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If the movie was 3d instead of 2d


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Knowing that the movie was animated with Toon Boom Harmony, the industry standard for 2d animation software. What if the movie was instead 3d animated, being done with a program like Autodesk Maya? How do you think that would look? It's a thousand times more professional than SFM.

 

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Don't get me wrong, that 3D animation actually doesn't look bad, but I feel this show lives by its 2D nature. That is essentially a backbone of the show. Its overall art style is something that we are completely accustomed to and completely changing the animation entirely would seem a tad alienating.

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I wouldn't like, I'm sure they'd find a way to make it work, but changing animation styles completely like that(as opposed to improving it like the movie is currently doing), would be a jarring decision, and probably a big turn off for some people

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IMO, CreatorOfPony has the best 3D Ponies.

 

CoP uses Blender, a free and open source program. Maya on the other hand, is far more professional and is the industry standard in 3d animation.

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For obvious reasons, I think it'd be pretty cool to see a professionally made 3D pony animation, but it'd be pretty weird and probably to expensive to just make a sudden switch like that. I know alot of people wouldn't like that change, so I doubt it'll ever happen.

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There's nothing wrong with 3D animation, but it's not the be-all-end-all. The characters of MLP were NOT designed with any kind of 3D sensibilities in mind. It does not suit them and I think it would be a horrid decision aesthetically.

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Well other girl cartoons got their own fully computer animated direct to video movies. So why not MLP?

Because it would be unnecessary, ugly, and jarring.

What "other girl cartoons" are you referring to exactly?

 

What if they did a live action movie with real ponies?

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For the most part whenever 3d version of FIM characters are made they look pretty bad, so it wouldn't be a good idea. Plus if it were to look like how you suggested with that video, it would still be a quite jarring change to the show's aesthetic.

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3d ponies look horrifying.

lifeless and creepy. 

if they figure out how to fix this problem, I'd be ok with it, but everything I've seen so far has been awful.  

It all depends on the budget and talent. With the right people, you could have animation that rivals Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, Blue Sky, and Sony.

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Because it would be unnecessary, ugly, and jarring.

What "other girl cartoons" are you referring to exactly?

 

 

God, I missed you while I was gone. XD

Example of girl cartoons that did get CGI direct to video movies is Care Bears.

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Example of girl cartoons that did get CGI direct to video movies is Care Bears.

I looked up "Care Bears 3D animation*. The results looked pretty bad.

Most 3D animation that isn't a Hollywood production looks pretty bad, if I'm honest.

And even some big productions look bad.

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I actually saw The Big Wish Movie and Oopsy Does it when I was little on Youtube and I did not think they were that bad. Although Oopsy Does it has a little more better animation quality than the previous one I mentioned.

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Also, on top of Maya, other programs like 3ds Max, Zbrush, Renderman, Modo, Nuke, SpeedTree, Vue, etc would be used. Photoshop being used for matte paintings.

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