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%

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Original Raw and Uncut

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SpongeBob's inward cheeks in season 3 during normal animation:

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SpongeBob's inward cheeks in markerbob:

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Weird how they appear a lot at the end of pre-movie despite the staff originally planning to end the show after these episodes.

Here's my estimation of the order of all known markerbob media to ever have been produced:

1. traditional cel animation (Karate Choppers, Hooky, The Paper, MM&BB II)
2. early digital markerbob (Bossy Boots to Dumped)
3. Transit markerbob (I'm Your Biggest Fanatic-Fry Cook Games)
4. pseudo full on stage (Squid on Strike- My Pretty Seahorse)
5. Conventional season 3 markerbob with vibrant colors (The Bully-Missing Identity)
6. The Sponge Who Could Fly Walk Cycle (The final instance of yellow markerbob)
7. Ugh: Krusty Krab Cut Scene
8. Party Pooper Pants markerbob cut scenes
9. Pranks a Lot (finalized markerbob with brigher colors and extremely on model artwork)
10. 2002 Kraft Mac and Cheese advertisement
 

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maybe in the future SpongeBob will have an episode recreating the old animation style kinda like what the Simpsons did in their newest special
 
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Original Raw and Uncut

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why was plankton's mouth pink in some episodes
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The purple throat seems to be a coloring variant, similar to palebob. Assuming SpongeBob Wiki galleries show the episode's original coloring, Plankton's throat is supposed to be its usual color in the example you showed.
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However, in New Leaf, the purple throat IS the original coloring, assuming the SpongeBob Wiki galleries show the original coloring of episodes.
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The purple throat seems to be a coloring variant, similar to palebob. Assuming SpongeBob Wiki galleries show the episode's original coloring, Plankton's throat is supposed to be its usual color in the example you showed.
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However, in New Leaf, the purple throat IS the original coloring, assuming the SpongeBob Wiki galleries show the original coloring of episodes.
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I can confirm that the galleries do show the original colouring and thus are reliable sources. 🙂
 

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I can confirm that the galleries do show the original colouring and thus are reliable sources. 🙂
Well that's cool! I guess that's why the SpongeBob Wiki galleries have a low prevalence of palebob episodes compared to other spongebob galleries.

Not even Choir Boys' gallery is palebob on SpongeBob Wiki, and that episode is notorious for being palebob most places its shown.
 

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Well that's cool! I guess that's why the SpongeBob Wiki galleries have a low prevalence of palebob episodes compared to other spongebob galleries.

Not even Choir Boys' gallery is palebob on SpongeBob Wiki, and that episode is notorious for being palebob most places its shown.
Despite that, the error of Spob being coloured incorrectly in "Patchy's Playlist" is present on the wiki's gallery since it is an error that cannot be unseen.
 

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Despite that, the error of Spob being coloured incorrectly in "Patchy's Playlist" is present on the wiki's gallery since it is an error that cannot be unseen.
I feel like that doesn't count since those are archived recordings of other episodes featured in Patchy's Playlist. It's still technically Patchy's Playlist's original coloring, just not the original coloring of the episodes it borrowed scenes from.
 
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