P2 Animation Comparison

At South Park Studios It takes them around 6 days to complete a single South Park episode. Matt and Trey start of by doing the script of the episode they then go and record the voices of the episode which they both do a majority of the characters and it takes them around 23 minutes to do a 22 minute script. The script then gets turned into a storyboard, each of them gets given a page of the script to storyboard which they have around an hour to do most over animation studios have a week to storyboard. They then lip sync and animate the show from the storyboard, to animate the show the use a program called Mia which allows them to manipulate and move the characters by layers and it still keeps the paper cut out look from the original Pilot. The pilot took 3 months and 8 people to do it was stop motion animation and the characters where paper cut outs. After they've finished an episode the take a break for about a day and start the process all over again.
Aardman set them selfs a challenge to make the smallest stop motion film using the Nokia N8 attached with a CellScope. They created there own CellScope in the Physics Department at the University of Bristol, so that it could fit the Nokia N8. The Cellscope is a microscope used to photograph and magnify blood cells, it allows them to get really close magnified pictures of Dot. Dot is 9mm tall plastic resin made from a 3D printer. The set for Dot was a meter and a half long with the Nokia N8 above it filming Dot, the set is rigid to a computer that moves it ever so slightly with the camera staying still above it. Because Dot was so small there wasn't away that they could move and adjuster her with out breaking her so there were several versions of Dot in different positions for each time they wanted to move her for the shot, there were also several replacements for each version of Dot incase she broke. Dot also holds the Guinness World Record for the Smallest Stop-motion Animation Character in a film.
Peppa Pig is CelAction 2D animation and it takes around 3 months to make one episode.