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From charliemc@prodigy.net:
Got getem snail baby.

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From elvish_archer@mailcity.com:
really really great concept I think u and your supersonic snail will win this
round

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From tim_cutho@smileyface.com:

A very nice twist to a classic tale.
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From mar@physics.usyd.edu.au:
This gave me a big laugh when I saw it - excellent interpretation of the topic!

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From hgregory3@aol.com:
Artistic - A balanced, easy on the eye image.
Technical - Nice attention to detail.

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From steve@neurotrain.com:
A 14 T 16 C 20
Well framed.  Having the snail in the btm third and 
centered is great!  Colours and lighting are off.  The 
"sky" is only slightly overcast, but the lighting looks 
overcast.  Background really needs work.

Technically - lighting really is the biggest flaw.  Thought 
the stands need to look better.  The car is excellent.  
You should have rounded the end of the snail shell - is 
too much of a straight line...

Concept - bang on

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From StephenF@whoever.com:
I like the concept here.  The snail's shell looks good, 
and the car looks cool.  The birds' wings look somewhat 
angular to me.

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From gmccarter@hotmail.com:
Without any animation (or even motion blur), it is difficult to tell the
story here.

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From hfventer@ing.sun.ac.za:
The pealing back of the car texture doesnt quite fit in 
the image.  The tarmack texture is a bit repetative.  
Either a larger texture map or a slightly roated one would 
have worked better.

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From mark.wagner17@gte.net:
A very nice image, but without a description of how the 
image was created, I can't score it on technical merit.  
For example, are the clouds volumetric rendering or 
merely an image map?

The racetrack has a very strong pattern where the image 
map used for texturing repeats itself.