Picture Book by Axis
Coming up You saw Picturebook, our contribution to the SIH 1995 party, held in Roosendaal, the Netherlands. Not the prizes to be won inspired us to make this demo but the fact that it was over a year ago we released our comeback with Big Time Sensuality. Just after we finished making Movements NUMB together with 911 & Alex. We havent done much after that, as far as the scene goes. Only releasing a musicdisk called CHIP. Hope you enjoyed our 35mm screen. We are glad this demo has reached the deadline for this party, although we're sorry to report that this demo was not properly tested on different kinds of Amiga's because of lack of time.... (we managed the deadline by 2 minutes!!! this sucks!) As for the lovers of reading big scrollers, there will be a whole filmscript from Erik the Viking after this scroller - Press Right Mousebutton to hold the scrolltext - Sorry Reality, Iso just hadn't got the time to make a half-an-hour tune for the graphics compo. Hope you did like all the comic representations for the big screen, it was quite a lot. As you already noticed, we used no full-screen effects, as is used in almost all demos. Instead we used a 35mm lookalike, as in the cinemas. Which is quite impressive to look at (like filming with Panavision). As for the stills, we used a fullscreen-mode. Otherwise we had to scale the original pictures, which isn't exactly the thing we had in mind -no scanning methods are used-. Techniques with Brilliance, like smear and airbrush Axis internals, quote of the month Steroid: 'Ik ga het uitmaken met mijn vriendin want ze begint mijn tong te pijpen Team reply: 'IQ Factor 10 ?' Het is nu weer goed tussen die twee Team reply: 'Goed zo jochie' Nu is het toch weer uit ! We send our regards to the following people ^ Polka Brothers Airwalk Devilstar Slide Pixie Chaos Reality Whale Elliott The Fox 2 Tycoon Rebels Excess Nighthawk Andromeda Dr.Jekyll Mr.Hyde Fairfax Archmage Sanity Ra Moby The Flame Arrows Sobje Mirage Jack TRSI Norby mr.King Spaceballs Dope Lizard Danny Quartex Abracadbrasax Prestige Fletcher Elite Sledge Magician Bambam Radium Static Bytes Fashion Effect the Raver Complex Titan Reward Pygmy Projects Jester Flame Mellow Rayon Huib Krypton Glue Macro Sascha Noodle Victor Melon Dezign Alex Nam Drifters Clary CnCd Destop Groo Kube Stelios Dean Dizzy Virtual Dreams Dr.Skull Open Eyes Lemon. Nao Facet Astro Synth Dream Jenkins Anthrox Pan Eltech Skinner Realitor Us Haralampie Eremation brainwasher Cydonia Cro Iris Chivas Hemoroids Enzo Sink Essence Infant Intense Hysteric Saturn React Waveriders Soldier Energy Action Bcd Big Boost Phuture 303 Base Sentry Tijmen Leon Frans? Passion Boogeyman Illusion Pinki Facet's Pussy Tijdloos Ratbone THD Outlaws Flynn Banal Projects Andy Subject Wizard Disney USA James Baxter Chris Wahl Randy Fullmer Lisa Keene Vera Lanpher Tim Sito Bitmap Brothers Eric Matthews Argonaut Software Tim & Dave Moss Virgin Games Graeme Nightware Uco -Eppo- Egmond Independant people Rodney Magic Raphael Gesque Nicholas Eleftherianos Cyber Pirate ^ as for Celtic's outer-scene greetings : From Celtic : Babette - Nienke - Elvis - Cem,Fred and Tejan the suckers! Nico - Wouter - Maarten - the bones brigade skate posse Haarlem... Greets from Hollywood In absolutely no order, to... me, the person sitting next to me, the person sitting next to him. And the guy next to that. And all the guys here at the party. Ok, I'll try to remember some names. :) Lowlife, Iso, and all the Axis guys yet to arrive. SuperNaaaaaao, who is currently blowing smoke all over me, my partner in travel (Aquafresh), Astro Facet, Danny, Lizardking, uhh, uhh, mindblock, fuk... And Chromag, Colin, Chorus, Dark (both of ya!), Groo, Haralampie, Dreamfish, Jay-One, ex.Wal, Loony, MASE+Posdnuos, Nutcase, Red Devil, Skull, Strobo, Stelios, Spin, Talisman, Twilight, TDK, all the guys on amigascene and trax on IRC, and anyone else I know, like, at all, ever. Hello mum. In short, read RAW, listen to my music-disc, when it finally comes out, and don't mess with the best. But you can mess with Axis, if you ask our mommies first. And pay. Drugs, too. That was all, concerning our greetings. Some private messages will follow... Airwalk...hope you have a good time in Israel during 3 months Sob.......still going to red-light districts ? the Fox 2....your music has got worse since you read the message. Gutted. ;) (but it's still great. Goddamn.) Kayo.....what's up in playstation land ? I'm intending to buy one, it's really a neat machine Sledge....PTV rules ? Hope the Ultra 64 will be a living scene again, like the old 64 and Snes days... Nao.....how are things going with lightwave ? Heard you are working on a 100 Mb Virtual Dreams animation for this party I'm really curious... James Baxter....your John Smith animation was awefull de Belastingdienst : get lost ! Luke and Arjen....good luck with your 1st PC shoot-em'up < And now a few words from the weirdo one called Iso .. I want to thank some artists I really admire: Bjork ............. You're really my favourite! Without your music I wasn't able to make it myself. 'Post' is the best album ever made! Those strings in 'Hyper-ballad' and 'Isobel' rule .. The Prodigy ....... The best house-act ever. 'Jilted..' was a masterpiece. I'm looking forward to the live-performance at Lowland's in Holland. A third album surely will be stunning. Tricky ............ Very very weird samples and very nice drumtracks. Also the female singer on 'Maxinquay' is fabulous! FSOL .............. Those samples! Wow! Chemical Brothers . Pure drums rule .. Sven Vath ......... My girlfriend is a balet-dancer. arf! .............. Yes Joris .. just kiddin'. You're getting far too good. Did I help you enough now? I hope arf! will be forever and heavy. ^ This last group is very unknown but not bad at all or ... It's a co-op-band by The Fox II and me. Ambient and breakbeats rule at arf! By the way Joris, thanks for all the beats you once gave me. Some of them are used in the tunes in this demo as single drum-sounds. Thanx pal. Kisses to my girlfriend Geertje who is a brilliant support to my composing. Message from Iso to Anthony: lekker he 17 jaar? je weet dat je strafbaar bent he? het is zelfs zo dat Geertje nog ouder is dan jouw Trudy ..... enough gezeikt. Lowlife quote : strakke pop Reply from Anthony: So what... you're just jealous!!! Look who's talking, Lowlife, sleeping with a french coder on the party... Yuck! Iso: That's it for me this time. Hope you enjoyed my tunes ... clary: hello to all drifters members especially to my sister IO... Coming soon.... Axis AGA music-disk called Time and Emotion, with music from Hollywood. Programmed by Nik, and graphics by Lowlife. August, stay tuned! On a longer period you can expect our AGA-Slideshow called FairyTale, from one of our artists Lowlife. And hopefully also some pictures from t'Vaan. Joining Axis ? I doubt if you want to, but anyway Write to the following adresses Experienced 68000, 65c816 or PC demo programmers Anthony - Anthony - Donker Eerste Donk 101 5233 HK, Den Bosch the Netherlands Experienced Graphic Artists, please send your portfolio Angelo - Lowlife - Bod Sneppendijk 31 6026 AA, Maarheeze the Netherlands You can also leave a message on EMail for Hollywood it is : S.M.CARLESS@DUR.AC.UK for Nik it is : NJH@UKC.AC.UK or just leave a message on our support Board; Neon City 2 nodes of fun Your Sysop : Fletcher node 1 : +31-(0)4780-12733 node 2 : +31-(0)4780-14014 Liberator couldnt stand the heat anymore, so he bought himself a new computer. As we say, once a freak, always a freak ! That sentence does not include everybody, anyway. !!! WATCH OUT !!! For Video Games Development Companys If there is need for cartoons - animations - graphics or 3D Graphics animations dont hesitate to contact us at the following adress. We are also looking for people who want to join our Games-Development team. the specifications for those are coming up after the adress. NightWare Personnel Dept. Aalsterweg 136 5615 CJ - Eindhoven (NB) the Netherlands tel : +31-(0)40-121294 fax : +31-(0)40-121145 Note : these numbers will be changed after october 1995 the Dutch Telecom will change all numbers in Holland Game Programmers Must posses strong C, and problem solving skills along with experience in, 65C816, 680XX, RISC, 2D or 3D Graphics techniques. Previous game development experience or a college degree is required. Artists Succesfull candidates will be experienced in computer based graphics animation, and familiar with Dpaint, LightWave 3D and conventional illustration. Please send your portfolio, when replying. Axis 1995 bodycount Anthony - tortured programmer Celtic - programmer Hollywood - audio engineer Iso - audio engineer Lowlife - graphic artist Liberator - oncoming sysop Nik - swapper Nik - programmer Steroid - mascot Subi - audio engineer t'Vaan - graphic artist < We welcome our 4 new members, of which one member is back again, yo Hollywood. We are glad to have you back in our team Furthermore we have Subi ex-Desire, joining our other 2 musicians. And ofcourse Nik (also ex-Desire), who will be responsible for the programming together with Anthony. Also I like to welcome Celtic (ex-Mellow) to our team, who will also be responsible for some programming as well. ^ Credz coming up : Allround Programming & FX by Anthony Production Designer & Computer Generated Engineering by Lowlife Sound Engineering Iso Recorded at The Demon's Tale studio - Hilvarenbeek ( NL ) Loadertune....Keek-A-Boo Introtune...Good Morning Mainscore......Spoongirl Endscore.......Born Deaf Soon available on Internet, if requested Modeling and motion software used LightWave 3D Imagine Pixel Pro Brilliance Deluxe Paint Art Department Pro Adobe PhotoShop ..PowerMac Wavefront ..Iris Crimson/SG Other used suplies AsmOne 1.20 14 Liters Chinese ink 30 pencils 62 soft pencils 1 hard pencil 27 India rubbers 38 Kilo of paper 2 Amiga 1200's 1 Amiga 4000 1 Atari Mega STe2 67 Liters of Coca Cola 10 aspros 1 Telephone line, with some bills attached Audio Equipment & software used : Gem S2 Turbo Synthesizer X-Protracker 1.0 Cubase 2.0 Soundlab 8-bits samplertje
Released and distributed at : the Somewhere in Holland 1995 Party, the Netherlands This demo was dedicated to Geertje, Rivka & Trudy Copyright Audiovisual ® 1995 Axis All Rights Reserved. < - Terry Jones Blackness. Flames begin to lick upwards from the bottom of the screen. Suddenly all hell breaks loose. Screaming, yelling. Black figures flash across the foreground, with the flames still burning behind. There follows a confusion of burning, raping, killing and looting - we don't clearly see what's going on. Suddenly we cut to the interior of a hut. The door is in the process of being broken down. The camera pans onto the close-up face of an attractive girl who is staring in horrified fascination at the door. Her arms are white with fresh dough and flour. Suddenly the door bursts open and a wild-looking Viking leaps into the hut. He holds a sword. He looks around wildly and then his eyes come to rest on the girl. This Viking, I'm afraid, is Erik. We are about to see him in the worst possible light so be prepared. The girl, whose name is Helga, cowers, and looks terrified but resolute. Erik glances round. Then slowly he advances on the girl, forcing her back onto a chest. Erik holds his sword to Helga's throat with his right hand, while his left hand searches to find the thongs holding up his trousers. He is clearly having difficulties trying to hold his heavy sword to Helga's throat at he same time as undoing his trousers. He fumbles and lowers his sword for a moment. HELGA Have you done this sort of thing before? ERIK Me? Of course! I've been looting and pillaging up and down the coast. HELGA (looking sceptical) Looting and pillaging, eh? ERIK (on the defensive) Yes. HELGA What about the raping? ERIK Shut up. HELGA It's obvious you haven't raped anyone in your life. ERIK Sh! He covers her mouth with his free hand, and looks round to make sure no one's heard. Then he carries on trying to undo his trousers, but he is now somewhat more than half-hearted about it. Helga watches suspiciously. HELGA Do you LIKE women? Erik is clearly shocked and stung by the insinuation. He stops. ERIK Of course I like women... I LOVE 'em. HELGA (pointing out the obvious) You don't love ME. ERIK No... right... this is RAPE... Mark you, I'm not saying I couldn't get to like you. in fact... well, to be quite honest, I prefer it when there's some sort of mutual feeling between two people... HELGA What - rape? ERIK No. It isn't rape then, is it? HELGA Oh, get it over with. ERIK (hesitates again) I don't suppose... no... HELGA What? ERIK I don't suppose you... you DO like me at all? HELGA What d'you expect? You come in here, burn my village, kill my family and try to rape me... This is too much for Erik. We withers under the irony. ERIK I'll kill you if you say anything about this to anyone. HELGA (puzzled) About raping me? ERIK About NOT raping you... HELGA You DON'T like it, do you? ERIK Well it just seems a little bit crude, that's all. HELGA What about the killing and looting? That's just as crude, isn't it? ERIK Oh well - you've GOT to do them. HELGA Why? Why have you got to go round killing and looting? ERIK To pay for the next expedition, of course. HELGA But that's a circular argument! If the only reason for going on an expedition is the killing and looting and the only reason for the killing and looting is to pay for the next expedition, they cancel each other out. ERIK Oh! Stop talking as if we were married! HELGA Well you started it. ERIK I just said I didn't feel like raping you. HELGA And I was just saying that rape is no MORE pointless or crude than all the killing and looting that goes on.
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