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the new style! great execution! amazing planning of linearity!

Nice Music, it reminds me of the 90s, way to go!

The music is nice but I didn't care about the messy visuals

Can't go wrong with Escher and tunnels.

Ah, thank you for the lyrics as well :D

I do like these kind of fly-through-a-tunnel types of things :)

Sounds like "Dance hit club volume #12".

Visuals in the beginning made my eyes hurt (physically). But later it gets better :)
Still, I was more listening to it than watching.

Yay, it works with Wine :) Not everyday I can see a just released prod with my macmini/linux setup. Thanks for not making us buy new gear for watching your demos :)

I enjoyed the style, although the audio/visual connection was a bit weird, I'm curious about the process on this one.

Some cool things but not the messy stuffs and tune nice work but I don't like it.

fucking brilliant once again !

the music is a matter of taste and i FUCKING HATE IT ! what hitchhikr said comes very close *puke*

I admire the sheer balls of doing something un-demo-ish (which ultimately is the most demo-ish thing you can do), but i'm not YET convinced of the end result. Maybe a few more watches and I'll be fine :)

Really fucking good on the visual side, though somewhat repeative. The music was horrible, I can stand stuff like that. Still really good production, probably among the top5 demos this year.

not even sure if it displayed correctly it was kinda ugly, music was a bit more cheese than i can handle in one sitting, had to esc, will hold thumb back for whenever the final comes and i'll try that version :)

Loved the visuals. Music was good too but I don't think it fit the visual effects.

Great "transformable-tunnel-with-sorta-glitched-textures" style, fitting and well-synchronized music, another great demo from asd! Too bad there were some hiccups on my pc, and at the end I need to ctrl+alt+del to make it exit.

I like it, but I get the feeling the geometry was spazzing out a bit more than it should have been just before we enter the Escher room. May be a bug, may be intentional, but definitely ugly.

I figure the geometry is supposed to jump around erratically like that?

I dislike most of the soundtrack. It gets better near the end. I really enjoy the constant speed and flow and sense of confusion and the overall symmetry of it all. The house scene is a really nice scene to break the confusion.

Oh, and the eagle is GAY.

Music is well produced (ok, vocals could have been compressed a bit more, the softer parts faded into the background at some points, but wth), but not my cup of tea.

The visuals gave me a headache, and didn't feel appropriate for a chilled out club tune at all. Would have been more at home with frenetic schranz techno.

Music is between ubercheesy and terrible and I can't say I enjoyed the visuals.

The whole demo looks like a "don't care" prod made in 2 days to grab some Euskal money but surely you wouldn't do that Navis, right? ;)

Quite interesting, quite drunk while writing this, i really loved the flow and the music :D

Well... music was nice.
The rest is terrible. An infinitely zooming and occasionally rotating mess of arbitrary CSG soup with (intentional) texture glitches. Definitely not my kind of demo.

keops: it was actually one day, or so he said.

I've been saying in discussions that after Iconoclast ASD set the bar too high and was wondering what they'll do to surpass that demo.
Well I think that after a few good demos after that they travelled back in time and yes they did it... I loved the music and loved the intentional "CSG soup". The time that took to make the demo has nothing to do with the result...may I remind people of party coding?....Last but not least...NO MORE FISH...
The Eagle was kewl!!!
Great work ASD!!!

Fucking brilliant. Layers, and more layers of visual meaning, as always. ASD FTW!

pain.

Somehow, the way this demo moves, reminds me of UF & Digtal Dynabye last demos.

love the layers , now bring on that asm10 demo :)

i definitely liked it, espec. the ending, there are some parts that are too glitchy and the music is pretty cheezy, but what the heck

It was better when it was greyscale, but still.. Too messy for me, especially when the colours don't really match. Could possiblly have been better if they had had stronger shades..

The visuals are overcrowded in some scenes, the last scene with the dove is exceptional though.

Love the soundtrack, waiting for asm10 demo too.

the thing that annoyed me most was the constant cam movement.. made it too plain somehow. waiting for final.

Ho no, I'm tired of these camera-flies-trough-the-universe demos. ;)

I'm very sorry, I really like most of ASD's demos a lot, but especially the music ruined this one for me... I still love you though, it's just a lovers spat ;P

if this was a 1k it would have been something special - instead it lowers the bar and my expectations from ASD releases :(

fresh'n'excellent!

I am glad that the demo is over now but not for the music, which was quite nice.

wow, that was ugly and noisy. i didn't like the music and found the vocal unsuiting.

the glitchy style doesn't do it for me

awesome ASD goes glitch :)

Pretty dissapointing candidate for an eyecancer-contest. Sorry ASD.

Congrats to AMUSIC for saving this from from a thumbdown because of the nice soundtrack :)

:)

Nice demo, I like the style. Quite surprisingly from Navis, I found the cameras horrible... But thumbs up for the vocals !

I liked this demo. Everything is running smooth and the music is awesome. I can very well see a connection to something coming up, in the future. It's like a timelapse drifting forward in time :) Good work!

I appreciate the work behind this, but I did not enjoy the visual style at all. The music was cheesy (although well-made), and I felt it did not fit the demo. Props for doing something different anyway.

Horrible music and messy output.

AARG! no!

Fantastic.

ich musste fast kotzen

what navis said + the thumb :)

Nice tune, but ugly as hell !

Style is ok, kinda reminds me of some Paniq's older demos. I wouldn't have chosen a 90's kikksu tune for a demo like this, but this is subjective.
As an overall feeling, it kinda became boring after a while, with a little peak when the camera tilts off axis... piggie.

I for one totally love the visuals. If you need to do a flyby, this is how it should be done.

The music on the other hand.. The first 30 seconds seemed alright, after that everything went straight to hell. Would be nice to see a remix of this demo with a soundtrack that at least somehow fits the greatly executed visual side.

Probably the first ASD production I don't like. :)) Just not my taste.

Visuals were pretty nice (though but I feel sorry for everyone who had to listen the music.

The music was sweet :) Loved the visuals. ASD rock XD

i like the music. for the visuals i had to check the youtube to see if i saw it properly. in overal it doesnt seem to reach the ASD standard somehow.

liked visuals, but not the music

ASD have lost it, clumpsy camera movements, cheap tunnel effects, cheap eurovision song and total n00bish execution.

This is the downfall of ASD, time to retire.

music is pure GARBAGE! .. and visuals are just annoying and disturbing .. nothing in this pleases me.

Well even me i noticed as navis to do stylish glitch style demos is way harder than polished stuff, but i have to say, for me designwise this failed here. And the music reminds me on japanese movies ( which does not judge it as bad or good ) Normally progressive agressive music works way better with this style of demos !

At the end ASD should admit, that its not their skill to do such style demos

... As brilliant other products from them have been, this could be marked only as experimental realtime animation, same moment if proof also that behind ASD there are also only humans, which can fail sometimes - and not robots coding 1st class demos ...

Sorry but that experiment did not work at all

Mostly like it. First part is kinda boring though, and too random. I cannot decide if I like or hate the music :)

i liked the music and i think its cool that navis tried a new style here. i dont care how long he sat on it.

he is right when he sais some "classical" cube-n-ribbons-demo would have been loved more, so doing this just for the moony is out of the question.
still there are better examples of "controlled distortion", the amount of checkerboard-textures made me actually check if the demo is supposed to look like this.

ill piggie it.

I did like it, especially the visual flow (both abstract part and not so abstract part; but not the bird though). Must look pretty moody on big screen.

Music is ok but vocals are terrible.

Liked the music, but vocals need more work. Now they are just like glued on top of the tune.

Still better than most ASD demotunes. I want to see more demos like this!

Great style. @amusic: Could you please release an instrumental version of the song. I think it sounds great, but I don't like the vocals that much.

whoohaa.. some very pretty scenes the musics also ace, but the vocals aren't that weighted.. i especially like the scene in front of the eagle at the end..

Nice one! =)

Not my taste. Using vocals in a demo for me is like filling in gaps of a story by telling it with words instead of creatively expressing it with instrumentation. Human voice in most music for me is ugly. The graphics seem to look like a media visualization for the most part with the exception of the exploding bird particle effect, that was nice but I'd nearly zoned out by then.

i LOVE the glitchy visuals (those who complain about it are only examplary for the aesthetical constipation major parts of the demoscene are suffering from), and i really liked the beginning of the tune. it began like a more mainstreamy version of a satori demo. but the vocals ruined it big time. not that they are bad as such. i could really well imagine such cheesy vocals on a niche or uk funky instrumental. but combined with this "serious" techhouseish grooves it creates a feeling of unnecessary pathos which is not uncommon to mediocre animes, and the spectator/listener doesn't know if he should laugh and cry.

so, as much as i like the visual aesthetics, no thumb, sorry.

Navis: sorry if the joke offended you, it was clearly not the purpose, I'm sure you know it by now. And go get some sleep ;)

keops: That didn't sound like a joke to me. It sounded more like a pretty offensive and disrespectful comment. But hey, what do I know?

coolest tunnel effect ever! ;)

Will wait with thumbing until I've seen the final on my 1920x1200-screen PC...

usually I like the ASD demos..

aMUSIC always tries to please it's audience :D

*his

didn't like the music at all. Usually asd delivers good tunes for their demos.

As for the visuals: Niiiiiiiice. "Infinite" zooming with visuals done right.

@aMUSIC: Thanks! :o)

This looks like something limp ninja would release ironically.

Didn't hate it though, interesting ride.

I tried it on my machine (voted after the Youtube version): it's awfully slow, I even get less than 20fps at moments on 640x480 fullscreen with no AA. How come? O_o

Will there be a faster version?

o.O

It's neither rules, nor sucks for me. I kinda like the music, it runs smoothly in my machine, visuals are weird and nothing very interesting is happening. I am waiting for your big demo at assembly :)

Meh. Obviously a lot work went into this one, but it visuals kinda suck. So piggy.

The glitches seem nicer on the youtube video where it's locked to a lower framerate.

Only seen the youtube vid so far but liked this one a lot. Great synchro. Tune was great but did not need the vocals. Also, wish the demo didn't rely as much on greyscale and patterns. But yes, very nice demo.

Bit hard to watch at times, but some scenes give a nice 3d feeling. Music was nice also. Not the best you have made, but its cool enough for a thumb up.

The music saved this one as the visuals have been too experimental for me. Also I have to agree that it would have worked better with greyscale only and without the strange colours.

ASD goes XPLSV. :) While I appreciate the change in both visual expression and Amusic's venture into BT-country, I'm sorry to say that the vocals just ruined it for me. They were just SHIT, sorry.. :(

Thanks for this trip. I like the middle part where the Camera changes the Viewpoint.

just above average demo for me, only the music saved my thumbdown,

I think like others here, this is the first ASD demos i didn't enjoy !!

no thumbown this time because i enjoyed the music

ASD we are watching you :)

BTW, who is "Valerie Blonde" from the Vocal-tune?

Looks really glitchy. I'm guessing that's the intention, but not really sure why. The music is well composed (as always), but I really dislike the vocals.

I respect ASD for experimenting with different styles, but I've always preferred their less abstract style demos...and I definitely prefer Amusic's tracks without vocals.

I don't get why there is this kind of music with those visuals :/.

Anyway, I enjoyed the visuals, and the music is great by itself.

ugly

wokalistka cienka jak barszcz...koncepcja nawet oryginalna, sam motyw rowniez , vimeo rulez :)

thanks for instrumental version , vocal sucks :)

Ladders are very good! Textures are stylish as well.
But in Z-axis-flight scene one thing is missed: the singer's silhouette. It should be new "State of the Art".

For party-coding, it's fantastic. But in general, I wish a little more time could have been spent on polish. Some interesting ideas that I would have loved better implementation of (ie. music beats shape geometry).

Some nice visuals (bordering on REALLY EXCELLENT) but.. overall too long. This is becoming my usual: the musics :( vocals :(

so its a piggy

I found this demo enterteaining. Tunnel scenes fits with that disco music. Vocals aren´t bad but Valeria isnt good at high tones.

Plese remove those short side scrolling scenes in final, they looking very messy...

Escher's electric glitch cathedral. Love it :)

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Yeah… Umm… Yeah.

OK. Tunnel was Geil
but I f*cking hated the music.
Thumb up anyways even though ASD dissapoints me *yet* once more.

A flight through mostly random geometry.
I don't know that I loved it or hated it.

It's definitely different I'll give you that!

What's with the shader code, lots commented out and very weird formatting! :)

I somehow couldn't connect the visuals and the audio, but I enjoyed both.

music was nice or even more. the visuals were too repetitive, boring and just didn't cut it. when u decide to make another noise-demo ask Quite.

nevertheless, i don't thumb prods down that worth a comment. i respect and appreciate all the time and effort that was put into them. so just have it.

Didn't hate it because of the music. Just not my thing overall, but kudos to ASD releasing at Euskal.

Visuals are fucking ace, and I dig the music, it's just my brain doesn't see them fit together. The visuals scream for noisy music and the music screams for cleaner visuals.
Anyway, I wholeheartedly agree with Navis on the topic about making noisy synched demos.
Hey, and let's face it, this isn't Lifeforce 2 what's up with that!!!!!!!!!111 Magic say something!!

It's more like the wind under your armpits...

we were waiting for so long. and it was worth it.
i adore every pixel of this demo.

Any chance of a decent video? The youtube one is low res and just slightly compressed looking ;)

Yeah, fire it up to vimeo. We can download the original capture that way too.

What a mess

navis cant sing , but other than that surely a nice demo. dragged a bit too long on just one style/effect

I dig the visual style, especially the Escher-ish part a lot. I also can't say the music itself sucks (eventho it's not up my alley).

But for gods sake - mixing cheesy 90s cliché commercial trance with almost fucked up, buffer-remixed visuals is a slap in the face. It's like vanilla cream pie with onions, cheese and bacon.

I do not wish to see this one ever again. Well, with a halfway fitting music - okay. Hence - thumbs down.

wtf.

http://www.myspace.com/valeryblonde
http://www.myspace.com/valeriablonde

Hmmm. A bit too glitchy to be enjoyable for me. Side-scrolling parts should indeed have a transition. Music is losses sync with visuals in the middle somehow, then fits again at the end.
Also only enjoyable if you have a high framerate and AA on, otherwise it's just a "pixelstorm" of sorts.

i loved it

ASD try original things since Lifeforce, it's a good way I think, even if it's not always as good as their previews demos. The problem of this one is that United Force & Digital Dynamite already use this idea (see The Golden Path) and they do it nicer to my taste...

I don't like euro-trance, and I don't like demos with so much random elements, basically because I never know if the final result is exactly what the author wanted to create or simply what the author obtained after several hours of code.

What we have here is a desaturated (in color) production automatically synced with the music, which usually is worse than manual sync, simple scenes with interference and repetition and a camera that seems to advance in the deepness of something in order to reach a bird that explodes in an strange kind of particles or deformed polygons, all of this surrounded by some trance.

Anyway, from my point of view, and without caring if it too 4 hours or 4 months to achieve the result, the mix does its work. It entertained me during the compo, and then later in the video stream. There are lots of simultaneous things happening in the demo that make me watch it 4 or 5 times.

The moment in which the music seems to stop and the camera starts to lost its impulse, watching to the sides and showing the stairs is my favorite part. I missed some lasers of the death too.

And here is my definitive thumb up for a prod that has all the elements that I don't like separately, but that once joined create a great experience.

for music (and finally getting the guitar out of your techno!)
for way too repetitive visuals, and under-achieving sync

soo...

I find it very hard to vote on this, maybe a weak thumb up despite the vocals & other strange things.

The music is awesome and i loved the vocals (except some very high tunes, they sounded like the vocalist was struggling to reach them). The visuals are also very good, i liked the synchronization of the CSG objects with the music and i loved the bird breaking into shards. The demo is mostly a tunnel, but its one of the best tunnels ever made :-)

for music

I like some of the "glitch/noise" demos (think Variform), I like some of the CSG stuff, the "building blueprints/technical drawings" style, I don't mind the music style either, but it does not really work for me.

I think my main issue is that all the time while watching it, I was wondering if the "checkered flag" texture was not just a place holder for a missing texture like we have at work... which kind of killled any attempt at flowing with the demo.

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mmmh, sorry, I watched the vid and after half a minute I began to fast forward it, to see what will happen there. Thats a sign of getting bored and I`m not easily feeling bored (like Stingray ;) ) so sorry, no thump.

But it`s still good enough for a piggy though, solid quality in Gfx, Code and Msx.

There should be an epilepsy warning because of the effects extreme flashings.

somehow this indeed gets better after watching it more often.
i didnt find the music/vocals horrible the first time but the visuals somehow distorting. i guess it was because i didnt expect something like this from asd at all.
now after the third run i actually find it quite cool.
so heres goes my thumb.

@aMUSIC: Nice work! You should've been at Euskal!

@Navis: This is one of my favourites ASD's demos. By the way, I believe that it deserved a better place in the compo. ;)

Nice.

It is nice
but the massively high pitched voice into tune wasted it :(

(also sorry Navis for abusing your conference a bit, you know I'm a party animal and enforce the fun :D)

Different and not a very pretty sight.

So, big thumbs up.

I'm going to remix the track I think.

Nice tune! Don't like the visuals much though... Thumb up for the track...

is there any texture filtering turned on? It looks messy.

wir sind A S D

This is so fucking good. Congrats navis/amusic

btw, I would love a 720p video if possible, ktnx.

Looks and feels like a bunch of debug textures and "coder art" combined with placeholder music to me. After reading the blog entry I recommend this demo for the "largest difference between high goals and final result" award. No noise/glitches to be found either, the visuals are too static and predictable.

i love the experimental visuals, but for me it gets destroyed by the music.
please get back to the guitars i use to critizize ;)

Reactions so far:
first watch: Fuck I hate the music
second watch: Hmm, this is sort of trippy
third watch: I feel weird
fourth watch: God I love the music, the vocal sections are still my cup of tea though. Trippy trippy show.

I think that's enough watches to give a thumb.

Never liked demos with centred layout.
Goes for "zebra" textures and euro dance as well.

This is a definitive "meh"

yep

At first I figured it's way too abstract, but around the "house flythrough" bit and onwards it was just.. beautiful.

a lot of texturebugs on my screen

By the way I LOVE the soundtrack without the vocals. I am a big fan of Euro Dance (the genre) and this totally deserves to be played in a proper rave :).

anyone got a video?

Would one of the animation-specific codecs handle it better perhaps? Just thinking that the regular codecs like h264 are made for more natural images and choke on things like this. I've not tried any to find out, but it may be worth a go.

I don't see the problem with the music, as long as it's not repetative or hip hop sh!te it works for me! Thumbs up :)

psonice has a good point...but what about mkv is kkapture able to utilize that codec?

very nice! A mix between The Golden Path, Variform and Medium, but much better.

And I love the music, I'm playing it in a look since one hour ago.

Still don't like it after a couple of watches - strangely looking forward to the remix though :) - also, thought I'd add that it needs motionblur :)

iq: get off the drugs!

hornet: time to show how it's done ;)

Sigh, I thought that it's not working properly and checked the video.. Apparently it worked just fine. Oh well, nice music.

I usually like ASD productions, but this one is half-superb / half-totally awful. I cannot say it's a pleasure to see.

No

OK, what to say here. Music was quite cool. I really liked the (stenciled?) textures, quite a bit. However, the music sync seems like it was done by deforming straight from a frequency band in the music (unfiltered) and that's a big no-no.

Look, alot of people keep saying "bad for an ASD release." I think that's shit; you guys tried something new. The music worked, however I found the visuals too glitchy. I don't mind the linear camera path but I think the camera should've rotated more throughout (the straight-on views get old very quickly). I think if the visuals were cleaned up a bit and maybe some more lighting was done this would be epic, because alot of the scenes were actually quite cool, if you can train your eyes to actually see them ;) .

Something about this one got me. I don't know what, but I'm gonna say yes. A bit messy for your standards but not enough to take away my thumb.

[/PointlessTiredRanting]

Oh, and to Navis, I agree completely with what you're saying about well-controlled glitch demos (check my first CDC for Aether/MFX). However, I fail to see how this particular demo is well-controlled, and that's my issue. So, yes, great job for branching out from your usual stuff, but it needs work :)

texture glitches (? maybe intended) make antiasing worthless, but nice vibe and direction. didn't like the vocals very much.
is there some ssao in there? too fast to definitely spot it, but i get the impression in some scenes...

aaah... okay, silly me. just had a look at the "postprocessing" folder... of course there's ssao in there! which explains the slowdowns i'm having in 1920x1200...

Navis, are you actually coding with the indentation and spacing as seen in the shader files, or do you have an editor that arranges it neatly for you? It looks insanely bad.

felicitous!

doesnt really match all that well imho :/

I instantly fell in love with the visuals. I don't like demos that much anymore, but this is one of the few (and very welcome) exceptions.

Thumbs up for the music & vocals. Reminded me my teenager's years ;)
Visuals are too messy.

Navis: yeah, I'm game. Started toying with it already actually, even though I have other stuff I should finish first :)

Navis: a wild stab in the dark suggests that we both have roughly 7 days to finish that "other stuff" ;)

Bah, wasted 45 minutes trying to watch this today.

I downloaded the high quality capture off capped.tv (http://capped.tv/asd-the_wind_under_my_wings1 btw). It played in quicktime, but with extreme nasty compression artifacts (no, not part of the demo, although they were kind of cool). It played in vlc but with a grey background instead of black, before crashing after 10s or so. It plays in flash on capped.tv, but it's jerky in fullscreen :(

So in desparation I downloaded the exe and rebooted into windows.. and spent 30 minutes reminding myself why I rarely bother. Had to update the video drivers and other stuff before it'd load instead of crashing. Then spent more time trying to get it to play audio through headphones instead of speakers. Then it finally ran, and played fine but extremely slowly at 720p, smoothly but with a large strobing blue stripe at the top on 720x480, and extremely slowly with just a thin strobing strip at anything else. I'm half convinced it was dropping back to software rendering somehow o0.

Is it fairly demanding on the GPU or CPU? It's only a radeon 2400 + c2d 2.4ghz with 1gb of ram, but other demos run reasonably in lower resolutions.

psonice: It runs on a god damn netbook (ok, _dual_ core atom + nvidia ion), albeit rather slowly (but watchable 20fps or so at 720x480), no glitches either. It also runs on a really slow ATI (51xx), not great, but still. :)

Well, the demo is... lacking. :) Care, details, coherence, basically everything ASD demos seem to be all about. The music is not good. The vocals are out of place and add cheesiness where no cheesiness is needed. The "sideways cam" parts look dull, the sync/flickering seems random and hence broken. I did enjoy the escher inspired parts and the very beginning/end. The first ASD demo in a very long time that really needs final version. :)

i liked it. the vocals didnt do it for me though. i liked the song better without.

I kind of like the visuals despite their messiness. I didn't really see anything that would justify it looking like a slideshow on GTX260 though (granted, I don't know that much about today's technical stuff. Maybe there's something really demanding hidden under he abstractness). Music is definitely not my cup of tea, but I guess it's not bad if you like that kind of stuff. Piggie it is.

I dunno. It's not glitchy/harsch enough to be the kind of noise/glitch that I enjoy and it's too glitchy to _not_ be glitch ;). And the music isn't that inspiring. I've seen worse but I don't care much for this, really.

Oh, and this would be the reference for what is "glitch" ;).

great, just watched it five times in a row. major fuckings to all the haters.

I love ASD demos, but not this one. Sorry.

I found that pretty enjoyable.

loved the music
loved the visuals
(not exactly sure about the colorscheme, but HELL YESS THE VISUALS!)

also: the visuals!

wow, the scene with the stairs was awesome, so was the ending.
I also highly enjoyed the music, maybe because it was so relaxing and I'm in desperate need for holidays ;)

What styx^hcr and abductee said.

And I like the colorscheme, and the visuals!

You know I believe this demo is one of those art works that we do whether it's a movie, song , demo, painting that we just don't expect or think about it to much yet it becomes a masterpiece with time. I really believe that's the case with this demo.

Fuck. The music ruined it, I had to skip it.

Finally got to watch it realtime \o/ After quite a few watchings, it's grown on me - I think this will end up being a classic.

Btw, like some other ASD demos there's some semi-hidden, near-impossible-to-read text in here. What does it say? One bit looked like STS, maybe greets? :)

I like this one. Remember, not every demo from ASD has to be from the "One demo to end all demos" category.

The interesting part (sound-wise and image-wise) is simply destroyed by Youtube.
Finally watched the capped.tv version, and then it made a lot more sense.

used ESC after 20 seconds. ugly! :((

Not bad, but not great. It was just different.

Weird that 1280x1024 resolution (native resolution), in both DVI and VGA, moves the picture to the bottom and not veritcally centered. Did anyone else have that problem too? 1280x720 was fine though when using DVI to avoid stretching!

Is it me or recent ASD demos aren't that good anymore? :(

Music made me skip.

awesome tunnel. Great sense of speed. Love it.

Loved the artistic style. Would have prefered the music without the vocals.

duffman: There is an instrumental version in a link further up the comment list.

i could have sworn i ran this demo once and it looked nicer and less glitch, especially in the first sideways scrolling scene, it was pretty late though >(

Bold and nice style. However sometimes it could look like its bugging, but i guess its supposed to do that in a non MFX-Noice like way ;)
Also like the music better in this one than in other ASD tracks. Eventhough it is kinda cheesy ;)
Overall good prod imo.

Btw, just returned from Greece after 2 weeks on IOS. Do you use air conditions in your homes down there all summer? If so, do you all get pneumonia? Sick as fuck because of it ;)

SELLOUT

I am saddened
Bad visualization, and the soundtrack is even worse
Is this the end of the ASD demomaking?

I am saddened.
Bad visualization, and the soundtrack is even worse. Is this the end of the ASD demomaking?

Not the usual ASD style but I liked it too.

visually stunning

Can't see why people coup de cour this. Is it because it's from ASD?

At first, i thought that the rendering was sucking on my gfx card. Then i watched the YouTube version and discovered that it had no bugs !!!

It's just ugly ! Beautiful music saves it from the thumb down :)

Quitee ok'ish.

...

Now I realized that it is not a dove but an eagle...
still the bird scene rocks, also what i previously said.

Awesome. Must be downloaded as the online videos destroy the fine detail which is what makes this demo.

mrp- to answer your question...is because as others find it ugly etc etc... some of us believe that this is going to be a masterpiece over time..

Yeah, videos just don't capture it well at all. Also watching it realtime you absolutely need a fast framerate, anything below 30fps and it starts to suck, ideally you want 60.

Few parts are quite lame, but some parts really are beautiful now that i have watched it again.

I think my thumb is now deserved.

no but yeah but... no!

Wait .. a demo with no fish ?

i love the music.

thought my gfx card had fucked up with the summer heat, messing up all the textures! but then i checked YouTube...

the worst asd production ever and let me bet, it will be nominated for at least one scene award because it's from asd.

asd. wtf?

A tricky one to appreciate fully; I can't help feeling like it needed just a little more refining.

I admit I've never really paid attention to ASD's underlying themes and canon, I look at each demo as a separate body of work. I think with this particular production the main things that griped me were that the glitches were almost too abrupt and frequent, and instead of presenting tension and unease as I assume was the intention.

I always appreciate ASD's capacity to experiment and this is no exception. I hope that if Navis and Co. decide to make a final version, that they consider making the glitch aspect a compliment, not the mainstay of the demo.

Good shit indeed!

Hmmmmm. No. Not my cup of coffee...sorry...

Really good! I liked the escher-esque architecture toward the end. If you don't like dance-pop w/ vocals in demos, okay, but otherwise, why so many haters? You're the same people who called Starcraft 2 "worst. game. ever." because they dropped LAN support. Demogroups are allowed to have a variety of styles.

"We got some very mixed (more like negative) reviews for our latest demo "The wind under my wings" at pouet. This is understandable, as I have mentioned before the audience for demos like that is quite small."

the majority of votings here is positive so why are you whining and claiming that the audience is so bad?
demo is quite nice but the whole drama attitude is not needed.

At first, I really disliked it (especially the first part). When seeing it again, I appreciated it a bit more. Maybe, I will enjoy it after the 10th time?

This is not bad, but it just doesn't work for me.

awesome visuals! but these 90s-dream-dance music with that horrible vocals really sucks ass... change the music to schranz, hakke or maybe something rollin' and i'll give it a cdc.

xenusion: seeing as there are 92 rulez, 53 piggies and 35 sucks-votes, I believe the comment from Navis is both justified and rather harmless. You're the one trying to create drama. :)

Sorry, this is not mine, but music rocks... Navis you did it again much better with Happiness is Around the Bend :)

Nice atmosphere, and good to see this sort of experimentation.

Agree

Ah, amusic you got me wrong on that. What I tried to say was "Hey people, don't compare the more experimental prods from ASD with their biggie prods. It's two different things."
I mena this always happened to Farbrausch...people compared every prod with those milestones like fr:08 and came up disappointed.
I really like the "unconventional" prods from ASD like this one or "Eryx"...so please keep doing them.

Btw, really nice soundtrack you did on this one!

Both very ASD and very non-ASD at the same time. But still quite catchy :-)

Pretty nice, I like the instrumental part of the music.

am i the only one liking this music moar than the track of happiness... ? =)

The visuals are neat, the music was nice until the vocals kicked in, at which point I turned it off.

I love the music in this prod.
At first it was a bit "wtf?" but on the 2nd play I started to love it.

Fantastic visuals and music and they fit together well for me. Kinda in a psychadelic 'heavy metal' kinda way. Really enjoyed that.

if you wud've let out the barcode/chess textures, it wudve been interesting. but this blew my eyeballs!
music reminded me of something i've heard before, but still nice.

piggy <3

works fine here. good

Original design, but not very impressive prods. The music however is excellent.

Althought this kind of music is not my cup of tea, the effort to bring unusual sounds to demoscene worths a big thumb up!
...and the visual is nice too...

I found it too repetitive and hard on the eyes. And the music was meh. Vocals in demos doesn't do it for me.

Solid one. I have more expectation so no thumb up this time :).

I don't like, but i cannot thumb down because it also be cool that ASD try sometimes to change their style and not doing the same stuff all the time ^^

=)

why do i keep hating asd style so much even when they try to change it? this one, for example, sometimes tries to sound and look good, but these bright moments are so rare, that all the surrounding horribleness still makes this demo a clear thumb down for me. sorry, asd :(. techincally you rule, as always, but your music, graphics and overall style make my ears, eyes and brain bleed.

I like it how, after the Escher-esque scene, things come together and start to make sense. :)
On the other hand, I find the vocals to be quite bad.
Thumb up anyway.

BEAUTIFUL! Don't listen to the haters.

visually very vibrant and coherent, and manages to keep the balance between glitch and the aesthetically pleasing, but the commercial sound garbage ruins the demo for me. it sugarcoats the potential you have in the visual department.

pleasant experience! like most of the asd demos, great visuals and music and they work together

Loved the music and the model difference.

Maybe because it is? Your logic makes absolutely no sense anyway.

trippy, would be perfect for live visuals (if interactive).

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I watched this one after the "electric bullet"-remix, like most of people I prefer the remixed version, but this one is enjoyable too :)

Usual thing - good visuals ruined by amusic's "talent". Usefull for some vj-ing as people at the party doesn't have to listen to this cheesy music :/

Liked the travel

The music is pure awesome. Unfortunately the visual don't fit to the music at all. Still tumb for the great track.

The visuals were amazing, I really really loved them, and the music was quite good too - but the combination I really couldn't appreciate. Never has a cheesy house beat sounded so out of place to me - really ruined the experience.

Visuals are OK, but I really like the music.

aMUSiC, out of curiosity, in what way does disliking a piece of music (or several for that matter) imply poor handling of the public relations of a demogroup?

awesome music, technically nice geometry boolean operator code and stuff...
its a total polygon f*ckfest, but an enjoyable one :D

Vocals don't work in this demo either.

But the rest does, and I wanna be ASD groupie.

Great music, good visuals.

I useally don't get too excited for demos in this time - but this one is one of those demos i wish i had been a part of ... seen/melon

"Pouet thumb prediction for first 6 months: 110 thumbs up, 25 thumbs down. Oh and 3 cdcs. You know you want to ! :-)" - Navis http://navis-asd.blogspot.com/2010/06/demo-for-euskal-finished.html

<3 it. Rapture 2.0

Somehow forgot to thumb this.

Great song! Animation also.

great - demo&music

great prod & a very cool soundtrack - thanks for that

the music was garbage!

i was never sure about this prod and i guess i never will. on the one hand it is somehow interrestig on the other hand the music ruins it for me. so piggie at the end.

Thumb down for music (why the vocals?), thumb up for everything else. Balances out to a piggy.

I like that demo, a lot. Randomized glitchering gave a strange atmosphere, and that sudenly 3 axis camera rotation during music-rythm-break , then reaxing in Z-scroll is so genius ! Single & effective :) Thx for creativity !

The soundtrack does it

Seriously needs a "final" that supports 4K+. Was cool when I had a HD display, looks like crap in 4K.

cool