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Animation and Art Notes
The top down scene when Celestia is explaining the backstory of Discord to the Mane 6. Brief shot, but very advanced compared to the top down shots of Season 1 that I recall. Main thing coming to mind, the cat walk in Suited for Success: >>11297 (gosh, has it really been 2 years!?). We only saw Rarity from a top down perspective and a bunch of very simple background ponies. While here we Rainbow Dash’s wings are animated and so is Celestia’s mane. The walking also seems a little smoother compared to Rarity’s though, it may just look better from a distance. The rest of the Mane 6 could very well be just copies of Rarity’s walk from Suited For Success and the model just works better from a distance. When you zoom in, Celestia and Rainbow look a little goofy with their eyes visible. Still, the new animation they did for a 2 second shot I counts for some effort. Again, I stress, I am no expert on flash!

Twilight Sparkle side mouth! I need to keep track of this season. I have encountered it more than once side mouth expressions like this were mostly a Season 1 thing.

The Statue of Victory flag has a rather poor looking gradient. Not that I hold it against anybody, but for whatever reason, it stood out. Heh, I need to check if anyone has turned this statue and the story behind it into a character with a fanfic. I know that has happened to a certain statue in Ponyville.

Screwball
This one background gag pony had a decent sized fandom back in the day, not huge, but there was some notable stories and a tumblr ask blog or two. I haven’t seen much of her in recent history, especially art. I don’t have time to establish criteria to compare her in art tags, but I did take a glance her FimFiction character tag and yeah, a significant drop off in stories including her minus what was probably some writing contest in 2025. I don’t see her much in art anymore, and honestly, haven’t thought of her much myself. A character I have never really been drawn too.