2 8 934 684 38a ÌÉINTERVIEW WITH ELMER ------------------------------------ ÊËHave you seen the Virtual World demo from Thomas Landspurg. Elmer was the man behind the graphics. Here is a interview with him: ÈWhat do you think about the demo from Tomsoft 'Virtual World' ? ÉOf course I like it!! Do you think I would have contributed to a production I don't like ? I think it's quite original and the music plunges you in the atmosphere of the demo. From, there it's a real pleasure watching this demo. ÈHow did you come to know Thomas Landspurg ? ÉPhew... It's a long story! A few months ago, a friend of mine, called RUSH (he's a coder in Symbiois) was connected on his MINITEL (it's a sort of mini-modem freely distributed by the french TELECOM which you can connect a lot of people at the same time and on the same system and everybody can speak together just by typing on their keyboard). Thomas was connected too, so RUSH talked with him and asked if he needed any GFX. He answered no. A few weeks later. Both of them were connected and Thomas asked if I was still ready to make som GFX, you know the next.... ÈHow long time did you use to draw all pictures in 'Virtual World' ? ÉWell, not a lot... About on month for the whole work, but I can tell you that I am NOT really satisfied with it!.. Look out for my soon comming slideshow to see what I am able to draw. ÈAre you going to work with Thomas on any future project ? ÉI don't know if Thomas is going to make another demo. He told me that it was probably going to be the LAST one. But, who knows? Perhaps he'll change his mind one day. The only other thing I made with him was a little game, but I don't think we'll release it! ÈHow much of your sparetime do you use in front of Dpaint? ÉWell, ehhh. It depends on my mood. For the last weeks. I have not been drawing a lot. I spent most of my sparetime on REAL 3D. But in my inspiration periods, I spend about 90 % of my spartime on DPAINT. ÈDo you draw mainly because self maintendance or is it because you want to impress other people with your work ? ÉI have to admit that, at the beginning, I was drawing only to show that I was alive. Now, It's just a way of spending my time with fun. I feel so glad when I can see that my work is soon finished and so satisfied when the result is good. ÈHave you ever fell in love with a girl drawn in Deluxepaint ? ÉEh? I know that I am not really normal. But there are limits! ÈDo you use to draw by free imagination or do you try to copy a already used picture ? ÉWhen inspiration is low, I often take a picture to copy it! For instance, the picture of the "Eye of beholder" was made at the AMEGA party in 21 hours non stop. I was under control of coffein to prevent me from sleeping. I think you can understand that inspiration wasn't at it's best in such a state. Now, I decided to STOP copying pictures. But it was a good way to improve myself. ÈIs it a cheat to use a digitizer ? ÉIt depends if you digtize a sketch to continue it on your screen. Then, it is not a cheat. But if you digitize a picture only to change a detail or to colourize it and DONT say it, then it's cheating ÈHow do you get inspiration to draw ? ÉOften in class, when I have nothing better to do than drawing (that may explaing my school results last year) ÈHave you some habits when you draw ? ÉYes, I usually draw totally naked in a bath of a camel's milk!! Ê(Amazing, If any other graphicians has some strange habits when drawing. Example: drawing with your monitor off, please contact us! Ed.) ÿ