Sometime back in 2004 I was listening to the theme song from another popular TV series Greatest American Hero. The lyrics really struck home with me, and I thought about how they also related to George and his sudden shot to fame as Superman. I began to think how much fun it would be to animate a dimensional puppet of George (as Superman) singing the song. I started to develop the idea and even made a drawing of a cartoon style George/Superman and then built a steel ball and socket armature for the foam rubber puppet that I planned to animate.

But it didn't take long before I realized I had bitten off just a little too much, and that such a project would take years of my spare time. Building dimensional puppets along with the office sets... and then animating them... was too daunting. So like so many other ideas I filed it away.

Then this past January I visited a favorite clay animation website of mine and noticed a link to a free computer animation program. After a short tour of the program I began to see an answer to that filed away idea of an animated, singing Superman. And this inspiration came to me at just the right time because by chance, I had some extra time to devote to it. I quickly located the original drawing I had done and got to work learning the animation program and making new drawings as well as developing the lip syncing tecniques needed. After just a month of work it was finished, and the rest, as they say, is history.