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Pretty much the entirety of South Park series, minus the pilot episode (which still used real construction paper). It became increasingly obvious with time, as

Pretty much the entirety of South Park series, minus the pilot episode (which still used real construction paper). It became increasingly obvious with time, as they started doing a lot of interesting things in later seasons that aren't really suited for non-CGI, like smooth camera angle rotations around the scene, complex special effects, etc. While in the beginning, it was mostly for the sake of making it more efficient and simpler to produce an episode.

twosdai 4y ago
Minor correction I think many of the first season episodes are still using construction paper. You can occasionally see their hands appear in frames. But yeah after the early episodes / seasons it's cgi
- filoleg 4y ago
  > Minor correction I think many of the first season episodes are still using construction paper. Thanks for clarifying, good point. I should've been more clear in my original comment, because I meant to say that the pilot used real construction paper only (with no CGI), not that construction paper wasn't used at all after that.
tzs 4y ago
> While in the beginning, it was mostly for the sake of making it more efficient and simpler to produce an episode Which they needed because of their insane production schedule. New episodes air on Wednesday on Comedy Central. They have to have the completed episode uploaded to Comedy Central a few hours before that. There are times when the Friday before they have no idea what the next episode will be about. Parker and Stone figure it out over the weekend, Parker writes a script, and then production can start on Monday morning. That gives them two days plus a few hours to go from freshly finished script to complete episode. They need to, even on what is for them a leisurely week where they have the script by Thursday, be able to see that something isn't working and needs to be changed hours before air time and have their system be fast enough that they can do it. Around the turn of the century they actually had a more powerful animation pipeline than the major animation studios like Pixar or DreamWorks or the major CGI places, all because they needed such fast turnaround.
- zahrc 4y ago
  The documentary “6 days to air”shows how insane this is… https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076781/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076781/
babypuncher 4y ago
What makes their use of CGI "revolutionary" is how it enabled them to have a real quick production schedule. Most episodes are written, acted, and animated in the span of 6 days. They will often sketch out ideas for the season beforehand, but the bulk of the work on a given episode is done in that very short timeframe. It's why their show is always able to be incredibly topical, often lampooning current events within days of hitting the news cycle. Personally, I think it's the reason they still feel fresh and relevant even after more than 20 seasons. Traditional animated sitcoms like The Simpsons or Family Guy still contend with a 9-12 month production schedule per episode.

twosdai 4y ago

Minor correction I think many of the first season episodes are still using construction paper. You can occasionally see their hands appear in frames. But yeah after the early episodes / seasons it's cgi

filoleg 4y ago
> Minor correction I think many of the first season episodes are still using construction paper. Thanks for clarifying, good point. I should've been more clear in my original comment, because I meant to say that the pilot used real construction paper only (with no CGI), not that construction paper wasn't used at all after that.

tzs 4y ago

> While in the beginning, it was mostly for the sake of making it more efficient and simpler to produce an episode Which they needed because of their insane production schedule. New episodes air on Wednesday on Comedy Central. They have to have the completed episode uploaded to Comedy Central a few hours before that. There are times when the Friday before they have no idea what the next episode will be about. Parker and Stone figure it out over the weekend, Parker writes a script, and then production can start on Monday morning. That gives them two days plus a few hours to go from freshly finished script to complete episode. They need to, even on what is for them a leisurely week where they have the script by Thursday, be able to see that something isn't working and needs to be changed hours before air time and have their system be fast enough that they can do it. Around the turn of the century they actually had a more powerful animation pipeline than the major animation studios like Pixar or DreamWorks or the major CGI places, all because they needed such fast turnaround.

zahrc 4y ago
The documentary “6 days to air”shows how insane this is… https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076781/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076781/

babypuncher 4y ago

What makes their use of CGI "revolutionary" is how it enabled them to have a real quick production schedule. Most episodes are written, acted, and animated in the span of 6 days. They will often sketch out ideas for the season beforehand, but the bulk of the work on a given episode is done in that very short timeframe. It's why their show is always able to be incredibly topical, often lampooning current events within days of hitting the news cycle. Personally, I think it's the reason they still feel fresh and relevant even after more than 20 seasons. Traditional animated sitcoms like The Simpsons or Family Guy still contend with a 9-12 month production schedule per episode.