As the series continued, the production staff grew and the animation process accelerated considerably thanks to computers. On a budget of $300,000, the pilot’s crew consisted of Parker, Stone, animation director Eric Stough, and a few assistants. It took around three months to produce the 28-minute pilot, which ultimately had to be cut down to 22 minutes for time. The characters were made through construction paper cutouts with their movements having to be meticulously photographed one frame at a time. Santa.” The short’s popularity paved the way for Stone and Parker to develop the “South Park” television pilot, “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.”īoth “Spirit of Christmas” shorts, as well as the pilot, were produced through a form of stop-motion animation called ‘cutout animation’. Frosty.” The short caught the eye of Fox Broadcasting executive Brian Graden, who gave the duo $1,000 to produce another “Spirit of Christmas” short, which was later retitled to “Jesus vs. While still in school, Matt Stone and Trey Parker laid out the groundwork for an adult animated series in their short film, “The Spirit of Christmas,” later renamed “Jesus vs. Of course, the production time for a single “South Park” episode wasn’t always so constricted When it comes to “South Park,” however, an episode is written, animated, recorded, and sent off to Comedy Central in just six days. With traditionally animated TV shows like “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy,” it can take several months just to complete one half-hour episode. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we’ll be discussing How South Park is Made. You won’t find a cartoon on television that operates quite like this one.

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