Why does it feel like I watched a psychological horror from 1992?

As crazy as SpongeBob is, I was not expecting Hillenburg’s early work to be so trippy.

Holy crap this is impressive

Despite how wild this is, it kinda portrays the monotony of life pretty well, even though that's probably not what it was going for at all.

Great stuff, Hillenburg was part of the experimental animation program in CalArts at the time. Another alumni from that program includes Henry Selick, the director of Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The inspirations from Fantastic Planet (a major inspiration for Pikmin btw!) are pretty neat to see here, would definitely recommend anyone find a way to see it if they can.

Who recognized the squid wars lookalike?? This is crazy to see the beginning of what SpongeBob is and what started such a beautiful masterpiece.

Reminds me of Bill Plympton

3:21 Running in the 90s be like:

The guy looking out the window gives me Kaz vibes. That’s probably why Hillenburg picked him to be a storyboard artist in several episodes

My IQ too small to comprehend what I just seen

3

Anyone can be an artists, especially Stephen Hillenburg who was a marine biologist before creating SpongeBob. This film is basically Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.

This feels like the ending of Evangelion

Yes, I will stay crunchy.

this is amazing wow!!!

Before SpongeBob There Was Wormholes

This looks like an mtv bumper

i get it

Él es el N° 1

4:19 - 4:25 WOAH. HOW DID HE DRAAW STUFF LIKE THAT!?

Esto es muy de ohio

It's about time dilation, relativity and physics.

2:39 this reminds me of that episode where spongebob had to work the night shift lol.

This was his first animation de entire time!?😱

it's about the chaos and entropy of life

The early sketches by Stephen reminds me a lot of Bill Plympton's creations.

Spongebob lore right there.

... What is this?

thanks for dredging up the college work of this famous man. and RIP stephen hillenburg

Цукаты фууууууу

The way he stitched together all of the footage at the end to illustrate the flies life starting over, blew my mind.....Now it makes sense why Spongebob was so creative

i’m too high for this

2:18 Squidward prototype

Я первый русский человек здесь прикольно кстати я после сётрлинга 😎😎😎😎😁

This guy should make a tv show or something.

You have just entered...the intertidal zone!

I'm convinced Stephen Hillenburg had knowledge of some Eldrich truth and managed to escape with his sanity, and that this was his way of conveying that Eldrich truth

1991

SB-129 vibes

Theory of relativity

there is a lot of meaning in this

i understand this 100% :0 some existential horror elements pop up in SpongeBob also

the road is like bikini bottom

Me: Mom? Can We Get Spongebob At Home? Mom: No, We Have Spongebob At Home Spongebob At Home:

It’s fascinating looking at other outlets that delve into Steve’s thoughts/ideals rather than the subtle ones we only have on Spongebob.

Love it. This is the beauty of animation. The ability to let your imagination run wild and play with reality. It may be impossible to interpret but there is creative genius in this. Steve obviously upped his storytelling game with SpingeBob but there is a certain reckless abandon in all of his work which is what makes it special.

très beau !!!

Watching this feels like I'm having a manic psychedelic meltdown lol. I agree with everybody on the Rock Bottom vibes. The unique building designs here also resemble many of the homes in downtown Bikini Bottom as well.

This is beautiful, I already loved spongebob for being the intelligent, funny, and accessible show that it was, but wow, hillenburg was a true artist, I wish he would've made more like this

Aw hell nah spunch bob took 40 benadryls