Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 58 43.0%

  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 3.7%

  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Normal

    Votes: 9 6.7%

  • Moviebob

    Votes: 13 9.6%

  • 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 5.9%

  • Greenblattbob (Dying for Pie and Fear of a Krabby Patty)

    Votes: 25 18.5%
  • Total voters
    135
Some season 1 art style analysis

Some episodes that are very early in production code order have a style I call "Protobob" - Spongebob's eyes have thick lines, and the rest of his body apart from his face has thin lines:
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This evolves into "Loosebob". By then all the lines have become uniform in thickness, apart from occasional inconsistencies.
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And of course we have Uglybob which was mentioned earlier in this thread.

Later episodes introduce "Premiumbob", which looks much nicer, where the line thickness is more varied.
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The Flying Dutchman's design has the most extreme difference between Loosebob and Premiumbob:
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The episodes at the very end of season 1 employ an even more on model artstyle:

As noted on the first page, this is basically Markerbob, but animated with cels. (Celbob?)
 
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McStroke was the last family guy episode to be traditionally animated, every episode afterward is animated using Toon Boom with vector lines and tweening movement.
 
The modern seasons could use more quiter, chilled out images like this one. It really transports you into a pleasant campout with friends in the woods.

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This is a markerbob episode, but the phone's colored lines aren't bold. The other colored lines are still bold like the muscle fishes tongues and nipples.
 
I feel like in these photos some characters' models are a little odd (especially the last picture).
 
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Who remembers this error that occurred when Gary's New Toy premiered in 2012? The episode was SD cropped, instead of airing in HD Widescreen, this probably had to do with the fact that this episode premiered alongside some season 8 holdovers, causing someone to forget to change the settings on the control panel. This error was finally fixed when they paired this up with Patrick-Man! This also happened a few times when they did reruns of Extreme Spots/Squirrel Record in 2013. It would also happen when they would air a season 9 episode after a movie in order to fill the time slot, causing one segment to air without the other. (It would be a B segment, so the credits can still be shown after the episode's over)
 
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The early episodes of KND have very thick lines, matter a fact a lot of late 90s/early 00s shows had thick lines; FairlyOddParents, Billy and Mandy, Dexter, Powerpuff Girls, Danny Phantom, The Oblongs, Camp Lazlo, and Clone High to name a few
 
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Spanky from Drawn Together looks like he belongs on The Fairly OddParents. Despite this, he was still traditionally animated along with the rest of the characters.
 
Here's what envelopes look like during normal animation, dark blue colored line, but thin, has slight dimension to it:

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Here's what envelopes look like in markerbob, very bold grey lines, huge and flat:

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Like I've said before, I love how normal animation has bold black lines, but thin everything else, but markerbob is the other way around. Normal animation is basically markerbob in reverse.
 
I can tell you one thing, those envelopes are big in Markerbob...
 
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