Well, South Park does use computers (they used to use paper cut outs). It is actually quite similar to how flah animation works.Family Guy is hand drawn, most the in between work is probably done in Korea or some such. It is not a simple thing. You are really going to need to get some books. This is probablt a good place to start: [url=http://www.kidzonline.org/TechTraining/] link. [/url]