Sunday, 8 November 2015

South Park Storyboards -- OUAN403, Telling Stories

South Park is known for its quick turnarounds - episodes are often planned, written and animated within a week, famously allowing them to react to current affairs in a way that no other cartoon achieves. Because of the tight schedules that the animators are working to, it is important for them to know precisely what work to do and how to do it - as a result the storyboards produced by the writing team are very descriptive, using lots of annotation to describe the action.


In fact, the actual drawings are quite lively and expressive, often more so than the rigid animated style of the finished show - including levels of facial expression not always achieved in the final product.


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