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Very same production in fact, that will be shown at Ciderfest (if the con happens that is). Both projects are linked, and hoping to see the reaction before finishing the over all design of Eqt, its kind of a test bed for a few things.Before we go all in. If people dont like it, we will have time to change it before going all into a paid production.
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Good afternoon everypony, Just wanted to give an update, no we are not dead, far from it. Have been focusing on production and building our crew, and not as much time on updates. We are currently in the process of funding the rest of the production, and its going well. We are looking at launching a few things to help with this in the near future, as well as looking for a few investors into the studio itself, we have every confidence right now that we will be able to complete the pilots of Eqt, as well as getting some non-mlp content created down the road. If we are able to get the funding on schedule, we can have parts 1 and 2 of the series pilots created and released within a year. Most of the work right now comes down to animation, the story is down, the characters designed, voice talents picked, storyboarding underway. Its been a long road, but we have done what we could with no budget over the years. Please look to Ponyville Ciderfest this year for a production by Mintyroot that directly links to Equestrian Tales, and please tell us your thoughts after seeing it (we will post a link here aswell). This will be very similar in design to Eqt, and using some of the cast of the show aswell, so thoughts on them would greatly help us make sure we are delivering the quality your all expecting. Keep in mind everything you have seen so far has been made with no budget at all. When we have a budget and can bring on more artists, animators and creatives, you will see what this team is really made of. If you might be interested in joining our crew, please follow this link, as its not just for this production. Thank you all, stay safe, and pony on.
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Attention Everypony, Harmonize Entertainment is looking to build our production staff, for productions such as Equestrian Tales, and other future productions in the pipeline. Our positions are starting out as volunteer, however will be moving into paid work as the studio is working on funding at this time. We have a good core team, but are looking to expand into a few areas, to help in the completion of the series pilot of Equestrian Tales, and future productions. Our goal at Harmonize is to build a studio to help aspiring artists, and other creatives get their chance to break into the industry. Joining our crew means, you will be treated with care and respect, you will have the opportunity to learn from experienced people in the industry, and more will be joining us as we grow. We are out to create content that will bring back quality to cartoons, and help as many kids as we can along the way. If you might have interest in joining our growing studio please look at the list of openings below, Looking forward to meeting those interested in making their dreams a reality. Kenneth Casteel, Executive Producer / Founder, Harmonize Entertainment, LLC Our crew is looking for talented persons to join our crew if a few areas- - Screenwriter, needs basic knowledge of screen writing software, able to take instruction as the series is being developed. English writing is a must, this is currently for a single episode, details cannot be provided on this public forum, but would be discussed during interview. There will be more work in the future as we push into production of season 1 of the series proper. If interested please PM me, or email at kenneth.casteel@harmonizeentertainment.com. Please include examples of your writing work (doesn't need to be in screenplay format), Discord ID (if able), and email address for more direct contact. - Editor / Proof reader We are looking for 1 or 2 editors who job it would be to proofread screenplays, help maintain continuity within the episodes being edited. If interested please PM me, or email at kenneth.casteel@harmonizeentertainment.com. Please include (if any) editing experience, and any writings you might like to show. Discord ID (if able), and email address for more direct contact. - Story development / Content Quality Assurance We are looking for a few passionate story creators, world builders, and those with attention to detail to join our production crew, you'd be working with a few current members of staff to develop the seasons, and providing feed back on content, namely the screenplays so we can make sure they are of the quality that the viewers deserve. If interested please PM me, or email at kenneth.casteel@harmonizeentertainment.com. This position requires no prior experience, but is as important as any other in the studio. Discord ID (if able), and email address for more direct contact. -Social Media Team We are looking for a few ponies with an understanding and prior experience using and maintaining social media platforms such as Facebook, and Twitter. We are entering a time where we are going to be able to start promoting soon, and are looking for some help in this area. You will be responsible for content posting, interactions / responding to feedback from these media forums. Social media will not be limited to just Facebook and Twitter, so any additional experience is a plus. If interested please PM me, or email at kenneth.casteel@harmonizeentertainment.com. This position requires no prior work experience needed, experience with social media a must. Discord ID (if able), and email address for more direct contact. We will be adding more as the studio grows and we see more of the needs of the productions. We will be casting voice talents in the future, if interested you may contact, but please know it might take a while for us to get there. We have no main cast roles open at this time as we are in production of part 1 of the series pilot episode. However we will have need for background / side characters in the future, if your interested please contact me at the same email or PM me here, a voice demo would greatly help, also a voice interview will be required before officially casting. Our production is union certified, meaning when we gain the funding we are working on, there will be an avenue into voice acting for you, and we will help anyone joining on in a similar way to a talent agent. Link to our current forum thread, I'm making a new one as this is more for our studio as a whole then a single production. Thank you everypony -
Retimed and upped the Tempo, how this is more fun ^-^, thanks for the suggestion, think we will kept this upped version until final recording.
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Hi there, thank you. The song has been retweeked, we are in fact waiting for the final VA for Ink heart, to be announced at a later date. Wubcake is the current VA, standing in for her, she will for sure still be on crew after the productions roles. The song will be finalized at the point we get the final recordings, we really wanted to post this to get feedback before we did finalize it so thank you so much.
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Huge update today, we are now a week out from our panel at Ponyville Ciderfest 2019, the entire team had a great time, and was great to meet those that attended the panel. Baring some technical issues, think the panel went off well. With this I'd like to post, exclusively to Poniverse something we have been planning for a great long while. This is First Steps, the very first of what will be many musical numbers through the course of the series in development, the song is about the journey between Ink Heart and Tall Tales relationship. Starting as a solo song, Ink Heart joins in to have some fun with him, before long they start to play off each other realizing they do have something in common. Finally towards the end their songs join together in a duet, as their story becomes one, and their first steps on the road to friendship begins. Singing talents- Caleb Hyles (Tall Tale), Wubcake (Ink Heart) Enjoy, and please let us know what you think, this is one of the items going into the pilot and we want it to literally sing (to early for puns). More scenes coming shortly, these are all works in progress so please keep that in mind, the pilot as it stands is roughly 50% completed storyboard side. Thank you all, from the Equestrian Tales production crew!
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Attention Everypony, the time has come is nearly upon us, to anyone attending Ponyville Ciderfest this year, we would like to invite you to a special panel, being held on Saturday, November 2nd from 3:30 to 5:30 pm, From Script to Screen- Inside pony animation. FiM maybe over, but their legacy will live on in the hearts and creative minds of its fans, let us show you there is still something to look forward, or behind to (wink). Harmonize Entertainment will be hosting the panel, most noticeably Minty Root, we will be sharing with you over the 2 hours how pony is brought to life, with a sneak peek into a few up coming productions, and a few surprises in relation to the development of Equestrian Tales. Please join us, or you might miss something........ as well as some extra fun that will only be available for those attending the panel Equestrian Tales has not fallen, we have been working hard this last year to bring together something special, we just couldnt talk about it was all. We will be presenting something at the panel you wont want to miss. See you there!
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Hi there, frankly stopped posting updates as we have been working on alot of stuff, and things are in the pipeline right now for a formal pitch, we didnt want to end up posting something that might end up getting us in trouble. Just been playing it safe till we are past that stage. We are working to bring investors into our animation studio, bringing on more traditional classic animators, talking to some producers, working on alot of business side stuff. The moment I can say whats happening, or timelines you guys will be the first to know, I will say if things go as planned we could have some great stuff out within a year, but I cant give exact dates as things are in the pipeline. I will make updates when things I feel we can talk about are happening I will for sure post. Might have some stuff coming up, and might need some outside help with stuff like quality assurance for the screenplay, story, and that. We want to make the best product we can, and who best to ask then the fans that have kept the brand alive all these years. If you might be interested in something like that please PM me, just a warning on that, of course it would spoil some stuff story side for ya. Thank you so much, we have put our hearts and souls into the development of these, and the entire cast really. This story, the world and characters they are all working together to (we hope) bring you a great experience. Our cast and crew thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your support ^_^.
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We in fact had a few, but the animation was shown at 2D Vs 3D ponies panel 2:00 - 3:00 on Friday. Hosted by Mintyroot. We had a much bigger Eqt panel planned and approved but we lost it week before the con due to the surprise of the holiday special so we got bumped off, but still got to show some of the work.
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Hi there, I wanted to address your comment, this is not Equestrian Tales, but a production among a few others we have worked on and designed to test out assets, and techniques that will be and are being used in the production of the Equestrian Tales pilot episodes. We are a bit off still in getting animations for Eqt out, but wanted to show what it might look like. We are using the same effects, lighting systems, pretty much everything but the rigs as they will be worked and designed to fit a more traditional animation environment. These are also just teasers, the final animation of these will be out asap, not even made to many editing passes yet. We wanted to show everyone the quality that we intend to bring, and what we can really do. On a second note, the story of Eqt does in fact take place over 1000 years in the past of the FiM timeline, before the founding of Equestria. For example, Luna and Celestia are only kids when our pilot takes place. We wanted to test some of the techniques being put in as the characters and settings were being worked out, so decided to make some fan animations to get bugs worked out.
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Yet another update! This time with some animation! These are the videos shown at Ciderfest this last weekend, and want to bring them to you for the first time. These will not appear on youtube proper, and for your eyes only, we are using these to showcase what the team can do, and the style we are hoping to bring to the MLP universe. Please note the character rigging will be different for Eqt to more blend with the 2D backgrounds and elements. This animation is about Sunset Shimmer, and should be finished around January or February, animation by Minty Root a long time and lead animator for Eqt. Got more to come Hope you enjoy and Stay pony!!! Look out for that Mirror as it plays a role in the pilot of Equestrian Tales aswell. And a more extended opening scene. The background style, lighting and other elements will be used in the animation of Equestrian Tales and this is the test bed for a lot of it.
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The Equestrian Tales team would like to wish you all a happy and fun Nightmare Night, we'd also like to take this time to welcome two returning members, Skybolt, and Screwloose. Welcome back to the team, we have missed you so much! In other news we are a step closer to making this dream a reality, we have reached out to a toy manufacture for an upcoming project that will be announced as soon as we are ready, but here is a sneak peek! Big thanks to the crew who has been working on these plushies! They stand 12 inches tall, and will be available for an upcoming release, and give away. Stay tuned for more information on this. Also added their character sheets for referance, what do ya think? With this we'd to announce an Indiegogo Campaign currently being built, these toys are only one part of this and will not be nearly as pricey as people might think, we will also be giving some out at up coming conventions at panels our studio is part of, stay tuned for updates on that as well. These are the first of many items being built for an Indiegogo to complete the pilot episode, a full music album (cd/vinyl/download) is being created, an art book, patches, sheet music, studio artwork, animation cels, figures, and so much more. Tried to get a little something for everyone into this. We will be making an official announcement as soon as things are ready to go. Thank you every pony for all your support and wonderful comments, you have kept us going through dark times, and if not for you we wouldnt still be here. Cheers and pony on!
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Happy Nightmare Night everypony! All bow before the Princess, as we are her children of the night!
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Just something my team put together a year ago, enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrngcNy_tnw
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I will for sure be putting it here, I would be this weekend if not for a coding issue, this animation relates to Sunset Shimmer. But its being used to show what the team can do, what a lot of the elements of Eqt will look like on screen, and frankly be a lot of fun. It is similar in design to Luna's Determination another one of our productions.
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This is the very last I will ever reply on this topic as I have covered it several times and we are committed to the end game here, no matter what it is. To try to answer, we have spent all this time not just working on this one production, yes we started this studio 7 almost 8 years ago now, but this production has only been in development for around 2 years, animation takes a lot of time and careful planning to make a product worth a companies attention. We have also spent all this time building a bridge between us and Hasbro so a pitch and idea like this might be easier to get through, and we are almost there. If you think FiM took a week to plan you might want to talk to Lauren about that. These things do not happen over night, and we are doing everything within reason to get this approved. Every production goes through these stages, they evolve and grow as the need and teams abilities grow. Once again go back and look at the pitch bible for FiM, yes a lot ended up in the show, but much of it has changed and evolved, even before the show aired, thats a very normal thing. Also this will change more once Hasbro does get involved as they will have changes for us as well. We have been given a road map to follow by not only hasbro but others on how to do this, and we have been following it to the letter, we have had some issues in the past, but frankly Hasbro is a very worth while company, and if we did think so we would be pushing forward with it. In the mean time we have productions on there way right now, one that will be shown in 2 weeks at Ciderfest.
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Dont worry to much on that, there are back up plans in place incase that does happen, not much will be lost in the end really. Just wanted to try to do it here in MLP first show hasbro what they can do with their own brands, rather then continuing to rebrand and remake things. Thanks for the support
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Alot of these guys have been years in the works, alot of talking, and trying to make deals. Things really didnt start clicking till Rick our Disney animator started helping us get into contact with them, as he worked with a few of them during his production runs. And trust me this is only the beginning, going to do everything we can to make this show a hit, but more so something you guys deserve. Thank you so much
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Announcement 2 of the last few days, things are really starting to pick up. Would like to announce the casting of two characters for the Eqt series who will make an appearance, one will be in he pilot, and the other down the road. First up is Jeremy Irons, who voiced characters such as Scar in the Lion King. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000460/ Jeremy has been in the business for many years, and will be joining as Lord Sombra later in the series. Secondly we are working and close to signing Patrick Stewart for the role of Star Swirl the Bearded. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001772/ Lastly we are working on bringing Patrick Warburton into the cast to play an original character to the show, he is most known for playing Kronk in The Emperors New Groove, we are going to have him reprise a similar side kick character in the story of Eqt. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911320/?ref_=tt_cl_t4 These crew are in talks, one near final, one will be signed soon. This is just part of the quality that our production intends to bring into the MLP universe, partly why its taking so long to get animation and that kind of content out, we want to make sure this is the best product it can be. More updates to come as they come. Thanks everypony
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News Update- Snowdrop officially joins the story of Equestrian Tales, keep an eye out for her and her mother in the pilot of Eqt. Snowdrop will enter as a main cast pony within the series as a rotational character. Permissions and rights have been given and she is set to enter the story starting in the pilot, also keep your eyes peeled for other familiar ponies within the scenes. The Eqt team will be at Ponyville Ciderfest, with three panels by our crew members, Mintyroot, and Applegeek. our current goal is to get 10 mins of the pilot episode finished up to the animatic stage by May, and Everfree Northwest, and will be releasing exclusive content here before anywhere else, also keep an eye out for a web site coming, aswell as something bigger! Thank you all, and pony on!
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Thing is we have not just been talking to show staff, but the people in charge at Hasbro to make this happen. Pitches have been and are being sent to these people, including Meghan, and the person in charge of Hasbro Studio's. We do have that plan B being worked on, however we know we can do this if we keep pushing forward with our current plan. We know the odds, and frankly the fact that few have done it is only encouraging us to keep going. We didnt want to do this because it would be easy, we wanted to put our crew to the test and try to build a relationship with one of the only animation studios our there we still respect. I have talked to several people at the top of the food chain, we are even sending a special pitch to he CEO of the company who is a big Gen 1 fan that show case the elements of that generation we are planning to return to this work. We know what we are doing and frankly I dont want to be doing anything else for the moment. This fandom and brand deserves to live on, and we want to do everything we can to help it. I have seen personally, and on several occasions, this fandom has done so much good for this world, and we are not going to give up on it. Something deserve to live on, the FiM base is one of them. Thank you for your comments and support, but dont worry about us and Hasbro, thats our business, and we have been working everything we can on this end. We will not fall without a fight, and we'd prove nothing by giving up, neve knowing what could have been. We have wanted to prove from day one that you dont need to be rich to chase a dream, and frankly we are very close to doing just that. We need something in this age for kids to look up to and I see no reason why MLP cant be it.
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The reason we are not going full into that plan as yet, is dispute things that have happened, is because we have something rather unique then what mos teams submit to studios like Hasbro. The product that we are building has not even been close to seen publicly, my team has put so much work into making everything as well as we can, keeping in mind everything while we are working on this from business to marketing, keeping their targets and even adapting the show at times to reflect their newer directions. From every thing we have gathered we have something here that will work, will carry on what Hasbro intends, and frankly be something special they could make a lot on if they decide to allow us to finish her. We knew the risks, the pitfalls and the hills (mountains really) we had to climb. Just because few have even done it, don mean we cant do it to. We have a lot of professional help on this production from voice talent to production staff from hasbros own studios, and everyone of them is telling us we have a winner here and to keep pressing on. We will never know what this could have been if we give up on it. I know some are saying the fandom is dying, but frankly our team has been here since dang close to the beginning, and we are not about to abandon them now. The truest test of a development team, or frankly any other team, is how they handle things when times get tough. We have been through everything that can be thrown at us from team issues, to staff deaths to work through. The only one that will stop us is Hasbro on this, we have made it our minds and will not stop until we show Hasbro and the world what we can really do. Not one of us is after fame, money or glory, we are out to help people through story and art. Animation has the power to do a lot of healing and help a lot of people, and our story once people get to see it and understand is one this world really needs right now, and will help a lo of kids throught some very tough times. We are however already in the process of using our back up plan in another form, if one fails the other wll still be there. We have put so much of us into this production, and we just want to give it our all with the brand it was designed for before we do something rash and abandon ship right as we are finally getting somewhere. Thank you for your concern, but to be blunt nothing is going to deter us from doing this but the horse itself, and we have had nothing but encouragement from their staff to keep pushing forward.
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Hi there and sorry for late response in the pm working a full time job on top of this not much time left in a day, but finally getting some shorter hours to do things yay. Anyways I can say that we do have contact with and have had contact with people at the top of not just DHX studios, but Hasbro Studios aswell, such as Meghan McCarthy, Jim Miller, Rachelle Little (until she transfered to Dreamworks animation) and baited Stephen Davis who is a huge Gen 1 fan with the renderings of some of our remake content from that time such as Paradise estate, I knew he loved that old show, so I put the image of the ruins of Paradise Estate on the cover of our pitch bible to draw his eye, and it worked. We have tailored most of the pitch docs we have sent out to the person we are sending it to, to peek their interest of the product. We are not through yet, and this could still very well fall apart, but we are doing everything we can to see this through. There is so much the MLP Universe could offer, and we want to open their eyes to what they really have here. We want this show to be the bridge that brings the entire MLP Universe into one world, so that others can build upon it, and play with in it. Such as stat trek and so on. We have also reached out to a number of talent agents to get a voice cast that we will be able to start revealing once things start really happening, but I think the fandom will be shocked at even who we have got or talked to. We are working to bring in a few of the FiM voice talents, aswell as some from out side the fandom, including a new voice for Star Swirl that fits the character perfectly. We will be revealing some of these people at Ciderfest if we get our panel approved, we have 2 or 3 of our crew coming as community guests, and a few of the people we are working to bring on will be there and on the VIP guest list., Am planning to have some sit downs at the con with some of these people to get them approved before the panel, and we hope one will be a suprise to join us on the panel itself when we reveal her. We are also in talks with a few of the writers that are no longer with Hasbro or FiM such as Amy and Larson who wrote a number of the episodes that the history of this world is built on. These writers are working freelance right now, and really wouldnt be hard to pick up. Hi there, thank you so much for your nice comments, it truth is you guys here that really keep us going, a place where we can share what we have done without to much risk of having our work destroyed before it sees the light of day, so expect to see a lot more updates and exclusive content on MLP forums then even out main sites, as we know Hasbro is watching us lol. We will be releasing something we hope in a month that might be of interest to anyone who wants to see if this is really going to go or not. That being our first vocal song, she is being recorded right now, and should be ready for a test screening soonish. Thank you so much for your support, and hope you enjoy
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Hi there, wanted to clarify just a few things on the topic of Disney, our team has been very close with sources at Hasbro, and one of our animators is a Walt Disney animator, and has been for nearly 40 years. We have assurances that a buy out of MLP is not going to happen, nor to Hasbro at this time, or anytime in the near future. As long as hasbro can keep its current culture going they will never give in to Disney. I also know Disney planned to do nothing at all with MLP, the plan was to get the assets then burry the brand, but thats part of what woke Hasbro's management up to why they needed to remain outside Disney, and broke that deal. When we found out, almost 2 years ago now that Disney had in fact bought Hasbro from sources we have inside the studios, our only option at that time was to shut down, we in fact disbanded the EQT crew for about 2 months and when the dust settled and we learned of he no sell by the current management of Hasbro frankly our faith in the studio and the brand was renewed, and I reformed the team to finish what we had started. We also do have a back up in place and being worked on by a second crew encase things do go south, we will be released details on that production on our website when we get her done, but we for sure 200% have a plan in place if things dont go right. How ever we are also not planning to push to many of Hasbros buttons, we have survived as a content creaor for the fandom since 2011, our team was part of the crew that launched poniverse here (we were present on the pannel at Bronycon in 2013 announcing it in fact), I was a member of the council here along with Feld0, I helped start and run Everfree Northwest, and been staffing it and Ciderfest for 7 years now and have gotten to know a lot of the MLP and Hasbro staff, aswell as worked on a few productions with some of their staff, we have been working for nearly 8 years to build a trust between us. We are going to be promoting things, talking to fans about EQT and so on, but we very much know copyright law, and where the line is.We have crafted the pilot episodes to avoid nearly every single point they could make against us on the copyright side, and on the profit side, the studio has never made a profit on our works. I do pay my crew out of my own retail job, but the studio (me) gets nothing for these works. We are not about to poke the hornets nest, and have even been in contact with people at the highest levels in DHX, Hasbro, and Bolder Media to make sure we are not crossing the line. The common rule is a studio wouldnt accept a spin off from outside their studio branches, this is true, however we have been talking to animation agents and entertainment lawyers that can get our stuff seen and through, we also have something they dont have, that being the story, and her characters, we have sent Hasbro documents yes, but no one has seen everything by any means. Even if they just bought the idea, they wouldnt have the core that makes the story what we'd want it to be. I will continue if wanted (as soon as I get to lunch break lol) And BornAgainEquestrian, I will for sure be replying to your PM today, been working some long hours to get plushies made so im so sorry for the delay in response ^_^. Thank you both, and really if you have questions please ask I might do a Q and A if there is any interest