#nicktoons logo

[fidenciojesusfan92]

Danny Phantom 2099 Logo

[knadire]

Feeling compelled today to post this Nicktoons Unite logo I made for a personal project a while back.

[nctsboodle]

"Only the Chosen Ones can save us..." Logo design for a reboot to Nicktoons Unite.

[blueminuet]

Current 3D print project:

“Did you attach it to your fan?”

With my gothiest belt so I could show it spin without holding it? Yes.

“Why is your workspace so messy?”

When your evil lab/3D printer station is clean, then you can talk to me.

“Why did you make this?”

I saw no one else had made a fully printable 3D model for the Tigre belt yet and wanted to make it. Also Fauve gave me brainworms.

“You modeled this whole thing yourself? Including the spin mechanism?”

Yes, audience for this post that exists solely in my head, thank you for asking. Yes, I did, and everyone should clap.

Anyway, this is prototype 3.5, will probably publish some version of this on thingiverse later after more testing.

Also, here is the blooper reel.

[zakiyastubbs]

Happy Shortaki Week! Matching outfits, inspired by @kanyewithaj and @joeyart.

[satirn]

when the brainrot over 4 losers i rotate in my brain 😔

[happaxgamma]

[voyagetv67]

Walking Nicktoons Blob Man in NICKELODEON’S CLUB

[catfoxposts-blog]

Remember when Nickelodeon would have a unique shape for the Nick logo for their shows? Spongebob  would have a Jellyfish, Jimmy Neutron had a Rocket, Rugrats had a baby bottle ECT. They stopped doing that in the late 2000's and it sucks cause it was such a simple yet effective (and fun) detail. For the most underrated Nicktoon of all time Glitch techs  I made an edit using the silhouette of a tamagotchi. Figured using a tamagotchi was more out of the box than a gameboy or controller.

[supabros]

Random thought I was having the other day when I was talking with a friend. But does anyone just absolutely despise how they changed SpongeBobs logo and design for like practically everything.

[littletroubledgrrrl]

I grew up on 2000's Nickelodeon (I was born at the end of 1994 and I started watching Nickelodeon since I was about 3) and didn't really watch Nickelodeon in the 2010's (except for reruns of the first 3 seasons of "Spongebob"), but I feel like I've grown up with Nickelodeon's 2010's logo, this logo:

Even though technically I didn't.

[fidenciojesusfan92]

My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and Danny Phantom logo

[splatchatblog]

Here they are! All standard Nickelodeon, NickToons, TeenNick, Nick Jr. and NickMusic TV Bugs together! The Splat Zone takeover is almost complete! 👀🧡

[twin-images]

So, Nickelodeon seems to have recently revamped their logo.

It combines their new font with the earlier iconic orange splat. Basically mixing the old with the new.

That's great!

-Now all they have to do is start investing in some new shows and IPs instead of just milking SpongeBob Squarepants and The Loud House for all their worth.

[arkus-rhapsode]

Now I've been working on something involving Cartoon Network and its 30+ history and recently it really hit me just how much I had grown up with the channel, but also how much its still growing.

I had started watching in the early 2000s just before the CN City bumpers were a thing and would catch numerous reruns of shows from the 90s. In a lot of ways, Cartoon Network was my channel. Now I enjoyed Nickelodeon for stuff like Spongebob and Danny Phantom and Invader Zim and I just never had Disney Channel in our cable package so I missed out a lot of those shows. But CN... to say its got a special place in my mind palace is an understatement I remember the checkerboard and seeing Cartoon Network Studios at the end of an episode and their little animations. I was there when Miguzi was a thing as well as the alien invasion. I watched the Noods take over in real time and the transition from black and white to rainbow colors of Check it! for the network. I can even remember Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab showing up in the Hannah Barbera logo as I was barraged with these old times characters.

I think one of the things so captivating about this was Cartoon Network's skill at making their programs feel like a family. Like not a shared universe like Marvel or Star Wars, but rather entertainment companies having this identity of their properties able to fit together whether through shared advertising, little crossovers, Easter eggs, etc. Who remembers the "Spot the Block" campaign? I was cringing even as a child to that song. This is something companies like Nintendo does a lot or even what Nicktoons used to do. It made it feel so much bigger than just a show, but it also felt intimate. Personal. That all these characters off in their own little world could find themselves sitting down for coffee or playing catch.

However, by 2015 I had basically stopped with the network. My family opted to get rid of cable and invest in early streaming for entertainment and to be honest, I kinda just knew my time may have been up. I was a teenager almost done with high school and this channel is still primarily aimed at kids, my generation was passing.

I would hear about things through the grapevine. Stuff like Steven Universe and Teen Titans Go were kinda impossible to avoid in 2016. But for the most part what the channel did was kinda under my radar. I was perfectly content to transition into my "Anime 4 Life" adulthood. Cut to the 2020s with HBO Max, and I had the chance to catch up on some TV shows and it was fun. Going back down that rabbit hole of nostalgia and I was fine stopping there. But then this year I started working on a project which required my looking back into every Cartoon Network original show ever.

So of course that meant I had to do research into basically a whole decade after I had stopped watching. So I did some watching-We Bare Bears, Long Live the Royals, Mighty Magiswords, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, Villainous, Apple & Onion, Craig of the Creek, Summer Camp Island, Victor and Valentino, Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart, Infinity Train, etc. This is probably the part where you expect me to say something like "Everything was better in my day" or something. But like no. I was not... sad about what I was seeing but like I was really glad. There was apart of me being like I'm glad this exists. I'm glad that you can still see that Cartoon Network DNA. It's different than it was before, but like there was still that core of what made Cartoon Network so unique in children's programming. Hell I was a little jealous I couldn't view this through the eyes of a kid today and what it feels like for them.

But for what I am, a man in his mid 20s who still watches animated content, I could almost feel like there was still this link between generations in a way I don't think I've ever seen before. These two halves of a thirty year time frame able to reach out be able to still be Cartoon Cartoons.

Yes I know, people will bring up how there's "dark times" but there always has been. This network wasn't perfect. I know a lot of people like to say there was a downfall, but I gotta be honest, the network always had mixed and controversial bags. I remember people telling me Chowder and Flapjack were garbage that pandered to only loud and gross out humor fans. Yet now they're talked about as absurdist comedy classics. CN Real is considered the lowest point of the network that goes against the entire ethos of the network, but in 2010 you got the debuts of shows like Adventure Time, Generator Rex, Ben 10 Ultimate Alien, etc. The real downfall I see happening right now is in how Warner Bros Discovery the Business has treated animated projects and their horrible treatment of animators in the name of corporate greed.

But I just can't truly dismiss all the good that has come for the last decade. And Hey we're apparently getting a new Cartoon Network show next year, Iyanu: Child of Wonder, it looks good so far. It looks like something that CN City heads wouldn't mind walking around town with Grim and Samurai Jack. And the thing that got me was how I taught to myself "Im glad that if I had kids I know they're is something good for them watch and I could watch alongside them..."

I don't know the future of CN. I don't think anyone can say. But when I really think about kids dedicated networks with an emphasis on purely animation, but also creative visionary driven animated programming, I really thought about how its history is very short in the grand scheme of the world. And I was lucky to be born in the early years of it. I can't tell you, how much a smile the Crossover Nexus special made me smile. Not because it was pandering to my nostalgia of CN City, but like seeing all of these characters preserved in statues in this world, from big names like Ed Edd n Eddy and Courage to stuff that were so short lived like Sym-Bionic Titan or Megas XLR to shows people would scream to the heavens they thought were trash like Secret Mountain Fort Awesome or Problem Solverz to so projects that barely got off the ground like Firebreather. It felt like everything mattered. That this short history means something. Its worth remembering the new and the old and everything in-between.

Because it's not just memories that matter, but it's carrying on that creative spark. That vision for a Network about and for cartoons. Carrying it beyond my life time. Carrying it far into the future. I hope I'm not the only one who feels that.

Welp, sorry for this ramble post to my usual followers. I was just taking a break from my usual discussion based content to work through some feelings I was having.

[zakiyastubbs]

Put my own spin on National Crush Day :)