===== From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com: With a little bit more work (mostly detail inside the space craft), this could've been a great entry. ===== From darwallace@earthlink.net: Spacecraft have a lot of interior detail... otherwise excellent. ===== From : At first I was not sure where the real loneliness story in here was until reading your text. Nice idea but perhaps a lonely astronaut looking out would improve this. ===== From whitey@telefragged.com: the lens flare is a little much ===== From ruy@hipernet.com.br: Yep, if I was to enter this round, I would have probably gone for Yuri Gagarin. To me, no one was lonelier than him. Good concept. ===== From dapigg2000@yahoo.com: Pretty cut-and-dry ===== From cfusner@enter.net: I notice the astronaut is also using Moray. (No doubt the flashing danger indicators are because he forgot to reduce the duty cycle setting in Win POV). You have done well for a new creation mode you are no accustomed to (i.e. Using Moray for an entire scene) Ah, to be shot into space with just me, a computer, and my raytracing tools... :-) Wouldn't it be grand? Wouldn't many people who know me willingly oblige? ===== From rclee@oklahoma.net: Good effort, even though it was quick. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: I can't quite make out the text on the screens from the reflection... I think I needed more clues as to the predicament in the scene to understand it from viewing it. ===== From p_chan@shaw.ca: My take on what to do with the sun would have been to leave it visible, and create a dummy light to illuminate the planet. However, I personally don't like very prominent lens flares, so I would recommend toning the lens flare down a bit. The interior of the ship is done well with the red lighting. As for the exterior, a less blurry starfield would be more realistic for a view from space. ===== From StephenF@whoever.com: I like the modelling and texturing on the various objects. The lens flare seems rather gaudy and overdone to me, and tends to distract from the rest of the scene. ===== From clem@dhol.org: The monochrome concept strengthenes the image artistically. It seems to me that the emergency bit is redundant. "Alone in orbit" would be quite lonely enough for most people.