"One-man" Groups
Though not strictly "demogroups" by definition, the scene always had various polyhistors who excelled in all areas of demomaking; rather than gathering various other persons to aid them in a creative process, they perform all jobs of programming, musicmaking and visual art themselves. While the obvious disadvantage of this type of working is the multiple of amount of work one must do with a given quality standard, one-man groups usually point out that having no others to work with gets rid of discussions and creative differences alike, and is actually a very free way of working.
One-man groups are usually treated with a mix of respect and curiosity within the scene, because they're not an extremely common phenomenon, and some of the scene marks them as an unnecessary effort for virtuosity, largely because it is virtually impossible to perform above average in all areas - one-man demos and intros usually bear obvious lacks in given areas, depending on whether the creator was more a coder, graphician or musician, who adapted other skillsets later.
Perhaps the most successful one-man army of the demoscene is Dmitry "AND" Andreev, two time winner of the Assembly demo party in the 64k intro category.
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