This is an interview with one of the most famous
scene graficians, with Visualize. Here is some 
opinions of the sceners about him:


 Unreal:  he's incredibly fast in what he is doing,
  combines different techniques of drawing as itself and
  creating as well - sometimes combines rendering with 
  drawing. He was doing the grafic cover for a band "Pav-
  lovin koirat" and also for example had his gallery some-
  there in Finland  

Mov:  he is a great friend of mine.. we spend time 
  very much together when he lived overhere... then he
  moved to work in remedy, and haven¨t seem him long 
  time. So I am going to visit him this thursday, and
  then we will come over my house.. and have a little 
  fun ! :D 

Programmer:  vis is a finnish guy, came from Amiga
  I think that his style is very specific, and I like 
  it. You know, I can always say, was the picture drawn
  by Visualize or not[...] Very good, as I think.

 aGi:  I admire him. Surely the only artist on the
  scene,the rest are craftsmen, not to offend them ofkoz
  but he has visions which he beatifully pours into 
  the screen.  

And there is the man talking himself:


Visualize: How many questions you had in mind?
paradx:  full maybe : what is your name, how old are you and many other
 questions from such fooly iviews like all we were reading;)
paradx:  some other are coming up is what we all intersting in :  your secret tips about gfx
Visualize: Well, that is easy: none. :))
paradx:  "...and my old-fashioned lovely scanner";)))
Visualize: Scanner? Are you serious?
paradx:  no i'm not there are the smileys;))
paradx:  are you sensitive about that?
Visualize: Hmmm. VERY. Some people have actually said to me that a)I scan. b) I am runing 
scene with my work.  Funny? Ain't it? :)
paradx:  i saw your pics there are no scan traces believe me
Visualize: I know. :)
paradx:  better than me:) . you have some other style 
Visualize: Yeah, it is mostly an influence based style. I take something from there, I borrow
 something from here, and mix stuff together actually.
paradx:  influence - could you tell about it some more?
Visualize: Well, I see something cool in someones artwork, and I take the best parts of the
 technique, and mix them. Simple as that. :)
Visualize: I have taken techniques from Simon Bisley, Dave McKean, H.R. Giger, Bill Sienkiewicz,
 people like that.
paradx:  yop! i know only the gieger-alien from those guys:)
Visualize: They are mostly modern artists, people who illustrate mostly 'comicbooks'.
paradx:  so you like comics?(beasley is known to me but what comx did he draw?) Lobo? Moebius? 
 Goscinny? "Spawn"?
Visualize: Lobo he did draw yes. 
paradx:  Yeah yeah and this blood!!! everywhere:)
Visualize: Well, I hate the word comic, I'd say graphical novel would be more accurate. 
paradx:  yes : i dont like it either by that ppl mean some shitty childish cartoons:(
Visualize: My point exactly. :)
paradx:  and on the scene : who was your favorite artman at the begining(you know: the Yoda
 master:) and later? 
Visualize: Well, in the beginning it was definitely Facet, back from Amiga ages, years later
when I saw Ra's artwork on Arte, I was blown away by his original style to represent the world.
paradx:  maybe some more general? your name, age, group, function; you know to make the lama 
like me know what is gonna about;)
Visualize: Well, my name is Timo J. Harju, in scene I am known as Visualize, I am at the time
 22 years old, and I have no group as it is. :)
paradx:  hej we all want to have graphician . Dont wanna join the new energic polish group?;)
 You have ended with the scene?
Visualize: Nope, I am looking for something totally new and asskicking. 
paradx:  some illegal?;)
Visualize: heheh. Maybe that too. ;)So I am not thru with scene yet, I haven't done one demo
 yet that would please me at least by 50%. I want to leave something massive behind, so don't 
worry, I will return. :)
paradx:  what your favorite program ?
Visualize: In TV or PC...? :)
paradx:  maybe to start on amiga? or what your favorite computer?
Visualize: Well, I always kinda liked Amiga better than PC in some ways, maybe because it's
 simplicity, not to have 100000 options and you don't even know what the first one does. But you
 have to move with the evolution and time, so naturally I use PC now. But when I got hang of it,
 PhotoShop just won't let me go! :)
paradx:  thats some kind a controversional prog. some scners dont like it " its a one of those
 things that kill the scene atmosphere"! what do you think?
Visualize: Well, I can't even imagine myself doing gfx by the old way, doing every pixel etc.
 And because you work on such a limited enviroment, your resources are also limited. PS leaves
 more things for your imagination, not to your technique. But I won't deny that Pixeling should
 be left out from scene, no, it gives you very effective lesson what pixeling is all about, I 
 haven´t seen many graphicians who have started doing gfx directly on PS. It is part of what you
 do, but you don't wanna get stuck into it.
paradx:  but it is damned easy to draw with ps!! 
Visualize: Well, that is the whole idea. :)
paradx:  did you draw the woman face on 3dmark or whole site is under your mighty hand;)?
Visualize: Well, the woman on the foreground was drawn my hand, but the background was 3D Studio
 Max 2.5 render. I fancied the idea of actually combining these two enviroment, to gain certain
 contrast of what we actually are doing here. Some design things were of course Photoshopped.
 By hand I mean. :)
paradx:  well done:)) maybe some disproportions but it could be for a little wierd perspective?
Visualize: Yeah, this was probably done on purpose, dunno. But the distorted perspective was the
 idea.
paradx:  And to get the readers know : you are work at ... (i forgot:)
Visualize: eheheh, that's Ok, I work nowdays at company called Futuremark Corporation. 
paradx:  some of us treat gfx as a play(scene, friendship, other cool things :) . but some and me
 want to draw and later. Maybe for them can you tell about your work? something interesting:)
Visualize: Hmmm. Intresting... To be occurate, I do demos for money, yes, for money readers. :)
 Most of the things which I do here are off limits when it comes to outside of the office, which 
 is understandable. So I can't really tell what projects on I am involved right now.
paradx:  i dont get the beginning: "do demos for money readers" you mean on the scene?:-/
Visualize: Nope, well, I we do demos for big companies, mostly to 3D card manufactorers, to show
 off how powerful their new card is, hehhe, first I had trouble also understanding what demos for 
 money meant. :)
paradx:  oh i see:) what year did you begin being on the scene?
Visualize: Let's see... I think it was in the early '91, when I first saw some demos and intros
 on Amiga, they somehow fascinated me, and I got involved because of my big mouth. :)
paradx:  do you talk too much?
Visualize: Yep, I told my friend who was a coder that I could draw, well, at that point I hadn't
 even loaded any paint progs on our amiga, just some stupid games. :)
paradx:  i have done the same! how strange seemed to me than people whom i told as a grafician 
tell me to show them my pics. I didnt have a one!:)
Visualize: heheeh, so you know the feeling. :)
paradx:  maybe some tips and advices for beginners?
Visualize: Well, I don't have any magic tickets to the land of drawing art, but I think patience
 is one of the biggest ones. I have always believed if you want something real bad, I mean really
 badly, then you can have it. Of course this requires lotsa work and years even, but it worked on
 my case. People who are starting to do gfx on PC, should first get GFX2 or some similar program,
 and not to go directly into PS, like I told couple minutes ago.
    Pixels are the basis for what gfx people do. Learn what makes them tick first. :)
paradx: and what your favorite your pic and maybe some other grafician?
Visualize: Well, Ra has always been my favourite from the times of Arte, favourite pic ... Well, 
 I don't wanna say that, too many good around these days. :)
paradx:  Could you point some best today graficians on the scene?
Visualize: Hmmm. Tough one. Lazur is good... There are also lotsa talented people around, like .
 .. Argh, my mind is a blank. Made is great also..
paradx:  a best coder musician demo group?
Visualize: As to coder, I'd say Statix maybe? Musician I'd say Falcon, demo group should be
 Ex-Pulse, heheeh
paradx:  do you have some questions to yourself:P
Visualize: Yeah, one comes to my mind:
Visualize: 'What are you gonna do rest of your life?'
paradx:  :)) the puzzle question!
Visualize: Yep, that one indeed. :)
Visualize: But I would really like if I could answer. :)
paradx:  so you work a lot. But WHY? maybe you like it? very much?
Visualize: Hmmm. Maybe I have to make enuff money to get along? :)
paradx:  YEAH! and when you will be old you go travel and bungee jump?:)
Visualize: I never have the courage for the later one, never. I tend to take one day at the time,
 tomorrow itself is a big mystery for me as it is. 
paradx:  spontaneous? that is real art attitude. 
paradx:  and a mess in the room?:)
Visualize: Well, there was one yesterday, but then my parents came around and cleaned it. :(
paradx:  it  makes grafician abilities decrease fastly, isnt it? "that old chunk of pizzas gave 
 me so many inspirations of fractals":))
Visualize: heheeh, you have to have an own organizations there, it looks messy to someone else,
 but to you it looks crystal clear desk. :)
paradx:  well to be closer to the scene: what are your plannes for future?
Visualize: Well, I continue what I am doing now, maybe come up with a demo in the near future,
 dunno. 
paradx:  do you code?!
Visualize: uh? No, I don't. :)
paradx:  hm well you will have then to join somethere:). Well that's all folks. 
paradx:  would you like give some greetz?
Visualize: Well, to all my friends (You know who you are) and special one to my fave coder, 
Wojtek, all the ex-pulse members, readers, family, my shrink, and last but not least Mov. :)
paradx:  Thank you very much for the iview:)
paradx:  oh yeah! thats all:))
Visualize: No, thank you. *handshake* :)
paradx:  thank you, and all who participated :)