Creation

[RarityAtHerFinest 17]

Alright, so I was wanting to re-create my little pony, for personal usage. Like new episodes, and then try to get in contact with the person in charge of all that, and get it approved by them and uploaded for people to actually care about what I make. So first step is learning how to animate with the softwares, but I need to know what software fan made episodes are made with. Can anyone help? Please.

[RarityAtHerFinest 17]

Thanks for caring enough to reply, and warning me. I am not completely new with Animating you see, and if need be I do have some Lua knowledge, which I can execute scripts with. I know to make things like this it's really frustrating and you need to have a lot of time, and spend 99.8% of it towards making it. But I feel I want to give it a go, and all I need is to know what software they use.

[SFyr 1,982]

They use Adobe Flash, from what I gather. So, unless there's some 3rd party program they use (which seems unlike a major company, to take that over official stuff), you're probably looking at some version of Adobe Flash Professional.

My evidence is people saying they do:

//Wikipedia

 

Completed scripts were sent to Studio B for pre-production and animation using Adobe Flash. Thiessen's production team was also allowed to select key personnel subject to Hasbro's approval; one of those so selected was art director Ridd Sorensen. The Studio B team would storyboard the provided scripts, incorporating any direction and sometimes managing to create scenes that the writers had believed impossible to show in animation. The animators would then prepare the key character poses, layout, background art, and other main elements, and send these versions back to the production team in Los Angeles for review by Hasbro and suggestions from the writers. Thiessen credited much of the technical expertise in the show to Wooton, who created Flash programs to optimize the placement and posing of the pony characters and other elements, simplifying and economizing on the amount of work needed from the other animators.^[26] For example, the ponies' hair and tails are generally fixed shapes, animated by bending and stretching them in curves in three dimensions and giving them a sense of movement without the high cost of individual animated hairs.^[18] The storyboard artists and animators also need to fill in background characters for otherwise scripted scenes as to populate the world;

//Elsewhere

 

We’ve already written about Dan Vs., the Flash-animated series on The Hub. As it turns out, there’s another Flash-animated series on the network – My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I think I rolled my eyes when I heard about this series the first time [...]

 

 

My other bit of evidence is that it looks like flash animation too, only done professionally and overall looking a lot tighter than amateur projects. Flash transitions, where an object/piece is stretched and/or rotated has a specific look to it, which I can see in a number of smaller bits and body pieces as they move. There's almost a characteristic sliding/stretching/compressing bounce to the movement, is all.

Also, flash is largely vector art, exactly like MLP.

Edited August 13, 2014 by SFyr