Nickelodeon Animation Studios: Spongebob Squarepants

SpongeBob in front of an Ice Cream store from Season ONE!

During the first season, SpongeBob SquarePants was animated using cel animation.[28] The show shifted to digital ink and paint animation during its second season in 2000.[28] In 2009, executive producer Paul Tibbitt said "The first season of SpongeBob was done the old-fashioned way on cells, and every cell had to be part-painted, left to dry, paint some other colors.