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minute reviews - march 1999
CEG #06
Chaos Energy Group are reviewed for the first time on hirez.org
ever. Having releasing six packs, I have to admit this is
the first time I have viewed one. They're using html to
present their, which is nice. It's plaing and simple, with
info and links to their previous pack.
Bazooka Bob (this handle got
me laughing a while ;) looks like a promising artist. He
has still got pretty simple ideas, and the technique need
some refining. But it shows that he's put effort into his
work, which I admire. A lot of artists, whether they're
newbies or not, doesn't put as much effort into their work
as they can. Newbies tend to get done quick, and really
good veterans are sloppy some times. Mad Lizard has very
cute art, most toony work. Pretty nice but not very exciting.
Nazgul also looks quite promising, producing vectorbased
art. They're newbie-esque, but interesting. Sparky has really
good photomanips. The actually have a subject (which a lot
miss out on), it's not just slapping filters and pasting
a couple of photos together. Sparky have created completely
new pics that have a meaning and it's well done too. I would
say he could easily be compared with the veterans in the
bigger groups. The rest of the work is pretty average.
score: 5.5
Fluid #03 and #04
Most of us thought that Fluid was going to disband after
the news of Starks being a major ripper, but apparently
they have kept on releasing. Funny is that no one actually
have seen these releases since they aren't available anywhere.
These packs were sent to me from Starks to be reviewed.
Most of both packs consists
of so called "furry art", e.i. art of cats and
foxes. While they are pretty cute and well drawn toons,
there isn't much else to them. They're just toons, not very
impressive technically, and definitely not very "artistic"
and the sense of expressing feelings and whatnot. Some are
quite well done blending 2D and 3D rendered art. A lot of
the work is also just sketches. Although also well executed,
they're still not complete artwork.
I'm still concerned about the
involvement of the members. A significant part of the art
are from 1995-1997, which is pretty old. Do the members
know each other? Do they know what their art is used for?
#04 shows a bit more member involvement with 2 or 3 pics
actually saying Fluid in them.
score: 5
PFC #03
The Power Flower
Crew doesn't release artpacks very often, but they apparently
have a lot of other stuff going on. It isn't a very big
pack, and the art is pretty mediocre. Green Drug mostly
seem to be playing with effects and different techniques,
but seem to have some work put into them anyway. The only
font colly in the pack isn't good at all. They're just truetype
fonts with filters, the design and layout is next to non-existant.
The grafitti Zmogk is pretty decent. I don't know grafitti
all the well, but I think they're quite nice to look at
anyway.
score: 5
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