Re: MLP Movie - airing October 6, 2017
I knew it! I KNEW Party Favor had a thing for Starlight!







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Kronos
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The Doctor wrote:
It's the combination of the broken horn and the dark, broody colors that ruins it for me.
They should have made her bright and pink with a broken horn.
Bremen wrote:
The big climax to the movie will be where Twilight has a massive duel with Tempest, only to burst open a water main and wash out her fur dye.
DerFurShur wrote:
So the German trailer has been released and aside from a scene not shown in the English trailer, the look of some of the scenes is a little different.
As for the different scene it just shows the mane 6 and spike (minus Twilight) getting shot out of Pinkie's party cannon by the pirates. It's looks like they're in the ruins of Canterlot, so probably they're breaking into Canterlot Castle where Twilight is with the villains for the climax
adiwan wrote:Somehow I get the feeling Tempest is somewhat related to Kuvira from The Legend of Korra.
✓ Invading army
✓ Evil in her actions
☐ Probably deeply misunderstood and broken character
☐ Friendship and understanding saves the day
All hail to the great Uniter?
PaulloDEC wrote:
Super weird. I went looking for a comparison of my own, and some of the differences are really stark:
The overzealous bevel/lighting/shadowing is essentially gone in the German version.
Fizzbuzz wrote:I guess this'll depend largely on whether Tempest Shadow thinks she's genuinely doing a good thing for Equestria. Kuvira seemed to think her strongarm military rule was a genuinely good thing for the peoples of the Earth Kingdom, and she did provide for those who submitted to her regime, but she was picking up the pieces of a nation shattered by a colossal war in the past. Equestria, meanwhile, has had no century-long war such as the one the Fire Nation waged on the rest of the world.
I guess it's possible that Tempest Shadow could have some more personal reason to have joined the Storm King, some personal conviction that something is wrong in Equestria and needs to be righted. But even then, I rather doubt her beliefs are going to match up with reality.
Ruflux wrote:Seeing this comparison is making me think the ridiculously over-the-top shading may not just be a conversion error or an accidental work in progress version being used for the trailer and they're seriously going for the puffy stickers look. The scene with Trixie was obviously fucked, but this one seems less like a conversion error and more like an incompetent art style vs. an earlier version of the scene before all the overblown shading shit happened
adiwan wrote:I don't know which global effects Equestria's weather control system did to the planet.
marshmallow wrote:Maybe Twi's whiteboard portraying the sun/moon will come into play, or is a device to explain to the audience who hasn't seen the show how it works.
DerFurShur wrote:
New poster is out and word is the trailer will come out today. So stayed tuned I guess.
marshmallow wrote:In the realm of bad ideas, invading Equestria is approaching Russia in winter/land war in Asia status. News probably doesn't travel too fast, but I'd think other nations would have heard about some of the villains who tried to take over and got their butts handed to them. I wonder if SK knows about this and has a great plan, or if he's arrogant/ignorant and just barges in since that always worked in the past. Could be funny if he dismissed the stories about the other villains as Equestrian propaganda.
This makes me wonder whenever they leave Equestria and other races have a dismissive attitude towards the ponies, like dragons or griffins. Sure, they can be proud and all, but ponies control the sun and moon, better show them respect. Also makes me question the plans of villains, since if you take out the ponies the world will be messed up. Then again, this raises more questions, like how did the sun and moon work before ponies existed? Or maybe ponies assumed control for their own selfish ends, just like they use weather magic and magical artifacts to terraform the environment.
It'd be nice if this aspect was touched upon, instead of the Storm King seeing Equestria as just another place to conquer. Maybe Twi's whiteboard portraying the sun/moon will come into play, or is a device to explain to the audience who hasn't seen the show how it works.
My Little Pony: The Movie is going great, but the schedule has been extended beyond what we anticipated. I was initially supposed to end in February, and move on to Spider-Man: The Animated Movie in March.
When February came, the power at DHX (the studio responsible for creating the film) asked if it would be possible to extend my commitment until the summer. I would hate to leave half way through a production, so I agreed. And besides, I really enjoy working with the talented DHX team. I think people will be very surprised to see how good the film looks.
Sony, on the other hand, still wanted me to go on to Spider-Man starting in March. DHX agreed to let me go for three weeks so that I could help design/animate one of Spider-Man's key signature effect in the film, but come April, I had to return to MLP. Sony thanked me for my services and, since I'm no longer available for the immediate future, they decided to move on without me.
Unless someone at Sony Picture Animation unexpectedly comes calling after I finish MLP at the end of July, this was my last stint on Spider-Man. They seem happy with the material I created in the four months I was on the project in 2016/2017. Hopefully, I'll get a decent credit on the film.
These past three years working on big studio projects have taught me how important it is that I keep developing my more personal projects as well. After MLP, it's high time I start building The Saga of Rex Movie into a reality.
Soft Snow wrote:Most stories hardly define their magic in such ways. The whole purpose of using magic is to do something that would otherwise be impossible to explain. But my whole gripe is if Tempest can defeat the mane six without magic then anypony without magic can defeat them as well. Saying it would be impossible after that would just seem like lazy story telling to me.
Kronos wrote:
From the trailer, it looks like Tempest kicks some kind of green, glowing rock into the ground, which subsequently breaks the ground beneath the Mane 6 and causes them to fall (and in true cartoon logic, the three ponies with wings don't remember they can fly and could just lift the other three).
Said green rock appears to be the same as the 'Misfortune Malchaite' that appears in the prequel comic for the movie, so Tempest evidently uses the magic stone to get the drop on the Mane six - she certainly doesn't need magic to do some high-agility combat moves on the fish guy.
marshmallow wrote:The show doesn't like to explain details about its magic system, but if they really wanted to show an Earth pony fight unicorns they could explain how telekinesis and other magic can be resisted with a strong will. Earth ponies are magical too. I tend to assume this sort of logic is true of most generic magic settings, otherwise powerful wizards would just grab their enemies and slam them against the wall, instantly snap their neck, or stop their heart.
Undecided wrote:Every time you write a story I can't help but sigh, because I know I'm gong to lose another man card.
Undecided wrote:Every time you write a story I can't help but sigh, because I know I'm gong to lose another man card.