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Anonymous No.42454985 >>42454999 >>42455011 >>42455013 >>42455021 >>42455745 >>42455904 >>42455933 >>42456860 >>42456872 >>42459020 >>42467298
ITT: Frames when characters looked kinda weird
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Anonymous No.42454999 >>42455738 >>42459404
>>42454985 (OP)
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Anonymous No.42455004 >>42455008 >>42455033 >>42455676 >>42455719 >>42455738 >>42455773 >>42456105 >>42456858 >>42456870 >>42459404
Anonymous No.42455008
>>42455004
I love familly guy
Anonymous No.42455010 >>42455797
Anonymous No.42455011
>>42454985 (OP)
what did Fluttershy smell like to cause Pinkie Pie to be THIS disgusted?
Anonymous No.42455013
>>42454985 (OP)
>all of that late season slop
Haber has committed a war crime against this franchise
Anonymous No.42455016 >>42455034 >>42455139 >>42455738 >>42456105 >>42456848 >>42456857 >>42459404
Anonymous No.42455021
>>42454985 (OP)
do we really need a late season meme face slop thread?
Anonymous No.42455033
>>42455004
Anonymous No.42455034
>>42455016
God, this shit is so ugly. What was going through their brains when they decided to start doing this? Did they think it was fucking funny or something?
also
>rarity
ew.
Anonymous No.42455069 >>42456316
A fav of mine
Anonymous No.42455100 >>42456105
>s8-9 screencap thread
>funny faic thread
Time to choose...
Anonymous No.42455139 >>42455801
>>42455016
why did the artists start drawing so shitty?
Anonymous No.42455148 >>42455778 >>42456105
Anonymous No.42455200 >>42458551 >>42459410 >>42460494
Anonymous No.42455676
>>42455004
The top right Applejack and bottom left Luna are my favorites
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Anonymous No.42455719
>>42455004
I can handle all of those except for the Celestia ones. How the fuck did those get approved?
Anonymous No.42455738 >>42456960
>>42455016
>>42455004
>>42454999
>Mindbroken
Anonymous No.42455745
>>42454985 (OP)
What is she looking at?
Anonymous No.42455773 >>42455858
>>42455004
werr they trying to say that luna has a rounder face and celestia s slimmer one?
Anonymous No.42455778
>>42455148
she looks younger and it explains fluttershy's face
Anonymous No.42455797
>>42455010
>Season 9
This isn't a bad frame at all. Unlike late season slop she actually has a snout here.
Anonymous No.42455801
>>42455139
They were instructed to draw the ponies more like the storyboards they were based on.
Anonymous No.42455805 >>42456357
Anonymous No.42455848 >>42455898 >>42456320
Anonymous No.42455858
>>42455773
They just didn't give a fuck about model consistency, and towards the end, just made ponies into ugly humans.
Anonymous No.42455898 >>42455928
>>42455848
this aint so bad for s9 standards
Anonymous No.42455904
>>42454985 (OP)
Every time i see this pic, i think of ren from ren and stimpy
Anonymous No.42455928 >>42456624
>>42455898
True. Sunbutt got hit pretty hard by the style shift.
>we didn't get the celestia + luna focus episode until they started looking like this
Anonymous No.42455933
>>42454985 (OP)
>season_9.tiff
Anonymous No.42456105 >>42456112 >>42458569
>>42455004
>>42455016
This is one area I'll concede to the seasonwunners and wingwhiners: the facial expressions of later FiM (starting roughly around S6/S7) were a little odd and not as good as the earlier seasons.
Tiny-snout squishy-face just feels...off. I think for me it's because it feels like it betrays a rigid, logical body structure. It's the same criticism I have with the Movie Style.

...That said, early seasons also have occasional moments like >>42455100, which are so off-style and cheap looking that they're genuinely uncanny. I would rather a Season 6-9 face than that horrifying Sweetie.

>>42455148
Also this proves that the designs of specifically the bodies got better with time. Dash's anatomy is horrifying here, and she also looks like the size of a foal.
Season 1 was truly a different beast.
Anonymous No.42456112
>>42456105
I want to cum inside Rainbow Dash's insect abdomen.
Anonymous No.42456316
>>42455069
Oldschool Disney vibes
Anonymous No.42456320
>>42455848
I actually like that one
Anonymous No.42456357
>>42455805
prime example of anyone learning to draw from copying the show in /bale/ is ngmi
Anonymous No.42456624 >>42456804
>>42455928
wtf her eyes are rotated
Anonymous No.42456804 >>42464224
>>42456624
they are what?
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Anonymous No.42456848
>>42455016
Weird as season 9's faces were, at least they tried to make sure each one was different. I'll give them props for that.
Anonymous No.42456857 >>42456877
>>42455016
>this pic
>this thread
This really was the start of Tell Your Tale
Anonymous No.42456858
>>42455004
I kinda like "One Stamp Please" Luna. But I do not deny it is off from the previous methods of depicting the pone.
Anonymous No.42456860
>>42454985 (OP)
>it ain't gonna suck itself
Anonymous No.42456870 >>42457032
>>42455004
Anonymous No.42456872
>>42454985 (OP)
I love the season 1 and 2 weirdness that dipped into the storyboard artist's actual style, or followed Faust much closer.
Anonymous No.42456877
>>42456857
It's the weird front-on angles. Note how most of these pics are quite a few degress shy of the traditional three-quarters angle? It's less pony-friendly, and more human-friendly. Animals with long snouts, e.g. horses, don't really lend themselves to forward shots. That's why the earlier showrunners tried to avoid depicting the characters from these angles, except for the sake of the occasional cartoony haha funny keyframe. Of course, if you ignore the fact that that these characters are ponies, as the later staff did, then it gets much easier to draw them however the hell you want to.
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Anonymous No.42456960
>>42455738
Go away Haber
Anonymous No.42457032 >>42457583
>>42456870
Ahem
Anonymous No.42457034 >>42459418 >>42460757
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Anonymous No.42457491 >>42457494 >>42459418
Guess the season from the face.
Anonymous No.42457494 >>42457497 >>42459418
>>42457491
Actually this frame is better.
Anonymous No.42457497 >>42460744
>>42457494
Season 1, Griffon the Brush Off. Medal? Please? Anypony?
Anonymous No.42457555
Watching through Season 7 right now. c:
Anonymous No.42457558
I also really like this one. I saved it.
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>>42457032
Most of those are funny and still look good, it's just a couple that look bad unlike all of the faces in the S9 caps. But you're just another tard mindbroken about G5.
Anonymous No.42458045 >>42460842 >>42460856
Anonymous No.42458051 >>42458286 >>42458778
episode one
what the fuck is flutters doing?
Anonymous No.42458065 >>42458863
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>>42456952
a cat
Anonymous No.42458286
>>42458051
actually super cute
Anonymous No.42458313 >>42458794 >>42461834
Anonymous No.42458551 >>42460494
>>42455200
It's so lame
Anonymous No.42458569 >>42460770
>>42456105
>This is one area I'll concede to the seasonwunners
Eventually you'll find characterization suffered as well. Come on. Be a Faustfag. It's the right thing to be.
Anonymous No.42458575
>>42457570
GIWTWWM
Anonymous No.42458587
Yes, DHX reached this weird point where they wanted to show off how much the animation was improving by adding a lot of new uncanny expressions. Littlest Pet Shop was having the same problem in its 4th season.
Problem was both cartoons had simple flat styles that didn't work well with exaggerated faces.
Anonymous No.42458778
>>42458051
Smear frames don't count.
Anonymous No.42458794
>>42458313
I knew rainbow dash was a reptilian
Anonymous No.42458845 >>42458860 >>42459032 >>42460541
Anonymous No.42458860
>>42458845
a true classic
Anonymous No.42458863
>>42458065
made me laugh like a fucking retard
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post that early front view of celestia where her face is a circle. thanks steve
Anonymous No.42458890 >>42458894 >>42458944 >>42458951 >>42459228 >>42459414 >>42460849
this one?
Anonymous No.42458894 >>42458944 >>42458951 >>42459228 >>42459414 >>42460849
>>42458890
Beat me to it. I love this one.
Anonymous No.42458895
yessir
Anonymous No.42458921 >>42458951 >>42459228 >>42460849
or this one earlier
Anonymous No.42458935
unf dashie
Anonymous No.42458944
>>42458890
>>42458894
kek
Anonymous No.42458951 >>42458970 >>42459039
>>42458894
>>42458890
>>42458921
you can see they were seriously fucking desperately trying to to figure out how horse heads work in that angle
Anonymous No.42458970
>>42458951
definitely didn't had things perfected
Anonymous No.42459020 >>42460771 >>42463214 >>42463231
>>42454985 (OP)
wow, this mare has big ears, isn't that so wacky??!
Anonymous No.42459032
>>42458845
We should make pudding a meme
Anonymous No.42459039
>>42458951
did they ever pull that angle off?
Anonymous No.42459228
>>42458890
>>42458894
>>42458921
And yet it still has more charm than season 9
Anonymous No.42459404
>>42455016
>>42455004
>>42454999
Absolutely sovlless. Wasn't there a rule in the early seasons that the ponies couldn't look too off-model too often? So the end product animation looked wildly different from the goofier animatics.
Anonymous No.42459410
>>42455200
Kek
Anonymous No.42459414
>>42458890
>>42458894
kek a classic
Anonymous No.42459418
>>42457034
>>42457136
>>42457491
>>42457494
SOVL
Anonymous No.42459983
Repeat after me... simple is better
Anonymous No.42460433 >>42460506
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Anonymous No.42460490 >>42460497
S9 is a clusterfuck
Anonymous No.42460494 >>42466763
>>42455200
>>42458551
>W-w-w-wings!? WAHHH it's not like the Twili that I jerk off to and only exists in my head
Anonymous No.42460497 >>42460528
>>42460490
That pic is actually showing off REALLY well how in the late seasons they tried HARD to turn ponies into awkward abominations with a pseudo human head.
Notice how in the first seasons the eyes were more horse-like more to the sides while later they were flat on the front side of the face like on humans.
Anonymous No.42460503 >>42462235
Anonymous No.42460504
>>42460452
I really like this one
Anonymous No.42460506
>>42460433
oh wow.
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Anonymous No.42460528
>>42460497
i just don't understand why even bother when they had 8 seasons worth of archived vectors to reuse
like, what the fuck is that Celestia's jawline?
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Anonymous No.42460541
>>42458845
ep and season?
Anonymous No.42460543
>>42460452
WTF MUD PONY DASH?!
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Anonymous No.42460744
>>42457497
Yes!
(Was hoping I could trick people into thinking it was a later season shot though...)
Anonymous No.42460757
>>42457034
I like this face because they use it in Winter Wrap Up when they blow the clouds.
Anonymous No.42460770 >>42460783
>>42458569
No.

While I haven't watched half the show in a decade, from the various clips, screencaps, and transcript chunks I've seen since then, I would actually rank Season 1 SEVERAL places lower than Season 2, mainly due to a lot of early installment issues. Meanwhile Season 2 is up near the top with Season 5.
Anonymous No.42460771
>>42459020
The better to hear you with!
Anonymous No.42460783
>>42460770
To clarify, I haven't seen the FIRST half of the show in a decade. First watched in 2015, and have yet to do a proper rewatch of the whole series.

I do want to rewatch at some point though; it'd be fun to properly rank every episode & season.
Anonymous No.42460838
Y'know, since we're on the topic of pony design, should I post a design experiment I've been working on, to get feedback?

Or is that better done in one of the drawthreads?
Anonymous No.42460842 >>42460856
>>42458045
TWILY DARLING
Anonymous No.42460849
>>42458890
>>42458894
>>42458921
i don't even think this looks weird, isn't that basically just what she should look like from that angle?
Anonymous No.42460856 >>42461825
>>42460842
>>42458045
Faces that only Ms. Pacman could love.
Anonymous No.42460926 >>42460932
Anonymous No.42460930
>>42456952
Fuck her right in the pussy!
Anonymous No.42460932 >>42462233
>>42460926
got a better one
Anonymous No.42461461
rubber bumper
Anonymous No.42461825
>>42460856
Kek
Anonymous No.42461834
>>42458313
I'll swallow your soul!
Anonymous No.42461848 >>42462039 >>42462139
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Anonymous No.42462037
>>42461885
oof
Anonymous No.42462039
>>42461848
i've seen this used in so many reaction images over the years it definitely has legendary status
Anonymous No.42462045 >>42462235 >>42462863
Some say the first alicorn to ignore the model sheet was Nightmare Moon.
Anonymous No.42462139
>>42461848
Chickun
Anonymous No.42462233
>>42460932
nice
Anonymous No.42462235
>>42461885
>>42462045
>>42460503
BEAT
Anonymous No.42462863
>>42462045
this is my pfp
Anonymous No.42463214
>>42459020
kek
Anonymous No.42463231
>>42459020
she is all ears
Anonymous No.42464224
>>42456804
They're vertical now.
Anonymous No.42465006 >>42465007 >>42465009 >>42465015
Anonymous No.42465007
>>42465006
Hey that's season one so that's sovlful.
Anonymous No.42465009
>>42465006
lol she is a frog haha
Anonymous No.42465015 >>42465439
>>42465006
Same energy
Anonymous No.42465439
>>42465015
wtf man
Anonymous No.42466549 >>42468100 >>42468668
Forever one of my faves
Anonymous No.42466561 >>42467298
Rarity is so elegant.
Anonymous No.42466763 >>42467642
>>42460494
Dont act like her getting wings was the only change that happened when she became an alicorn.
Anonymous No.42467298
im not that informed about animation or design so can anyone tell me why is >>42454985 (OP) somehow less weird than >>42466561?
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Anonymous No.42467642 >>42467666
>>42466763
>He says in a thread specifically about complaining and comparing how things look
Anonymous No.42467666 >>42467701
>>42467642
Your retard levels are through the roof
Anonymous No.42467701
>>42467666
Concession accepted, Satan
Anonymous No.42468100
>>42466549
the essential bookhors expression
Anonymous No.42468668 >>42468687
>>42466549
Got her on my hat
Anonymous No.42468687
>>42468668
perfect