Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[SpongeyMind]

Cel Animated prototypes:
Musclebob BuffPants (hard to tell, because it's very very very early)
Karate Choppers
Hooky
Mermaidman & Barancleboy II


Markerbob (early version):
Bossy Boots
Big Pink Loser
Imitation Krabs
Life of Crime
Dumped

Markerbob (transitional):
I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
Pressure
Shanghaied
Welcome to the Chumbucket

Full on Markerbob:
I'm With Stupid
The Fry Cook Games
SpongeBob, Sandy, and the Worm
Squid on Strike
Spongeguard on Duty
My Pretty Seahorse
The Bully
Snowball Effect
One Krab's Trash
As Seen on TV
Can You Spare a Dime
Squilliam Returns
Wet Painters
Krusty Krab Training Video
Party Pooper Pants (underwater sun)
New Stundent Starfish
Mid-Life Crustacean
Ugh (Cutscene only)
Krabby Land
The Camping Episode
Missing Identity
The Sponge Who Could Fly (walk cyle)
Pranks a Lot

Season 2 didn't have many markerbob episodes, but in season 3, just about every other episode was markerbob. Although markerbob was the most common style used in season three, there were still more episodes that had normal animation.

the perfume department scene in shanghaied was full on markerbob

 

[SpongeyMind]

Cel Animated prototypes:
Musclebob BuffPants (hard to tell, because it's very very very early)
Karate Choppers
Hooky
Mermaidman & Barancleboy II


Markerbob (early version):
Bossy Boots
Big Pink Loser
Imitation Krabs
Life of Crime
Dumped

Markerbob (transitional):
I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
Pressure
Shanghaied
Welcome to the Chumbucket

Full on Markerbob:
I'm With Stupid
The Fry Cook Games
SpongeBob, Sandy, and the Worm
Squid on Strike
Spongeguard on Duty
My Pretty Seahorse
The Bully
Snowball Effect
One Krab's Trash
As Seen on TV
Can You Spare a Dime
Squilliam Returns
Wet Painters
Krusty Krab Training Video
Party Pooper Pants (underwater sun)
New Stundent Starfish
Mid-Life Crustacean
Ugh (Cutscene only)
Krabby Land
The Camping Episode
Missing Identity
The Sponge Who Could Fly (walk cyle)
Pranks a Lot

Season 2 didn't have many markerbob episodes, but in season 3, just about every other episode was markerbob. Although markerbob was the most common style used in season three, there were still more episodes that had normal animation.

Patrick stayed the same from start to the beginning (not including cel prototypes)

 

[SpongeyMind]

What's with the markerbob episodes having colored outlines. All the episodes with normal or modern animation have black lines.

I think they color the outlines every opportunity they get

 

[SpongeyMind]

I think they color the outlines every opportunity they get

MovieKrabs and i think Movieward (the real ones not the season 4 knock offs) uses colored outlines alot, however markerbob uses the colored outlines sparingly

 

[SpongeyMind]

Markerbob is alot slower moving

 

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Patrick stayed the same from start to the beginning (not including cel prototypes)

Patrick's head is less pointy in the early markerbobs

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

Markerbob is alot slower moving

The Markerbob episodes have a lower frame rate than the episodes with regular animation

 

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the perfume department scene in shanghaied was full on markerbob

No, not really, the shape of Spongebob's head still gave it away. His head is bigger at the top than it is on the bottom in the early and middle markerbob episodes, in full on Markerbob his head is perfectly square.

 

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MovieKrabs and i think Movieward (the real ones not the season 4 knock offs) uses colored outlines alot, however markerbob uses the colored outlines sparingly
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No, you'd be surprised, markerbob has more colored lines than any other style used in the series. Rewtach some markerbob episodes and you'll see what I mean. As for the least amount of colored lines, I'd say season 1, but that's because it's cel animated.

 

[SpongeyMind]

Cheekbob has returned

 

[SpongeyMind]

Cheekbob has returned
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I think they are trying to replicate this face, most likely a coincidence

 

[EM.]

Cheekbob has returned
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Oh wonderful they took Markerbob’s design besides the legs

 

[SpongeyMind]

Oh wonderful they took Markerbob’s design besides the legs

Alot of continuity errors, didn't squidward have hair before?

 

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Here's another markerbob design drawing of mine. I did the best I could, markerbob is the most difficult style to draw in the entire show:

 

[SpongeyMind]

Here's another markerbob design drawing of mine. I did the best I could, markerbob is the most difficult style to draw in the entire show:

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A like for effort

 

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[EM.]

Markerbob be lookin like a hybrid

 

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Markerbob be lookin like a hybrid

If you squint your eyes it looks like season 4

 

[Original Raw and Uncut]

A majority of the time, a markerbob episode is paired up with a normal episode.

 

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I've noticed that normal episodes have animation smears, but markerbob doesn't. How does rough draft studio know whether or not to make an episode normal or markerbob?