The idea behind the Grand Galloping 20s’ (MLP 1920s AU) theming was that it’d be an “animated franchise set during the 20s-30s but created in the 50s-70s.”
Here’s a fake animated film opening I put together a few months back to test out the theming. @tulliok did the title card illustration.
Music’s from Disney’s Snow White Overture. The original idea was to end with a live action version of the storybook opening from MLP’s first episode, but learning how to alter books took too long. I even thrifted some old books to repurpose, but I had to move on to other things. Editing + figuring out how to do convincing dissolve transitions (where the brightest parts of the image fade out last) was a lot of fun. Here are some raw images without filters (title card above was done by Tulli).
By the way, I am not doing an actual AU adaptation of the first MLP episode. This is just for fun.
in case anyone’s curious what i’ve been doing instead of drawing ponies these past few weeks, i have been slowly creating my dream animal crossing town in minecraft.
i’ve also been doing midterms. good day.
honestly i have thought about making this available somehow in the future maybe as a server as like, a social MMO space and what if you could be a villager and own a house that takes you to your own pocket world room to decorate with furniture that you could buy from stores that would reset every minecraft day and you could sell fish and bugs and roleplay with other villager players and… no…
maybe i’ll donate it to a minecraft creator when i’m done, idk!
in case anyone’s curious what i’ve been doing instead of drawing ponies these past few weeks, i have been slowly creating my dream animal crossing town in minecraft.
Babe. Babe, are you ok. You’ve been listening to Vince Guaraldi’s “The Great Pumpkin Waltz” (1:28 – 1:48) composed for the 1966 Halloween TV special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on loop for hours, babe.
Mahmoud Baalou and his family are nearly at their final goal: $38,466 out of $50,000!
Although their goal is to evacuate out of Gaza to the safety of Egypt, these donations are needed for water, food, shelter from the winter winds, and medicine so that they can just survive! Both of his parents are diabetics and are in need of urgent care, which isn’t available in Gaza!!
All they ask for is to live their lives in peace and return back to their normal lives. So please donate ($5,$15,$50), share, and tag others to support this family’s goal of a better life 🙏🏽
In case anyone who’s not on Twitter is wondering what it’s like now, I just got punched in the throat by four random consecutive discourse posts on my timeline as follows:
>bojack horseman is pathetic and anyone who likes “cartoons for adults” should have their harddrives checked for cp.
>anime is/isn’t carried by black culture, citing dandadan referencing a rihanna dance in its intro (it was a qrt exchange so both sides were present).
>angel dust is good sa victim representation and the person who made that video essay about them needs to be cyberbullied (or the inverse).
>this random stranger online made a post about how they’re bisexual and a trans ally but aren’t interested in trans people romantically or sexually, let’s make assumptions about their failure as a queer person and also dox them.
LWA was the first anime I watched and became really attached to back in high school. There’s a lot I could say as an intro to it (I highly recommend the OVA film and The Enchanted Parade Film, both are some of the most perfect short anime films [spot the MLP reference in the OVA!]. The main anime series is pretty good but is mostly no-plot shenanigans), but I wanna highlight the designs of background characters as an appeal for you to check it out. Because by god, the crew really cared about developing a fun, diverse cast of students that actually captures teenage girlhood pretty well.
Here’s a cool fact: every student in the background of the anime has a name, nationality, and personality (and possibly backstory and relationships). A lot of love went into designing each individual student, and 90% of them have no speaking roles or major screen-time.
This is only half of the student body too. More under the cut.
