Lullaby For A Princess animation by Warpout!

[GuillermoGage 246]

I discovered this a few days ago: I am very impressed by it. It was animated almost single-handedly by one person with about two background artists.

 

I've looked all around this site with all the searching tools and such and I do not see anyone making a topic specifically about discussing this piece of art in general.

Edited June 7, 2015 by GuillermoGage

[Odyssey 5,717]

This is really gorgeous. WarpOut in general makes some really smooth animations, and it still really shows in Lullaby for a Princess. The music is nice and fits the entire tone of the video, the fact that it's focused on Princess Celestia is a nice choice and the moment when you realise that this entire video is almost created by WarpOut all by himself is an outstanding accomplishment.

 

I'm glad that we have talented artists within this community. First Children of the Night, and now this. I hope we get to see more fantastic stuff in the future.

[GuillermoGage 246]

Parts I especially liked:

1:11 to 1:19, that was a good scene transition idea. to take Celestia into that void-plane thing.

 

The incredible choreography of the flying fight scene. That must be very daunting to come up with the decision of how precisely to portray that stuff in hand-drawn animation with all those dipping and diving and swooping angles, especially because all this stuff has to be slowly hand-drawn, meaning the animator could risk being halfway done with a scene before realizing whether or not those swerving action shots look good, when fully animated, or if different poses would've worked better. A daunting thing to plan.

 

3:26 the diverse way that the dust cloud moves around is very impressive. Warpout definitely did not opt for some cheap Zelda Wind Waker-style flat swirly plumes. Stunning that a fan animation has such production values.

 

each scene transition and choice of what types of shots to use are brilliant, including the spinning Element of Harmony (magic) on the floor at 3:31 as well as the overall decision to leave the camera still on the side shot of Celestia conjuring up the blasting force field. The animator could have been cheap and opted to switch to more close-up shots not showing it in full view, or even just made a generic beam, but instead made this brilliant amber orb field that helps to tell the story by setting somber color-based tones and stuff. Much more interesting and ancient-scary-magic than a rainbow beam.

 

4:35 did they just seriously animate a hand-drawn mouth moving while the head is turning? I don't even see that in big-budget hand-drawn animation. Usually a character stops moving their mouth, then moves. Maybe there is some of that in some Renaissance Disney movies. But this is a horse character with a long face, very tricky to do something like moving the mouth and rotating it as the same time. It is not exactly walking and chewing bubble gum at the same time.

 

4:37 to 4:39. And they even managed to remember that the decorative top pieces of Princess Celestia's horseshoes would shift away from her hooves as she moves them around.

 

The tense humming of the violin(?) during 5:32 to 5:37. The chills and feels. Also the landscape as the moon goes down, it is brilliant how it is concave curved instead of a typical flat horizon. It gives me an IMAX vibe (I've only seen like one or two movies in IMAX, the last one being a Louis and Clark movie in 2003, and yes, it was real 70mm IMAX considering that "Digital IMAX" wasn't developed yet.)

[Argumedies 1,748]

I say its one of the top line animations this fandom has ever produced, right up there with Children of the night and the Button's animations

 

The battle scene here was by far better portrayed then what was shown in canon

Edited June 8, 2015 by Argumedies

[Grepper 3,192]

I think this animation fits well with the music. It looks very good, except that Celestia's head movements were a bit jerky at times.

The animation is quite an accomplishment for one person.

[Mortain 16]

i have this son on my phone that the girls (my goddaughters) listen too when i take them places. When i showed them the animation, they where in awe. (they're 6 and 7). first time i saw it this 40 year old woman cried. It's simply stunning.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

That was a labor of love right there, nearly every frame of it looked worthy to be a painting. I was in awe first time I saw it.