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• general:
• level: user
• personal:
• first name: Chris
• last name: Wood
• portals:
• demozoo: profile
• cdcs:
• cdc #1: hplus by Halcyon
• cdc #2: The nonstop Ibiza experience by orange
• cdc #3: INCYBER by Satori [web] & Aural Planet [web]
• cdc #4: Extatique by adinpsz [web]
• cdc #5: fr-074: 02:20 by Farbrausch [web]
• cdc #6: We Are All Connected by Fairlight [web] & Prosonix & Offence [web]

• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• There's opinions, they vary, and listening to them and trying to understand the point of view is a good way to learn and improve. Discussion like this is good, trolling aside (and maybe the trolls need to listen a bit instead of shouting ;)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-10 13:44:08
• demo Windows numb res by Carillon & Cyberiad [web] & Fairlight [web]
• Just watched it in 3d. The 3d effect adds a lot.. but the shitty red/blue glasses take quite a lot away. With a real 3d screen, it would be incredible.
  
  (And some of the scenes near the end make sooo much more sense in 3d btw. The 'slowdown' isn't there for you to admire the fluid, it's to admire the 3d :)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-10 02:33:08
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• navis: yep, I fully agree. Combine pouet's tasteful inhabitants with a voting system that puts this equal with the truly great demos, and this is where you end up :) Take it outside of pouet, and things are wildly different.
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 22:12:24
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• navis: Maybe I can explain half of it - many demos are a 'watch once' affair. This is a prime example of that for me. Watching it for the first time, you also have the element of surprise which adds a lot, and there's the fact that you're not watching the effects for long enough to get bored (ok, maybe for the torus scene there's still time ;)
  
  Taking that into account, I watched this once, and found it pretty enjoyable and a big improvement on the last one. If I had to watch it 10 times, I'd likely give it a thumb down because the effects would get old fast, and there's not much else going on.
  
  Why it's top of the charts, and above some really great demos? I don't get that either. Maybe this appeals a lot less than say the flt demo, but it appeals less to a wider audience and offends fewer people, so it wins on pure numbers?
  
  In some scenes, it'd be 'damned with faint praise' as the saying goes, but here it collects enough thumbs to be the top demo of the month. Maybe the whole pouet voting system is fucked, when I give this the same rating as the flt masterpiece :)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 21:29:51
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• I stand corrected. (But razor is still beating you in the charts ;D)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 20:12:23
• demo Windows numb res by Carillon & Cyberiad [web] & Fairlight [web]
• After reading that, can i vote for it again please?
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 16:16:28
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• And rez, never mind being compared to the elite sceners, take a look at the top of the month - you're beating fairlight and farbrausch ;)
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 14:53:36
• 64k Windows We Have Accidently Borrowed Your Votedisk by Razor 1911 [web]
• People used to do the torus because it was quite a hard object in the early days. It was a show of skill. Now, it's just a trivial off-the-shelf object, for a torus scene to work you have to do something really fresh with it. The torus scene basically failed to do that in this demo.
  
  The glenz cube on the other hand.. it's fairly trivial, and offers basically nothing new. But it's presented in a cool way, and it works almost as a transition, so I think that one works.
  
  The 'plasma' cube (is that plasma animated or not, I can't tell) works too, because the effect is at least new and cool (not massively so, but enough to be enjoyable).
  
  I guess you could say 'newschool' is about presenting ideas, a story, some art or whatever. 'Oldschool' is about showing your awesome fx, and sending out messages to your friends and enemies in the scene.
  
  You're doing the oldschool thing here with your 'effect show' style and plenty of text, but the torus scene doesn't work well because it's an old effect - it lacks the impressiveness that made it work in the old days. It's the equivalent of a wireframe cube in an amiga demo.
  
  Anyway, that's where I think you're going wrong with this style, and where you're going right. Where keops got it right is taking this style, and then presenting it in a way that makes it really good fun to watch.
• isokadded on the 2011-05-09 12:50:24
• 4k MacOSX PPC MacOSX Intel frmactals by Jix
• Who, missed this one :) A bit simple, but 4k on mac, and what's there is cool enough. Weird bug on the sides of the screen btw - guess you're setting a widescreen mode and only clearing the 4:3 region in the middle.
• rulezadded on the 2011-05-08 14:18:10
• demo Windows Struct by Outracks [web]
• Enjoyed it. Really good execution, nice effects. The tune.. strange somehow, I was torn between loving and hating it. I mostly won me over :)
• rulezadded on the 2011-05-06 13:46:42