Right from the first shot of the opening theme, SpongeBob established itself as a multimedia cartoon that showed viewers the magic of combining various forms of animation with live-action, and beyond. Mark Caballero, Seamus Walsh, and the entire Screen Novelties team have undertaken the unique challenge of translating SpongeBob’s cartoony sensibility into stop-motion animation. In this special love letter to stop-motion itself, Mark and Seamus reveal exclusive behind-the-scenes stories from their 20+ years working with the SpongeBob team.

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