Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

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I decided to recreate a frame from The Secret Box in Perfect Markerbob
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Note - Thanks A Lot Pranks A Lot for the Easy Markerbob Backgrounds

Decent so far but you forgot SpongeBob’s trapezoid shaped head as well as the outline on PatricI’d stomach.

 

[SpongeyMind]

Decent so far but you forgot SpongeBob’s trapezoid shaped head as well as the outline on PatricI’d stomach.

To me it looks trapezoid shaped

 

[Ameenlox]

i dont know if anyone has mentioned this but the digital shot in "jellyfish jam" has the correct colour palette for season 1, and kind of looks like season 2, this is probably what the show would have looked like if they switched to digital but kept the same art style

 

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i dont know if anyone has mentioned this but the digital shot in "jellyfish jam" has the correct colour palette for season 1, and kind of looks like season 2, this is probably what the show would have looked like if they switched to digital but kept the same art style

early s2 was literally digitally animated season 1

 

[Season 4-11]

i dont know if anyone has mentioned this but the digital shot in "jellyfish jam" has the correct colour palette for season 1, and kind of looks like season 2, this is probably what the show would have looked like if they switched to digital but kept the same art style

Jellyfish Jam actually has two digitally animated scenes, the one you mentioned, and this one with the Pineapple bouncing

The one at the end with the Jellyfish always stuck out to me as a kid. The digital animation is so obvious and it just stands out so much when it's shown in between two cel animated shots.

 

[Ameenlox]

Jellyfish Jam actually has two digitally animated scenes, the one you mentioned, and this one with the Pineapple bouncing
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The one at the end with the Jellyfish always stuck out to me as a kid. The digital animation is so obvious and it just stands out so much when it's shown in between two cel animated shots.

yeah you go from a slightly noisy dark frame to a bright clean animation, both these digital animation test things look a whole lot better then the one in sb-129

 

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yeah you go from a slightly noisy dark frame to a bright clean animation, both these digital animation test things look a whole lot better then the one in sb-129

They wanted Spongebob's pineapple to blend in with the rest of the background, which is why they made it digitally animated. In MM&BB the shot of Spongebob's house was cel animated which makes it not blend in with the rest of the background:

 

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It's pretty uncommon for cel animated shows to have scenes that are digitally edited/animated. The season 2 finale of Dexter's Lab had a scene that was digitally edited:

 

[Ameenlox]

I traced over this scene from sb-129 seeing what it would look like with the season 3 colour pallete (forgot the dots on his head)

 

[Cloudy Cloud]

I traced over this scene from sb-129 seeing what it would look like with the season 3 colour pallete (forgot the dots on his head)

looks amazing

 

[Ameenlox]

looks amazing

Thanks

 

[SpongeyMind]

Jellyfish Jam actually has two digitally animated scenes, the one you mentioned, and this one with the Pineapple bouncing
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The one at the end with the Jellyfish always stuck out to me as a kid. The digital animation is so obvious and it just stands out so much when it's shown in between two cel animated shots.

Also had it in rock bottom

 

[SpongeyMind]

I traced over this scene from sb-129 seeing what it would look like with the season 3 colour pallete (forgot the dots on his head)

I did something similar but turning season 2 color palette into season 1's

 

[SpongeyMind]

I traced over this scene from sb-129 seeing what it would look like with the season 3 colour pallete (forgot the dots on his head)

Can i just ask how you de-noised the backgrounds?

 

[SpongeyMind]

Every pre movie finale is Markerbob

 

[SpongeyMind]

I noticed Born Again Krabs is a weird blend of normal animation and markerbob
The Backgrounds are from Markerbob, The Color palette is the same as Markerbob
But the characters itself seem to be normal animation

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Obviously the Markerbob Background Team worked on this, But for some reason Markerbob has always had Markerbob backgrounds and never borrowed
from normal animation
Here's what normal animation backgrounds are supposed to look like

 

[SpongeyMind]

Now here's Markerbob Backgrounds


Now here's Born Again Krabs

Interestingly the same case happened with Plankton's Army where normal animation utilizes Markerbob backgrounds

 

[SpongeyMind]

I noticed Born Again Krabs is a weird blend of normal animation and markerbob
The Backgrounds are from Markerbob, The Color palette is the same as Markerbob
But the characters itself seem to be normal animation
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Obviously the Markerbob Background Team worked on this, But for some reason Markerbob has always had Markerbob backgrounds and never borrowed
from normal animation
Here's what normal animation backgrounds are supposed to look like

What shall we name this? MarkerNoodle? NoodleMarker? Markernormal? CubeMarker?

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

I noticed Born Again Krabs is a weird blend of normal animation and markerbob
The Backgrounds are from Markerbob, The Color palette is the same as Markerbob
But the characters itself seem to be normal animation
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Obviously the Markerbob Background Team worked on this, But for some reason Markerbob has always had Markerbob backgrounds and never borrowed
from normal animation
Here's what normal animation backgrounds are supposed to look like
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The krusty krab looks more angular looking in markerbob episodes:



Normal animation Krusty Krab has softer edges (left) markerbob one looks sharper (right)

 

[SpongeyMind]

The krusty krab looks more angular looking in markerbob episodes:

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Normal animation Krusty Krab has softer edges (left) markerbob one looks sharper (right)

and MarkerKrusty Krab looks generally more appealing to look at (my opinion)