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CAN YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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Houston-Schmouston.
I live in Florida. There is no functional difference between the ocean and the air here.
The sharknado movie suddenly comes to mind...Houston-Schmouston.
I live in Florida. There is no functional difference between the ocean and the air here.
Just what I thought. The first letter was clearly a mass-produced insert-name-here deal.Nice review;. My thoughts are... the whole 'two tickets' thing was a general invitation form and not written by Celestia and possibly not even read by her. Just, "Your highness, here is an invitation for Twilight Sparkle to the Gala. Could you please send it to her?" No lesson, no trolling, just a mild misunderstanding. Heck, off the top of my head most invitations I get to fancy events are me and A guest.
Wanted to do some flower practices, so tried to draw the flowers with messages that matches the mane 6's elements. It turned out was more difficult that I thought. Since I'm not an expert in this stuff, I had to search on the Net, but there is no way to know which one is the most widely accepted version of language of flowers and there is overlapping of messages in different flowers and one flower contains multiple messages...and at the end, they came out as these:
Applejack: Honesty--> honesty (easy enough)
Pinkie: Yellow Rose--> joy (but also friendship and jealousy ( OMG, how come it's so contradictive))
Fluttershy: Flax--> I feel your kindness
Rarity: Gladiola--> generosity (but also strength, infatuation and sth else)
Rainbow: Statice Sinuata--> loyalty
Twilight: Alstroemeria--> friendship (but also loyalty, hmm?)
As there's no definite meaning of the flowers, let's don't be too picky about the flowers I have chosen. At least now I can draw flowers other than the five-petal one and tulips.
Damn you ninja.Hey, remember that MLP Mane 6 as Pokemon Trainers pic that showed up here before (I can't recall if it was in this thread specifically or not)?
Well, now there's a MLP Rivals pic and a MLP Champions pic as well:
"As the very embodiment of life itself they roamed the earth, one with the land, life wildly sprouting and flourishing everywhere they tread. Rumors with long lost origins tell their essence still inhabits the forests of Everfree."
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Plant ponies!
This started as a random 30min character design for fun from an idea I got in AssasinMonkey's stream one night long time ago, I really recommend to take a peek and chat around his frequent streams, they're awesome. This one was so fun I wanted to get back to it, and finally did. I still wanted to keep it kind of rough and speedpainty, which actually got me greater results than I expected.. Total time ended up being around 3-4 hours.
I ended up going through a whole bunch of stories behind the picture, ranging from the source of Everfree's magic to the planters of tree of harmony and whatnot. EDIT: Refer to my newer picture, "Ancients of Wind" for more developed story.
It's something different, it was fun as hell to do.
Meanwhile, I've just given up with episodes for a while. I didn't find time to relax and watch episodes 10, 11 or 12 due to military, and then I just decided to keep stacking everything up for a marathon until I have a longer holiday once again.
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"As embodiments of air they controlled the elements of weather, dancing on the clouds with their steps light like a breeze, raising and dispersing storms in a blink of an eye..."
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So.. I've wanted to continue the idea of the "plant pony" piece I did earlier. Thinking about the story for that one spun me into thinking about all kinds of things about the past of Equestria, I wanted to build something of my own on that.
So with Tirek we learned that every type of pony has actual magic within and specific abilities brought by the magic, even earth and pegasi. That lead me to continue the idea of the last ancients piece with another form of magical elemental-ish ponies. So I ended up designing the ancestors of pegasi, the manifestation of magic they still have inside with the ability to control weather and elements of the sky.
The hardest thing about this whole idea was to choose whether I want the original Ancients to be either growth or magic, because both have contradicting design choices. But I have some other plans for the representation of magic...
Hopefully some already explained canon thing I haven't heard about wont clash with my ideas instantly. Although my whole idea is still very vague at this point.
Brown/white Pinkie is awesome!
You're right. That's awesome.
So, apparently, Bronycon was going on at the same time I was in Baltimore. The airport was an interesting place.
BBC Sherlock ponies. Mycroft, Sherlock, Watson, and Ms. Hudson.
"I can't stop looking at him. He's a little awkward, but he's charming when he has to... He's also a good brother and watches out for his little sister. You don't see that often with a colt these days. I should ask him out... Oh, my. What am I thinking? That's too far ahead, Cadance. Get to know him first. Then ask him out... But what if he rejects me? What if he already has a special somepony? I'll be such a fool... Why do you do this to yourself, Cadance? You need that confidence. C'mon girl. You can do it."
- Fixed a bunch of stuff.
- Modeled more corrective blendshapes for the body.
- Added Wings.
- Created a new IK chain Rig for the hair and the Eyelashes
- Turned Fluttershy into a vampire.
I've been getting a lot of questions about this model. So let me answer some of them:
Q: What software are you using?
A: Maya and Mental Ray.
Q: Are you going to share the rig?
A: Not right now. Maybe in the future.
Q: Does it work with Source Film Maker?
A: This rig was made with a lot of plugins and tools that are exclusive to maya, so unfortunately, it's not compatible with any other software.
Q: Can you teach me how to rig a character?
A: Start by watching some training courses online. I started with Digital Tutors, some of the lessons are really basic, but it's enough to get you going. After you learn how to make your own basic rig, you should start studying some more advanced rigs:
www.animationbuffet.blogspot.com
http://www.creativecrash.com/
http://cgjosh.com/2011/08/looney-tunes-ves-submission/
Download it, break it apart and learn how it works.
Q: What plugins are you using?
A: http://www.braverabbit.de/this guy makes a lot of amazing plugins, I'm using SHAPES and QuadrupedRigger.
http://www.animschool.com/ check out the malcom rig and the AnimSchool Picker, It makes the animation process a lot faster.
Artist said:I originally wasn't going to post this here. But a) I haven't put anything up in a really long time and now that the last commissions are finally, actually, pen-to-paper underway I thought I'd stir up a little activity, and b) it's a never-before-seen design for a brand new touhorse! Specifically, a ponification of a certain popular fighting-game-spawned Hakurei predecessor fan OC...!!
Still a few things to tweak. I forgot her flower pin..things... There's so many incarnations of the character, I just cherry-picked what I liked. idk about the ahoge though.
Ask Sunshine and Moonbeams