south park characters

The characters and backgrounds of South Park are made to appear deliberately crude, as if they are simply made of cut-out pieces of paper. Paper cutouts were indeed used in the original pilot Parker/Stone animation and in the very first Comedy Central episode, but every subsequent episode aired on TV has been produced by computer animation that provides the same crude look. To put the efficiency of this process in perspective, consider that the average episode of The Simpsons takes 8 months to create while episodes of South Park have been completed in as little as 3 days. Some episodes have sections of regular film edited in (e.g., "Tweek vs. Craig" and "Cat Orgy").Major charactersThe main characters as they appeared during eight of the nine seasons (from left to right): Kenny, Cartman, Kyle and Stan
The main characters of the show are four elementary school students:Stan Marsh: kind and nervous, with a strong sense of right and wrong Kyle Broflovski: skeptical, critical of authority, Jewish Kenny McCormick: poor lower class, obsessed with sex and bathroom humor, victim of many deaths Eric Cartman: aggressive, spoiled, overweight and rude, antagonistic, often the catalyst for the plot, frequently insults Kyle for being Jewish and Kenny for being poor In recent seasons, two other characters have gained prominence: