Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 61 43.6%
  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 3.6%
  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • Normal

    Votes: 9 6.4%
  • Moviebob

    Votes: 14 10.0%
  • Modern SpongeBob Animation

    Votes: 9 6.4%
  • Cheekbob (season 6 version)

    Votes: 3 2.1%
  • Noodlebob knock-off (Season 4-5)

    Votes: 3 2.1%
  • 2004 produced early season 4 (season 3 lookalikes)

    Votes: 9 6.4%
  • Greenblattbob (Dying for Pie and Fear of a Krabby Patty)

    Votes: 25 17.9%

  • Total voters
    140
I wonder if Opposite day was a prototype stage markerbob episode. Some markerbob qualities it has is that half of Squidward's mouth is covered by is nose and Spongebob has a diagonal smile. It's still hard to tell because season 1 is traditional cel animation:

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True, but Patrick still looks Season 1.

Pizza Delivery is one of the smoothest episodes of the series, it reminds me of a Carbunkle-animated Ren and Stimpy episode like Stimpy's Invention or Sven Hoek.
 
Looks like SpongeBob's art style is REALLY starting to take another direction compared to Seasons 11 and 12. Also sometimes I forget Season 11 ended 4 years ago lol. It still feels so new! In fact everything after Season 8 feels new. It's probably the HD. SpongeBob handled the transition to HD well though, it still feels like SpongeBob.
 
Looks like SpongeBob's art style is REALLY starting to take another direction compared to Seasons 11 and 12. Also sometimes I forget Season 11 ended 4 years ago lol. It still feels so new! In fact everything after Season 8 feels new. It's probably the HD. SpongeBob handled the transition to HD well though, it still feels like SpongeBob.
everything after season 9A feels new
Pizza Delivery is one of the smoothest episodes of the series, it reminds me of a Carbunkle-animated Ren and Stimpy episode like Stimpy's Invention or Sven Hoek.
Aaron springer animated it i think
 
Looks like SpongeBob's art style is REALLY starting to take another direction compared to Seasons 11 and 12. Also sometimes I forget Season 11 ended 4 years ago lol. It still feels so new! In fact everything after Season 8 feels new. It's probably the HD. SpongeBob handled the transition to HD well though, it still feels like SpongeBob.

Are there any HD episodes that look outdated to you?
 
Unrelated stuff I guess, but Jellyfish Hunter is 5572-181 not 5571-181 according to this production art
 
So between #172 - #194 they switched between 5571/5572 (s2/3) prod. tag, though I'm unsure for some episodes since they don't have production art. Here's the list

5572?-172 As Seen on TV
5571-173 Band Geeks
5571?-174 Artist Unknown
5571-175 Procrastination
5571-176 Graveyard Shift
5572-177 MM&BB IV
5572-178 Idiot Box
5571?-179 I'm With Stupid
5571?-180 Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm
5572-181 Jellyfish Hunter
5571-182 Sailor Mouth
5571-183 Gary Takes a Bath
5572-184 One Krabs Trash
5571?-185 Squid on Strike
5572?-186 Doing Time
5571-187 SpongeGuard on Duty
5571-188 The Algae's Always Greener
5572-189 Snowball Effect
5572-190 Can You Spare a Dime?
5572-191 The Bully
5571-192 Club Spongebob
5572-193 My Pretty Seahorse
5571-194 Just One Bite
 
Honestly not a single one. Not even Extreme Spots.

Did you read about my post on how the season 8 holdovers overlapped production with Season 9A. believe it or not, Little Yellow Book and Patrick-Man were animated before parts of Hello Bikini Bottom were. This also explains the strange airing order that took place in late 2012, with HD episodes airing the same night as the SD holdovers from season 8.

If my math is correct, For Here or to Go! was the final episode of season 8 not to overlap production with season 9, this was due to how long it took It's a SpongeBob Christmas to be produced due to it being stop motion.

Hello Bikini Bottom was made SDTV 4:3 on purpose because it was still conceived during season 8's production cycle, which was done to keep it consistent with the rest of the season. The episode's time of inception was between The Way of the Sponge and Are You Happy Now. That episode just happened to be the last episode from the eight season to be shipped off to Korea to be animated, hence why it's final production code is 178.

The episode completion dates are as follows, according to the US copyright database

175- It's a SpongeBob Christmas; May 8th 2012
176- Super Evil Aquatic Villain Team Up is Go/Chum Fricassee; May 3rd 2012
177- The Good Krabby Name/Move it or Lose It; April 26th 2012
178- Hello Bikini Bottom (Unknown completion date, shipped to Korea in March 2012)

So the production codes should've been this;

175a- The Good Krabby Name
175b- Move it or Lose It
176a- Super Evil Aquatic Villiain Team Up is Go!
176b- Chum Fricassee
177- It’s a SpongeBob Christmas
178- Hello Bikini Bottom

They probably swapped 175 and 177 because they didn’t want two specials next to each other.


Final episode numbers are based on when the episodes get shipped overseas.

It's unknown when Extreme Spots was complete versus when Hello Bikini Bottom was completed, but something tells me that Johnny Knoxville (Johnny Krill from Extreme Spots) and Andy Samberg (The Colonial from Hello Bikini Bottom) ate lunch together on the day they recorded their lines. They probably had steak and potatoes with wine.
 
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I would still consider it sorta newer-looking, especially with some episodes like Bumper to Bumper
 
Though in my opinion, the episodes with the best animation in the show are Pizza Delivery and Under the Small Top
 
The live action shot at the end of Dexter's Little Dilemma looks like it was filmed in 1999:

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The woman's hair and glasses are the only way I can tell it's from 2002. The two guys look 1999
 
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