If there are ever ponies in real life, this is probably what they’re going to look like.

Micheal Bay’s My Little Pony…

@Background Pony #A05D  
Alright, well so much for my trying to help and defend this thing and you. The others are right, this thing is hopeless, just scrap it.

@Huacaya  
Seems like good feedback actually. As far as fur goes, its size makes Applejack kind of a-few-inches-high mascot. It would hardly be visible on a full-scale pony.
 
@Background Pony #4098  
“try to stick more to the show’s proportions”  
worst advice ever

god, if this pic suddenly turned its head to look at me it would single handedly be the scariest thing i ever saw on the internet.

ABORT ABORT

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@Background Pony #A05D
 
A caveat: I am not an artist of any kind. You would get much more precise feedback from someone with experience in organic 3D model design. All I can tell you is what I do and don’t like about the model.
 
For me the eye just seems too large and perhaps misplaced. The lips seem too tight and pushed back. In fact the whole shape of the head is just a little off. I really like the look of the muzzle in the Luna model in the artist’s gallery as compared to this one. While I like the fur texture for the most part it just seems too rough and messy. Maybe the fur follicles are too large?
 
I really wish I could just point out XYZ and then tell the artist how to fix it, but that’s just not something you can do with any artwork. The artist is clearly very good at the mechanics of building a model, it’s just that sometimes the sum of all the parts is less then the value of all the individual pieces.
 
I wish I could give better feedback.

@greaterlimits  
No need to be mean. It’s not that bad.
 
But, as an example looking through the artist’s gallery I can say I prefer earlier versions (v2 Applejack for example). I’m not sure why you decided to change the proportions so much from that, it was pretty much perfect then.

I like the mane and the way that the body has been done and I like that you tried something new but there is something about that eye and to a lesser extent the lips that’s just a little unsettling.
 
I don’t for a second pretend to know what can be done about that nor do I think that I could do any better.

@Background Pony #A05D  
Yes we can, you could spend your entire life on something and it can still be a pile of shit. Time spent is irrelevant.

Somepony put this poor thing out of its misery.

@Background Pony #A05D  
I would suggest, if I may, to round out the bottom of the cheek just a tad, and bring the nostrils forward, square the tip of the muzzle a bit, And can you move the shape of the eyelids a little bit more narrow and tall.

@Background Pony #A05D  
If you want it to resemble an existing character more, just realistic looking then yeah you should probably try to stick more to the show’s proportions (otherwise you get people calling the uncanny valley on artistic renderings like this and finding them kind of freaky looking). The comment I made wasn’t intended to bash it was more my reasoning to the other people who commented why it might be “scary” (as they said).
 
Let me guess, you’re the artist?

@Background Pony #4098  
Nothing is strictly “wrong” because he doesn’t have to follow anything.

Are you guys for real? It already underwent years of this guy’s work. You can’t say it looks bad.  
@Huacaya  
What exactly would you suggest to redesign?

Not terrible, bit I think it needs a redesign.

I think a lot of the freakiness of it has to do with the eye. The highlighting/shading above it makes it look like it’s protruding a bit, and the shape is wrong. Ponies’ eyes are “higher” more than “wider” like human eyes.

Olaf: What am I even looking at right now?

It’s kinda scary.