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Welcome Rachael Messer to the Equestrian Tales voice crew, Officially Announcing Rachael Messer for the role of Ink Heart in the in production Equestrian Tales pilot / series. Rachael is best known on in gaming and the Anime Dub scene for her roles such as Shizuka Sakaki from the anime Shirobako and many other credits in the anime industry. Rachael brings a very unique voice and personality to the character of Ink Heart our lead female role that we feel will translate well into the show and its story. We are hoping this newest casting will show the quality going into the production on all sides. Welcome to the team, and looking forward to the future! https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Rachael-Messer/ https://www.rachaelmesser.com/ Stay Tuned for more updates, another one might be coming today or tomorrow! Things are rolling now! (The scene below is what pushed me to contact her for the role)

Hi there, thank you so much for the support, ya we decided to not accept the Hasbro pitch after learning a lot more about their company and its business deals in relation to MLP, so rather then giving them something that meant so much to us we decided to rebuild the show as an original work, but also holding true to the spirit of the show we all loved. Equestrian Tales has become something of the Orville to Friendship is Magic, as Orville was to Star Trek. We have brought in crew from gen 4 and 5, we are bringing in a lot more soon, but we are no longer an MLP production, but a pony one. We wanted to build something special for you all, and more so for the kids that reflects what our team can really do. With this we have sought the services of an anime studio in Japan to anime the pilots, and future show once we get there, and most importantly there is now a release date for the production pilot, but I do not want to say that publicly just yet as it could very well be moved up if things go smoothly this year with the animation. Most of the rest of the pilot is ready to go right now, it just needs to be animated, and we are getting into voice over before Christmas. I'm sorry its taken so long, but making an animated series is no small task, we had a lot to learn, and still have a whole lot more too. We wanted the quality of storytelling, music and animation to work off each other (hits our studio name Harmonize Entertainment), so to produce to that quality its taken a little more time then we originally hoped as this was an MLP production at that time, and would have very likely aired already under Hasbro, but would have not been our real show. To do what we set out to do we had to go it alone, that brought some really cool things, but also a lot of issues not having a world brand behind us, but the challenge has been accepted. Dont worry you will not have to wait years for updates, we are already working on several things to bring Eqt back into the spotlight, and show what this will all really look and sound like. Gab and Claire are recording lines for something right now, and we have a few other things in the pileline that I hope we can get out by Christmas. Thank you for your support, its ponies like you that keep us fighting all these years. Hi there! Thank you so much we tried lol, this is the link to you current youtube channel, please bare in mind things are being built now that will reflect the real show, so take whats there now as concept, we do have a fully recorded song up, and some other things, but we are waiting for some concepts back from the japan studio to see how things will look, and we will be updating everything with the new style and look asap. https://www.youtube.com/@harmonizeentertainment Thank you for the support and I hope you enjoy!

Ok so I'm done, I started making the first OC characters the other day and simply put I cannot draw like I use to and I was ashamed of what I drew so I took them into an AI program to make something you deserved. I am going to finish everyones character myself, without using AI at all, the quality will not be there but at least it will be me. I'm sorry to anyone this might have affected, I just wanted to draw again, but I picked the wrong path and got help, in the end I just let the AI do the work as I could no long do it. Nothing was stolen, it took a good deal of work to get the characters to look right, and I did have to go in and hand draw a bunch of parts, but I just wanted to make something to make you happy. I have been drawing, and writing for most of my life, and it hurt that I could no long do what I loved so I took a short cut. If you want to cancel me, or demonize me then go for it. I made a bad decision personally, and I'm already looking into options to replace me as head director of Eqt. I helped build a lot of animations for conventions, and even poniverse when it was jsut getting its start. I helped start this network with Feld0 and the others, I helped start Everfree and several other things aswell back when I could be of use in that area. Many years of art and real work has destroyed my body to the point where I cannot even draw for more than an hour without having a lot of pain. If you still want the OC artwork I will draw them by hand from here on out, if not fill free to cancel the forum post. I cannot take back what I did, but I can try to make it right for those effected. but if you want nothing more to do with me I understand, I have had a good 14 year run. Thanks everyone and im sorry to let you all down

I very much understand, and you have not caused any stress at all i was kind of expecting people to not be a fan of anything with AI in it. The ones I made for the guests of honor were drawn and put into finishing in a night I was not really thinking about anything but doing something nice for someone. I will also be working at Disney but I will not be animating the work myself, I will be there as a production coordinator, but I wanted to get my art skills and hands back to where they needed to be so I could do this stuff if the need came up. It was not an oversight, more then it was I was not really caring about that side, it was just a picture. If they had asked me to do one I would have not used the AI stuff at all, no one asked me to do these, my VIP at con was having a bad time and I wanted to cheer her up that was all, but I also knew the others were going to be in the same room most of the time and I didn't want them to feel left out either so I made the others of their characters. They seemed to love them, and it did brighten Misty's day as it was intended. Lastly the school has been pushing the AI stuff onto almost every class, I have used just a little bit of it because I know the work that goes into animation and the heart cannot be replicated using AI. Every class since I started has been pushing us to us AI tools, programs, even word docs for assignments, I don't do that stuff as I do think that's wrong. I have only recently started using it as a tool, but a tool alone. No one on my crew will ever be replaced by AI, there is none of it in the show, and the primary animation will be done by an anime studio that makes their cartoons in traditional 2D. I find the AI stuff interesting, I like playing with new technology, but I don't see this much different then using a 3D software, or autotweening your animations in flash. Its just a tool. I do draw the line when it comes to taking peoples jobs, and my crew know I would never do that to them. We went for a traditional animation studio to show what humans can really do, and that passion cannot be AI generated, but I wanted to see if this stuff could help me draw like I use to again.

Im sorry to hear that, this was not to much an issue for a good long while, but this last year or so its gotten really bad since we got into main production as I'm writing screenplay's, drawing, and typing up all kinds of documents along side normal work, it really accelerated the issues. This is why im in school now for the production management side, simply put my body cannot do this for much longer, but I still want a career in animation even if I cannot draw to much anymore.

I did say that I am using AI help to finish the images, I have rather bad carple tunnel in both wrists and one of the teachers are school showed me how to do this using adobe's ai as the really deep detail was what was hurting me the most. I draw the base work, line art and all that, but the AI does the shading and finer details. If people don't like that I started using this to help then really I dont know what else to say. Its allowing me to make art like I use to. I was a 2D animator I could draw stuff like this in my sleep for 20 years, but a life of making art, and working full time takes a toll on the body, this has helped me be able to do what I love again. Before anyone brings it up, I have not charged anyone for these nor was I ever planning too, its not taking anyones job as I did the base work to begin with, and I'm just using it as a tool. If no one wants the art because I got some help with a program then I will stop doing them. The reason i started doing these requests was so I could condition my drawing hand enough so I do not need the AI help at all before I go to work at Disney in February. I will not be making artwork there, I'm going in on the production management side, but this is still something I love. If its to much for the fandom then I will just keep drawing for kids, thats always been my priority and what got me into animation in the first place. I do not use this stuff in production, I only found out how to do this with the AI help this last month so I was experimenting with it, and it has indeed helped with the pain a great deal. Lastly let me post a few images, to prove that I did draw these, i had to prove it already to the admins. I have been on this site since its beginning, I helped start Poniverse back in the day building promo animations and been posting art on this site for many years, I started trying out some new stuff is all, I will go back to what I was doing. Anyways here is some images showing the progress of one of the OC characters. This was one of the drawings posted earlier, Power Cord.

Finished, if you don't like her please let me know and i will make another, sorry she took so long the hair was giving me some issues lol

Hi there everypony! Im sorry for the delay some life and production stuff got in the way of meeting some goals here. I will be back on artwork tonight and get some of these out. I'm sorry for the delay I'm running a pony show and going to school i was not expecting this kind of turn out, but reset assured I will get everyones OC done. I appologize for the delay and I will be back on things when I get home from classes shortly. Thank you everypony!

Hi there! Wonderful to meet you, ya I will be starting officially in February so I'm trying to retrain my eye and condition my wrists so I can do whatever job they will have for me. I'm not really getting into the animation part itself, they more wanted to make sure I knew what I was looking at I think more then anything else. I will be on the production management side, or production coordinator over seeing what ever animation projects they might have use for me in. I have experience running this kind of stuff directing and producing Equestrian Tales, and other animations BUT I know the Disney way is a lot more real. I'm in school now at Full Sail University for Entertainment Business, I went to school in the past at The Art Institute of Seattle for Animation so I'm basically trying to combine that into a career. My end game is to become an Animation Producer, bringing cartoons to life that will help kids and people in general. I run a small animation studio now, the main goal will be to bring in people from all over, help them learn animation, and give them their first real push in the industry, a Launchpad Studio if you will, but I want to get into the industry so I can make sure I'm doing things right, and becoming the leader they need me to be. I've also been staffing conventions since helping put together the first everfree nw in 2011 to build some connections, many who have or are joining our Equestrian Tales production team. If you want to learn more about that one its on this same forum. https://mlpforums.com/topic/169440-equestrian-tales-currently-in-production/ But ya there is a long road, but I moved across the US to do this, and I have no choice now but to move forward. Thank you so my and I hope you have a wonderful day, I will get on Applejack shortly! Thank you so much, and I will for sure add your OC to the list, i love the winged ones! I will take as best care of your OC as I can as I know how special they are to you and everypony. Thank you again for giving me some practice, and hope to have her out soon. I will DM you the final, as well as post it on here if thats ok? Have a great rest of your day, and pony on!

Hello everypony, I just wanted to let you all know that i am working on a number of your oc characters, to be honest a lot more ponies responded then I was imagining so it was a little overwhelming but I think I got everything organized and I can start popping these out if my hand will allow me to. Carpel Tunnel is not fun so I'm having to use some computer help for some of the shading and clean up. I was a 2D animator for a while, I went to school for this originally but years of drawing for kids, working real jobs, and writing have taken their toll on my body in many different ways to the point where I needed to find a little help until i got control over the pain element. I don't use this stuff for the main artwork, and just started playing with this a month ago when the teacher recommended it, but its basically saving me from completely destroying what's left of my wrists. If you are not a fan of this i understand, but its the best way I've found so far to dial the pain down some. Part of why I wanted to do these was to condition my wrists better so I wont need to use any help at all. I never needed to, but a teacher showed me how to get some help in photoshop to clean up, do some of the heavier shading and a few other light things and its honestly helped a lot with the pain, the finer details are what hurts the most to do. Through doing these I'm hoping I can come out the other side not needing to use any help at all, as I never needed to in the past. Thank you for all of the support and I will finish up as many of these as I can as fast as i can. But I see no reason not to finish everyone's OC, I am going in order, I'm trying to do a few a day, but with this many replies it might be a few days, but I will get to you. All the love to you all, and thank you again for letting me draw your wonderful characters, even after 14 years in the fandom it still amazes me how creative and wonderful you all are. Stay the course and Friendship is Forever.

Hi there I will have both your requests finished in about 20 mins.

Hi there everyone, thank you so much for all the responses, im working to get a few out tonight, but rest assured I will get to every pony. I have added everyone into a list and just going to go at it one at a time in order of first come first serve. Everyone at present should be ready in 24 to 48 hours. If I get more I might have to come up with a new plan I was honestly not expecting so much awesome response to the thread. I thank you all for the practice. In the end if your character is just not looking right, please let me know and I will fix the artwork! Thank you for letting me draw your wonderful ponies and thank you all again for the help!

hey there so good to see you! Ya I needed to step back from the internet for a while to focus on our show stuff. But now that its running properly I can do more drawing stuffs lol I would LOVE to draw Silky, I'll see if I can finish her by tomorrow morning. Could you please give me a little bit about the characters personality and that? I just want to make sure I'm drawing the character correctly. Thank you and it is wonderful to be back! I want to contact MLPforums soon about Equestrian Tales we now have an official release date so we are planning marketing! ill post up a rough on here of your OC and DM you a more finished copy when she is done Thanks for the help! hey there! honestly if they are more personal you can always DM a few to me, and I will keep them off the discussion board. As it stands now I should be able to have something drawn for you within 48 hours, when you do submit a pony or two, could you please tell me a little about them? Personality and that really helps to make sure these characters are coming out right. Thank you so much, and I hope you have a great day!

Hi there, if you could give me some information about your character, personally, if you have any images I will get on the character next. Thank you for the help! Hi there thank you ill add the character, I should have a draft of him ready later tonight after class. Thank you for adding abit about the characters personality, it really helps with the drawings to make them feel right. Thank you so much for the help, and for the practice! Hi there, thank you so much, I have honestly been studying a lot of anime lately as our studio will be working with an Anime Studio to produce our pony show Equestrian Tales. I will for sure give Luna a try, she is still best princess in my mind. Thank you for the challenge! With the uniform she might take just a bit longer, but I still want to try to get a draft out tonight! For everyone here, I will post the finished work here (or the draft if things are not super together), I will also DM you a copy that is a little more cleaned up for your personal use. Thank you every pony for the challenges this is exactly what I was looking for! If anyone else is interested please hit me up, and I will get a list going starting to tonight after class.

Hi there, first off thank you so much, your too kind, I'm still just a rookie, but trying to get better (and faster lol). I would be more then happy to draw your OC, and I do not have any issue with AI as a reference, I don't use it as im not tech savy enough, and my animation team would break all four of my legs but I personally dont have any issue with using any AI stuff (or anything else) as a reference. If you dont want to post it here, please DM me, but can you give me a little about her personality, her likes, maybe what her cutie mark represents? it all helps making the character look right. I will have her done most likely tonight after class here. I do not have a commission sheet or that as I dont normally charge but I will not turn down a tip but its not needed lol Thank you I will post the drawing here, and DM it to you as well. Cast Producer / Production Director- Equestrian Tales

Hello everypony, I'm looking to get some drawing practice in before starting animation, and a job. I would LOVE to draw your OC pony if you would allow me the honor too. These are technically commissions I guess, but I am not charging. I just want to get in as much practice as I can before thinks kick off. I got on at Walt Disney Animation and need all the practice I can get! I have attached a few things i drew for a few of the VIP guests at Ciderfest, for most commissions expect a 24 - 48 hour turn around, I am in college so things might get rough a few times, but I will make sure you are informed about any delays due to that. I will not draw NSFW of your character do not ask, I will ignore the post. I will not risk the safety of my target audience (kids) and its part of my artist code. If this bothers you then just don't post, I will not respond to them and will remove the post if I see it. I also have the right to refuse if the request if I feel it might jeopardize my integrity or professionalism. Other then that I will try to draw any pony you'd like, and move on to other races soon. Thank you and I hope you understand. I spend a lot of time with kids and making art for them, I have nothing against it, I just wont draw it. Thank you everypony, and hope to get some fun art made! Tips are welcome, but not needed and will not influence the order of commissions, these are first come first serve, I will get to everyone as soon as possible, expect a 24 - 48 hour turn around (though I will get as many done as fast as i can, but I am in school and work presently so it might interfere sometimes. If you would like to leave a tip, please send to the following link, and very much thank you, its helping a great deal. Please note these are NOT paid commissions, and I have no plans at this time to charge for anything, I'm just looking for some practice and hope you all enjoy them in the end. Thank you so much! General luna (Princess Celestia Pencil Drawing from class today) OC Pony Power Cord OC Pony Starlight Serenade

hi there I'm pming you both now, and thank you for your interest in joining the production. Hi there I'm DMing you here shortly, also I'm very much still working on that artwork I owe you

Hi there everypony! This is Cast, the Executive Producer of Equestrian Tales. Do you love world building? Do you love writing characters? Are you a role-player? Are you a storyteller? We want to talk to you! (yes YOU!) I see you there o-O) Our crew is looking to build up our writing team as we push past the pilot episode and into the main series that is being built. We have a core world built, and the frame work of the series, but there is always room for improvement, and we want to bring in a few writers that might help us to develop the story, its world, and lore further. As we are an original production the world is ours to mold as we need to, and I would love to find a few ponies to help us bring this story to life for the world to see. If you have any interest or have any questions please DM me here, hit me up on Discord at cast2022 I will respond (even if it looks like I'm always offline, that is intentional lol) And do not ask about legal, Hasbro can do nothing to stop this at present, we already removed anything that could get us into legal issues with Hasbro, and lawyers have looked over the content, we are fine on that end. We are ready for any fight they might bring to us. If you want to learn more about the production please visit this forum thread - Equestrian Tales MLP forums thread What is Equestrian Tales? A full animated series based on the love our team has for the world of My Little Pony, we are hoping we can bring the magic of friendship and creativity back to the hearts and minds of people all over the world through the stories we tell. Originally being pitched to Hasbro as a new MLP series, our team made the decision to back away, and rebuild what we worked so hard to create into an original work, so that we might keep the spirit and the fire of friendship that came from Friendship is Magic burning strong. It took a while longer then we anticipated to rebuild the world, and its core, but we are now revving back into main production, and working to bring in talent from both Generation 4 and 5 to build something new that carries the spirit of the show we all loved. Think of us as the Orville of MLP, with a dash of lord of the rings and classic Disney thrown in. Holding to the same values, and ideals that made FiM special. Just some of the current voice cast and crew- Tall Tale- Caleb Hyles (youtube / musician) Ink Heart- Rachael Messer (Best known for anime, voicing such characters as Shizuka Sakaki in Shirobako. Spring Leap- Brittney Ackerman Sire Dusk- Gabriel Brown Lady Dawn- Claire Corlett Music- Bluebrony / Scarlet Flare Visual Effects / cinematography- Mintyroot Story- Myself, and Applegeek just to name a few, and more coming on shortly from the production team of FiM including a director, settings designers from both gen 4 and 5 movies, voice talent and more. We now have the means to build this show properly and would love to bring on a few from the fandom to make sure we are delivering on our promise, to keep the spirit and magic of friendship alive. Thank you so much for your time everypony, and lets keep the magic of friendship burning for generations to come.

Hi every pony I just wanted to post something fun for the 14th anniversary of the airing of Friendship is Magic. I know i missed a few characters, I will post up a revised version with a few more character. Its up to us now to keep the magic alive, and going strong for generations to come. Happy Anniversary every pony, and thank you to all the production staff, animators, and directors that helped bring the message and magic of friendship to all of us. Thank you!

Hello every pony, I'm moving to central Florida in a few weeks to go back to college, and was wanting to see if there are any other ponies in the UCF (University of Central Florida) area, or going to school at Full Sail University? I'm moving across the country, having to leave pretty much everything and everyone behind, I know no one out that way, and would be awesome to meet some other ponies. I'm in classes online for Entertainment Business (animation side), and there for the long haul getting my Masters Degree in the end, so I will be there for several years. Anyways I just wanted to see if there was any one in the area, or even in the same school, would be wonderful to meet some ponies, and hopefully make some new friends. Thank you so much, and hope you all have a wonderful day.

Hi there I would love to give her a try, trying to get my drawing skills back on track! She reminds me a lot of one of our lead characters, and would love to practice with her if your ok with that?

We decided as a team to break from Hasbro, we did get through successfully to pitch the show as planned to them, but we saw where things were heading with them and the industry, and decided to rebuild the show as an original work as we felt they would ruin the show we built as they are Gen 5 and the rest of their company. Equestrian Tales brand has been submitted and approved through our company, and we spent around 4 months rebuilding the show into an original work. The characters are still horses and very much inspired by FiM, we are even getting a good deal of the FiM production crew on after the pilot. We want to build something that pays respect to the work they did, also animation of the past but also making something new and fresh. We have also decided to build this new version of the show as a 2D animated work, and are talking to a few anime studios to bring the pilots to life. I will not give a release date at this time, but it might be out sooner than most might think as a lot of stuff is in line right now. We want to make something that captures the spirit of FiM and its fanbase while also using it to train the next generation of artists while helping as many kids around the world as we can through the work. This is only the beginning.

Happy New Year everyone! I can finally offically announce professional anime voice actress Rachael Messer has joined the voice team to take on the lead female character Ink Heart for the pilot of Equestrian Tales and beyond. Her IMDB is linked below, we have more professional talent coming aboard and will be announced as soon as we confirm details, thank you everypony! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6005985/