Dot animation process. 

Dot is an stop frame animation advert to advertise Nokia new phone.

The new phones allows owners to capture images of microscopic footage. The reason behind the animation dot is to show the new piece of technology, the makes of the advert were Aardman. Aardman to the challenge of creating the worlds smallest stop frame animation. Firstly they made a small model called dot standing at only 9mm. She was made on a 3D printer and was then painted under a microscope. As dot was really small they made 3 different replacements for each pose incase she was to brake, there was 50 different poses. Each model of Dot was stuck to thin rod of wire, which abled the creators to move her around. Once the filming was all done in the post production meeting a black plate was used digitally to remove the wire from the frame. The set was a flat table, the phone was placed directly above the set.  Roughly it would take one made a whole day to film only 4 seconds.

Peppa Pig

Peppa pig is a british preschool animated television series.

Peppa pig was created on a piece of software called CelAction 2D, this programme can produce dimensional animations. This programme is also very easy for animators to get used to and only takes a couple of weeks to learn how to use it. To create one episode takes roughly a week to make, with the help of 30 members. The creators start with storyboards to get an idea of what the episode will contain.

South Park

South Park started with storyboards, and design department which is were every idea, joke and character is captured. A script is wrote and the camera shots planned. The creators get an hour per page.
Once drawn the character  a side, back and birds eye view image would have to be created. When the characters are designed they are sent of to be lipsinked, this makes the character look the same but makes there mouth moves to look like they are talking. other features of the characters are also moved such as arms, legs, head and body.

Each show takes 120 hours per week to completely.