Pinned thread Art Style analysis in Spongebob and various other shows

Favorite art style

  • Markerbob

    Votes: 53 42.1%
  • Noodlebob

    Votes: 5 4.0%
  • Cubebob

    Votes: 2 1.6%
  • Normal

    Votes: 8 6.3%
  • Moviebob

    Votes: 12 9.5%
  • Modern SpongeBob Animation

    Votes: 10 7.9%
  • Cheekbob (season 6 version)

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

    Votes: 4 3.2%
  • 2004 produced early season 4 (season 3 lookalikes)

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

    Votes: 21 16.7%

  • Total voters
    126

Original Raw and Uncut

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For some reason, during the Underwater Sun segment in Party Pooper Pants, SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, and Sandy are markerbob, but Plankton and Squidward have normal animation.
 

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yeah, early markerbob is the one that looks the most like season 1, but it's my least favourite stage
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I think the markerbob stages should be split into these to to make the major stages slightly more specific:

Prototype:
Hooky
Karate Choppers
Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II

Early (very similar to season 1 except digitally coloured):
Bossy Boots
Life of Crime*
Big Pink Loser
Imitation Krabs
*Life of Crime uses the transition markerbob design in a few scenes

Transition (the lines on SpongeBob's body are less rough, but he's still asymmetrical and rectangular):
I'm Your Biggest Fanatic
Dumped
Shanghaied
Pressure
Welcome to the Chum Bucket

Transition 2.0 (this bridges the gap between transition and full markerbob stages):
The Fry Cook Games

Full Markerbob version 1 (can be distinguished most easily by season 2 colour palette but with SpongeBob being proportionately square):
As Seen on TV
I'm With Stupid
SpongeBob, Sandy, and the Worm
One Krabs Trash
Squid on Strike
SpongeGuard on Duty
Snowball Effect
Can You Spare a Dime?
My Pretty Seahorse

Full Markerbob version 2 (cooler colour palette, slightly revised design):
The Bully
Krusty Krab Training Video
Squilliam Returns
New Student Starfish
Wet Painters

Full Markerbob version 3 (SpongeBob's inward facing cheeks become way more common):
Missing Identity
Mid-Life Crustacean
Krabby Land
The Camping Episode
Pranks A Lot

I’m With Stupid is transit.
 

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And im also actually happy they changed the design of CrayonSteve including his animation in the Blues Clues pilot Snack Time because in the unaired pilot Steve had extremely poor animation making the unaired episode very unwatchable also Sidetable Drawer had a nonsensical color tone
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@Original Raw and Uncut do you agree with this?

And im also actually happy they changed the design of CrayonSteve including his animation in the Blues Clues pilot Snack Time because in the unaired pilot Steve had extremely poor animation making the unaired episode very unwatchable also Sidetable Drawer had a nonsensical color tone
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Man, the video quality in the new model seasons of Thomas is so great for its time. This came out in 2004, but it looks like 2011. Crisp colors, barely any dot crawling and it's even in 16:9! SpongeBob should've gone 16:9 much earlier, like Season 6 or even 5
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