Equestria Girls 2: RAINBOW ROCKS (shorts + movie, Fall 2014)

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Re: Equestria Girls 2 *~RAINBOW ROCKS~* (Fall 2014)

Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:08 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Huh, looks like Hasbro just marked that shit as private. I wonder why.


well fudge. I really liked it. They could have just blocked comments instead! I blame the fans being stupid and posting crappy comments! :applejargh:
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Postby InsertAuthorHere (?) » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:19 pm

LardLad3545 wrote:I don't get it. What's the problem? Downright awful? Made you sick? Why? :rariwhat:


It's Equestria Girls, and as far as 90% of the fandom is concerned, it's automatically shit.

I thought it was fine. But seeing as what I say really doesn't matter here, I'll just go back to waiting for the thing to hit, be mediocre, and struggle to understand how people can seriously treat it like it's one of the greatest sins in animation history.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:24 pm

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well fudge. I really liked it. They could have just blocked comments instead! I blame the fans being stupid and posting crappy comments! :applejargh:



edit: Nevermind, I forgot I follow Hasbro Studios, so I can still watch it.
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Postby The Doctor (?) » Thu Mar 27, 2014 11:25 pm

Fizzbuzz wrote:Huh, looks like Hasbro just marked that shit as private. I wonder why.


Please tell me it was just because it was leaked early and not because of tons of crappy brony comments? :-/

Anyone see up/down vote ranking on it before it went down?
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:03 am

One thing that made me think, though, was that EqG2 having a much worse plot than EqG, but much less boring in exchange (like, it was actually interesting to watch these 3 minutes) could salvage things fairly well.
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:11 am

Wayoshi wrote:One thing that made me think, though, was that EqG2 having a much worse plot than EqG, but much less boring in exchange (like, it was actually interesting to watch these 3 minutes) could salvage things fairly well.


That's a fair point. Coming from someone who thought EqG was okay, I watched it three times: once alone, once to show my brother, and once to show a friend, and now I'm done with it for the foreseeable future. If EqG 2 can improve on it or be a massive trainwreck, I can see it having more longevity.
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Postby Sailor Yue (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:14 am

I just watched this on tumblr, i dont follow anyone on youtube so no problems there.

STill. wHile DUBSTep isnt my cup of tea, the video made me chuckle. I was wierded by Cranky Doodle teacher, till i realized who it was. I was like "what i the heck kind of teacher is that :starity: .

I loled at the end tho btw. HOW CAN WE NOT HAVE A VINYL EMOTE :twonk:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:17 am

Also yeah, the video is still working for me. Maybe a temporary thing (of cleaning up bad comments?).
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Postby Minty (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:35 am

The music gives me a headache, but the Vinyl design is cute. I thought she smashed her way back into the Cakes' store at first though.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:38 am

these are just shorts leading up to the movie.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJcJ5wZkFI4/U ... apture.PNG


There are 7 more on the way.

hope they are includes as A bonus on the Blu-Ray.
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Postby Homeswirl (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:39 am

I thought it was fun enough. And the animation definitely seems like a step up from EqG1 in terms of expressiveness and simply looking like the characters are alive, not poorly flopping around puppets.

Though the Bill and Ted -esque meedly meedlying guitar at the beginning piqued my interest more. :gotcha: Bring on the glam! Let's ride this trainwreck in all its glorious cheesiness!
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:41 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:these are just shorts leading up to the movie.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJcJ5wZkFI4/U ... apture.PNG


There are 7 more on the way.

hope they are includes as A bonus on the Blu-Ray.


Huh. It's pretty obvious they're supposed to introduce the characters, so the remaining seven will probably be the mane six and maybe Sunset Shimmer, or that other Dazzle character that was mentioned somewhere recently.

Or, they might keep going down this path and giving shorts to even more fan-favorite background characters, like Octavia, Lyra, Bon-Bon, etc... but I think that's less likely.
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Postby Big Boss (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:47 am

See, now I want to see this video with Power Plant from Bionic Commando Rearmed, because the specific effects used in the song seem very Simon Viklund. :v:
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:49 am

My guess is

1. Vinyl/DJPON3
2. Rainbow Dash
3. Trixie
4. Pinkie Pie
5. Sunset Shimmer
6. Fluttershy
7. Adaigo Dazzle
8. Twilight Sparkle

And AJ & Rares will get left out. Cause Hasbro no love them as much as they should! :applejargh: :cry:
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:57 am

... Weird ...

They're using valuable resources to produce somewhat isolated shorts? Wow...
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:00 am

Wayoshi wrote:... Weird ...

They're using valuable resources to produce somewhat isolated shorts? Wow...



you act like that's a bad thing. who knows if these go well they might make legit FIM shorts someday as well. also the EQG shorts could be something fun to air after movies that run short instead of extended family game night commercials or shezow.
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Postby Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:03 am

Wayoshi wrote:... Weird ...

They're using valuable resources to produce somewhat isolated shorts? Wow...

It seems like at least some of this is coming from movie footage. For example, I recognized the dancing cop from that first EqG2 teaser trailer. I don't think these shorts are being cut entirely from whole cloth, here.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 1:08 am

Wayoshi wrote:Was that the joke? I thought she was just looking at the cup weirdly and that was supposed to be funny.


Nah, it's that the camera is slowly panning across them all, they're all moving slowly in the slo-mo effect, and then Pinkie just looks at the camera and waves at normal speed :v:

It's not the first time that joke's been done (The Lion King 1 1/2 did it, to great effect), but I thought it was well executed and fresh.
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Postby Wayoshi (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:10 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:It seems like at least some of this is coming from movie footage. For example, I recognized the dancing cop from that first EqG2 teaser trailer. I don't think these shorts are being cut entirely from whole cloth, here.

But if all the shorts are "not from the DVD" ... ?

And yeah, I rewatched it at home in HD. Ignoring that dubstep is pretty meh and generic EqG concept is still bleh and forever will be, it's actually a good clip, it's just the potential context (which might be gone now?) that's super sketchy.

If it's really just supposed to tie into Vinyl by introducing her [finally], it's a bit too pandering but it's decent.
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:18 am

Wayoshi wrote:But if all the shorts are "not from the DVD" ... ?

And yeah, I rewatched it at home in HD. Ignoring that dubstep is pretty meh and generic EqG concept is still bleh and forever will be, it's actually a good clip, it's just the potential context (which might be gone now?) that's super sketchy.

If it's really just supposed to tie into Vinyl by introducing her [finally], it's a bit too pandering but it's decent.


Maybe it's like those other "shorts" they produced about the FiM mane six, where they just ripped some random scenes, applied a bunch of fancy filters and effects, and slapped some random lyric-less song on there. I'll bet nearly all that footage is somewhere in the movie, but in a different order, without all the special effects, and without or with a different musical accompaniment.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:33 am

Nah. It's directed as a cohesive piece, with a consistent narrative thread from beginning to end, and the music is pretty integral to it. This isn't a "music video" cobbled together from other bits of footage. Whatever it is, it was designed this way from the beginning.

I don't know what everyone's down on it for. :pinkieshrug: it's inventive and funny and full of character.
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:40 am

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I don't know know how to feel anymore...

:v: or :cry:

:nngh: That was, um, well, you see, uh...
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Postby The Outlander (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:45 am

Headless Horse wrote:Nah. It's directed as a cohesive piece, with a consistent narrative thread from beginning to end, and the music is pretty integral to it. This isn't a "music video" cobbled together from other bits of footage. Whatever it is, it was designed this way from the beginning.

I don't know what everyone's down on it for. :pinkieshrug: it's inventive and funny and full of character.


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I hope the movie is good, though. I'd hate for it to suck enough that people start losing interest in the property (more than they already have).
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Postby LardLad3545 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:46 am

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So this is interesting. Potentially bad news for those of us who liked the music playing though. I wonder how long we'll have to wait to get some sort of official release of that track, if we ever do... :fluttersmith: I'm intrigued by the news that there's more shorts coming. Wonder how quickly they'll get released. Really goes to show that Daniel is a super multi-talented musician though.

So, now that it's in my subconscious again, I think my main reservation about EqG2 was the absolutely lame-ass "romantic" shit that went on in the first movie. Thankfully there wasn't much of it, letting me still enjoy the movie well enough. I'm thinking that as long as that poop doesn't come up again, I should be cool with the movie, however much it may or may not suck. I'll obviously never feel the same way about EqG as I do about MLP, but whatevs. Call me cautiously optimistic.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 2:53 am

I'm guessing/hoping the shorts are included on the Blu-Ray or will be available for download on iTunes eventually.
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Postby DerFurShur (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:03 am

Yeah I'm gonna be honest I find it hilarious people find this to be awful, sure maybe if you don't like dubstep then it's just eh, but compared to the character introductions they used for the first EqG movie this is like a godsend. I actually liked how all the things around Vinyl collaborated with the music.

Definitely looking forward to the rest of the shorts and the I think this movie will be just a lot of fun.
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Postby drunkill (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:34 am

:twonk: This video short is teaching bad things to kids, such as crossing streets with headphones and not saying 'hi' or 'thank you' or even anything at all to shopkeepers!
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Postby ShieldedDiamond (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:01 am

I didn't find it bad as a video, it's just that I found it a bit odd. Not because of the dubstep, or because I hate Equestria Girls (and I don't) it's just that, I find it almost a bit out of place, what with things like the way she walked. Just wasn't for me.
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Postby Headless Horse (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:05 am

Well, it's kinda supposed to, right? It's all about the hip-swingin' foot-stompin' way she struts through life, and all the visuals and the music are exaggerated to illustrate that.

Like how everything she sees in the mundane world (like the cop directing traffic) turns into a dance move, kinda like this:



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Postby Jyu (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:12 am

So are the seven remaining shorts going to be done in the same fashion as this one? I don't imagine them all using dubstep. I can see each one possibly using a different genre of music. And about the clip, I liked it. Dubstep ain't my cup of tea, but I can live with it. It was pretty well done visually and the animation is slightly more expressive than EG1.
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Postby Mr. Big (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:14 am

The tag at the end, "Umm...it's Tootsie Roll", is always hilarious for me. I wonder how that meeting went.

:twiright: - Alright, so we know how the commercial will go. Now we just need a catchy tagline. Johnson, any ideas?

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:v: - Zzz---snort! Wha-!? Huh!?

:awkward: - Umm...it's Tootsie Roll?

:-I - ...

:twonk: - BRILLIANT! I'm promoting you!

:3: - Yay!
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Postby SlateSlabrock (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 4:38 am

Homeswirl wrote:And the animation definitely seems like a step up from EqG1 in terms of expressiveness and simply looking like the characters are alive, not poorly flopping around puppets.

I think this is the important part.

For that earlier EqG2 video, I mentioned that the dancing cop was the most interesting part because he actually kinda looks human and has decent movement. Vinyl here has the same vibe going on. Hard to say whether they can improve much with the main characters, since their twiggy models have already been established, but I'm pleased to see them actually moving beyond the wooden movement of the first movie.
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Postby Jyu (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 6:20 am

If you're curious about who directed and storyboarded this short...
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Ishi Rudell was one of the animation director for the first three seasons of ponies as well as for Equestria Girls.

Carrie Mombourquette is a storyboard revisionist who started on season 4 of ponies.
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Postby Caldera (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:20 am

Homeswirl wrote: And the animation definitely seems like a step up from EqG1 in terms of expressiveness and simply looking like the characters are alive, not poorly flopping around puppets.

For the most part I agree, though there was something about the CMC entrance that felt kinda off to me. Something about those big stick legs, probably. :v:
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Postby Grue (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:16 am

So not only we're getting a movie, but also 8 animated shorts for different characters? Sounds good to me. Vinyl's was pretty cool.
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Postby ilcane87 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:42 am

SoundMonkey44 wrote:these are just shorts leading up to the movie.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YJcJ5wZkFI4/U ... apture.PNG


There are 7 more on the way.

hope they are includes as A bonus on the Blu-Ray.

Woah, that's awesome! Eight bonus clips, now this is how you promote a movie!

If they're all 2.30 minutes long, it will total to 20 minutes of content, so they basically made a full episode out of promotional material, way to go! :-D
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Postby Stone Cold Jane Austen (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 9:46 am

I actually liked the short and I was one who was kind of lukewarm on the first one. Honestly, I hope they realize how campy and fun the Rainbow Rocks concept is and just go completely over the top with it and make it awesome. I want a ponyfied Phantom of the Paradise, I want to see EqGs taking after Jem and the Holograms (or Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars :thatsright: ), and I'm pretty sure they could make it fun for the kids who are the target audience anyhow.

The whole wubbed-out Electro House thing, with Vinyl basically living in her own awesome/ridiculous music video, gives me some hope that they know exactly where to take this and make it fun.
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Postby Thaddeus (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:17 pm

I'm a sucker for this kind of Rhythm-Based animation, so I can unashamedly say that I actually kinda really dig this short. I don't even really have an issue with the music, as I tend to be very open-minded on that subject, so long as it's not overly profane in subject matter. If the rest of the movie is similar in tone to this, I might actually bother watching it.
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Postby SoundMonkey44 (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:37 pm

I wonder how frequent these shorts will be? Personally I'm guessing one a month with the final one coming out the same month as the DVD/Blu-Ray.


Also, on A personal note. Hoping Pinkie's vid, if she gets one, has A human version of Maud, that would be awesome! :party:
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Postby Space Ghost (?) » Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:48 pm

I found this so inspiring I decided to draw fanart.

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