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.
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 😂
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. 😂
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.
I’d be fun watching you guys watch the South Park origins and them making fun of themselves Jesus vs Frosty - RUclips The Spirit of Christmas - RUclips Pilot - 1x1 A Crappy Christmas - 4x17 Canceled - 7x3
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.
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 😤
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.
I can see why Kenny would be their comfort character now
Why am I first
and the bastards kill him mutiple times.
Their what?
@Phantom Menace The part where they said "comfort character" instead of just "favorite"
@@Melonposting the character the feel more confortable with, since they dont have to animate his mouth
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.
Don’t forget the original version of Cartman gets an probe
That’s what they mean by pilot
Which they remade.
I swear to god thats trippy as hell man!
Stop motion is REALLY slow. That is why not a whole lot of studios use that technique in animated films...
0:14 Kyle turned into Butters LMAO
u right
Both are voiced by Matt Stone.
But without the slight southern drawl.
@@TheMan05555 no shit
They have the same voice actor, Matt Stone
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 🥲
Cartman:😖Aachoo!
Stan:😱AUGH!!
Kyle:😠Cartman!
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 😂
Innit the worst thing is that i film it on a table and im sitting on a sofa
Yes, I can agree 😔
I like the fact that in universe they were talented enough to recreate photorealistic stop motion models of themselves.
They used photos of themselves
Butters did the cutouts for them..
@@diefordmustangs3 That means we could do the same thing lol
Stop motion animation / cut off style is really one of the hardest animation process ever
Of course
Also, claymation!
@@TheMaan2008 isnt that stop motion
you're tellin me, it isn't easy, and then the editing process is also challenging
@@NOCONDIMENTSLEFTINMYFRIDGE yep
ATLEST THEY DONT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO KENNY. YOU CAN'T SEE HIS MOUTH ANYWAYS.
I feel like that's was decision behind his design.
Yep
imagine this, they still had to do it under Kenny's parka
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
Kenny saved them some time at least. You can't see his mouth.
I thought they moved his head.
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
What episode is this?
@@MJMDrawings season 4 episode 17.
@@iiikaruz thank you
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.
This is why I just don't even with mouths in claymation. Saves me like ten hours
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.
Yea but it would cool tho and a perfect example is called “mystery stranger mark twain”
@@toogudd4dis true. If I ever do end up using mouths, I'll probably just animate them on, keep it cartoony
the only naturally good effect for claymation is cat hair. the effects are so clean it's crazy. Slides through clay like butter.
The dark souls of stop motion
This clip is almost like they were breaking the 4th wall.
They broke many more walls in this one clip
They broke the fourth wall and essentially turned into God
They _were_ breaking the 4th wall.
almost?
OHHH REARY????
This is the meta episode. You know that matt and trey just did this to show ppl how hard it is to make an episode of south park
how hard to make the first episode*
How hard it was*
@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt yeah ur both right bc they dont do it anymore
@@ethanmorris1369 they still make south park epsiodes
@@linalokir2178 no ik that but they dont make them the old fashioned way is what i meant. They use computer animations now
I imagine this is exactly what Matt and Trey went through.
This is exactly what Trey and Matt went through
This has to be Matt and Trey showing us what they suffered through in the beginning, just so we can laugh at the Comedy Gold that is South Park.
The true beginnings of South Park.
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.
Probably wouldn’t have reached episode 20.
Lol, didja see the end of this episode where they got money for do 200 more of them?
I wish it was
Let's see. It took about 3 or 4 months to do the first episode, so about 3 or 4 episodes a year, about 69-92 episodes.
Yeah. I'm pretty sure if they kept on doing stop motion, Trey and Matt's hands are gonna get amputated by the 5th episode.
I do stop motion and this shit is so fucking relatable LLMAO
It sure is annoying huh?
South Park pilot in a nutshell
Too bad they didn’t include the scene where one of them sneezes and it blows the entire set away
It was cartman who sneezed cause apparently he had a cold
Turn the voice pitch back to normal and it's just basically Trey and Matt's daily routine
Someone fucking make it happen
Love how Kyle and Stan were the ones that did all the work cuz Stan represents Trey and Kyle represents Matt while creating the pilot ep 😂
and eric stough as butters! for the pilot he helped with the cut outs :P
South Park didn’t break the fourth wall, they shattered it!
0:34 "We wish you a... merry"
It took me until now to realize they got Butters to make the cutouts because he’s based on Eric Stough, the actual animation director for the show
Fun fact:You replayed this more than once
No but yes
As a Stop Motion animator and South Park fan myself, I love this, so relatable
If they were all Kenny's they would do that in 2 minutes
Lol, would be hilarious if they just mumbled.
Kenny Park
All I can say is: God bless 3D animation software.
Fun fact: Before tablet animating came around, South Park was stop motion and this episode is just explaining Trey and Matt’s job
THE WAY IT CUTS OFF AT THE END WHEN KYLE SAYS "JESUS CHRIST" IS SO FUNNY TO ME
If I was a South Park animator I should be struggling to find the months
Actually they do everything digitally now
This is why south park is animated with computers now.
looks like they're making a..
*Holiday Special*
This show taught me to animate in middle school. Blessing
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.
“People who do this for a living deserve more credit and respect !” - Lord Hater
I'm going down South Park I'm going to have myself a Time friendly faces everywhere humble folks
without temptation
@@guineapiggirl939 goin’ down South Park, gonna leave my woes behind
@@pheniellanz5271 Ample parking day and night
@@calebkuti7897 headin' on up to south park gonna see if i can't unwind
@@pastel-children5551 mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph mmph
This is literally a real life conversation of them used for the show
i like how kyle says jesus christ hes so done with this lmfao
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.
I think most stop motion creators can relate to this.
Oh you have no idea-
Its basically this, every time, without fail. Its just kinda the nature of the hobby.
Shame you skipped the part where Butters makes the models, then the boys criticise him for the lack of details.
That part sticks with me often.
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.
This is so freaking accurate, doing stop motion myself this is so true
Wow stop motion characters making stop motion that's really meta
Well it would be faster if they kept all the different mouths in different places. They just gotta optimize a little.
Thank god Adobe Animate exists lmao
As well as Maya
Goddamn, 3 hours just for "we wish you a merry-".
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
I remember that the making of The nightmare before christmas took 4 years to finish. Those are the hard times
The pain of making Southpark
They actually aren’t using stop motion in South Park, at least for the newer episodes. They’re now animating everything on the computer.
The original pilot episode of Southpark took 3 months to make because it was made of paper cutout animation.
This is why you use multiple of the same frames to save time on taking the same syllable
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.
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. 😂
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.
I’d be fun watching you guys watch the South Park origins and them making fun of themselves
Jesus vs Frosty - RUclips
The Spirit of Christmas - RUclips
Pilot - 1x1
A Crappy Christmas - 4x17
Canceled - 7x3
Life of an animator.
He sounds like butters 0:14
"KICK ASS!"
-Stan
One of my favorite clips big dog!
Big thanks for uploading!
this is like making a stop motion for the first time and getting bored
Why did they manually swap the mouths for each shot when they could’ve made one frame per syllable and swapped them out between shots?
well kenny saves the day in the mouth thingy
*Looks like they made a short film a revival!!!!!*
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.
Years of life they've been workin on that
Incredible
This only scrapes the pain animators have to go through lol
This is the most meta episode ever.
I love the mouths freaking out on the table
i love it when animators make fun of how teidous animation can be
South Park isn't a favorite of mine per say, but I love this moment so much.
credit to the animators who have to animate an episode of south park in about 2 days, sometimes even less than that
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 😤
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.
Don’t you just love it when a show makes fun of itself?
South Park making South Park
as a brickfilmer this is an absolute mood
Looks like a good episode to check out
As someone who makes animations
I feel their pain.
I see that the boys is going through the same suffering that Matt and Trey had to endure in the early years of South Park.
My at the time boyfriend did stop motion animation, used to drive him nuts, but the results were worth it. He made some great films.
Now I know why Cel Animation was more popular than Stop Motion
"STAAAAAAAAAND IN THE PLACE WHERE YOU L-"
As someone who has done stop motion, i can relate to this so much
Kyle is so cute in this clip for some reason
Awe this is so cute !
Am I watching a stop motion animated people do stop motion? This feels like a dream within a dream
Their tech got better over time now they ain't gotta waste so much time saying a single word
This is South Park literally breaking the Fourth Wall.
That’s meta right there.
this is if trey and matt met when they were kids😂
The history of the pilot of south park
I always wondered what the South Park boys would look like in stop motion (clay animation)
Its easy but time consuming and exhausting.
Only Matt and Trey can make fun of themselves
It was just 3 hours and they were so broken.
God imagine if they did all that animation and then it doesn’t sync up with the audio properly.
And then there is the Nightmare before Christmas …
Spirt of Chirtmas reference
That's why if you already have shot the first "we" you should reuse that for the next "wi" of wish