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FIN> Cence (Tapani Tolpanniemi, music), Cenobit (gfx, ex The Silents,
08/93), Coconut (Matti Kantola, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93), Flame
(Jani Vaarala, founder code, ex Damones, 08/93-late96), JOLOO5X (Janne
Leinonen, music, ex The Silents), Phobic (Tomi Huoviala, gfx anim),
Silver Eagle (Sami Vaarala, code, ex The Silents, 08/93-10/96).
GER> Jester (Volker Tripp, music, ex Sanity, new 02/95).
Pygmy was formed by Coconut and Flame, both ex-members of the shortlived
Finnish section of The Silents. They released one demo, "Maximum Volocity"
[08/92] for The Silents before getting kicked out. They then joined Damones,
before finally forming Pygmy. I guess we should feel lucky they tried their
hand at doing it on their own, since PP is a group that created a few quite
memorable productions! They have a special symbol, the so-called 'Pygmy
sun'. It can be seen in "Extension" (above the logo), "G-Force" (as a
gouraud object) and "Logic" (envmapped).
1993 - Their very first demo, the trackmo "Extension" [08/93] surprised
everyone by taking the very first place in the assembly democompetition!
1995 - The year started great for PP, after they were joined by famous
german musician Jester/Sanity in february! This move sent shockwaves
throughout the demo scene, but unfortunately it would seem like he ceased
all scene activity in favour of his professional music career shortly after
joining...
Extension (1993, 10.08, ECS Trackmo).
code: Coconut, Flame, gfx: Cenobit, music: "Cyberride" by Jester/Sanity
(Pygmy Packer format). Winner of the Assembly '93 demo competition!
review: Great in its time, Extension rocked the scene. Who would have
expected a bunch of unknowns to come along and WIN the ASM93 demo compo?
The show opens with a picture of a woman with a snake wrapped around her,
while the demo loads. Once it's loaded, we get the name of the crew and
the demo presented, in what is a rather unique style. The music is timed
to the FX, and there's plenty of that here. Most of the effects are dot-
or vector-based, with stuff like a dot-landscape, dot-cityscape, solid
cityscape, dots dropping down on a vector cube, vector cube shadow-
casting onto another vector object etc. It sort of signalled the end of
those two trends! Well, Kefrens "Desert Dream" (04/93) had pretty much
buried the dot stuff four months earlier, so I guess this was more of a
twitch :)
The music by Jester is liked by many. However, I am very individual :D
It's frantic techno with wah-wah guitars overlayed. You've been warned.
A file version requiring a little more memory was released in december.
This production uses a unique music format, dubbed the Pygmy Projects
Packer by the common conversion utilities. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
G Force (1994, 06.08, AGA 40k Intro).
code: Silver Eagle, Flame (replayer), gfx: none, music: Papaija (Pygmy
Packer format). Winner of the Assembly 94 40k intro competition!
review: Wow! I'm sure THIS kicked butt in Finland! Impressive is the only
way to describe this pioneer intro. Massive gouraud shaded objects move
around the screen, including the infamous fish and a large face object.
Totally oustanding. The intro was Silver Eagle's first solo project. His
only work before this was an endpart for the TSL trackmo "Maximum
Velocity" [08/92].
Needs a bit of fastmem, though I do not know EXACTLY how much. Worked
fine on my 4mb configuration. [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
G Force Final (1994, .12, 020 Intro).
Logic (1995, 13.08, AGA HD Multifile).
code/gfx: Flame, Silver Eagle, music: "Low Voltage", "Chromosomes" and
"Kardaaniakselli" by Paralogic System. 2nd in the Assembly '95 demo compo.
review: Not all that impressive, this production still managed to come in
second at ASM95...the party they won two years earlier with "Extension"
[08/93]. The effects are perhaps better and more advanced this time
around, but "Extension" still has the edge in pure entertainment power.
Lots of fx, as mentioned, includes envmapping (reflection, phong),
texturemapped tunnel, shade cluster (which Andromeda invented with their
The Party 4 winner "Nexus 7"), texturemapped tilting cityscape, morphing
rendered gold 'sheet', particles forming words... The music is the usual
techno shit, no better or worse than the norm. Paralogic System is a
separate group (or single composer, what do I know?), and not a member of
PP.
It seems they used a custom replayer for the music once more! Silver
Eagle is credited with 'player' (the original Pygmy Packer was by Flame),
and there are some files that correspond to the music names, but not to
any known format. Any information on this is most welcome! :) [glenn]
GLE tested A1200/030-50/2mb chip, 4mb fast/3.0.
