Meresims

Thanks to you and everyone! We had a lovely time. Thank you as well for donating so much to charity tonight! 1 was the best of the four but we'll see how five turns out.

Probably more in the 7-12 minute range. The livestream on the 28th will have more info on the project so make sure to check in for that! Here's the link again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGdpHy2-0U

That one thing about Travis's (soundrez's) pie. Practice. Practice practice practice. Push through your self-doubt. Make contacts. Find friends who work on similar stuff. Practice. P.r.a.c.t.i.c.e. There is no born expert, just remember that. another what? what's another? What is another, really?

They're alright. Cloudy was okay. They focus a bit too much on slapstick and quickly passing trends for my taste but that's my personal opinion. I LOVE CELTIC MUSIC DO NOT GET ME STARTED. (If you like Celtic stuff look up Cartoon Saloon, because their projects are some of my biggest inspirations right now.)

I'm learning how to draw, though it's slow going. I voice act for a lot of different things besides MLP. I write different things too - I'm editing the first draft of a novel and working on more concepts for my spec script bible.

Any Rarity episode is good, like Canterlot Boutique and Sweet and Elite, and the May The Best Pet Win episode as well.

The day we finish StarSign...that will be beautiful. Being with my friends and my boyfriend are good choices too.

I probably would have liked it if the first one wasn't so darn hard. (second one was okay but I didn't get everything that was going on.)

Naaah...a lot of what he did in the season 2 opening seemed fun, if inconvenient.

Ah, I missed this one, sorry! I don't watch Snowdrop anymore. I can't. There's too much in it that I want to fix and I get frustrated. (Plus like most actors I can't listen to the sound of my own voice for too long.) But I will watch the parodies again, those are funny. Usually what I don't have very much involvement in, I can watch more often. I don't really feel guilty about the movies I watch. I love Stardust, Hundred Foot Journey, Tomorrowland, classic Disney movies...and then Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, and all kinds of anime. When I was younger I used to have anime be my guilty pleasure, I hid in the basement to watch Cyborg 009 on Toonami and didn't tell my family about it. But now I really don't care what they think cause I enjoy it. It's led to a lot less strife in my life, that's for sure.

So my access to non-mainstream cartoons was a bit limited as a kid but I'll try to answer this best I can... I really enjoy Don Bluth's stuff, but I never got to watch NIMH and I'm embarrassed to say I still haven't. I watched Thumbelina, Anastasia, Rock a Doodle, and I loved all of those. They didn't stick to me as much as the Disney stuff...I'd say I watched them about as much as I watched Milo and Otis (which I watched a fair bit but not over and over...) with Anastasia a bit more often because of the music. I *barely* remember Fritz the Cat, but I do remember it. I had it recorded on a VCR and watched it occasionally. I'm glad you mentioned that one because I had completely forgotten it until now. And I'm not sure what American Pop, Heavy Metal, or Wizards are...I'll look them up though! (Also I forgot to say I also watched The Three Caballeros as a kid and that movie was my JAM.)

Kirby/Pokemon.

I love just sitting back and reading a good book or watching a good movie. That or closing my eyes and listening to new music. (Super into classical Indian orchestral right now. Rocking that sitar.) Baths. um...do they make girl boxers cause that'd be awesome. o.o I have minor counting OCD, so sometimes I count my steps in fours and eights. Pixie Stix and Fundip, Macaroni and Cheese, Peaches and Bananas, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. ...Not all at the same time. I think collectively the hardest was Snowdrop, though I think Zed would say Fall of the Crystal Empire... I know a few people in the group like Courtney (ProjectSNT) enjoy The Nostalgia Critic. GO AWAY OLAF

Oh goodness, that's an interesting question...from my childhood, I'd have to say certain Disney movies. Disney is still a big inspiration for me - one of my dreams is to be a Disney writer, to the point I've drafted up entire rides and movie concepts fitted solely to their style. However, a lot of the Disney movies I remember watching over and over again weren't the typical fan-favorites. I watched Fantasia, Dumbo, Lady and the Tramp, Robin Hood, Winnie the Pooh, and Fox and the Hound a lot...but Lion King and Beauty and the Beast are up there too. I feel like the cartoons I grew up on when I was really little are split half and half in certain respects of childhood learning necessity - there are cartoons like Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab, where I learned to appreciate comedy, and there are the Hey Arnolds, where I learned to appreciate life. I think Hey Arnold was the biggest cartoon for me because it never tried to talk down to me the way some of the slapstick comedies did. I think that's also why I appreciate the modern cartoon renaissance we're getting with Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, and to a certain extent We Bare Bears and Star vs. the Forces of Evil (more slapstick than the former two but still not purposefully juvenile.) We're still seeing some grossout cartoons like Pickle and Peanut, which have their place even if they aren't my cup of tea, but I feel like the trend is evolving to where cartoons are both speaking to everyone rather than one age group more effectively, and speaking to the kids on a level that meets their true intelligence, rather than what adults think their emotional intelligence is. I liked Inside Out a lot because of that too. (Sorry for going on a lot there...I just find the social study of cartoons fascinating.) Because if the universe imploded, we wouldn't be there to enjoy it.