The animation is extremely fluid and top notch, the colours are gorgeous, and the story itself although simplistic, is very cute with a small yet pure sense of humor.
Reviews for "Present Prank"
This is a wonderful little animation you've got here! Everything moves quite fluidly and vivdly, and the designs and rigs look almost exactly like the ones used in the official show. It really does help a lot in making the characters come to life, and helps this excel in the animation department more than a good chunk of the animations on NG.
The main thing I don't like here is the story: not much seems to happen here, in my opinion. Despite this being an animation assignment like you said, perhaps next time you could consider making something a little more "meaty" story-wise, if you catch my drift. It would help a lot with helping this animation stand on something else besides the animation.
Other than that, I've got no complaints. Can't wait to see what else you cook up, MLP or non-MLP!
Flamingo1986 responds:
You hit that one right on the nose (or snout?). This animation was originally designed to be just a puppet experiment. However, towards the latter half of animating it I decided to add a little extra and "spiff" it up with a story. As a result the story suffered while the animation remained top-notch.
I've decided to rectify this with my next pony animation that I'm currently working on. From the ground up it's been treated as a story first, an animation second. It's slated to be released in six parts sometime towards the end of this year.
That was so totally cute and awesome! On the short side, very, but it's very well animated! ^o^
This is still one of my favorite fan animations of MLPFiM. You are pretty much set to go into the animation industry.
Also looking forward to your next animation project! Good thing Habsro gave you the go ahead. :D
HAHAHA!!! This is incredibly funny!!