Behind the Pantis

Behind the Pantis
General
DVD bonus feature №:	23
Airdate	November 12, 2007 (Nickelodeon) November 13, 2007 (SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis)
Chronology
Previous	"Inside the SpongeBob Animation Studios"
Next	"Plankton's Special Sinister Commentary"

"Behind the Pantis" is a SpongeBob SquarePants DVD bonus feature. It is a behind the scenes look at "Atlantis SquarePantis." It can be found in the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis DVD.

Characters

• SpongeBob SquarePants
  • SpongeBob's skeleton
• Squidward Tentacles
• Eugene H. Krabs
• Sandy Cheeks
• Patrick Star
  • Patrick's skeleton
• Old Man Jenkins
• Sheldon J. Plankton
• Incidentals
  • Incidental 49
  • Nerd 1
  • Nerd 2
• Lord Royal Highness
• Atlantean citizens
• Narrator
• Primitive Sponge ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• SpongeGar ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• Patar ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• Clever Visual Metaphor for the Abstract Concept of Thought ^(cameo)
• Sir SpongeBob
• Timmy Turner ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• Cosmo Cosma ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• Wanda Fairywinkle-Cosma ^{(Cameo at the beginning)}
• Painty the Pirate
• Painted parrot

Crew/cast Presents

• Tom Kenny
• Clint Bond
• Kenny Pittenger
• Steven Banks
• Paul Tibbitt
• Doug Lawrence
• Dani Michaeli
• Clancy Brown
• Rodger Bumpass

Synopsis

The special explains the making and process of the SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie, "Atlantis SquarePantis." It goes through a total of 10 steps:

1. The Big Idea
2. The Script & Storyboard
3. The Voices
4. The Animatic
5. Off to Korea
6. Back from Korea
7. Final Version
8. Sound Design
9. Fancy Box & Label
10. Get It on Nick

Production

According to Kenny Pittenger's blog, the shooting and interviews for this special began in September 2006.

Music

( ‣ ) Production music

( • ) Original music

( ◦ ) SpongeBob music

 ‣ Funny Bizness - Richard Friedman [intro]
 ‣ Food Fight - Carlo Rustichelli, Jim Blake ["Let's start from the beginning"; Nicktoons studio]
 ‣ Ono Wahine - Parauchi Nawahi [new ideas]
 ‣ Hot Pants - Phillmore Oakes [very special location]
 ‣ Heroic Fanfare - Paul Martha [The Big Idea]
 ‣ Supernerd - Brian De Mercia [Tom Kenny interview]
 ‣ Rhythm Diggin - Guenther Peth [Around the Nicktoons studio]
 ‣ Strutt 'n' Stroll - Carlos Diernhammer ["My idea."]
 ‣ En Vouge - Heinz Kiessling [script and storyboard]
 ‣ Rise Of The Thing - Carlo Savina, Jim Blake [never seen before]
 ‣ La Obra Maestra - Cuadro Nacional de Danzas Folkloricas [sketching it out]
 ‣ Anoche Llore - Osnel Odit Bavastro [Lord Royal Highness]
 ‣ Supernerd - Brian De Mercia [storyboard]
 ‣ Food Fight - Carlo Rustichelli, Jim Blake [The Voices]
 ‣ Paniolo - Parauchi Nawahi [The Animatic]
 ‣ Stoic Heroic - Dust Devil [animatic/Off to Korea]
 ‣ Purple Bamboo - Cheng Yu [Korea]
 ‣ Tres - Daniel Guzman Loyzaga, Osnel Odit Bavastro [different styles]
 ‣ El Capitan - John Sousa [Get it on Nick]
 ‣ Stoic Heroic - Dust Devil [closing credits]

Release

• This DVD bonus feature is available on the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis and The SpongeBob Super Square Collection DVDs.

Trivia

• This special originally aired on November 12, 2007 as a bonus right after the premiere of "Atlantis SquarePantis." The special was then released on the SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePants DVD one day later.
  • Various episode clips are seen throughout the special, but they are all not on that DVD.
• Some of the "Atlantis SquarePants" clips shown in this special have different background artwork than how those clips appear in the actual episode.
• Most of the production music used in this special are from Extreme Music.

Videos

Behind the Pantis - How We Made "Atlantis SquarePantis" (Nickelodeon US TV airing version)

Behind the Pantis - How We Made "Atlantis SquarePantis" (DVD version)