Re: How Pony is Formed: Production and Business Thread
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Mr. Big wrote:It'd be great if Hasbro did increase the show's budget to change to traditional animation. You can do alot more if you're drawing key frame rather than manipulating digital puppets.
Orange Fluffy Sheep wrote:i am not ready for the transhumanist revolution to begin with my butt
Animation Magazine wrote: [Nicki Reed] will oversee the planning, directing and execution of the programming strategy for the network, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro..
EquestriaGuy wrote:I spoke with a guy at DHX, and he says the company is getting really freaking big. They're picking up new projects left and right.
Nissl wrote:
Seems like the explosion all came out of their success with FiM, no? As far as I know they were doing Martha Speaks and a few smaller series, and then in the last couple of years they blew up to 3 Hub series and an upcoming Disney series plus whatever this new thing is. (Equestria Girls? Wander Over Yonder?)
Good for them; they're definitely the best at inexpensive Flash at the moment and they deserve it. I just hope this doesn't change the company atmosphere too much. It's yet another reason artistic success can be hard to maintain over time. Hopefully most of the pony creative core stays intact from season to season, although we've already seen one of the episode directors promoted off to head director on another show.
EquestriaGuy wrote:that's way too late for ponies. No clue what it might be.
edit: I spoke with a guy at DHX, and he says the company is getting really freaking big. They're picking up new projects left and right.
“Sheriff Callie’s Wild West” — this animated series, debuting in September 2013 on the 24-hour Disney Junior channel and programming block, is the first western for preschoolers, with Mandy Moore (Disney’s “Tangled”) as the voice of a kitty cat sheriff whose job is to ensure that the town of Nice and Friendly Corners remains the friendliest town in the West. The series was created by Denis Morella and George Evelyn and developed for television by Holly Huckins. Morella, Evelyn and Huckins serve as executive producers. It is a production of DHX Media in association with Disney Junior.
drunkill wrote:Also this, guess shes starting to write another episode, second half of the season presumably.
EquestriaGuy wrote:If they're boarding 15 already then they're well past still writing on the second half of S4. It was around this time last year we found out Levinger was hired. I'd say this means she's signed on for S5.
Mr. Big wrote:Assuming that season 5 has 26 episodes, that would bring the total number of episodes to 117. Not bad.
If they keep this up, maybe we can get 200 episodes
Or they can be like a certain anime and keep the show going for 40 years. We should get 2,000 or so episodes that way.
Thy Great Swagged Brony wrote:EquestriaGuy wrote:If they're boarding 15 already then they're well past still writing on the second half of S4. It was around this time last year we found out Levinger was hired. I'd say this means she's signed on for S5.
Seriously though...why do we have to wait until winter?! I can't see how this is in any way beneficial to the brand to draw this out
Snow Drift wrote:If pony turns into the american Sanae-san (I hope I'm remembering this right) I will be amazed. And entirely too enthused.
Thy Great Swagged Brony wrote:EquestriaGuy wrote:If they're boarding 15 already then they're well past still writing on the second half of S4. It was around this time last year we found out Levinger was hired. I'd say this means she's signed on for S5.
Seriously though...why do we have to wait until winter?! I can't see how this is in any way beneficial to the brand to draw this out
Mordja wrote:Sorry if this has been answered already, but has McCarthy or someone said whether they wrote the season 3 finale under the belief that it could have been the last episode of the show?
Perpetual Lurker wrote:Thy Great Swagged Brony wrote:
Seriously though...why do we have to wait until winter?! I can't see how this is in any way beneficial to the brand to draw this out
Simple. They didn't even know that there would be a Season 4 back when Season 3 was in production. Thus, production of this season started unusually late. They're not delaying it on purpose. That's just how long it'll take to make with things starting late.
GC13 wrote:To the contrary, all I've heard is that they view it as the first episode in a three-parter.
NostalgiaSchmaltz wrote:Yes, and McCarthy said that just before S3 finale aired...not just before S3 production began.