Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

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In this image, the boats look like they were pasted onto the original ocean image and not portrayed by actual actors in actual boats. The fishing lines also look strange.

This had to be one of the VERY few scenes in season 1 that were digitally edited too, most of season 1's editing was done the analog way on flatbeds and using weird optical effects, which is primitive even for the late 90's.

 

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Noodledexter?

 

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In Distant Lands, Finn makes a face like he would if it were a season 1 episode. It does look wierd in the current art style tho.

 

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I don't like how they made the top of Spongebob's head yellow after the second movie.

Green, as in one of the shadows on his head

 

[TommyTonka OFFICIAL]

I got a new nickname for this art style. I'll call it noodlebob, since Spongebob's arms are lanky and noodle-like in these episodes:

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Which is also your profile pic

 

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How did they do this scene with no computer (squidward floating to the surface in a bubble)

 

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The loudspeaker in Squilliam Returns has normal animation.

 

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Here's the storyboard for Party Pooper Pants. The invitation scene and the song aren't included, which proves they were produced separately. This explains why the actual episode has normal animation and the song and invitation scene are markerbob.

 

[EM.]

Here's the full evolution of Johnny Test from seasons 1-7

 

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Krusty Kronicle is Toon Boom Sailorbob

 

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Minus the bold red lines, I think the design on the right is the CLOSEST thing to post-movie's reincarnation of markerbob.

 

[MattTheSpongeFanatic]

SpongeBob's lines are unusually very thick in this image from "A Life in a Day". (And SpongeBob looks ugly too!)

SpongeBob looks a little like his Season 4 design in the next image.

 

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SpongeBob's lines are unusually very thick in this image from "A Life in a Day". (And SpongeBob looks ugly too!)
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SpongeBob looks a little like his Season 4 design in the next image.

I also find it weird how season 5 looks more like season 7/8 than season 6 does.

 

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The camera is more still in season 2 and 3, in the Toon Boom seasons, the camera pans and zooms in and out a few times each episode. In season 2 and 3 they use more jump cuts.

 

[SpongeyMind]

Guess the season:

 

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Guess the season:
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5. I can recognize the episode from the screenshot alone, it’s Banned in Bikini Bottom.

 

[spunchbop444]

Anybody notice how abnormally big Squidward's forehead is in this frame?

 

[SpongeyMind]

5. I can recognize the episode from the screenshot alone, it’s Banned in Bikini Bottom.

but if you didn't you probably say 6. Looks like something from 6 and early 7

 

[spunchbop444]

I wonder what would happen if you mixed all the art styles together.

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I wonder what would happen if you mixed all the art styles together.

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You get this: