The fire in the scene at the beginning where Jack and Rob are hanging on for dear life was filmed in a garbage can in Anthony's back yard and added into the shot later.
Originally the film was supposed to only be a 30 second commercial for a contest, but was rewritten and expanded when the contest was dropped that year.
It took 3 years to finish the film due to rewrites and having to transition from hand painting everything to doing everything on computer.
For a while, the film could only be worked on by the director while he was at his day job as a Computer Lab Technician because he didn't have his own home computer.