>>3863
this pic with some fangs of meh quality. and a bubble because why not

>>3866
If you only managed to implement bat wings to her, that picture could have been pretty useful tbh

now, speaking of the 2nd mascot....

by using the flaws from the mobile app, I believe that your picture about Candy was way more exploitable than one would have expected...

>>3868
It could've. I actually made it after th fic though. Though for future Bat Cadence appearances that is a path I could take.

>>3869
Now this is good. My asset is still a bit amateurish but now looks both purposeful and creepy in its own way.

>>3873
>I actually made it after th fic though.
yeah, I know, it´s just that it simply looks like it could perfectly fit for whatever you have planned with her.

>Though for future Bat Cadence appearances that is a path I could take.
yeah, even if it´s taken to a derivative edition from the original picture, as long as it puts the reader into that concept and translates decently what you want, that should be enough.

>Now this is good. My asset is still a bit amateurish but now looks both purposeful and creepy in its own way.
yeah thanks. I doubted for a while about its brightness and I had to decide among 5 editions and decide which one should make the cut. I have other versions of her (more red colored and with less brightness) and I can post them as well.

The main thing about it was making your drawing a little bit more complex with the flaws and give her a little bit of a bat feeling. I simply pressed my finger a couple of times inside the wing and the contours of her body were transferred to the inside of the main wing. Adding more sharpness, a partial color wash and the little adjustments made with the PC, turned out to this product. I haven´t made a chaotic edit that would make the cut for a good while.

It´s not like the first time I do this with your pictures.

>>4061
Definitely an improvement. Like it.

>>4062
This is so cool! An old picture that wasn't a gem, but not horrible. It feels very Halloween or Autumn themed. It (and the original pic even to an extent) are kinda strange. Did ya have any special thought process or drive with this one?

>>4079
>You were just moving on aimlessly with it.
basically that.Again, I could make the explanation in a retrospective analysis of what adjustment I had modified the most between pictures but that´s a task which anyone can figure out from the eye itself.

>I thought you may have been aiming for something like that a little bit.
not even close, I only wanted to get rid of so much blue from the picture and get more dynamic by using the tone and the contrast. There were a little bit of a couple of effects in between and it escalated to a different variety of colors that didn´t go all that extreme. Now, that cost me to try literally everything just to guess what I wanted to do. It´s like shooting blind at random targets. Maybe I wanted to go further because it would be too predictable to deliver the same all the time.

By the way, that´s quite possibly the best take I have seen with the emboss filter in which it doesn´t get too weird or collapses the picture with the effect in its entirety. Also, I must say that Candy looks like she has come from an 80s (maybe early 90s graphics?) game in this case. The thumbnail at least makes her look like a sprite.

>>4080
>Though the original is a bit too dark I see it as tranquil. The edit feels more like a departure than an improvement, with several different contexts depending on the mood. From happy to actually a little creepy.
ufff that´s up to a personal interpretation from the viewer. You are onto something. While I am editing it especially when I do it aimlessly, sometimes I simply don´t focus so much on the meaning but on the visual aspects. In retrospective, after a certain undefined period, the user gets to see the meaning of it without being so biased.

I can see why you like this one. Though I'm not sure i remember everything I did it wasn't much but it seems there was a few steps I'll try to repeat it with something else.

>>4089
>Now, that cost me to try literally everything just to guess what I wanted to do. It´s like shooting blind at random targets. Maybe I wanted to go further because it would be too predictable to deliver the same all the time.
>You are onto something. While I am editing it especially when I do it aimlessly, sometimes I simply don´t focus so much on the meaning but on the visual aspects. In retrospective, after a certain undefined period, the user gets to see the meaning of it without being so biased.
I can understand that. Just trying to get your barings by feel and seeing where it goes. I still need to try to find some pics from the style I thought you were aiming for though.

>By the way, that´s quite possibly the best take I have seen with the emboss filter in which it doesn´t get too weird or collapses the picture with the effect in its entirety.
Its actually the fabric filter this time. I ought to try to do more like this where I select just parts of the image. The only part I do not like is the darkened wing, I should have made it a different color or the same color of the rest of the image.

>Also, I must say that Candy looks like she has come from an 80s (maybe early 90s graphics?) game in this case. The thumbnail at least makes her look like a sprite.
It's the cubism filter. She certainly looks pretty retro in the thumbnail that's for sure.

>>4148
>I knew that before this post, you had used more than effect just to arrive at this picture. I had never seen a similar edit that you had show before.
>Judging it without knowing the Photoshop effects, it seems that you used a derivative negative effect.
It looks like a more stylized contrast filter. I'm trying to repeat the process, I know I changed the contrast and messed with some contrast and color filters but it seems like there was something else.

>Normally, I would save a few copies of the process just to have a checkpoint/base material for the next step and apply the inductive method.
When I'm not messing around and being serious that could be a good idea, the only problem is when I'm in a bit of a zone and don't want to think about it if ya get what I mean.

Nice color addentions with that seapony Luna. I also like the lighting as well.

>>4159
>>4160
alright, you are making it really hard to pick just one because the base image is really great but some of these effects just add a cherry on top of it.

Ironically enough, this edit >>4157 is technically the least impressive of them all for some reason.

I will try to rank them in a quick way because it´s getting a bit late for me:

emboss<= emboss with supernova <<< eroded< ice blue=abstract< supernova=<the faded out

The pink filter works pretty well for this picture (the ice blue doesn´t fall short either). Almost all the effect could be pretty valid for the image itself. The abstract and the eroded
works for thumbnail and the supernova works great at replacing the sun/moon by bringing rays all over the picture. It almost looks as something inherent/natural to the picture itself.

>>4232
Glitch art can be pretty cool

>>4238
it can perfectly lead to interesting at least.I haven´t considered it too much until this edit but as I say, too easy to mess it up at random and really hard to master its aesthetic in an artistic way.Either the results end up in a postmodern mess or it gets a breath of fresh air
>>4235
out of these,emboss fortunately works pretty nicely because of the curvy lines in her design.The filter cleans up and creates a contrast that helps at telling her body structure.
>>4253
>looks like another Ice Celestia theme. I like it pretty well.
I could have posted it long ago but as I say in my previous post, I felt that something was lacking in that image that didn´t satisfy me completely.

>Makes it feel like buried treasure amongst the trash, and you are trying to bring it to its potential.
that´s the point of editing leftovers from the artist needed tag or pictures that have little to no upvotes that can be potentially polished. I simply save a few images while clicking page after page for images that no one would post.
>so the final correction base is the one in you used as the fallback for your others?
eeeyup,I stopped removing the glitches with the corrector and I simply went through the ordinary editing again until I got the finished product.

I didn´t imagine that I would make a parody of this album at first, I am amazed that it manage to look so close to the original that I still cannot believe it.My main focus was about removing the errors and I kind of gave up at that point with those forms around Celestia left at random.
I listened to that record again because of the news about a leak of minidiscs of 18 hours and I looked at the cover again. I cannot help but loving it visually (the music too but that´s another story) and when I posted it here, I couldn´t believe the results.

>This ponification of th album is my favorite. It has a nice atmosphere to it.
getting to combine both things and create a symbiosis between them leaves me out words. I will say that I wanted to have an experimental edit with the black and white coloring but I didn´t expect to have it with this one.I didn´t have this picture in high regard at all because it has stayed there in the folder for 7 months or so.

>I can understand the fear of cringe, as both ponification and the dark and gothic could get you shouted with dead meme well, partly dead meme and deviart tier taste
>I've had way crazier ponify for the shake of ponifing urges than that
yeah thanks. I will say though that the album cover art helped me to get a different expression for the picture and I saw it more like a solution after correcting the picture for more than an hour and not like a straight parody of it. Any fan likes to ponify everything but I won´t deny that music has influenced a lot when it comes to fics and in some way, through the edits. As if it wasn´t clear with the lo-fi edits you have a more explicit product of this statement

>A 3rd is the flame edit.
>orrection base and final the pre flame one which just feels like its in a lackluster state of incompleteness.
yeah,I felt like looking for the heat effect because of her Daybreaker side. It didn´t translate as nicely as it sounds in theory.
Also, you said that image seems like it´s a buried treasure from the trash. Did I comment properly about the original picture? I realized that the "psychedelic" effect isn´t that original from the original artist. Looking back at it, the image mashes up a vector of Celestia with questionable color decisions and the background...I didn´t notice this but it had the Hub logo and Twilight´s face behind, hidden between blurriness and the screenshots looks like it was taken in reverse
Can you imagine that the glitches were coming from Twilight´s face/eyes? I didn´t realize about it after comparing the edits with the original. I don´t usually like showing ego here but this is the closest thing that I have turned into something that could be seen as artistic from a sample that it wasn´t at its core.

And yes, the official edit for this picture is the AMSP cover edit.

>>4253
>This was just some messing around trying to correct my least favorite part of the image, her snout and mouth. With mixed though not horrible results. It just feels like most of it needs to be better realized/need to spend more time actually learning how to draw with my tablet.
I left that picture here long ago just to put more material to edit in general.

The black silhouette makes her look badass and out of all the mouth edits,it looks like the angled down works nicely but I wouldn´t have a clear idea what to do with that image tbh. The 2nd edit is my least favorite mostly because of the semicircle at the right of her mouth.

>>4254
>Though the final one barely edges out because I like th purple. The original image ain't bad and these feel more like a new take than an improvement.
yeah, I left those two together because they would compete against themselves closely, basically leaving them just to see which one is the favorite of the two.

>I have seen stuff of a similar vein in the fandom that I quite dig.
I haven´t seen it all that much. If you manage to post it, maybe they could give a spark of a few ideas....

>Much higher threshold of potential and I like them better, but they don't feel fully realized.
except the first one, I am pretty split between the other three. Maybe it sounds edgy but the red edit (3rd picture) looks like the most consistent one in her colors, despite the other two barely being behind. It´s all a matter of taste in this case.

>>4371
the image is a pretty popular one on DA and yeah, that Star Wars pic sets a pretty dark tone for Candy.

I cannot tell between the two dark green (?) edits but so I consider them equally awesome. Maybe they are slight changes (contrast or intensity) but to me, those two look the same.

And for the other two, as far as I am concerned, the pinkish filter definitely looks more vibrant, causing more impact to the eye. Although I must say that the brighter edit of the green ones reminds me of those dark green pixels that appear in the old video games. I also must say that the intense edit resembles a military poster from a soldier/guard because of the green´s tone that appears in a standard uniform.

Honestly, I wouldn´t have a clear preference. I guess this is up to which one convinces you the most for your next material. In general, as you say, they look pretty cool and in my opinion, I find it more difficult to pick just one. This dilemma is what I have to face before posting a few edits here.

Howdy, a quick PoLS with some edits I worked on eariler! I tried removing the backgrounds to some gifs. This trick only works on some gifs that are formated a in a certain way and while I can't say it's too terribly interesting on it's own it is something that might be fun with a little further editing. The AJ I resized smaller because I feared with endchan's 8chan chaos I may have a harder than normal time posting an 18mb file.

Howdy, a quick PoLS with some edits I worked on eariler! I tried removing the backgrounds to some gifs. This trick only works on some gifs that are formated a in a certain way and while I can't say it's too terribly interesting on it's own it is something that might be fun with a little further editing. The AJ I resized smaller because I feared with endchan's 8chan chaos I may have a harder than normal time posting an 18mb file.

Howdy, a quick PoLS with some edits I worked on eariler! I tried removing the backgrounds to some gifs. This trick only works on some gifs that are formated a in a certain way and while I can't say it's too terribly interesting on it's own it is something that might be fun with a little further editing. The AJ I resized smaller because I feared with endchan's 8chan chaos I may have a harder than normal time posting an 18mb file.

>>4489
>>4490
>>4491
Well I tried posting like 10 times with varying file combinations, I see a couple more got through despite telling me otherwise.

>>4491
>This trick only works on some gifs that are formated a in a certain way and while I can't say it's too terribly interesting on it's own it is something that might be fun with a little further editing.
it´s quite fun honestly, it reminds me a lot of the RPG battles in which only the opponents matter and the backgrounds truly irrelevant. It´s a quite peculiar idea to be honest even though it seems quite tricky to domain all the pixels for the parts of the picture.

For the TFH character fits pretty well I must say.

>The AJ I resized smaller because I feared with endchan's 8chan chaos I may have a harder than normal time posting an 18mb file.
you can post it again with a more calm mindset, we are not meeting the same fate as them....hopefully (even though a few ones are claiming that it could come back(?))

>>4492
now, that´s a pretty damn great transition. Into the hits it goes.

>>4515
Thanks bro

>>4517
Thanks Bro

>>4514
>it´s quite fun honestly, it reminds me a lot of the RPG battles in which only the opponents matter and the backgrounds truly irrelevant. It´s a quite peculiar idea to be honest even though it seems quite tricky to domain all the pixels for the parts of the picture.
I didn't think of it that way but RPG battles do fit. The idea I had with the fragmented gifs is that they perhaps could be modified or added to in other ways. Maybe some type of none cyberpunkish glitch art (well cyberpunk would be on the table, but I wanted to take it in a different direction).

>now, that´s a pretty damn great transition. Into the hits it goes.
I'm almost surprised you liked it so much yet I can understand too because I find myself just staring at it as it fills in with pixels. All I did here was delete the background layer.

>>4515
It surprises me as well. CarrotDashfag is at this point almost becoming a regular.

>>4517
Thanks

>>4519
Bro

and one last thing before I go to bed. You have praised the background of the advanced image but I am quite surprised that you haven't noticed something hidden in my latest edit so far.

I will leave you wondering a little bit why it took me so many pictures by using the spotty correction but if you want a little hint from me,I suggest you to...

check a world map

With that said, have a good night folks.

>>4533
>The basic edit looks okay, not a fav not a dislike.
I was considering that basic edit to leave it at there and after watching for a short period, I noticed that it wasn´t enough.

>looks like one of those inverted creepy pasta images from the 2010 to 2012 (and maybe some would say 2014 era)
as long as the image induces to some kind of feeling or transmits something else beyond a SFM, I´d rather stick with anything. I have picked this image because it appeared in the artist needed tag but let me tell you, I didn´t have any sort of expectations save giving another attempt to SFM edits. I was pretty much indifferent for picking the base material when it comes to 3d stuff.

I might get an idea of the style from 2010-12 but I cannot picture how the trends of 2014 worked back then.

>Visually the Luna looks still to much like a 3d asset to call great
da*yay*it, I thought that the background and extreme editing could have prevented from noticing it and hide her ture nature (maybe I should have probably corrected/deleted the shadows so her model gets more plain for the viewer)

>I really like the ripple effect in the background. Almost looks like cubism in a few places.
the funny thing is that unlike your photoshop program, I haven´t used the cubist filter for the advanced edit.Most of the time, I have focused on using the spotty correction for creating some sort of cohesive layers that change the colours gradually, especially around the moon (dressed up as the sun because of the luminosity and its whiteness)

Now, about your three edits:the erase filter in the original pic doesn´t fit all that much for the pink colour.

However, I am torn between the other two images. The problem here is that I personally wouldn´t have a strong feeling to edit this picture because it looks completely fine.

Leaving my vision aside, I don´t know what to pick because the erase filter works for the green tone. In the second picture, that filter delivers a slight vibe of nocturne rays/tech vision so I suppose that associating it with that aesthetic really does a favor for this image. I don´t get that charm with the original pic + the rows of said erase filter though.

As I am one of those who sees this image as perfectly fine, I do believe that the simplest one also works here as well. This means that the clean version without the erase filter makes the cut as well, staying as a really classy pony with her brown mane. If this is an inverted edit, she looks great for what it offers.

>>4534
>The idea I had with the fragmented gifs is that they perhaps could be modified or added to in other ways. Maybe some type of none cyberpunkish glitch art (well cyberpunk would be on the table, but I wanted to take it in a different direction).
well, you have shown very different results from your original intentions, so it has clearly deviated even though the aesthetic perfectly fits for the cyberpunk style.

It seems that you have considered BO´s words about how sick glitch can turn out and yeah, it shows that there is always potential. However, the material that you have used doesn´t seem to aim where you wanted to arrive at.

>RPG battles do fit.
for the image that you have picked, it clearly does.

>I'm almost surprised you liked it so much yet I can understand too because I find myself just staring at it as it fills in with pixels. All I did here was delete the background layer.
sometimes the simplest things work the best. When it works, it simply works and there not much mystery beyond that except for doing more tests and trying over and over again.

You might have been surprised by my reception but I am one of those who waits and judges whenever the author feels ready to deliver the content to the public.

About my reasons for finding it appealing, the lack of background prevents me from getting distracted with the colourful background and my eye only focuses on the moving pixels that are doing a transition, bringing more colour and paying off in the end with the full title. As you have said to yourself, the eyes only focus on how the pixels are filling the image but not the point where they fill all the image but some elements from it. My eyes don´t get distracted and they notice all the parts that partially compose this picture.

Keep in mind that you are not only taking a visual aspect but more like a psychological take, adjusting the impressions that the consumer can take about it.

>>4535
>It surprises me as well. CarrotDashfag is at this point almost becoming a regular.
it doesn´t surprise me that much. I have found some proof of it in the meantime that shows his other side a little bit.

He has also praised AJ´s image for looking kind of badass to him by the way.

>>4533
U have shittaste

see the coolness now?

no all U want is abstract crappy indie game pixle art

no all U want is 2d animation that is hand painted

3d forever

>>4535
Ok











Bro

>>4541
>proof
>he knows
>what does he know?
???????????????????????

>>4546
>what does he know?
I know that you have visited /flutter/ even though it´s not that much of a mystery for noticing it

>>4544
>no all U want is 2d animation that is hand painted
you have described why the fans watch this show. That´s not a contempt but an essential part of the franchise.

>3d forever
I was going to comment about the changes that the orange colour produced over the purple textures but...

I think....I think that´s not how 3d works.

You guyz wanted carrotz right
>>>/b/23013
This was you right?

>>4558
yeah because I saw flutter. Im not polish

>>4558
No it's peak 3d. The carrots are meant to distract your eye and help make the CGI more realistic. Although I prefer shitty 3D myself

I present to everybrony my first OC. Carrot Corn Betty. I sometimes ship her with Rainbow Dash and her favored food is Carrots

Here are some other facts:
<is fat but hides it well
<is short but hides it well
<is autistic and doesn't hide it well
<secretly has a crush on Tucker Carlson
<hates steroids
<hates steady state AI
<Thinks Derpibooru is amazing and can't believe how badly the weebs and furfags have lost the arms race
<hates manga that mention joy
<Loves taco bell

>>4581
>This was you right?
definitely not coming from the Spaniard

>>4582
>yeah because I saw flutter. Im not polish
the board detects it as if you are polish with your post. That ahppened to me once and I got the US flag for some reason. This phenomenon comes because Odili wanted to have some randomness with it and leave it at that.

>Although I prefer shitty 3D myself
I am not the biggest fan of the source filmmaker models. You can do a lot of weird things with it to your own will but the textures feel like we are going back to the late 90s. There are a few gems with pony related content because of the scenery but that´s like picking a nice three star hotel out of 200 ones that are not accredited at all nor have had any quality check.

>>4584
>I present to everybrony my first OC. Carrot Corn Betty. I sometimes ship her with Rainbow Dash and her favored food is Carrots
hold on, Dashfag. I know that you want to post and spam your religion as if you are the next messiah to illuminate this site but you are running way too fast. You are excited about endchan coming back and all of that but you still cannot clear the skies in ten seconds.

Let me put things clear here. The pony I posted >>4558 is not an OC, in fact, the pictures that come from Derpibooru show the tags and the thumbnail gives you an idea if that character is an OC or if it has an actual canon name.

That pony is a special one. Even people who weren´t fans at all nor watched the show whatsoever actually knew her name: Derpy Hooves. You can check her wiki if you want but basically, that pony became famous because of an error in the animation from the first episode, she wasn´t supposed to be like that (she was copy pasted pony that stayed in the background, serving as filler for the screen) but fans posted the hell out of her and her popularity skyrocketed to such huge levels that any appearance from her would cause a big reaction from the fans...

and it happened. She talked in this episode for the first time:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gchZrRk2KlI [Embed]

Besides "varied" reactions from the fanbase, they decided not to call her Derpy and just leave her without name. This video has her name mentioned and it´s the uncensored one before soccer moms and a few offended ones decided to complain that it was an insult to those people.

She disappeared from the map and she didn´t have any sort of relevance until a couple of seasons later with a permanent comeback.

I have written a pretty short summary and I´ll leave it at that for now.


Back to your post, you have certainly got right a couple of things for a newcomer who has no contact with the show:

>is autistic and doesn't hide it well
yes and that´s the main reason she was born and went from a copy pasted background character to a helpful secondary one that affects the events. She even saved Twilight Sparkle from turning into stone in the movie.... so yeah, that escalated a lot more than it should have been.

>ship her with Rainbow Dash
shipping doesn´t fit but I will tell that Rainbow Dash actually interacted with her in her first episode that Derpy had a voice.

As for the rest of your lines, either they are satire or you are simply disguising your views or descriptions about yourself.

>Thinks Derpibooru is amazing and can't believe how badly the weebs and furfags have lost the arms race
and I don´t know what you truly mean with this one between your intentions of comedy.

>>4584
also, one sad thing I´ve got to tell you, Dashfag. Her favorite isn´t what you want it to be. She has always had one special food from the very beginning:

Muffins.

You went too fast m8. Sorry to ruin it for you but it is what it is. The canon was written almost 9 years ago and there nothing that anyone can do.

>>4541
>da*yay*it, I thought that the background and extreme editing could have prevented from noticing it and hide her ture nature (maybe I should have probably corrected/deleted the shadows so her model gets more plain for the viewer)
Don't fret too bad. I still like the image (and the cameo of Spain, which as a Texan I can totally relate to because we put Texas everywhere) and you could still go for a slightly rough style and make it work pretty well.

>>4544
>U have shittaste
...

>no all U want is abstract crappy indie game pixle art
I don't know enough about indie games to make a judgment other than I recall people sometimes saying that a lot of pixel art is just laziness put under the shield of nostalgia

>no all U want is 2d animation that is hand painted
I do value things that are hand crafted but what I'm really an enemy of is ubiquity of one method or idea at the expensive of everything else (like Cloud Computing). Besides MLP itself is flash animated and a lot of fans prefer the show style.

>>4590
Well, it wasn't me either...

Also nice job with the carrot gif edit. I can see you were paying attention to previous posts over here.

I'll get to the rest of this thread later, night endpone!

>>4597
>hold on, Dashfag. I know that you want to post and spam your religion as if you are the next messiah to illuminate this site but you are running way too fast. You are excited about endchan coming back and all of that but you still cannot clear the skies in ten seconds.
Carrots are enteral and I can clear them in 5 seconds.

>Let me put things clear here. The pony I posted >>4558 is not an OC
I know.

>That pony is a special one. Even people who weren´t fans at all nor watched the show whatsoever actually knew her name: Derpy Hooves.
I didn't know the backstory but I did know of Derpy. I thought her name was Derpy Doo and didn't have any idea anything else except she was a klutz or autistic. I don't know every detail but this isn't my first rodeo shitposting with you fags. Like any one of your fagdom's shiter OC she is merely a preexisting character with 1 thing changed. She's a carrot corn with carrot magic.

>shipping doesn´t fit but I will tell that Rainbow Dash actually interacted with her in her first episode that Derpy had a voice.
seems like they have good chemistry to me

> She even saved Twilight Sparkle from turning into stone in the movie.... so yeah, that escalated a lot more than it should have been.
Is she basically like Jar Jar Binks but liked?

>>4590
>>4605
????????????????

>>4597
>and I don´t know what you truly mean with this one between your intentions of comedy.
This is for real though. I cannot believe how good derpibooru is and that it is custom coded. Look at any other booru and it is utterly lacking compared to it. I almost hate to admit it but that's one other feather you ponyfags can honestly put in your cap.

>>4597
>>4599
>also, one sad thing I´ve got to tell you, Dashfag. Her favorite isn´t what you want it to be. She has always had one special food from the very beginning
>Dashfag. I know that you want to post and spam your religion as if you are the next messiah to illuminate this site but you are running way too fast.
<she is stupid
<carrots are better than muffins for horses
and you were betrayed by your own booru on this one
It's CARROTdashfag to you.

>>4604
>I still like the image (and the cameo of Spain, which as a Texan I can totally relate to because we put Texas everywhere) and you could still go for a slightly rough style and make it work pretty well.
alright thanks. Just two aspects of the edit and we clear this topic out. The map of Spain wasn´t planned at all and I simply wanted to adjust the random lines that looked pretty ugly and random, hence you have felt that sense of cubism. While editing the middle of the picture, I was trying to modify it for a more consistent layer and I sort of made the north of my country. Then I joked myself about trying to see if I could do it just for fun and in the end, I wouldn´t finish this if I didn´t have its contours complete (the south and the west of it cost me a lot of corrections and clicks).

The other little sad fact is that I have tried that rough style and whatever I tried, I wasn´t convinced at all, nothing worked and I decided to consider this one as the final edit. I found no path to thrive nor any proper step to move forward and find something more interesting on top of it.

In short, it´s the ending point because any other attempt would only lead to worse results than this.

>I recall people sometimes saying that a lot of pixel art is just laziness put under the shield of nostalgia
that´s a pretty likely theory. However, pixel art can turn into an impressive tool if used properly just that the most popular cases end up in subpar results. Just like flash was for animation, the pixel artstyle is seen as the cheap one. However, flash has had its own success and appeal (MLP is one of its finest examples) while the latter has to make more efforts in order to become less infamous.


>I do value things that are hand crafted
it does require effort and some of its imperfections/eclecticisms are actually charming, Derpy came from a mistake of it by the way.

>I'm really an enemy of is ubiquity of one method or idea at the expensive of everything else (like Cloud Computing).
is this a metaphor about 3d in animation? or is it more a criticism towards one peculiar trend that everyone copies (like Dreamworks ripping off Shrek over and over)?

>>4625
This interests me. It really does...

>because, what could possibly go wrong with 3d models of this kind?
Everything but that's half the fun.

PoLS /)

>>4626
oh dear, Twilight must have tested the new mushrooms that Zecora discovered last week. Her eyes have fallen into the colourful world of psychedelia.

I don´t know what the lines drawn in Paint are supposed to mean besides the contours of her mane.

>>4641
before I comment on anything else. Let me say that when it comes to judging filters, it becomes really difficult to put one above the other whenever I am editing, it really falls into a subjective taste and it really depends where you are trying to go with them.

So, about these comic covers, the two filters that stand out the most (to me) are the neon and the photocopy filters (if I have to pick).

The former amplifies the contours of the lines and it can become really useful for certain expressions/ aesthetics. While this image doesn´t fit the most for a black cover, the colourful contours give a richer tone than doesn´t appear in the original. For the logo it does look certainly like a title from those creepy 80s shows but for the rest of the picture, it maintains the innocence.

The latter not only serves as a great base for giving something to the kids to paint on it but also gives a clearer focus on the shadows and how they define the picture even more than the original.

The cloth filter doesn´t add up all that much and the only way I imagine its texture is if it´s painted in a wall in real life (which would be awesome by the way). And as you say, the red filter is a just because...

>>4643
>The lines are just her main and me half thinking if I should try tracing it with a poor paint 2D border but I called off the attempt.
understandable.

>>4642
>Same for the scraps I'm posting right now. I'm only posting ones that don't reveal
I see. Did the scrap have something to do with Mare Do Well or is it just a dark identity that comes from Twilight herself?

>>4641
>Looks slightly nicer. Colors look a little richer. I dig it.
alright perfect even though I still keep that both make not much difference between each other, unlike the following ones.

>Brighter is better with this. The translucent effect on the mane looks especially nice with it a bit more vivid.
eeeyup. By the way,I forgot to mention that I modified very slightly the contrast and not only brightness is involved but there´s more clarity. In this case, these adjustments play a more important role (still in a subtle way)

>Though I think overall the model itself is actually pretty good and the slight edit shows its strength. Her mane and tail look like jello, but they don't feel stiff like some other models where the princesses mane's look like rubber balloons.

yeah, that model must have been recent or an updated version. Looking at the serial number, you can tell that it´s appeared much later than the first ones and it has a pretty good score (not over 100 upvotes but something close to them). I was wondering for a little while if this image was actually SFM for a little while.

>This looks like the best if your objective is transformation.
my last Luna edit tried to convey that and you mentioned over here >>4533, it looked too much like a 3d asset. So yeah, my idea was to go for the heavy editing until getting the feeling of 3d, even if the background shows a lot of brightness.

>feels like a hybrid between one of those models and the comic style (I guess one might say it looks like cell shading) but it's an order of magnitude better than that dull puke green model.
while posting the "descriptive story", I didn´t consider the style of the DBZ games but as I couldn´t remove the shadows, they become like the only elements that could give you a clue that this is a 3d model.

>Parts of the image look really well, especially the clouds. The main giveaway is the mane and the platform she is standing on which look in parts clearly CGI. It's visually confusing and I like it, though >>4631 (you) is the most well executed.
well, I didn´t think that you would end up liking the Pharynx´s one the most. Before posting these 5 pictures, I thought this one would stand out even though I admit that the mane would be the main 3d element to point out. I don´t know if cutting the platform would make the image more awkward or more convenient though.

>Other than the stiff pose it looks pretty good.
it had 18 upvotes and unlike >>4630, you cannot expect much from these models even though....

>Almost whimsical in spirit. It makes me feel strangly happy... if that make sense.
I would like to know why it makes you think like that. I will admit that I forgot that Nightmare Moon could bring villainy vibes on this one for a while and looks more like an impish character with that face.

>It actually inspired me a little (though I haven't acted on anything with that bit of inspiration yet).
oh, that´s a nice thing to hear.

>>4642
>If it's something that isn't too private than I'm all ears.
I will reveal other personal thoughts for other works/posts.
For this one, I meant to describe the working process in order to get to this result. Basically I am showing to you the steps of how I reached that picture and probably, you are going to like more the middle of the road content than the final result.

Let´s see if I can expose everything properly without getting into a mess.

>>4883
Proof of life as well. In a couple of days I'll be getting to my review... or perhaps calling it my attempt to assess thing.
It's turning out to be pretty long I'll get to here in a bit.

> and well, I´ve been feeling pretty relaxed after the ending of gen 4 in general.
Same, with a mix of emotion on the side. More at peace than before for sure.

>>4884
So I can edit posts as mod...

>>4885
it seems so. By the way,"Dolor" in Spanish means pain....just saying.

>>4884
>In a couple of days I'll be getting to my review... or perhaps calling it my attempt to assess thing.
>It's turning out to be pretty long I'll get to here in a bit.
alright, don´t worry, I am not asking for a rushed review because you anticipated that huge length last week and combined with the fact that we are talking about a finale of three episodes (1 hour), by the number it was going to bring more work at reviewing it than the rest of this season, with the additional task of handling the feelings properly (how to express them).

>More at peace than before for sure.
yeah the mood has noticeably changed here and considering the personal problems that you might be facing right now, it´s no wonder that there is more time to feel relaxed and come up with your thoughts with no pressure.

In fact, I try to not carry myself into an emotional state and think too much about the ending. There will be a point in the future when this event will impact me more than these days, so I stay chill with the fandom content and other things unrelated to this franchise.

Anyway, PoLS as usual. Whenever you feel prepared for it, I will leave my comments as well.

>>4883
I understand you consider these edits less interesting but >>4678 is actually pretty cool transformation.

>>4883
This one is pretty nice to me.

>>4891
This one looks more dramatic.

>>4880
>>4881
>>4883
>>4892
These are all decent tier but I can see why you would find them uninteresting.

>>4882
This one is the most questionable. The colors with both edited or otherwise look kinda unappealing.

>>4886
>alright, don´t worry, I am not asking for a rushed review because you anticipated that huge length last week and combined with the fact that we are talking about a finale of three episodes (1 hour),
I'm not. Been carefully considering my thoughts and working at my own pace.

>In fact, I try to not carry myself into an emotional state and think too much about the ending. There will be a point in the future when this event will impact me more than these days, so I stay chill with the fandom content and other things unrelated to this franchise.
True, after all, why be nostalgic for something you are still part of?

>By the way,"Dolor" in Spanish means pain....just saying.
I choose the name because Dolores. Oh well, that's actually kind of funny... cue emo music

>>4899
>Been carefully considering my thoughts and working at my own pace.
nice. Although your thoughts seem to build a quite extensive review so I don't have a clear idea when I have to start with the replies. Nonetheless,there is no release date for them so as long as you are convinced with your own self about those episodes,the rest will come and go.

>why be nostalgic for something you are still part of?
I will fall into that nostalgic state later in my life when a cycle ends and get to move forward. However,I cannot feel that for now and I ask myself how I have been able (well,you or any fan) to have the patience and interest after 5 years.The impact is already much bigger than expected....but it will also hurt more than expected.

Anyway,you are right about that question.

>that's actually kind of funny... cue emo music
it is indeed.

Having said this,my reply is a PoLS in disguise.

>>4898
>I understand you consider these edits less interesting
they are and I have admitted it while posting them. I had a couple of these saved in my folder as leftovers and I edited a couple more so I could expose a little gallery and give a little bit of activity here. There have been much better edits than these ones in the past.

>>4678 is actually pretty cool transformation.
oh, that was the easiest ones ironically enough. I could literally pretend that I am a pixel artist when I simply used the pixelated filter from the video format that I had explained here >>4665.. I used the spotty correction for a few spots and there you have the result.

>This one is pretty nice to me.
the biggest secret out of that one is that I modified the brightness/exposure and pick the purple tone (slightly). It goes from the night to a picture taken in the morning.

>This one looks more dramatic.
the edit is an excuse to expose that picture. I was browsing on Derpi and checking Nightmare Moon pictures that were around 20 to 50 upvotes. This one had 44 upvotes this thursday and I have given it subtle changes so anyone can pick between the two according to the personal taste.

>These are all decent tier but I can see why you would find them uninteresting.
yeah, I haven´t taken any risky move with them, in fact some of them took me less than 5 minutes. It feels more like a selection of the artist needed pictures that I have decided to pick instead of coming up with an inspiring vision towards them.

>This one is the most questionable. The colors with both edited or otherwise look kinda unappealing.
the image has less than 20 upvotes but for some reason, my mind thought that I could make something interesting out of it. If anyone can make it interesting or more appealing, go ahead. In fact, I remember that you edited pic related with better results than me in the last thread.

I didn´t have plans to edit this picture but it seems that the lack of brightness ruins the picture for this user....

>>5148
I am so big headed that I still have to edit it with the spotty correction and make it more organic. It´s not really noticeable unless you see the black lines spread out there.

>>5149
I'm not sure one could say it's bad. Yeah though this looks better.

>>5154
well, that´s more or less a relief but like I said while I was posting it, I didn´t have plans to edit this one until I saw that comment.

Do you have any idea for making it look better than the original? The main problem consists in the brightness but I admit that the image loses a lot of edge there.

>>5157
what if that's a good thing?

>>5165
you know, considering in the format that one is in, one expects the negative/challenging things first unless there is something specific that makes you think otherwise.

Normally, when something is fresh, people actually take a hot opinion while the positive ones focus on the past material. That means that I still don´t have a clear idea where this edit or your opinion is aiming at. I only know that in relative terms, it looks better (from your words) but I have said several times that these are images that I edit so others feel encouraged to do the same or do it better than me, or at least, see what sticks out there.

okay, so if the previous pictures of this thread weren´t so obvious, you know that I decided to dive into the world of SFM models, mostly because I feel that one can easily take a picture/screencap in the Source Filmmaker so by itself, making that picture interesting is more difficult from the very beginning (the models don´t change unlike the drawn pieces).

My question is: what would you do with this picture? Besides saying that it is uninteresting and doesn´t lead to anything worthy to post out there , we know the user wanted to have some fun by imitating Jojo´s poses (which leads to semi-anthro material by the way, I don´t blame the user though), how would you edit this one?

I´ve been trying a few effects tonight but I am not all that convinced to post them yet so I am simply posting the original without anything else for now.

and an extra image about the princess of the night with a pixelated filter.

>>5154
Howdy stranger!
>>5157
Not off the top of my head but perhaps I'll tinker with it.
>>5167
Biggest problem with SFM is that it's mostly posing and lighting. You can't draw. Can't have your own style very easily unless you model your own stuff. So what my focus would be, other than just experimentation, would be to see if you can add a touch of something that gives it that touch. That'd be an idea.

>>5166
This luna image is based. Fav so far. Turned out almost a charming low polygon feel.

>>5170
They all look a bit better with the edits but the poses still look awkward. Still, I could see value in edits maybe mixed media thing?

>>5171
This one I still like but is probably the weakest since it isn't as fun as the ones above and still has the awkward pose.

>>5170
>Not off the top of my head but perhaps I'll tinker with it.
alright, after all I have been mostly doing that as well.

>Biggest problem with SFM is that it's mostly posing and lighting. You can't draw. Can't have your own style very easily unless you model your own stuff. So what my focus would be, other than just experimentation, would be to see if you can add a touch of something that gives it that touch. That'd be an idea.
well, look at that, you have described the biggest merit that one can reach in this thread: giving an existent picture a unique character/attribute that didn´t have before. This is why one needs to test everything in order to go further. How does one check that? By simply testing, pure trial and error.

Also, this hurts to say but in reality, I am not creative and I cannot be qualified as a creator. You give me a blank paper and my mind is asking me for something to be based on, combined with the fact that my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired (formally speaking).
Also, you might be laughing out loud but I do not have a scanner (in 2019!, even though it´s due to the fact that I have never needed one yet), and my PC relatively speaking is a potato for today´s standards (AMD of 2013-14, 3.15 GB), despite getting optic fiber. I have tried to run the SFM program and it runs painfully slow.

In short, it never rains but it pours (creatively speaking).

>This luna image is based. Fav so far. Turned out almost a charming low polygon feel.
that was one of the easiest out of the bunch, ironically enough. The Photo App of W10 has a filter for pixelating the images (even though you have to create a video first) and I simply cut it, made some adjustments and added the filter. Pic related is the original image.

>They all look a bit better with the edits but the poses still look awkward.
I knew from the start the poses looked like that and as I am big headed, as soon as the image clicks on my head for editing, it starts engineering something undefined.

>Still, I could see value in edits maybe mixed media thing?
I don´t know but as long as something from here ends up being more valuable or adds something else that didn´t offer before, it´s sufficient. If any masterpiece happens to occur here, it will be by accident.

>>5201
I meant to reply to this >>5195.

also I am posting a softer version of Celestia´s edit because of the noise reduction that I adjusted with the help of another program

this is it for me tonight. I am leaving this little curiosity from the previous pictures that I should have figured out long ago....

Goodnight folks.

>>5201
>This is why one needs to test everything in order to go further. How does one check that? By simply testing, pure trial and error.
And then what? Who knows. I will say I've had more fun simply running pictures through filters and sometimes more advanced edits than I thought I would.

> I am not creative and I cannot be qualified as a creator.
Says the person who started this thread and has contributed a few fics to the board. I'm not calling it ingenious but some of your attempts at changing and giving new meaning to pictures I have enjoyed most of all.

> PC relatively speaking is a potato for today´s standards
None of my computers were made in this decade...

Well, let this be a tiny PoLS as I have been called to other duties.

>>5206
Goodnight /endpone/

>>5206
Pardon the spoon feeding. What is significant about this pic?

>>5209
there is not much beyond the fact that using the negative filter in Nightmare Moon´s body would lead to Daybreaker colours.

The thing that I should have figured out earlier is that the colour combinations are actually the opposite between the two royal sisters.

See >>4664 so you can compare it with the original.

>>5207
>And then what? Who knows
eeeyup, no one actually knows what´s the end result and as I share that feeling of having fun during the process, getting further into a development that one wouldn´t expect at first. I suppose part of its charm.

>I've had more fun simply running pictures through filters and sometimes more advanced edits than I thought I would.

>None of my computers were made in this decade
well, evil of many, consolation of fools. We´re well fucked in this regard (even though the nostalgic IBM keyboard kind of redeems that). I suppose that one has to wait until the components don´t work anymore.

>Says the person who started this thread and has contributed a few fics to the board.
I haven´t written a single fic for more than a year and they have a couple of secrets behind their writing: they mostly relied on my emotions felt at that moment, hidden between the context for the story and little interactions until the central point arrives. And secondly, I have mostly relied on music in order to type something with that mood. More like things appearing out of nowhere, a few songs induced me to have a few images in my head, as if I typed what I saw while listening to them. I will admit though that June 2018 was the best month in this regard, coming up with two fics in the middle of a period of exams.

>I'm not calling it ingenious but some of your attempts at changing and giving new meaning to pictures I have enjoyed most of all.
well, at least, you´ve got some enjoyment from them. As for ingenious pieces...would you post any of them on Derpibooru? Are they even worthy to share out there (besides this place)?

At least, they are interesting enough for you to consider that. However, edits are easily replaceable and one always imagines that there are better ways to convey that new meaning.

Basically, creativity cannot come mostly because I always need something to rely on. The true authors are those who actually build it from scratch.

If anything, you could describe an editor as something similar like electronic musicians who take samples and modify them, getting combined into a sole piece because of recycling (vaporwave, maybe?). But even then, anyone could come and do it better. I am simply waiting that someone else does. It feels more like I am trying to guide others for taking that next step. You have outdone yourself for the fics though, one of them could be translated easily into the official material.

and I am leaving this place tonight with one question: what would you do with this picture? Like I did with >>5167, before giving the results, I wonder what you would cook up here.

>>5211
>As for ingenious pieces...would you post any of them on Derpibooru? Are they even worthy to share out there (besides this place)?
>At least, they are interesting enough for you to consider that. However, edits are easily replaceable and one always imagines that there are better ways to convey that new meaning.
In one word, yes (some of them at least). In a longer explanation: I think these edits could be something, even the tiny SFM ones. I think adding new meanings, personal touches, etc. Could go somewhere beyond nowhere. I've enjoyed your experimental and messing with obscure mid to lower tier art. Not telling ya to not keep yourself grounded but don't let "this isn't anything so I shouldn't even bothering" prevent your experimentation.

>I haven´t written a single fic for more than a year and they have a couple of secrets behind their writing: they mostly relied on my emotions felt at that moment, hidden between the context for the story and little interactions until the central point arrives.
I thought part of your Celly fic was 2019?

>Basically, creativity cannot come mostly because I always need something to rely on. The true authors are those who actually build it from scratch.
Perhaps. Though I think that a lot of things start as mixing than one can add your own and it can depart. Liking mixing toddler shows with Star Trek...

>And secondly, I have mostly relied on music in order to type something with that mood.
Not sure how much of a drawback as I've done that too. You're talking about listening to a song over and over and over again while typing it right? I don't do it all the time but I have and my eariler days in the fandom I would write fragmented fanfics to one song all the time.(may have mentionned this before.)

>We´re well fucked in this regard (even though the nostalgic IBM keyboard kind of redeems that). I suppose that one has to wait until the components don´t work anymore.
I actually prefer'em to the modern stuff. Easier to tinker with. You can keep a computer running pretty long if you want to with spare parts. Though I primarily run different flavors of Linux on Laptops so I imagine my experience is vastly different from the needs of somebody who is trying to run the latest and the best on Windows 10. Something that maybe required of ya in a university setting.

>>5212
Well, you know what? Perhaps I'll try my own edit of it too. My first thoughts are simple stuff like coloring, but I may try something more ambitious...

>>5210
That is actually really cool. Maybe you should have a edit contest to see how many Nightmare Moon would be good for the change.

>>5210
Simplest advise is to just have fun.

>>5219
*Nightmare Moon pics

>>5221
>How can you express something with such a cold medium like technology.
Digital world can be a cold age I suppose. Though I think that I do not like a lot of remixing I think it itself is something that can be more than just lazy or cold, technological process. Look at this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rV_0n5gp1fE [Embed]
It is merely a PMV, yet, unlike a parade of random clips ,vectors and special effects it actually tells a bit of a story. The clips, some pretty good editing and special effects and choice of song make something that is utterly haunting. The song I do no care for in any other context and is not quite my style of music yet I love it here. A meaning was added for me. Something that only exist in this mixing up of content.

Even a lazy effort can still be something too. See this?
http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/
Truth be told there is not much to it at first glance. Just screencaps with dialog added and rarely small edits. I have sometimes ran into this series in the past and never really thought much of it. I mean, it's just screencaps with the plot of a RPG campaign, not really my cup of tea. And then I found this series a few months ago and was shocked to see it still running and it apparently having been having weekly updates since 2011 . Is using screencaps lazy? Yes. Would I call this Lazy? Not sure I could with over 1000 updates and what must be at least a half decent story to have comments on nearly every page.

So while I do agree that most remixing is nothing to brag about and even when it has a bit of effort can feel hollow, it can be a work of art on it's own merit.

>the more this looks like songs of electronic music to me.
If it's not wub wub dubstep and electronic house dance beats I can enjoy it sometimes.

>>5222
>The main problem with that technique is that...well, one writes according to the emotions and not with a solid base in its core
I'd say it depends on if your motivation can last beyond the song. For that was sometimes no, it was just a lone scene disconnected from any plot. Others it was a feeling for a scene in a story or concept that I already flirted with so the emotion was entirely dependent on the song in the first place.

>It´s almost as if one writes romantically and while the emotional bursts can express a lot, the consequences of breaking those standards could be overwhelmingly awkward.
Perhaps. Though it depends on how one shares those words and can be mitigated by choices made after the fact.

>I am mostly incapable to find value in songs made for parties, so it implies that there won´t be many happy moments out there.
To be fair, I don't think all of your fics where driven with just emotion and you did ask questions in a similar manner to me The nature of Celestia and Daybreaker, That Bat Pony OC, that slightly weird one with DWK

>Listening to one song over and over while writing a fic, that happened with the Comforts of Darkness and that came because of listening to a heart-wrenching melancholic song and true story, crying while writing that part.
Wow. That's a pretty strong emotional state. I can see how one would find that tiring and not want to continue flirting with such if it can affect you that strong.

> I have never tried a Linux even though it offers appealing options like using Tor, VPNs and editing it according to one´s personal tastes.
Well, I am no Linux snob, but if you ever want to try it you can or should be able to unless Microsoft has messed something up run it from a boot disc or USB no problem if you ever want to try it.

Also, I really like the edit of your old drawing. It kind of gives it a children's story book or paper cut out kind of feel that I kind of like (and actually have messed with before.) I would show you what I mean with an old paper drawn fandom animation or PMV but I can't find either of'em. I did make a couple of small edits but only one of them is even going in the direction I am trying to show.

>>5224
>Has this edit made it better? The changes that I notice here are: more blurriness and pixels, and turn that eyeless Luna into a vivid one by using sparks.
It's better but only moderately so. I used GIMP's pixel filter. Which let's me control the size of the pixels (maybe yours does too). Still I think I need to do a lot more before I'd call it good. Getting rid of the background and placing my own flat colors. To be fair to yours, it's still usable but it'd have to be an element of something else.

>Does it have any personal aspect from you? Yes, you edited a few pictures with huge sparks before and you have used the right proportions for this one.
I'd say it's only slight touch but I suppose it does count.

> it has gone from looking like a badass to "Equestria, I´m CIA".
More authority than toughness.

>hey, that´s not as bizarre as it sounds, one could compile a good gallery with Nightmare Moon looking like her opposite. However, the negative effect doesn´t always translate all that well.
I'd say it depends on if you could cut out Nightmare Moon from the rest of the drawing and just the negitive affect on her.

> You edited a Cadence gif with the emboss filter and nailed it.
BTW this two >>5219 >>5209 posts are not by me. I guess one of the lurkers. Thanks for the compliment though!

>yeah and I should listen to that advice from the stars more often
Maybe now with two anons saying it it'll help get through.

>but I am like Cosmos in this regard
:)

>>5234
>>5235
>>5236
>>5237
>>5238
I have read your posts and I did as soon as they were posted. I am simply leaving them out a little bit because there are couple of topics that could go on and discuss properly the concept of creativity, especially in this post >>5234. So I have paid attention to them, it´s simply that I have other things in mind (in general).

But as you have posted a few edits, I am going to comment a little bit about them:

About Twilight´s drawing, >>5235, I didn´t expect it to look so good (I am torn if I should post both versions in the hits for the next thread or not). I wish the original drawing looked in the vector as smooth as this. Quite possibly a highlight and it was a simple adjustment.

About the emboss filter, the filter itself doesn´t deliver much most of the time even though it can offer some surprises aesthetically speaking. >>5238 The 2nd version with contrast is an improvement in comparison to the other one (even though the first one does have an appealing thumbnail of Twilight´s silhouette).

About the three main changelings, >>5237, here is my ranking:

Brighter edit (3rd picture)> The "supposedly awful idea" (1st edit)> Mosaic edit (4th one) >= Contrast and Yellow (2nd edit)

I mean all of them look good but the 3rd one is the most pleasant to my eyes and offers the lightning in the changelings bodies with a distinct without going fully radical on the yellow colour for the contours. As for the "supposedly awful and lazy idea", maybe a masochist or a contrarian but it does present ideas that the other ones don´t and if taken carefully, it could serve as a cool cover for IDW like this pic related. It doesn´t pan out all that well but I am putting it high because it doesn´t deserve to be all that dismissed as you might think.

That´s my personal take towards them but I have yet to reply to other things. At least you get a partial answer before ending this year from me.

>>5273
>About Twilight´s drawing, >>5235, I didn´t expect it to look so good
I know. It feels purposful and it looks like it could work well into a cut out animation or children's storybook style.

>The 2nd version with contrast is an improvement in comparison to the other one (even though the first one does have an appealing thumbnail of Twilight´s silhouette).
I actually consider the first one better with the second one having higher potential with a smoother cut.

>I mean all of them look good but the 3rd one is the most pleasant to my eyes and offers the lightning in the changelings bodies with a distinct without going fully radical on the yellow colour for the contours.
It probably looks the smoothest. I like the yellow but I think I have to agree.

> It doesn´t pan out all that well but I am putting it high because it doesn´t deserve to be all that dismissed as you might think.
It i could color it good than yes, it could be an interesting look.

>That´s my personal take towards them but I have yet to reply to other things. At least you get a partial answer before ending this year from me.
Don't worry about it. I'm still working on to my reply to your review. Just go with the flow.

>>5286
>It feels purposful and it looks like it could work well into a cut out animation or children's storybook style.
the fact that it´s earned some sort of value makes me smile a little bit. I certainly didn´t want to visit and see my old drawings again so this twist has made me put some faith on one of those pictures I made in the past.

And probably you are right about your statement.

>I actually consider the first one better with the second one having higher potential with a smoother cut.
probably. The biggest con that I would say towards the first version is that the contours of her body don´t look all that well defined when someone checks the entire image. It´s hard to tell her form with that those thin subtle lines.

>It probably looks the smoothest.
and the most balanced I think.

>I like the yellow but I think I have to agree.
when it comes to that edit, I see the contours way too saturated of yellow. While it presents itself nicely at first sight before clicking on it, the problem arises when the yellow contours have too much colour intensity. I don´t know how to explain this without experiencing it by yourself but basically, I will say this: watch the full image and try to stare at it for a few seconds. The sense that I get is that my eyes get somewhat tired of seeing it or receiving like a visual impact that overwhelms me. The thumbnail is great but I swear that I get a slight fatigue by seeing it after a while. I don´t perceive that with the rest.

>It i could color it good than yes, it could be an interesting look.
you can see it with the comic cover that I have posted for having a reference that the idea could actually work, not to mention that it offers the biggest variety of colours in comparison.

>I'm still working on to my reply to your review. Just go with the flow.
with the flow, yeah... the board´s one or my studies´one.

so it seems that the rhythm slows down noticeably whenever we are busy,well now that I have a little bit of time tonight, I think I will reply to the last posts posted back then

>>5236
>It's better but only moderately so. I used GIMP's pixel filter. Which let's me control the size of the pixels (maybe yours does too).
yeah I do have that effect as well just that I don´t tend to use it all that much because I can´t find any place to put it organically, at least so far. Maybe in the future I will experiment with it but it throws me out for the most part.

About that edit I made,eh, it was there for fun but it seems that you have more ideas towards that Luna.

>I suppose it does count.
well yeah because as you can see, I don´t tend to use that effect.

>it depends on if you could cut out Nightmare Moon from the rest of the drawing and just the negitive affect on her.
I have yet to try that because I haven´t felt like cutting an image from its original picture, mostly because I wouldn´t know what to do next even though you are giving me an idea of modifying her and then use a fitting a background. Now for this idea, I would have to have the objectives pretty well clear while doing it.

>I guess one of the lurkers.
probably 5050 posted both replies.

>Thanks for the compliment though!
you are welcome even though it´s not the first time I say this towards that gif

>Maybe now with two anons saying it it'll help get through.
as long as those two anons prove to be alive....because that´s the biggest requirement to even begin at making progress.

>>5235
>I'd say it depends on if your motivation can last beyond the song.
obviously when I am writing, I cannot put it all the time but the constant repetition brings that feeling of entering inside your mind and answer to that with another format. Writing because of the feelings is quite risky but I suppose that the motivation doesn´t always come from it 100% but more like a trigger that manages to connect other parts. I swear that it looks like I am writing religious dogmas of faith but that state pushes one forward and writing about something that never existed yet one feels like one has seen those scenes in his mind....it´s overwhelming.

>For that was sometimes no, it was just a lone scene disconnected from any plot. Others it was a feeling for a scene in a story or concept that I already flirted with so the emotion was entirely dependent on the song in the first place.
and this is why one feels like an electronic musician because you are like sampling or taking from others what you didn´t have in mind but those scene are connected in your brain. Obviously if you don´t tell about it, it looks original and fresh for anyone else, especially if you take it really out of context.

>Though it depends on how one shares those words and can be mitigated by choices made after the fact.
that´s like revising everything so as a whole, it makes sense within the context written so this indeed relies more on how the messenger transmits it to the rest.

>I don't think all of your fics where driven with just emotion and you did ask questions in a similar manner to me
probably because a part of me wants also wants to have a structure or at least, make enough sense in order to stand by itself. Besides, I have felt quite a few times that your writing reminds me a lot of what I would think as well. Probably the 1st person narrative fits the best for introvert people.

>The nature of Celestia and Daybreaker, That Bat Pony OC, that slightly weird one with DWK
considering that Celestia´s handles the concept of being evil/good within the same identity and the topic of edginess, I suppose that /endpone/ was an influence because of the discussions made in the past. As for DWK, yeah, you could have written that one and it made you think a lot considering how short it was. Instead of writing a blog venting about the fanbase and how fucked up the depressive anons were within the fanbase, the fictional route seemed like a more productive excuse in order to expose those observations of mine.

>>5235
>That's a pretty strong emotional state.
and what´s worse, it´s not even the first time I have applied that while typing in a Word document. [╔spoiler] I did that as well back in 2016 but those words inside "a letter" were aimed towards my brother for appreciating him ,words that I couldn´t say to him directly to the face yet they arose when I had the keyboard in private[/spoiler]

>I can see how one would find that tiring and not want to continue flirting with such if it can affect you that strong.
don´t think so. In that month, I wrote both Luna´s and Novo´s fic in less than two weeks so that statement doesn´t make much sense. What´s even bleaker is that I didn´t get tired because of that, it´s that those words only come to reality and I flirt with them when I am thinking too much, wondering about several things that float in my mind, anxiety towards my future, asking myself if i am going to fail... Flirting with them was a medium that could cause some relief at finding answers or expressing something that could help me later or at least, have some sort of purpose.

What made me forget about that mindset is how busy I have been with this board by replying to really varied topics and in real life. After that summer of 2018, I have mostly been really busy in my degree because of lab sessions (this is why the Mirror of Fire happened) and several other tasks.

Basically what I am saying is that I wrote them as a disguised vent and I concluded myself after creating the personal thread that I couldn´t present myself as a loser coping with the world, not to mention that they are more productive and even manage to inspire others. After admitting this, I think that I should prove what I can do now, considering how many things have changed from back then.

>if you ever want to try it you canrun it from a boot disc or USB no problem if you ever want to try it.
I´ll keep this in mind just in case but I don´t think I will find it necessary.

>I really like the edit of your old drawing. It kind of gives it a children's story book or paper cut out kind of feel that I kind of like (and actually have messed with before.)
>I did make a couple of small edits but only one of them is even going in the direction I am trying to show.
thanks and I believe that both the edit and the paper cut will be posted in the highlights. I feel achieved after getting a better aesthetic than a hand drawn image, converted into digital because of a mobile phone photo without using scanner. At least, it looks less cheap in comparison.

>>5234
>Digital world can be a cold age I suppose.
that´s what I thought like 3 or 4 years ago and you will see why I changed my mind.

>It is merely a PMV, yet, unlike a parade of random clips ,vectors and special effects it actually tells a bit of a story.
especially with the book, closing simultaneously with both stories for Twilight and the royal sisters but ironically enough, the song actually stands for itself and I swear that these thoughts of mine came without watching the video at first. It´s easy to tell where you got the ideas, especially during the clips around 2:26 and 0:35 but that was only an impression for your fic and use that as an excuse to introduce Cosmos´standpoint, not to mention that both the original material from the early years and the perception of FiM have radically changed since then.

>The clips, some pretty good editing and special effects and choice of song make something that is utterly haunting.
not all of those clips are perfect but yeah, they fit. Also, I´ve got to point this out: is the singer behind actually Sia? Because it´s giving me a lot of vibes from the famous pop artist that appeared in the movie.

>The song I do no care for in any other context and is not quite my style of music yet I love it here. A meaning was added for me. Something that only exist in this mixing up of content.
that´s the most beautiful thing that one can get from any material. I mean, music, books or series are meant to be used but I wonder if they are meant to drive to something derivative around them for the original creators (because not all of them are willing to accept versions of it). And yes, this material does have enough power to lead you to do that and not all the things out there manage to accomplish even though pretty much anything falls into personal reasons. Such as:

>Even a lazy effort can still be something too. See this?: http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/
well, if that counts...I suppose that everything counts but it´s me in the end, who pushes myself for thinking that the material might not be original. I suppose that in the internet age, the DIY content and punk philosophy of transmitting anything, even if it´s completely out of context, it could develop that spirit of freshness.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3J1gvgwHblI [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=k4YoTnRoVJw [Embed]

and now, I am posting why your statements here >>5234 are correct and my reasons that this world isn´t actually that cold in the digital age.

>>5234
>I do agree that most remixing is nothing to brag about and even when it has a bit of effort can feel hollow, it can be a work of art on it's own merit.
>it's not wub wub dubstep and electronic house dance beats I can enjoy it sometimes.
I am quoting both lines of yours because what I am bringing up here...is dubstep. Apologize me Bridgefag but it´s actually dubstep, just that Skrillex and company weren´t the actual creators of it, just that they popularized a derivative (brostep) take of it by making it energetic and aggressive.

Seeing the comment of Skrillex´s videos, I have seen accounts with Pony avatars that actually caught the attention from bronies, so this explains why there was so much popularity for Vinyl Scratch and the genre...in misunderstood ways about their origins. It´s ironic but the same genre that I despised before by saying that electronic music isn´t real music...has made me change my mind and even bring hope/inspiration that the person behind the songs is the key element that brings those elements together and making them artistic.

Dubstep isn´t what you nor the average person would think it is at first glance, nor it does come from the USA. It actually came from the UK during the 90s and especially the mid 2000s in the underground scenes (especially in London) and there were several tags for it: UK garage, 2-step and...future garage. This is where one of my main inspirations come when I have into account for these edits: Burial.

What´s so special about him? The fact that the samples weren´t always consistent, the slicing seems perfect but it´s actually manual, so there are fractions of a second or even layers/noises that make it organic and imperfect yet so steady. What´s even more surprising is that he used a precarious program in his own house and he combined everything by adjusting the maximums and minimums from the peaks of sound,so the results come from a visual perspective from the program and not simply because of the sound that one would check by listening to it. He´s self taught and not even a musician that tours out there.

What´s even more revolutionary is that the music didn´t sound as consistent as the average electronic song from that era and the isolated atmosphere presented here actually conveyed those intended feelings yet what you can feel is absolutely abstract. I meant that technology could be a cold medium for expressing something but after discovering this rec from /mu/ and a spanish youtuber, I consider that reaching that warmth and the transmission of feelings behind the screen are actually possible to accomplish

How does one manage to do that? It´s really complicated and I know that I won´t get there...but I suppose that trying something is better than doing nothing.

>>5234
so yeah, I am actually admitting that you are right with your post just that I am showing how much of a similarity an editor can have with the electronic musicians....because after all, the vaporwave line nailed it with the phrase: "Everything is a remix" and the only aspect that makes anything original is the context or purpose brought behind it. However, this might lead to the unfortunately conclusion of conformity that everything has been done before.

but even without shining all that much like the big artists...
>is using screencaps lazy? Yes. Would I call this Lazy? Not sure I could with over 1000 updates and what must be at least a half decent story to have comments on nearly every page.
....I suppose that like those screencaps, the purpose for low key material might inhabits in the entertainment value.

Now, you know why I have been somewhat obsessed at times at attempting to make something different with the SFM models or edits that had to deliver more layers in order to feel completely different without leading them to a huge mess.

Anyway, you have been like the biggest medium who has introduced me to fan MLP music because I have stayed reluctant to it and the latest song does have professional merits so opening me to that territory because of you...consider that an achievement.
But..I have those youtube links for you. Who knows what might you get from them but as I saw from the process behind the /night/ thread, you might feel at home with your least favorite genre especially with Come Down to Us because you might be feeling like floating in the stars with the Michael Jackson sampled angelic voice from You are not Alone....while seeing the recent deaths from the news both in the fanbase and for a certain band member mentioned in the OP and maybe see why I don´t believe that technology will be cold by itself. The power of transmitting feelings relies...on the messenger and his capabilities to do that in the end.

You were right Bridgefag, you were right.

Good night.

>>5444
I should have used a better image than that one for those trips. I will probably regret that [spoiler] even though I have recently obtained quads on /mlp/ to balance that).

Anyway, these edits were ones that I had left before the maintenance period. I have tried to edit three images more for the two royal sisters but I am not all that convinced about them. These ones aren´t all that polished except that for the Trixie pic which I had posted before.

>>5446
...except for this one...

>>5443
Trees look better
>>5444
The lighting in the second one makes it look like cheap netflix 3d spinoff tier Think skylanders or fillyfunaisia or whatever horse show two is called.
>>5447
This look ok
>>5448
This is the future.

>>5448
>Trees look better
considering that the edit was made just for trying to reduce the blurriness, it´s no wonder that there is more clarity in the edit.

>The lighting in the second one makes it look like cheap netflix 3d spinoff tier
well, it´s a SFM model so it was bound to look like that in the first place, I felt that there was too much obscurity in the first one for my taste

>Think skylanders or fillyfunaisia or whatever horse show two is called
funny you mention that and yes, the Filly Funtasia vibes are noticeable there. Now that you mention it, I have checked the site of that show and luckily:

https://www.funtasiadaily.com/2020/01/filly-funtasia-airs-in-china-second.html

They still have plans for it currently so despite the lack of news for a relatively long period, they are still alive with more languages translated for it. For a change,I could edit a few images of that show.

>This look ok
I should be making a party after reading this. I´ll take that as a compliment.

>This is the future.
definitely such greatness shouldn´t be shown to the public so easily, only the privileged ones should click on the spoiler.

>>5457
Carrots are number 1
>>5461
Though bridgefag should probably way in I choose 2

>>5464
I just choose her cus she orange like carrot for edit

becuse it has more purple in the backgroud it is litterly only reason.

>>5471
>I just choose her cus she orange like carrot for edit
it´s obvious

>becuse it has more purple in the backgroud it is litterly only reason.
alright, thanks for the feedback

>>5461
Alright have a lot more stuff to say in this thread but I might as well make a small return by giving a little bit of feedback here. 1 is my choice, but it's close. I usually prefer more vibrant colors but Luna herself looks slightly better in 1. I don't how I describe it? Slightly clearer and cleaner? Again it is very close.

>>5500
>1 is my choice, but it's close. I usually prefer more vibrant colors but Luna herself looks slightly better in 1. I don't how I describe it? Slightly clearer and cleaner? Again it is very close.
I mean,I decided to leave both because the differences are so tight yet at the same time, picking one of those two doesn't turn out to be an easy game. It's much more simple editing them for getting the results of each other than choosing the best one for the public eye.

As long as the chosen one gets to do its job of looking better than the original, the rest feels somewhat secondary in comparison to that purpose.