Storyboard and design department is where the beginning of production starts for South Park. This is where they make their jokes, basically everything you see on the screen starts here. They are given 6 days to make an episode, so jobs are divided to help obtain this goal. The team is given an hour to do about 7/8 pages. They draw-colour each character while reading the script to really create the characters. Each character is designed like a puppet so their movements can be manipulated. If they want a specific pose, the character is sent back to the design department where they can properly edit him. Matt and Trey go into the recording studio half a dozen times a week to read the 22 minute script. It takes Matt and Trey 23 minutes to do a 22 minute script. Once the boys have said their lines, it's then taken to the editor to edit the whole thing together.
50 different replacements for DOT as the character is to small so they need different models, with different poses for each shot. The team gets about 4 seconds each day of footage. They came up with the idea of using a 3D printer to print over 150 models of DOT. Each pose had 50 DOT'S and 3 replacements. They start with 2D designs, which are the given to a 3D designer, which then are printed using the 3D printer. Each shot was taken by a Nokia phone with a microscopic lens attached to it. Each shot was one picture.
Once the model of DOT was made, they would get a piece of wire and stick it through her body. Once this process was complete they would very delicately paint her.
Each show is about 5 minutes long and has a huge amount of voices to act on such a short show. It was produced by Phil Davies. They uses 2D animation to create Peppa Pig. They just start of with the script and then create the characters beyond that point. The characters are very simple shapes, so it doesn't take them long to complete an episode.
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