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
SpongeyMind said:
makes me want to see what season 3 would look like in widescreen
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I think SpongeBob SquarePants should have switched to Widescreen starting Season 4, and Seasons 2 and 3 would get remastered to 16:9. In addition, Season 4 would have a new theme song, with this, and the new theme song would be animated and produced in 16:9 widescreen:

However, because it would still air in 4:3, stuff would still be in the 4:3 placement. But what would be the scenes in the new theme song? Will they contain some clips from the remastered versions of episodes from Seasons 2 and 3, and will there be some from Season 4?
 
CarlosTankEngineBoi said:
I think SpongeBob SquarePants should have switched to Widescreen starting Season 4, and Seasons 2 and 3 would get remastered to 16:9. In addition, Season 4 would have a new theme song, with this, and the new theme song would be animated and produced in 16:9 widescreen:

However, because it would still air in 4:3, stuff would still be in the 4:3 placement. But what would be the scenes in the new theme song? Will they contain some clips from the remastered versions of episodes from Seasons 2 and 3, and will there be some from Season 4?
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4:3 will still the standard format at the time. 16:9 didn’t become standard until 2009. Although there were a lot of Cartoon Network and Disney Shows that were in HD early on. Camp Lazlo was one example.


Shows that are old but HD don’t look oudated by color quality. Only by line quality. Like the Looney Tuens Show for example, the outlines are very rough.
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
4:3 will still the standard format at the time. 16:9 didn’t become standard until 2009. Although there were a lot of Cartoon Network and Disney Shows that were in HD early on. Camp Lazlo was one example.


Shows that are old but HD don’t look oudated by color quality. Only by line quality. Like the Looney Tuens Show for example, the outlines are very rough.
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Ok @Original Raw and Uncut. Not all Nickelodeon and Nick Jr shows could have switched to 16:9 production at the time, but SpongeBob SquarePants could have been one of them to switch to 16:9 production, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius too. And maybe new episodes of The Fairly OddParents from 2006 onwards. New Nickelodeon shows from 2007 onwards could have been produced in HD 16:9 widescreen too. At the time, Seasons 2 and 3 could have been remastered to 16:9, with the audio error in “Something Smells” being fixed, and the deleted scene in “Just One Bite” being reinserted.

One of the new Nick Jr shows that could have been produced in 16:9 at the time could have been The Backyardigans.

For Nick Jr, maybe shows like Go, Diego, Go! (once it premiered in 2005), Dora the Explorer (double length episodes) (fully once it came to Season 5), and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! (wait, that show was produced in 16:9).

In addition, the 2007 bumpers and Split Screen Credits for Nickelodeon could have been made in 16:9 for Nickelodeon HD, and the September 2007 Nick Jr rebrand too (all bumpers and Split Screen Credits), but clips shown episodes produced in 4:3 would have blue bars on the left and right to fit the 16:9 ratio, while stuff in 16:9 would be shown in 16:9. And from then, all new bumpers and rebrands for Nickelodeon and Nick Jr would be made in 16:9, and the Split Screen Credits too.
 
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Original Raw and Uncut said:
4:3 will still the standard format at the time. 16:9 didn’t become standard until 2009. Although there were a lot of Cartoon Network and Disney Shows that were in HD early on. Camp Lazlo was one example.


Shows that are old but HD don’t look oudated by color quality. Only by line quality. Like the Looney Tuens Show for example, the outlines are very rough.
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Oh yeah @Original Raw and Uncut, about the new theme song, which would be produced in 16:9 widescreen), it would be performed by Avril Lavigne (same as from here: )
, and there could have been clips from Season 2 and 3 (16:9 HD remastered versions), and Season 4 (Widescreen) in addition to some new scenes (for the “Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish” part). From what episodes would the clips be?

Oh yeah, because it would still broadcast in 4:3, even if they would produce it in 16:9 Widescreen, stuff would still be out in the 4:3 placement to match the 4:3 part of the 16:9 ratio. Like hereD396093E-2AB9-450A-9E79-B5802E3C041B.png
 
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CarlosTankEngineBoi said:
I think SpongeBob SquarePants should have switched to Widescreen starting Season 4, and Seasons 2 and 3 would get remastered to 16:9. In addition, Season 4 would have a new theme song, with this, and the new theme song would be animated and produced in 16:9 widescreen:

However, because it would still air in 4:3, stuff would still be in the 4:3 placement. But what would be the scenes in the new theme song? Will they contain some clips from the remastered versions of episodes from Seasons 2 and 3, and will there be some from Season 4?
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Not many people had widescreen TVs in 2005-2007
 
But to be fair most shows that began to premiere when season 4 started airing were all widescreen but animated in a way it would look good if it was cropped to 4:3 so spongebob could of done the same
 
SpongeyMind said:
But to be fair most shows that began to premiere when season 4 started airing were all widescreen but animated in a way it would look good if it was cropped to 4:3 so spongebob could of done the same
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Spongebob didn’t switch to widescreen until most people started watching everything in HD.


A lot of people in the late 00s had flat screen TVs but watched nothing in HD so everything would be in stretch o vison.
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Spongebob didn’t switch to widescreen until most people started watching everything in HD.


A lot of people in the late 00s had flat screen TVs but watched nothing in HD so everything would be in stretch o vison.
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Why couldn’t it switch to Widescreen when Season 4 was announced, or at least it could have switched starting with Truth or Square
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
They didn’t have the budget to switch permanently
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So it was only one time until 2012.

But if they wanted the show to switch to Widescreen in 2004, couldn’t they have switched studios to one that had the budget and equipment to produce it in 16:9, while keeping a similar style Rough Draft Studios South Korea used when they animated the series?
 
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