Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[Lumpusbob]

Making characters without outlines just seems weird to me

Also to me (like Plankton)

 

[GL1TCH]

He looks gross

 

[GL1TCH]

Like a blob

 

[itznoah]

I like Greenblattbob just bc that's also the Chowder art style

I noticed greenblatt's style seems to be more exaggerated and expressive in FoaKP, a precursor of the style he'd use in chowder.

also something that boggles my mind: why didn't greenblatt work on the first film?

 

[GL1TCH]

Idk-

 

[Writengran51]

I made this

Season 8:

Season 3:

 

[Lumpusbob]

I made this

Season 8:
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Season 3:
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Pretty accurate :)

 

[GL1TCH]

I also don't rlly like coloured outlines. Idk why tho

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

I made this

Season 8:
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Season 3:
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Bottom one is normal animation season 3. Is that sailor plankton or noodleton?

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

spongebob and patrick's season 2 designs are used as rigs for this game

Reminds me of how they used the early stage markerbob designs as sprites for the SpongeBob Movie Game on GBA as well as Lights Camera Action Pants.

 

[Writengran51]

Bottom one is normal animation season 3. Is that sailor plankton or noodleton?

It's an old drawing. I was trying to draw markerton, but now i realize that it looks more like a normal animation

 

[Writengran51]

Bottom one is normal animation season 3. Is that sailor plankton or noodleton?

It's noodle now

 

[itznoah]

moviebob spotted in library cards

 

[SpongeyMind]

aight so im new to this thread but uh

imma start things off with a moviebob study

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for some reason i seem to be fascinated with moviebob, particularly its use in early season 4. you can obviously tell the crew is experimenting here, hence why the style tends to shift alot in the 2004 produced episodes. shell of a man in particular has what i like to call 'style schizophrenia', as spongebob goes back and forth between his pre-movie and movie design seemingly at random. have you seen this snail seems to be a bit more consistent though, as the change in style happens roughly midway through.

MovieBob is in this commercial if you haven't seen it, it appears to look identical to that of Have you seen this snail. which his also the first color correct season 4 episode (non-palebob) I think the last MovieBob episode was Patrick SmartPants. and got phased out by season 5.

 

[SpongeyMind]

Off topic, but I found this cel from dexter's lab. Looks like the background color and the glowing were added in post. His hair color is different in the actual episode vs. the cel. Same with his shadow too.

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The cel looks color accurate, the scanner made it dimmer

 

[SpongeyMind]

spongebob and patrick's season 2 designs are used as rigs for this game

That's pretty obviously his season 1 design, but Patrick is season 2

 

[SpongeyMind]

Sheesh, the second one (I think from Bossy Boots) it's soooooooo damn similar to Season 1 that I was think was from season 1

Markerbob didnt stop using his season 1 model until I'm With Stupid

 

[itznoah]

MovieBob is in this commercial if you haven't seen it, it appears to look identical to that of Have you seen this snail. which his also the first color correct season 4 episode (non-palebob) I think the last MovieBob episode was Patrick SmartPants. and got phased out by season 5.

i know moviebob appeared on occasion throughout season 4, it's just shell of a man and have you seen this snail feature it more prominently. movie squidward makes a few appearances in FoaKP, though that might just be ch greenblatt's style for that episode.

 

[SpongeyMind]

I made this

Season 8:
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Season 3:
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Yeah, Plankton sort of got the Spongebob effect, they made his model more happy and he's in Cheekton.

 

[SpongeyMind]

i know moviebob appeared on occasion throughout season 4, it's just shell of a man and have you seen this snail feature it more prominently. movie squidward makes a few appearances in FoaKP, though that might just be ch greenblatt's style for that episode.

Nah, it's not just a greenblatt thing. This is from HYSTS, but he was in normal design during the bath scene.