No; I WISH I was a superhero! God or whatever almighty damned me for not giving me either superpowers OR putting me in the "right place at the right time."
@03:14I meant to animate drips coming off of Lucy to show she was soaking wet, but ran out of time.
This was my hardest and longest scene to do. It is 500 frames of animation, and I am pretty sure it was over 200-300 drawings of clean-up animation. Where most scenes took a day to clean-up, this took about 5-7 days...it was epic.
@03:09That car there on the right is actually my girlfriend car. Or, I tried to make it look like it. It's a tiny drawing. You cant see it, but on a bigger video size with bigger resolution, you can see on the car antennae the mickey mouse logo/silhouette, that my girlfriend has on her car.
@02:18This burp is part of my own fake burp mixed in with something else.
Originally I hadnt planned on animating things flying off the table, or Lucy being blown away...or even the plate smashing. But I felt this joke needed to be pushed more, so I gave myself more work.
@01:22The background pics features a piece by mattcrap which I reused, and I also have SuperDude's eDate avatar, and SuperDude images I have already uploaded on deviantArt.
@01:02SuperDude's powers ain't supposed to make sense like a rare gene or something like that. Just as a ridiculous parody, I thought it would be funny to give him any and all superhero powers going.
@00:25The pop up message boxes were made and animated in flash. The images of SuperDude and Lucy were actually taken from the turnaround sheets of the characters.
Notice how long it says Lucy will take to be over. I'll talk about this later.
@00:06This scene is a homage to 'The Incredibles' and Bob Parr's study room where all the 'Mr.Incredible' memorabilia is. I also included souveneirs like a batarang and superman's costume and green lantern's ring here.
I also held a contest where I asked artists on deviantArt to draw SuperDude, and the best entries were featured as framed artwork in the background.
My 3rd year film of animation college, and only my second film to date. Took 5 months taking the idea from concept to final film, with about 4-5 weeks of animation and about 10 weeks of clean-up animation. The colouring and editting was all done in one week.
This is all 2D traditional animation. I lost count of the number of drawings. However, my previous film, Cecil the Penguin [link] was about 2,500 drawing. SuperDate is nearly twice as long, and was twice as complicated to make, so maybe I did nearly 5,000 drawings. I don't like thinking about it...it boggles my mind. ^_^
The film was deleted by dA previously because I used the original Aladdin song, but now I got an original recording from a voice-over artist with a piano in the background. So it no longer violates copyrights!
Anyway, the film was nominated for 'Best 2D film' at my college's annual award show. I hope you enjoy the film. Watch it through once, then watch it again to read some of my 'Director's Commentary' through the annotations, where you'll find some easter egg bonuses.
SuperDate on youtube: [link] Animation Showreel: [link]
Daily Deviation
Given 2011-02-21
"Who knew that it is so much trouble to date a hero!" -As Written By Suggester (
Suggested by ~synthetic-pain and Featured by
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In the proper version I cut to the real Aladin music, but I had to cut it for copyright reasons or something.
Was fun to animate that.
If I wasn't on a tight deadline, I would have fixed it. But luckily, no-one noticed.
Did you?
This was my hardest and longest scene to do. It is 500 frames of animation, and I am pretty sure it was over 200-300 drawings of clean-up animation. Where most scenes took a day to clean-up, this took about 5-7 days...it was epic.
You cant see it, but on a bigger video size with bigger resolution, you can see on the car antennae the mickey mouse logo/silhouette, that my girlfriend has on her car.
Originally I hadnt planned on animating things flying off the table, or Lucy being blown away...or even the plate smashing. But I felt this joke needed to be pushed more, so I gave myself more work.
A new pic on the right was done by
Notice how long it says Lucy will take to be over. I'll talk about this later.
I also held a contest where I asked artists on deviantArt to draw SuperDude, and the best entries were featured as framed artwork in the background.
Here you can see work from: