Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

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Pranks A Lot is the most on model markerbob episode. All the character's are perfectly on model. It's ashame that this was the final markerbob episode. The only reason why I can tell that this isn't post movie, is because all the black lines in markerbob episodes have the same thickness.


Compare this to "The Great Snail Race", which has normal animation, and notice how the black lines vary in thickness:

 

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Have You Seen This Snail? is the first of several season 4 episodes where the lines are thicker in close-ups:

 

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Only the colored lines in markerbob are thick, the black lines in markerbob are ironically thinner than they are in normal animation.

 

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Larry is drawn with normal animation during his cameo in Shanghaied

 

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I think we screwed up the stages of markerbob, compare Spongebob's design in "SpongeBob, Sandy and the Worm" versus how it looks in the markerbob finale, "Pranks a Lot".

 

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Season 9.2's animation IMO, had the perfect balance between being expressive and remaining on model when necessary.

 

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PowerPuff Girls (left), Johnny Test (right)

 

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Season 9.2's animation IMO, had the perfect balance between being expressive and remaining on model when necessary.

I agree. I don't understand why they changed it in season 10 when they already struck the perfect balance.

 

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Even without Squidward's hat, I can still tell it's markerbob because all the black lines are the same width.

 

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@LinesEM was talking about how Bummer Vacation was a pusedo markerbob episode, however, there are several differences between this and Toonz Premium markerbob, the colored lines aren't bold and markery, and the black lines vary in thickness.

 

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Gary's New Toy, Santurary, The Sewers of Bikini Bottom, and Spongebob LongPants, and Sold are all season 9 cubebob episodes.

 

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Krabby Road is the oldest-looking episode from season 6 (the first to air too). One of the last times we would see SpongeBob's face facing the front like this.

 

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Krabby Road is the oldest-looking episode from season 6 (the first to air too). One of the last times we would see SpongeBob's face facing the front like this.

Seen Again in "Stuck in the Wringer":



And again in "Whelk Attack":

 

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nevermind

 

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Seen Again in "Stuck in the Wringer":

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And again in "Whelk Attack":
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Yeah, that face was seen for a while longer (it even shows up as late as in Mimic Madness), though I mean specifically his nose facing sideways while making the smiling expression you see in the Krabby Road image. Post-sequel episodes especially tend to draw him making ugly faces rather than the cute one I showed.

 

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Mr Krabs looks season 4 ish in some markerbob episodes.

 

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Normal animation for a split second in My Pretty Seahorse.

 

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The mustard and ketchup bottles in "SpongeBob Sandy and the Worm" have thicker lines than Mr. Krabs does. Rare example of all the black lines not being the same width in markerbob.

 

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Who R Zoo has a few seconds where the animation isn't off-model

 

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@LinesEM I think since so many episodes are made simultaneously, there were several small groups at Rough Draft Studios that animated each episode at once, and each group had a specific art style, a markerbob group, a noodlebob group, a cubebob group....etc.