Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[Pugs4Thugs]

I've said this before but I always found it interesting how some of the season 5 models were based on the old production art
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Slightly off-topic but that old production art just has that style to it. I don't know how to describe it but whenever I see art like that it just makes me instantly nostalgic.

 

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I've said this before but I always found it interesting how some of the season 5 models were based on the old production art
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The markerbob design is similar to that, since the top of his head is bigger than the bottom

 

[JoeyBoi]

Speaking of season 5, something weird I always noticed about some season 5 for some reason is that Spongebob's teeth are really big. I know it's a weird thing to point out, but it always felt odd to me.

 

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Speaking of season 5, something weird I always noticed about some season 5 for some reason is that Spongebob's teeth are really big. I know it's a weird thing to point out, but it always felt odd to me.

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Notice how every episode in season 5 has the same color palette, and yeah, Spongebob's teeth are incredibly huge in the fifth season

 

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No Free Rides has the same art style as Sailor Mouth, just with a different color pallet

 

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In season 3 of Adventure Time, "Conquest of Cuteness", "Memory of a Memory", "Hitman", and "Still" are the last episodes to have the original animation style from the first two seasons, everything else in that season has the current art style. The show's tone is more or less the same as the first two seasons, and the show's tone begins to have a transitional phase in season 4, before it shifts to modern AT in season 5.

 

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Something similar happens in season 3 of Regular Show, "Skips vs Technology" is the last episode to use season 1/2 line thickness, from Replaced onward uses the modern Regular Show style, although there are some episodes that look like a hybrid of both styles, like "Trash Boat", "Eggsellent", and "Trash Boat"

 

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In Adventure Time's penultimate episode "Gumbaldia", in one of the final scenes, Finn has his season 1 design:


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Jake also has his season one design in the season 5 episode "Shhh!":

 

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We need to do more analysis on other shows too, I'm tired of just doing Spongebob

 

[EM.]

We need to do more analysis on other shows too, I'm tired of just doing Spongebob

Yea, maybe like Dexter’s Lab or Johnny Test or Butch Hartman’s shows

 

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Yea, maybe like Dexter’s Lab or Johnny Test or Butch Hartman’s shows

speaking of dexter, do you notice the very bad dot crawl in early season 3

 

[SpongeyMind]

I've said this before but I always found it interesting how some of the season 5 models were based on the old production art
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maybe they weren't bothered and they was like "eh i'll just trace it since i don't have the energy"

 

[SpongeyMind]

Speaking of season 5, something weird I always noticed about some season 5 for some reason is that Spongebob's teeth are really big. I know it's a weird thing to point out, but it always felt odd to me.

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First image has season 9+ coloring

 

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First image has season 9+ coloring

I still think every episode in season 5 has the same color pallet, which makes it harder to differentiate between the styles

 

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Speaking of season 5, something weird I always noticed about some season 5 for some reason is that Spongebob's teeth are really big. I know it's a weird thing to point out, but it always felt odd to me.

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The first one may be a Toon Boom version of noodlebob

 

[EM.]

Season 1 of Johnny Test had it's own version of MarkerBob, half of the episodes have lines with almost the same thickness, and a little more off model with Animaniacs like animation, and the other half and intro consist of thickline with the thicker lines having thin edges but thick in the middle, and different kinds of movements, both art and movements of that one reminiscent of Fairly OddParents. Here's a comparison anyone got a name for them?

 

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Season 1 of Johnny Test had it's own version of MarkerBob, half of the episodes have lines with almost the same thickness, and a little more off model with Animaniacs like animation, and the other half and intro consist of thickline with the thicker lines having thin edges but thick in the middle, and different kinds of movements, both art and movements of that one reminiscent of Fairly OddParents. Here's a comparison anyone got a name for them?
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I haven't noticed, good eye, I initially thought that every season 1 episode had the same line thickness, although still not as drastic as the differences between the Spongebob styles

 

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Season 1 is the only season of Johnny Test to be done traditionally, so varied line thickness is inevitable

 

[EM.]

Season 1 is the only season of Johnny Test to be done traditionally, so varied line thickness is inevitable

Season 2 also had traditional animation half of the time, just done in Flash, so the line thickness was always the same then.