As I have chosen to opt for a cut out style but rendered digitally, I felt it important to research other animations that use this cut out approach and look into the sustainability of the medium. By sustainability we mean the re-useability of the assets in the animation and the energy needed to produce , for example can cut out objects be reused in further projects of the same nature if we see fit? I have found through my own work that to be more sustainable in regards to not being wasteful of materials, you can use parts of one asset to create others that will inherently have the same texture and therefore still retain the same qualities of the overall aesthetic of the animation.
South Park may be an example of an animated series that by transferring from the handmade to the digital, from construction paper to using Maya in this case, has improved its sustainability. Although for all the waste of materials that could occur when creating an animation using construction paper, perhaps in the long run the power usage of creating an animation in maya would be greater.
As for the reason as to why South Park transferred to using Maya and also photoshop is that it made the process much quicker and by scanning in the construction paper assets the animators could still achieve the handmade effect using the program's shadow controls and other effects. It is also said that the show has a library of props, characters and scenery that have accumulated of over ten years of production that the animators can reuse - this comes from Eric Stough director of animation for the show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park
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