Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 60 43.2%

  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 3.6%

  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • Normal

    Votes: 9 6.5%

  • Moviebob

    Votes: 14 10.1%

  • Modern SpongeBob Animation

    Votes: 9 6.5%

  • 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: 9 6.5%

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

    Votes: 25 18.0%
  • Total voters
    139
i recall this one shot of spongebob dressed as a monkey in perfect chemistry gives off season 4 energy.

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probably the single most expressive shot in all of season 8 tbh.
 
itznoah said:
i recall this one shot of spongebob dressed as a monkey in perfect chemistry gives off season 4 energy.

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probably the single most expressive shot in all of season 8 tbh.
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that's season 7, but the finale so I won't really blame you. The later half of 7's animation style is pretty much Season 8
 
SpongeyMind said:
The cel looks color accurate, the scanner made it dimmer
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Dexters hair color is very inconsistent in the first couple seasons, the camera probably is what probably effects his hair color. I don’t think they used scanners, the episodes were shot on film and then they were taken to the telecline to get mixed with the audio or to have color adjustments.

Savino was digital ink and paint so dexters hair color remained consistent in that era.
 
SpongeyMind said:
Nah, it's not just a greenblatt thing. This is from HYSTS, but he was in normal design during the bath scene.
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Season 4 is very inconsistent. But I still wonder why season 4 looks much newer than season 2-3 despite the fact that it used the same software. The outlines are crisper, the colors are more brighter and more vibrant, and the image quality is much cleaner.
 
SpongeyMind said:
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.
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It says copyright 2004, so that commercial was likely animated around the time they were working on Have You Seen This Snail. It looks newer than the 2004 stretch of palebob episodes we got in early S4 but still loooks looser than core/late S4.
 
SpongeyMind said:
They still used his season 2 model sheet in post movie up until The Monster That Came From Bikini Bottom, and the model for him looking forward is this.
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according to the spongebob wiki it says the designs were supposed to be used until season 9B or the second movie.

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Main Model Pack

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i do take this with a grain of salt however.
 
Writengran51 said:
I think they made a new model sheet because they were so bad at drawing the old one
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Yeah most likely, I think it was easier to draw spongebob rectangular then making him a trapezoid, the only time they really cared about it was in Chimps Ahoy and Early Season 5
 
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