SpongeBall RoundPants

I was drawing a ball as a prop design for Spongebob:

 

And that got me thinking about Spongebob - and if he was round what would he look like.  So I blew up the ball up to a larger size and drew this:

SpongeBall RoundPants

Spongebob: food centerpiece

I did this for an episode of season 9 of Spongebob Squarepants.  It starts as a pile of food, and Spongebob works his magic and turns it into a centerpiece for a wedding.

It's on screen for just a few seconds  - but each picture took a couple of hours, at least, to draw.

Spongeybob!

I started working on this amazing show in season 9.  Can you believe Spongebob has been on for 10 seasons?  Here's to hoping it continues indefinitely!

New Episode of Spongebob this Saturday

I prop designed this next episode of SpongeBob.  It was my first episode of season 10.  Below are a couple of the props I designed.  I believe I did the entire episode - there are a few reused props from previous episodes, so I didn't technically design everything....

The egg from the 3rd season of SpongeBob makes it's return in this Saturday's BRAND NEW Spongebob epsiode! The episode is called WhirlyBrains and is probably on at 10:30 (but check your local listings!), and probably has nothing to do with eggs. I added that shadow line to the existing prop design!

 SpongeBob's television has been seen in many episodes - but it's never been broken in half.  So this is one of the harder props I designed for the episode.

Anyway - check out the show - new episodes every Saturday for the next few weeks!

Saturday's SpongeBob SquarePants is ALL NEW!

Hey guys,

Turn in to Nickelodeon to watch a brand new episode of Spongebob Squarepants!  It's at 10:30 am, and I did the prop design for this episode!

Here's a sneak peak at what you'll see, if you look close enough:

I've learned, now that I've been on SpongeBob for over a year now, that this prop has too much information on it - for something zipping across the scene (you'll have to watch the episode to know what I'm talking about), it only needs the picture of the onion for the viewer to understand what it is.  The words are superfluous.

Why is a sack of onions zipping across the screen?!?!!?  TUNE IN this Saturday to find out!

I'm working on Spongebob...!

I've been working on Spongebob since 2015...so not for that long.  I did a lot of freelance at first, and have transitioned into full time in March.

This is one of the first props I designed for the show.  It's fantastic to see something that I designed painted and composited into an episode of one of the most iconic and popular shows ever.

It starts as a simple drawing in a storyboard and then goes to a designer (in this case, me) and is designed and cleaned up in the style of the show.  Then it goes to paint (which used to be ink and paint, but they started making the designers clean up their own work a few years back on most shows), and all of it is sent overseas to be animated.


The second picture is because I was drawing Plankton, and thought how much he looked like Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc...so I drew them together...

And finally, just because I happened to have it - here's a storyboard vs fully designed prop.  Look for it in episode 958!  Whichever one that is...you'll recognize it because of all the bulletin boards...

Spongebob Toothpick

Ooh!  What could it be?

Okay - I guess I already gave away that it was a toothpick in my title.  But what is it up to?  Why is there a toothpick on the May 3rd episode of Spongebob Squarepants at 5:30 on Nickelodeon?  You should tune in to find out.  You'll see all sorts of props I designed on that episode (as it was the very first one I worked on as freelance for season 9 of Spongebob).

It's a hilarious episode.

By the way - the color was done by Teale Wang - she's an amazing color stylist at Nickelodeon...you won't find anyone better.