Farbrausch

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Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers which made themselves especially famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64kB intro called "fr-08: .the .product". "Farb-rausch" literally translates to "color intoxication" in English. [1]

Using techniques like procedural textures, scenes and animations together with a high-quality software synthesizer, ".the .product" is an 11-minute 3-D show featuring complex scenes which opened a new era in demo making, showing that CPU power and mass storage are not a substitute to the creative human brain. This is an achievement since most demos created in the 21st century tend to focus much more on the aesthetic rather than optimization skills and number crunching. Farbrausch introduced the idea that you can still do both in the modern computer age.

Their work has won numerous awards, and their name a good degree of fame. In 2004, a subdivision of farbrausch called "theprodukkt" released a 96kB first-person shooter game named ".kkrieger", and an earlier version of the tool they currently use to produce some of their demos, named ".werkkzeug", or "Tool".

Farbrausch is known for giving all of their releases a "product code", in the format "fr-0#". The numbers do not specify the order of release - the members have stated that they allocate the numbers as they start working on the project, not when they finish it. They give "minus" numbers to their non-serious releases.

Since then they have periodically released ever-improving compositions such as "fr-019: Poem to a Horse", "fr-030: Candytron" or "fr-025: The.Popular.Demo". The.Popular.Demo is by far the most highly favored demo production on the comprehensive demoscene index, Pouet. [2] The.Popular.Demo is also the recipient of the "Public Choice Award" from the 2003 scene.org awards. [3]

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[edit] Members

  • Benjamin "acryd" Bär, boozer/krieger/organiser
  • Benjamin "BeRo" Rosseaux, programmer/musician (home)
  • David "Bombe" Roden, programmer/rigger. (Livejournal, home)
  • Dierk "chaos" Ohlerich, programmer. (Livejournal, home)
  • Jan "chaotic" Winters, musician/artist.
  • Kai "cp" Pöthkow, artist.
  • Marco "crash" Schultz, programmer.
  • Dirk Oliver "doj" Jagdmann, programmer. (home)
  • Dennis "exoticorn" Ranke, programmer.
  • Frauke "fashion" Bönsch, artist (home)
  • Thomas "fiver2" Mahlke, artist (home)
  • Frank "franky" Baumgartner, programmer, musician (home)
  • Christoph "giZMo" Mütze, artist. (home)
  • Tammo "kb" Hinrichs, programmer/musician. (Livejournal, home)
  • Matti "melwyn" Palosuo, musician (home)
  • Leonard "paniq" Ritter, musician/artist/programmer. (home)
  • Michael "rawstyle" Krause, programmer/musician. (home)
  • Fabian "ryg" Giesen, programmer/artist. (home)
  • Ronny "rp" Pries, musician/artist. (discography)
  • Nils "torus" Pipenbrinck, programmer.
  • Timo "visualice" Harju, artist (home)
  • Sebastian "wayfinder" Grillmaier, musician/artist. (home)
  • Felix "yoda" Bohmann, programmer/webmaster/design. (Livejournal, home)

[edit] Notable demo releases and awards

Title Type Awards
fr-05: Konsum demo 2nd place at Evoke 2000
fr-06: Black 2000 demo 1st place at Dialogos 2000
fr-08: .the .product 64kB intro 1st place at The Party 2000
fr-010: Art (in cooperation with Scoopex) 64kB intro 1st place at Mekka & Symposium 2001
fr-013: Flybye invitation intro for The Party 2001
fr-018: AGB GBA demo 1st place at Woest 2002 (wild demo)
fr-019: Poem to a Horse 64kB intro 1st place at Mekka & Symposium 2002, scene.org award nominee - best intro & best effects of 2002
fr-020: In Control demo 3rd place at Mekka & Symposium 2002
fr-022: Ein.Schlag 64kB intro 2nd place at Mekka & Symposium 2002
fr-024: Welcome to... 64kB intro 2nd place at 0a000h 2003
fr-025: The.Popular.Demo demo 1st place at Breakpoint 2003, scene.org award winner - public's choice of 2003, nominee - best effects, best demo, & best soundtrack of 2003
fr-029: Dopplerdefekt 64kB intro 1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2002, scene.org award nominee - most original concept of 2002
fr-030: Candytron 64kB intro 2nd place at Breakpoint 2003, scene.org award winner - best intro of 2003
fr-031: Faded Memories demo 12th place at Assembly 2003, scene.org award nominee - best graphics of 2003
fr-034: Time Index (in cooperation with Haujobb) 64kB intro 2nd place at Simulaatio 2003, scene.org award nominee - best intro of 2003
fr-036: Zeitmaschine demo 1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2003
fr-037: The Code Inside (in cooperation with mfx) invitation demo for Breakpoint 2004
fr-038: Theta demo 2nd place at The Ultimate Meeting 2004
fr-044: Patient Zero 64kB intro 1st place at Simulaatio 2005
fr-045: Life After demo 11th place at Breakpoint 2005
fr-046: Basso Continuo demo 4th place at Evoke 2005
fr-048: Precision 64kB intro 4th place at Assembly 2006
fr-049: Of Spirits Taken invitation demo for Breakpoint 2006
fr-052: Platinum 64kB intro 1st place at The Ultimate Meeting 2006
fr-055: 828 demo 1st place at Icons 2007

[edit] Selected screenshots

fr-08: .the .product

fr-019: Poem to a Horse

fr-025: The Popular Demo

fr-029: Dopplerdefekt

fr-030: Candytron

fr-031: Faded Memories

fr-037: "The Code Inside"

fr-038: Theta

[edit] External links

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