Absolutely amazing! Overwhelming attention to detail. Great work with the many layer passes and lighting effects. Camera moves are dynamic and help the narrative along. Best work I've seen using Dreamscape and RealFlow. Congratulations to you guys and best of luck in the future.

Woooooooow

wow that was epic! really good work guys!

bon boulot les gars ! bravo !

wonderful.

The 3d visual are espectacular... but the sounds........

Great Job!!!

great film guys! I love the animation! It reminds me of Final Fantasy's animated films! This is that good! ;)

All the best for your next installment (if there is one)! :)

Really amazing. A sense of doom hangs over the entire thing. Very dramatic sense of foreshadowing and timing.

Amazing!

very nice!

great camera work

amazing

scarry ;( but also good

Great video! I like the environmental context of it (reminds me of the korean animation Wonderful Days/Sky Blue). It is an interesting concept to use Oil as a power of the ocean, because normally people would think "ocean hates the oil, but people love it, so it should love people too".
Great job on staging and transitions. The lighting and character movements look very realistic, yet the shots are hard to interpret sometimes. Particularly where the Crude Oil Menace starts to move containers on the deck.. it looks like they are moving on their own. I would show some of those amazing Oil tentacles slithering between them, it would look more realistic. The main character as I understand is the blonde guy with dreads (not the Oil). There are two places where I would put him more into the frame: first, where he turns to run away from the Oil (the camera shakes and turns 45 degrees ccw as if lying broken on the floor) I would show his feet actually running away from the camera. And the second is the moment where the Oil swallows him. Since he is the main character I would emphasize this moment a bit more. Like show his face close up right before it happens. Something like that.
The last scene, where the Oil is slowly crushing its prey. I like the timing here - it creates the feelings of immense strength and strong anticipation. I kept thinking in my mind "yes, yes, now it's gonna crush it completely!" and was a bit disappointed when that never happened and the stage just faded away.
I always think of the last scene as a 'final blow', an 'ultimate statement' that expresses the idea of the whole film. It leaves the viewers with certain taste in their mouths. Thus, it seems to me that here the last scene could be sharper, leaving the audience in awe and fear of the doom.

great works guys. Looks gorgeous.

wonderful work, great animation and pacing.

absolutely wicked! I was entertained for every frame! Bravo.

Fantastic!

"students"? You must be joking! ;)

a journey into another realm of cinema!! Amazing!

Awesome work for 4 dudes!

Beautiful work, but it look like someone decided "The Abyss" should have ended differently. Very advanced in technique and suggests more and better to come. I just want to see a more complex story rather than complex imaging.

Amazing!!!

不错。

nice

COOL..!
the lighting is great...

Amazing!
Did you consider adding English subs for international audiences?

That was crazy :) I can't wait to see more!

Excellent, I really enjoyed this with my morning coffee. Short and Suspenseful

I really really liked the enviroment and how the water looked. Truely amazing guys!

You guys are so talented. But it was so quiet, this would be my favorite movie if you used some better sounds and music. Good sound effects would take this to the next level

Oceansize, like the band?

Wow! Ridley Scott would be so jealous. In fact, towards the end I would let the dreadlock-guy reach the helicopter and fly away just to make the oil re-appear inside the aircraft when he thinks it is already safe :)

Super job, very impressive.

Very nice! The monster reminds me of the one in Half Life. Keep up the good work.

not the brightest thing i've ever seen, but VERY COOL! good job guys! :)

Impresive. I really can´t believe it´s done by 4 people. It looks like a superproduction.

superb!

Really brilliant. Talent there for film VFX work (the CG oil rig), video game development/ cutscenes, feature film (eg. Resident Evil/ Final Fantasy), motion graphics (fluid animation/ effects).

I like how the oil is tentacle-like, globular yet solid.

Only critique would be the oil could have some "splashes" even being solid. Like if you look at some of the "fluid monsters" in Spirited Away and other fluid animation by Haiyo Miyazaki, even though a watery "entity" has a solid feel, it still "loses" some of itself with various splashes, parts breaking off, etc.

wow, this is so good.

not bad @ all

cOOl .. i Like iT :p

Awesome!

Marvelous, great message

great!

Very nice! Dreamlike is a good observation. I'm curious about the Dutch as well.

Intense!

Wow, amazing!

its awesome.....gosh

death tense...just great...congratulations to all of you...

The cinematography was amazing well done!!

4 students? cool Team!!

amazing

ammmmmazing!!

waarom in 't NL's? de makers hebben (aan de hand van de beschrijvingen gezien) allemaal Franse namen.....?!!?!

It looks amazing, but it would be nice if there were subtitles.

absolutely incredible work, in particular the camera movement, which I felt to be the selling point of this entire thing. keep making stuff like this!

Wow, this was epic ! 8 minutes of pure awesomeness !
Bonne chance à vous, vous êtes vraiment bien partis !

nice :D

Awesome. Especially good when the dreadlock character runs for his life and you get a good run or slow motion jump with light behind him...! I can still see improvement - the faces were modeled that way on purpose, probably, but the flow of the shots was not perfect - for instance, on his awesome leap as the corridor is broken off and his final moments are not put together well. Anyhow, great job with the lighting, underwater, etc.

This is why parkour should be a requirement when working on oil rigs with only a minimal crew.

Brilliant animation, great plot.

I didn't need english subtitles, so it's fine.

That was really something.

Fantabulous, mind blowing... I have never seen such a neat use of dreamscape and realflow , besides using mental ray, vray and scanline very aptly. My fav scene would be the jump shot. Even the sound was unique. How long did this project take to complete in terms of pre, prod, and post? What machines were used?

Absolutely Amazing

woow... scary. Thank you. good video.

This is a great film... alsome! well done guys.. =)

you are the future

Awesome stuff!

nice

cool! cool!

You guys have a wonderful style and I applaud you taking on a science-fiction narrative. With so many cartoons being made in the animation schools, it's refreshing to see this. You guys should post your making-of video on vimeo as well, it's super-informative and reveals just how much time went into achieveing all your shots. Again, excellent job and best of luck to the 4 of you.

very nice!

Bravo!

freaking insane! well done.

Great work, I just wish I understood what they were saying to each other Translations anyone?

Nice moves guys!

editcrunch.co.uk Great work

Oh my!
Great movie!

I'D live in a city where there's an oil plataform and you guys made an excellent work.

Félicitations from Brasil!!!

Amazing!
I love how a sense of tension was created, conveyed and furthered primarily through the music, especially when the rig was under attack!

Bravo!

Stunning work, especially for four of you, I can't even begin to guess how you guys pulled it off with every single element being so pristine. Beautiful work!

I don't know how you do it.

impressive
very inspire me

cool.

wow....cannot believe it's student work, it's just unbelievable of you guys. Great job! WOW!

Respect les gars ! Ca accroche. bonne continuation

amazing artwork, amazing shots, perfect overall-style!

Wow! This is a student film? I wish there was more. It would be amazing if you guys could make a full length feature film based on this. I'd buy it! Great work!

cool, but the end... no hope?

Fuckin' Hell, Congrats, amazing work!

Super cool~!!!!!

Nice!!!

wow amazing