Why do Seasons 2-3 look very different than Season 4

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ts been a while since I've made an animation topic, so be nice or don't post. When I was watching season 2-3 episodes, I then watched S4 shortly afterwards, I've noticed that the characters move differently in Season 4 then they did in seasons 2-3. Its hard to explain, but S2-3 animation seems to be more organic and natural looking, and can be very static in scenes that nothing is moving, some episodes look so organic to the point where they might've used cel animation (Sailor Mouth,Wormy, Patty Hype, Krusty Love, Frankendoodle, The Algae's Always Greener) even though they're digitally colored. Season 4 also has bolder outlines than S2-S3 , however in S2-S3 the outlines look thinner and are all the same size, as if they used actual real-life pen ink. Not to mention Season 4 has more geometry in its animation, S2-S3 look more "hand-drawn." In my honest opinion I think S2-S3 used pen ink, and were only colored digitally. S4 was probably sketched with pencils, and then the lines were digitally done, the movement in S2-S3 also has less frames per second, in S4 they have more frames making some movements almost entirely Three-Dimensional.
 
I'm pretty sure there was also upgraded computer technology and influences from the movie's animation into that. Season 2 and some of Season 3 would have had influence from, say, Windows 95-2000, while Season 4 is more in the Windows XP era.
 
BatteryMill said:
I'm pretty sure there was also upgraded computer technology and influences from the movie's animation into that. Season 2 and some of Season 3 would have had influence from, say, Windows 95-2000, while Season 4 is more in the Windows XP era.
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Then Season 5-6 are also Windows XP

Season 7 would be Windows Vista

Season 8 and 9.1 would be Windows 7

and Season 9.2 is Windows 8, and so on
 
Maybe they relied more on computers to also animate the characters? Season 2-3 are digitally colored, but the animations are still done the old way, if I remembers correctly.

Grumpy Squidward Guy said:
ts been a while since I've made an animation topic, so be nice or don't post. When I was watching season 2-3 episodes, I then watched S4 shortly afterwards, I've noticed that the characters move differently in Season 4 then they did in seasons 2-3. Its hard to explain, but S2-3 animation seems to be more organic and natural looking, and can be very static in scenes that nothing is moving, some episodes look so organic to the point that they might've used cel animation (Sailor Mouth,Wormy, Patty Hype, Love, Frankendoodle, The Algae's Always Greener) even though they're digitally colored. Season 4 also has bolder outlines than S2-S3 , however in S2-S3 the outlines look thinner and are all the same size, as if they used actual real-life pen ink. Not to mention Season 4 has more geometry in its animation, S2-S3 look more "hand-drawn." In my honest opinion I think S2-S3 used pen ink, and were only colored digitally. S4 was probably sketched with pencils, and then the lines were digitally done, the movement in S2-S3 also has less frames per second, in S4 they have more frames making some movements almost entirely Three-Dimensional.
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That's an interesting look on the animation I've never noticed before, I'll check it out later.
 
A Lonely Fishstick said:
because flash didn't exist in 2001
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Actually it did

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in 1996. And I doubt SpongeBob uses flash animation
 
different storyboard artists
different character models
different directors
different storyboard supervisors

if you look at the opening credits of the episodes you'll see how the crew changed over time, some people left, some people got promoted to other positions, some new people came, etc
 
A Lonely Fishstick said:
well, they didn't use it.
they must've started in season four

Yes they do...
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Where did you hear that though? Last I heard, they used Toon Boom, either Animate Pro or Harmony. Whether or not they use elements of Flash at times, I don't know, but SpongeBob is listed on Toon Boom's website under the list of shows and movies that used their software for animation - https://www.toonboom.com/company/customer-productions
 
Loopers said:
>implying SpongeBob uses flash
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SBRoxMan said:
Where did you hear that though? Last I heard, they used Toon Boom, either Animate Pro or Harmony. Whether or not they use elements of Flash at times, I don't know, but SpongeBob is listed on Toon Boom's website under the list of shows and movies that used their software for animation - https://www.toonboom.com/company/customer-productions
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Oops, I got mixed up. xD I have edited the post, hopefully I got my facts right this time :P
 
So its basically like this:

Season 1: hand-painted backgrounds, cel animation, pen ink, clear cel sheets, paint, paintbrush, and film camera (No computers)

Season 2-3: Backgrounds are hand painted then the cels are outlined onto paper with pen ink and then put in the scanner to be used on some primitive odd digital coloring software on a crappy Windows 95/2000 computer

Season 4-5: Pencil Sketches and painted backgrounds, then scanned into the computer to be traced with a mouse, and digitally colored frame by frame

Season 6-present: Graphic tablets, in which the whole process is done digitally, including sketches, outlines, colors and even backgrounds (Toon Boom)
 
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