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From maal-irtc20030115@anthrosphinx.de:
Really liked the idea. IMO, the "desert rolling" scene is simply too long...
Nice take on some SF classics, the "MOnuMENT" reference is a bit too
far-fetched. May have looked better if the letters would have been placed on
something similar to the actual monument?
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From Martin.Magnusson.7121@student.uu.se:
I love the credits :D
The scenes with photographic backdrops are good, too.

Stuff that could be improved:
The ball seems to rotate and slide, rather than roll. Especially in the scene
after it's been beamed up into the saucer. Some of the textures could need some
work -- the marble on the pool table gets washed out, and the sand and grass
textures could need some more detail IMHO.


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From javaearl@hotmail.com:
You should have given credit to the credits, since they were in fact the best
part.
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From marlo.steed@uleth.ca:
You provide too much exalanation of your animation - next time reduce and
simplify.  No one has the time to read this much information, no matter how
good your animation is.

Comments on your animation:  overall I liked the idea
In some cases I was hoping for a bit more speed since the backgrounds were
simple there was no point in slowing the ball down.  At certain points the spin
of the ball seemed out of synch with the speed or the direction of the ball (I
know that is difficult to perfect).  Overall a bit more realism in the textures
and details would have helpd, as would speeding up the entire process.
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From evilsnack@hotmail.com:
JV: mpeg_encode is putting something funny in your anim (or maybe it isn't
recording the frame rate right).



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From klynn@telefish.net:
FYI. Windoze MediaPlayer 9.00 under XP had trouble playing your mpeg correctly.
The QuickTime player handled it ok.  

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From tek@evilsuperbrain.com:
Very simple style, but the ideas behind it are good. It could really use better
compression settings though!

There seems to be some inconsistency in the modelling, where some things like
the star gate are modelled in a lot of detail, but then other things like the
pool table seem far too simple. Also the movement of things seems a little odd
at times (though some of that is the mpeg compression), e.g. there's a sudden
jump just after the cueball hits the 8-ball at the start.

Obviously you have the talent, but with an animation this long I guess you just
didn't have time to do everything perfectly. It's still a good end result.

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From maarten_hofman@hotmail.com:
Indeed a "wow" experience. Unfortunately the mpeg encoding artifacts and other
animation glitches reduced the experience, and I'm a bit disappointed about the
recurring space theme, though it is less in this animation.

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From pterandon@yahoo.com:
Technically jerky and has several errors in how balls roll, no acceleration. 
Following  ball down a winding hole is an overused cliche'.   Some scenes (like
white house landing) were actually quite cool and well carried out.  Perhaps
you should ahve stayed with one idea like that. 
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From jps6860@yahoo.com:
Quite a journey.  But shouldn't the tornado take the 8 ball to Oz not 
from it?  :)

I did have a few nits to pick.  There are a few spots where the movement 
seems very choppy.  Most notably in the in the desert after the 8 ball 
goes through the stargate and again when it's going down the spaceship
hallway.  Also the two players I tried reported the running time as 24
seconds, even though it did run much longer than that.  I didn't deduct 
anything because of it, I just though it was kind of odd.  Overall, I 
thought it was good and right on topic.

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From clem@dhol.org:
??? Where is the animation you described in the text file?  All I see is 10
megs of pointless intro and a brief still shot of a pool table.  I have to
grade what I see.