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12. Firstlife - Gena Showalter - Gatarix
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Originality: 6.25
Aesthetic: 6.75
Story: 6.75
Personal: 5.75
Average: 6.375

This is a cool concept with a strong sense of story, showing one world (or perhaps one life) sifting down through the hourglass to transform into another that looks completely different. My only gripe is with the inclusion of the slogan “There are worse things than death,” which hurt the Originality score by sounding like something you'd see on a poster for a bad horror movie. It would have been better to simply let the image speak for itself because it's a strong one.

Fortunately, the visual presentation is excellent, with a surprising amount of detail to each of the two environments given how small they are represented like ships in a bottle. And the contrast of the dark world on top with that bright environment on the bottom is a nice touch, as is the depiction of that top world melting away into grains of sand falling through the hourglass.

It's a cool concept, it's just a shame they had to include that tagline, which I found more distracting than I probably should have given its small font size.