A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Fan animation in general (beyond the set used in the Brony documentary) has failed to sell me on them to the point where I don't even care anymore when I new one releases, including Fall.
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edited 28th May '14 9:28:35 AM by Darkabomination
The main issue with Fan animations is that they tend to fall into a pseudo Uncanny Valley sort of place where they style is close to show accurate, so you unconsciously use it as a benchmark and the small deviations stick out really clearly because they're the only difference from the show. The only ones I've seen that actually look show-accurate are the things that Janimations does. Honestly, I wish more fan animators would stop trying to be show-accurate and stylize their designs more. It would be a lot less distracting because you wouldn't focus at all on how it isn't quite accurate.
Reaction Image RepositoryThe animation itself typically doesn't bug me so much as their writing and brand of humour. It often just doesn't jive. An almost exception (if one can actually call it an animation, rather than a mock video game demo) was Turnabout Storm, where my main beef was with the voice acting until the very end where they also completely trashed the writing by doing an unnecessary 20-minute headcanon exposition dump.
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edited 28th May '14 10:10:01 AM by UdtheImp
DAMMIT MARK, STOP HITTING HELPY!!What we need is Snowdrop meets Snowcatcher the Irreverent.
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edited 28th May '14 11:33:26 AM by Crowfall
The best fan animations I've seen are Children of the Night and the Janimation videos.
Toph is what got me interested in the show in the first place.
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@dark: My tongue hurts trying to read that.
edited 28th May '14 8:32:48 AM by edvedd
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