energia by Sunflower [web]
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a cool demo, less 'sunflowerish' in style than their usual stuff. very well deserves that 4th place that taat somehow managed to get up to.
the music is certainly lovely work, great feeling. electronic filteredness made warm with sax. i want the album.
but the fx, they have a nice feel and colour but it gets somehow "messy".. just too much stuff blended together, nothing "to the foreground".
in wonder, it worked, there was always some focus, even if it was constantly changing. here there is rarely focus, and so it at times just looks like a huge mass of coloured lines. to me this is going too far on the idea of "style".
but sometimes, when it does work, its of course fabulous.
but the fx, they have a nice feel and colour but it gets somehow "messy".. just too much stuff blended together, nothing "to the foreground".
in wonder, it worked, there was always some focus, even if it was constantly changing. here there is rarely focus, and so it at times just looks like a huge mass of coloured lines. to me this is going too far on the idea of "style".
but sometimes, when it does work, its of course fabulous.
very beautifull chillout.
reminds abit of codename:chinadoll
really nice.
reminds abit of codename:chinadoll
really nice.
who puts 10 layers of transparent additive-shit in a stack and just says: this is art. (?) didn't perform anything..i don't like that. Music was good.
strange, the zip file is 16 Mb but in the archive it is another different demo!
i dont understand why another prod is put as bonus in the same zip file...
about energia : humm, classic new design technoid, not excellent, just classic and average
no excitation, no new emotions, just another good demo, nothing new
i dont understand why another prod is put as bonus in the same zip file...
about energia : humm, classic new design technoid, not excellent, just classic and average
no excitation, no new emotions, just another good demo, nothing new
zone: the two demos in one archive was a mistake by the orgas i think
a great production with unique colors and a lot of action. i really like the transitions. a superb contrast to all these boring effect1-cut-effect2 demos.
ah. and the music is simply wonderful.
ah. and the music is simply wonderful.
Yeh, it's nice.... still.... this demo has some nice bits, some really awful ones, and well.... We have seen the very same thing from them the last two years now. Different graphicians and color palettes don't hide that. The dog called Sunflower didn't learn any new tricks for a long time.
Tesla's a better ride. Period.
Tesla's a better ride. Period.
i think tesla was dumb.
and I'm really surprised by the number of times i played energia so far since I didn't really got into it at assembly.The music is amazing, the layerwork gives a profusion of visual stimuli to watch, and the code is actually very very good. (man, it works on my crappy g200 ... that's a feat) Overall it may feel a bit too sunflowerish but I think the color scheme and effect selection has matured even more. I really like how wojtek married those 3d objects and abstract lines.
and I'm really surprised by the number of times i played energia so far since I didn't really got into it at assembly.The music is amazing, the layerwork gives a profusion of visual stimuli to watch, and the code is actually very very good. (man, it works on my crappy g200 ... that's a feat) Overall it may feel a bit too sunflowerish but I think the color scheme and effect selection has matured even more. I really like how wojtek married those 3d objects and abstract lines.
These new Sunflower prods are just so... empty. Meaningless. They leave no feelings or thoughts.
blah, like demos are made for evoking emotions in anyone. i wouldn't get the message anyway. i see it more as 'senseless' art, meaning that it's not made for any higher purpose except viewing pleasure, like all good art should be. i'm not really interested in the artists feelings mostly.
when ppl start mumbling about 'feelings' and 'thoughts' in relation to demos i just see a spinning flat shaded cube in front of me with some pathetic poetry on top that tries to be sooo deep.
fuck pretentious wannabe 'art' shit. i just want some good proper headfuck to keep me entertained.
fuck pretentious wannabe 'art' shit. i just want some good proper headfuck to keep me entertained.
exactly
for me, good demos are sequences of metaphors. most of the time very obscure, or unintentional. i think there is beauty in energia's ones even if i can only guess their meaning.
I didn't mean that demos should be art movies or poems. Most of those wannabe-deep demos are rather lame and ridiculous. But still, a product of art should leave the watcher thinking even something. Something other than "Hmm, finally it ended, should I watch tv or play games?" Otherwise you can just look at the writings of a milk carton.
Maybe this prod meant something to somebody. It just didn't for me. Sunflower really should stop repeating itself and raping people's 3D cards. Some of their older demos were great.
I'm probably going to get lots of flames.
Maybe this prod meant something to somebody. It just didn't for me. Sunflower really should stop repeating itself and raping people's 3D cards. Some of their older demos were great.
I'm probably going to get lots of flames.
rip saw a lot of colors. rip was bored.
it was smooth enough to get bored even on my PIII450 with erazorIII at work.
p.s.: those 8 snapshots of funny balls rocked ;)
p.s.: those 8 snapshots of funny balls rocked ;)
pretty music!
Not as good as Tesla, but I like it. Nice and additive :)
Also, the music is a goddamn masterpice. Still - metaballs at 1.5FPS isn't exactly fun though..
Also, the music is a goddamn masterpice. Still - metaballs at 1.5FPS isn't exactly fun though..
the 3D is a bit messy, but the soundtrack and the whole demo left something in my mind...
A bit overworked for my taste... too much going on in a fuzzy way...
Man, I haven't seen a demo run this slow since I tried Kasparov on my C64. Is it the coding, or is it my computer...? Considering how other productions run on my computer, I'd have to guess it's the coding.
At any rate, this is one ugly slideshow...
At any rate, this is one ugly slideshow...
nice music, nice design , a bit cpu intensive at times. but who cares. i liked it alot. ^_^
Boring alpha layer crap, you can't really see what are the effects.
This is ART! :)
Hey! This is MORE then ART!
way cooler than most other things i've ever seen
VERY pleasant watch.
nice to see the crankshaft (yolk!) remix of rinneradio: helsinki (yup, sax-samples)
used somewhere, and to good effect. reeks of lack of time, but everyone runs out of time someday.
yes, there's a lot on the screen. no, i didn't even realize i wasn't seeing all of it with old displaydrivers.
nice to see the crankshaft (yolk!) remix of rinneradio: helsinki (yup, sax-samples)
used somewhere, and to good effect. reeks of lack of time, but everyone runs out of time someday.
yes, there's a lot on the screen. no, i didn't even realize i wasn't seeing all of it with old displaydrivers.
great music and lots of dull alpha-blending. blah.
It simply rocks. The music is fantastic and the colours just make you feel good and happy. This is how demos should look! Download it asap!!
15 MB??? Anyways,. I will download and watch it to see if it will cure my mood..
Energia is cool! Great music,
great textures, this is never getting boring I must say. Some good old CNCD&TBL guys
have been delivered their work here. To my surprise there was also a quite average demo by TDT inside
the archive, maybe that explains the size? ;-)))
great textures, this is never getting boring I must say. Some good old CNCD&TBL guys
have been delivered their work here. To my surprise there was also a quite average demo by TDT inside
the archive, maybe that explains the size? ;-)))
These kind of demos are indeed raping our 3d cards! :)
You can't even see the effects,. but perhaps I missed something here?
Something just about 15MBs. I open the folder with graphics and check the images to encounter unoptimized things. I usually do this! :)
There are BMPs and TGAs, big ones uncompressed,. this is crazy! I just downloaded pictview and tried to compress them in an unlosable format, like GIF (I don't see any PNG to try there too..) ,. and they have gone from 12MB to 1,5 MB!!! So many datas, can easilly compressed, why not do that, a big group like Sunflower?
I do it very often. HD and Inet are so big and fast for people with big PCs,. so it happens. This PC world is killing us,.. Anyways...
I just find it crazy..
You can't even see the effects,. but perhaps I missed something here?
Something just about 15MBs. I open the folder with graphics and check the images to encounter unoptimized things. I usually do this! :)
There are BMPs and TGAs, big ones uncompressed,. this is crazy! I just downloaded pictview and tried to compress them in an unlosable format, like GIF (I don't see any PNG to try there too..) ,. and they have gone from 12MB to 1,5 MB!!! So many datas, can easilly compressed, why not do that, a big group like Sunflower?
I do it very often. HD and Inet are so big and fast for people with big PCs,. so it happens. This PC world is killing us,.. Anyways...
I just find it crazy..
Er, Optimus, that's NOT Energia you're talking about, but the TDT demo which was accidentially included by the ASM organizers during packaging...
Oh yeah! What has a banana image to do with a sunflower demo?! ;P
Sorry Sunflower..
But I find it crazy,. I compressed Energia and it's 5,6MB Zipped file! I wrongly download 10MBs more just because of the ASM organizers mistakes!!! Ugh! Arggghhhh!!!
Anyways, crazy and phunny =)
Anybody will correct the mistake on the ftp I guess? I don't want to download 10 more useless MB for a wellknown demo..
Sorry Sunflower..
But I find it crazy,. I compressed Energia and it's 5,6MB Zipped file! I wrongly download 10MBs more just because of the ASM organizers mistakes!!! Ugh! Arggghhhh!!!
Anyways, crazy and phunny =)
Anybody will correct the mistake on the ftp I guess? I don't want to download 10 more useless MB for a wellknown demo..
I like this. After Wonder and Tesla, another multilayer killer from Sunflower. Keep it comin' fellahs!
(About the soundtrack: being a saxplayer, I kinda find the samples a little too rough to fit well to the rest, but it's gorgeous nonetheless.)
Thumbzz UP!!!
(About the soundtrack: being a saxplayer, I kinda find the samples a little too rough to fit well to the rest, but it's gorgeous nonetheless.)
Thumbzz UP!!!
lovely music and synching - hey the graphics were ok too!
( yes i dled the extra 10MB of crazy banana crap too )
( yes i dled the extra 10MB of crazy banana crap too )
as posted above by robotriot : "blah, like demos are made for evoking emotions in anyone. i wouldn't get the message anyway. i see it more as 'senseless' art, meaning that it's not made for any higher purpose except viewing pleasure, like all good art should be. i'm not really interested in the artists feelings mostly." - EXACTLY. Above all else, this medium is one of technique and aesthetics. If you want some meaning, go become a philosopher. :) Watching this makes me more happy than many recent demos, I think it is the most well-formed example of Art in the demnoscene. When explaining what the scene is to arty friends, I always show this first, and they get it, giving comparisons to painting and composition etc. Gah. Enough - I should talk less
It was a formless pulsating mass (unique in that way), very warm and dynamic... has a nice "aftertaste" (dunno how to put it). The music is addictive too.
how could this only rank 6th on assembly?
these guys master multilayer where nearly all the others fail.
aesthetically the most pleasing demo of 2001. period.
these guys master multilayer where nearly all the others fail.
aesthetically the most pleasing demo of 2001. period.
inaSUNFLOWERstylee :)
The music isn't special and this is quite boring to watch.
one big organic mind-caresser :)
And yeah that music is brilliant.
And yeah that music is brilliant.
Brillant piece of... art, code, gfx, music, whatever!
I loved it, as i love all other sunflower's works.
Great music, the visuals just leave you with a sense of fullfillment that is hard to describe but makes me happy.
Great!
I loved it, as i love all other sunflower's works.
Great music, the visuals just leave you with a sense of fullfillment that is hard to describe but makes me happy.
Great!
To sum up my and other peoples thoughts on this - This is definitely a mood demo. If you're right mood for it you'll just love it - if not, you might find it boring and repeatitive.
I see 'Energia' as a nice step towards more fluid and music video alike designing in demos. We're not in 1995 anymore when it was enough to show a torus on screen. We have 3d acceleration and more possibilities to accomplish almost whatever you can think of. Still I found it a shame most of the modern demos are in the same pit together with -95 torus demos.
Of course way of representing multiplex content may be "boring alpha layer crap" for you if it's also too complex for you to comprehend. Just try again on some other mood and then you'll perhaps like it. It's not all about understanding everything.
Thus one of the definite highlights from Asm2k1 (together with Gerbera). And yes, it's actually too complex for me to comprehend as well. :)
I see 'Energia' as a nice step towards more fluid and music video alike designing in demos. We're not in 1995 anymore when it was enough to show a torus on screen. We have 3d acceleration and more possibilities to accomplish almost whatever you can think of. Still I found it a shame most of the modern demos are in the same pit together with -95 torus demos.
Of course way of representing multiplex content may be "boring alpha layer crap" for you if it's also too complex for you to comprehend. Just try again on some other mood and then you'll perhaps like it. It's not all about understanding everything.
Thus one of the definite highlights from Asm2k1 (together with Gerbera). And yes, it's actually too complex for me to comprehend as well. :)
melw: diplomatic as always :)
I enjoyed this too. I'm not too fond of Rinneradio, although I listen to everything from gabber to free jazz, but I did like the soundtrack. also, the track and the visuals hit it off well together.
I enjoyed this too. I'm not too fond of Rinneradio, although I listen to everything from gabber to free jazz, but I did like the soundtrack. also, the track and the visuals hit it off well together.
Pure energy from this demo. Why say more?
ghh.. I can't stop watching it.. Ok, if you want some kind of adrenalin rush, that thingy won't suit but for a relaxing trip, you have to keep it in mind, imho.
Damn, this is cool. An avalance of layers with fuzzy, abstract and colourful stuff. Soundtrack is as great as in previous sunflower demos. But it was very slow on my machine. :-/
I love the music...
Excellent Music!!
*jesus*
fantastic
Stylish for sure!
Peter kan li den!
The music is awesome, demo style: hmm, very "technical", no sweetness like in "Tesla", although the code seems to be slow. It starts working ok on Geforce 2 GTS, on Geforce 2 MX it's just slow; on my RivaTNT it's "unwatchable". Well...
best demo ever!
fantastic music & stunning beauty...
fantastic music & stunning beauty...
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
sweet jesus
One if best polish demos! Great music!
This does rule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome.
Great demo with excellent soundtrack.
people thumbing this down should receive a thumb up in a private place.
Perfect one
Hey! The 15MB bug, irrelevant demo inside the demo still exists on ftp.scene.org and Sunflower's site is a broken link. Ugh!!! Don't tell me that I have to downlad data that aren't needed now, in order to get this demo too! I wann finish my CD collection with that and it will be slow to get 15 MB without a reason. Ugh.. ;P
Sunflower style is quite weird and abstract. And has a lot of translucency and uncomprehensible stuff, so I usually can't remember how a Sunflower demo looks like. Usually I don't grab it and don't like it. However I think that it's so weird and diferrent. Sunflower demos are to demos, what progressive rock is to rock. I think..
Still. But thumbs up for the music,. yes that saxophone sound and the feeling starting to rule. I am hearing to the MP3 right now!
Still. But thumbs up for the music,. yes that saxophone sound and the feeling starting to rule. I am hearing to the MP3 right now!
I like a lot the concept, design, effects, and the music was really great, i keap this one on my hard drive :)
i don't think it's art but it's fucking cool!
Music wise a masterpiece and also visually very enjoyable.
It's still way ahead of anyone ...
master of the universe - bäst
Good style, good grafics, good music, good demo.
Oh, I forgot to say this is a great production. The final fixed is here : http://www.scene.org/file.php?id=204491
This is one of those demos you should watch a few times while really trying to look at what is happening on the screen.
Energia has a nice flow, very abstract and interesting objects and one of the best tunes I ever heard in a demo.
By the way, who said that this is art? I do not actually get why some people voted it down because of that reason.
Argueing whether a demo is art or not does not really make sense since everyone has his own definition of art.
In any case, for me this is fun to watch and this would be a good candidate for "coup de coeur" as it is somewhat different from other demos.
Energia has a nice flow, very abstract and interesting objects and one of the best tunes I ever heard in a demo.
By the way, who said that this is art? I do not actually get why some people voted it down because of that reason.
Argueing whether a demo is art or not does not really make sense since everyone has his own definition of art.
In any case, for me this is fun to watch and this would be a good candidate for "coup de coeur" as it is somewhat different from other demos.
hm, i just want to say that the white flashes IMHO don't fit to either the demo or the tune well. the demo would've been better served without.
Sublime. Easily my favorite demo of all time.
Did I already say that I think this is one of the better demos ever made?
What ?! I haven't thumbed this one up ?
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Especially the music.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Especially the music.
Whoop :-)
Whoop :-)
To be honest I always thought the visuals were horrible and the synching amazingly amateurish (and we're talking about a Sunflower demo here!). All those artifacts make my eyes bleed, just a couple of clever effects are the only exception.
On the other hand the tune is brilliant, the sax sends chills down my spine every time I watch this. Thumbs up for that.
On the other hand the tune is brilliant, the sax sends chills down my spine every time I watch this. Thumbs up for that.
gotta love it
that't it.
this demo is absolutely brilliant!!!
The visuals aren't that impressive, but the layering works really well and some of the background effects are actually much nicer than the foreground ones. The tune kicks ass though.
Thumb up!
Thumb up!
I like this one alot. Some people hate the abstract layering, but imho it's really the chaos that makes it beautyfull..
And the sountrack is very moodish.
And the sountrack is very moodish.
=)
Gotta love it!
what? no comment from me?
Probably my all-time favourite demo. Just perfect.
huh? no thumbs up yet?
this is what we call 'style'. definitely hard to find these days.
i just wonder how it would look with some blue style, not reddish. and, all that drunken blending polygons ... maybe without the flashing. but it surely is 'cool'. more than piggie.
a real beauty!
rewelers
One of my long-time favorite. Superb music, superb design, visually smooth and relaxing while being a bit different.
never gave the thumb for my all time favorit demo.
This stood out even though the asm01 compo was of superb quality.
Beautiful and unique effects that need to be really looked at to fully appreciate. A perfect soundtrack with Crankshaft managing to mix Rinneradio's Helsinki in a way that I even find superior to the original.
Demos like these make sifting thru all the average stuff worthwile.
Beautiful and unique effects that need to be really looked at to fully appreciate. A perfect soundtrack with Crankshaft managing to mix Rinneradio's Helsinki in a way that I even find superior to the original.
Demos like these make sifting thru all the average stuff worthwile.
for the music.
Not thumbed this?! O_o
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rulez !!!!!
a beauty of music sounds!
(y)
really really beautiful - top soundtrack!
amazing soundtrack ...
chillhood :D
wow, i cant believe i havnt added my thumb on this one before
ditto
Great mood, great music.
Fire flowers....absolutely stunning!
nice, but not as good as "wonder" & "zilog" in many ways. The masterpiece for this kind of demo style is "moralhardcandy". So just a pig.
forget my first comment, I was a dumb ass. energia is pure beauty, moral winner of asm01. I didn't really get it at the party, but now it has grown on me enormously - which neither tesla nor wonder did.
4life
4life
energia&tesla best demos from sunflower! KOOOL!
3N3RG14!!
beautiful chill out demo.
this is my favorite demo
A really beautiful one – even nowadays!
Absolutely :)
Boring ugly flashing layer stuff. Wouldn't watch it a 2nd time. Don't like the music either.
It's ok, soft music with a undefined shape moving against a soft background. Average but relaxing. I'll give a thumbs up anyway.
atmospheric demo, lounge music, it's ok
Pure beauty. Good code, though the metaballs are a little slow. One of my top five demos ever !
bestest soundtrack ever
fucking excellent stuff
the soundtrack rules and the color scheme matches with it
not as good as their previous demos but still worth a thumb up
a modern classic :)
One of my favourite demos ever. It's wonderful to put this on a big screen, and just stare at - try not to focus on individual details, just let it suck you in...
due to the high level of detail it totally rocks on my 24inch widescreen monitor. looks really extremley nice, this demo really hasn't suffered by it's age.
THE BEST soundtrack ever...
Remonds me of certain good times...
Remonds me of certain good times...
Wow. Where's my thumb for this...
Yeah, my thumb is missing as well. Great soundtrack.
an amazing soundtrack & demo
No thumb? :S
Crime!
Crime!
after 6am frustum fun
ok
Yeah! Nice demo!
Nice to see, amazing effects!
Nice to see, amazing effects!
sorry.
music is good but that flashing annoys the shit out of me.
music is good but that flashing annoys the shit out of me.
good one
:)
great demo
love love love the soundtrack
love love love the soundtrack
very nice, but doesn't run on win7 here.
Music, but the rest is not very good (wasnt then even, imho)
works nicely on my 64bit win7
Kewl soundtrack
one of the best
swietna praca.
faboulus
One of my alltime favourites...
Ahh, yeah.
I love the music
love!
Must admit I didn't quite get it the first time I watched it. But then I started coming back to this prod every once in a while and finally understood that this demo is very very special in its approach to the abstract form .
one of the best demos ever made
Another Powerful and beautiful Demo by very talented people :) Just sitting down and relaxing while the visuals flow insided your mind.. A very special one in my opinion :)
actually had the soundtrack in my car for some years :)
Excellent!
Fine demo, saw this on Mindcandy at Birdie 18
How could I forgot this masterpiece? Classic!
this one once showed me how crappy and old my computer was
UNREAL SUPERHERO! \:D/
still soo beautiful. thanks for the fixed version.
ace music & everything
I've always loved this one
Is there a port for linux? or the source code?
I never liked it, back in time and now also, not my style perhaps. I better liked last two Pulse demos in CNCD climax to achieve psychodelic effects than this, actually.
As said before the mood can be a key factor to this demo. After several runs I got the matching one, and saw a place where energy is born. Now I love it.
smooth. sax thumbs.
wow stuff
what wrighter said
so good! especially the saxophone!
One of the best from the additive blend epoch
The music
Should have ranked higher.
Should have ranked higher.
a missing thumb.
Great demo.
Cool Music.
Lovely!
Classic, but I had to grow up to appreciate it!
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runs a bit slow though