Seriously, it's like day and night, when he worked at Cartoon Network, he made a handful of shorts on What a Cartoon which looked pretty good for their time and had their own identity
But after he left for Nickelodeon and made Fairly Oddparents, he used the same artstyle for all of his Nick shows and OYC shorts. Even when he left Nick, he still kept the FOP artstyle, as seen on Hobbykids Adventures
What happened? Did he become lazy, or did he just find his trademark artstyle?
Lower budgets. NickToons always looked like crap outside of a handful of Ren & Stimpy episodes (and only in the first few years).
Kevin Peterson
Zim shits on what you just said
Josiah Ortiz
>NickToons always looked like crap
Naw, man.
Aaron Gutierrez
I'm pretty sure it's literally just budgets as what said but thanks for showing this to us, OP. Never saw these shorts before and I really enjoyed them.
Zim literally had double the budget of every other show on Nick at the time.
Robert Baker
He was working with other people when he was working on the WaC! shorts. Alone, I'm pretty sure he was just doing his best to ape Dexter's style since it was so simple.
>NickToons always looked like crap Wasn't Spongebob at the start pretty expensive to make?
Austin Brooks
The simple part makes me think and its kinda interesting.
Like I wonder if he actively picked the easier and cheaper style so that the budget could be lower, but quality still over all consistent (Not saying consistently good or anything, but consistent at least).
That way, it'd be easier for him to pitch to the higher ups to get more seasons and keep him employed longer.
Gabriel Perry
bone(r)
Chase Taylor
>Dexter's style Was that artstyle the CalArts style of the 90's? It first started with 2 Stupid Dog, but everyone tried to make replicate it after the success of Dexter's Lab
How was dexters lab "calarts" and what were they copying? The guy who invented the term was referring to the iron giant.
Oliver Rodriguez
Not literally the term Calarts retard, a bunch of shows and shorts used the same artstyle as Dexter since it was easier and much more simple, Hartfag included
Anthony Fisher
Slow down on your Hartman threads, TRAFON. Your autistic agenda is showing again.
Evan Jackson
It's just a limited style with emphasis on 2D design rather than voluminous 3D drawing. It's been done since the 50s and countless cartoonists have used it since. 90s saw a lot of it because it was in response to the technically anal and sterile cartoons of the 70/80s, and of course it made the production cheaper so it was encouraged and sought after once proved successful. It paved the way for a lot of cartoons to have more innovative designs and styles since less focus could be on the actual production and more attention/money could be given to preproduction.
Carter Myers
Who?
Juan Clark
>CalArts style of the 90's
Stop. You don't even know what you're talking about.
Dominic Hughes
>TRAFON
Lives inside your head without paying a lease.
Levi Kelly
I liked the grandpa one
Lucas Cox
Spongebob looked noticably cheaper than the other new Nicktoons at the time, what are you talking about? Compare any s1 Spongebob episode to an episode of Catdog or Angry Beavers at the time and the budget really shows. Luckily they made up for it by really pushing the jokes.
Sebastian Wilson
His style didn't translate well. I see his drawings today it's pretty bad.
