Not an original idea, but I’m glad to have finally put it to paper for the sake of the boy’s creativity. The script was easy enough to come up with—I say that looking back, but the truth is the pentameter took some tweaking, the 昇龍拳 gag on one of my nightly runs over the bridges—though drawing hasn’t been in my wheelhouse for almost a lifetime, and a first go at inking compounded the challenge. The 0.5-0.7 gel pens I had left either too thick a stroke or not enough of one at 0.38mm, and didn’t erase at all cleanly as advertised. That and the economy of spacing for lettering, one really gains appreciation for the artistry of professionals even on a silly project like this. Not to bore you with other details, but if this wrap-up is to serve as its director’s commentary, I’d also like to add that among my many distractions (such as the lyrics to my next one) was the amusing notion the story could’ve been animated in a single continuous take.
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