===== From chipr@niestu.com: The concept was *great*, although the scene shifts were a bit jerky. I had to watch it twice to realize that I hadn't already seen the cargo in the first scene--just the crate. *Excellent* effort. ===== From agage@mines.edu: Beautiful. A testament to what POVray can do :) Okay, here's the play by play: The modeling, lighting, and texturing are all flawless, as far as I'm concerned. The cuts between some of the "scenes" seem a little abrupt, especially the first, but this hardly detracts. The motion of the vehicles (both the dip when being loaded and traveling to the city) are fluid and precise. The attention to detail is very good. The barrels in the "sky train" scene, as well as the docking lights during the end of that segment are great. And, to top it all off, the "cargo" is very well modeled, and I particularly liked how it just happened to be the same shape as the sky platform. Overall, an excellent piece of work; practically a documentary. I expect no less in July! :) ===== From dick@buckosoft.com: Nice story. I think there are too many scenes; the camera jerks around a lot in one minute. Some of the scene animations could be a little longer; they start late in the sequence and end early. If you eliminated one scene and made the others a teensy bit longer the whole animation might be a little smoother. I love the twist at the end. The opening and closing credits are excellent. ===== From nazrat@athabascau.ca: A nicely polished piece of work. The silent screen titles were also reminiscent of the early days of flight. Having the space station look like the aircraft was a bit on the cute side, though. ===== From bill@apocalypse.org: Amazingly brilliantly cool!!! Lots of great detail that was appreciated. I loved the sleakness of the sky-train. The titles worked well too. ===== From hcousineau@usa.net: It had a really neat concept. The whole thing was very high quality. ===== From r@stork.docs.uu.se: Gee... this one's great! 1860 frames, how did you manage to squeeze all that into 3 MB? Anyway, almost everything is very good - I love the titles and the bupy surface of the sky train for example. One thing that could be improved might be tha camera movement in "Revelation". ===== From r@dmsst59.d.resnet.pitt.edu: Outstanding - my personal favorite! Extremely fluid camera and object movement. Modeling is simplistic but well thought out and effective. Notable for composition ===== From r@cust150.webbernet.net: The eye for detail in this piece is exemplary. The workers standing around at the departure, the bounce of the truck... these are signs of the ability to step around technique and see what you are depicting. The mpeg artifacting around the "train" engines and the trucks, especially when crossing the land-water boundaries, served well to indicate gravitic disturbance. Was this planned or serendipity? The titles and credits were good, but I would rather you used the bandwidth for enhancing the scene, perhaps by replacing some of the abrupt transitions with dissolves. The structure of the space station was a very nice touch and did not even look implausible. Outstanding. ===== From r@pm1-21.spectranet.ca: Excellent use of camera motion! Great work! Notable for originality, composition, modelling ===== From r@auasc7-104.flash.net: Incredible! This is a wonderful work, the clear winner in my mind. The subject is brilliantly presented -- it almost rivals your "Cinema" work in notability. The only small weakness is the lack of texture on some of the terrain, but that would consume valuable bandwidth. Notable for originality, composition, lighting, modelling