Swing through the Interchange

Comic-book animation with visible halftone dots in the shadows, hand-lettered impact shapes with no readable words, chromatic fringing on the highlights and the figure animating on twos while the background runs on ones. An original masked vigilante in a navy and copper suit, no existing character and no logos, swings on a cable through a four-level highway interchange at rush hour, passing under one deck and over the next, using a light gantry to change direction. A delivery van clips a barrier below and starts to jackknife, and the vigilante drops off the cable, lands on the van's roof, and rides it as it slews to a stop across two lanes. The camera holds a wide that lets the whole interchange read for the swing, then snaps to a low three-quarter on the van as the feet land. Ink lines thicken on contact frames. Cable takes tension, the roof panel dents where the boots hit, and the van's weight transfers visibly through the slide. Cable singing, wind, tires locking up, sheet metal denting, horns, and a brass and drums cue that hits on the landing frame.