Do you prefer G5 to be 3D or 2D?

[DatDreadheaddPonii 34]

Do you prefer G5 to be 2D or 3D, Make your choice in this forum.

I think it should be 2D, but 3D is okay.

[MangoFoalix 25,063]

3d looks alright to me, tell your tale designs are... okay. I don't think they're too bad but I'm not a super big fan of them either.

[Misty Shadow 8,341]

I normally like 2D better, but I really think that 3D suits G5 more. The cheap look of TYT is something I got used to, but I'm a lot more invested in the look of MYM with how it stays faithful to the movie's look despite the understandable downgrade.  

[Megas 28,522]

I think the 3D artstyle suits G5 just fine. I mean G5-to-G4 is cute, but it doesn't feel the same, and while I don't think the 2D G5 artstyles are bad, they don't have the magic the 3D has

[Solar Power 387]

They both have their good and bad points.

At first I wasn't happy when I heard that the generation 5 movie was going to be 3D but I loved the look of it and the Make Your Mark series. I would say that I've come to like 3D more than the 2D for gen 5, which makes me sad that the future of Make Your Mark is looking uncertain. 

[Savy 5,533]

I've grown to really like the 2D, but I think 3D fits G5 perfectly fine. 

[Sparklefan1234 188,530]

I prefer Gen 5's 2D style from Tell Your Tale because it reminds me of Friendship is Magic. 

[RDDash 19,363]

I kind of like G5 3D designs, but I don't know if we still going to have 3D ponies in 2024

[Steve Piranha 29,504]

No way I’ll pick anything over G4 2D, but among the official G5 works: 3D

[Kantet 182]

I think that 3D will be better, but the current variation of 3D (drawing itself) in G5 does not look very nice and is rather unsuccessful. Some emotions in such a drawing are difficult to express, and the pony's appearance leaves much to be desired, and this is very important.
2D at G4 looks many times better.

We need to rework the graphics and art, then 3D will look great, I'm sure of it.

Edited July 19, 2023 by Kantet

[Theautisticrebel 315]

I actually prefer the Tell your Tale animation over the Make your Mark animation, while it's not the worst CGI animation in the world it doesn't live up to the original A New Generation animation at all.

On a side note, on an old poll on Equestria Daily, CGI was the least voted whereas most people here prefer the CGI over the Tell your Tale animation, interesting how opinions change so quickly.

Edited August 8, 2023 by Theautisticrebel

[FlitterFlutter 1,601]

I don't mind CGI if it is done well like it was in MLP a new generation or most Pixar movies. However cheap CGI looks really bad in my opinion, and the downgrade for Make your Mark falls into this category. I think if you don't have the budget to make your art style look good then you should change the art style like how Tell your Tail was. 

I guess it true that I have a bias towards 2D just because all the animation I grew up with was 2D. So maybe I'm just a grumpy old guy.

[Slappy Bird 176]

The 3D design, mainly they look more expressive like their ears

[Kantet 182]

Am I the only one who doesn't like the 3D animation in the G5? She's kind of plastic, unemotional. And other 3D cartoons look much better.

[Fluttershutter 3,613]

I'd say I like the 3D more, especially in the movie, but the designs in TYT are pretty cute.

[Twitchy-Tremor 310]

I like the 3D one better of g5. It looks nicer.

[DatDreadheaddPonii 34]

Yeah, I guess, but G5's style isn't for me, I guess that's why I prefer the G4 2D style to be used.

[Casey Pones 203]

I found TYT's on-par 2D to be way more palatable than MYM's sub-par 3D.

[AngelZ004 4,520]

3D without a doubt, for me G5's 2D counterpart is just terrible, the animation is one of the laziest i've ever seen, and the visuals & character designs...I swear, I would've done a lot better, any artist from this forum would've made much better designs & visuals actually.

[IronM17 6,584]

I prefer 2D over 3D because:

- I was always a bigger fan of 2D animation and prefer them over 3D animations.

- The characters looked so much more divers in my opinion in 2D than in 3D. 

- I find the designs on 2D cuter than in 3D 

- JAZZ HAS EARS! (but she was still one of the cutest characters in MYM for me)

Don't get me wrong, the 3D style in MLP was not the worst, the movie was even good animated (MYM was not so good at the beginning but got better with the time), but I honestly would have prefered when the whole show was animated in 2D.

[Lnx1ynight16 2,143]

Tbh I like both art styles, but the tyt art style is really cute :3