Behind The Scenes Of ‘Spongebob & Sandy’s Nation Christmas’ Cease-Movement Particular

From the time Stephen Hillenburg created Spongebob Squarepants, in 1994, the sassy pants-wearing sea sponge has embodied an anything-goes perspective. For Nickelodeon govt producers Marc Ceccarelli and Vincent Waller, Spongebob and different denizens of the underwater city of Bikini Backside have been a mainstay of boisterous animated enjoyable – for greater than 300 episodes, three options, and spin-offs together with the current Netflix movie Saving Bikini Backside: The Sandy Cheeks Film, and now, a brand new stop-motion vacation particular, Spongebob & Sandy’s Nation Christmas.

A lot of Spongebob’s appeal springs from the character’s irreverent humor (voiced by Tom Kenny) and the sequence’ eclectic use of animated mediums. These have included 2nd animation at Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California, and Tough Draft Studios in Korea, and oddball bursts of puppetry and stop-motion created at Screen Novelties – co-founded by Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, and Chris Finnegan in Los Angeles. “We search for any alternative we will to work with Display Novelties,” govt producer Marc Ceccarelli advised Cartoon Brew. “We’re at all times asking, ‘Are they obtainable for this one?’ And since we had executed one Christmas particular already with them, it appeared like a pure to do one other.”

Cartoon Brew spoke with Ceccarelli and Waller about Spongebob’s newest stop-motion sojourn. The musical half-hour, which options the return of Sandy Cheeks (Carolyn Lawrence) and her Southern squirrel household who try to save lots of the vacation spirit in Bikini Backside, debuted this week on Nickelodeon and is presently streaming on Paramount+.