| gunthar
talking with gunthar,
ansi artist with fire
Session
Start: Sun Jan 05 13:06:23 1997
gunthar:
so what is this interview for?
dangermouse: (acheron) a scene web page that'll be
opening up soonish..
dangermouse:
gunthar of fire.. what other background info can ya fill
us in on.. live? age? g/f? etcv etc..
gunthar: ugh..thats a lot of stuff to cover in one
question..:) where to begin..
gunthar: well i havent always been known as gunthar..
i was sir lancelot for about two years when i first
got into the scene..
dangermouse: i like to be difficult..
gunthar: oh thanks :)
dangermouse: yep.. go on
gunthar: one of the first groups i was in was with
fellow 714 artists lordjazz and t-rex (now stone chapel)..
Digital creators Productions (DcP) .. that group
was elite :)
gunthar: that was way back in 93/94..
gunthar: since then i've been around in a few groups..
mostly cancer, rune and now fire..
dangermouse: live? age? etc..
gunthar: in feb of '95 me and undertaker started
illness (which is still alive..kinda).. and i changed my
handle after illness fell apart the first time..
gunthar: umm..right now i'm 19..sophomore in a local
community college.. i run xc/track there and i have a g/f
on the team..
gunthar: next year i'll be running for univeristy
of arizona..w00
dangermouse: lucky you.. ;)
gunthar: yeh i think so :)
dangermouse: ehhe
dangermouse:
i know your a pretty kickass artist and so forth, how did
you evolve.. i mean you can't have always being drawing
pics..
gunthar: actually i dont draw many pics..i wish i
did more.. the very first ansi i ever did was a pic tho..
but i usually only find the time for logos now.. i used
to imitate ld! a lot but now i've got my own style..
i
buggered that question up big time ;)
dangermouse:
yeah i take the pics bit back.. i just had a look at the
latest fire pack.. two logos by you .. nice btw.. very nice..
i guess your a bit like me, i never, if rarely venture into
pics.. if i do, there usually smileys, or something lame
like that ;)
dangermouse: i concetrate on fonts..
gunthar: hehe..well i do like drawing pics.. mostly
they're just 23-liners.. but i've done some pretty good
ones. i should have a few big pics in the next fire pack
including a bin..
dangermouse: ahh.. nice to see... do u find it hard
to shape fonts? to find inspiration.. i usually overcome
this by sketching a logo, and then shaping it from there..
how do you do find it?
gunthar: thats how i started..but now i think its
faster for me to just start throwing down blocks on the
screen and see what happens.. i usually have some kind of
idea of how i want it to look in my head..but it never comes
out that way..
dangermouse: i know.. ;) my logos rarely turn out
like the original sketch.. the creative process is a mysterious
thing ;)
now
for the traditional stupid questions i always through in
for good measure..
dangermouse:
our web page is pretty laid back, so don't feel you have
to conform to conventional answers.. hell, he's a wierd
question..
dangermouse: so, do you have a dog or cat, if so
what's its name?
gunthar: yeh i've got the most hyper little dog you've
ever seen.. "butterscotch" (no i didnt name it)..
he's afraid of everything tho..
dangermouse: hehe.. cool! my good friend rGT
has a black dog and a white dog.. nothing but racial harmony
at regurgitator's household!
gunthar: right on..racism sucks
dangermouse: too right... it was getting a bit tense
down here in oz a while back.. don't know what it's like
now though..
dangermouse: a bitch called pauline hanson
got the aboriginies pissed off, and they had good cause
to be
gunthar: ahh..i wouldnt know..i dont keep up much
on the news..i only read the sports and the comics
dangermouse: hehe... same here..
dangermouse: so, yeah ya got any hobbies?
dangermouse: (besides ansi art man :> )
gunthar: umm..drawing? :)
gunthar: oh..wait..
dangermouse: ;)
gunthar: yeh i like to eat.. food is the greatest
thing in the world..
dangermouse: it keeps us alive afterall :)
to
some more serious questions again - just throwing em around..
dangermouse:
hmm.. so how are you finding fire.. is it a good group to
be involved in?
gunthar: hell yeh..fire is probably the best group
to be in right now as far as ansi/hi-res goes..at least
in my opinion..
gunthar: everybody keeps flocking to all the new
groups.. as soon as a new group starts, ppl quit whatever
one they're in and go join.. that sucks..
gunthar: no loyalty..
dangermouse: hmm.. ACiD seems to have lost
most of their ansis within their latest packs..
dangermouse: i am loyal to fORCE.. (anubis
suck up #1)
dangermouse: :>
gunthar: yeh i'm not worried about acid.. it used
to be my goal to get there some day but not any more.. not
after all the shit i've heard about radman..
gunthar: but we dont need to talk about that :)
dangermouse: let's not.. hehe... not with all that
acid!ansi shit.. acheron's got the scoop on that
controversy too btw.. interviewed
cool_t..
dangermouse: and radman commented on it too ;)
gunthar: yeh well thats another group i have no respect
for..
dangermouse:
tehhehe.. what do you think of our web page name then? acheron?
gunthar: pretty cool name.. sounds familiar.. i dunno
i read a lot of fantasy/sci-fi stuff..
dangermouse: it's in the fantasy stuff.. but there's
big bbs in usa that we just heard that has the same name..
:( we've had the acheron name for almost a year if not more..
dangermouse: apparantly it's a warez board run by
boboboey or someone like that
gunthar: ahh too bad..i just found out that the (i)
symbol i use for istar isnt original either..and i've had
that for 1 1/2 years..
dangermouse: yeah well.. there's nothing much we
can do about it.. who cares.. i mean, we're a web page,
he's a bbs..
dangermouse:
did ya get the ansis i sent ya?
gunthar: yeh they're pretty good..i like the colors
and the shading style.. shows a lot of potential..
dangermouse:
all we can do is put on the page - " officially not affilliated
in any way or sense with acheron bbs, nor any other sites/bbs'
with similar names "
dangermouse: i dunno
gunthar: i dont think it'll matter much considering
its an art page..no warez..
dangermouse:
hmm.. it doesn't... it's good to that binosausrsass (or
however yuo spell it) has decided to join fire after the
collapse of Tiny Toons, (she) is one of my fav artists..
gunthar: umm..i have no idea who you are talking
about :) i have never looked at a tiny toons pack..not much
of a toon guy..
dangermouse: bisounours.. that's it.. have a gander
at the latest fire pack..
gunthar: oh yeh..bis has been in fire for a long
time..
dangermouse: hmmm.. must have been in both.. oh well,
shoows how much i'm up on the scene.. ;)
dangermouse:
well, a question i've been asking of late is that how do
you feel about the ansi scene in general, do you think it
has much longer to live?
gunthar: i dont think the art scene will ever truly
die.. as long as there are teenagers with computers who
like to draw, it'll be around.. i think that the quality
of art in the scene has never been better..
gunthar: of course there are a lot of idiots who
dont belong in the "scene" because all they do is post messages
about how they're lame or they're gay or other stupid crap..
gunthar: but i try not to pay much attention to that
and just focus on the art :)
dangermouse:
hmm.. yeah i;ve noticed that a lot of artists are finally
breaking out of the "comic book" style and are experimenting
quite a bit.. this is something i hope to explore..
gunthar: i've never been one to draw comic pics..
i've only ever done one and it was only a 15-liner file
config of the maxx
dangermouse: hmm.. yeah, i know comic book styles
are copied out of (obviously) comics, but one can't deny
the skill involved... but i believe the more skillful amoung
can make-up" the pic, so to speak.. perhaps seek inspiration
somewhere else..
gunthar: i think a lot of not-so-talented artists
use the excuse of drawing original pics to try and cover
up their lack of skill.. but generally when a good artist
draws an og pic, its just more powerful than a good comic
rip..
dangermouse: yeah, i agree..
dislogic:
who is in here/!@#!@#312@# im bored. (ok then..)
dangermouse:
yeah, but the emergence of more web-based sites my hinder
the progress of ansi art, many artists may have to dabble
in hi-rez
gunthar: yeh but i think telnet boards will be around
for a while..especially now with that vcom proggy..
dangermouse: hmm.. yeah i spose.. but nothing lasts
forever.. the net is the future.. gunthar: of course
ansi wont be around forever but i dont see anything drastic
happening in the next 5-10 years..
dangermouse: i reackon the 2-3 years, many bbs' are
already shutting down.. especially over here in oz..
gunthar: its true that the bbs scene isnt as huge
as it used to be but its still pretty big..
dangermouse: yeah.. if it was 2-3 years ago, we couldn't
have done this so easily either (this interview)
gunthar:
speaking of which..i think its getting time to cut the interview
to an end :)
dangermouse: ahh.. see what you mean, didn't know
we'd been going this long ;)
dangermouse: well, it been good talking with ya,
and thanks for the tips..
dangermouse: ?
gunthar: alright mang.. i just want to say 'supp
to all the cool artists out there who still give a damn..hal
is my hero..and fire will rule the world..
dangermouse: i want to get an interview with him
too ;) .. and yes, halaster.. you are the best ;)
gunthar: no doubt..
gunthar: lateron then..
dangermouse: cya
Session
Close: Sun Jan 05 14:06:42 1997
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