Demomakers
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Demomakers or demosceners are the people who make the computer audio-visual artform known as demos or other demoscene productions.
They are frequently students, young computer addicts who spend days coding their demos. They often have a pseudonym, their real name is seldom used.
The countries most known for demomaking are Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden and Finland), Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, France, Hungary, Poland and Switzerland. Some eastern countries (Russia) recently arrived with some pretty good productions. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Japan, Israel and the United States are less active.
As a demo usually takes weeks or more to make and since usually the persons are specialized in different areas (i.e. a coder is not always good in composing music), the work is divided, demomakers group themselves, thus creating demogroups. A demoscene group is like a firm, it has its own name and reputation, for example: Future Crew, Impact Studios, Pulse. They meet on chat networks (IRC) and in real life during the demoparties.