Jon Stone was responsible for writing, casting, and format ; Dave Connell took over animation ; and Sam Gibbon served as the show's chief liaison between the production staff and the research team.

In keeping with the show's animation style, Cartman is composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors.

The animation style changed halfway through the show's run, becoming brighter and revamping the looks of many of the show's major characters.

The show's third season exhibited a marked improvement in modelling and animation quality due to the advancement of Mainframe Entertainment's software capabilities during the time between seasons.

Kyle is animated by computer in a way to emulate the show's original method of cutout animation.

In keeping with the show's animation style, Kyle is composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors.

Stan is animated by computer in a way to emulate the show's original method of cutout animation.

In the tradition of the show's animation style, Stan is composed of simple geometrical shapes and primary colors.

After being named executive director of the CTW, Cooney began to assemble a team of producers: Jon Stone was responsible for writing, casting, and format ; David Connell took over animation and volume ; and Samuel Gibbon served as the show's chief liaison between the production staff and the research team.

In 2002, Sesame Streets producers went further in changing the show to reflect its younger demographic, fundamentally changing the show's structure, which had relied on " Street scenes " interrupted by live-action videos and animation.

In the tradition of the show's animation style, Butters is composed of simple geometrical shapes and colors.

The episode was famous at the time for mixing 3D computer animation and live-action with the show's two-dimensional cel animation.

Kessler handled the show's production, Santomero its research, and Johnson the animation and design.

By 1999, the show's animation department consisted of Palmer, 20 animators, 11 digital designers, and 5 art directors and model makers.

Jay also in 1995-1996 had a animation voice as he voiced a vile alien warlord named Lord Dregg, the new main villain of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series in the show's last two seasons.

The scene depicted a conversation between Peter and Brian leading to one of the show's trademark cut-away gags ; like Peter, Brian was rendered in South Parks distinct animation style.

Advertisers objected to some of the new show's content, particularly that of the risqué episode " Naked Beach Frenzy " ( which was finished in 2003, but hasn't aired on American television due to scenes of extensive nudity and heavy sexual innuendo ), and, along with the network's entire animation block, the show was taken off the air.

* In 2004 for the show's 40th anniversary, CBS produced stop motion promos for their programming line-up, done in the style of Rankin / Bass animation.

As thanks for his performance, the show's staff sent Waters an animation cel from the episode which he now has hanging in his office.

Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game an 8 out of 10, saying, " It does an incredible job of re-creating the show's fast-paced mech combat by combining slick animation and spot-on controls.

The animation for the show's early segments was produced by TV Spots, with later episodes by Gamma Productions, the same Mexico-based studio that did much of the work for Jay Ward Productions.

The sequence solely consisted of scenes of New York sights with an animation of the show's logo with the letters " i " and " o " enlarging, the word " what " sliding in from the left side of the screen, the word " like " fluctuating in size, the " ab " and " ut " in " about " sliding in from both sides of the screen and the letters in the word " you " sliding up from the bottom of the screen appearing to smack the rest of the title into place.

The Lerner-Loewe partnership cracked under the stress of producing the Arthurian Camelot in 1960, with Loewe resisting Lerner's desire to direct as well as write when original director Moss Hart suffered a heart attack in the last few months of rehearsals, and would die shortly after the show's premiere.

When The Byrds performed on December 12, 1965, David Crosby got into a shouting match with the show's director.

In A Hole In The Heart ( part 2 ), to placate a director from charity organisation Rotary, she allows the executive producer to yell at her and pretend to fire her over one of the show's decisions, when in reality she is receiving a large pay rise in return for her part of the act.

During the initial episodes, Gumby's voice was provided by Ruth Eggleston, wife of the show's art director Al Eggleston.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

Bill Roe became the show's new director of photography, and episodes generally had a drier, brighter look due to the sunshine and climate of California, as compared with the rain, fog and temperate forests of Vancouver.

It was created by Ragdoll's creative director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes.

Another 20 actresses were auditioned before the show's casting director suggested that producers Brian Clemens and Albert Fennell check out a televised drama featuring the relatively unknown Rigg.

* Two characters are given names related to cigarettes: Lucky Straeker, Bookman's director and Dora Belair, an assistant to a competing show's producer.

Head Start director Edward Zigler was probably Sesame Streets most vocal critic in the show's early years.

Producer Jim Hirschfeld took over as director following Birch's heart attack in 1980 and continued directing, as well as producing throughout the rest of the show's run, including the new segments inserted into the PBS reruns, until it went off the air in 1993.

Exacerbating matters further, he is strongly attracted to one of his co-stars, lovely, soft-spoken Julie Nichols ( Jessica Lange ), a single mother in an unhealthy relationship with the show's amoral, sexist director, Ron Carlisle ( Dabney Coleman ).

* Lisa Miller ( Maura Tierney ), with whom Dave has an intermittent relationship, is promoted and demoted within the show's run, serving as reporter, on-air personality, producer and news director.

) He has also directed episodes in three of them ( TNG, DS9 and VOY ) and was a popular and innovative director on the Star Trek set, often finding completely new ways to shoot the show's familiar sets.

Despite the show's minuscule budget, Countdowns original director Paul Drane was able to create several memorable music videos especially for the show, including the classic film-clips for the AC / DC hits " It's A Long Way To The Top " and " Jailbreak ".

Tony Moss, the show's director, humiliates Nomi by asking her to put ice on her nipples to make them hard.

The show's music director and band-leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, is Paul Shaffer.

During the UK tour's summer break director Christopher Luscombe and the show's creative team recreated the UK production in Seoul, South Korea with a new cast of American, Australian and New Zealander actors and local celebrities as the Narrator.

Fred De Cordova was the show's longest and most consistent director of the series ( 108 episodes ) until he left in 1971 to produce The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Earl Bellamy rounded out the series as director of the show's final year.

He was one of the show's most prolific writers and became a regular director in later years.

The LD will discuss the plot with the show's production manager and the theatre's master electrician or technical director to make sure there are no unforeseen problems during Load-In.

The show's impressed director hired her, billing her as " Mademoiselle Fifi ".

The show's music director was Hal Yoergler, who also wrote many of the show's songs and produced the album, The Bugaloos, released in 1970.