Here is the pod movement sequence. Basically it launches from the terminal pod bay ... zips out over the valley ... banks hard right toward the spin ward highway and then banks left to correct and line up with traffic. We'll need to include some more traffic along the traffic zones which move in opposing direction on the two rims. Nothing to complicated, I figure that a simple texture map with a lot of transparencies should do it nicely.

You should probably refer to the tiny QuickTime on page _07 for the basic dimensions. Minky thinks my pod looks like your cabbage gardens. I told her that you'd come up with something much cooler.

I figure that a nice plate will work well here and then we'll whip pan with the pod to a second shot that looks on up the ring span. Basically the same shot, flipped without the terminal.

I'd like to keep the pod at a 90 degree angle as it flies along the rim so that we get the ring valley on Faye's singles and the earth behind John. When we correct for the POV we should establish a shot similar to the following. Obviously it would be lined up with the rim, but since I don't have a render for that POV I'm just using this for example.