Sobana wrote:Alright, i'll admit the lines do look smoother but the animation seems more clanky to me. Pony just seems to flow better then those shows. Maybe it's due to the fact that pony uses way more frames the normal?
Well, (almost) every show is animated in 23.976 frames per second (though specifically: It's animated in 12 fps but since drawing 24 frames a second is too much work

they use the same identical drawing twice thus 24/2=12 fps). Pony isn't an exception either. Until robots takeover DHX Media or drawing technology improves, we won't see any show or movie animated at something higher, I'm afraid. Like I once said before, there are tricks to make characters look, or more accurately: 'seem' faster on screen. That's called animation smears.

The only way to increase the frame rate and make it look smoother is if you have a TV that will make it at 60 frames or higher. Problem though, it's not perfect, and if you appreciate animation smears, then you won't get to enjoy them since because everything is moving faster, the smears themselves move so fast you won't see them anymore. Plus, personally, I turn off that feature every time because things just look unnatural and shot on a home digital video camera. Ponies itself looked unnatural for me.
Though I am curious what you mean by clanky? I can see people being a bit 'eh' with how wobbly, bouncy, rubbery, or jelly-like the animation can be in Toon Boom. For me, I think Mercury FilmWorks hit the perfect balance with those listed shows, though I am interested to see animation produced at a full 24
distinct frames or higher one day.
Their limbs just seem to move to fast to give it a clean stream of movement to them.
Does it? It seems like a lot of characters are stationary (stand around) and most of the scenes consist of dialogue with master shots and close up shots, which to be fair this
is a slice of show, but still... I doubt the movie is going to be about Granny Smith losing her scarf to the Flim Flam Brothers in a Go Fish game
Perhaps that is what you meant, since the characters aren't moving about and their actions are simple normal movements, they look seamless to you. I'm also rewatching some of the more action oriented scenes in FiM and scenes like the Wonderbolt Academy scene...
Has this 'flat' and slowness speed to it. Even though it uses
speed lines from now and again, a lot of the flying still seems slow. Like, when the pegasi crash into one another, I don't feel any sort of weight or 'oomph' to that impact. And there's a lack of interesting camera angles to make things more exciting. Lack of speed, weight, and interesting camera angles isn't just exclusive to this scene but to most of the other action-y scenes as well.
And don't get me started on the S1 Rainbow Dash flying animation
Maybe you can show me the scenes you're referring too? Apologies but I just really like discussing about animation
