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A Photo For Celestia

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This should look a little familiar to some of you. ; ) It's less original than the other vectors I've done so far, but I promise I'm going to be doing more with it. 8-)

Even though this one is directly based on a reference, it presented quite a few new challenges. First of all, the resolution was a lot lower, so most of the detailing was left up to my own aesthetic (which is never a good idea).

In addition to that though, I was surprised to find a bunch of animation errors/oversights in this frame, which I had to work around. Here's the reference if you want to compare with my notes: [link]

  • Twilight and Rainbow Dash have no tail! One could argue that they are totally obscured, but I'm still pretty sure they should be at least partially visible (after all, that's why I added them to my version).

  • Twilight's left eye (her left) is really derped. Compare the reference to mine side-by-side; I moved it a lot.

  • Misplaced eyelashes: Rarity's right eyelashes appeared to be layered above her iris instead of below both iris and eye whites. And Fluttershy's right eyelashes were placed on the side of her head instead of the side of her eye (and dangit, every time I see the opening sequence I can't unsee it)!

  • Ponies are missing eyelashes: I added eyelashes to Twilight, Applejack.



However, I want to make clear that this isn't a criticism of the show's animation or the work anyone associated with the show has done. To the contrary, I spent a week working on a single frame and they manage to do a spectacular job producing an entire episode in the same amount of time. I couldn't animate a poorly drawn stick figure in that amount of time, much less do it flawlessly. Instead I just wanted to point out the things I noticed as well as make the comment that even what seem like straightforward traces are strewn with funny details.


Done in Inkscape. Took about 16 hours (each pony took about 2 hours, plus a couple hours for the scroll and background, and then awhile futzing with it).


SVG available here: [link]

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(And I'd love it if you put a link in the comments to wherever you used it!)
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