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Cyberglass In reply to Pikmanipulator [2012-12-09 18:57:13 +0000 UTC]

Is that okay? I know you wanted background ponies, but Hasbro's design in general felt kind of stand-out-ish in the way they used Rarity as a model. I think a lot of it is the color scheme, though, so a recolor should work better in the background.

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Pikmanipulator In reply to Cyberglass [2012-12-10 05:46:18 +0000 UTC]

Well, you shouldn't really be taking the molds of the ponies (Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, etc.) into account, as they're really just used for other ponies as a way of saving costs. The other ponies aren't really meant to look that way--for example, some ponies that have appeared in both blind bag and Playful Pony form, such as Twinkleshine, Snowcatcher, and Dewdrop Dazzle, have their art switched between Twilight Sparkle and Rarity in each form. I believe that's so the customers don't get too attached to thinking of those ponies as strictly Twilight or Rarity recolors; they're supposed to use their imagination.

So yeah.

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Pikmanipulator In reply to Pikmanipulator [2013-01-06 00:08:37 +0000 UTC]

And adding to that... [link]

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Cyberglass In reply to Pikmanipulator [2012-12-10 17:41:24 +0000 UTC]

You're probably right. I did try to make the mane as different as possible from Rarity's (especially since Rarity and Twilight both have rather flat manes, so the box art doesn't really indicate much about how a unicorn would look), but I still felt she should be fancy. I guess I'm better at designing how a pony looks from their personality rather than vice versa; even my OC's have had their mane styles updated several times after I figured out their basic personalities.

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Pikmanipulator In reply to Cyberglass [2012-12-11 06:33:28 +0000 UTC]

The strange thing is that these background ponies you've been designing seem to have more intricate-looking mane styles than your main characters.

But anyway, it still doesn't look bad. You're probably right about the colors; they do make the hair stand out more than it would if it was just a single color, or even just two colors. It's something that can be polished out later.

Anyway, keep up the good work! Only Lucky Swirl left to go!

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