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The Making of the South Park WoW Episode

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the killing-boars dept.

Via GameSetWatch, an interview with South Park Producer Frank Agnone, Tech Supervisor J. J. Franzen, and Director of Animation Eric Stough. The discussion, on the Machinima.com site, goes into a lot of detail on how the South Park WoW episode was made, their rationale for doing it, and the amount of assistance they received from Blizzard. From the article: "Q: How long did it take to capture, puppeteer, and edit all the WOW footage? JJ: Uhm... A really really long time. We decided early on to treat the in-game capture sessions as regular film shoots. Our 'set' ended up being the lobby of the studio we produce South Park in. We rented 12 PCs, set up a bunch of folding tables, and were basically good to go. I decided that it would be best to capture on a Mac, since we would be able to capture directly to a quicktime file, which would make getting the captured footage onto the editing system a lot quicker. So, I hauled my shiny new MacPro out into the lobby and spent the next two weeks in a much bigger, if less private, new office. We had 5 'shoot' days, the first on the 20th of Sept. which lasted about 3-5 hours. The next was on the 26th of Sept. which also lasted about 4-5 hours., and then we shot almost every other day up to the last few days of production Monday and Tuesday were full days, with the last day going from 10am Tuesday morning to around 3am Wednesday morning the 3rd of Oct,, the day the episode aired."

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  1. How they did it: by drsquare · · Score: 3, Funny

    1. Write down a load of world of warcraft references and in jokes.
    2. Add a couple of toilet jokes.
    3. Profit!

    1. Re:How they did it: by JohnSearle · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Use cliched South Park joke.
      2. ?
      3. Mod points!

      - John

    2. Re:How they did it: by wizzard2k · · Score: 3, Funny
      All I'm saying is, it could've used more fart jokes.

      Mom?! Bathroom!
      What hun?
      Bathroom! BATHROOM!!!
      *********
      Oh, that's a big boy, isnt he!

      That wasnt enough for you?
  2. I'm in by SuperStretchy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm in.

    Me too.

    Mpphhff mmmfp

    Everyone equip healing potions to the hotbar if you haven't already. Uh, Kyle, go ahead and cast Arcane Brilliance to raise our intelligence.

    Hang on, I'm chaining my fire spells for max range.

    Nice. Stan, what enchantment does your Cloak of the Tiger have?

    +15 agility

    Give the cloak to Kenny: he needs the agility boost for bow attacks.

    'K.

    Hold on, this fight could last more than twelve hours. What if we run out of food?

    Don't worry, I have that covered. [presses intercom button] Mom?

    Yes hon?

    More Hot Pockets!

    1. Re:I'm in by BoberFett · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's just silly. Everyone knows ou can't enchant cloaks with +15 AGI, and even if you could, it'll be soulbound the first time you equip it.

      I mean, haha, yeah, that's funny, haha...

  3. Re:Obligatory quotes thread... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm Rick James, bitch.

  4. Re:Dude, your LSD is wearing off. by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    I suppose you find sex predicatable too, since the outcome (no punn) is the same each time.

    I think you're doing it wrong.

    --
    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  5. Re:you forgot step 011 by pslam · · Score: 2, Funny

    You fail for not starting at 000.