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
Original Raw and Uncut said:
Normal animation looks 2002 without dot crawl, markerbob episodes from The Bully to Missing Identity look 2001.
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Is that because normal animation has slightly better line quality than MarkerBob? To me, most of season 3 looks 2001, whereas the episodes with brighter colours and better line quality look 2002, 2003 or even 2004.
 
ChrisSkeeter said:
Is that because normal animation has slightly better line quality than MarkerBob? To me, most of season 3 looks 2001, whereas the episodes with brighter colours and better line quality look 2002, 2003 or even 2004.
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Pranks a Lot looks like any other Season 3 markerbob, just more on model and brighter. I think the darker, saturated colors of Season 3 markerbob fit so much better than Season 2’s bright dull markerbob
 
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Original Raw and Uncut said:
Normal animation looks 2002 without dot crawl, markerbob episodes from The Bully to Missing Identity look 2001.
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Did you also see my post that compared edits of my season 9b SpongeBob model sheet remake, one to resemble early digital animation, and the other one to resemble late SD animation? Can you try to guess which year each edit looks? Don’t focus on SpongeBob’s design, but on the artefacts, colours and line quality.
 
ChrisSkeeter said:
Is that because normal animation has slightly better line quality than MarkerBob? To me, most of season 3 looks 2001, whereas the episodes with brighter colours and better line quality look 2002, 2003 or even 2004.
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That’s because markerbob is more synonymous with pre movie due to the fact that’s it’s only exclusive to that era. They also look more dated due to the lower resolution and darker more saturated colors.
 
ChrisSkeeter said:
Did you also see my post that compared edits of my season 9b SpongeBob model sheet remake, one to resemble early digital animation, and the other one to resemble late SD animation? Can you try to guess which year each edit looks? Don’t focus on SpongeBob’s design, but on the artefacts, colours and line quality.
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ChrisSkeeter said:
My drawing from yesterday is actually a remake of SpongeBob’s season 9b model sheet. Also, here’s an edit that is intended to look like early digital animation (colour bleeding, dark colours and rough lines):
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And here’s another edit, which is intended to look like late SD animation (bright colours and vectored lines):
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Don’t focus on SpongeBob’s design (even if it looks season 6, 7, 8 or 9a), but on the colours, artefacts and line quality. Which year do you think these edits look like?
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1997 and 2010
 
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The new specials look 2019, they just give off that “made for streaming” feel

Most of the specials with music by Ed Bogas look like mid-80s, the outlines are a lot thinner and blurrier, the characters are also less flat
 
I wonder why the color pallet for Spongebob was so inconsistent while all the other shows had the same colors in every episode when they went digital.
 
Original Raw and Uncut said:
I wonder why the color pallet for Spongebob was so inconsistent while all the other shows had the same colors in every episode when they went digital.
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The animators probably didn’t have a complete understanding of how to save colour palettes at the time, unlike other cartoons at the time. Even though many early of the third season of Dexter’s Laboratory have bad dot crawl, Dexter’s hair was the same shade in every episode. The same goes for The Simpsons, in which the Simpson family was the same shade of yellow in every digital episode from season 14 onwards.

Speaking of Dexter’s Laboratory, can you tell me which episodes have Dexter’s orange or red hair, along with the early season 1, late season 1, transit stage, PointyLab and SmoothLab styles, and more about their characteristics?
 
ChrisSkeeter said:
The animators probably didn’t have a complete understanding of how to save colour palettes at the time, unlike other animators at the time. Even though many early of the third season of Dexter’s Laboratory have bad dot crawl, Dexter’s hair was the same shade in every episode. The same goes for The Simpsons, in which the Simpson family was the same shade of yellow in every digital episode from season 14 onwards.
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Makes sense, but it took them a while to learn. Season 5 was the first season of Spongebob to have the same colors in every episode.

ChrisSkeeter said:
Speaking of Dexter’s Laboratory, can you tell me which episodes have Dexter’s orange or red hair, along with the early season 1, late season 1, transit stage, PointyLab and SmoothLab styles, and more about their characteristics?
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From what I remember Dexter had orange hair in season 1 and season 2 up to Ocean Commotion. He had red hair in the episodes with the really bad red tint; Aye Aye the Eyes, Got Your Goat, Star Check Unconventional, and Backfire. In late season 2 it was also red, especially in the episodes from 1998.
 
Graperpetual Pretzel said:
Probably dissonance between animation teams at rough draft or computer issues
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In season 3, not counting stuff with dot crawl, all the episodes with normal animation had the same colors, regardless of the style. Plankton’s Army and Ugh were the few exceptions. Markerbob had a darker more saturated color pallet that was slightly tinted.
 
I was recently watching both Season 10 and Season 11, when I got to watching some of 11 - the intro's SpongeBob looks to have a highlighter color to him compared to the one in Season 10.
 
ChrisSkeeter said:
The animators probably didn’t have a complete understanding of how to save colour palettes at the time, unlike other cartoons at the time. Even though many early of the third season of Dexter’s Laboratory have bad dot crawl, Dexter’s hair was the same shade in every episode. The same goes for The Simpsons, in which the Simpson family was the same shade of yellow in every digital episode from season 14 onwards.

Speaking of Dexter’s Laboratory, can you tell me which episodes have Dexter’s orange or red hair, along with the early season 1, late season 1, transit stage, PointyLab and SmoothLab styles, and more about their characteristics?
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I’ve also noticed that Dee-Dee and Dexter’s mom are very pale in Savino. In the cel animated seasons, their skin has a pink undertone.

Dexter’s dad had the most major design change out of the entire cast, in Savino, he’s skinnier, doesn’t wear a watch and has no hair on his arms. He looks a lot younger in savino. Dexter’s mom is also skinnier in savino.
 
SpongeBob in this frame from "SpongeBob Re-Heydrated" is on the model
 

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Fellas, can you give me a list of all the Greenblatt episodes? (MarkerBob included)
 
Lumpusbob said:
Fellas, can you give me a list of all the Greenblatt episodes? (MarkerBob included)
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GreenblattBob episodes (episodes with C.H. Greenblatt’s distinctive style):
  • ‘Dying for Pie’ (CubeBob)
  • ‘Squidville’ (SailorBob)
  • ‘Gary Takes a Bath’ (NoodleBob)
  • ‘The Algae’s Always Greener’ (SailorBob)
  • ‘Wet Painters’ (MarkerBob)
  • ‘Fear of a Krabby Patty’ (purified)
 
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