Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

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I thought Gary Takes a Bath was the first

It turns out you're right. Spongebob also looks like a blend between noodlebob and season 4 moviebob in this episode.

 

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If season 4 used Toonz Premium:

 

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The Graveyard Shift is a cubebob noodlebob hybrid. It's a cubedlebob episode!

 

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Sailor Mouth is the most retro looking episode in season 2. You could tell that digital animation was in it's infancy when this episode was made:

 

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Dave the Barbarian probably used Toonz Premium, which is why it looked so old compared to other shows in it's time:

 

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The laughing montage in "I'm With Stupid" has normal animation:







Spongebob himself is the only one who remains markerbob during the entire sequence:

 

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Another attempt of mine at drawing markerbob:

 

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I've always wondered why they go crazy with using colored lines in markerbob episodes.

 

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Even in FOP season 0, the Turner house looks exactly the same as the rest of the series

 

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Even in FOP season 0, the Turner house looks exactly the same as the rest of the series

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Impressive, and they did that all on paper

 

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My Pretty Seahorse was the last episode to have late-S2 markerbob.

 

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Although this episode has normal animation, The Great Snail Race has several instances where all the black lines are the same thickness. However, what makes this not a markerbob episode is the fact that the colored lines and the black lines are the same width, the character designs have more depth which makes it slightly off model.

 

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Mr Krabs Mom in normal animation (left) Mr Krab's mom in markerbob:






Mr Krabs mom in Toon Boom:






According to Mr Krabs' mom's markerbob design, we're right about markerbob being the black sheep of all the show's of art styles.

 

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Woah, in the late season 5 episode of Family Guy, "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", the cutaway gag with Julia Louis Dreyfus, when she's facing the camera talking to the audience, the animation looks like it came from season 3:

 

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Dying for Pie is actually cubebob.

 

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SpongeBob has a season 6-esque facial expression in this screenshot from Can You Spare A Dime?

 

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SpongeBob has a season 6-esque facial expression in this screenshot from Can You Spare A Dime?

Still looks like markerbob to me.

 

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I was rewatching a clip from Karate Star, and Season 7's animation is starting to look dated.

 

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Yet the Season 1 animation isn't...

 

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Yet the Season 1 animation isn't...

Season 1's animation always looked dated, even in the time of season 2/3.