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.

I'm personally not a super Sombra fan but it's hard to be a fan of a character without much characterization. (I haven't read the IDW comics though, so I don't know how they handled him.) Bonus answer: I love deer. I would look for an excuse to use a deer in an animation if the opportunity arose. I'll put on the music I need for the specific project I'm writing. I have a few different playlists that I'll use for various projects...the novel I'm working on has one, StarSign has one, and I have some playlists for general parodies or other content just to get me jazzed up. More importantly, i'll clear myself of any distractions. I won't write in my room...I'll write in the living room where there's less to occupy my time but work.

Have you seen the thing where the intelligent robot said that he would take care of all the humans in human zoos? I laughed when I saw that because I work at a zoo. It's not a bad gig being in a zoo. They eat better food than I get at the store.

I personally believe that technological advancement has its place but is being corrupted by selfish and material gain, therefore is moving too quickly and in the wrong direction to have safeguards up to protect our biological needs.. (in short we gotta be more careful bout this stuff yo.) Any time I see a really cool plush of Snowdrop or original art piece (like Paper Pony's shadowbox of our stuff) I squeal a bit.

YAY!! (That's a lot of money. o.o) Keep donating everyone! For the children~!

Apple pie a la mode is the beeeest.

I read this comment out loud in the skype call we're having and all the animators and storyboarders started to cry.

So while I have a break in answering questions, and since we're at the halfway mark, I just wanted to link some important stuff we wanted to share with you tonight. I’ve linked it already but the teaser to our next project, StarSign, is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAvhKmNIzKw We are having a special livestream concerning StarSign on November 28th, so next Saturday, at 8 PM EST/5 PM PST. We’ll be showing some animation tests, a portion of the animatic, and answering questions that day – so come prepared! The link to the livestream will be here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGdpHy2-0U And I know this was answered, but if you are not the winner of the Snowdrop plush tonight, you can still pre-order her right here! http://lunarshine.myshopify.com/collections/plush-toys/products/snowdrop-plush-toy-by-silly-filly-studios

Of course there is! Go to this link to preorder her here The good? Getting to make animations, primarily. Also making contacts. Going to conventions and see each other and meet our subscribers. Getting feedback on our work, both good and bad. The bad? Taxes are weird when you're freelance (that goes for Youtube ads or other freelance stuff.) For someone like me who cannot math to save her life, it makes things difficult when it's not on a simple W2. Hate mail that doesn't hold constructive criticism is never fun...but if it's constructive, then we can take it seriously and learn about our craft from a third party's eye.

Why not make it? It was fun! We had all three Charlie the Unicorn scripts and voice work completely finished too so there would have been more...the animator working on it had to focus on school so we never got to animate them, but they were there...probably still floating around in our team dropbox somewhere.

I love what I get to do for the team! As long as we're together having fun and doing what we love, I don't think we'll be quitting anytime soon. (Hopefully Star will be a hit. ) We have a bit of a routine. We have weekly meetings every Sunday to catch up on everyone's work and assign new tasks to people who have completed jobs. Other than that, we're self-disciplined and work on tasks on our own or in small groups, depending on the assignment.

Cherry coke~ My favorite project so far? If unfinished projects count, StarSign is my personal favorite. I have answered this some already so I'm gonna make a reeeeally short version (since I'm falling way behind on answering! haha) Studied abroad in Australia. Missed snow from home. Watched Sonic Rainboom with bf's little bro that day. Remembered the snowflake factory. Wrote story on snow. Wrote four more drafts of it to finished version. I've seen writers disagree on what makes the best story or project. Some say plot and some say character. I have to say that I'm on the side of character. As much as I love Snowy there are so many things that I've learned over the years that make me tear my hair out when I watch clips of it. So many things I want to change about her and make better. It's a common issue writers have with finished projects, wanting to change things..but she's flawed in certain ways I wish she wasn't, and not flawed in ways she should be. Good characters create a project. A good plot is nothing without interesting characters driving things home; in contrast, good characters could make three hours of skipping rocks into an epic adventure. If it comes to spending more time on plot or character for a project, character will make it more successful and enjoyable in the long run. So with writing, if you want to write fanfiction just because you've made stories about it, great! That's where I got my start - though it was reeeeeally bad fanfiction, lemme tell you. I'm glad Quizilla kicked the bucket so nobody can find my old fanfics. But don't fall into a trap where you write fanfiction just because fanfictions get noticed more in fandoms. Write what you want. Just let it all spill out onto a word document. Be wary it's gonna be crap the first time around, and the second, and the seventh time around too. As you write, you'll improve...so just write what you want and your style and stories will grow in time. PC just cause I'm used to it. Elephants, otters, seals, kitties. Pegasus so I could fly. Cloudsdale cause rainbows. If I wasn't in SFS, I would be lost. I wouldn't know what I would be doing with my life...I wouldn't be voice acting, I wouldn't really be writing anything worthwhile. I would probably be trying to get an editing job (and failing miserably because editing jobs are really difficult to come by.) I wouldn't have my friend group with me. I wouldn't be working so hard trying to achieve my dream to be a professional creative. Sorta goes to show how if you have good friends by your side anything is possible..Keep your true friends close. They'll be what gets you through anything and everything.