Season 1: traditional cel animation

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The loose look of S1 animation always brings back 90s nostalgia.
The dark colors, the unsteady nature of the cels, Patrick's odd eyebrows
SpongeBob's inconsistent shape and brownish-yellow color. The absence of Sandy's tail, Squidward's green color, and the overall rough outlines just make me wish the show still used the obsolete method of cel animation

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Yeah, it really gives me good feelings. It was one of the last shows on television to use this method of animation, so a switch was unfortunately inevitable.
 
Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
Its not the last show to use cel animation, some shows used cel animation up until the mid-2000s
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SUS said:
Yeah, it really gives me good feelings. It was one of the last shows on television to use this method of animation, so a switch was unfortunately inevitable.
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I know it looks a bit outdated, but at least it had its' feel and looked fine. Cel animation, as I heard, has always been a bit of a pain.

Unrelated: Family Guy was always done in digital ink (even though it premiered 3 months before SpongeBob), right? Except for "Da Boom"?
 
BatteryMill said:
I know it looks a bit outdated, but at least it had its' feel and looked fine. Cel animation, as I heard, has always been a bit of a pain.

Unrelated: Family Guy was always done in digital ink (even though it premiered 3 months before SpongeBob), right? Except for "Da Boom"?
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Family Guy was always digital ink, but an unrelated adult program entitled Drawn Together used cel animation and it was made in the mid-00s.
 
Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
Family Guy was always digital ink, but an unrelated adult program entitled Drawn Together used cel animation and it was made in the mid-00s.
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Drawn Together did use cel animation, but not entirely. Ed Edd n Eddy was the final mainstream cartoon to do so, before its switch in 2005.
 
The ren and stimpy episode Out West was probably the fi r st example of digital animation, I didn't know it was even an idea in 1992 :P
 
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Drawn Together did use cel animation, but not entirely. Ed Edd n Eddy was the final mainstream cartoon to do so, before its switch in 2005.
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Yup Edd Ed and Eddy was definitely cel animation from 1999 to 2004.

Drawn Together was entirely cel animation,it really gave a retro feel to the show, you can tell by the dim colors and the crisp ink pen outlines,I'm sure it never used digital coloring not even in later episodes, and the animation in that show is gorgeous, it was probably the last show to ever be animated using cels, but it was probably shot on a digital camera and not film. The movie however was animation in horrendous ugly rubber puppet-like dull flash animation. Too bad I can't find any Drawn Together cels online though, Rough Draft Studios probably trashed them after the show finished production in 2006.

AngryKoopa2002 said:
The ren and stimpy episode Out West was probably the fi r st example of digital animation, I didn't know it was even an idea in 1992 :P
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The whole Ren and Stimpy was cel animated, even Adult Party Cartoon was cel, but APC was shot on digital cameras just like drawn together and other cel animated holdovers of the early-2000s.
The only shows in the early-00s that I know of that use digital ink and paint are Seasons 2-3 of SpongeBob, the later episodes of the Powerpuff Girls, and Seasons 3-4 of Dexter's Laboratory.
 
Cel animation always gives me a warm an' fuzzy feelin' inside.

Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
The loose look of S1 animation always brings back 90s nostalgia.
The dark colors, the unsteady nature of the cels, Patrick's odd eyebrows
SpongeBob's inconsistent shape and brownish-yellow color. The absence of Sandy's tail, Squidward's green color, and the overall rough outlines just make me wish the show still used the obsolete method of cel animation

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Not to mention Patrick's purple eyelids, and the 3 dots on Sandy's suit instead of an acorn.
 
Digital ink ant paint/cel examples:

Ren and Stimpy: Out West (1992), Stimpy's Cartoon Show, Hard Times for Haggis, Blazing Entrails,and Prehistoric Stimpy (1994) A Scooter For Yaksmas (1995), and The Last Temptation (1996)
Hey Arnold: Switched in 1999
SpongeBob: Switched in 2000
Sheep in The Big City: Always had this
Dexter: Switched in 2001
CatDog: Tested in 2001, switched in 2003
Powerpuff Girls: Tested in 2001 and early 2002, switched in late 2002
The Simpsons: Tested in 1995 and 2001, switched in 2002
King of the Hill: Tested in 2001-2003, switched in 2004
Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Switched in 2005
 
AngryKoopa2002 said:
Digital ink ant paint/cel examples:

Ren and Stimpy: Out West (1992), Stimpy's Cartoon Show, Hard Times for Haggis, Blazing Entrails,and Prehistoric Stimpy (1994) A Scooter For Yaksmas (1995), and The Last Temptation (1996)
Hey Arnold: Switched in 1999
SpongeBob: Switched in 2000
Sheep in The Big City: Always had this
Dexter: Switched in 2001
CatDog: Tested in 2001, switched in 2003
Powerpuff Girls: Tested in 2001 and early 2002, switched in late 2002
The Simpsons: Tested in 1995 and 2001, switched in 2002
King of the Hill: Tested in 2001-2003, switched in 2004
Ed, Edd n' Eddy: Switched in 2005
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Adding on, Arthur switched in the second season in 1997? Yeah. Sometimes, cel animation can give that old and dark look.


Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
Patrick always had purple eyelids
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Weren't they just dark and more pronounced back then?
 
BatteryMill said:
Adding on, Arthur switched in the second season in 1997? Yeah. Sometimes, cel animation can give that old and dark look.



Weren't they just dark and more pronounced back then?
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Really? I thought it switched in season 4
Also the EEnE jingle jangle had the digital animation and that's from 2004. I just remembered
 
Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
They must've used dark purple paint
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Wasn't Season 5 of Arthur in 2000 and Season 6 in 2001? Either way, around that time.

Yeah, I guess so. Cel animation does give an eerie feeling as well.
 
BatteryMill said:
Wasn't Season 5 of Arthur in 2000 and Season 6 in 2001? Either way, around that time.

Yeah, I guess so. Cel animation does give an eerie feeling as well.
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I realized Arthur and South Park were in the same seasons around the same time. But anyways, I could've sworn it changed in Season 4 when watching some episodes.
 
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