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*See it in Fullview.I decided I wanted to practice before moving to another finished image. I picked Rarity for this just because she's pretty much my favorite. Anyway, I did some random poses and expressions. The running pose was quite challenging.
I believe I'll be doing one with the other ponies, and with some interaction between them.
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Oh I know exactly what you mean by 'sitting on the computer doing nothing' and 'playing video games'! I actually use some of that time to look at video tutorials and speedpaints, but the real problem is to find enough motivation to start drawing, specially when playing counter-strike and battlefield seems much more entertaining. At least you seem to be drawing a lot more than I am, so it looks like you're on the right track.
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How do you get the anatomy so perfect? your sketches look so tidy - mine are just a total mess!
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I actually have quite a hard time trying to figure out how to do each pose. And I don't really know much about anatomy, just some vague memories from random "tutorials" I've seen throughout the years here on dA. I also usually "scan" the episodes trying to find a similar pose to the one I have in mind, so I can see how the show's artists approached it. The bottom right sketch was the most time consuming one, took me several tries to get the legs right.
I do a "messy" sketch first to get an overall idea, but after that I create another layer and draw a cleaner version of it. I just don't do this for the head. For that I already go for the details.
It's just a matter of patience actually, I know some artists can easily sketch something in a matter of minutes, and quickly jump to the lineart. But it doesn't work for me, I usually spend much more time on it. Some of those sketches took up to 3 hours to be completed.
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these look real good i cant wait to see the finished result
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Thank you very much pal!
I did those just to practice, so I don't think I'll finish them. Maybe just one of them.
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I love the way you draw ponies! And I will be making those wallpapers now, I just finished my last pack that I've been busy with. I'll make sure to notify you when they're complete. 
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And that icon is so cute!
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Thank you pal! I'm really happy to read that!
Sounds good, I'm curious!
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Rarity is most certainly the most beautiful pony. Great drawings of her.
Some of the Rarity toys actually include a bracelet for her to wear.
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She definitely is! Thank you very much pal!
Really? I just made that to give her expression a reason. At least that makes sense for Rarity.
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Excellent job! The top-right image gives me some sort of strange Disney nostalgia for some reason.
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Thank you very much for the comment pal! I really appreciate it!
Really? That's curious! Something like that never crossed my mind. I'm a huge Disney fan, tho!
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normal, Hahahahaha!, gasp, 
very nice sketches.
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Ehehe, for a second I was confused about what you were trying to say.
Thank you very much pal! I really appreciate it!
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I vote for some Derpy sketches. All hail the Paper Bag princess!
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Ehehe, I might consider the idea.
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Thank you very much pal!
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That's a great range of moods to show off, and extremely well too. I especially love her ROFL moment, such great laughter. Her standing pose is sweet and the reactions are at peak effectiveness.
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Thank you very much for the feedback!
I'm really happy with how that one turned out too.
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wow im really impressed its all in-model and really looks like came from an MLP concept art
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Thank you so much for the feedback pal! I'm really happy that you think that!
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welcomes its really nice too look at, worked on its season one so its easy to compare them
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Really?! Damn man, that's awesome! What was your job there?
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animator, im the opne who did vinyll scratch out of pure luck
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Wow, that is amazing! You guys sure did a fantastic job!
You started working on the show before or after enjoying it? (I'm assuming you like it)
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well its during, i can still remember it fondly.
I never liked the 1st and 2nd episode , too girly for me but when i saw episode 3 i start to appreciate the show and then when twilight screamed she sounded like timmy turner and that blew my mind and like the show even more
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That's interesting, for me, the third episode dealt with more girly subjects that the first 2, but I think a lot of people could relate to Spike's reactions in that episode. I actually enjoyed the first episode, but nothing special, really. I thought the show would extend the whole "defeating nightmare moon" throughout the whole season or something like that. I'm glad it didn't turn out that way, I find the "normal problems" to be much more interesting to drive the story than the "good vs evil fight".
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oh i can agree too well i think its because of ep 1 and and 2 not my fave, im not a full blown fan at that time but i started to appreciate the show but dont have a 'best pony' yet until i saw dog and pony show (gotta love rarity's acting~!!), I practically beg my director to us to work on it but canada gets that ep but at least we got winter wrap up ,I got the part where rarity teaches twi to make the nest where she said 'not,not not there!'
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Her voice actress surely is amazing, and it's one of the main reasons I like the character so much. They all are, actually. But Rarity's style is so cool.
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hehehe yeah by far i gotta say she's one of the most developed characters i ever seen though i have to admit the wet hair thing i didnt expected to be popular not the sister hoove episode i mean, the one with the straight hair on season one since im the one who animated her on the slumber party episode where she got soaked on a dare i felt sorry for her since she looks miserable ahhaha
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Ehehe, it's one of those things that you really can't explain. In this episode I also felt sorry for her, but in the sisterhooves social episode I found it adorable. It's probably because of the context, but still, I don't know why it caught my attention this much.
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hahah well i really like her wet look at sisterhooves, its got some style to it and not just straight, anywas the sweet and elite episode is expectedly awesome god i love her beatnik look~
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It sure was, the only outfit I found a bit weird was the second one during the song. By the way, the song was great. It always starts with me thinking "nah, it won't work" but it always ends up stuck in my head.
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hahaha knew its that good, usually a song about being popular and all that wont work for my taste but this really stuck in my head, even during its animatic stage me and the other guys watched it and all of us slow clap as our only review
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Exactly, and the vocals are also incredible.
The show has an animatic stage? That's interesting! I thought it went from storyboard straight to the final animation.
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hahah we hacve to have an animatic or at least thats the advantage of the flash program.
I was told traditional animators has to time their drawings on just sounds they recorded on their MP3s but flash can export a piece of animatic so we can easily animate it since we use it as a guide both visual and audio
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True, digital animation has it's advantages. I hate flash (the software) but, damn, the results are amazing.
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oh ahha cant blame you at times it has its limitations you dunno how many animators here really hates using shape hints, no matter how good you are shape tween and shape hints are iffy at best of times are one of those reasons flash's limitations
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I'm not like a character animator, but I have to deal with keyframe animation when doing motion graphics and visual effects. When compared to After Effects (and other software's timelines too, but this is what I use the most), Flash's timeline and keyframe system are really confusing. I remember, during a course, being asked to create a driving car with a moving background in Flash (you know, like those Tom and Jerry chase scenes where the background keeps repeating) and man, I had a hard time trying to break it down in flash. I made it just fine, but all I could think was how much faster I could have done it inside of After Effects, for example.
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ah I see, I think its because you got used to the system you're good at and find flash's system different.
Back when i was using flash for training i wasn't used to the anchor point manipulation since im used to adobe illustrator's system. though i cant judge after effects since i didnt get to use one
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It's one of my favorite software, it's really fun to play with. The problem with Flash, for me, is that it feels unintuitive, but once you get the hang of it, you don't need to worry anymore.
You worked with Flash alone? Or you used other software too (like Photoshop, etc)?
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well right now its flash, photoshop only if i try to lightly improve the pics i upload
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I see. I thought you had to deal with some editing software too.
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nah just dabbled on it once in a while in the past, just too bad i forgot most of it XD so i sorta know photoshop in a basic level right now
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With all this conversation I started to get interested in giving flash another try, it's such a versatile tool.
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hahah you can say that again even till now all of us are amazed how flash wasnt suppose to be an animation tool but by accident it can be worked as one.
BTW im working on a new cartoon the character design looks a biy lacking but after seeing all its animatics i can vouch for its story
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hopefully after this im getting to work on MLP season 3, a sorta strategy where i have to sacrifice a spot on the season 2's finale to increase my chance at the 3rd season
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It have a pretty stylized look and, well, who knows, right? When I first saw the ponies at knowyourmeme I was pretty indifferent about them, I only started to find them cute after seeing all the elements together (voice, personality, animation, etc). It's hard to have an opinion yet, but let's wait and see how it goes.
Hope you can get to work on season 3
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hehehe trust me, i dunno if it'll be as popular as MLP but who knows.
yeah i hope so too, Im risking and sacrificing way lot to get a chance at season 3.
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