Dessa

Yeah, the legs don't bend like they're supposed to, but it's just a matter of going around and fixing all the image themselves and there's just so many of them.

Yeah, the art is sloppy. It needs to be cleaned up. I'd do something along these lines

That could probably use additional work too. The boy is a little short, and the butt pooches out a little too far, but it's better.

Cleaned up the lines. Rounded off corners. Got rid of some outlines (they're clutter in tiny spaces). Forgot to add the wings back in. Oy, the wings. Scoot walks with them raised sometimes. It'd read better. These icons were made by a programmer, not a pixeller

I'm still working on this, albeit slowly. I've mostly been going back and retouching the existing ones. I often consider starting over from scratch, because there are a few elements here that make things hard.

The first 3 have been revised. Simpler hairstyle. It makes more sense in 3d, and gives her a little depth. Smoothing out all the lines. 23 pixels is a cramped space to work with. Certainly possible, but hard. I know I could make some ****ty ones and finish them fast, but if I want this to endure and/or be a part of the forum's legacy, then they need to be as good as I can make them.

So, what is the :awesome: face?

I've determined to redo a few of the expressions, but the first 4 at least are solid poses. I was really on a roll with those.

I shouldn't have kicked up side projects...

Part of it is framing and staging. Twilight's back mane usually hangs over the camera side. It defines her neck and looks prettier. Rarity's coiffure almost always falls away from camera, so you can see her face. As you can see in the image above, Pinkie Pie's lock looks the same wheter she's facing left or right, but when she's facing forward, it turns sideways.

A few of these things have to do with readability.

So, I'm confused. Which side of her horn is Twilight's highlights? haha, that rhymes...

Note: I did not flip these photos, this is how they appear straight from the show.

This happens a lot, it seems. Twi's back-mane switches sides a lot too, as does the fall of Rarity's curls. They play fast and loose with the asymmetries.

I can't look at that without thinking that Caramel might be the first transgendered pony.

It's something more than a few fans are thinking. Even if this wasn't intended, I wouldn't be surprised to see it become fanon.

I put this in here because I had thought Caramel's change was an animator's error at first, but that was before I realized that there was an intermediate stage. Now I wonder if they intended this.

It was a filler episode, but it establishes a few things going forward:

1. Everypony has met Celestia, so there will be no need for introductions. Just like "Winter Wrap-Up" was a set up for "Fall-Weather Friends." WWU told us ponies control the changing of the seasons so they didn't have to in FWF.

2. Celestia's personality was developed, but I still wonder if she has any personality flaws. Nice to see she's not just the generic benevolent ruler pony at least.

And here is the larger version:

I'VE BEEN WATCHING THIS FOR THE LAST SIX MINUTES.

If someone else wants Bloomburg, that's fine with me.

Nonetheless, the HUB needs to show television advertisers that people are watching, and it can't do that with Youtube views. They need to convince cable companies to pick up their programming and to put their channel on basic packages. These require television viewership.

Yes, to US it's all about how much does this cost, can we get this on cable without paying an arm and a leg. But Hasbro has their own interests in mind, and Comcast and other cable providers have their own interests. Comcast can't use lawsuits to threaten pulling down media for someone else's copyright, nor do they care enough to do so.

This is about the interests of Hasbro's toy sales division versus their television division.

You're all forgetting that Hasbro is co-owner and co-founder of the Hub. Toy sales are their base, but they've sunk money into the Hub and they don't want to see it fail. And unless they have an agreement to share toy profits, their partner, Discovery Communications, gets nothing from toy sales. This puts pressure on Hasbro to kill net showings.

Frankly, I think Hasbro is happy for the attention right now, but if/when this thing reaches critical mass, they'll squelch YouTube showings in ten seconds flat.

Moved this post into your other thread. You can delete this.

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This one is much closer to "actual eye distance," as opposed to the first, which would require a giant head with spaced eyes. As such, the 3d is subtler. Not as cool at the first, but I just can't get enough 3D.

Edit: OTOH, this one really shows off their attention to detail. Scoot, AB, and that tree are all on separate planes. The foreground gets 2 planes (near grass and less near grass) and the background seems to get only 1, which seems appropriate (its harder to distinguish depth the further away things are).

Also, Apple Bloom just happened to be walking in such a way that her far hoof seems further than her near, so even she's a little 3d in this image. In animation, she just has one layer, but here she's got 2.

That might just be the old animation trope too. Like where Wile E. Coyote dies in one scenes, and is healthy in the next.

I suggest being careful with this thread. Some people may get feelings hurt if their characters aren't mentioned at all.

Hmm... Well, for anyone reading this far down, if your character doesn't get a vote, there are at least a hundred characters here (or it feels like it) and many more in other places. Most people won't get votes.

I don't RP, so I'm kinda just going off pictures and what people tell me. Other people have their own silly reasons. This isn't a poll of the best OC pony, just peoples' favorites. Also, you could be everyone's third favorite, which would make you really popular, but get you zero votes.

I'm just saying there's a million reasons why your pony might not get a vote that have nothing to do with your pony's level of awesomeness.

Nice, Draggle.

Both of them almost got my vote. I was thiiiiiis close to voting Mudbug, cuz of all the fashion stuff, and Neon is just plain cool lookin'.

Honeycomb

Mocha Delight

Maybe I've got food on the brain? But both of these ponies are GORGEOUS. Honeycomb's got hair like mine too, and Mocha Delight is brown, like me! So maybe I just like characters that look like me?

No, I just like the art a lot. I suspect the best artists will win this poll. Maybe this summer we'll break it down into categories, if this poll is popular.

Reserved for vote results.

Vote for TWO, like in the previous polls. This poll is entirely write-in. Vote format: The TOP TWO LINES of your post should be character names (links to these characters are allowed). Please keep all discussion of characters on seperate lines. I will update the second post periodically with the tally, and this will make my life easier.

Example:

Chuckles McGee <-Vote 1

Hambone Merriwether <-Vote 2

I voted for Chuckles because he's so funny! I liked Hambone because his cutie mark looks tasty! I almost voted for Anastasia Verant, except her name is more cool than funny, like Chuckles and Hambone. Etc...

To avoid the effects of the "availability heuristic" (favoring choices that are most recent in your memory), please refrain from reading posts following this one until after you've voted.

These are fanmade characters only. Any character on the show, whether in name or in image, is disqualified from this vote, whether they are being RPed here or not. Any variation of a show character, such as human versions, or slash/fanfic versions of a character named or drawn on the show is disqualified.

You may vote for your own ponies/creatures, or any creature related to the FiM universe created by a fan on a site other than this one (from a fanfiction, from instance). You may vote for characters pending acceptance into RP, rejected entirely, posted in OOC chatter, or merely mentioned in a conversation.

tl;dr ANY fanmade pony (except for those that violate the board's rules, so no My Little Porny)

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She's high maintenance, but a pony could put up with a lot to be with a filly like Rarity.

Sciency arguments can get kinda impassioned. This doesn't feel out of hand though.

By open sharing you mean posting links right out here on the forum yes?

That's correct.

So if I invite people to PM me for links, is this a violation, or one of those gray things I can get away with?

By open sharing you mean posting links right out here on the forum yes?