^That's gotta be her 'it works every time' smirk from "A Bird In The Hoof", right? Just watched it yesterday.

I think the problem with the UK art is that they only have like two pieces of clip art for each character that they keep reusing.

My big issue with that comic is it just looks so...boring. It looks wrong. Lifeless, I think someone said. That's a good way of putting it.

^^^It is.

edited 3rd Jul '11 3:23:41 PM by AnonymousUser

yeah that's what it was. Thanks. Really weird expression for her though XD

The comic looks fine to me. I don't see much wrong with it

It's not what the comic is, but what the comic lacks.

how poetic

@Ginger: yeah, it's from A Bird in the Hoof. I thought it was hilarious that Fluttershy had such a mischievous expression, and I had to use it.

That and the eyes get misplaced on Twilight on page 4. She's actually derpy in the last panel.

And Celestia's hair color is flipped.

I love how you noticed that

At least it's better than the german comic. That one had the same crappy art and was completely insipid. Although it was funny seeing how high Spike looked. The UK comic at least has a message I can get behind; when Rainbow Dash speaks, bitches better listen.

I kinda liked the German comic, if only for the implication that Pinkie Pie served everyone else pot brownies cookies.

That and the eyes get misplaced on Twilight on page 4. She's actually derpy in the last panel.

It's funny, but actually kind of true to the show. A little.

I dunno, I was kind of put off by how they did it. Probaby because I felt that even though those are the kind of things they often do converse about, the dialogue lacked the same refinement the show sees.

Also, I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but when the stuff gets too creepy for me, I also tend to ignore it entirely.

So this might seem slightly off topic to start, but trust me, I'm going somewhere pony with this. Is anyone familiar with Lonely Island's Jack Sparrow (WARNING: language; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI6CfKcMhjY )? I was listening to it a bunch and the way the lyrics are worded, it suddenly struck me how easily they could be changed to make everyone sound like a brony. I lack the musical talent to actually do any kind of dub, but I rewrote the lyrics for fun, which can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k4RGMU4i1QApysYbLkrMPxp5KElnNOyp9wmauHMmPK0/edit?hl=en_US

Okay, I laughed my head off at that. My only advice is to replace the other movie references with references to other ponies. It's kinda random when it goes from Twilight Sparkle to Erin Brockovich.

edited 3rd Jul '11 6:28:09 PM by JapaneseTeeth

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edited 3rd Jul '11 6:30:40 PM by takashi.0

Hehe, yea, I was thinking about that. Any suggestions for good fits as replacements? Up until Friendship is Magic, I'd been out of the animated scene (both western cartoons and anime) for a very long time.

Edit: Added arrows.

edited 3rd Jul '11 6:34:59 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi

Ah, you just reminded me how I would love it if the show found a situation where Fluttershy could sing a reprise of that song.

I think there's just a disparity between what people who work on the show and people who produce any other official art consider "on-model". Like in the show, there's a lot of thought and care put into how the characters bend and rotate so that their motions will all look natural, but outside of that artists must just be given one or two pieces of common sample promotional art to work from and told not to deviate too much from them—except then by not knowing how the characters move, they start to deviate in completely different and strange ways: The pointy muzzles, the huge foreheads, the grossly slanted or non-centered eyes on some ponies, and the general flatness from how seemingly no one can face forward, and their faces are almost always frozen into the same Pac-Man smile. It makes me imagine that if the TV show were produced by people who didn't care so much, it would look like an animated version of that, with all the ponies resembling freaky paper marionettes who rarely break out of dull smiles.

But if you watch the TV show's opening, with the quick montage of the main six, you can see how they're trying to assume those promotional poses ever-so-briefly, as if the bosses were yelling "Those are their official poses, you need to put them in there!"

I decided to try doing Twilight in a basic pose, but detail more than usual. Although this did turn out a bit hit and miss, since I totally forgot how to do proper shading. Shaded Twilight◊

edited 3rd Jul '11 11:32:14 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi

That 8-bit Pony game is horrifying. I must play more.

...Aaand get my little sis to play it as well.

Gonna try and get my classmates to play it...we're making a horror game. Might be helpful.

I have no problem with Grimdark stories, even if it is weird that they are so popular in a lighthearted heartwarming series like that. I spent the weekend reading fanfiction at Equestria Daily (I officially have no life) and a lot of Grimdark stories there are adventure stories with things like war, fighting and people actually dying and getting hurt. While that is... OOC for the universe, so to speak, it at best reads like a ripping yarn and at worst (when it becomes cupcakesy horror stories) is just stupid.

What I can't take is the fics labeled "Sad" by ED, but I always had more problems with social and mental tragedy and trauma than banal physical violence. They make me tear up in a bad way, whereas Cupcakes merely make me facepalm.

btw does anyone have a picture of Celestia with a creepy smile saying "Exactly (or Just) as Planned" from Death Note?

Luna's life, in 5 images.

edited 4th Jul '11 9:21:43 AM by edvedd