Reader question: what is cutout Animation?

Ray wrote:

"Hey, so I was wondering, how do you call the kind of animation on South Park? It is not like Disney, is it, where they attract all pages and all? It looks different, I was wondering what it was because it's kind of cool."

Well, technically all that South Park is is mainly 3D animation to this point, but the style still compatible with the first days, when the show started - and they used a technique called animation of cutting to produce and animate everything only to duplicate later than the style first in digital 2D and then rendering 2D 3D.if(zs>0) {if (zSbL250) gEI("spacer").style.height = Math.floor (e [0] .height/12) + 17.5 + em '; else {}}var zIClns = []; walkup (e) {function if(e.className!='entry') {if (e.nodeName == 'A' |)}}e.style.styleFloat == 'right'.e.style.cssFloat == 'right'.e.Align == 'right'.e.Align == 'left'.e.className == 'alignright' |{{{(e.className=='alignleft') zIClns.push (e); walkup (e.parentNode)}} walkup (e [0]); if (zIClns.length) {node = zIClns [zIClns.length-1]; var clone = node.cloneNode (true); node.parentNode.removeChild (node); getElementsByClassName ("entry", gEI ("articlebody")) [0] .insertBefore (clone, gEI ("spacer"))}}}; SBAS (2); zSbL = 0