>Now this thread is for sharing your animations, getting critiques, advice, ideas and is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you.

Well said, but is there a way to make this part stand more?
Like using a bigger font and hopefully a red colour so nopony could try posting a request and later say something such as "Oops! I didn't saw that part about no requests, teeh-heeh! But you will take my request anyways.... please.... yes? Pretty please,,, love and tolerance... yes?"

>>35955
I probably could have bolded it but if somepony doesn't even read the visible part of the opening post when viewing this thread from collab then they probably wouldn't pay attention to the bold either.

Anyway, critiques before I try animating this fully? It would probably be easier for me to just have the face part of the smooze bob up and down out of the main smooze section but I was thinking about having the smooze do the wave crashing motion like in the movie. Before I think of attempting that I was wondering if any of you have advice on how to make that look right on a sprite or have any example sprites. Actually if anypony can find an animated gif of the smooze that would be awesome because watching that part of the movie on youtube doesn't give me a chance to look at the frame by frame changes and my google fu is apparently weak.

>>35989
Trying to animate something amorphous sounds CRAZY hard. As for an animated GIF of The Smooze, I have no idea where you could find any. You may have more luck looking for animated GIFs or sprite sheets of Grimer or Muk sprites from the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, and use them for reference. I can't remember how well animated they were, though.

>>35989
Are you looking for something like this starstep?

Mocha Delight was done by CafeDelights, not I.

>>36046
not quite. I think I got the motion I was going for for the most part. Still have about 3 more frames to go but just to give you an idea what Im trying to do. I'm still debating if I should try giving mine the striped effect that you put on yours.

>>36003
well the amorphous design means I can mess up more than usual and no one can tell because he has no distinct shape :P Seriously though it just means I need to keep having his entire body moving which is just more time consuming than anything else. Also does that seapony lyra right there mean you are adding more animations to her? (*fingers, eyes and everything else I can cross hoping that it's a yes)

>>36051
Oh oops I thought you were mentioning cafedelight for the idea of the oc and you were posting the sprite cause you animated her. I will correct the credits then.

>>36056
Well for now, I figured I'd just make these single frame emoti-seaponies using some old images from when I was making Sea Pony Lyra. It's for fun, but who knows. I may end up making enough of them eventually that making them into animations won't be a problem.

The Smooze looks great, btw.

>>36068
Well I'd love to have an animation with just a frame or two for a transition between the normal and the reactions. I think they'd be quite good.


Ok the amorphous body I was prepared for but I don't think I was ready for the amorphous eyes to go along with it. I need some input. If I leave them as just one eye type, they either look too big or too small during different parts of the animation and I need an opinion on if what I've done with them looks allright. I tried to keep that creepy floating eyeball aspect from the movie but with scary eyes as he comes down on top of you that some scenes had. Well let me know what you think.

>>36227
Sounds like a plan. I'd do more than two frames though... I'm not looking forward to making more tail uncurling animation, but I'll get over it. These expressions are fun, though. I'll look forward to pumping them out.

The Smooze's eyes look good right now as they are, but I can't think of anything else about them that could help you out.

Also it looks like you missed a frame for his left hand on frame 9, but you probably already noticed and fixed it. Just thought I'd point it out.

The new Lyra recolor came from the 'A Canterlot Wedding' promo. Cyan on lavender looks awesome.

>>36232
I completely missed that. Good catch.

That new recolor does look pretty awesome. Glad you are going to add some expressions in. My expressions never turn out very good on these sprites but I'm glad you're so good at it. That awesome smile on bucket lyra is the greatest thing ever.

Hey fellow spriters! I've been working on creating everyponys oc in the SC bronies group for about a month now and just found this thread. Here are the ones i have complete animations done for. http://achozen.deviantart.com/gallery/36171831

>>36279
Loving your work. Keep it up!

>>36279
The non-uniform pixel sizes burn my face

>>36279

Looks like a recolored Blues with things painted over and a horrible, horrible sub-pixelated cutie mark on top of everything.

>>36299
Unfortunately thats basically what that one is. I did these all as requested and most asked for more detail for there cutie marks. Also the fact that most are just recolors isn't my fault. The majority of them used Zoi's pony creator so they were just recolors to begin with.

>>36310
>Also the fact that most are just recolors isn't my fault.

It's 100% your fault and nopony else's. You are the one who made that recolor, you are the one who reused a premade base and you are the one who put all of those mistakes and things on it.
How it couldn't be your fault?

Let's see what I can do...
o3o
Gotta finish the rest, but still. >.>
Am I doing it right?

>>36328
The pixels for the cutie mark aren't the same size as the rest, and the horn has a similar issue, but aside from that, she looks good.
You can use smaller pixels if you want, but it is something you should try to avoid since it clashes with the rest of the pony, and it comes under harsh scrutiny.

Dumping my OC Pony. Her name is Saria the Frost Mage. ^-^
Left Sided Idle.

Left Sided Trot. c:

Right sided idle. Just in case anypony wants her. :3

And finally, the right sided trot.
Soon, I'm going to add a few spells to match her. c;

>>36353
Yay! Galloping! ^-^
Here's the left. :3

Right!
Now to start on spells...

Okay, here's crouch animations. They'll be useful in the game I'm going to make with these. ^-^

To the left. c:

Now FREEZE!
My Cutie Mark was Frost Magic anyway. X3
>Only pony who cares. D:
Left one.

>>36373
BML. x_x Need to sleep. That's enough for now. >.>

>>36374
Would you be so kind as to include an .ini file and an upload to a .rar containing all the animations?

That would be nice.

>>36313
He created DTPs for his friends whose OCs were recolors, it would have been inaccurate had they not been recolors.

The templates are what they are, templates. I can't argue that, save for that they were somewhat mixed and matched for a few of the characters.

His creations were unoriginal but they weren't without effort. The only real constructive criticism that was given was of the pixel size and uniformity.

>>36375
M'kay. ^-^
Here you go.
http://filesmelt.com/dl/Saria_the_Frost_Mage.rar

>>36375
>He created DTPs for his friends whose OCs were recolors, it would have been inaccurate had they not been recolors.

And then he posted them all here, offering them to people wo are not his friends and who don't have any reason at all to dispense the same special treat that his friends may give to him. The excuse of "he made them for his friends, not for you!" is invalidated.

> His creations were unoriginal but they weren't without effort. The only real constructive criticism that was given was of the pixel size and uniformity.

His "creations" were unoriginal, very rushed and was plain obvious that little effort (if any) was put on them. The criticism was very accurate, and just because it wasn't sugarcoated doesn't means it can be brushed asise just like that.

Please understand: this isn't mommy's fridge, this is a message board where things will be judged and evaluated for what they are, especially when somepony offers things with the intention to get others to use them.
Making excuses to try convincing people to accept something inferior is the same as claiming that something was cheaply done but it's OK because we don't deserve anything better, is that simple.

>>36377
I made two more you can add. ^-^
Left sitting.

>>36395
Right sitting.
*Is delaying making spells for the longest time. x_x*

>>36372
Wow you sure are trying to get every animation possible for her. I must say I'm glad you changed the cutie mark. The gradient style you used to make it was a good choice. As for this one, I think there are a few improvements that could be made. Ignoring the sub pixelation for now. I think the big ice encapsulating sphere needs a little work. Ice tends to be a little blocky and it looks odd that the pony is more blocky looking than the sphere right now. Either that or it needs to be more spherical to look like the pony shaped it to be that way. I think the uneven border around the ice may be hindering it a bit in this aspect. There are some positives though. The breaking of the ice looked well done. The crack lines followed the blockiness the ice should have and was a nice shattering effect. Also the use of colors to make her look encapsulated was superb. Can I ask why she spurts a little bit of magic every time she blinks in her other actions. Its an odd little quirk and its got me curious what the background behind it is.

>>36385
While I would have worded things a bit different, I think you make some good points in there. Just because something is basically a recolor doesn't mean that you should only reuse the hair styles already present in the program. I know looking around DA I saw some people who obviously didn't know about desktop ponies but had used the base to recreate the main cast. While they were different looking than the ones we currently use, they still looked like the main cast. So there is more than one way to create a character and even if he had just made the effort to add in a few alterations, I think it would have been more respectable.

>>36404
I added the magic sparks because I thought they look cool. X3 So I guess it's like whistling, to her. You do it when you're bored.
That was a temporary Ice Tomb, anyway. I was going to make it more blocky, even a little spikey and a darker shade of blue and white, not to mention a build up to the blockade instead of the two parts she has now. I'm going to fix it, soon.

>>36416
I'm trying to think of sprites that you could use for reference for when you make the final ice tomb... or that would help with any other ice animations you wanna make for her.

>>36418
Kine's ice ability from Kirby's Dream Land 2, example of blocky ice and ice build up.

>>36418
Tritoch from Final Fantasy VI, example of spiky ice and dark shades of blue and white.

>>36377
Thanks!

>>36385
Relax.

>>36419
The spell Saria uses is a defensive spell, used to absorb all damage to an extent. It's supposed to be an instant spell, to stop some of the nastier attacks. The only drawback-you can't do much when Frozen.
Here's an example of what I may do with it.

>>36426
You're description immediately reminded me of Ice King's Ice Armor from the Adventure Time episode 'Thank You'

It was hilarious.

>>36428
o3o
Here you go. Is this better? ^-^
Right side, I think.

>>36436
And here's left. c:

>>36437
Who here actually HAS my OC?
Or cares?
o_o

>>36466
You're the one that will enjoy her the most, it doesn't matter if others use her. And I care because you're doing what this thread is for. Showing off, sharing ideas, and getting advice.

>>36467
Aww, thanks! ^-^
Now, to start on a few more spells...

>>36466
>>36467
I love OC DTPs.

>>36467
>Showing off, sharing ideas, and getting advice.

And ignoring all the advice that he's been receiving, to concentrate on the "nice" things they say to him out of sympathy only.

Not the best or wisest atitude to live by.

Thanks to all that criticized my work. My only intention from posting them was to get constructive criticism, not to show off or for anypony else to use them (not saying you can't). They were in fact rushed, as >>36385
pointed out, because I had a deadline for when they had to be completed, but a lot of effort still went into them. They were the first sprites I have ever made so I was still struggling on the basics. I have taken the advice many of you have given me about using sub-pixles and hope to avoid ever using them again. As for the fact that most of them were just recolors, I still believe that I was not to blame for that. 90% of the OC's i worked on were just recolors from the beginning. While the attitude here was not the most welcoming, I hope to contribute my future work to the amazing collection you guys have. Here is one that I just finished which I believe somepony from here requested on devinatart. http://achozen.deviantart.com/art/GuardianLatios-s-OC-294374769

>>36496
Was that a direct insult to me? As far as I can tell, I haven't been really... given any advice, and I'm not a he. Besides a bit on the ice thing... I don't like it, and it's all subject to change. I messed up on the front hoof, I know, but you don't have to yell at me for it. I'm going to fix it eventually, by Celestia's Mane...
I think you're yelling at the wrong pony. >:L

>>36506

Having an opinion different than the one you expected other people to have about you and what you say isn't a direct insult, you know.
It happens all the time and if that's how you react, then maybe you should go elsewhere.

My GOD, is it possible that we have at least ONE desktop ponies thread without people talking like that to EVERY person that tries to make new ponies?

You guys always say people should try making sprites because you don't want non-OC thread artists waste their time with their requests, but everytime a new spriter posts their first pony, you inmediately point out what is wrong, which is supposed to be good since you're telling him/her what to improve, but instead you just tell them their work sucks and they should quit spriting.

Then when they ask for suggestions and tips on how to improve, you guys inmediately say they shouldn't ask, that they can't be spriters if they don't do a perfect job from the very beginning.

Then you grab comments saying that your language was rude, and twist their words to try to make yourselves the victim. Which I bet you will do with this post.

Spriting and animating isn't an easy task, and you should know that. It's hard to let people sprite their own ponies instead of requesting if you guys are gonna bash on every single attempt at it. And that will only end up in more people requesting their ponies sprited instead. You know, that very thing you hate more than anything else, even if you don't sprite either and should have nothing to do with them.

Help the spriters instead of insulting them.

>>36553

>everytime a new spriter posts their first pony, you inmediately point out what is wrong

And that's bad... how?

To partially quote your own post, is it possible that we have at least ONE desktop ponies thread without people playing Internet Holy Knight to EVERY person that doesn't pats newcomer in the head, smother them with undeserved praise and tell them that everything is OK, everypony will accept them exactly as they are right now so there's no need for any effort, improvement and personal growth because Love and Tolerance, everypony deserves a medal and hugs, hugs for everypony?

This is not your personal forum where everypony thinks you are awesome, this is not your personal circle of friends where everypony gives you a special treat and allow you to do everything you want. If you post something here and it's bad or cheaply done, you will get called on it, just like every other person.

People like you, who tries to play the Nice Guy routine for attention and then screeches and yells because nopony is obeying your pretentious orders are a CANCER.

>>36553
> Help the spriters instead of insulting them.

If you really want to help, then contribute to this project instead of making the problem way worse with your kiddy tantrums and screeches.

Also, unlike you, the people who criticrizes newcomers know what they are talking about. Respect them.

>>36556
>Also, unlike you, the people who criticrizes newcomers know what they are talking about. Ignore them.
Fixed

hey, can u make my OC Sprite so i can use it in desktop ponies? thanks, theipodman0

>>36555
>>36556
You obviously lost the point of my post. Your unfinished quote proves it.
>you inmediately point out what is wrong, which is supposed to be good since you're telling him/her what to improve, but instead you just tell them their work sucks and they should quit spriting
Just be a bit more polite when pointing out these things, that's all.

Now let's just let this be. But if you still want to calim I'm doing something wrong with this, at least do it without quoting just a portion of my post, like every other guy on this situation does. It just shows that they only read what they think sounds rude to them.

>>36555
>>36556
There's a difference between constructive criticism and aggressive berating.

It seems the #1 cause of arguments is also the #1 reason I can't post porn here:
15-year-olds

That and hosting issues beyond the Administrators immediate control.

Just relax~

>>36627
>Just be a bit more polite when pointing out these things, that's all.

That's all I was asking.

>>36627
>You obviously lost the point of my post. Your unfinished quote proves it.

Sorry, but saying "you lost" doesn't rewrites the universe to make you get what you want.
I'm going to cut the rope and report you to the Modstaff to prevent more drama and bellyaching from getting here.

Sweet jesus that OP pic is adorable.

ANYWAY:
Guys, i thought we'd worked past this sort of thing.

Anon1
>>36553
Cool it, these kinds of posts do nothing but piss people off and escalate the argument.
Follow your own advice if you want to help, but proclaiming that 'people are bad and should feel bad' is just as bad if not worse than the people you're attacking.

Anon2 aka Nerappa
>>36518
>>36555
Could you work on your language?
I'm not saying be all sunshine and rainbows, it's just that (If i may be blunt for a moment) you're coming across as a giant Dick.
I dont want to, but i can and will ban you for that if keeps going.

Same goes for Anon1.
Just be respectful and civil of the people on the otherside of the computer screen and you can say whatever you want.

>>36654
>Sweet jesus that OP pic is adorable.

>>36654
No, it's okay Angel, I've given up. I'll never be successful at anything. ^-^

All right, here's my OC. Because of all the paraspriting that happens in these threads, I'm only asking for constructive criticism on the animation. First off, I don't care how much you love or hate my OC's design. Secondly, I do appreciate praise, but that's ****not**** what I'm looking for here. I'm also not looking for "You're a whiny little baby with no talent" or something along those lines.

I am truly sorry if I seemed harsh, snappy, rude, defensive, or by any other means derogatory there. I do not want to deal with parasprites and all I really want is constructive criticism.

Now, on to the actual animation, the main thing I'm having problems with is the skewing of the mane and tail. The mane looks rather floppy
It looks hilarious that way and I'm still not sure how to make it look proper.

>>36970
My suggestion would to be have the entire body of the mane, or at least most of it, only move a pixel or so per frame. The whole pinwheel effect isn't helping heheh. The back of the mane is fine, though.

As for the tail, try getting it perfectly synched with the rest of the trot-cycle first so it's not so jittery. (Also make it one uniform size throughout the whole animation)

Afterwards, it will be much easier to see how you can make it flow without being so jittery.

>>36970
>All right, here's my OC. Because of all the paraspriting that happens in these threads, I'm only asking for constructive criticism on the animation. First off, I don't care how much you love or hate my OC's design. Secondly, I do appreciate praise, but that's ****not**** what I'm looking for here. I'm also not looking for "You're a whiny little baby with no talent" or something along those lines.

Reported. You don't get to impose conditions on what /collab/ is allowed to think or not about the stuff you post on a public message board where -everypony- can see it.

And if you don't want people saying bad things about you, then you shouldn't do stupid things that will make them say bad things about you in the first place.

>>36973
Dude, Chill out.
They're not imposing conditions on what you're allowed to think.
They just said what they want from this thread and even apologised for what they sounded like.

Stop being so confrontational.

>>36970
Thanks for contributing. Sorry that the thread got unwelcoming enough that you felt you had to post that disclaimer but hopefully we can change that image around here. Now on to the critique.

I'm agreeing with 9734 that there's too much movement for that mane. The floppiness is caused by having so much movement up front when nothing's moving besides those front hairs for the mane. I would decrease the movement up front a little bit and then have some up and down movement farther back down the mane. Have the foremost grouping of hair move down a pixel then back up during the animation. For the back group have the movement extend another three pixels down but have those only move 1 pixel in total while the tips of the group of hair move a little bit more. I'm better at showing than telling so I did a little drawing of parts of the hair that are not moving currently but would probably look better if they moved a pixel in the animation.

For the tail, since it is so short you do not need much movement. You are going to have to play around with it but I think the red part should rise up one pixel during the animation and the green shift over left one during the animation. Then the blue area is where you have to play with. Try having it shift over with the green but stay down longer when the body is rising so it would lower one pixel compared to the rest of the tail.

Speaking of body it seems like the animation is moving up and down in half pixel increments. The art itself is good in using the full pixels so I don't think too many will notice but just so you know.

this is my pony oc code
142S0K001049359BFFC49D00000FE0000UN1837002010001W17F3FCC80FECC0L107F3FCC004CB2

Shift, me in pony form. ^^

>>35944
help I've downloaded the oc pony pack, which is awsaome by the way, but the normal nyx won't walk. when she walks she ends up floating. Is any one else having the same problem besides me, and if so is there anypony that is talanted enough to fix it?

by the way, I running desktop ponies v1.41 if that helps.

>>37466
Ok I found the problem. The newer version of the program can't have any animations with no time input for the frame rate. So I put in 0.04 and it appears to work now.

>>37466
>>37477
Ok just save the 2 images I just posted over the old images and it should work for you.

>>37478
Thanks, I'll try it as soon as I get off from work. :)

>>37478
thanks it works. :)

Guess what! I finally found the desktop ponies! And I tried my hand at making some OC sprites.... Much thanks to people with templates and other things I can recolor and modify for my own purposes. Thanks to everypony who provided them. Here is a pic of my OC for reference, then I will begin posting the sprites. Constructive criticism is of course welcome.

>>37585
Here's the basic standing sprite. not exactly too thrilled with this one, as I just took the picture and scaled it down. cleaned it up a little, but it's still a little rough. this one does not move.

>>37585
next we have the basic trot. took the Royal Guard sprite that was included in Desktop Ponies, cut off the legs, and stuck my body on. why did I give myself hooves? so hard to animate properly... also the tail.

>>37587
actually scratch that. wrong file. this is the one i had before i fixed the hooves. like i said, a pain in the flank... -.-

>>37588
*that

>>37585
now here is the flying animation. this one used the template provided. fixed the face and recolored.


in case anypony was wondering, these all face left. the ones facing right are identical, just, well, facing right.

>>37585
and this last one is still a work in progress. It was very difficult figuring out how to make him look towards the camera... i'm not the most artistically inclined. the body right now is just a placeholder, this is just an animation of the face. this will be able to be swapped with any body, and it has a few easily interchangeable facial expressions.

>>37585
on a slightly unrelated note, I have yet to name my own pony... any suggestions you guys might be able to come up with? His cutie mark is the warning sign for a laser, as shown. I intend for his personality to be fast, cool, kinda nerdy and smart, and generally kind.

>>37589
did I seriously actually type "anypony" without realizing it? or does Ponychan automatically change anypony... i suppose we will find out now...

anyway, not comes the part where i procrastinate horribly from studying while I wait for somepony to reply..... yay.

>>37507
No problem. Glad to help.

>>37592
Ok so you don't have to stay up all night waiting for a reply. ;)

Overall I would say pretty good work. I like that you went and tried making a new head style and you made a very good looking closed wing for him too. Good job on putting those , I believe they are called coronets(maybe?), the bottom hoof part, on your pony and having them look pretty good throughout the trot animation.
I would say that you need to adjust the stand so he is the same size height wise for all his poses. That pose kind of has him tower over his other animations right now.
Also you have some subpixelation going on there. Meaning that while most of the animation uses double wide pixels a few parts, like the hair and forward stare, use single wide pixels. It just makes it look a little bit sloppy. But the forward stare looks pretty decent otherwise.
As for a name, I would have to think on it for awhile to come up with anything and it probably wouldn't be that good either. I'm not very creative in that department.

So yeah, it's coming along great. Keep up the good work.

>>37592
That's how it starts. The subliminal typing of it. Soon somepony will just be a part of your regular vocabulary. Actually Ponychan just filters a few of the words for fun

>>37596
Thanks. and yeah, I made my pony slightly taller than normal, so when i put the other legs on they were shorter. that's something I noticed as well, and will fix very soon.

With the subpixelation, I tried to keep everything with the double wide pixels because thats what the other ponies on the desktop used, but some of the detail, like the mane and forward face, wouldn't fit or looked really weird. should I turn the entire thing into single wide pixels, or try to keep it all double wide?

So, an OC pony I made a DP of last October is having problems with his trotting animations, they're stuck on 1 frame, wile all his other animations are fine. The gis themselves animate just fine, only in the program is he all glitched. I'm wondering what the cause for this is, it's rather annoying...
This is the frame fyi.

>>37669
Its probably the same problem that we had with nyx. The newer DP program doesn't like gifs with 0.00 set as the frame rate. I just went and changed the frame speed to 0.04 and it started working again. I hope that fixes it for you Starly.

>>37605
Thats something only you can answer. All the bases are double wide so that would be a lot of converting to single wide but it could be done easily enough. Converting to double wide would take less time and would match all the other ponies you would have walking around with him. If you don't mind the contrast of double wide with single wide you could keep it since you will be the one using him.

>>37671
It's funny cause I made Nyx too. >.>
welp, thanks for the tip.

This is Synth Sense, my r63 of Vinyl. Have fun, but do not run! You do have to extract from the RAR file, and just place it with all the other ponies. The link is for the whole schebang

http://www.mediafire.com/?o3nmmm6m4y7zu65

>>37684

It's just a recolor and the horrendous color scheme made my eyes bleed.
Five seconds on a gif editor program, tops?

Do you think you can make one of mu OC CenturyStar?

>>38002

The first post on this thread (And perfectly visible to boot) clearly said:

>Now this thread is for sharing your animations, getting critiques, advice, ideas and is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you.

> is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you.

Ok, so I know that this thread is for showing your work to be critiqued for the desktop ponies program. Also that one is not suppose to makes requests for their entire OC to be animated by some pony else. But still I'll post this request/suggestion just in case anypony might be interested in doing.
I'm wondering, has any one thought about having Discord running around and dancing on their desktop? I know that I've had, but I have no skills in programming or time cause of my job. If some one would like to do this, that be great. If not, I'm not going to worry about it.

>>38059

>> I know this is not a thread for requests and the post just above mine also said it, but I will post my request anyways because I don't care about you all and I always do what I want anyways.

Fixed.

>>38059
Yes this is not a thread for those types of requests.

I've already made a temporary Discord that will have to sustain you til a better one is made that you can find here. http://starsteppony.deviantart.com/art/Discord-297152198

>>38059
Not only this isn't for requests, it isn't even for characters from the show. Non-ponies like Discord included. Just OCs.

iv done every thing i could and im not getting anywere it also dont help were i have no gif programs on my computer and the ones i do download i cant understand is there any way i could get some help with this

can you create my oc? she is starlight, trixie's mane blue and white body and trixie's tail blue. she's a unicorn, and her body color is white. her eye's are brown. oh please pretty please with a cherry on top please create me my oc as a desktop pony!

>>38242
Please refrain from posting requests in this thread. The thread provides ample instructions and the internet itself is a great place to start looking for extra tutorials you might need.

I'm having... problems. I need help. ):

I do not have CS3, CS4, or CS5. I use Photoshop Elements, which is very, VERY limited and does not have animation capabilities. I cannot open the layer folders that come in the BASE_PONY.psd.

Is there any way for me to do the thing frame-by-frame and import the frames into iaza.com to animate? Or do I have to find a version of CS if I want to animate my pony?

OR, if there is some way to get Elements to animate, how do I get this to happen?

>>38299
I do not have Elements so I am not sure about opening the layer folders in the BASE_PONY.psd but when I did a quick search I found you can animate using elements. After you have finished up making the art for your pony, have each frame of your animation be on its own, visible layer with the first frame as the bottom layer then going up; IE: 2nd frame one layer up from bottom, etc. Then go to save for web. There you click on a box labeled animate. Set the frame delay and save. I'm not sure if its that easy but there were some videos on youtube about animating using Elements you could look at.

If you can't figure out how to open up the different layers from the psd you could try using one of the gifs to act as your base from the template folder. If that doesn't work use one of the sprite sheets from that folder.

I hope that helps and no you do not ever need photoshop to animate your gifs. Plenty of artists just use freeware to make them. A few were mentioned in the OP.

>>38302
Thank you! Unfortunately without being able to open the folders I couldn't access the frames for the trot cycle, but using what you told me, I was able to make a blinking loop.

As for actually opening the folders, it looks like I won't be able to do it without buying a plugin. I'll keep looking for solutions I suppose.

aaaand I just realized that it's too small. -facehoof-

>>38306
Well that stinks that you can't use the psd file. Like I said earlier use the sprite sheet or one of the gifs from the template folder (see opening post).

>>38307
As for being too small, that's the size you want to design them at. Then when they look good you should just be able to go to image size and put it at 200%. Make sure anti aliasing is off and nearest neighbor is selected(if elements uses the same terminology as regular photoshop).

Also she is looking pretty good. I like how you made that little curl of hair in front. Very natural looking.

>>38308

Oh wow I didn't even see that. I feel pretty dumb. Thanks for pointing it out. ^^

Thanks again, you've been a huge help!

Well, here's how she turned out. I probably should have skewed her fringe a little more. If the tail looks weird, apologies! I drew all three tails separately, because I couldn't find a way to set the transform to "nearest neighbor"; this is my closest approximation.

>>38312
Ok there are a lot of little mistakes that need correcting. Like frame 3 was to the right of where it should of been. You had one of the frame orders out of place. frame 2 the wing was out of place. The cutie marks where all on the wrong frames. It seems you started out with what normally is frame 9 so that may of been why you had the cutie mark skews on the wrong frames. You have to look and think about the movement. The cutie mark wont skew outward when the leg is folding in. and wont go back to normal as the leg is going out. Also you have the hair going up when the pony's body is going up and vice versa. The hair follows the body movement at a slower pace so when the pony is traveling up, the hair would stretch which if looking at frame by frame means the fringe parts would be lower then their normal stance. Vice versa when going down. Also I think having the light green part of her hair entirely outlined looks kind of wierd. I was waiting to see how it looked in the trot cycle before I commented on it but after seeing it I think it may look better with only part of it outlined.

Ok I spent some time and did what I think would be a few nice corrections. I would add a bit more bounce to the back mane part then what I did. (I was just trying to show how the basic movement should go) Then the tail needs a little bit of redoing. The tail on frame 1 looks like it shifts left compared to frame 16 and 2 so I would adjust that. IE: make it like the one you have on frame 9. A few minor tweaks and I think you will be good to go.

Sorry if it sounds like I am being really critical. I think you did a decent job but just made a few minor first time out mistakes. I hope all this helps.

>>38330
Wow, that looks about a kajillion times better. I can't believe I didn't check what was /actually/ frame 1.

Thank you /so much/ again! I'll keep working on it. ^^

This is not pony, but I did find some willing to put these together for me. I now have characters from an entirely different series walking on my screen. So cool.

Soon. Soon I will have my OC pony.

just need to say, but this now needs shining armor, candance, and chrysalis :D
NOW. if you don't mind...

>>38430
>NOW. if you don't mind...

Seriously?! That's quite demanding. I'm going to bite my tongue and just tell you that demands like that are not acceptable here as this is a free project that people do in their spare time.

Also this is the thread for non mlp:fim show characters and even if this had been posted in the correct thread, it would be just as unacceptable there as well.

>>38430

As /collab/ guidelines clearly says, "We are not your slaves."

If you want something so much, then do it all by yourself. If you suck at it, then practice and keep trying.
Only, and -only- after you have exhausted all other options, you can try using /collab/ as your final resort.

IDK HOW TO DO THIS DOWNLOAD! D:

>>38590
Which one are you trying to download? For the main oc animations or the template one you should just be able to regular click and then the save as or open button should pop up. Pick save as and save it. The media fire one click it and then wait for the green download button to come up then click it and do same as above. If not working maybe you need to update your browser or something?

Hey guys made Flitterhaert from the brushible toys at request of a friend.
Somepony hear might like it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ga1l3ibbimc6mkv

So I am trying a character of mine before trying any canon characters [to learn and practice]

Now I realize there are many things wrong with this already, like accidently making the tail too long [longer then it should] And perhaps making the two tentacle parts too thick. The head looks a little wrong too. Could anypony help me with this?

I was using one of my pictures for the mane and tail- http://darkestdragonking.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4u1lv4
This is simply without the armor. Other then that, I didn't have any references/bases to use [O yeah, spikes on legs are off too]

Anypony willing to work together on this with me would be nice-if not, some advice will help since this is my first sprite.

>>39389
Well, I'd say trying to sprite it pixel by pixel, see other DP sprites for references. Your lines look as though they've been used without any effort MS Paint. Maybe try using Gimp or Paint.net?

>>39389
So I've resprited some of it, and if you follow how this one looks, you should have a good sprite in no time :)

>>39407
Actually, I am using GIMP, but I am used to larger pictures and I haven't drawn Chaos Moon in quite sometime. His pupil is a slit by the way, like Chrysalis and Nightmare Moon. Also, I think his mark looked the way it was supposed to. I appreciate the help.
And I just realized I forgot a part as seen here [the red belly] http://darkestdragonking.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4rjqex I'll try to work on it more when I get time. Any more advice?

>>39409
Yes, you should try to make the details simple, because when you animate the sprite then you'll have to put them all back on, piece by piece. But otherwise I think you are on the right track, I believe this is your first sprite, right?

>>39463
Yeah, the very first
But before I work on it more, I got some other pictures to do first. I also have my last week of school so I am a little busy for now.

Ok, first my computer skills sucks (just to get that part out of the way) now the part I need help with. Can anypony make a simple youtube video tutorial from creating a pony to animating it (maybe even suggesting what software and how to use it), because I have now clue what I'm doing wrong or where to start, and I realy what to create my OC.

>>39639
I think there was a tutorial on the Desktop Ponies website, look over there

>>39639
He's right >>39672
There is a video made by monkey jay in the mediafire download found up above or on the desktop ponies site. It explains how to make a pony in photoshop using the psd base. Even if you don't have photoshop it will help explain a bit of the spriting process that should help you no matter what program you use. If you have any questions after watching I'll be glad to help answer them.

Bandwagon ho.

I have no idea what I'm doing, so have at.

Game files: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?73m197wj9znfhub

>>39703
Thats cool. will be DL her.

>>39673
Ok, thanks I've must of over looked it by mistake. When I have time I'll check it out and see exactly what I need to do.

>>39984

Quoted from this thread's first, and very visible post:

> "Now this thread is for sharing your animations, getting critiques, advice, ideas and is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you."

I'm not sure if I should post my OC, thinking that people will just bitch about how it's a recolor. I've been working with it for a few weeks, so it's almost completed.

>>40095

Then just don't post it.
People here gets rightly upset when somepony hypes out their "awesome" OC and it turns out to be just another crappy recolor. (And they they get all angry and offended because they didn't got the same praise they received on Deviantart, so they start insulting the place, the members, etc.)

OC means ORIGINAL character, and a crappy recolor is anything but original.

Well, I don't want it to be a recolor, but I have to make it a recolor until I learn how to make my own. Also, isn't half of the accepted OCs recolors? I'll upload mine anyways later.

>>40099
>Also, isn't half of the accepted OCs recolors?

And who said that those were good?

No one. Not me either. Also, here's the trotting animation. I will upload more depending on people's mood.

>>40104

Practice more, put some real effort on this instead of passing somepony else's animation through the recolor tool and then try again.
Nopony will take you seriously if you just came here to fish for attention and refuse to show even the slightiest care for the people here.

>>40099
And I'm not here for the attention.

>>40106

Yes you are. You wouldn't be so lazy, trying to get "your" OC as fast as possible and trying to play the victim card so hard if you weren't so desperate for some attention and the feeling to belong to the FiM fanbase.

If you want to waste somepony's time and bandwith, then please go do it elsewhere and leave the real artists do their thing on peace.

Well then, I'll go search for some tutorials on how to design my own ponies then.

>>40108
I'd recommend poking around /art for the tutorials and what not. They have a lot of good resources, and if you spend a bit of time there trying to do things and experimenting, you'll improve.

Okay, thanks Semicolon! And mostly thanks to you, Anon, for showing me how stupid I was.

So does this mean I don't get to download the pony?

>>40112
You mean you want to download my OC? If yes, then be warned, there will be a lot of bugs and stuff that I'm currently fixing.

>>40112

1- Right click on that recolored pony.
2- Choose "Save image as..."
3- ???
4- PROFIT!

I never found that joke funny :P
Also, here's the download link for my unfinished OC if anypony wants it:
http://www.mediafire.com/?3b9e8uy1p6k2cb1
If I have to remove it, please tell me.

>>40115

Neither we like recolors, yet people keeps making them all the time.

Also, this should be on the front page.
All front pages.

>>40115
Sweet.

Now that I have some more to look at, I can give you some actual advice:

You need some sort of outline if the colors are going to be that vibrant. I still suggest picking a more blended pallet to work with though, something not so ohgodmyeyes.

Bonus points will be credited to unique animations, a custom mane/tail and other efforts.

>>40116
Speak for yourself, bub. I'll continue to like what you don't like. How does that sound?

You keep saying "we" like you count as the opinion of the communal whole. Unless you're of royalty, I suggest you start speaking more for yourself.

Additional suggestions:
Your walk animation is too fast
Your gallop animation is too slow and should never be vertical-only
Your beep animation is too fast
Your cloud_jump animation is too slow and is missing a few frames
You have no real use for conga yet, it seems

This can all be fixed in a few minutes in the built-in Pony Editor, except any missing frames for the cloud_jump.

I think that's about it.

>>40121

And you sound like the typical guy trying to stick labels on people he hates to death so other people would hate them as well.
Just because somepony said something that made you feel unconfortable doesn't means they are monsters, and you are confusing "Evil" with "Not alays getting what you wanted"

Nice Vinyl Scratch recolor, and the 5th doctor's colorscheme was a very original touch as well.
Probably it took 50 seconds tops on a gif animation program: Select all frames, replace color/pick new color, apply changes, and a new OC is born. If we don't love it, we are automatically evil.

>>40123
I can't stop laughing

Screw Firefox.

>>40124

Please stop doing that.
If you don't like somepony's opinion, acting like a complete moron isn't going to convince him to change his mind.

Now, if you only came here to pick fights and cause problems, fine, be that way. But don't pretend to be proud of it; It's just your way, you aren't some kind of local hero or somepony special.

Once again, if causing problems and making people angry makes you happy, fine, I guess. Being a jerk is your right, enjoy it if you want to.
But if you were the standard for everypony here, this project would have never existed in the first place, and the world as a whole would be an even worse hellhole than how it is right now.

All of those people who act as if being annoying and picking fights for attention were some kind of feat, it's just kinda sad.

>>40126
Oh, these are nice :)

>>40126

I really like their manes. :)

>>40122
That's why I said it had bugs. And I can't believe you didn't notice how horribly designed the standing animation is.

>>40128
I just didn't want him to prevent Lighting Fire from posting his OC just because he didn't like it. There are no rules about posting shitty OCs, only that they not be requested.

I don't see how it's moronic to ask that he not speak for everypony. People have opinions, so do I.

The next post... I honestly have no idea how he came up with any of that. What made me laugh is that he outright insulted the OC I posted and it wasn't even mine.

I'm not a white-knight no aparasprite, I just want Desktop Ponies. Is that so much to ask?

>>40126
And now I have the sudden urge to create Avant pony. Nice work.

>>40132
Heheh, well I'm looking forward to a completed project. I can deal with what we have for now.

>>40133

>>I just didn't want him to prevent Lighting Fire from posting his OC just because he didn't like it.

You aren't a Mod so it's not up to you to "prevent" people from having a different opinion or expressing their rejection for things you love. Recolored Desktop Ponies carry a very negative reputation, so they always will attract negative comments, if you try to supress people from expressing their disliking, you will cause a lot of unneded drama.

>>I don't see how it's moronic to ask that he not speak for everypony.

Because that's exactly what you did to counter an opinion you disliked. You didn't liked when Anon was speaking for everypony, so you told him what he should do according to your single opinion.

>> People have opinions, so do I.

And your opinion > his opinion? Nope, bad move and even worse judgement.

>>I'm not a white-knight
You certainly strike as a generic white knight.

>> no aparasprite,
You *could* have not being this, but the part where you claimed to laugh at other people's opinion immediately made me think of you as one. "I can't stop laughing" is the average answer of aparasprite who ran out of counter arguments and resorts to derogatory insults to upset the other guy.

>>I just want Desktop Ponies.
Desktop Ponies is an awesome team of hard working people who created things from scratch for everypony to use, that's why they are worth of everypony's respect.
On the other hand, recolorers merely tarke a completed pony, change it's colors and expect to be treated with the same respect as Desktop Ponies creators. When they don't get what they want, they -always- resort to derogatory insults or claim to be some kind of victims with special rights. In fact, the only thing they don't do is try harder so their so-called "Original characters" could truly be original.

>>Is that so much to ask?
See, drama and victim complex. You guys only want to be praised for something that took no effort at all, you guys want to have your opinions topping the "haters" and you will take no counter opinions at all.

Is that too much to ask? Yes it is.

Now, here is an useful tip to avoid causing problems: When you see people arguing each other? Shut up.
Don't intervene, don't jump in to "save" somepony, don't add fuel to the flames. Don't act as if you were some kind of judge or as if you were a Mod.

Just leave the angry ones screech to each other as much as they want, because if nopony is adding fuel to the flames, eventually they will lose interest and will go away on their own.
If you can't help yourself from jumping in because somepony is wrong on the internet, then you can use the "report" button to summon the Mods and leave them take care of the rest.

For the record, LightningFire ended up agreeing with the Anon and decided to try harder so your comment was completely out of place no matter how much you try to justify yourself.

>>40134
Alright, so I'm a femoral artery.

Bottom line: I have Lighting Fire on my desktop and I'm happy.

any chance of discord or chrysalis for this?

>>40134
You're missing a very important point: this thread is only for critizising sprites, not the OC's design by itself. If one's OC is a recolor of another pony, then just deal with it. It's how he/her wanted him to be, because it's his/her own personal pony. If you really hate them so much, why are you still in this thread?!

Nopony is looking for praise here. Nopony. They just want to know what is wrong with their animations so they can fix them. Just because there were a couple crazy beggars in past threads doesn't mean every newcomer has the same attitude, specially if anons label them as that before they even do any harm at all.

People can keep their own opinions, as long as they don't insult others with them. And if they're gonna say things about their sprites, they should make coherent analysis and suggestions, and not just say "your sprite sucks, get out of here forever"

I'm just stating facts here, not intending to make the mod's work. But just so you know, I reported this to them.

>>40145
Just let it go. The less you respond, the smaller of a problem they become.

>>40104
Just a general suggestion here. Try to go with a less bright color. A more pastel look will make it easier on the eyes.

>>40126
Oh I like this. Hope you make the full animation cycle for them.
Also since when did IE start getting more love than firefox?

>>40126
Man those are some nice manes.

>>40151
Because fiery mane. http://parallaxmlp.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Browsers-307812128

>>40145

Are you a Mod?
Seriously, I'm still not familiar with all of them.

>>40168
No, they usually have flashing and colorful pony names

>>40171
Then you shouldn't go around bossing people and backseat moding anymore.

Your intentions may be good, but people here tends to get mad all the time and a guy playing minimod is only going to make things way worse.

Also, recolorists: remember you are posting your things on a public board instead of on a private gallery, so like it or not, you will get all kind of comments.
Instead of posting a plain recolor that -will- receive negative comments, you could ask for tips and help about how to improve it, and that way you could truly create something truly worth of being called "original character".

Getting all riled up and yelling "Well, -I- like it!" or playing minimod to control and manipulate other people are two good ways to create problems and fill this thread with drama and rage.

>>40185
All I wanted was a download link.

Sorry if I sounded like a prick but you guys blew this way the hell out of proportion.

>>40186

To tell the truth, when a guy posts a recolor and goes all over defensive about it, it feels as if he were trampling on the people who actually put a real effort on their own OCs. All of the other people's hard work means nothing for them, they expect to receive the exact same treat and if they don't get it, they start raging and attacking everypony out of spite and frustration.

Brownd basically came to spit on other people's face and expected to be seen as an authority figure for it.
So I'm sorry, but if he starts playing minimod again I will report him to the real Mods, and hopefully they will put him back on his place for good.

Honestly I'm sick of seeing fights and smugness here over and over again, but all of you think of yourselves as some kind of role models who refuse to change or understand and as soon you guys remain like that everything will keep happening over and over again.

I have next to no art skills at all, none the less animating a running pony. Would it be possible to make my OC run across the desktop screen?

>>40205

If you are requesting other people to make your OC for you, then take a look at OP's first post: requests are completely forbidden here.

You can, however, find a lot of templates and guides right here, so you could create your own OC without much problem (a few evenings of practice shuld be enough, talent or not.)

The pony editor option included on Desktop Ponies should let you to integrate your OC to the program so it could run through your desktop with just a few clicks of your mouse.

It is NOT as difficult as some people may have tried to make you believe.

Wow, I can't believe how much of a commotion I've made...... I'm sorry :(
Also, I'm going to finish with the recolor, so I can start making my own.

>>40215

No, you didn't made any conmotion at all. You came to display a lousy recolor, you listened why it was considered lousy and you decided to try again, this time wanting to make something not lousy.
Very few people are mature enough to do that and because of it, you are awesome.

But other people always keeps playing whiteknight in order to bring chaos, cause problems and get their own sick kick from it. They only used you as an excuse and what they did is not your fault at all.

>>40189
>Brownd basically came to spit on other people's face and expected to be seen as an authority figure for it.

Beg your pardon? I don't give a crap about that, I don't care about particular persons either, I just pointed out facts about what this thread was supposed to be about. That isn't shaping the thread at all, in fact, it's the opposite.

>>40311
see:
>>40148

No point in feedingparasprites.

>>40311

The "spit" part was cheap hyperbole, but you DO behave like a minimod, Brownd. And a guy playing minimod is not different from a guy playingparasprite.

>>40392
Since you didn't read the OP, this is not a request thread.
Its a thread to show of your OC pixel ponies that you have made/edited yourself.

Re posting you OC wont get anyone interested in making it for you.
If you wont your OC so badly, you can make it yourself, considering its a re-color of rainbow dash it shouldn't be to hard to do on any of the free gif editors available on line.

My OC, Four Block (yes, I know I derped the cutie mark, I'm not going back and changing it now)

>>40426
It's Rainbow Dash.

>>40426
Download link?

>>40450

Right click, save image as..., save it.
That's your download link.

>>40452
For all of the animations, if there are more.

I already flipped it and made an .ini

>>40454
Considering it's just another cheap Rainbow Dash recolor, you could easily make all the animations you want all by yourself.

>>40458
Too much effort. I didn't get to 220 different ponies by trying.

>>40428
>>40458
It's not a cheap Rainbow Dash recolour. (OK, it IS a recolour, but it wasn't cheap, I did spend a long time remaking the mane and making it look nice, but saying I changed the mane seems like an lame excuse)

>>40468

It IS a lame excuse. Sorry.

In general, if you spend more time making excuses tna working in the animation itself, it falls into the "Cheap, lazy" category.

If you check this thread you will also notice how recolors and recolorers aren't appreciated because what they do takes no effort at all, and while they claim to "not care" they DO become very agressive and antagonic whenever their recolors aren't praised or when their excuses are not "understood"

please please please please pleaasee?

>>40482

Quoted from OP's first post:

>>Now this thread is for sharing your animations, getting critiques, advice, ideas and is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you

Would you beggars please read the board's rules and etiquette policy before smashing your heads on the keyboard to make your rude and selfish requests please please please please pleeeeeease?

>>40487
Hence why recolours aren't the worst thing on this thread.

>>40528

Recolorers ARE the worst thing ever.
They call themselves "artists" and claim to make "Original" characters but they don't, all what they do is take other people's work, recolor it and pass everything as their own.

They are basically thieves who demand to be "understood" so they could feel like they belong to the fandom too.

>>40538
The one thing worst than re-colours, are people ASKING for recolours

>>40549

... people "creating" their own OCs using that stupid flash pony creator (the dumbest recolor machine ever) and then asking a recolorist to recolor someone else's animation so their recolored flash model could live as a recolored pixel animation?

(We need to go deeper!)

>>40551
I beg to differ. it may not be animated, but its an original drawn piece by me

>>40569
That's not what he meant. He meant WHEN people create OCs with the pony creator, not that everyone creates their OC's with the pony creator.

It's actually been over a year since I made my OC desktop pony, (Around May 20th 2011) but I thought I'd share it here to get some people's thought's on it, even though I most likely won't make another version. I know the tail kinda sucks and the cutie mark doesn't stretch with the leg, but maybe I can learn more about spriting through criticism on other things that I don't know.

It's not a recolor, nor is it sprited from scratch. Let's see, the body and head comes from the old Dr. Whooves sprite, the legs and all the animation for the trot came from Twilight's sprite, and the mane and tail are all original, but modeled after how Twilight's mane bounces. I don't even know who to credit for those two sprites, since I can't find them on the Art Credits page or the pony.ini files.

>>40571

Yes, when people thinks that recoloring a premade template or recoloring someone else's work equals as "creating" something.

And of course, there are the ones who genuinely believe that taking other people's work and recoloring it (maybe even adding some tiny changes too) makes it something completely different and therefore, nopony has any right to call them thieves or lazy recolorists.

"I changed the cutie mark and the color is different, see? Idiot."
"It's Not Twilight Sparkle, It's My Original Character BloodMurder, Who Is My Ponysona And The Most Powerful Unicorn She Killed Celestia Discord Luna Chrysalis And Married ShiningArmor"

Basically, people who picked the torch dropped by the guys who used to recolor Sonic or Megaman sprites and called themselves "cartoonists"

>>40572
Got a full download link to all of the animations, or is that the only one?

>>40573
OK, here's a question: Could you tell me how this affects you personally?

>>40577

Can you tell everyone how it affects YOU personally when people doesn't bathe recolorists with unending love and praise?
Because you sound mad.

Usually I'm all up for righteous debate. But after having participating in one and watching them drag on...

Just stop, please? You know all the recolors and people begging for sprites? They are only annoying because it means that there is going to be a war that is far too dragged out.

This is all I'm going to say.

>>40584
Are you a Mod?
Because you give out orders as if you were a Mod.

>>This is all I'm going to say.

Seeing how you always jump in to protect lazyness and whiteknight the law of minimal effort, I sincerely doubt you will shut up until the other side loses and you win.

>>40572
Interesting look you have going. The flat shaggy mane somehow fits. Though the singlewide pixels are a critique I always seem to have to give. They just look off when put with the double wide pixels of desktop ponies. I would say the little bit of forward motion in the middle of the hair looks really odd. I would probably just have the straight up and down motion or if you like having a back and forth motion to it, extend the motion downward so its not just the part in the middle.

>>40459
220?! Wow. Do you have them all running at once or do you just keep it random.

Ok can we stop it with all the hate going on in here over recolors. Yes I'd rather see real effort too but try not to get yourselves too worked up over something that shouldn't be that big a deal. As for demanding praise, while there is some not as many are doing that as is being claimed. So let's try to stop putting words and motives into eachother's mouths please. All parties.

Now can we get back to enjoying pixeled ponies?

>>40577
I have all of them, but not in a downloadable package.

>>40587
Thanks for the feedback. I haven't posted this until now, and it's nice to get some good critique.
The flat shaggy mane is what I have IRL. The hair is supposed to be mine. ^_^
That's some good advice about the mane. I honestly cannot remember why that section in the middle moves at all. And yeah, I might just change the single-wide pixels, now that you mention it. Do you have any advice for the tail movements during the trot cycle? If the tail itself looks fine, I'd probably like to edit the animation so it isn't so weird looking.

I know I said I wasn't going to make another version, but I'm actually kinda liking the idea, since I still have all the .psd files.

>>40590
>> Do you have any advice for the tail movements during the trot cycle?

Frames 1-4: tail and mane go down.
Frames 5-8: tail and mane go up.
Frames 9-12: tail and mane go down.
Frames 13-16: tail and mane go up.

>>Now can we get back to enjoying pixeled ponies?

If they are like yours ~ then gladly yes. I loved the Seaponies and other silly but fun OCs.

Now, while I'm a firm believer of "Ignore shit you don't like" but I will admit I feel irritated when I see this thread bumping and after checking it out all what I find is another stupid recolor or another guy posting requests.

Patience is a virtue, but it's not infinite.

>>40587
This isn't even my final form.

There are 5 ponies who I took out of the program due to me needing to update how their animation works. I believe they broke the same time Big Celestia and Nyx did. I know for a fact Windows Pony has the same problem because Nyx and Windows are both by Starly. Queen Chrysalis has the same problem, I ripped her from the Android App though so I'm not sure if it's related. I also need the MP3s from the newest soundboard for her as well.

I also took out some NSFW animations because this is ponychan.

Productivity at work is directly proportionate to number of ponies on screen.

>>40590
If you do eventually make a ZIP or RAR, I will download the hell out of it.


I may end up convincing myself to actually apply effort to making old DTPs better, OC and not. It's like it's 2004 all over again.

>>40594
That is phenomenal. I love how pony version and sea pony version of lightning are just staring at each other. Is that a pony with an image 404ed cutie mark? You also have the lion king sprites that somepony suggested awhile ago. I am in awe of that collection. I would never get any work done if I tried to keep that many ponies up.

>>40590
I know I put the timing notes on a notepad file in the templates folder. For how your tail looks right now, having the highest parts all come down especially closer to his flank looks off as the part of the tail closest to his body wouldn't normally move that much in that direction. That's why most tails do a scrunch up motion. Look at the main ponies trot cycles along with a few others and you will see what I mean. Besides the scrunch up method you could have the bottom sort of sweep back and forth with it rising and falling from about middle of the tail point. I would have the movement run sort of diagonal down the tail. Hmm ok I drew up a quick diagram of what I think what would be a good movement for his tail. Remember only a suggestion and you don't have to shoot for as complicated a movement as I am suggesting. Just putting out ideas for you.

>>40592
>>Patience is a virtue, but it's not infinite.
I feel you. I feel disheartened everytime I see someone take a pony from the pony creator and ask or demand it be sprited it for them.

OH also anyone have any opinions on the basic look of star swirl?

>>40594
If they broke the same time as Big Celestia, it's probably because they don't have frame timings set. Such images can be fixed by making sure every frame has a non-zero duration. If they're set to zero then they won't show up (because they only display for zero seconds).

Good job, guys.
Keep up the good work.

>>40592
Well I was more wondering about how the tail moves during the trot cycle, but still thanks! In animation, timing is everything. ^_^

>>40594
Okey dokey. When I'm done updating my OC pony, I'll totally post a download link here.

>>40604
Thanks for the info. I'm actually just watching the trot animations for the regular size ponies, and learning a lot. Twilight's tail does exactly what you're describing, so I think I'll try to model off of that.
I think with the tail I just said, "Screw it" but then it looked like three completely different tale positions, rather than three flowing frames of animation.

I just downloaded the Templates folder, but before I even work on the new trot animation, I needed to revise the mane and tail so that they were 2 pixels wide. I looked at other ponies, Fluttershy in particular, and found that the outline of the mane is 2 pixels wide, while the lines inside for texture are often single-wide. Anyway, I think it looks much better, and stays the style that I wanted it to be. Thanks for all the advice StarStep!

And Starswirl looks awesome by the way! Great job on him.

Ok, if anypony remembers me, I have some good and bad news. And no, I'm not quitting or anything.

The bad news is that I haven't been able to make ANY progress due to personal problems and a crappy laptop not working.

The good news resolves the bad news. Since I overthinked ahead, I setted up a download of all my stuff an hour before the laptop broke, and I'm getting a new laptop soon. And I've been able to get more free time.

Like I said before, I'm going to finish the whole recolor thing, then I'm going to move onto making my own, then maybe drawing ponies. (Maybe even OCs)

So yeah, I don't think any of you were desperately waiting for me to finish or something, but meh.

http://james539.deviantart.com/art/Tinker-314834164

>>40730

Technically not an OC since the winner of Hasbro's contest got his/her OC turned into a toy and made a canon part of the franchise.

>>40730
Nice work. I only learned about her an hour before seeing that you already made her. That is some phenomenal tail swaying. Only thing is why is there no front hair movement? Other than that critique, she is adorable.

>>40731
Uh, unless she is in the show this is the right thread for her. >this is the place to show off your OC or non cannon (as in non show cannon) desktop ponies!

>>40673
Glad my advice was helpful. Though where did you see single pixel lines on fluttershy? I searched but did not see it. All the ponies in the official program use double wide pixels for everything.

>>40692
Glad you are still working on making your own.

>>40731
She's the same deal as the toy's
Untill she appears in show, I will count her as OC.

>>40732
Oops, my bad. I just looked it over again and yeah, it's all double-wide. Now I'm reworking my mane so it's all double wide. =P

Okay, now all the lines are double-wide.

>>40753
You might want something more like this.

What I did:
>shrink him by 50%
>fix up a few ugly pixels and add a nostril
>resize to 200%

So, I'm new to this whole -chan thing. I don't plan on sticking around very much, but hey, might as well give it a try, considering I don't see anywhere that has a more formal messaging system relative to making desktop ponies.

Anyways, I've been working on a pony and I've been wondering, is it possible to link effects? What I want to happen is for the pony to start a 'casting' animation and sphere-ish things to spawn around it. After the sphere durations end, each of them transform into another gif for a second and, after a small pause, launch off-screen in the direction my pony is facing.

I currently have the pony able to do the casting animation and, every second it's doing said behavior, spawns a sphere in a random location around the pony. I still need the sphere to spawn another gif where it was and launch, but am not sure how I'd go about doing that, if it's possible. Anypony have any tips?

I would like to create a Desktop Pony which looks almost similar to http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Parasol
I need templates of an alicorn which looks completely like her exept of the colors. The template could also look like http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Whistler
I don't care but it needs to be the same style.
I'm good at changing colors but not good at spriting when it comes to Desktop Ponies.
I need sprites of standing, trotting and bucking but no sprites of flying. Blinking and other idle moves are not required.
I was looking for a collection of sprites templates but couldn't find anything.
By the way, which program do you use to make the animation files?
What I'm looking for may already exist.
If anyone of you could help me please contact me on my e-mail address Waddle Dot Dee At Web Dot De

P.S.: It would help me if anyone could make a template collection of those ponies which can be created here:
http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_CA/play/details.cfm?R=E3077416-5056-900B-105A-064BAB814645:en_CA

>>40804
Wow that sounds like an awesome pony you are trying to create. I wish I knew how to do that but from what I've tried I can't link effects to eachother. I'm not sure that you can even get the effects to move(besides following but that's not what you want)

Oh I may have thought of an idea. You could create an invisible pony that follows you're pony around and set up an interaction for them. Have the invisible ponies only animation be when he interacts and that animation is creating spheres and then launching off. I know it is not a perfect solution but it is the only way I can think to make it work like you want.

>>40861
Well we have templates that I posted above (no buck though) but you still have to draw the mane, cutie mark and tail on. As for a pony that looks like parasol. Her hair looks somewhat like lightning bolt. You could modify her hair a bit to get the look you are going for. For the buck animation, I would take applejack's buck animation and modify that. For programs that you can make gif animations in, I use photoshop but others use Animation Shop Pro or Gimp or Photoscape or Microsoft GIF Animator and I know there are plenty of others.

>>40863
As I said, I'm not very good at spriting when it comes to Desktop Ponies so I might need help with this one. Thank you for trying to help me. Lightning Bolt really has similar hair but the tail looks completely different. What do I do about that?
By the way, I don't need any help with my pony's cutie mark.

>>40869
>>As I said, I'm not very good at spriting when it comes to Desktop Ponies

Then practice more. Seriously, that's all the help you may need with this.
If you were expecting to get tips or some magic hints to improve by merely reading them, I'm afraid such things does not exist in this world (but newcomers keeps believing they do and veteran or skilled people "hides" them from them.)

I'm sorry if this isn't the answer you wanted to receive.

>>40879
2011, potatokitty49 from devıantART used a pony creator to create her pony Moonsong which can be found here:
http://potatokitty49.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d49s2k7
Correct me if I'm wrong but she once asked someone else to create a Desktop Pony of it.
Her comment can be seen here: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/23185.html#24097
She didn't even use a painting program to make her pony. She used a pony creator for this. And on Fri, Oct 14th, 2011 06:37 she really asked someone else to create a desktop pony out of it.

The pony I want to create is also able to be created with help of a pony creator and I don't even ask for a whole desktop pony based of it.
When I asked for help I didn't think of anymagic hints. All I wanted was help. And I didn't even ask for a full desktop pony. I simply wanted someone politely creating some templates for me I could use to make this pony of my own.
As I said, I am not good at spriting when it comes to desktop ponies and therefore really need the help of someone else.

By the way, it would already be enough for me if someone could make a sprites/templates collection of the ponies which can be created here:

http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_CA/play/details.cfm?R=E3077416-5056-900B-105A-064BAB814645:en_CA

>>40882
Can you explain what you are looking for in a simple and more logical manner?

If you looking for tips on how to get getter, practise is the only one you need now,

you've been given pointers and the tools.

At the moment it seems like your trying to get the pony made for you.

anyways just looking for some c&c.

I'm working on a Brezzie atm just wont some outside thought on the look so far.
http://james539.deviantart.com/art/Zipzee-315871803
http://james539.deviantart.com/art/Zipzee-313728438

ref pic
http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx308/vulcan539/BreeziesRing.jpg

>>40884
As I said, I am not.
All I'm looking for is templates for this mane and this tail: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Parasol
I need those templates for an adult mare who is standing, trotting and gallopping.
For the ones for bucking I can take Applejack.
For the ones for walking I can take Granny Smith.

All I need is these templates. By the way, the pony I need is an alicorn (unicorn pegasus) so I need a horn looking through the mane.
More info can be found by trying to create Alicorn Parasol with this: http://www.hasbro.com/mylittlepony/en_CA/play/details.cfm?R=E3077416-5056-900B-105A-064BAB814645:en_CA

I don't need any help with the cutie mark as well.


If this is still too long try this:

I only need templates of Parasol's mane and tail what she would look like standing, trotting and gallopping if she had a horn as well instead of just wings.

>>40889
So basically you are just looking to recolor a pony? And you want them to have an exact match for your ponies tail and mane? I can't believe I have to tell someone this but look through the main program's ponies and find one that has the tail you want. Take the mane we already found you and copy paste. Also we are not going to go through that link of yours and make every mane and tail found on there for you. This is not a request thread. Stop being lazy if you really want these ponies and try spriting some yourself if you cant find a suitable enough tail on another pony.

And I thought recolorists were already a bit lazy :/

>>40885
Wow his wings are really going. For his fly animation it looks a bit weird how you did the hair falling part starting on frame 13. My suggestion is to not have the the super thick hair outline color. Leave some of the inside hair color up there so it doesn't look like ghosting problems on the sprite. With the fiddling I did on your sprite, I think it works better having the up hair on for two frames or so before returning to normal instead of just the one frame.
For the idle while you have excellent animation going on for the wings nothing else is moving. Put a little tail swish or something in there. Maybe have the antennae bob up and down and just have the little thread of hair sticking out in front move and it would be perfect I'd say. Anyway those are my suggestions and it is coming along quite well. What made you choose Zipzee if I may ask?

>>40894
The pony I'm planning on making is much more complicated than I described it before. It does look similar to Parasol on the very first sight you know. Also, I wrote only what kind of help I need in order to get started. What I want to make is much more.
Recoloring is nothing I can't do. The only problem I have is that I do not find her mane and tail anywhere so I can't do it by recoloring.
The templates I need are really not that much. Also, if I'm really that lazy, then what's Hanna: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/23185.html#24097
I already wrote in here that the sprites could also be from http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Wind_Whistler

All I do is ask for some help. HOW IS THAT LAZY?!

>>40898

"Help" means "How I do this?"

It does not means "This is what I want. Gimme."

So yeah, lazy.

>>40901
But this is "I want to do this and this and this. I can't do it alone so I need some help/aid/assistance. I can do this and this but I can't do this. But this needs to be done so I can do this and this. If one of you likes to help others, currently has some free time and can do this, please do this for me. This will help me do this and this. It doesn't need to be soon but if it was nice.

Thanking you in anticipation,
me"

Due to Wikipedia, asking for help also means asking someone else to take care of a part of something oneself can't do alone so it IS asking for help.

>>40756
That's a really good tip, especially after making a canon pony (Cloud Kicker) using the template.

I think what I'll end up doing is making my pony again from the template, and that'll fix a few problems right there. That and use StarStep's tail movement tips.

>>40905
I base all my sprites off existing sprites, I don;t use templates, and I use paint rather than Photoshop, I make all my sprites in 1x size then resize.
So, bending the rules. :|

>>40904
How is that not asking someone to basically do the whole thing for you. You want a completed pony. "oh but I plan to recolor it so you aren't doing the whole thing" Wrong! You still want someone to sprite you a completed pony. Geeze you are the first person I have seen who is too lazy to even try and copy paste an existing ponies mane and tail together when I know there are ponies that have manes and tails that would work well enough for your pony since you are too lazy to even attempt to sprite your own. Asking for a completed pony even if you are planning to recolor it is still asking for someone to make you a complete pony which as stated in the opening post is not allowed in this thread.

Oh I am so frustrated I could just kick something. eh.

Note to others, not condoning just mixing and matching ponies hairs til you get what you want. Making your own is very rewarding and will give you the perfect pixel pony to portray your unique style. Just saying that it's pretty lazy to think even mix and matching is too much work.

>>40905
Oh I loved how you portrayed her cutie mark. Can't wait to see what you sprite next.

>>40907
As I said, I did not even find the right mane and tail. If I had, I just put them together. But they weren't anywhere.
I simply wanted help with creating two sprites: mane and tail. I'd have done the rest by myself.
If you don't want to help me, just write "no" instead of labelling me lazy and stuff.
Also, I told you often enough that I want to make my pony very more unique than any of you could even imagine. I didn't even write anything about the hardest part.

Also, I already told you that I'm ready to rip the movements of Applejack and Granny Smith.
I asked you before but I'm not afraid to ask you again: If I'm really that lazy, then what's Hanna: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/23185.html#24097
Hanna also used a Pony Creator to make her pony and then asked someone else to make a Desktop Pony out of it and noone claimed HER lazy.

I already wrote that I'm going to make these things on my own:
rip the files off the Templates.zip
rip the movements of Granny Smith and Applejack
put what my pony has together
design her cutie mark for my own
recolor everything
do all of the programming and all the sounds for myself
add everything else I want my pony to have to

I'm asking only these 2 sprites so PLEASE stop labelling me lazy.
HOW MUCH MORE POLITE CAN I POSSIBLY GET?!?!?!

>>40908
Come on, man. The OP pretty specifically says "no requests". Nopony's gonna do your job for you. Just try to make your own sprites first, then post them here and people will be glad to give feedback to help you further along.

>>40918
Okay! Fine! I'll try it myself but if I fail, I'll come back and ask you again.

But before I go, please answer me one question:
Would you describe Hanna's http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/23185.html#24097 as a request or were requests allowed in the other thread and aren't in this one, anymore?

>>40920
Why are you even going on about this person? If you look no one here made her pony and her post only got one response.

Most requests either get ignored completely or get told basically 'read op no requests. Try spriting own. We'll help walk you through if needed. ?s ask.'
She was basically ignored. If she persisted, she probably would have been told she was being lazy too.

>>40908

Read the pinned thread that among other useful things, clearly says, "We are not your slaves."

We are not here to serve you, we are not here to be your personal hug box, we are not here to make you feel special or whatever you came trying to fish for.
We owe you nothing and you were entitled to absolutely nothing to begin with.
You will not receive a special treat, you will not be made an exception, you will not be "understood", period.

Want other people's respect? You will get it, but you must earn it by yourself.

Want other people's hate? You are already earning it very, very fast pace, brah.

Seriously, every month the people who discovers this site keeps becoming more annoying, self-entitled and they bellyache for everything.

~ Le Sigh.

(USER WAS TRAPPED IN THE MOON FOR 1000 YEARS FOR THIS POST)

>>40923
>>40926
Why do you all hate me?! I already said it's OK!
Why didn't you just ignore me like anyone else?!
I took her example because she didn't get this hated and she even asked for more than I did.

All I expected was a simple "yes" or "no" but instead all you guys calm me lazy and begin to hate me. I already began to create this pony on my own! What's there left to say?! I asked for some help and if you don't want to give me any help, just write "no"! I do not think you're slaves at all, it's just I read the first post with the rules of the LAST thread and there wasn't anything saying that it wasn't allowed. When I noticed the thread's moved I forgot to read it. Sorry. And after all, I didn't read wikipedia much enough to see that I really did a request, or better, a PART of a request, without knowing. Sorry for that, too.
But I don't get why you blame me like this! I already know you won't help me so stop writing me those hatemessages!!
What do you guys even want!?

>>40926
Jesus, take a chill pill, will ya. I told him, now leave the guy alone.

Seriously, next time? Just report the posts and move on.

>>40906
The template is 1x size, so I just made it in that size then exported it 2x.

>>40907
Well, I'm working on my OC, (here's the updated trot cycle, again) and Cloud Kicker Flying, and of course, her derp face. after I get all that done, I'll make the .ini for both and upload them. Then, I want to make the Unicorn from The Last Unicorn as a sprite, which will be a challenge because she is a completely different body type and I can't just use the template.

Hi, I don't know if I misunderstood the link that was on the home page or not, but I would like to ask you if you could please make my OC a desktop pony. If you cannot, I'll understand. If you can, then I'll really appreciate it. Here's my OC if you can.

Right now, I'm in the middle of creating my pony. I gave her three behaviours yet: Standing, trotting and gallopping.
Trotting has speed 3 pixels in 100msec.
Gallopping has speed 6 pixels in 100msec.

I managed to program her in a way that if you control her and press the arrow keys you trot and if you press the arrow hey with shift you run.
However, when you control her and gallop, the speed is faster than when you let her gallop for herself. What can I do to make the 2 speeds equal?
If there is a tutorial about it and I missed it, show me.

>>40956

Read the first post. What does it say there?
No, really. What does it say, hmm?

>>"Now this thread is for sharing your animations, getting critiques, advice, ideas and is not meant to be a request thread to have somepony make your entire OC for you. To help you make your animations, there are some tutorials and templates out there to help you"

Would you guys die if you stop for a moment to check things out before you smash your head against the keyboard to ask others to become your servants?

Hmm?

>>40957

*facepalm* Sigh, fine.

1- Go to Google
2- Type "Tutorials to create an animated gif" and press "Enter"
3- ???
4- Profit!

It took me 3 seconds to do that.

If you weren't even capable of that, then I can already guess how good are the so-called "ponies" you are attempting to make.

Seriously, kids today.

>>40943
He's looking better. Good to see you improving. Also what derp face are you talking about for cloudkicker? Also I like that ambition of making the last unicorn sprite. It would be cool to see the characters from that movie on here but I think I wouldn't want the red bull trying to corral all my unicorns up.

>>40957
Im not sure if I understand what you are asking for exactly. So you take control of the pony but it moves faster than its normal gallop speed and you want them to be the same. How are you getting the pony to go gallop speed instead of trot. Sorry I havent messed around with controlling the ponies before. I know you can increase the speed she gallops at normally by going into the pony editor and changing the speed but I have no idea how to change anything when you are controlling them.

>>40959
>>40960
I think I was precisely enough. I don't need any help with the animation speed. I need help with the pony's moving speed.
I already told you what the unit was: pixels per msec
What's meant here is the speed the ponies take if they move from one spot of your desktop to the other, the locomotion, OK? So, Anonymous, you didn't find the solution.

When you click a pony with the right mouse button, you can take control over it. If you click on Take Control - Player 1 you can move the pony with the arrow keys. If you hold down shift and control the pony with the arrow keys, it moves faster than if you do not hold down shift.

Each pony has different behaviours. Some of these behaviours are methods of locomotion. You can put these behaviours in the pony's ini file and then you have to write the speed in it. Its unit is pixels per 100msec.

I put 3 behaviours into my pony's ini file: Standing, trotting and gallopping.

Standing: 0 pixels in 100msec; no direction.
Trotting: 3 pixels in 100msec; all directions.
Gallopping: 6 pixels in 100msec; all directions.

When you control my pony, you automatically trot without the shift key and gallop with the shift key.
But if you control her with the shift key she's faster than if she gallops without you controlling her.
Why?

>>40960
This time, I just used the template and paid closer attention to the tail movements. Also, this is Cloud Kicker's derp face. She made it when Fluttershy was running away from Gilda crying. I don't plan on making the Red Bull, but if I do, I could always make an interaction so he can drive them all to one side of the screen or something. And only unicorns and alicorns.

I have created a GIF file but it cannot be opened. Whenever I try to start the pony, it says:


Error launching ponies... Details: Could not create a new AnimatedImage from gif file: <this file's path>
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.ImageManagement.AnimatedImage.AnimatedImageFromGif
(Boolean identifyCommonFrames)
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.ImageManagement.AnimatedImage..ctor(String fileName__1, Boolean identifyCommonFrames)
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.ImageManagement.ImageManager.ImageFromFile(String fileName)
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.Pony.Behaviour.LoadImages()
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.Pony.Add_Behavior(Boolean Load_Images, String name, Double chance, Double max_duration, Double min_duration, Double speed, String right_image_path, String left_image_path, Byte Allowed_Moves, String _Linked_Behavior, String _Startline, String _Endline, Boolean _skip, Int32 _xcoord, Int32 _ycoord, String _object_to_follow, Boolean _auto_select_images_on_follow, String _follow_stopped_behavior, left_image_center, Boolean _dont_repeat_image_animations, Int32 _group)
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.Duplicate()
[...]
Desktop_Ponies.Main.Go_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)


What's wrong with my GIF file?!

Technical guy here.

>>40961
I looked into this, the shift modifier simply doubles your speed. It'll then choose a behaviour with a similar speed. So in this case it should double your speed of 3 up to 6 (and as a side effect switch to the gallop behaviour). Since you have it set up to all match correctly, I can only assume there is a bug somewhere.

>>40964
This is an error with the program. Nothing is wrong with your file. This error might be fixed in future, but for now I would suggest as a workaround to try opening and saving the file in a different image editor. It might produce a file that works.

If you can't get it to work, post your files when they're all done and I'll convert them in bulk.

Does anyone have the galloping base? I've been looking for it for sometime by it seems the original artist deleted it from her dA. I find it easier to use PSD files as opposed to normal GIFs (I've never been a fan of using GIMP). If anypony has it and is willing to share, I'd appreciate it highly!

>>35944
Does anyone have the galloping base? I've been looking for it for sometime by it seems the original artist deleted it from her dA. I find it easier to use PSD files as opposed to normal GIFs (I've never been a fan of using GIMP). If anypony has it and is willing to share, I'd appreciate it highly!

>>40983

Desktop Ponies' creators are having significant problem with people ripping their work to create and redistribute unathorized bases, so they are taking those down as they catch them.

On top of that, they are having problems with people using their stuff to sell crappy custom Desktop Ponies trotters (or whatever they call them to avoid getting detected by Deviantart's search engine) so that's another reason they have to reduce the amount of bases available until people stops being douchebags and quit trying to make an easy buck using stuff that was never meant to be used that way.

It sucks, but because of the greed and arrogance of a few, the rest of us will get boned as well.

>>40984
I just extract all the frames of the GIF with Irfanview and edit them in paint, after putting them all on one sheet. Probably primative, but that's the way I work!

>>40999

This thread is only for pixelated OCs to be added at will on Desktop Ponies.

It is not meant for hand drawn OCs (and you can't request people to make a pixel version of it either.)

What does "OC" even stand for?

>>41006

OC means Original Character.

Which is very irritating considering how many people use that word all the time without even knowing what it means, ESPECIALLY when they use it to describe their lousy recolors or the junk "created" with the infamous flash Pony Creator, which gives you very limited options to exchange manes and tails on a model that only allows a single pose to boot.

>>41008
You can pose that creator in any way you want.

>>41011
But only from a single perspective

>>41011

Try making a walking animation or getting a custom pose out of that creator: you can't.
People using that custom pony creator are the same as kids using a coloring activity book and most of time, they behave on par as well.

Doesn't it depend on what Pony Creator you use?

>>41015

The number of possible combinations is always limited no matter whay pony creator they use or how many stupid accesories they stuff on them. No matter whay they do, their "Original" character always will end looking exactly as thousands and thousands of other mass produced ponies. (Because they are not the only people using the pony creator, see.)

Plus, it's like 98% of people is only capable to use black, purple and red to color their little abomination.


Rant mode on:

Now, I suppose this is the part when someone jumps in to say "Sheeesh! we are not Picasso, we have no art abilities! We only do this for fun among friends! I-It's a c-crime to use the pony creator t-to have our f-fun?"

... except that if they really used it for fun they wouldn't be so obsessed with puting their recolors on display, on public communities full of people that are not their friends, for everyone to see, and immediately attacking any person who remindes them that they haven't accomplished anything special and their prized overpowered Ponysonas are anything but original.

>>41017
I wonder why you keep browsing the OC DP thread if you hate them so much

>>41020

Because the thread keeps getting bumped and I keep expecting to see some genuinely good OC like the ones from OP's post.

Instead, all what I see are more crappy recolors, more dumb kids posting requests and more passive-agressive insults such as "If you don't like it, don't look at it."
Cretins.

Don't like my opinion about those mudponyes, then fine, don't read it anymore. (See, I can use that trick as well.)

Oh god can someone please make this?

Totally unexpectedly made my friend's OC, Golden Acorn.
http://goldenacorn93.deviantart.com/art/Golden-Acorn-Shameless-OC-Vector-291653731

The top of the mane I re-worked from Vinyl Scratch's, and the bottom part of the mane and tail are recolored. I also had to mess around with the head and eye so it looked like the vector.

Well, here's the download link if anyone is interested:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?r8wwbvwwhim9iw6

>>41023
There's guides to help you make it in the OP.

>>41023

Read the first post on this tread: requests are forbidden.
No one is going to make your pony for you, so if you want it, do it all by yourself.
It's not impossible and the first post also includes templates, guides and even a video explaining the basics.

>>41023
I'm pretty sure I've seen someone attempt that as a sprite in the past, but I may be wrong. Yeah, you better go get it done yourself

>>40967
Thank you for offering me your help.
Right now, I'm done making these GIF files. I put them all into a ZIP file but I somehow cannot upload ZIP files because the filetype ZIP is not allowed. So what do I do?

>>41036

I don't know. Use RAR instead?

>>41038

Too late. I already uploaded it here: http://filesmelt.com/dl/corrupt.zip

>>40967

I really failed at fixing those files myself. If you don't believe me, open the TXT file which is included in the ZIP file. All details can be found in there.

>>41039
Fixed files here: http://dropcanvas.com/qjae7/4

Your files were valid, but quite funky, which is why both the Desktop Ponies program and some others choked up a bit or produced errors.

I managed to make the gif reader in Desktop Ponies a bit more robust, it now accepts your funky files just fine. Hopefully those changes make it into the actual program in future.

If anypony is ever having trouble with funky files, try gifsicle: http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
It can produce sensible files. It's a command line tool, so not for everypony, but in essence you can just just do:
gifsicle -b -O3 <file>
and it'll fix things up for you (that's all I did here, to be honest). Also useful it you just want to optimize regular gifs.

>>41045
Thank you very much!

I just tested the GIF files and they can be opened!
However, there still are some glitches. If you ever walk through the very right of the screen and then begin to run, you can leave the screen. That's because the running sprites have another resolution than the rest. I thought if I take Applejack's sprites and edit them without changing their resolutions, nothing could go wrong but now I'll have to fix them. But thanks to your help, I don't need your help, anymore. Thanks again!

>>This message goes to everyone who ever created a Desktop Pony whose GIF animation files have different resolutions:
If you have GIF files with different sizes which belong to the same object (the character itself, Applejack's appletree, apple, Berry Punch's bottle, Pinkamena's "friends" and so on...) please make sure they don't cause any glitches!

Applejack's gallopping behaviour has a probability of 5%. It's also a follower of an effect called "Apple Drop". The move is Diagonal_Only but hasn't a certain follower. I'm not sure but I think I just found a bug in Applejack!?
By the way, Applejack's gallopping sprite is also used for a behaviour called "Conga Start" but that one's probability is 0% and it also isn't a follower of anything else.

>>41056
Please don't make requests in this thread, this is an overly common thing which the thread maintainers find quite annoying. Thanks for your understanding.

>>35944
Okay I have tried looking online and cannot find a guide to make an OC pony but there is nothing so can I ask you people to help me in making an OC Desktop pony?

I'm just looking for a guide to make my own

thank you in advance

>>35944
Okay I have tried looking online and cannot find a guide to make an OC pony but there is nothing so can I ask you people to help me in making an OC Desktop pony?

I'm just looking for a guide to make my own

thank you in advance

>>41204
Hey, glad you are giving it a try. Up in the op there is a link for a video that goes through the basics of making your own oc pony. Then there is a download for some template gifs, sprite sheets and psd files up there too. Also I have some tips put on my deviant art page too that might help. If you still have questions after watching the video ask here and we will be happy to help. Good luck and have fun.

I'm a slight bit leery of asking what you all think of my first spriting attempt. Especially considering some of the prior heated conversations. But I know that if I never ask for advice, I can't improve as quickly as with advice. I made sure all the pixels were uniform, so that won't take away from her. Also, I think she looks a bit familiar, but I am happy with her design. I'm not worried about that. Anyway, this is Aurora.

>>41356
Frame 14, when her back legs are crossed and she's bringing her back-right hoof forward, she lost some of her outline and hoof.

Frame 11, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 and 4 you may want to take a look at her wings. The outline seems to disappear.

Aside from that, she looks correct. Her mane is a bit flat and I can come up with a dozen ways her Cutie Mark doesn't fit right on her flank, but then again, I don't have a degree in equine anatomy so I'd just be spouting crap.

Not bad!

>>This message goes to everyone spoke with me, before.

I'm done with making the first version of my pony. Please tell me if you find any glitches.

First of all, I wanna say sorry. I asked for help before I even tried creating her for myself. I even found a magic hint which you said to not exist. It's called grid. You can find more information about the grid in the Additional information folder. I thought this wouldn't be enough, but my pony looks better than I imagined it would ever look without any help of creating her mane and her tail. However, it would still be nice if any of you could send me an e-mail whenever you see another Desktop Pony which has the same mane and/or tail style as mine and doesn't look exactly like mine.

As I said, my pony is not fully done, yet, and it might keep unfinished forever, and even if she will be finished one day you won't have to add them to the OC ponies if you don't want to.

Unfortunately, I cannot upload her RAR file because it's 316328655 Byte!!
That's why I uploaded her here:
http://freakshare.com/files/25809an8/ME.rar.html