Clearly Matt and Trey were making fun of what they had to go through when they made the pilot episode for the show. That's the only episode in the show that was all done through stop motion, unless you include the original spirit of Christmas.
In the Spirit of Christmas or whatever the fuck it was called, they had to do it. They didn't have his parka covering his mouth and I believe they called him Cartman at the time. And Cartman was called Kenny and he was the one who was killed lmao.
@@GeekedOutNeckbeard nah the kenny looking character didnt have a name and the cartman looking character was called kenny. the name cartman probably hadn't been thought of yet but everybody confuses it
As a stopmotion animator, I have to say, the part when cartman sneezes and the whole scene flies away, is the most relatable yet traumatic experience an animator will go through. It's just so... sad 🥲
i could only imagine what hell it would be like to try to do stop motion during the hot months. you could not possibly have a fan going or any sort of air circulation
@@bottlesalts it's a living hell, i tell ya. I'm in there trying to do my job, and I start sweating like a horse, unable to do anything about it, it's horrible 😂
I did those in high school, at the few last hundred frames, the file got corrupted and I forgot to do separate files for each 1000. My teacher saw me work hard on it so she was nice enough to give me 80%. Still pisses me off to this day.
This is probably my favorite South Park Christmas episode. Because it not only makes fun of the original spirit of Christmas short, but because the boys are able to experience how painstaking it is to make a stop motion Christmas special
Trivia: the song for this episode is from "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" [1974] by Rankin/Bass. While the studio is famous for it's stop motion Xmas specials they also did regular animated ones and even non-Christmas specials.
South Park probably wouldn't have even reached its 200th episode today if it was still animated in stop motion. EDIT: Unless Trey and Matt have more than one team of animators doing the episodes separately from each other, just to ease the workload.
As a stop motion animator, I totally get how hard this can be. Took me 7 hours of working on a project of mine, copying the frames from a 3 second live action video clip into still frames and animating something on top of it frame by frame, then exporting it as single pictures only to put it back together took forever! And that was using a Photoshop-like program to move details like the eyes around for that scene.
Not gonna lie: the walking animation on this show must save them millions. The way they don’t animate legs moving just sort of shaking as they move. I’ve always thought it was really cool and unique the way it’s always been like that.
Yeah, stopmotion animation, though looks simple, is WAY harder than it looks. Makes the pilot episode and the 1992 and '95 original shorts before it worthwhile.
As someone who has just started their SM Journey. This is really how it is sometimes. Even when the characters face has no mouth (ex:kenny) you still have to move them in a way so that the audience can see who is talking. Luckily I started in the age of digital so we can always go back to see if something is wrong as we are filming but this was done in a time where you couldn't tell how it looked until you got the animation back and developed
this is why every student stop motion/puppet film is about a depressed character drinking coffee while contemplating their mundane lives in different depressing settings.
When I did that type of animation for a school project, I had only one mouth for every type of expression, so my characters were more like puppets. I also reused frames for every syllable when the characters were standing still and in the same mood, so I only had to shoot an open mouth and closed mouth once for those instances.
I’d be fun watching you guys watch the South Park origins and them making fun of themselves Jesus vs Frosty - RU-vid The Spirit of Christmas - RU-vid Pilot - 1x1 A Crappy Christmas - 4x17 Canceled - 7x3
So relatable. I wanna make a paper stop motion cartoon, and I’m like “how hard can it be?” And this happens. 😂 And every time, it looks like it’s haunted because I have trouble making it stay still. 😂
When I did stuff like this as a hobby (it was horrible), I remember thinking only spending an hour at a time filming each scene, but in reality, I spent at least four hours.
I’ve made stop motion animation cartoons over the last 5 years as a hobby. I taught myself how to do it, which is not a great endeavor, it’s not rocket science, but it is TIME consuming! Most people do the audio first and then draw and place the pieces. I write it out first, then draw it, place it, shoot it, and then go in and lay the audio down and match the voice with the mouths. I’m probably creating more work for myself by doing it that way. But It takes Hours and hours of careful placing of the pieces to just to produce 60 seconds of animation. I could totally relate to this clip, Trey and Matt gave their viewers a comedy spoof on just how frick’n tedious it actually is.
Ah yes, animating in a unique artstyle. So much fun. I love animating a specific movement for 3 hours to get 15 seconds more or less. For my animations, my character is flat in a 3D space, and has two DIFFERENT styles for the head and body, and figuring out how to translate that to 3D movements can be a struggle but the end result is worth it tho 😤
@@magmos6346 not yet tbh- I've only just started to plan and set up a test stage for my first animation ^^ , this year though im planning to create armatures ++
I mean, all they need to do is get a frame with each type of mouth, then rearrange the frames in post. It didn't look like the characters were moving or anything
