Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 54 42.5%
  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 3.9%
  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.6%
  • Normal

    Votes: 9 7.1%
  • Moviebob

    Votes: 12 9.4%
  • Modern SpongeBob Animation

    Votes: 9 7.1%
  • Cheekbob (season 6 version)

    Votes: 3 2.4%
  • Noodlebob knock-off (Season 4-5)

    Votes: 3 2.4%
  • 2004 produced early season 4 (season 3 lookalikes)

    Votes: 8 6.3%
  • Greenblattbob (Dying for Pie and Fear of a Krabby Patty)

    Votes: 22 17.3%

  • Total voters
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Which FOP design is your favorite?
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Butch Hartman

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Ernie Gilbert

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Stephen Silver

Mine is Ernie Gilbert
 

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The animation differences between the first and last episodes of the third season of Adventure Time are jarring to the point where it's frightening:

Season 3 Episode 1 (Conquest of Cuteness)

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Season 3 Episode 26 (Incendium)

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Tartakovsky Dexter can have lazy animation as well, in season 1, during close-up shots, the entire background would be blank. Not even 1960s Hannah Barbara cartoons that had the budget of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich would do this. This is extremely lazy:


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If I were a cartoon network exec, I'd have them send the episode back to Korea, so they can redo these shots.
 

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Even when I watched Dexter's Lab when I was little, I still knew that the Chris Savino era was digitally animated, while the Tartakovsky seasons were painted by hand. Just the distinctive look to each era makes it obvious. Yeah, at the time, I didn't know the proper terms for the animation techniques being used, but I still thought of the first two seasons as "painted by hand and shot on film" and the Savino era as "computer animation".
 

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This episode has the thickest lines in Spongebob history.


Here squidward's outline is way thinner for basically no reason, for a long time I knew this didn't look right

Overall this episode looks more like they weren't really used to digital animation than even Your Shoe's Untied
 

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This episode has the thickest lines in Spongebob history.


Here squidward's outline is way thinner for basically no reason, for a long time I knew this didn't look right

Overall this episode looks more like they weren't really used to digital animation than even Your Shoe's Untied

Dexter’s Lab was also like that when they first switched to electronic animation. The first few episodes have the third season have very bold outlines.
 
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