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StaryStory

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  1. Happy Birthday Snow! Hope you have a beautiful future! ~☆

    1. Snow

      Snow

      Thank you so much Stary!! :twilightsheepish:

  2. Nothing much I'll say here, only some appreciation, which maybe would've worked better if I did a year ago, but It doesn't matter, I can do this at any time, and it's a coincidence now as I wrote this while there is the event occurring where users are appreciating other users. It took me a while to realize it but I just made my participation now and messaged those users who impacted me the most. But I also want to "send flowers” to a group of people who aren't here, people who I can't really communicate with, especially because one of them passed away, but they had and still have a huge impact and importance in my life because what they did really matters a lot for me and I want to honor their work for inspiring me so much.

    I took a path for my drawings in the last 6 months that for me felt new and different from what I tried to do before. I got quite obsessed with that 2000's visual novel look and I'm still am and even that moe art style has been influencing my drawings I think. Not much surprises, I'm using it for training after all.

    What surprised me though is that this made me forget about my former art inspiration for a time, but maybe only in my mind, not in my drawings. Dragon Ball continued and continues living in the composition of my arts, it's hard to explain, but like.

    Even though my arts distanced from Dragon Ball quite a lot in terms of visuals, DB still is the basis for almost everything I draw, composition, poses, anatomy, facial expressions etc, all traces back to it, and of course, I still love drawing these characters, so the distancing was almost none. It started back in 2018, a year after I rediscovered the series and got obsessed with it, it's because of it that I started taking drawings seriously. Of course I always liked to draw before 2018, but it was always 100% only for fun. It was after I rediscovered DB that I started to treat it like a work, because the series gave me a new perspective on it, those visuals, art style, somehow convinced me to treat myself more as an artist, it just surprised me somehow, something other animes couldn't do as before that rediscovery I watched a few other anime, like Pokemon, and none of them motivated me to start taking arts seriously like DB did. Maybe it was the nostalgia from when I watched it from 2009 to 2014? I really don't know, it just happened.

    It was after I rediscovered it that I started to design my own characters, before it, all the characters I drew were already existing characters and the few OCs I made were very unoriginal (Sonic and Tails fusion, oh my XD), it also made me build my own art style, before 2018 I barely had a style, and I used to constantly trace art (at least only official ones), because I didn't take my work seriously. After 2017 I never traced ever again because DB made me want to take my work more seriously and stop tracing over other art.

    So yes I think I can say this series is what really made me into a full artist, someone dedicated to the arts and focused on arts, I can't imagine myself being a serious artist nowadays if I didn't rediscover it 8 years ago. So yes I can't do anything else but only thank it for everything, because I think drawing is what really gives me purpose in my life nowadays, and if it wasn't for DB you probably wouldn't be seeing that drawing that is now in the site's banner, or any of my drawings in general, I wouldn't have started drawing Ponies if it wasn't for it, it was because of it that I started uploading my arts on Facebook back in 2018 and made me join an artist community in 2019.

    I feel that with time I take drawings more seriously, because of all this, I’m planning to make a few changes in my drawings and overall artist content (you probably won't notice), I'll still keep my goal of making my arts look exactly like the 2000's visual novels, but now in a kinda different way.

    But especially, as a tribute to this series for saving my life, I plan to make a blog here talking about the artistic aspects of the series, talking about its artists, animators, designs, art process, everyone and everything that brings the world of the series to life (or almost everything).

    I tried to do something similar with MLP before, I created a blog where I tried to make a collection of the artists of the series, but it just didn't work since MLP doesn't really feature that much deepness in art, especially in G4 where its main production was made in flash, almost all artists weren't known or credited and very little material really featured something artistically impactful (mostly the comics only). It wasn't very interesting, no one really was interested and I also lost interest as well, so I deleted the blog due to how empty it was. 

    But when it comes to Dragon Ball, that becomes a lot more interesting, I still love going through the art, the artists, animation and animators of the series and I always learn something new, it's something I can spend days and days looking for. 

    It's easier to look for manga artists, but for the animators it's really hard, it's something that requires a lot of study to understand, identifying art styles, animation style, corrections, supervision, etc, it's very difficult to get information on these, I spent almost the entire day making the image below yesterday, first because of the montage, second because I had to find each image in high quality and the best of them, and third because at least 13 of the Gokus below were made by animators and 2 I struggled to find information about who was the artist behind them.

    It's something that really takes a lot of time to do so it will be definitely a blog that will require a lot from me, research etc, and I can already expect that almost no one here will really show any interest in the blog, I understand it, I'm not complaining, people here already barely showed any interest every time I tried to talk about MLP official art, imagine Dragon Ball? So I'm just saying this because It will be 100% a passion project, it will need a lot of motivation from me, and I have a lot, though I can't promise that it won't fade away with time, I can lose interest. But I'll try because it's what I can do aside from fan arts, and also celebrate the work of these people and the series' creator himself, who already passed away a year ago. At the time I was very impacted and it was the first time I cried over the death of someone I had never met and who wasn't a family member of mine. Thinking about it recently made me feel an impact again, of course smaller, but a different one because at the time I wasn't thinking so much about my art and I was less mature as an artist as well. Now I'm a more mature artist and I could feel more the impact from it artistically. Now I realized even more how important it is.

    it will be a tribute and I want to fill my profile with this homage ~☆

    For those interested, list of all artists who made the Gokus below

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    (From upper left corner to lower right corner)

    Akira Toriyama, 1988

    Minoru Maeda, 1988 (Made a few corrections)

    Minoru Maeda, 1990 (Added rest of hair)

    Masahiro Shimanuki, 1990

    Akira Toriyama, 1991

    Masaki Sato, 1991 (Not confirmed, but I believe it's him)

    Tadayoshi Yamamuro, 1993

    Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, 1995

    Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, 2006

    Tadayoshi Yamamuro, 2008 (removed color indication lines)

    Naho Ooishi, 2008

    Tadayoshi Yamamuro, 2010

    Tadayoshi Yamamuro, 2013

    Akira Toriyama, 2015

    Toyotaro, 2017

    Naohiro Shintani, 2018 (Corrected a small part missing colors)

    Chikashi Kubota, 2022 (Not really made by him, since it's a 3D model, but it's based on his 2D designs)

    Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, 2024

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  3. Hi Woohoo! Just here because I can't send a private message. Only want to say that you're a really fun guy, always entertain me to go through what you post and the cartoon scenes you share. I still think that " Character Color Palette Challenge" you made in 2024 was very fun, tested my memory a lot haha ~☆

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    Also, only because...~☆

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    1. Woohoo

      Woohoo

      Why can't you send PMs?

    2. StaryStory

      StaryStory

      @Woohoo it says it's because  you only receive private messages from those you have added as a Friend. Remember I removed everyone from my friend list a time ago? So...:twilightsheepish:💦 I changed up my mind and I didn't want to bother anyone because of it

  4. Thank you @P1x3l and @Lleys for the follow! Also thank you @Bairro M Vagrant for you follow as well, my bad for not saying it in the day 💦

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    2. Lleys

      Lleys

      StaryStory yes I'm in china, utc+8 time zone, my side is 10:58 AM

    3. StaryStory

      StaryStory

      @Lleys cool! Didn't know you were from China! It's basically the same timezone but in the opposite, greetings to the 5 star people!

    4. Lleys

      Lleys

      It's ok, I didn't say it so you don't know it:ButtercupLaugh:

  5. Hi, I admit that it has been a while that I'm no more in the site because of MLP, but because it's a place I like and I have friends here. But about MLP, I still like G4, Equestria Girls and Pony Life/G4.5, quite less than the first time I experienced them of course, I was obsessed with MLP back then, nowadays I don't have that excitement about it anymore, but I still like it and I even still enjoy drawing ponies. Understand the way you feel, franchise is really not in its best days. When Make Your Mark ended in 2023 it was the last time I saw the fandom in a quite noticeable hype, but the series was also a huge letdown for a lot of them, then the only thing they got in 2024 was Tell your Tale Season 2 which sucked even more for them (me included), there I think the hype was already dying very fast. Then TyT got cancelled along with G5 as a whole and that was the last nail in the coffin of the hype. New releases helps a fandom to feel more alive, call the attention of new fans and makes old fans talk about the series again. So far in 2025 there's nothing new about MLP going on, so a lot of people in the fandom barely have something to talk about regarding it, and a lot for sure also moved on to other things, or decided to stay because of G4. That doesn't mean the fandom is dead though. Many channels still upload new content, sites, Derpibooru still have a lot of new fanarts daily. So thanks to the fandom MLP is still alive and will continue alive. It's just not in a hype moment for now. ~☆
  6. You don't have to think about it buddy, It won't, it's cancellation was already officially announced like 10 months ago
  7. Apparently, the site's default profile pic for users isn't working anymore? All users who haven't chosen a image to use as profile pic aren't featuring the generic blank pony as their profile pic anymore, but the broken image icon. Or it's only happening with me?
  8. Don't worry man, please take your time, I'm sure all of your friends will understand it. You need your space and patience to deal with your challenges. Don't forget you can ask for their help as well ~☆
  9. Hi, hope everyone is doing good, especially those living in California, Los Angeles. Hope you are safe, if possible, stay in your home, do your best to avoid the chaos in the streets, especially tomorrow, I think tomorrow will be a very bad day and something worse may happen. Hope i'm wrong. Please stay safe.

    Also, thanks Ice Princess Silky for all the honor, help and tribute, I really appreciate it a lot ~☆

    1. ZiggWheelsManning

      ZiggWheelsManning

      While challenging times in the world happen, big hugs for @StaryStory and everypony here:hug_day:  

  10. Happy Birthday KatonRyu! Hope you have a beautiful future! ~☆

  11. Definitely not, a lot of people like it, me included, I really like that official human versions of the characters exist, I like how they look and a lot of people do. They don't scrap the ones the fans created, and make other fans want to draw them or make new designs inspired by them, so a lot of good fanart came from them. Only saw benefits from its existence. The only bad thing I could say about Equestria Girls is something I'm not really sure if it's true or not, which is that it made Season 3 of FiM shorter, for me that season deserved to have the same length as all the other seasons. But again, I don't know if it's true or not, I can only find rumors about the possible reason for it, and the most prominent one is that they really made Season 3 half of a season only to have time to work on EQG Movie 1 and the planning for all its related products ~☆
  12. I saw very few content from the classic generations, only the first 15 episodes of G1 (MLP'n Friends) and a few clips from G3 and G3.5. I never saw anything from G2 except for some images of the toys and promotional art. I can say that I think I like the art style, though I don't know if I prefer this or the G1 art style, I think the ponies are meant to look more cute, well, it's definitely more cute than G3 (for me, at least). I actually think G3.5's art style seems more inspired by G2 than G3 really. Their width look kinda weird to me. A shame there was no animated production for it, would be interesting to see it in movement. Like Fhaolan said, I also thought a time ago that MLP Tales was some kind of a G2 related production that for some reason used the same art style as G1. At best, I could only find comics related to G2 in this tumblr blog
  13. That Mental Health Awareness thread is a good idea, there's a lot I could say about my mental and even spiritual state, but knowing myself I'm sure I would end up writing a huge text, regardless of trying to write it in short. So i prefer to let the bunch of words about my person's problems for my profile's posts only, plus, I don't think this a good tjme for me to think much about it, I'm actually thinking that I need some distraction, there's already something I'm feeling strongly guilty for. But good that people are trying to talk about their problems there and connect with each other. ~☆

    1. Lawyer Slip

      Lawyer Slip

      Agreed.

      It's a change that I think was both necessary and needed.

  14. That I very likely doomed something that was being important and good for me, and it's being a repetition of the same mistake I made like 6/7 times since 3/4 years ago. I probably haven't changed at all. I'm thinking about ways to solve it and save it, but my pessimism and overall spiritual state are not giving me much hopes that it will have a future. I don't know why I keep doing that.
  15. Not sure what you mean, but well, Twilight certainly is the element of production selling for them, or else she very likely wouldn't be there in G5 with the rest of the mane six. G4 characters are still very relevant for the brand, so is Twilight. G5 couldn't come even close to having such relevance for the brand as far I as know, though its popularity apparently became bigger than that of the classic generations, so that it was enough to at least guarantee the return of a few characters. Yeah I did notice that they indeed decided to expand the Cutie Marks concept into the overall storyline here, and not just keep it in a isolated side story like FiM did (CMC arc), I believe it maybe happens because they don't want to repeat the early structure of FiM with the friendship lessons, so they thought that the Cutie Marks being the focus could lead up to new ideas. Saying that because the story concept in the video really felt new for me. I don't remember very well the G5 story though, only some of Misty's arc and Opaline stealing everyone's cutie marks, so can't say much about it.
  16. I think it's pretty much impossible to tell. Countless of them, especially if you want to consider anime too, the asians are the ones who suffer from that the most because they like to make characters who look attractive or at least "perfect" in body structure, so that counts the face as well (influenced by their own cultures in the real world, which also seek for "perfection" in appearance), so it's very hard for you to not end up facing a anime where 80% of the characters are literally the same in body and face, with the only differences being hair, clothes and colors. Facially they most only likely change eye shape, some times not evem that. (Example) The Western Cartoons suffer less from that, since they are more open to more radical designs, you'll see them constantly making characters who look ugly, weird or just not attractive at all, which helps them to escape from this "Same Face Syndrome". (Example) But even with that, they still also suffer from that a lot, especially when try to make art styles more similar to anime, like...Equestria Girls. I suffer from that in my drawings too, so I'm as used to it as breathing ~☆
  17. Hope you are doing well man, please take your time for you mental health, we don't know each other but I do know that there are people who really care about you here, so I wish you the best, I believe your friends wish the same. Good luck and have a good rest.

  18. Oh my, I remember seeing a lot of people making jokes about that cover art in a Mexican Facebook group in 2023 XD, a lot of them said that the characters (minus Spike) were likelly traced over images of real people and I even saw one of them sharing a image of a real woman in the same pose as Pinkie Pie 💦 I remember seeing a alternate cover for it featuring the same characters and it had a much better art in a style more accurate to the series (or the comic pages)
  19. Happy birthday Poison Claw! Hope you have a beautiful future! ~☆

  20. This game looks beautiful, Arc System Works always delivering something astonishing for the eyes, I really liked the japanese redesign for the characters, gives a strong anime face to them while still making them very recognizable and faithful to the comics / original designs. At best, I think only Iron Man really didn't receive the same treatment, I think he looks weird, not in a bad way because I think his design looks very well made, i liked it, but it also just seems too distant from the original one, looks more like something that came out straight from Kamen Rider or some other tokusatsu, but nothing like Iron Man (take this redesign and replace the yellow and red with other colors, you'll get what I mean), I think they really exaggerated in his one, maybe it's the purpose, but with the other characters being more comic accurate the discrepancy is big.

    But everything looks really good, I'm curious to see more characters in the future. ~☆

  21. I still don't think I really completely understand if this is something legit or not, I still keep my opinion that it was just a proof of concept that got either rejected or something else. Considering it's real, well I don't know what to say in terms of story, I can say that I don't like the absence of Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity, i don't care about G5 characters, them replacing the rest of the Mane 6 would not be good for me I think, but they could show up later on. What I definitely like in the video though is the visuals, I really liked everything I saw, aside from some small details, Like, I'm not sure if I liked the extra layer of mane in Twilight and Rainbow Dash, in Dash especially I think it looks weird because it tries to have a lightining shape and I'm not sure if it works for me, I'm also not sure if i liked the colored hooves, at least not in some of the characters, I think I liked in Dash because it's just the same color as her skin (or fur) but darker, now Pinkie Pie's being blue I really don't feel it combines. Aside from these, I really liked everything else, the characters look very expressive and the overall art style is very appealing to me. Inspired clearly by G4 but at the same time it feels unique and great, they got it very right and looks infinitely better than Tell your Tale / 2D G5 in my opinion. That model sheet with Twilight, Pinkie, Dash and the 3 G5 characters though. I still don't know if it represents a different period of the development or something else. As I said before, features the same art style and visual from the opening for the 2021 Movie. I do think it looks good but I also feel the influence from "CalArts" in it, not as much as in Tell Your Tale obviously, but still, while it stays true to G4 in almost everything, the faces are completely different, which end up looking odd to me, so I really don't know If I would like it to see as the art style of a new series, especially because it shows a clear downgrade in details compared to the movie. I definitely prefer the art style from the concept video, whoever is the artist or the artists behind it, I hope Hasbro brings them back to work as the character designer(s) for the next MLP animated project (in case it's 2D). Like, It looks too good to be true for me, especially because for me Tell your Tale's visual was a example of laziness, so I wouldn't expect them to be this competent with the art again, that's why I thought about the possibility that it could be fake.
  22. Hi, I would just like to explain myself about someone who interacted with me here in the forum a while ago. There was this user called "Starforce", he was the first person who really tried to approach me here and become my "friend", we interacted with each other during a part of 2024. I did notice some weird behavior coming from him, but nothing that really made me think that there was something wrong going on, in overall, he acted in a way that made me think he was a good person, and I even mentioned his name in my final post from 2024 along with some other users, saying he was the first friend I made here.

    At the time of course, I was completely unaware about absolutely anything he made, I had no idea about what he did and I always thought he was a normal who wasn't really feeling connected with the site and its people, and had some problems with Staff, but I didn't imagine anything too serious and I decided to not ask anything due to my respect with other's privacy.

    Recently, I received the information and learned about the many atrocities this user made in the past and the serious conflicts he caused here and harm to other users. A lot of very ugly things that he managed to hide completely from me.

    So, what I have to say is, my experience with him at least wasn't harmful to me, likely because I didn't show any interest about the subjects he tried to push into me. There was something odd that happened but the evidence for it is lost. And I did notice now his manipulative behavior based on reports and some stuff I remember he said for me. But fortunately I wasn't affected negatively by him. But I'm aware there are many people who suffered because of him. If you were a victim of one of his actions and is reading this, I'm sorry, I hope you're doing well and managed to forget it, I think he's someone who deserves to be forgotten. So I won't be talking about him or mentioning his name ever again, unless it's necessary.

    And now I hope someone like him or even himself never show up here again.

  23. Hi guys, sorry for the whole month of absence again, couldn't stay true to my own words again, my bad, these are confusing and dark times for my mind and spirit. But I at least had the company of an angelic soul that helped me a lot by showing me a strong light ~☆

    Anyway, I think now I'm really back definitely, there are things I still need to fix, my profile for now is under renovation, but I think I can already go back to interacting here again early, I'll at least try, missed this place, also, happy late birthday for those I couldn't celebrate in the right day ~☆

    (And the day I return, I run out of water, so funny -.-)

    Edit: also, yes I changed my name, it's "StaryStory" only now, it's the way I prefer, you can still call me by my previous (real) name if you want, but that name is now just past for me, my new name represents this current era of mine, thank you ~☆

  24. I'm late, but still, happy birthday Interstellar Sketch, glad that this place and its people are helping your young soul to flourish. Optimism especially seems like something very important and it's very good that you adopted it and now manages to spread love in a powerful way, it's very important for people like me and I hope you continue that way. I really wish a beautiful future for you my friend, I'm sorry for not always being present, but I'll always be up to help you when I can, happy birthday! ~☆
  25. Happy birthday Everest! Hope you have a beautiful future! ~☆

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