Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 58 43.3%

  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 3.7%

  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Normal

    Votes: 9 6.7%

  • Moviebob

    Votes: 13 9.7%

  • Modern SpongeBob Animation

    Votes: 9 6.7%

  • Cheekbob (season 6 version)

    Votes: 3 2.2%

  • Noodlebob knock-off (Season 4-5)

    Votes: 3 2.2%

  • 2004 produced early season 4 (season 3 lookalikes)

    Votes: 8 6.0%

  • Greenblattbob (Dying for Pie and Fear of a Krabby Patty)

    Votes: 24 17.9%
  • Total voters
    134
Original Raw and Uncut said:
For me

Season 1
Oldest: Help Wanted
Newest: Reef Blower

Season 2
Oldest: Sailor Mouth and Procrastination

Newest: Christmas Who

Season 3

Oldest: The Algeas Always Greener

Newest: The Sponge Who Could Fly


Season 4

Oldest: The Lost Mattress
Newest: Best Day Ever

Season 5 onward don’t apply for obvious reasons
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Well, Best Day Ever appears to have a season 5 production code. Maybe that's why it looks the newest
 
You know how I said Season 5 looked dated? Well, I want to correct some of the things I said. When I said it looked "dated", I meant in a technical aspect. When you actually compare it to the seasons before it, yes. It does look newer. The lines are more consistent, the colors are brighter, etc. But when you actually look at it on its own, it looks rather outdated, technically. Aside from being in a 4:3 aspect ratio, the lines are washed out and quite rough, and the colors are quite pale. Its also prone to animation errors.

Actually, Season 6 looks older than Season 5. Now pretty much everything is washed out and dull. The only episode that technically looks like it would be released today is Truth or Square - and even then, it has rougher lines.
 
Grapey said:
You know how I said Season 5 looked dated? Well, I want to correct some of the things I said. When I said it looked "dated", I meant in a technical aspect. When you actually compare it to the seasons before it, yes. It does look newer. The lines are more consistent, the colors are brighter, etc. But when you actually look at it on its own, it looks rather outdated, technically. Aside from being in a 4:3 aspect ratio, the lines are washed out and quite rough, and the colors are quite pale. Its also prone to animation errors.

Actually, Season 6 looks older than Season 5. Now pretty much everything is washed out and dull. The only episode that technically looks like it would be released today is Truth or Square - and even then, it has rougher lines.
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The first episodes of Season 6 look similar to the final episodes of Season 5, but the rest look different.
 
Grapey said:
You know how I said Season 5 looked dated? Well, I want to correct some of the things I said. When I said it looked "dated", I meant in a technical aspect. When you actually compare it to the seasons before it, yes. It does look newer. The lines are more consistent, the colors are brighter, etc. But when you actually look at it on its own, it looks rather outdated, technically. Aside from being in a 4:3 aspect ratio, the lines are washed out and quite rough, and the colors are quite pale. Its also prone to animation errors.

Actually, Season 6 looks older than Season 5. Now pretty much everything is washed out and dull. The only episode that technically looks like it would be released today is Truth or Square - and even then, it has rougher lines.
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I really like season 5’s animation, and season 6 had meh animation but that was more the character designs rather than the animation itself. Don’t know what you’re talking about
 
Season 1
Oldest: Help Wanted
Newest: None
Season 2
Oldest: Procrastination
Newest: Squirrel Jokes
Season 3
Oldest: Algae’s Always Greener
Newest: Party Pooper Pants
Season 4
Oldest: Bummer Vacation (Looks very pale for some reason)
Newest: Squidtastic Voyage
Season 5
Oldest: Night Light
Newest: Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?
Season 6
Oldest: House Fancy
Newest: Truth or Square
Season 7
Oldest: Stuck in the Wringer
Newest: Perfect Chemistry
Season 8
Oldest: The Other Patty
Newest: Mooncation or Mermaid Man Begins
Season 9A
Oldest: idk
Newest: Squid Defense or SBYF
Not gonna do seasons 9B-present because they all seem new
 
Grapey said:
The only episode that technically looks like it would be released today is Truth or Square - and even then, it has rougher lines.
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Truth or Square looks outdated because the outlines are very rough and the image quality is a bit lower than the other HD episodes. A lot of the older HD shows had the issue with the rough lines, look at the first two seasons of Adventure Time and Regular Show, the outlines are extremely rough. Season 9A of SpongeBob’s only oudated trait is the bad overscan, especially in Kenny the cat, a lot of scenes where the top of SpongeBob’s head is cut off.
 
Grapey said:
Actually, Season 6 looks older than Season 5. Now pretty much everything is washed out and dull. The only episode that technically looks like it would be released today is Truth or Square - and even then, it has rougher lines.
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Season 7 and 8 look oudated because they’re so washed out compared to the episodes that come out today. You look at a season 8 episode and say “Yeah this is definitely at least a decade old”.
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Season 7 and 8 look oudated because they’re so washed out compared to the episodes that come out today. You look at a season 8 episode and say “Yeah this is definitely at least a decade old”.
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I remember that in a Mooncation clip in FB, there were people who thought it was recent
 
Neon2500 said:
Season 1
Oldest: Help Wanted
Newest: None
Season 2
Oldest: Procrastination
Newest: Squirrel Jokes
Season 3
Oldest: Algae’s Always Greener
Newest: Party Pooper Pants
Season 4
Oldest: Bummer Vacation (Looks very pale for some reason)
Newest: Squidtastic Voyage
Season 5
Oldest: Night Light
Newest: Whatever Happened to SpongeBob?
Season 6
Oldest: House Fancy
Newest: Truth or Square
Season 7
Oldest: Stuck in the Wringer
Newest: Perfect Chemistry
Season 8
Oldest: The Other Patty
Newest: Mooncation or Mermaid Man Begins
Season 9A
Oldest: idk
Newest: Squid Defense or SBYF
Not gonna do seasons 9B-present because they all seem new
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Interesting you say Night Light looks oldest. Since it was produced as a part of the s4 production cycle. That might be why it looks older
 
When I was little I used to believe that The Sponge Who Could Fly was an episode from Season 4 or 5
 
Mr. What Zit Tooya said:
Lost In Bikini Bottom tenía expresiones similares a las de la temporada 1View attachment 15736View attachment 15737View attachment 15738
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Although in the rest such as the color palette and audio quality it is not different from the other Post-Sequel episodes compared to Help Wanted and Fear Of A Krabby where almost everything was different from the rest of their respective Seasons and Eras, the expressions from this episode have not been used again like here
 
Evolution of Spongebob's design from beginning to end of each era.

Note: because Season 13 doesn't have a different design than Seasons 9B-12, I included it among the Post-Sequel designs

Pre-Movie Era 1997-2002 (Production), 1999-2004 (Airing) (HW-PaL)
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Post-Movie Era 2004-2012 (Production), 2005-2013 (Airing) (FoaKP-SYF)
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Post-Sequel Era 2014-2019-22 (Production), 2015-2020-22 (Airing) (LiBB-DH-TWBG)
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