Re: MLP Movie - airing October 6, 2017
This was literally going to be my response.
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PaulloDEC
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Soft Snow wrote:Give it time. If you're anything like me, soon the feelings of impending doom will creep their way into all your happy thoughts.
Dexanth wrote:
Nope, don't think so! The impending doom around ponies feeling ran out during Season 3.
Dexanth wrote:
Nope, don't think so! The impending doom around ponies feeling ran out during Season 3.
SlateSlabrock wrote:People are going to freak out over nothing plenty without any help.
DerFurShur wrote:It was announced in an article that came out during comic con when Sia was announced to be involved with the movie. This was briefly discussed earlier in either this thread or the spoiler thread for the movie.
Bumble-B wrote:Something about the style looks 'off'. I guess it has a super cute aesthetic like someone mentioned so I'll probably have to get used to it
Also I want to see some clips or footage to see how well it animates
PaulloDEC wrote:It's possible there's loads of tiny shape/size changes too, but those are really hard to identify given that a lot of the poses seem unique
Highbrow Dash wrote:There's also the way Twi's horn splits her mane in two, while in the show it just kinda pops up in the middle of it.
Speaking of which, what about the animation? Will they be willing to go off model more often now? I always thought the storyboards' cartoonier style looked better than the show, but that was understandable given the lower budget and the limitations of Flash. This would be their chance to change that... Or they might just stick to the show's style.
PaulloDEC wrote:• Eye-sparkles. This may just be for the sake of the promo image, but the entire Mane 6 has a "night sky" kind of scattering of stars in the coloured part of their eyes. Spike however, does not.
• Eye-reflections. As with the eye-sparkles, this is probably just for the promo image, but we're seeing a big purple blob with a white outline (presumably standing in for the logo) reflected in the eyes of everyone besides Spike and Rainbow Dash.
Fizzbuzz wrote:The catchlights are also softer. Whereas in the show they'd be white spots in the eyes, here they're more translucent enough to where we can still see the iris and the pupil beneath them.
Headless Horse wrote:The thinner linework looks to me like a necessity of big-screen animation, and also a way to allow them to make the mouths even more expressive. Look at Twilight's mouth—the corners have little dimple lines that would have been subsumed by the outlines in the show. But that level of detail will definitely show up on a movie screen.
Headless Horse wrote:Two things I wonder whether the animation team will play around with:
- They have an opportunity now to give the ponies different body styles and facial shapes if they want to. We all know that the show uses a standard generic mannequin shape for almost all (female) ponies and then just embellishes it with hair and eyes and such; but in a fully animated, one-off movie they don't have to take that shortcut. Will we see APPLEJACK STRONK?
Headless Horse wrote:- The eyes with their new star effects look neat, and indicate even more attention to detail than in the show, potentially; but I wonder whether the movie animators will go as completely bonkers with pupil and iris dilation as the show did. All that expressiveness in those giant eyeballs themselves—since Day 1 it was one of the most innovative and mold-breaking things about the show. But it's gotten so commonplace, so written into the fabric of the show's style, that I hardly even notice it anymore. I hope the movie animators are as charmed by it as I originally was, and give it the appropriate amount of love—making the eyes stars in their own right.
Headless Horse wrote:I hope it's not a bad sign that there are no eyebrows in this shot
Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:i am not ready for the transhumanist revolution to begin with my butt
Pocket wrote:I can practically guarantee you won't be seeing all that shading in the movie itself, if any. Even Disney movies have never gone that far. It's more on par with the sort of thing you'd see on the DVD case. (Though I've often looked at those and wished one day someone would make a whole movie that looks like that.)
SlateSlabrock wrote:I vaguely recall them saying they had some sort of procedure to do those halo-kinda lights they started showing off sometime around season 4.