Stop-Motion Animation: Cut out animation

South Park

Montage showing the stages of an animation process: On top, a simple black and white sketch of a male child in a rocket kiddie-ride, while another young child stands next to the ride and reluctantly holds the rider's hand. In the middle, stock animation characters reflecting the sketch shown at top, sans background characters. At bottom, a screenshot of a fully animated frame showing the same event, complete with characters and arcade games in the background

The style of the animation used in South Park is inspired by the paper cut-out cartoons created by Terry Gilliam in his series 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' of which the creators of South Park were huge fans of. Construction paper and traditional stop motion cutout animation techniques were used in the original animated shorts and in the pilot episode. Episodes after this started to get produced by computer animation. Before computer artists began animation a series of storyboards were created.

The various stages of production (from top to bottom): the storyboard sketch, the CorelDRAW props with stock character models, and a frame from the fully rendered episode in Toon Boom are provided by the show's storyboard artists.^[45]^[72]

Cut out animation

Cutout animation is a technique used for producing animations using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric and even photographs.

Stop-Motion Animation

Thursday 29 November 2012

Cut out animation

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