Animated Narrative Week 09 - Time

Premise:
A superhero who has a super remote controlling the speed of time in a specific area. He could easily save the world and defeat the bad guys easily by turning them into babies.

This work examined the concept of time. By expressing the superpower of the protagonist to reverse time by using a remote control, I am able to explore the possibility of manipulating time in the superhero genre. I planned to design the superhero as a mundane who just happened to pick up a magical remote control and start saving the world. The whole story would be more like a dark comedy in which the character becomes more self-absorbed when it gained power, and in the end, the remote control will be out of battery and the character will lose its super power during an important fight.

Similar work has been done by Japanese comic artist ONE, One-punch Man, which illustrate the process of an ordinary man becoming the most powerful living thing in the whole universe by doing push-up and jogging every day.

Through the feedback from Susan, I shifted my focus from toying around with the superpower to the mental shifts of gain and loss of the superpower.