#additional reason is cuz i have thought soooo goddamn much about the style direction for CMY2K and one of these days i really oughta make a

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god i fucking love the visual/sound direction in spongebob i don’t think i can think of any other cartoon that has such consistent theming through ALL aspects of its design like all the fonts (or really just the main singular font that i think might be used for everything) and the tropical type patterns used on the title/time cards plus the way that like All the prop design is one way or another nautical themed the most obvious examples are when something is clearly based on like a life preserver or fishhooks it’s all so goddamn cute and charming and i respect/Adore the design consistency so goddamn much, but what i love even More is the consistent sound design pretty much all the music has such a distinct sound to it because of the very specific deliberate choices in instruments Especially the steel drums + steel guitar + ukulele like someone can play a background track from almost any episode and you’d pretty much instantaneously be able to recognize it as something from spongebob

i particularly noticed this cuz i’ve been watching a lot of streams of gamecube era shovelware lately and a lot of games based on cartoons have kind of generic soundtracks that could’ve come from any other game from that time period but with the spongebob games there’s always that nice goddamn steel guitar it’s so perfectly suited to the thing that spongebob is

and like sure other cartoons have pretty consistent sound design especially if they basically have one main composer, like steven universe’s background music has that pretty distinct piano+chiptune style, but the thing i like the most about spongebob is that the sound design is so perfectly suited for a fucking cartoon about fish like of course the music is gonna sound tropical it’s extremely deliberate it isn’t just something they thought sounded nice and decided to make that the style, there was soooo much goddamn thought put into it!!!! every little minute detail you can possibly think of was so well thought out and took a shitton of consideration to make it perfectly suit spongebob i have soooo much goddamn respect for that i think more cartoons should have that much thought put into all aspects of their design instead of just going “eh this looks/sounds nice let’s smash it in there” that kind of thematic styling rules so goddamn much. it’s one thing for a cartoon to have a distinct art style the characters get drawn in but if every other design aspect is interchangeable with another show what’s the point

#i think another reason i’m thinking about this in particular so much right now is cuz the animation project I’M currently working on is #set in the middle of the goddamn ocean and it would be nice to include more of that kinda steel drum sound in the music #maybe i can incorporate that into the instrumentation for the underwater part and have the boat music sound more gritty or some shit IDK #additional reason is cuz i have thought soooo goddamn much about the style direction for CMY2K and one of these days i really oughta make a #style bible for it especially including some examples of sound design because i do really really want CMY2K to have a very consistent #distinct visual/audio style that works with the theming IE the graphic design being very vectorheart/supergraphic ultramodern #the architecture/props being for the most part blobjects but in a used future kinda way. and the soundtrack especially i NEED to be #exclusively late 90s techno/D&B/gabber because it fits it too perfectly i will accept nothing else