True Friendship
- Score:
- rated 4.05 / 5 stars
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- 101,029 Views
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- Genre:
- Drama
- spike
- twilight
- friendship
- mlp
Credits & Info
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Artist Piggybank12
- Uploaded
- Feb 25, 2012 | 9:50 PM EST
- File Info
- Movie
- 5.1 mb
- Daily 2nd Place February 27, 2012
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Author Comments
EDIT: Am I seeing things? FRONT PAGE?! And an award for daily 2nd place?! A big thank you to whoever was behind making this decision! I honestly did not expect this to do so well here on NG, simply because I know there's a good few people that don't like MLP here. Needless to say, I'm shocked and yet honored to have this honor. Thank you!
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After about four months of planning, writing, animating and procrastinating (mostly the last one of course, lol), here is the big My Little Pony project I've been working on, which is an animated rendition of the comic on ask-twilightsparkle.tumbl r.com dubbed "True Friendship." Clocking in at almost five minutes (counting the credits), this is my longest animated project yet and also one of my most ambitious.
Rather than do something focused on humor or fast-paced action like most of my recent works, I wanted to make something with a story and do my best to tell it as powerfully as I could throughout the animation. Most of the dream sequence you see here was not in the comic, and was concocted by me and with a little help from the creator of the original comic.
I could go on with how I think some things in it could have turned out much better, such as when full-grown Spike is flying and some of the expressions being a little too funny for this moody animation, but I think I'll keep my mouth shut and let you watch this animation for yourself. I will say though, I'm very happy with how this turned out, especially on the writing and timing front.
I do hope you enjoy the animation! Please let me know what you think of it; I'm all ears!
Reviews
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars February 26, 2012
I liked this but here was one thing that you forgot. And that was that Spike doesn't, and will never have wings. It was in one of the episodes where Spike grew larger (ep.10) and as that happened, he did not grow any wings. That's understandable though, I mean there are a lot of stories about flightless dragons. The animation was pretty good as well. Even the art was good too, I didn't like how Twilight head was kinda plump, and some of the outlines were way much thicker than others. But besides that, then you have made a very sweet animation.
First off, I really appreciate the review and the compliments very much! Thanks for taking the time to tell me what you think!
I agree, I do have a tendency to have some inconsistent outlines in my work. Although they aren't always bad in themselves and can be used to an advantage, I understand what you're talking about here with them just being too thick in some scenes. I'll keep working away at that and try to develop a more consistent, not-as-thick outline for the future. And yeah, Twilight's head got plump on occasion, and I didn't manage to clean that up beforehand. Something else I'll keep in mind as well.
As for Spike having wings, we actually don't know yet what Spike could look like full-grown. All of the times we've seen Spike "grow" in the show was from magic and being greedy/selfish, not actually legitimately aging over time. For all we know of, he could grow completely different if he keeps himself from being greedy and selfish like every other dragon that has shown up in the show so far.
In other words, there's not enough context (yet) to prove Spike could have wings, or grow up like he has here. Hopefully that new episode airing in a few weeks starring Spike will answer some of these questions, but until then I say to not worry about what and why these events would happen in the way they are happening, but to instead focus on the story and what it has to tell. :)
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars February 26, 2012
really touching ^^
i am not a bronie. but i still do love this flash ^^
it was really nice animated drawn & colored . and thats a good point though ^^
nice work :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars February 26, 2012
Tears were shead. Beautiful tears of feelings.
Your choice of music conveyed an amazing feeling with the story on ask-twilight's tumblr. While the comic itself was touching, seeing it come alive with that music choice simply brought more to it.
Bravo, good sir. /)(\
Rated 0 / 5 stars February 25, 2012
If this took you four months to write then you need to try a different field. I was very bored the whole time. Nothing stuck out about your movie. There's nothing that pops and it breaks into a dialog-free slow quiet cut-scene almost immediately and ends that way. BOO!
What? And just give up like that?! Don't be silly!
I'm sorry to hear you didn't like the animation though. Although I will admit, I'm confused by your definition of "pop" in your description. What exactly would you mean by that? Something dramatic that catches the viewer off-guard? Or something surprising? Or just something that could catch YOUR interest, something that apparently wasn't in this animation?
Also, you make the dialog-free part of the film sound like simply having no dialog is a bad thing. The main idea I had here was NOT to have dialog drive the animation; rather, I wanted the animation and the music itself to drive this piece instead. Whether it did that well or not I'll leave for you to decide, but when it comes to calling this bad because there's no dialog for the rest of the animation I will have to politely disagree with you. I really do think the no-dialog part of this makes the animation much more involving to the viewer then it would have been with just listening to the characters explain the feelings you can already see on their faces. Having them explain everything would completely take out the interpretive side of the animation as well, as why this is happening would have just been explained. If all of that is gone, what's left?
Again, I'm sorry to hear you didn't enjoy this animation. However, I am not going to give up animating despite your suggestion. I will definitely consider what you said here though and take it into account for future works. Thank you.
Rated 5 / 5 stars February 25, 2012
Im not a fan of ponies, but your drawing style made me laugh
Hey, I'm thrilled you stopped by and liked this animation despite not liking ponies yourself! That's awesome!
I've been getting quite a few people coming to me saying they've never watched the show or know much of anything about My Little Pony, yet still sympathized with the story here. That's probably one of my favorite things about this project: you don't need to know much of anything about ponies or even like ponies to begin with, yet you can still absorb the story and understand what's there.
And thank you about my drawing style too. I usually do a lot more work with humor, so I think that rubbed off here as well, for better or worse.