing wrong with that. And once it an while,
- there are someone that come up with something «c6»very innovative and creative
- «c7»despite the actual trend. One of the best examples of this is for instance
- when Spaceballs released their «c6»State Of The Art «c7»demo.«»
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- The more boring trend the latest years is the socalled «c6»3d trend, «c7»when new
- innovative «c6»2d effects are abandoned. «c7»The same 3d engine is used time after
- time with some new textures. Even though innovation is lost, I guess most
- people still got impressed by watching «c6»Lapsuus «c7»for instance.«»
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- You may think this mentioned above is sad, but it's infact not that bad.
- Much worse, after my opinion, is when the same coders manage to «c6»recycle «c7»his
- «c6»own effects «c7»in production after production.«»
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- I guess most of you have seen the amazing intros done by non other than
- «c6»Exploder «c7»for instance? Personally I think he's the most talented coder
- around nowadays. He has managed to create lots of small effects with an
- incredible speed. And the best part of it, most of his productions work
- on a 020 with 4mb fast! All of the Exploder productions like «c6»Freedom,
- Revision, Wish, Gap, Dust, Urine, Incision, Humus 1, Humus 2, Paradize@08, Paradize@10,
- Dolphin Dreams «c7»etc. are just great.«»
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- But the last year it has become a bit sad to watch a new Exploder
- production. Not because of bad quality. No, not at all. The productions
- still show «c6»amazing skills. «c7»But the problem is that you've seen about all
- his effects hundreds of times already. A new intro is just more or less the
- same effects in another order.«»
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- I know it can be hard to come up with more new effects for a 4k intro for
- example, but then it should be better to release a demo where many new
- ideas could be tested and even nice graphics added. «c6»It can't be very
- rewarding «c7»for Exploder himself either to just work on the same effects
- in each production. Just look at productions such as «c6»Humus 1, Humus 2,
- Paradize@08 and Paradize@10. «c7»They are not much different at all.«»
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- When talking about Exploder and his crews, it's also a bit confusing, as it
- seems like «c6»Push Entertainment have some sub-groups «c7»like the 3 Amigos, PH-ENT
- etc. which consist of the same people. And in the majority of productions
- the credits are lacking as well. Therefore I can understand why some
- organizers at certain parties have disqualified those Push Entertainment
- productions. It's no use giving «c6»fuckings «c7»to the organizers, like it's done
- in Real-Paradize, when you're to blame yourself.«»
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- In any case, it's not only the great Exploder which is recycling his
- routines nowadays. I just used him as an example. There are of course
- several other coders which do the same, but it's perhaps not so obvious as
- in the case of Exploder. To be fair, it also has to be said that the latest
- intro Dolphin Dreams looks quite different from his previous intros. So
- perhaps the recycling has ended?«»
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- I'm not saying YOU should «c6»reinvent the concept of demo-making, «c7»but some
- innovation and creativity would be nice... and hopefully we get to see
- something impressive at the Mekka-Symposium party. And hey... I'm not
- talking about another animation... ;-)«»
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- «c6»Why settle with less when you're capable to do so much better?«»
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