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  1. HereComesTom
    She'll be a character in my fangame eventually---maybe not the first chapter, but I know I'll need her at some point, and since (a) someone on deviantart gave me a request for a Celestia animation, and (b) there were no bases out there for Celestia, I figured now was a good tie to take a break from coding and work on this instead. EDIT: here's the video of how I'm getting the first eight frames to work with:
  2. HereComesTom
    I might go back and fix the hooves, but at the moment, I'm working on Celestia's mane. My plan is to start by creating a frame for my animation every 10 frames of the show's, and build more frames around those. What I'm doing isn't quite tracing, and traces wouldn't work anyway in my case, since I'm taking screenshots from the Magical Mystery Cure episode, where Celestia isn't quite in profile (it's surprisingly hard to find a place in the show where Celestia is standing still and has enough of her body visible to get all 80 frames of her mane's and tail's animation), but I am copying them in a way---it's hard to describe; I'll probably post a youtube video here explaining how I'm doing the copying. I've gotten 8 frames so far, 1 frame in my base for every 10 frames on the show; this is just my starting point. My plan is to create another 9 frames in between the frames that I have so that they flow properly. Once all that is done...I get to start all over working on her tail. Hard work, but I think it'll be worth it! Here's the animation I have so far; it's 10x faster than what the show would have and obviously choppy as a result, but again, it's my starting point, not my destination:
  3. HereComesTom
    I'd forgotten about these from my Grand List of Things Hasbro Won't Let a Brony Do in a Fangame: 437) I shouldn't need to shorten the ponies' names to make them fit on the screen. However, if I absolutely must, I may not abbreviate "Rarity" as "Rat", "Fluttershy" as "Flushy", "Rainbow Dash" as "Rash" (even though she is), "Pinkie Pie" as "Pine" (even though she does), or "Applejack" as "Alejack". 734) In reference to #437: not allowed to abbreviate "Twilight" as "Twit".
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    Every year during the Christmas shopping season, I like to go to Toys 'R' Us and buy one toy for a boy and one for a girl and put them in the Toys for Tots bin---and I got a Fluttershy for the girl: I wasn't impressed with her wings, though; they do better work on Deviantart... I also found a Derpy plushie that I'm planning to give to a RL pegasister friend of mine for Christmas. (I don't think she's on this forum, so this shouldn't give the surprise away )
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    That's odd; I thought I added a subtle bend in their hooves as the hind legs did their forward-moving animation. ...Or did I forget to apply that to the wireframe base?
  6. HereComesTom
    I dunno if this is the right place to post this, but I've put together an animation base for Celestia walking that's to-scale with the existing pony pixelart animations; anyone who want to use it can (though I'd prefer it if you credited me) : Animating her mane and tail will be a doozy; they're each 80 frames long, but here's what I've got so far:
  7. HereComesTom
    Thanks. I've discovered it's 80 frames long! It'll be a while before I can crank that out, but here's the same animation with her shoes:
  8. HereComesTom
    I'm not sure unicorns as a whole are OP in general, but they've got a lot more potential to become OP than earth ponies or pegasi. I mean, I'm actually a little disappointed at how powerful Starlight Glimmer and Tempest Shadow were; they managed to go toe-to-toe with Twilight and either come out on top or fight her to a draw. I'd think that Twilight, given her innate power (even as a unicorn), her long study of magic, and the sheer fact that she's an alicorn now (for Celestia's sake!) should put her miles ahead of unicorns. But apparently knowing the spells and knowing how to counter them is enough to put a unicorn ahead, even ahead of Twilight. Then again, maybe that's what made Starlight and Tempest that good: Starlight with all her spell knowledge, and Tempest with magic-countering armor and reinforcements. Those two were definitely prepared for their fights with Twilight!
  9. HereComesTom
    I shortened her muzzle a little more than that; this is a rough draft of her without her shoes and without her mane or tail being animated (yet). What do you think so far?
  10. HereComesTom
    Thanks for your help; I'll be sure to post it here when it's done, but...well, I discovered that Celestia's mane and tail have 80 frames in their animations, so I have my work cut out for me...! FYI, I found a part of the show where Celestia was alone on the screen with nothing to block her for several seconds, during the episode Magical Mystery Cure from Season 3. It took me a while to find an episode with an unobstructed view of her...if I ever decide to do this with Luna, I wonder if I'll be able to find an episode of her with a good walking-animation and a good holding-still animation for use as references...?
  11. HereComesTom
    Rarity's new name would be "Womanly Wiles". Pinkie's new name would be "Apropos of Nothing".
  12. HereComesTom

    Well, I watched the MLP Movie again with some friends, and this time, I didn't feel like it was triggering me.  I noticed that my heart was pounding at several points in the film, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't an anxiety trigger.

    Watching it again...well, it gave me a different perspective on the characters, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it...!

  13. HereComesTom
    Thanks for your critique; does this look better?
  14. HereComesTom
    I expect I'll still be working on my fangame...at the rate I'm getting it done, anyway It's a melancholy thought; hopefully there's at least a few more years of Friendship and Magic ahead of us. (Hard to believe there wouldn't be, now that the second movie is greenlit!)
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    I'd certainly hope so, but...to be honest, the ponies can do or say some boneheaded things now and then, or things they'd regret. Starlight might just believe one of Chrysalis's lies...maybe.
  16. HereComesTom
    EDIT: please see the latest post to see the latest versions of these animations. Once I get some more feedback on the tail wireframe-animations and get a finalized version of the animations, I'll be updating this OP with the revised bases. I noticed that there weren't any base animations of Celestia walking---at least, none proportionate to the animations of the mane six (see my signature for an example of what I'm talking about). So when someone on deviantart requested an animation of Celestia, I took it upon myself to create such a base. It's a work in progress; I can tell that I need to fix the animation of her left front leg (the animation kind of jumps). I could use some pointers on what else I should do with it; for instance, should I have a frame or two where her flank is a pixel lower, to make it look more like she's walking? I used the frames of Celestia pacing back and forth, worrying whether Twilight would run into a manticore, from the Celestial Advice episode to make this. It's not an exact match, but I figured it didn't quite need to be. Please let me know what you think. (older EDIT): based on feedback I've received (thank you very much ShadOBabe!), I've created a wireframe base of Celestia walking, made to be to-scale with the existing pony pixelart animations. Feel free to use it!
  17. HereComesTom

    I've been working for a few years now on a fangame, Weather Factory Meltdown---still at it, though I'm taking a break to work on an art request.

    But having worked on it for several years at this point (since 2012!), I've thought of a lot of things that Hasbro wouldn't let me do if the game were an official piece.  Like, a LOT of things.  Like when I'm sitting in my cubicle at work, Skippy's List-like things pop into my head, and I write them down.

    I've accumulated a LOT of rules over the years, and I think I should start sharing them.  Here's one of the first:

    1)  When naming OCs for the Canterlot Royal Guard, the following names are off-limits:  Cannon Fodder, Red Shirt, Brown Pants.

  18. HereComesTom
    Thanks, but...well, as a rock, I'm kind of lacking in the snoot-department
  19. HereComesTom
    The day after the game was released, someone posted a version of the music that loud and clear and free of sound effects---not sure whether you've already heard it, but here's a link just in case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6z3OXyFE-I
  20. HereComesTom
    Nice! I can't wait to hear your version of the final boss theme; it's kind of been leaked and kind of not, since you can't hear it without also hearing in-game sound effects.
  21. HereComesTom

    I've been posting here and there that I've had anxiety attacks since seeing the MLP Movie.  I'd been thinking for a long time that the anxiety had nothing to do with the MLP Movie, and were more a result of my Seasonal Affective Disorder.  I'm still pretty sure my SAD had a lot to do with it, but in the last day or two, I've realized something:

    I love Equestria, and the way the movie drilled home how its existence is so fragile...scared the crap out of me.  I know the TV has shown Equestria in deep trouble before, but not like how the movie did!

    Still, I want to enjoy the movie, and my anxiety's gotten better over the last few weeks.  I hope I get to enjoy it with friends in the next week or so.

    1. PlzDelete

      PlzDelete

      I used to have attacks like that in my childhood. I really hope you feel 100% soon! 

    2. SolarFlare13

      SolarFlare13

      I feel for you man :( 

    3. HereComesTom

      HereComesTom

      One of the things I've been trying to do to deal with it is to laugh at it...e.g. describing Tempest Shadow as the "unholy offspring of Darth Vader...and Pikachu."

      Another thing I've been trying to do is analyze it a bit, but...if I start describing how I'm doing that, I could make some spoilers happen...

  22. HereComesTom
    ...Does that mean "toss me a link" or does it mean "don't worry about the author's notes"?
  23. HereComesTom
    Hooves of Warmth, Hearts of Steel sounded amazing...of course, that's because it's MLP and Beast Wars that I'm so familiar with. I can picture the moment where some filly cowers before a big-hearted character like Cheetor or Tigatron, thinking they're about to be eaten, only to discover that they're among friends...! I wonder what the consequences would be of bringing human militaries (which autobots are often allied with) into something like this---and would Equestria ever be the same after a massive robot war?
  24. HereComesTom
    The funny thing is...when I first began on the fic, it was intended to become something else, a video game---which is more or less the fangame I have screenshotted in my signature. I was told that fanfics that're meant to become something else never end well, but I like to think the fic stands on its own as a fic. For that matter, my vision for my fangame evolved so much over the process of writing the fic that the game will hardly look a thing like the fic once it's done, so it's like the fic is a cocoon...and the author's notes explain what I was thinking and show off the evolution of the ideas. So...I know it's unusual, but I wouldn't want to part with the author's notes.
  25. HereComesTom
    This is a kind of a weird question, and I'm not 100% sure this is the right place to ask it (sorry if it isn't). First, the context: I've been asked to do a pixelart animation of Celestia walking, and I know I'll need animations of her for my fangame in the long run. But I couldn't find any bases of her, let alone bases that were to scale with the pixelart I'm using for the ponies in my fangame (see my signature for an example). So I'm going to need to make a base, myself (it'll be available for everyone to use once I'm done). With that context in mind, I need to find an episode of the show that has an animation of Celestia walking that shows her in profile, but I'm having difficulty finding an episode of the show that gives me what I'm looking for. Can anyone point me to an episode with Celestia walking that shows her from the side? I don't even need to see her to taking more than two steps to get the full animation, but finding an episode that gives me this isn't easy.
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