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From maal-irtc20030115@anthrosphinx.de:
Good job! Really enjoyed the "wormhole" effect.
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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:
Really really well done!  You get my top  ranking - at least thus far.  Realism
is high.  The only thing that didn't look quite right was the blobs hanging
around just at the end after the screen lifted the pod out of the water - were
the blobs (metaballs) meant to be water?  Otherwise great stuff.
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From evilsnack@hotmail.com:
The wormhole's passage past a handful of galaxies (that's what they look like)
is nice.

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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
There's some very nice effects, particularly the water on the camera lens and
the flare on the stars. The splash down effect at the end is nice, and I like
the rippling ocean, and the animation on the rings looks good.

But it seems to lack some other things, it's all over way too quickly, and the
fact there's no motion blur in the travelling sequence makes it hard to feel
the speed. Also the lighting makes it hard to see some things, like at the
moment when the pod gets dropped.

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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
I saw the movie, and the animation copies it rather accurately. There seem to be
some strange effects in the tunnel sequence, but these might be intentional,
and when viewing it for the second time, I thought they were rather neat.
Again, it is a bit unfortunate so many people chose the rather unoriginal space
setting for their animations.

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From pterandon@yahoo.com:
Moving through a long tunnel is an overused cliche'.   Nice reproduction of the
actual device from the movie: the lab gives a realistic feeling. 
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From jps6860@yahoo.com:
Very good representation of the movie, though I'm glad you left out the
whole father/alien thing. :)

I've got two specific comments, one bad and one good.  During the scene
where the pod is dropped the background landscape and sky seem to be
missing leaving just a black space.  This makes it very hard to pick out 
the pod until it is in the bright core.  Now for the good, I loved the 
splash effect and water droplets on the camera when the pod goes into 
the net.

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From clem@dhol.org:
Is it wise to hang a cantilever over an untested gravity gradient device?
Nice job.  I like the trip itself and the smoke effect.  The rotating
circles need more work.  I don't get much impression of speed or complexity
or something that could disrupt nature that way.