Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[Squidward1999]

They should've stuck with that art style, the new one is too sloppy. However, 9B had a balance between not looking very stiff and on model while avoiding sloppiness.

Very true. I agree that the newer ones are a little "sloppy" for my tastes. Season 9B is a lot more in line with how I like it.

Agreed, Season 9B had that perfect blend...

Season's 10 and 11 did have a perfect blend of wackiness (considering that it didn't stray into Hurdurrdiduurr territory).

Then Season 12 crash and burned...

 

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I prefer it over the stiff, boring animation of Seasons 6-8.

Season 8 has very bland looking animation. Just like the later SD seasons of Family Guy do. You know something is too new to be in standard defintion if it looks very bland, like season 7 of Family Guy. Season 7 of Family Guy's animation is the equivalent of eating sun chips with a stuffy nose, a sore throat, and a migraine without any beverages.

 

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Jake still has his season 1 design in the model sheets, despite this design being gone for several episodes by the time this episode was in production.

 

[Graperpetual Pretzel]

The 60s Peanuts specials' animation had a nice charm to it. The characters sometimes cast a shadow behind their cel, it looks very authentic.

The specials from the 70s to the 90s look more dull.

It stayed like that til the 2000s. My guess may be wrong, but I think they changed to digital ink and paint with A Charlie Brown Valentine. Everything looks a lot more slick and smooth.

 

[SlipperytheTotodile]

That 2000s design looks good in my opinion makes the show more watchable

 

[SlipperytheTotodile]

Dying for Pie seems to use a style so markerbob it gives me Squid on Strike vibes

 

[Squidward1999]

The 60s Peanuts specials' animation had a nice charm to it. The characters sometimes cast a shadow behind their cel, it looks very authentic.
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The specials from the 70s to the 90s look more dull.
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It stayed like that til the 2000s. My guess may be wrong, but I think they changed to digital ink and paint with A Charlie Brown Valentine. Everything looks a lot more slick and smooth.
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The first Peanuts special that had digital ink and paint animation used was The Pied Piper Special back in 1997.

But hey, mistakes happen...

 

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Dying for Pie seems to use a style so markerbob it gives me Squid on Strike vibes
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Dying for Pie has normal animation it's not markerbob at all, not even close.

 

[SlipperytheTotodile]

Dying for Pie has normal animation it's not markerbob at all, not even close.

It looks like markerbob and greenblattbob combined

 

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It looks like markerbob and greenblattbob combined

It's too sloppy to be markerbob

 

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The first Peanuts special that had digital ink and paint animation used was The Pied Piper Special back in 1997.

But hey, mistakes happen...

Pied Piper was 2000

 

[Squidward1999]

Thanks...

 

[SlipperytheTotodile]

In the dark scenes of SpongeBob's Place Mr. Krabs' eyes look like season 1 in my opinion

 

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In the dark scenes of SpongeBob's Place Mr. Krabs' eyes look like season 1 in my opinion
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Season 1 was traditional cel animation, those lines are too crisp to make it look remotely like season 1, not even the shape. cel animation means asymmetry

 

[Squidward1999]

And besides, it doesn't have a shade effect that cel animation usually has...

 

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And besides, it doesn't have a shade effect that cel animation usually has...

The lines also don't boil like they do in traditional cel animation.

 

[Squidward1999]

Unless if you use cardboard cutouts, which would only have the shading effect and not the outline boil...

 

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Unless if you use cardboard cutouts, which would only have the shading effect and not the outline boil...

Like the pilot of South Park.

 

[SpongeyMind]

Cheekbob in Spy Buddies
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Season 5 was were the obsession with cheekbob was starting to develop

 

[SpongeyMind]

Like the pilot of South Park.

The first episode is a rescan of the pilot