Old Spongebob VS New Spongebob pictures

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Old SpongeBob's design I'm actually not very fond of, to be honest, mostly referring to Season 3. He was very square and stiff, sort of, and looked hard to animate. Season 1 was different, as there was a lot more bounce and life to the character because of how everyone was trying to get him to look right before establishing a set style. Season 2 shows SpongeBob getting stiffer, but still maintaining the Season 1 bounce. Early Season 2 is sort of weird to look at because SpongeBob was in his last stages of evolution, but not yet there.

Season 4 and the movie sport a smaller, squarer design for SpongeBob, and the cheeks that look like this:
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slowly turn into these ones.

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I actually prefer the Season 4 style to any other used on the show. The animation was loose and fun, and everything had the potential to be off-model and wacky in a funny and non-convoluted way. Season 5 stiffens up and suffers from a lot of awkward poses and shots later on, and Season 6 suffers from overly detailed designs for no reason, and stiff and off-model drawings, which is a terrible combination. Season 7 is about the same as Season 6, with slightly less super detail.

Season 8 is a mashup of every style in the show excluding 1 and 2, drawing upon several different Season's styles several times, sometimes within a single episode. The stiffness is still there slightly, but the way the characters move is better. SpongeBob begins to revert from the stiff 5/6/7 style back into the small, square 4 style but never quite gets there, and by the end of the Season, we have an odd combo of Season 4 and Season 3 SpongeBob, and with the return of old storyboard artists like Erik Wiese in Season 9, paired with Season 4-present artists like Brad Vandergrift, it's a good style, and loose sometimes, but still not at the level of Season 4's majesty. Very stiff.

SpongeBob is much more rectangular and still does not bounce as much as I'd like him to (animation like the 5 second snippet where Squidward uses SpongeBob as a shield from the falling ice in Krabs A La Mode or the scene where SpongeBob is skipping to the Krusty Krab in The Endless Summer is the type of loose and bouncy animation I doubt we'll ever see again), but it's good to see that the show and SpongeBob himself can look like he came straight out of Season 3 at points.

tl;dr SpongeBob has changed a lot, Season 4's design is God, after S4 he started looking worse and worse and then took an upturn at Season 9 fusing the Season 3, 4 and 8 looks into one that looks good but doesn't animate as well as Season 4, but better than most other seasons.
 
I remember hearing this a long time ago. SpongeBob's different designs kind of show how he's physically grown over the years. He used to be a stubby square and now he's more of a taller rectangle. To be honest, I like the rectangle look that started from the movie and made it's way to today. Like Jibbix said, SpongeBob's s3 did at times feel stiff. When we compare trademark pictures of SpongeBob from the early 2000's to post movie, the early ones look moderately happy while the post ones look super duper excited. That's why I tend to prefer the newer ones, they usually look like they have more life in them. But I also prefer SpongeBob's old cheeks and smile than today's. It feels toned down, something that post movie does sometimes lack in it's design. Both pre and post though would gracefully go together if possible.
 
The first picture makes Old SB seem like a psychotic jerk. The second one makes me sad (although I am NOT a post movie hater). It makes it seem like SpongeBob is thinking to himself, "I used to look like that, my voice was deep, and everyone loved me. Now I am stuck with this high annoying voice and I look overly bright."The third one makes it look like SpongeBob has a twin that is the polar opposite of him. I really don't know what to say about the fourth one. The last one makes it seem like Old SB made New SB cry and is feeling no remorse (kind of like Squidward in LYB).
 
I kind of disagree with the crying picture because Spongebob cries alot in Season 1. I didnt keep score, but he might have cried the most in season 1. I could be wrong though
 
SpongeBob's design was best when they drew him smaller and more asymmetrical like in Seasons 1-2. I noticed the linework got thicker after the 3rd season and the movie but SpongeBob himself still looked alright. Not a big fan of RectangleBob and the sideways C shaped cheeks. Looks too perfect to look at sometimes and of course he looked way off in a couple of the Aaron Springer directed episodes.

I loved the preliminary sketches of the characters. Even more asymetrical than how they were even in the earliest episodes and lots of life to them too. I always thought Squidward remained pretty consistent in design in most of the seasons.
 
I watched Spongebob, You're Fired tonight, and there was one scene when I thought Squidward looked just like his Help Wanted incarnation (I don't know if this is true, since he also resembled a grainy DV!Squidward).
 
i can't tell the difference between old and new it still looks the same to me because spongebob is perfect and has no flaws,spongebob is flawless.
 
Am I the only one who thought that the merchandise from S1 made SpongeBob's eyes look lifeless? His pupils were so tiny and all his smiles were the same.
 
todd phillips said:
nope.
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WHAT? How can you not see SpongeBob's flaws? I agree with Prezly, every show has at least one flaw. Even though I love this show, there are lots of problems in this show, especially in post-movie era.

- Gross-out humor
- Abusive episodes (the worst abuse is definetly Gary abuse and you still don't feel bad for him)
- Mean-spritiness
- Changed characters
- Annoying episodes
- Continuty issues
 
Drake D said:
I kind of disagree with the crying picture because Spongebob cries alot in Season 1. I didnt keep score, but he might have cried the most in season 1. I could be wrong though
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That's possible, but he didn't cry unnecessary.
 
MasiHosseini said:
That's possible, but he didn't cry unnecessary.
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PLEASE don't bump old topics. Anyways, I only like the second one of the first five.

[mod=ssj]PLEASE don't act like a mod[/mod]
 
More_Spongebob_Sandy said:
PLEASE don't bump old topics.
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This was his own topic, so he has the right to bump it (I think).
 
Zelda4Life said:
This was his own topic, so he has the right to bump it (I think).
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Depends on the type of topic, and this sure ain't one of those types.
 
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