Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

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"Big Pink Loser" has some scenes with bright and vivid coloring and other scenes with regular Season 2/3 coloring.






Vivid coloring (left), normal season 2/3 coloring (right)

 

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It also switches between the early digital artstyle seen in Your Shoe's Untied and the stardard season 2 artstyle.

 

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It also switches between the early digital artstyle seen in Your Shoe's Untied and the stardard season 2 artstyle.

When Spongebob is in the kitchen, it switches to the same art style as Sailor Mouth

 

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The navy men in "Shell of a Man" have very thick lines like the Venture Bros.

 

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Yeah, it's kinda weird how the navy men are drawn. It shows how the art direction was already going through a major overhaul, even though the transition hadn't set in completely yet.

 

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Spongebob looks anemic in early season 4.

 

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Spongebob's design in "Karate Island" is the same as it was in "The Great Snail Race"




2002 Toonz Premium Design (left) Toon Boom 2006 design (right)

Notice how Toon Boom has a higher resolution which is why Spongebob's squiggles are smoother. The backgrounds in season 4 also look smoother than season 2/3. Spongebob is also a warmer shade of yellow in season 2/3.


Sandy's head is also a lot bigger in season 2 and 3 than it is in Season 4.

 

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Her nose gets smaller too.

 

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Season 4 noodlebob looks very weird.

 

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Is that the first appearance of those big season 5 buckteeth?

 

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Is that the first appearance of those big season 5 buckteeth?

I think that is

 

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The mayor looks weird in noodlebob

 

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Greenbalttbob at the beginning of "Doing Time"

 

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Spongebob's design at the end of "Squid's Day Off" is what season 1 would look like if it used digital ink and paint.

 

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Spongebob's organs would've had black lines if this had normal animation instead of markerbob.

 

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I tried drawing markerbob again, it’s very hard to draw.

 

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Here's the scene my drawing was based of off, markerbob is VERY difficult to draw.

 

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I think your attempt was pretty good!

 

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I can't tell if the Spiderman series from the mid 90s used very bad digital coloring or cel animation. The bad dot crawl reminds me of Season 2/early S3 of Spongebob.