To my dear, loving Brother

[Twincruiser]

Michel Koiter
3 May 1984 - 18 March 2004

To my dear, loving Brother

Why did it had to be so quickly...

You and I were destined to walk this life forever...

You knew that we could have done so much things together...

Still, In my heart I know you are here with me...

Thank you for the joy, inspiration and lessons you gave me...

You will always be with me, my brother.


http://69.57.154.56/~hoccom/Brother_2.jpg

http://69.57.154.56/~hoccom/Brother_1.jpg

Thank you all for your support to us in the years we have worked and lived together. Thank you, art communities, for bringing so much joy to my brother. Although we are seperated physically I know he has given me strength. We will always be Twincruiser in spiritual essence.

Thank you.

-René Koiter (of Twincruiser)

[davi]

i'm not sure what to say...

i'm sorry for your loss, and may he always be remembered.

[darkcult]

I’m sorry for your loss. I know it's hard but hang in there, we’re with you!

[bRyaN]

uh god...

I'm soo sorry...

hang in there bro..we're all here for you...

much love..

bRyaN

[AnarchyAo2]

I'm really sorry about your loss. He was a great artist, and it will be a great loss to the art community.

[Skank]

im speachless ...
my heart goes out to you, he was an inspiration to many, and i hope hes always remembered.

[thomasaurus]

I'm terribly sorry for your loss... he was a great part of this community, he will always be remembered.

[helix7]

One of the most amazing things about being artists is that when we are gone, we leave behind a huge part of ourselves in our work. Your brother lives on in many ways.

We all feel for you man...

[gekitsu]

man... my heartfelt condolences to you, your family and friends. :(

hang in there, mate. try to let the thoughts of all the good times you had with your brother take over. dont let everything you got from him be for nothing.

[Aidan]

A good friend of mine just lost a loved one...

I'm feeling with you.

/e: I sent you a personal message...please dont answer it..

[Android]

cruise on-

[Twincruiser]

Thank you all for your wishes and prayers. I will try to explain what has happened to my brother now.

This past Friday he wasn't feeling that well...pretty tired from school and he would sleep a lot after he got home. After a few days on the Monday night he started get a pretty high fever...throwing up a lot. On the Tuesday he had gotten pretty bad...throwing up after every 45 minutes or so. That resulted in a high dehydration because his body would not soke up the liquid that we gave him. He started to be a bit delirious and talking about things that I would rather keep to myself...religious things....that was on a Wednesday. His fever dropped on the Thursday early morning (today) but he had a lot of trouble breating. We called the doc for the second time and he suggested to transport him to the Hospital. We dropped him off at the hospital...he was still walking pretty good. The docs took him in the emergency room and made an analysis on him. Then the trouble started...his breath became loud and his heart went fast. We (me and my parents) were taken to a seperate room and a doc came in to say that it was pretty bad. They had him stabilized a while and we were allowed to see him. He was breathing pretty heavily with a breathing support mask. We greeted him...I was last and touched my hand on his forehead and he said it was going to be allright...it was going to be alright...breating heavily. We left the room and I was the last to leave when I looked through the corners of my eyes and saw that his arms spastically grapped one of the docs...lots of docs came into the room and we then knew it was very bad. He was having a cardiac stop at that moment we were told after. They tried reanimating him but it would not help....they said he went silently when it happened...

I am sorry I have reported this story to you all but it is the only way I can express my feelings now. Though we were sad...we know he is with us. Especially when I left the hospital I felt a surge of strength and tranquility going through my body yet I was pretty shaky too. It has almost been 8 hours since his passsing. My life will definately not be the same as we two did almost everything together. It will be some time before I can really understand that my brother is not physically here anymore. The 3rd of May was to be our 20th birthday together...I feel sad that he didn't finish his teen years though I feel I am stepping into a new territory of adulthood and understanding.

As for as the Twincruiser duo...I doubt you will see art from me because I always saw myself an technical assistant to my brother...I will never learn what he could...it's something that I want to remember him by. His last drawings that we worked on together were 4 full color illustrations for those Warcraft books...those where his last. I have another 10 illo's for a Warcraft book that will be published within some months. I will keep Halls of Creation for everybody who wants to see his art...but it will never grow unfortunately. I will be maintaining the Sons of the Storm site for the blizzard guys...that's the least I can do to remember my brother and the things we enjoyed doing together...at least I will be involved in some art process. As I said...I will bear the name Twincruiser for the two of us...because in essence now we are one...we are fuzed together and I can feel his strength and dedication in me...these things will now be used for doing other things and helping out other people. I will remain active in art communities and have a look at all the art you guys do...though I really fear you won't be seeing any art from me alone...how I deeply am gonna miss that doing with Michel together.

Our secret plan was to make it into the movie industry together...movie production. We had plans...but we left them because our educations stood in the way so we decided to do that after we had gotten our degrees. I don't know what my plans are for my education but I will need to take it a bit easier now and do one course in a period or something for the time being...at least until the summer holidays. We were going to visit Argentina, the country where we were born, and meet up with relatives and friends there (it has been more than 4 years that we have not seen them)...our relatives there were pretty shocked...it's sad that they won't be able to see us physically together again. I am very sorry to tell you guys this whole long story...but it's the only way I feel that I can express my feelings now.

There are a lot of things that have to be managed right now...funeral...contacting friends and family. I am already getting a feeling that a lot of people are going to attend the ceremony. How Michel would have loved this crowd showing up for him only...I truly hope he can see it through my heart and eyes.

Thank you everyone for this joyous art production chapter of my life...I know Michel would have loved to see all the attention he is getting now

Thank you.

-René of Twincruiser

P.S. I am posting this on every forum we visited...feels like I am spamming...sorry for that.

Thank you Android...for that painting...it brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart.

[Jens]

my deepest condolences for you and your family. I loved your brother's art

[Ant4d]

I'm very very sorry. I'm absolutely speechless.

[DJK]

I wish all the strength in the world to you and your family.
I really enjoyed your collaborative artwork, and I was proud that two dutch fella's could make it this far at such a young age.
My condolences

[Jason Manley]

wow. i am sad for you and understand what you are going through to a certain degree. I too have lost loved ones.

You will feel that they are there with you at times. I am sure you will do as you would if he were at your side. Keep your shared memories close. He will not be forgotten. Make him proud of you.

My deepest condolences.

Jason

[Sularia]

I'm very sorry to hear this. I really enjoyed the stuff you guys did together. A very tragic loss of talent and vision.

[bwkeough]

I am deeply sorry for your loss...

[MGH]

That's terrible - and scary. To have something that started out so 'normal' turn so bad so quick. I'm sure there's a fair amount of shock along with the sadness. My sympathies to you and your family.
Nice tribute Android.

[jwo]

His art shall live on forever.
I am sorry for you and you family.

[el coro]

my deepest sympathies to you and yours. he will be missed.-c36

[rodrigo!]

my most heartfelt sympathy, I cant even imagine how hard it would be to lose someone so close. yours and his art will live on and continue to inspire me.

[-W.-]

deepest condolence

p.s. really liked the style you did together

[sparth]

in a way, we as artists, are permanently trying to push back this dramatic and unexplainable moment during which life ends. the process of creation is most of the time structured around this obsession, and even the tiniest created element is a fabulous victory against death itself.
keep his art, and your own art alive, as it has become priceless.

sparth

[Redder]

Don't be sad for you and your family will see your brother again in heaven.

[Nadim]

Deepest condolences for you and the family.

Nadim.

[Hanuka]

Some of the best die young... :(

Im deeply sorry for your (and the world's) loss.

[PhatTexta]

Hey, you don't know me and I've never spoken to you guys I've just been lurking for a long time, just wanna say I'm sorry for ur loss, it's one of the most terrible things in this world when a person dies young, a friend of mine was killed at the age of 16 doing graffiti so i feel for u. I'm also really close to my brother even though there i 8 years difference between us.. i cant imagine how it feels :( Ur brother was a wicked artist and i think keeping the halls of creation site up is a good idea.

r.i.p


regards.
Dave

[Crash]

R.i.p

[cartoonfox]

you probably dont know me, but i feel i should post. i'm deepley sorry for your loss. what a great artistic duo. he shall live on through his art and continue to inspire me.



rest in peace

[Twincruiser]

Here is info for the Dutch people here. I would be immensily honored if you were to come to this ceremony.

http://www.hallsofcreation.com/Info_Uitvaart.doc

[DragonGX]

Wow.. I am speechless... I am so sorry. :(

[Titan]

I didnt know him personally but had seen his art plenty of times...being a fantasy artist I found his work very inspirational....my condolences to you and your family...

[mos667]

A few years ago I lost my brother; it was a terrible period in my life. Although my brother was only 15 at the time, he had just started getting into art himself. It was terribly hard for me to deal with his loss. I realized, recently, that in not dealing with his loss, I turned to art to almost dedicate it to him. I knew he would have become something, and it's hard to have never been able to say that final goodbye.

It's terrible. Completely and utterly heart wrenching to feel the loss of something that felt so perfect, so immortal. Know that we are here to help you out in times of need.

It may not be now, or it may be in a few years, that you begin dealing with the loss. But please do realize that whenever you need someone, there are people like us here and your family. There are also books and groups to help out with dealing with loss.

He will always be there at your shoulder, looking down. As Sparth said, cherish the mark he left on the world, it was one that affected all of us in this field.

[Matt Elder]

I am a huge fan of the work that you guys did together, particularly my childhood favourites - Transformers. It is amazing what you guys achieved and you weren't even 20!

[Forge]

may your brother inspiration survive through your hands... don't give up man....

[Muttonhead]

My deepest sympathies for your loss.

Though the pain of his loss will be difficult to overcome, take heart in the knowledge that your brother is immortalized in the work that you created together. This is one of the greatest rewards of being one who creates.

[Red_Rook]

I cant possibly imagine. Im so sorry
r.i.p
-Ben

[lavhoes]

I didn't know you guys very well. But I knew you. You were always there. I knew you back when you were posting on ffonline with your fantasy characters, the ones with the brown textured background. I looked forward to seeing your next work, up until it came time for me to leave that forum.

I saw you post over at Sijun, as well, and I watched as your art progressed beyond the awesome precedent you had set earlier. I couldn't see everything you posted, but I knew that I had but to search for only a little while and I could find Twincruiser's latest piece. You guys had a love for art, and it showed through your consistent presence in several art communities.

For the longest time, I didn't see anything you guys had done, but the name stayed familiar. Then I saw your post over at eatpoo, and was delighted to see that you were still around, making art. You had made it big, working for ol' mama Blizzard and her Warcraft. If anybody deserved such early recognition, it was you two.

But now...now I continue to be speechless. I don't know what to say or how to even fathom how something so horrible could have happened to the people that least deserved it. This was the trembling of a great pillar, a tragedy that has surely beset us all. But the work you guys have done stays with us, and will continue to endure as a testament to all the hard work and dedication you both displayed for so many years.

I am sorry about your loss. Take care of yourself, and celibrate the accomplishments that you and your brother have achieved throughout the years. Raise a glass, make a toast, and honor him, for above all else that is what the work you've done really deserves. You will go on to accomplish even more, and you must press on to achieve even greater goals. Your brother would have wanted it that way.

Take it easy, Twincruiser, and know that many, many people think highly of you and the work you've done, and the work you will continue to do. No matter where you end up, you'll do fine, and we all look forward to what the future holds.

So long.