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South Park: The Beginning
Two University of Colorado film students named Matt Stone and Trey Parker made a short cartoon called "Jesus vs Frosty" (also known as The ORIGINAL Spirit of Christmas) in which some kids make a snowman that comes to life and starts killing everyone. Eventually Jesus comes along and chops off Frosty's head by throwing his halo at him.
Executives from the American Fox Network somehow caught sight of this cartoon and commissioned Matt and Trey to make another short to be sent out to celebrities as a Christmas card, this was the called "The Spirit of Christmas" The film was an instant hit. Everyone wanted to see it. Rumor has it that George Clooney made 300 copies of the video to give to his friends.
Eventually the video made it to the Internet where everyone got to see it. It was then inevitable that the cartoon would be made into a TV Series, and Comedy Central who had previously shown King of the Hill commissioned Matt and Trey to produce a series. The rest is history....
The Success of South Park is testament to the fact that if you put your mind to it you can achieve anything.
Matt and Trey
Matt Stone and Trey Parker are geniuses. For those of you that don't know who they are they are the creators of South Park. The also do most of the voices, write every episode, and they do just about every other thing you can think of for the show. They also created a second show, That's My Bush!, but it didn't last very long. They also made a great movie called BASEketball, and that gives me an idea for the Movie page. One of the first things they did though was a movie called Orgasmo, but I'm afraid I never saw that one ;(
I forgot to mention before that they where also on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live (I love that show) and they were hilarious. It was one of my favorite episodes and I have seen almost everyone.
DVDA
Trey and Matt also are in a band called D.V.D.A, which stands for Double Vaginal Double Anal, which is a porno term meaning two penises in the vagina and two in the butt. You can hear D.V.D.A. often times doing songs on South Park and in there movies, but that is about all. They never made an album and they don't plain to, and they are not plaining on going on tour any time soon.
Trey Parker
Creator and Executive Producer of "South Park"
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Trey Parker is co-creator and executive producer of Comedy Central's award-winning animated series "South Park," and the short lived Comedy Central show "That's My Bush!," a live-action sitcom examining the lives of the newest residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Born and raised in Conifer, Colorado, Parker attended the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he met Stone, co-creator and executive producer of "South Park." While in college, the duo made crudely produced comedic shorts, including the Student Academy Award-winner "American History" and the original "Frosty Vs. Santa Claus," the precursor to the now infamous "The Spirit of Christmas." In 1994, Parker wrote the screenplay and music for his first feature-length, live-action film "Cannibal the Musical," which he also directed. "Cannibal" caught the attention of then FoxLab executive Brian Graden who commissioned Stone and Parker to create a Christmas Video card to send to his friends. Thus the five-minute short, "The Spirit of Christmas" was born which spawned "South Park," the animated series that follows the adventures of four fourth-graders in the Rocky Mountain fictional town of South Park.
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Parker acted with Stone in his second live-action feature film "Orgazmo," which he also wrote and directed. Additionally, Parker acted with Stone in the Universal film "BASEketball," directed by Davis Zucker.In the summer of 1999, Parker and Stone released their critically acclaimed feature length film, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," which was produced by Paramount Pictures. The film earned Parker an Oscar nomination, as well as a LA Film Critics Award, a NY Film Critics Award, and an MTV Movie Award. Parker and Stone also wrote, performed on and executive produced albums including "Chef Aid: The South Park Album," the "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" soundtrack, "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics," and "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld."
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Parker lives in the Los Angeles area.
Matt Stone
Creator and Executive Producer of "South Park"
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Matt Stone is co-creator and executive producer of COMEDY CENTRAL's award-winning animated series "South Park," and the short lived COMEDY CENTRAL show "That's My Bush!," a live-action sitcom examining the lives of the newest president, George Bush.
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Born in Houston, Texas, Stone moved when he was very young to Littleton, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. While attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, Stone met co-creator and Executive Producer of "South Park," Parker. While in college, the duo made crudely produced comedic shorts, including the original "Frosty vs. Santa Claus," the precursor to the now infamous "The Spirit of Christmas."
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In 1994, Stone acted in Parker's first feature-length film "Cannibal the Musical," which caught the attention of then FoxLab executive Brian Graden who commissioned the team to create a Christmas Video card to send to his friends. Thus the five-minute short, "The Spirit of Christmas" was born which spawned "South Park," the animated series that follows the adventures of four fourth-graders in the Rocky Mountain fictional town of South Park. Stone produced and acts in Parker's second live-action feature film "Orgazmo," as well as acting in the Universal film "BASEketball," directed by Davis Zucker. In the summer of 1999, Parker and Stone released their critically acclaimed feature length film, "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," which was produced by Paramount Pictures. The film earned an Oscar nomination, as well as a LA Film Critics Award, a NY Film Critics award, and an MTV Movie Award. Stone and Parker also wrote, performed on and executive produced albums including "Chef Aid: The South Park Album," the "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut" soundtrack, "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics," and "Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld."
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Stone lives in the Los Angeles area.
- Executive Producers & Creators: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
- Executive Producer: Anne Garefino
- Supervising Producer: Frank Agnone
- Associate Producer: Jennifer Howell
- Production Manager: Daryl Sancton
- Production Manager: Paula Homlburg
- Production Accountant: Alecia Shyngle
- Assistant Production Accountant: Steve Neuvenheim
- Assistants to Executive Producers: Bill Wohlken
- Production Coordinator: Joshua Fogel
- Production Assistants: Newton Cox, Christian Vigeland, Chris Romano, Jon Abraham
- Weekend Production Assistans: Michael Roitman, Katie Mowatt, Charles Hornsby
POST PRODUCTION
- Post Production Supervisor: John A. Hansen
- Production Coordinator: Mark Munley
- Post Production Coordinator: Andy Kemler
- Audio Producer: Bruce Howell
- Audio Editor: Lydia Quidilla, David Allen Young
- Editor: Keef Bartkus, Tom Vogt
- Assistant Editor: David List
- Composer: Scott Nickoley and Jamie Dunlap
STORYBOARD
- Storyboard and Production Artist Supervisor: Adrien Beard
- Storyboard and Production Artist: Anthony E. Postma, Greg Postma, Keo Thongkham
ANIMATION
- Director of Animation: Eric Stough
- Systems Administrator: J.J. Franzen, Sean Laverty
- Animation and Technical Supervisor: Toni Nugnes
- Lead Technical Director: Jenny Shin
- Technical Directors: Amir Bahadori, Javier Bello, Joseph Gerges, Wonnie Jung, Chris Fria, Gil Nevo, Melanie Stimmell, Omar Smith, Valentin Sinalo, Jessica Coate, Daniel Lindsey, Mun Pook Lui
- Lead Animator: Ryan Quincy
- Animators: Andy Arett, Todd Benson, Chris "Crispy" Brion, Matt Brown, Michelle Burry, Karen Knight, David Koch, Jason Lopez, Junichi Nishimura, Scott Oberholtzer, Jack Shih
- Licensing Artist: Erick Thorpe
LIP N'SYNC ARTISTS
- Lip Sync Supervisor: David Thergood, James Dion, Holly Wenger
- Lip Sync Artist: Amy Haber, Vickie Mendoza, Jonathan G. Robert, Brian Gabriel, Rachel Flowers
WRITERS
- Staff Writers:
Kyle McCulloch
Ericka Rivinoja
Vernon Chatman
CONSULTANTS
- Pam Brady
Matt Prager
Vernon Chatman
WEBMASTER
SOUTH PARK TECHNICAL FLO-CHART
Creators and Show Writers
- Deliver Script draft
Post Production Coordinator:
- Distributes script to the Staff
Producers, Directors, Department heads etc.
Audio Department:
- Records dialogue with Matt and Trey.
- Assembles a dialogue bed as per script for the Editor.
Pre-Production:
-Temp Lead Sheet: Identifies
1) New Characters
2) New Locations, Backgrounds
3) New Props
Storyboard Department:
- Supervisor lays out script with department
- Storyboarding begins.
*Please note our time frame for storyboarding an entire episode is highly unusual.
- One member of the department begins works on designing characters on Corel Draw.
Locations and Props go through an approval process. Once theses elements are approved by the show creators, they are exported as files for the Technical Directors to use for the actual modeled elements in the show.
Editorial:
- Once sequences are completed in storyboard form they are handed off to the Assistant Editor. The Assistant Editor scans the storyboard panels into an Avid station and prepares those elements for the Lead Editor.
- The Animatic cut begins. The Lead Editor begins cutting storyboards to the Dialogue bed that the Audio department has assembled.
- The sequence is rolled off to VHS.
Post Production:
- The post production team walks through the VHS roll off with the storyboards in hand. They cut and paste the storyboards and dialogue to reflect the edited version of the sequence. These storyboards are sent to the Animation Director for notes and approvals.
Animation Director:
- Prepares the storyboards.
1) Makes any staging changes, content changes, or cut shots.
2) Makes notes for the Technical Direction department.
3) Makes notes for the Animation department.
4) Shot numbers are assigned.
Post Production:
- Each shot is loaded into a database called a Lead Sheet. The Lead Sheet is used as the number one vehicle for tracking each frame of animation and includes:
1) Shot number and total frame count
2) Shot description and location
3) Artist assigned to the shot and a due date for completion of the shot
4) Shots approved or Revision notes given
Animation and Technical Supervisors
- Assign shots to either the animation, lip sync, or technical director departments along with a due date.
Technical Directors:
- Any new Character, Location or Prop modeling is imported in from the Storyboard department's final approved file and any elements needed for the show are completed before the shots are started.
Lip Sync:
- The Lip Sync department manipulates mouth packs for all the characters in shots completed by the Technical Directors that day.
Animation:
- Animators complete the scene
Systems Administration:
- This department watches over the entire technical structure of the show.
- Once a shot has been sent by an Animator to the Render station, it is automatically moved into Render mode and a 3-2 pulldown, which converts the shot from a 24 frame per second shot to a 30 frame per second shot.
Editorial:
- Shots are batch digitized and the Editor cuts in the animation which is prepared for a retake session (dailies session).
Retake Session:
- Once a batch of shots is ready to be seen, a Retake session takes place. Matt, Trey and the Animation Director walk through each shot and give an approval note or a retake and fix it note. These notes are handed off to the Post Production department and entered into the Lead Sheet.
- The notes from each retake session are distributed to the Technical Directors, the Animators, and the Lip Sync Artists. The person assigned to the shot addresses the note given.
- Shots are fixed and resubmitted to the render station so they can be seen in the next retake session.
Audio Department:
- The Audio department is updated throughout the process of the episode allowing them to stay current with sound design, music, ADR and story.
- Matt and Trey work with the Audio department on the final mix for air.
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