South Park Paper Cut Out Animation

Imagine tedious task of setting up and filming a stop motion construction paper show for 3 months and being told to go back and redo it.

South park paper cut out animation. Those covered under patent copyright and trademark laws. In 1995 parker and stone were asked to create a second spirit of christmas short which could be sent as a digital e card. South park stopmotion claymotion kenny buy fractured but whole duration. Southpark paper cut out animationexperimental animation class.

In the world of intellectual property there are three basic types. I have news for you. While sometimes used as a relatively simple and cheap animation technique in childrens programs cutou. 47 79 80 construction paper and traditional stop motion cutout animation techniques were used in the original animated shorts and in the pilot episode.

We actually havent used real construction paper since the pilot episode cartman gets an anal probe after that south park made the big switch to big ol fancy computers. We use a number of programs to make the finished product but most of the animation is done in maya a powerful 3d animation program. It used physical cut out animation with puppets made out of sugar paper. The shows style of animation is inspired by the paper cut out cartoons made by terry gilliam for monty pythons flying circus of which parker and stone have been lifelong fans.

South park didnt invent that style. The worlds earliest known animated feature films were cutout animations as is the worlds earliest surviving animated feature die abenteuer des prinzen achmed. Besides you copyright works not styles. Not only would they have to cut the 6 minutes but they had to make the story work by adding new scenes in.

South park started as an animated short called the spirit of christmas also referred to as jesus vs frosty created by university students trey parker born 1969 and matt stone born 1971 in 1992. The props would be cut out and used as puppets for stop motion.