KeWlers

keWlers

keWlers is a Finnish-based demogroup, formed in the early 1990s, originally called Mewlers. After smaller releases such as Tripfish 2 or Another High-Caliber Mechanical Complication, their breakthrough came in 2002 when they released their critically acclaimed demo Variform at Assembly 2002. Despite only achieving third place, the demo became one of the most widely known and top rated demos ever released, winning three Scene.org awards. Further major demos to be released later included Protozoa (ranked 7th at Breakpoint 2003) and A Significant Deformation Near The Cranium, released at Assembly 2003. They're currently (as of February 2005) nominated for seven Scene.org awards.

keWlers are infamous of their outspokenness - their logo contains a stylized middle finger and their official slogan is "Kewlers suck!" - likely to be originating from crowd cheers at the Scene.org Awards gala at Breakpoint 2003 - which they now use and prefer as a friendly greeting. It is also common for other demogroups to, instead of sending greetings, send "fuckings" to Kewlers as their sign of gratitude and respect. Most of the members' handles are in fact "Kewlers-nicks" besides their original, possibly more known demoscene-handle.

Since 2004, the number of Kewlers demos has decreased, their last production being We Cell at Assembly 2004; the group officially pronounced itself dead on their website. Rumors persist that Synesthetics, one of the newcomer groups of 2005, is closely related to some of the Kewlers members, while other rumors suggest that Synesthetics is in fact related to members of Limp Ninja - any of these rumors however are yet to be confirmed.

Members

Active members

* Actor Dolban - musician, graphic artist
* Curly Brace - coder, 3D artist
* DashNo - graphic artist
* Fred Funk - musician, graphic artist
* Little Bitchard - musician
* Math Daemon - coder
* Mel Funktion - musician
* Scootr Lovr - coder, 3D artist

Inactive members

* Cookie Crumb
* Helmut Kool
* Justin Case
* Lady Manhanttan
* Ronnie Raygun
* Uncle Ben

Awards

A screenshot from Protozoa, the winning entry at Bitfilm Festival 2004.

Kewlers have received numerous awards, including best demo of 2003 from the International Scene Organization's Scene.org Awards, which was awarded at Breakpoint demo party 2004.

As of February 2005, Kewlers received seven additional Scene.org Awards nominations:
* 2 nominations for Best Demo
* 1 nomination for Best Effects
* 2 nominations for Best Soundtrack
* 1 nomination for Most Original Concept
* 1 nomination for Public's Choice

2004

* Protozoa, Winner of the Demoshow: Bitfilm Festival 2004 [1]
* A Significant Deformation Near The Cranium, Best Music: Scene.org Awards 2003 [2]

2003

* Variform, Best demo, Best effects & Best Music: Scene.org Awards 2002 [3]

Releases

Screenshot from the demo XMIX 2004: Ion Traxx, a cooperative production by Kewlers and mfx.

* Kopio - finished 1st at Lobotomia 2000
* Tripfish 2 - finished 7th at Assembly 2001
* AH-CMC - finished 8th at lobotomia 2002
* 974 mites - finished 6th at Assembly 2002
* Variform - finished 3rd at Assembly 2002
* Deutsche Telekom - finished 3rd at buenzli 11
* The Jackson Five - finished 4th at Lamerfest 2002
* The Jackson Five remix - finished 3rd at Dot 2002
* Jellied Veal - finished 8th at Alternative Party 2003
* Protozoa - finished 7th at Breakpoint 2003
* GLitch - finished 1st at Stream 2003
* Oddjobb - finished 5th at Assembly 2003
* A Significant Deformation Near The Cranium - finished 6th at Assembly 2003
* X-MIX 2004: Ion Traxx - finished 4th at Breakpoint 2004
* Typo Graphics - finished 1st at Scene Event 2004
* We Cell - finished 5th at Assembly 2004
* Variform Remixed - musicdisk
* 1995 - finished 3rd at Assembly 2006 Kewlers final goodbye demo with important message to scene.

External links

* Kewlers website
* Kewlers releases on Pouet