Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[Writengran51]

anyone see that new scene from the patrick show?View attachment 20130

They made the colored lines airbrushed like in markerbob

 

[Writengran51]

Which episode?

Chum Bucket List

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

SpongeBob Meets the Strangler switches from cubebob to sailorbob:






All normal animation is the same because the strangler looks the same in both the cube and sailor half of the episode. If the episode were markerbob, he would've looked entirely different. I never noticed this when I was little, I just knew it was all normal animation.

 

[Writengran51]

SpongeBob Meets the Strangler switches from cubebob to sailorbob:


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All normal animation is the same because the strangler looks the same in both the cube and sailor half of the episode. If the episode were markerbob, he would've looked entirely different. I never noticed this when I was little, I just knew it was all normal animation.

Markerbob sometimes has moments where you can tell what art style it would be if it was normal animation

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

Markerbob sometimes has moments where you can tell what art style it would be if it was normal animation
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The markerbob episodes were definitely done by a separate unit at Rough Draft. I think the style of normal animation depended on who did the rough copies or something, it just blurs together so often. This could explain why normal animation switches styles in the middle of the episode, while markerbob always remains markerbob for the entire episode. Background or secondary characters also look the same regardless of the style in normal animation. Everyone looks different in markerbob episodes though.

 

[Writengran51]

The markerbob episodes were definitely done by a separate unit at Rough Draft. I think the style of normal animation depended on who did the rough copies or something, it just blurs together so often. This could explain why normal animation switches styles in the middle of the episode, while markerbob always remains markerbob for the entire episode. Background or secondary characters also look the same regardless of the style in normal animation. Everyone looks different in markerbob episodes though.

I wonder why the markerbob animators decided to draw the characters on-model

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

I wonder why the markerbob animators decided to draw the characters on-model

It gradually evolved like that.

 

[Writengran51]

It gradually evolved like that.

Maybe is because they used the old model, they already knew how to draw it well

 

[SpongeyMind]

I'm surprised Spongebob (Technically Patrick Star Show) only now just decided to make a throwback to cel-animation, most long-running shows have an episode where they go back to Season 1.

 

[SpongeGirlGrace]

i markerbob was some secret cult within rough draft studios where the normal animators were too scared of going near, thats why never mix

 

[Graperpetual Pretzel]

SpongeBob’s eyes are very big in Season 13.

 

[Lumpusbob]

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SpongeBob’s eyes are very big in Season 13.

Very very

 

[Lumpusbob]

Season 13 has got a good animation.

 

[Graperpetual Pretzel]

Season 13 has got a good animation.

Somewhat

 

[Sponge64]

They've made him have more expression. They actually moved his face up so they had more mouth room.

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

Post sequel is so off model that there are no art styles anymore, everything is just blended.

 

[Lumpusbob]

They've made him have more expression. They actually moved his face up so they had more mouth room.

In season 11 and 12 him have got more expression than season 13 and season 14 so far

 

[ChrisSkeeter]

Post sequel is so off model that there are no art styles anymore, everything is just blended.

Season 14 looks fine to me so far, even though the art style changes are barely noticeable nowadays.

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

Season 14 looks fine to me so far, even though the art style changes are barely noticeable nowadays.

What year does season 14 look to you? To me it looks 2017. Every episode since late season 10/early season 11 looks 2017 to me. Because technology isn’t progressing as quickly as it used to, most animated shows nowadays don’t look any newer than the late 2010s.

 

[ChrisSkeeter]

What year does season 14 look to you? To me it looks 2017. Every episode since late season 10/early season 11 looks 2017 to me. Because technology isn’t progressing as quickly as it used to, most animated shows nowadays don’t look any newer than the late 2010s.

It looks 2018 to me.