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ooohhh boy, another school project uploaded hereeereuhhh...

anyways, made for my Pipeline and Product Fundamentals class in CCAD during my sophomore year. Uhhh... this one was a bit of a ball buster to do, not only was this was first time doing an animation with multiple scenes rather than just... one, but also this initially started as a 12 (then downsized to 9) page script that took a month to write, and ended up being way longer than I had anticipated it being. It all made this a bit of pain to do while juggling other assignments (+ frequent desires to take a break for once... and play RE9 lul), thus this wasn't actually done when it was due (which was actually expected)... but took over a whole ass week afterwards to finish it up and uh after nearly 200 hours... now it's here! Idea wise, it was initially made right after I rewatched James Gunn's Superman from last year back in January (alongside some smaller things), thus some inspiration struck and it lead to this.

VO quality is also a little inconsistent as it was recorded with two different mics, a decent condenser mic I've had for about 6 years, and my school's audio recording studio (which used Adobe Audition... which I have zero clue how to use), as I wasn't confident about my dorm room's acoustics for the line or two where I screamed n shit lol.

Animated using Toon Boom Harmony Premium, backgrounds done in Adobe Photoshop 2025 (when working in classrooms) & Clip Studio Paint (when working at home), and edited using Adobe Premiere Pro 2026

Music: "Archimedes" & "Dreams of Cruelty" from Team Fortress 2, intentionally bad superhero MIDI trumpet thing by me.

Behind The Scenes on my second YouTube channel!

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