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Equestria Daily : Equestria Girls - Mini - Revealed. Equestria Girls Are Going Chibi Style!

Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:45:50 +0000

But I'm just realizing now as others have pointed out, where is Sunset?!? Sunset needs to be part of this collection!

Equestria Daily : Equestria Girls - Mini - Revealed. Equestria Girls Are Going Chibi Style!

Thu, 8 Oct 2015 16:38:58 +0000

Except for the random face cutie marks, these look fantastic! This style is more how I imagined the characters would be humanized when we first heard about EQG back in ... 2012? 2013? I have a LOT of FiM merch, but NO EQG stuff just beacuse it's all looked... bad, to be frank. I'll definitely want to pick these up!

Equestria Daily : Short SFM: Seventeen Cameras (Gravity Falls) / Twilight\'s Target Practice / Wood

Mon, 7 Sep 2015 09:58:00 +0000

It was weird hearing Kristen Schaal's voice coming out of Pinkie Pie. But her voice sort of kind of fits. Of course I love Andrea Libman as the voice of Pinkie, but in some alternate universe I could see Kristen Schaal voicing Pinkie Pie (but Pinkie's character would have to be altered a bit, maybe to be more mischievous? I dunno. Schaal just has a mischievous voice.)

Equestria Daily : Mentally Advanced Series: Episode -10

Sun, 6 Sep 2015 22:08:17 +0000

Greg (aka FFF and the voice of pretty much everyone in MAS) explains this in one of his "Personal Time with Greg" videos (I forget which one.. or it might've been in a Rainbow Dash Presents commentary... i dunno, it's somewhere on the FFF youtube channel). He says that he does like the show, and amazingly he likes Fluttershy despite the harsh treatment she gets, but basically the entire point of MAS (specifically with the negative (-) series) is go after the flaws in the writing of each episode, then have the characters resolve the episode's conflict in a much simpler way, and that usually involves either a more logical solution or, more frequently, a downright unethical one. This fits with the significant lack of morals displayed by of most of the MAS characters, and especially Twilight. It is easy to see how this, combined with the significant cynicism in the post credits "commentary," could lead one to think he actually hates the show. But it's clear from his other videos that he doesn't. And lastly, he's been making MAS videos for YEARS. He must at least somewhat like the show and the characters for him to be that dedicated. A good video of Greg's to watch (and it might even be the one I was referring to, I don't know) is this one, where he comments on the MLP Analysis community but also states a lot of his own opinions of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYZv8LfwBhU

Equestria Daily : Lost Treasures of Griffonstone Ratings Arrive - Back to 594,000!

Thu, 28 May 2015 00:06:58 +0000

Remember it's not the streams that cause low ratings. For the vast majority of people watching the streams, that's their only way of watching the show live. Discovery Family isn't a basic cable channel, so even people with cable can't necessarily watch it legally, and then of course there are the huge number of people who do not even have cable, and then there are the tens/hundreds of thousands (possibly >1000000) of people outside the U.S. who can't watch it live legally. So the people watching the streams wouldn't be contributing to the Nielsen ratings if there were no streams. They'd just download the episode later (or buy it on iTunes etc). The low ratings are due almost entirely to bad marketing. And Discovery Family excels at sucking at marketing. My guess is ep 100 will have lower ratings than expected, but it *won't* be because of the streams, it'll be due to the multi-week hiatus. I'd love for the episode to break the viewership record or something but honestly, to the target audience, it's just another episode, and one that airs after weeks of no new episodes, and thus one they're likely to miss. I'd really like to be wrong though!

Equestria Daily : Make New Friends But Keep Discord - Discussion / Streams

Sat, 16 May 2015 16:17:27 +0000

I.. what? Whether you liked it or not is one thing, but this episode was the exact opposite of boring! So much going on, so many great jokes and visual gags, and a very funny (if predictable-ish) story. Definitely not boring! Could you elaborate on why you thought it was boring?

Equestria Daily : Make New Friends But Keep Discord - Discussion / Streams

Sat, 16 May 2015 16:02:43 +0000

Fantastic episode!

Equestria Daily : \"Castle Sweet Castle\" Background look.

Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:35:58 +0000

I uploaded it to derpibooru. Just search for Fluttershy's Cottage.

Equestria Daily : \"Castle Sweet Castle\" Background look.

Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:17:18 +0000

When I first watched this episode (missed the livestream) I had to pause the video and adore the newly redesigned Fluttershy's Cottage. It looks fantastic! And just last week I posted a comment saying that I hope they go back and touch up some of their old Season 1 flash assets to match the look of the ones that've been made from scratch for newer seasons, and sure enough they did! And man, they knocked it out of the park with the cottage! Ever since they redesigned the CMC clubhouse in S2 and added way more detail and shading, I've been hoping they would redo the cottage. My wish finally came true! As a bonus there's a few frames from the 1080p iTunes version where there are no credits overlapping it, making a perfect desktop wallpaper. Other than the cottage, almost everything else looked beautiful in this episode too. Except for a couple of those ugly season 1 paper-flat apple trees.... Grr... :P Edit: oh and yes this should be a regular feature, just taking time to point out stuff like this that a lot of people might not notice but contributes hugely to the overall quality of the show. And if BG artists see their work recognized on EQD, they're likely to try even harder to impress!

Equestria Daily : Castle Sweet Castle - Background Music, Instrumentals, and A-Capella!

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:26:23 +0000

That's one of the main things I love so much about FiM's score: that William Anderson (and those he works with) continue to re-use old themes in new ways. Leitmotifs are very rare in children's television background music (i realize that's a pretty pretty specific category...), but the fact that it exists in FiM is just one of those things that makes the entire FiM universe feel so cohesive. Yeah there are some plot holes in some episodes and there are contradictions within the canon, but music has a way of tying things together in ways that no other part of the production can. With music you can set or change the atmosphere of a scene, emphasize a joke or even change its implication, and of course you can bring back memories and, like you said, apply new emotions to those memories, all through the soundtrack. And William Anderson and Kelley Davidson are masters of that. Few other cartoons have/have had music as such an important part of the finished product. There of course have been some. Batman:TAS, Avatar:TLA and TLoK are a few that come to mind. If you've seen those shows you can probably almost immediately recall some of the musical themes they contain (and I mean beyond the intro theme, since you can remember that for pretty much any show). Anyways, to summarize: William Anderson (and Kelly Davidson), you better not ever leave FiM! (I'm kidding, but if he/they do, whoever replaces them will have big shoes to fill.)

Equestria Daily : Castle Sweet Castle - Background Music, Instrumentals, and A-Capella!

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:01:07 +0000

Thanks for posting these Seth. As always, RainShadow has done an incredibly thorough job. Thanks for picking up my slack since season three ;-)

Equestria Daily : Discovery Family Ratings From Season 5 Opener Arrive

Wed, 8 Apr 2015 21:10:28 +0000

Oops, yeah, sorry, I guess I was typing purely on emotion there. I haven't watched any episodes live for years, not since season 2 I think, so after typing that i realized it's possible the hub was just as bad, which it sounds like it was. Either way, it makes me angry.

Equestria Daily : Discovery Family Ratings From Season 5 Opener Arrive

Wed, 8 Apr 2015 20:09:11 +0000

To be honest, watching it on Discovery Family was a terrible experience. At each commercial break, they spoiled stuff from later in the episode. Including clips of Twilight getting her CM back and of Starlight running away with the cutie mark jars. Now, obviously they were going to get their CMs back by the end, but still: showing parts we haven't seen yet during the commercial breaks is incredibly stupid. And then they kept using G4 MLP clips to advertise "My little pony the movie" after the premiere, but that was actually the G1 movie. Were they trying to trick people into watching it by advertising it as a G4 movie? I miss The Hub...

Equestria Daily : All the Background Music from The Cutie Map, Plus Instrumentals and Acapellas of the \"In Our Town\"

Tue, 7 Apr 2015 21:13:07 +0000

It's a possibility. Senn555 did some LPS rips that I helped with the video portion a while back. Another great show that was mixed in 5.1 was Dan Vs, but I found its underscore/BGM, while definitely decent, wasn't on the same level as MLP, as far as really contributing a huge amount to the feel of the show. The show itself was great though... I'm still hoping it comes back from the dead. Hasbro/DFam did just renew SSBBA after a multi-year hiatus, so why not Dan??

Equestria Daily : All the Background Music from The Cutie Map, Plus Instrumentals and Acapellas of the \"In Our Town\"

Tue, 7 Apr 2015 21:08:23 +0000

When something is mastered in stereo, that means there are two channels of audio: L and R. If you have the same sound coming out of both channels equally it *sounds* like it's coming from the center point between the two speakers, but it's actually coming from two different locations at the same time and your brain is receiving the same audio signal from each ear, so your brain "places" that sound in the center. But when it comes to removing vocals it doesn't quite work this way, since "center panned" vocals in a 2-channel stereo mix are actually equally in the L and R channels, which means there are no channels that have only music and no vocals. In a 5.1 surround mix on the other hand, there is a physical center channel, leaving the L, R, SL, and SR channels to contain music without vocals layered on top. (Now there are often other things in those channels, especially reverb and stuff in the surround channels, but rarely vocals unless the person speaking is behind the camera).

Equestria Daily : All the Background Music from The Cutie Map, Plus Instrumentals and Acapellas of the \"In Our Town\"

Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:55:01 +0000

Maybe... I'd need to start watching LPS again though; I never really got into it. Other than that, pretty much all the cartoons I watch with good BGM are sadly mastered in stereo (Gravity Falls, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, others). I dunno, I'll try to think of something. Or not, who knows.

Equestria Daily : All the Background Music from The Cutie Map, Plus Instrumentals and Acapellas of the \"In Our Town\"

Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:26:00 +0000

There's not really a special technique involved (most of the time anyway). MLP is mixed in 5.1 surround sound, and in general, voice and sound effects are in the center channel, while music is in the front and surround channels, so by using a program like Audacity, you can separate the channels. (It gets harder if you have to mask sound effects in the L or R channels, or if you only have a stereo audio source. in the latter case case it's pretty much impossible to truly remove the vocals, but you can get kinda close)

Equestria Daily : All the Background Music from The Cutie Map, Plus Instrumentals and Acapellas of the \"In Our Town\"

Tue, 7 Apr 2015 20:05:00 +0000

Well, more like 99% RainShadow, 1% InfinityDash. RainShadow is so fast, I can't compete!

Equestria Daily : Poll Results: Who is the Best Doctor Whooves Companion?

Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:18:27 +0000

If the Derpy/Doctor poll was obvious, then this one's even more obvious. Of course "Electronic/dubstep/trance/etc" is going to win. Including all types of electronic music in one category basically guarantees it wins, since the amount of electronic pony music vastly outnumbers all the other types listed. I wish at least Chiptune was a separate choice, since there's a huge amount of 8-bit (and, not to toot my own horn but some 16-bit as well) music which technically qualifies as "electronic" but has pretty much nothing in common with dubstep. I usually like these polls but these two are not very interesting because their outcomes were incredibly obvious from the start. (Oh and I voted for Roseluck on the previous poll. Honestly I get kind of annoyed with all the Doctor/Derpy shipping.)

Equestria Daily : The Daily Oat Shuts Down

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 23:44:07 +0000

This is sad news. I remember when TDO was first created. Four years went by really fast... EQD, you better not ever shut down. I mean EVER