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Early version of a shot from My Little Pony: The Movie (2017)

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@Background Pony #2369  
I’d love it if more animated films did something like that. The anniversary edition of Beauty and the Beast did something kind of similar (because Disney actually showed off the reel with storyboards and unfinished animation when the movie was still in production to an early audience).
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Can someone release the full animation reel version of the movie now please?!
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@mjangelvortex  
My hope that in the long term, the animation industry can look back at the MLP movie to show that 2D puppet animation is a viable way to do 2D animated movies without bearing the expense of a traditionally animated production. It’s a shame that movie producers consider traditional animation to be unprofitable. While 2D puppet animation isn’t quite the same, it’s still nice to have 2D characters up on the big screen again. Here’s hoping more people take notice and will try the technology themselves.
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@mjangelvortex  
If you want the typical breakdown- from my understanding, it generally goes:
 
Scripting -> storyboards -> animatic/slugging -> layouts (2D backgrounds/3D positioning)-> keyframing -> in-betweening -> special effects -> Clean up.
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@acesential  
Oh. I didn’t know that the bottom right was the storyboard/animatic. Thanks for clearing that up.
 
@Hawkx1  
That might have been a deliberate choice since they might have gotten in the way of Pinkie’s face. I think they were a bit more concerned about getting the emotions out. But that’s just me guessing.
mjangelvortex
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@Masem  
I forgot that they used 3D storyboards/animatics. I think what they did here might be similar to what the animators in Steven Universe did where the animators may have drawn over the storyboards when animating.
 
@acesential  
True. Toon Boom can use puppets too. But the bottom right looks drawn. People draw with Flash as well despite it often using puppet animation. Lullaby for a Princess was animated this way. Warpout didn’t use puppets when animating that but instead drew the animation using Flash.
mjangelvortex
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Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
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Lady of Ships and Birbs
Unlike the show which uses puppets to animate the characters in Flash, the movie used Toon Boom and from what it looks like here the characters were animated by being drawn. I guess that explains why the movie felt like it was traditionally animated at times.