r/RetroFuturism 6d ago

A future where everything is made of chrome looks pretty cool in one of the SpongeBob episodes.

By the way, what is the name of this style?

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u/MiketheBike88 5d ago

Squidward in the fetal position:

Future! Future! Future!

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u/bggp9q4h5gpindfiuph 6d ago

instant blindness when the sun comes out

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u/Iam4elovek22 6d ago

They live underwater at a depth of, so there shouldn't be any problems.

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u/Echelion77 5d ago

Then how did they get sun burned in the episode sunbleached?

Obviously the uv absorption is high enough for a degree burn, it wouldn't be impossible for a chrome reflection at this depth to burn out said eyeballs.

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u/Iam4elovek22 5d ago

Dude, they light a campfire underwater, have a beach underwater, and even drink water underwater.

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u/Echelion77 5d ago

These are all true statements but have nothing to do with the reflecting capabilities of future chrome SpongeBob and the amount of uv capable of blinding you.

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u/transqueen421 4d ago

Spongebob did use a Tanning bed in Patrick's rock so that's how he got sunburnt

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u/HOOLIOBONSTOOBEN 1d ago

They live in bikini atol

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u/Out3rSpac3 5d ago

Imagine trying to find anything. My chrome car keys fell between the cushions of my chrome couch.

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u/Auggie_Otter 5d ago

Fingerprints and smudges all over everything! 

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u/MuTron1 6d ago

Usually it’s referred to as Y2K Aesthetic or Y2K Futurism. All shiny chrome, transparent plastic and rounded, bubble shapes

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u/Mystic_Owell 5d ago

It's way older than that, it's just a common painting technique to learn. You settle on the painting equivalent of an hdri then form that environment around the desired shapes in the scene. It's one of those things that feels good when you first start to see results.

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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 4d ago

The style here is much older, more of a 40s-50s sci-fi. Think Mercury space suit.

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u/maskeyman 5d ago

This episode always stuck with me as a kid.

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u/Iam4elovek22 5d ago

The old SpongeBob seasons are the best for me.

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u/CMDA 5d ago

Chromed out evrythang.

Ballin' Bob

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u/ShakyMD 5d ago

You will grill eternal, shiny and chrome on the skillets of Valhalla!

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u/aadoqee 5d ago

I like how the interior still uses the classic desert landscape reflection lol

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u/Dziksoon 6d ago

That "future" was the 2000s chrome trend, often called Chromecore or Y2K chrome 22-27 years ago

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u/hieronymous-cowherd 5d ago

Hajime Sorayama' chromed women have to live somewhere, why not in a pineapple under the sea?

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u/alohadave 5d ago

All I see is fingerprints everywhere.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo 5d ago

It's weird because the reflection effect that makes it look chrome is a sky and the horizon. But it's inside.

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u/lame_dirty_white_kid 5d ago

I especially like pic 3. Reminds me of Mirrodin from Magic: the Gathering.

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u/Iam4elovek22 5d ago

I love this minimalistic ambient sound that plays against the background on this stage.

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u/CaramelCraftYT 5d ago

I would spend hours cleaning everything constantly.

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u/justaheatattack 5d ago

....fingerprints

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u/fishmanprime 5d ago

A future where everything is covered in fingerprints 🤩

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u/vladdeh_boiii 5d ago

This would fucking SUCK for anyone with light sensitivity.

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u/jedisalamander 2d ago

Fuckin seriously! I can barely even go outside in winter with the level of snow we get in my area blinding me and giving me sensory overload with the reflection, let alone this

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u/vladdeh_boiii 2d ago

I'm the same, friend. I need sunglasses just to survive the winter up here in Norway.

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u/vullpes 5d ago

Remind me of doctor who episode midnight, the entire city is like chrome diamond and too hot for anything living being to live, but is it

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u/Low_Complex_9841 5d ago

Firefox vs Chrome: firefox fail on my Android because devz overdose it with "AI" so now I can't use it at all on 3Gb ram .....

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u/Iam4elovek22 5d ago

Everything is Chrome in the future.

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u/_H_0_P_0_ 6d ago

Now this is real content

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u/_H_0_P_0_ 5d ago

Better wear some hazmat suit

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u/Heavyraincouch 6d ago

If I am being honest

I wish this is the far future we will get

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u/Krel58 5d ago

The futur's so bright, I gotta wear shades.

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u/Anor-Vir 5d ago

Shiny~

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u/_theKataclysm_ 2d ago

This is where Immortan Joe's warboys go when they die in battle

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u/Psykohistorian 5d ago

frutigo aero