Lightning Bliss

Dude... VERY IMPRESSIVE STUFF!!! I noticed that the lines are like spot on to the MLP style as well and you said you used Adobe Illustrator? Hmm... so I'm guessing you had to create the points just to make the right outlines too? I hate messing about with getting the lines just right but I want to be accurate with the MLP style too... this is starting to inspire me to work with Adobe Illu. again...

Dude that is bad*ss!!!! Very impressive work! I defiently am not a good clothes designer even though I imagine a dress on my character all the time, my avatar basically shows me off hehe. I just dont know what to do for colors in regards to my characters dress for something like the Gala. I mean what do you think? You have great color understanding I can tell so... was hoping for color suggestions if my avatar pony were to wear a dress at the gala. Her coat is white, while her mane is black with rainbow highlights. She is a peg pony so I dont want to hide her wings either. You think you could give me fashion tips? lol

I love your grayhawk character the most but because I love seein new pony characters within the franchise itself. I love seeing new ponies or poltential new pony idea characters so nice work!

That is so adorable! I could see that working in the MLP show as well, she could be like another pony from a more forigen village area for all we know, like a mountain pony! I say mountain pony cause of the extra fuzz shes got going that really brings out her personality, very nice work!

I think the answer to this question for me is with a question: Who the heck is NOT a fan of dinosaurs? LOL I love dinosaurs ever since I saw The Land Before Time as a little girl, I still tear up seeing Little Foot's mother die. But as live action dinosaurs I love those even more! Jurassic Park defiently an inspiration to keep on loving dinosaurs afterwards. If I could choose one that I love the most though, it'd be the horse or deer of the dinosaur population, the Iquanadon. Why him? He can run on all fours as two legs, hes a gentle veggie and I dunno theres just something about him that reminds me of horses or dragons at once hehe.

Insperation for me comes in many forms and usually motivates what I will do in regards to my talent in art and animation as well as sometimes story writing. For me in the career I've been working on and studying on since my highschool years has always been in 2D animation, but what inspired it to come to that occurred in high school and I suppose you could say "weird". I always loved to draw, I specifically drew characters of creatures that I wanted to be. To be honest I think being a human girl is boring, that reality is boring at times, and that I longed to be something more, I wanted to be magical, or heroic, exotic, elegant and beautiful but in the form of another being, usually things like dragons, ponies, unicorns, or animalistic creatures from androids to cyborgs and robots or mutants. That said I would draw these characters and create my own imaginary world around my designs and go to that place during class time when it was boring as hell... But in my junior year of high school, a class opprotunity for an elective became avaliable called media arts. A classmate told me about it and since she saw my artwork and that it was all consistent of characters she told me I should look into it as thats what she was doing, she being into the anime animation styles. Not thinking much of how animation was done, but it being in the arts I decided to join her in the class and I was introduced to programs like Flash, and Dream Weaver as well as 3D programs. But the one program that gave me insperation on what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, was Adobe Flash. I didnt think I would ever have the patience to be a 2D animator after seeing how they did it in the old days, but when Flash gave me a glimpse on so many different ways animation can be created...it gave me the window and motivation of bringing my characters to life on the screen. Adobe Flash was what inspired me or pushed me to become a 2D Animator.

So I'm a lover of 2D animation and of the animation of MLP FiM, that's a no brainer to anyone here I'd imagine. Well lately I have been doing my own little youtube shows here and there, I have my own youtube channel called e1d2k channel or the EDK channel where I have a Rat Cam show of my pet rats and my animation portfolios as well as a few episodes of my collections here and there. Well yesterday I've been watching MLP FiM anylisis shows or reviews from bronies and other pony fans to the point that I'm feeling the need to speak my own opinion on the shows themselves. I dont necissarly expect to be noticed since my channel is not noticed as much to begin with, prehaps maybe I just need to advertise it better. My point is, is that this is an opprotunity for me to have some fun, bring my pony character I'd like to use to be my host body more or less, to life, while I take the time to review the shows of the MLP FiM seasons. I'm already calculating how my reviews would be set up, a collection of images from the episodes, maybe small clips from the episode too but not too much to avoid copyright, while I'd animate my pony character to my voice recorded review. The animation my be simple more likely with the possibility of me improving it later on. I hope to get started on this idea soon as I get back from Germany and get back to my computer as a means to use my programs since I can't do it here. At this point though I'd welcome support or opinions on my show idea as a whole. Here are some of my own channel episodes, and some shows from my gaming clan channel owned by my clan founder: My shows: My Clan Shows (Movie Reviews with Xeno of DBH and myself Reborn):

My parents are my heros as well as alot of my friends, I could go down the list but I'll start with my parents first. My father passed away in 2010, but he didnt leave me and my siblings behind without wisdom, pride and confidence to stay with us. He taught me to never give up on my education and goals, that it was always the easy way out and he was never for the easy roads. In just about everything I do it feels like its been on the most difficult path I could choose for each decision like for ex: becoming a 2D animator without the insurence of finding a job in my state, engaged to my German fiance and going through 2yrs of seperation and immigration process beyond stressful, picking and sticking with a job that was poorly run and my employer abused my good service skills and dedication. I could have taken the easy way out with these choices, I could have given up school all together, I could have given up on the immigration process and risk doing things the illegal way, I could have quit my job. They were all easy ways out, but my father taught me that in life things are gonna be difficult, if it was always easy then it wouldnt be worth doing...everything I do is worth doing, and hes my hero for reminding me of that. My mother I still live with (along with my step father, good man), went downhill alot after the loss of my dad amongst several other deaths we've had that year. Drinking was a common way she dealt with life stresses but it got out of control. One week she over stepped that line, to the point we all thought we were gonna lose her. My step father gave her a reality check, and she took the step to get help for her drinking. Now shes gone back to school to get her degree, shes working again and baking, happy, and every day she sees a silver lining in everything. She was like that when I was a child and I see it again in her today... My mother is my hero because even when she got lost in the deepest part of the woods, she still managed to find her way out, and whenever she would get lost in the stresses of life again, she always saw the glimmer of light shining through the trees, that there was always hope, that there is always a way things would work out one form or another. She reminds me to stay positive and to have faith in life... My parents are my heros.

Call me optimistic or a fool, but maybe others or just I, see the silver lining in life and not as a "joke". And dont take time out of my day to post blogs about how life is a joke lol, but what ever makes you happy too is all I can add to this statement, I dont judge, its not like I have days where I feel life is a joke or pointless, I call it depression or a song "You had a Bad Day".

That's right ponies! My fiance's visa application has been approved and accepted! After 7hrs of a pony carriage ride (oh how I wish we could have flew) we got to Frankfurt, Germany last Wednesday to attend our meeting at the US Embassy yesterday on Thursday. It was a hop, skip and a jump from our hotel to the Embassy which was great. My fiance was all nerves during the waiting before the day of the meeting, where as I was calm. But when the day finally arrived and we went to the meeting, my collection dissolved and he had to be my rock of confidence... *sighs* he and I really do balance each other out. I can be his rock during long stressful periods of wait, but when big things arrive I tend to lose my resolve and he always steps up to comfort me when that happends... Ahem anyways even though we were at the Embassy for about 2hrs, most of it spent in a waiting area, it didnt seem to last that long at all. We had to go through 3 booths, one explaining the first process, the second explaining the last process and informing my finance of his rights, and then the third booth took us through the process of swearing of oath of our evidence being truthful and asking us questions to approve of our visa. The clerk didn't find it odd or surprising at all that me and my fiance met on a online PC game of Aliens vs. Predator 2, rather that he says that these days thats how a lot of immigrated relationships are starting, through video game interaction lol! So after about 5mins of questions and small conversation on how we met, the counsoler said "Ok Mr (Ship) your Visa has been approved, congradulations. It will be mailed to you within 10 buisness days. Be sure to check it once it arrives and began planning your flight with your fiance. Have a nice day " I had to keep my composure but I hardly could and neither could my fut. hubby, we walked away from the booth, I hopped up and down and he managed to grab me down from the air and we kissed, before making our way outside the embassy where his parents and my future inlaws were waiting. We all hugged and nearly cried from this long awaited ordeal... but its offical now! What's next on the list of things we two ponies need to attend now? Well for 1. we need to get our engagement rings. Ya we aren't exactly on the traditional line but thats simply because he and I were seperated by the ocean for nearly 2yrs while going through this insufferable immigration process that failed the first time and had to start over again with an attorney, it took us 2yrs to get to this point and that whole time we havent seen each other let alone get the chance to buy an engagement ring for eachother. My fiance certaintly couldnt, the last thing he wanted to do was to buy me a ring and find out later it wouldnt FIT lol! So thats our next step. Step 2. would be to wait for his visa to arrive, make sure its all in order, and then plan our flights back to my pony home in TX USA. It will be the most expensive part of this process next to paying for our next phase of immigration which is to seal is residency as an american aka get his green card. Step 3. We finish our wedding plans which has its own steps to be fair lol! Step 4. We finailize for his green card and residency which will make him an american and able to travel back and forth. So much to do... and its hard for me to focus on just the first step in front of us, he's alot better at that then I am. I tend to stare at obstacles in a cluster and overwhelm myself where as he focuses on one thing at a time and for that Im so grateful for, it helps me to focus and worry about whats directly in front of us. So anyways thats it for this entry, I'll post more when more updates arrive! Thanks for viewing!

Sure thing, it was realitivly all the same forms of quizzes, some more elaborate then others, but at the end of the day those quizzes never really gave what I feel was a good cutie mark description or image for that matter that best described me. For instance in one quiz that was pretty elaborate, it asking how I'd react in certain pony situations or what were my likes and dislikes in hobbies or events, and it came up with that I was a shy but kind soul that had a passion for reading and writing and that my cutie mark was a notebook and pencil. Another one came up with a similar option only the cutie mark was a telescope that represented my love of science fiction and bookwormism. Thing is though, those are like a fraction of things I love to do, and my love in hobbies is constantly darting back and forth or changing, and I wanted a cutie mark to represent that. When I came to that conclusion I started researching on how can cutie marks represent ourselves, and two ways they actually can: abstractly or to the point. Being my personality is multy tasking in my hobbies and loves the abstract cutie marks were the best way to go for me. The rainbow represents my many loves in life and the lightning bolt represents its sponatanious energy that I have. Color also takes into account when designing though, and since color is not one of my strongest passions, rainbow, white and black where my first choices. White represents purity innocece, sometimes cute to which my fiance says I tend to be all 3, black can be used in neutral or negative, I tend to think in my case its mysterious and elegant hehe. But enough on my ideas, here some of the quizzes I found http://www.quotev.com/quiz/1116362/Whats-your-My-Little-Pony-Cutie-Mark/ http://quizilla.teennick.com/quizzes/18139048/what-would-your-cutiemark-be http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/gbHHV-4/What-would-your-My-Little-Pony-cutie-mark-look-like In the last link that one was what placed me in the right direction in regards to what kind of pony I was and what colors my cutie mark would have, though it wouldn't actually give me an image of that mark, but it pointed me in the right direction. My results from that quiz were as follows: Your Cutie Mark is always changing, You're a pegasus with multiple personalities. At some point you're interested in one thing and at another point you're interested in something else. It's hard to pinpoint your special talent as it's changing so often! Hope this helps!

Need a hiring artiest for your own pony character? Or Need tips/advice on how to create your own pony character? Fillies and Gentle colts look no further! I'm Lightning Bliss, graphic designer, 2D animator, character designer, background editor, storyboard designer and story teller, who is more then happy to give tips or provide character designs for those folk who are looking to have their own pony character. Why ask for my help? Unlike the Pony Creator tool (which I would recommend to give you an idea on designing) I tend to look for the client's specific requests when it comes to creating a character for them. Pony characters have alot of specific quirks, colors, cutie marks, body and facial design that can tend to be one sided with the Pony Creator tool, and therego you could lose touch of how you want your pony character to represent your own personality or ultra ego. For instance, when I created my pony character, I took several things into account: Tips Representation of personality (I'm cheerful, shy, confident, can doubt at times, have a passion in many hobbies) Colors that represent the personality (Even though you must LOVE the colors of your character, you should also take to consideration how those colors represent your character, and can always be used as an obvious suggestion or abstract) Flying, unicorn or land pony, can be determined as something as simple as whether you like the idea of being a flyer, magic user, or you prefer the ground. (Since I love being free spirited and follow wherever my passions take me, being a pegasus pony was my best choice) Hair style/color of hair and tail (some would say less is more, I say choose what best to represent your character in personality. Since my character is mostly based on how I behave as a person, my hair style actually is close how my hair style is in real life, color on the other hand is not so much due to that the color represents my inner charm) Cutie Marks (it's easy to get carried away or even be confused with designing your own cutie mark. I went through several MLP FIM personality CM quizzes of what mine could be before I realized designing something that best represented me was the best choice. I have a personality that can be a bit all over the place when it comes to my hobbies, but in that fact I have so many hobbies, and loves in those hobbies, a heart design was my best option, combined with the colors of the rainbow to show that my loves is constantly changing. Not to mention the lightning bolt going down the middle representing my enthusiasm) With all these tips and more taken into account, along with the specifics the client asks for is how I determine your character design. I take all requirements seriously and will only offer suggestions if asked for. I have practiced ability in the MLP FIM design and can create signatures and avatars to backgrounds or wallpapers of the character by request, but I tend to vary on prices. If interested in how I price my work or interested in me creating a pony character for you, by all means contact me here at the mlpforums and I'll be happy to get back to you. If interested in other works I have done, my website is located here: http://emilyreddragon.wix.com/edkanimator Thank you for your interest!

What more can I say but feel relief that I'm finally here in the old country of Germany with my sweetie unicorn fiance! It's been quite the journey for the both of us and it is just getting started! So currently we are hanging out at his place but tomrrow we are leaving early in the morning to travel from North Germany down to the south to Frankfurt because on Thursday together we are doing our immigration meeting. We're confident and dont have doubts about the meeting going well but we are both nervous despite heh. But once we get word about getting his visa we are heading right back to my home state of TX USA. There will be so much to do once that comes but heck I cant even think about that, I have to focus on the meeting alongside him and what to do right after we get his visa, aka like planning for two tickets in flying back and of course packing his things. So I guess at this point for me, (hard as it is) I need to RELAX and try to enjoy the first time ever this year of having a vacation...Its hard for me though, I've worked at a daycare for over a year now, gone through so many family trials and dont get me started on finaciall strains, and suddenly... I have to relax and enjoy the peace and quiet with my loved one Ive not seen in 2yrs??? Its insane, a sudden change of my world. This is probably one of the reasons I like MLP FIM so much, there are constantly life changing events, situations or trials the characters have to go through, but they always find way to work it out or get through it with a positive attitude. MLP is so cool!

Haha fair enough then, cool I learned something thxs! I'm more of a character designer for 2D animation and currently can't post any of my work because I'm out of the country and away from my art progams but my typical style is done by hand then clean and color up on my computer. I'm checkin out ur sig though and it reminds me of my old gradient style with the shading techniques, that's also really awsome dude!

Very nice, being a huge RD fan myself, nice work! I usually dont make wallpapers myself but seeing others do it I wonder if I should attempt to give it a shot myself hehe.

Very very impressive. It helps me to learn more about cutie mark designs for my own artwork to be honest. Are most cutie marks vectorized or have graidents within them? I tended to assume most were a solid color.

Introduction: Usually I would't post blog wise about a story idea I had out of the blue, but since it's MLP FIM franchise inspired and I don't plan to make money off it (unless there's actual supporters out there that say it makes a great story) I figured there's no harm in writing just for fun on the backstory of my role play character Lightning Bliss. This isn't a role play however, this is a story I randomly thought up a couple nights ago, that I tended to day dream on when I got bored, so ya if ya'll like it give me a shout out, personally I just wanna get it off my head hehe. I will be posting an image per entry as well, for this entry the image will be late because I'm without my own computer with my art/media programs and no access to a scanner. Lightning Bliss's Ultimate Love Search The wind whiped past her ears as she dived towards the Cloudsdale arena at full speed, her eyes tearing the whole way. This was the day she'd perfect the Rainbow Dash technique, she could feel it in her hooves. Her wings were burning with anticipation as that invisble force tried to keep her from pushing the sound breaker that would cause the Sonic Rainboom. Even though Lightning Bliss knew she wasn't an athelete talent like Dash was, she had a huge love for the flying technique Dash had made famous from the last Air Competition held at the arena, and made it another determined love interest for her to pursue. She had tried the technique several times over every other day, with failure at each time, but today something was different. Bliss had a need to try the trick again today, but oddly enough something else was motivating her then the love of being able to do it herself, something else was propelling her...another hidden interest she wasn't sure in her own mind was. Still keeping her form intact, wings flatten next to her white coat, her lips being pushed back by the force and eyes red with tears, her mind was elsewhere, trying to understand why she was not fully concentrating on the task at hand, that she didn't even noticed she broke the barrier till she heard the BOOM. Ancient the golden pegasi pony, with his wild white mane and tail blowing in the cool morning air, heard the familiar BOOM followed by the bright rainbow flash of light that came with it. He turned his form in mid air towards the arena and immediatly knew who caused it. Unlike the orginal Sonic Rainboom from Rainbow Dash that was the pure color of the rainbow, this one was outlined with a black-purple and white outline, followed by the colors of the rainbow. "All be, she did it!" He exclaimed and flapped his wings eagerly towards the arena as fast as he could muster. Ancient was a strong flyer by Cloudsdale standards but he never was much for sports himself, but he knew his young friend and apprentice flyer had finally achieved her goal and wanted to be there to congradulate her. As he arrived at the arena he could see her clearly despite the bright tail of the dark rainbow following behind her, but he could see she was in trouble despite the spectacular show...She was zig zagging all over the top of the arena, spiraling out of control and screaming for help. Bliss saw for a split second that Ancient was flying in the area and screamed as loud as she could: "I CAN'T CONTROL IT HELP PLEASE HELP!!!" The young mare's voice was filled with terror. Vigorously Ancient wasted no time and buzzed into the path of the wild rainbow lead by Bliss with his front hooves stretched to catch her. She slammed into him, pushing him along for the ride as he held on to her. "Lightning Bliss relax!" He called into her ear to be heard over the wind, "flap your wings, your wings will control yourself, the boom is propelled by the force you created, flap your wings and it will reside!" His words were coaxing just enough and Bliss obeyed her friends words and began to flap her wings. Almost immediatly they both slowed down till the dark rainbow diminished and they came to a hover outside the arena. Panting to catch her breath, she turned and hugged Ancient in gratitude and relief. "I am NEVER doing that again," she yelled out to Ancient after finally catching her breath. "But that was incredible Blissy!" He hugged her back proudly, "You've been working on that trick since the last Air competition and you finally achieved it! I bet even your idol Rainbow Dash would be proud!" "She'd be laughing at me," Bliss shrugged the compliment away and huffed, "I was out of control, this was such a foolish love agenda of mine...least I can say I did it, but it's nothing to brag about if I couldn't control it..." Something was up Ancient realized, it wasn't like Lightning Bliss to be so negative after she reached a goal of her own, even if it didn't go perfectly as she would have hoped. He took a second to observe her, hovering with her arms crossed in shame, ears down as well as her head, looking gloomy, a complete opposite to what her rainbow heart/black lightning bolt cutie mark represented. "Maybe your not happy with your accomplishment," Ancient replied after a bit of observing, "is because your motives are now focused elsewhere? It's not unusual for your goals to be redirected elsewhere when you're in the midst of another after all my young friend." Bliss thought about it for a second then lifted her head up to look at Ancient's cutie mark. Unlike her mark which was a bit more abstract in her talents and personality, his was more to the point, just like he was. A simple cracked silver crown that represented his leadership and wisdom that came with it. It was always like Ancient to remind her of the obvious facts that she tended to overlook, for she immediatly recalled before she achieved the sonic rainboom that her mind was preoccupied on something else. "I remember I was upset..." she finally spoke up, "that if I were to accomplish the boom, that no one would see it..." "But I saw it Blissy," he replied happily, "and it was amazing!" "Oh I'm glad you saw it Ancient, please don't get me wrong, it's just..." she shook a moment, trying to gather her thoughts on what to say next, "it's just it didn't feel right that someone...special to me...didn't see it..." "Oh...I see..." he nodded his head in realization... His young mare friend was lonely, and needed a special stallion in her life to call her own. He knew for quite some time now that Lightning Bliss was lonely, ever since her breakup with Mind Gate, his wing partner and friend with the cutie mark of a gate on his silver coat. The two of them never really hit it off because they were friends first and were both fairly young when they saw the love intrest, but it was never meant to be. However it left Bliss's love interests spiral downward, leading her to lose interests in her passions. Probably why the Sonic Rainboom wasn't the success she was hoping for. "Then prehaps it's time for you to leave the clouds," he replied to her confidently, "maybe you need to get out and explore the lands instead of the clouds for a bit. Focus on that goal at hand that's been bugging you for so long." Bliss blinked at her friend's suggestion, and to began to wonder if it really was the time or not.