Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

[Squidward1999]

Yeah remember it now, it kind of does...

 

[Fear Of A Nerdy Patty]

I'm not sure what your definition of dated is. Isn't the season 2-3 animation technically dated too since it looks older?

 

[Fear Of A Nerdy Patty]

A screenshot from Sanitation Insanity where SpongeBob has his season 6 design.

 

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A screenshot from Sanitation Insanity where SpongeBob has his season 6 design.

Doesn't look quite like season 6. I've noticed that the character's bodies are smaller in post sequel.

 

[Fear Of A Nerdy Patty]

Yeah, there still is some of that odd season 10-12 quality to the image. I wish they would draw him like that more often than the bizarre wacky faces though. Why does he have to look this scary all of a sudden?

 

[Squidward1999]

I don't know, maybe because they think that funny faces would be funny to their audience? But don't take it seriously...

 

[Fear Of A Nerdy Patty]

It's more than just the faces being wacky, he looks downright unsettling at times. SpongeBob is supposed to be a cute character.

 

[Squidward1999]

It's like if John.K decided to work on these episodes (and I'm saying that because sometimes the show just looks like Ren and Stimpy)

 

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Season 10-12 episodes usually have poor image quality when found online too

 

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Spongebob's left arm looks unusually human like in the beginning of Your Shoe's Untied.

 

[Fear Of A Nerdy Patty]

One of the few shots from season 10-12 which looks more like 9B.

 

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Late-season 3 markerbob has so many instances where Spongebob has his inward cheeks.

 

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Patrick's head is super pointy in markerbob. Like usual markerbob has an addiction to colored lines, if this episode had normal animation, Spongebob and Patrick's camping gear would've had black lines.

 

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Late season 3 episodes with normal animation also have a lot of instances where Spongebob has his inward cheeks, just not as often as he does in markerbob.

 

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Squidward has thick outlines on his head in season 3 episodes that have normal animation

 

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Peter has his season 5 design when he's climbing over the fence

 

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The middle seasons of Family Guy (season 4-6) have bad video aliasing

 

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The FairlyOddParents is markerbob in reverse, the black lines are thick but the colored lines are thin

 

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On Family Guy, Peter has his season 7 design while he's standing in front of the tv watching cheers in the Season 5 episode "Road to Rupert". They were probably experimenting with vector animation during this scene.

 

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I found a few seconds of normal animation in Can You Spare a Dime. The blanket is the only way you can tell it's markerbob.