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THE SCHATTENJAGER DIARIES -- ISSUE 3-- January 28, 1998 "The Official Fan Newsletter of Gabriel Knight Mysteries"
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. WHAT DO YOU THINK MOSELY'S FIRST NAME IS?
WHAT DO YOU THINK MOSELY'S FIRST NAME IS?
Many people, including myself, have speculated on what could the elusive
Detective Mosely's first name be. After searching "Sins of the Fathers"
and "The Beast Within" thoroughly, and not finding it anywhere, I asked
Jane. She didn't know either. But a few days later, she did remember, and
she told me. For this month's contest, email me the with the correct first
name of Detective Mosely (and no, it's not "Detective!"). Here's a hint,
it's 8 letters long. Send your guesses to Gabriel.Knight@sierra.com
before March 31st, and I will randomly pick a winner from the people who
had the correct answer.
A NOTE FROM JANE JENSEN:
Answers to a few things I've noticed on the boards:
1. Gabe's "other" in GK2 is the Madonna. She's trying to help Ludwig's
soul leave purgatory by cleansing it of the werewolf curse. Ludwig was
loyal to the Madonna during his life and his heart being in the shrine at
AltOtting gave given his spirit power through her. As Mrs. Smith pointed
out, one's "other" can change and the Madonna is only Gabe's "other"
through this case although...as I found out when writing GK3, she may have
had more than Ludwig's good in mind when she helped Gabe out. :-) I
personally hadn't ever considered Malia being Gabe's other, but it was an
interesting deduction!
2. Von Zell the werewolf *was* red. We did color the wolf red in the
video clips where you see von Zell, but it looks as though some people's
monitors were dark enough that that was hard to discern. Yes, von Zell was
reddish-brown as a werewolf and von Glower was black. And, yes, von Glower
was the main source of the bodies in the pit, using that lair for many
centuries whenever he visited or was living in Germany. Von Zell has only
been a werewolf since "last year" according to Preiss' account of his mood
shift.
FYI, there're some great stories from England about the discovery of such
cave lairs with bodies (in real life) and even a story about a boy finding
a very odd looking 'wolf's skull' in one and the skull haunting the boy and
his family until they took it back to the lair! These stories were the
source of the lair in GK2 because they *really* creeped me out. If these
lairs have been really been found, as the stories seem to say, and these
aren't just 'urban legends' then what could explain them? Serial killers?
Or wild animals of some kinds? Werewolves?
Yes, I know you'll want to know the names of the books that had these
stories. I'll look it up at home and have Adam post the titles on the web.
- Jane
INTERVIEW WITH ANIMATOR, DARYL AFFLECK
I took a minute last week and interviewed on the of the GK artists,
Daryl Affleck.
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"Uncertain about my future as an artist, (most artists undersell
themselves, or forget to keep playing/creating when they get out of school
or when their creativity becomes a job.....I'd seen it lots and I knew I
was no different) I decided I had better learn some sorta trade. I
attended the Art Institute of Seattle and studied Computer
Animation/Modeling. I was unsure what I was getting into, not knowing
anything about computer stuff. But I found that was more important, in
CA&M, to understand how to create a visual experience, than it was to
understand that RAM is not a goat on your desktop.
"I spent the bulk of my time getting to know Softimage and 3D Studio Max.
I thinned out my last quarter into two quarters with less classes and spent
every waking hour going through tutorials and experimenting with tutorial
concepts. I thought back to the experimental mode I was in while at CWU
while I was creating animations for my demo reel, and tried to invert
common elements I had seen in other demo tapes. Cuttting to still shots,
not fly throughs. Subtle movement, not intense action. Soft, organic
shapes, not hard-edged robots. The ear, not Tyson. Anyway, it was the
tape that got me the job."
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"I believe the aproach not be 'I have these programs, now I am strong and
smart' but rather say to the programs 'I am your slave. Teach me to be
worthy' (never out loud). These are incredible tools and it is important
to make them an extention of your hand, not your ego. 'Nuff said."
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Thanks for the great answers Daryl!
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