South Park: made on Macs

Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this publicly, but I'm a big fan of South Park. So I was pleased to see the latest Apple Pro Profile is about the South Park Studios and their use of Macs. The construction paper feel is produced with Photoshop and Maya on 30 Power Mac G5s, with the final product requiring Motion, Shake, and some other software packages as well. Then the heavy lifting is done by a 120 AMD processor Linux render farm. One neat tidbit: by working nearly around the clock, they manage to push out each episode the day it airs on Comedy Central, with an entire episode being produced in only 6 days. It's an interesting look behind a fun show. Check out the complete profile on Apple's Pro site.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/southpark/

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Maybe I shouldn't be admitting this publicly, but I'm a big fan of South Park. So I was pleased to see the latest Apple Pro Profile is...

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eric

I M CANADIAN X0

March 26 2007 at 4:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lifix

On the second page, while listing the machines that are used by South Park studios, they misspell Avid Adrenaline. =/ Bad Apple!

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I knew that south park eps had the shortest production time out of the top animated shows (Simpsons clock in at MONTHS) but had no idea they were done on macs. On a related note, the restored James Bond movies, also done on macs, look pretty sick.

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