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1n33d4hug β Once Upon a Time in Canterlot
Published: 2013-04-09 00:28:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 25457; Favourites: 1128; Downloads: 608
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Alright, porting this over from my Youtube [link] .More fight choreography.
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Song is Swing Tavi! Swing! by JoaftheLoaf: [link]
Joaf's Youtube channel: [link]
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Special thanks to a Series of Informal Animators.
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ok.... WHEN DID THIS BECOME BADASS? 
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That is amazing! Keep making these! Also, was this keyframe animated? If so, HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO MAKE THIS?
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Hey there !
Great work. I did a lil humanized strip out of it.
Hope you don't mind --> [link]
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Are you going to make a part 2, and a one for me??
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Well this is awesome. Extremely so, in fact. Well done!
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What happened to the other pony who got takled by the changling?
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Best battle scene I've watched in a LONG TIME!!!!
Also, Joaf's music is awesome!
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This is like the most epic battle I have ever seen, I like the way that you drew Octavia it was like so adorable but at the same time deadly and mortal, this proves that Octavia is an elite fighter and that it doesn't matter is you are earth or pegasus (or unicorn) she will totally kick your ass. It would have been amazing to see what happened at the end with those three changelings, Still most amazing animation I have seen in history (of my life :I) keep up the good work and follow your dreams.
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AWESOME lol i didn't know octavia was such a boss xD Really good animating! u deserve a llama badge! again SUPER good animating!
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Anyone noticed the Changeling didn't have wings while fighting? That kinda threw me off but other than that is was amazing
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There's just so much YES to be had here. I could just rewatch this for ages.
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Love it. Great work! Can rewatch and rewatch again = ) Literally like every scene of it = D
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Good! Really good!
two comments though:
Coulda used a simple pre-loader. A couple times it'd pause while it tries to load the rest of the animation. Small complaint, but should be fairly simple to implement with some basic actionscript.
And, while the combat is very smooth and well executed, ponies don't actually fight like that... Have a look at season 1, episode 2, where they fight the manticore. And the actual episode where the changelings invade too. Ponies attack with kicks and hits, moving mostly on all fours. Yours has them fighting on their hind legs with punches and blocks as a humanoid might fight. It may seem like a small thing, but it broke this video for me.
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Unnecessary wall of text incoming.
Actually, to your second point, I wouldn't state that Ponies don't fight like that, like, at all I mean. Sure, it isn't what one'd expected them to fight like and most likely isn't how they'd fight instinctively either. However, keep in mind that while they're equine-like, their body's capabilities are far beyond those of an actual pony. Aside from the lack of fingers, their forelegs are as capable as our arms and more, and the hindlengs provide almost the same usability as our legs, minus our stability unless they constantly move around.
As for the actual fighting, the ones you mentioned... This kind of fight-style wouldn't be effective against the manticore, it'd require for them to come really close to it, leaving them vulnerable against any attack on just two legs, and they probably wouldn't do much damage to it anyway considering its size. Regular Pony kick most likely hits much harder and doesn't require such proximity which was ideal in that situation.
In Canterlot, they were actually fighting on their hind legs more often then not. When not currently fighting or charging the enemy it's understandable that they immediately went back on all four, but from what we could see they mostly used forelegs for fighting, going from four legs to two and back and so on.
But of course, as I said, it isn't how they'd fight naturally, I imagine that this kind of fight-style is something they'd have to be taught and Mane 6 obviously aren't trained fighters/warriors.
And one last thing, it IS a choreography-focused animation, assimilating this kind of fighting makes sense because it's exatly what you said, fluid and smooth, purely pony-like style probably wouldn't look as good.
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Maybe... but if you look at any of the Fighting is Magic videos, you can see that they were able to keep their fighting smooth while also keeping it pony like, so it is possible. However, I can imagine it would be a really hard thing to pull of. But imagine how awesome it would look if you could do it
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True, but a lot of attacks in Fighting is Magic are not exactly something you'd use in serious combat, they are cartoony, funny even, and for the sake of gameplay as creative and diverse as possible. I think that had they wanted to create a serious Pony fighting simulator it would've looked very differently.
The humanoid way of fighting in the animation may not be how they'd fight naturally without training but their body is capable of it in my opinion, and it's easier to assimilate that rather than come up with an entire Pony martial arts.
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Frankly, conventional buckage only works if your attacker's (a) right on your heels or (b) dense/clumsy/cocky enough to let you pivot 180 degrees in their face. 'Sides, anyone recall Discorded!Rarity's kung-fu assault on AJ? Can't say that looked too much like ordinary equine flailing.
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This is better animated than many episodes of Naruto
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Of course it is better, much, much better in fact, considering that 80% of the screen-time of Naruto episodes are (mostly) static images of people stading around and/or their faces while they think and talk during the various fights and explain every little thing that's happening to the smallest detail, because the viewers are obviously dumb and can't figure out stuff for themselves.
Don't take me wrong, I like Naruto's story and characters, but their pacing is ridiculous. When a story has issues with pacing, it's usually because it's too rushed. In Naruto the issue is the exact opposite and sometimes we're lucky when the plot moves five minutes forward in a twenty two-minute episode. I wouldn't put it past it if their pacing just gave up and died of boredom.
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Don't forget the flashbacks
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True, sometimes they even move backwards instead of forward.
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That is really good! I love the choreography of the fight, and the music was perfect. Really great job!
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wait. octavia said no to water...than drank nothing?
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Great animation but I found the song kinda annoying to be honest...!
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Awesome work! Tavi can sure kick ass! Hope there's a sequel to this! That'd be awesome!
Nice job on it!
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One of the greatest things to come out of this fandom, ever.
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Octavia is hard xDD very cool ;D direct to fav
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