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Title: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: caracallie on June 21, 2018, 08:59:53 AM
Recently I started watching the original My Little Pony 'n Friends show, and oh boy those animation errorssss.

I already know that the first 10 episodes are supposedly from a scrapped movie sequel, but the original movie had some decent animation! During my watch, I kept getting more and more incredulous at everything on screen - I know the show was made for selling toys, and don't get me wrong I think the show is very enjoyable - but the animators just didn't seem to care!

Anyway, here (http://mylittlewiki.org/wiki/The_End_of_Flutter_Valley) you can find a list of animation errors from mylittlewiki. The reason I made this post is because I noticed a new mistake in the 1st episode that wasn't on the errors list! (it genuinely made me laugh, lol) You can watch the episode here (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x548v4x), and at the 6:30 mark, they animated Draggle with both her voice and with Reeka's voice, as Reeka peers menacingly from behind the same rock...

Are there any mistakes that made you guys LOL while watching/rewatching?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 21, 2018, 10:45:02 AM
STRAP YOURSELF IN, animation errors ahoy!!!

To me the most blatant one was Princess Primrose's tail being red though MULTIPLE EPISODES of "Quest of the Princess Pony."  Like, really?  No one questioned that?  WHY IS IT RED?  And I could understand more if they made all her hair red, but her mane is colored correctly!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Safflower on June 21, 2018, 10:46:19 AM
I *think* baby Surprise was an alicorn once?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 21, 2018, 10:47:15 AM
Whenever they give the wrong characters lip movement, it makes it very confusing!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2018, 11:32:49 AM
The animation errors really stand out to me in the "Bright Lights" story arc. 

I have a lot of error pics so I'll put them in the spoiler tags.

This is one of my favorites. Lofty has 5 legs

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At one point in Bright Lights the mayor and sheriff mice of a town decide to go with the ponies.

Sheriff Mouse
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Sheriff Mouse becomes a different mouse for no reason


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Different mouse character(still should be Sherriff Mouse) changes into another mouse character.

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Baby Quacker's eye in "The Prince and the Ponies"


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I'm not sure how the animators didn't noctice Princess Primrose's tail being the wrong color and not matching her mane.  :lol:


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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 21, 2018, 11:53:17 AM
STRAP YOURSELF IN, animation errors ahoy!!!

To me the most blatant one was Princess Primrose's tail being red though MULTIPLE EPISODES of "Quest of the Princess Pony."  Like, really?  No one questioned that?  WHY IS IT RED?  And I could understand more if they made all her hair red, but her mane is colored correctly!

Because she's Princess Ruby. Of course. She was protesting about her name, which belongs to a principally YELLOW flower, especially given that her symbol is a BUTTERFLY. But you know, Rubies are...red :D

(/end UK name bias)

I still like the multiple legs. That one wins for me.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: caracallie on June 21, 2018, 12:04:00 PM

At one point in Bright Lights the mayor and sheriff mice of a town decide to go with the ponies.

Sheriff Mouse
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Sheriff Mouse becomes a different mouse for no reason


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Different mouse character(still should be Sherriff Mouse) changes into another mouse character.

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This is Sheriff Mouse erasure and I will not stand for it!

Also: That quackers one is wild... I always forget that those old shows are just animation cels, and the thought that some animator was like: "Hm... seems this one is ripped. Oh well." *uses the slide anyway* is SO funny. Really, how can you miss something like that unless you're just churning out half-baked episodes?

Some of my favorite animations are also when people leave outside work on top of the cels. I'm blanking on which one, but in an old Mario cartoon, I distinctly remember a note about the slide just being left on top of a frame. Oops!

Loved the 5 legged one. Took me a second but it looks hilarious.


Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 21, 2018, 12:53:50 PM
Multiple Legs Lofty:  the hero we need or the hero we deserve?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: mewthemew on June 21, 2018, 03:42:03 PM
I haven't seen it in years, but I remember the episode Fugitive Flowers being riddled with animation errors. <3
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: dragonfly on June 21, 2018, 03:46:37 PM
Wow! Fun to see it all documented. Even as a kid I would notice. Wings where there shouldn’t be, missing limbs, wrong colors even wrong voices! Lol
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 21, 2018, 03:48:49 PM
I found a few more. 

I'll put them under the spoiler tags again

Something's wrong with Heart Throb
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Gusty has hands   :lol: This even more amusing given the fact that in another thread we were talking about how many times Hasbro forgot ponies don't have hands.


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Baby Cuddles and the Lullabye Nursery basment

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Baby Cuddles sees a window in the basement of Lullabye Nusery


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Baby Cuddles goes through the window

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Baby Cuddles is in Paradise Estate when she comes out of the nursery basement

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: TheBeatlesPkmnFan42 on June 21, 2018, 03:51:20 PM
Gusty has hands   :lol: This even more amusing given the fact that in another thread we were talking about how many times Hasbro forgot ponies don't have hands.


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That Gusty one gets me every time. Not the only time there's been a visual case of ponies having hands either, one of the loading screens for FiM's mobile game gave Rainbow Dash a thumb. I think I've seen one other case of a pony having a finger before but I'm blanking on where it was.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 21, 2018, 04:19:05 PM
Some of the G3 episodes also have them having thumbs.  I guess we know who is wearing those mittens in Sniffles & Snookums backcard story now: Gusty, the G3s, and G4 Rainbow Dash.  :P

Poor Heart Throb.  Off with her head!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: cookifaa on June 21, 2018, 04:19:59 PM
These are hilarious :lol: I have all the episodes on VHS and I've been watching them repeatedly for years and I've never realised the mistakes!

The only one I've ever noticed was in a Tales episode where the ponies meet the Berrytowns, the mum calls the baby pony Posey, and then a second later calls her Cherry.

Surely they had to notice when watching the episodes through? :lol:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Carrehz on June 21, 2018, 04:24:33 PM
Oh, I was hoping someone would bring up that pic of Gusty with hands soon :heart: I've been thinking of it ever since the backcard thread ;)

IIRC the 5-legged one is a case of them colouring someone's leg wrong, doesn't it flicker between Lofty and Heart Throb's colours? Or am I thinking of another animation error?

and OH LORD that Baby Quackers one!! I don't think I've noticed that one before, yikes. What on earth happened there? XD

What confuses me about the Primrose thing is her tail is blue for most of part 4. Like, if it was red all the way through I wouldn't think THAT much of it, I'd just assume someone messed up or there was a miscommunication or something. But..
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???

Speaking of colour changes, Baby Shady zigzags between being pink and red, depending on the episode (can't remember if she swaps colours in the same episode off-hand, but I wouldn't be surprised):
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(Also, Baby Lofty's eye colour changes all the time. It's supposed to be lilac, but they often gave her brown eyes like her mum. I can see how they made that error, though.)

Some more favourites of mine:
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(This one's easier to tell it's an error in motion - I'll have to make a gif of it sometime. Basically when the pink Furbob raises his front leg, they forgot to remove the cel with his leg still on the ground.. so he has five legs XD not the only show I've seen do this, it's one of my favourite kind of errors XDD)

One that's in every episode:
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Pegasus Magic Star!

Sheriff Ricotta's already been brought up, but I might as well post this anyway:
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I'd love to know what the heck happened here... there HAS to be a fun story behind it.

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Megan's ponytail is missing (also, her face, just... her face)

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Winged Unicorn errors are the best kind of errors

Gotta dig out my collection of animation error screenshots one day, there's some fun stuff in there.. I love these kind of threads. I love the G1 cartoon XD
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: MerryAnvil on June 21, 2018, 06:05:20 PM
Oh my goodness this thread is a treasure.   :silly:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 22, 2018, 08:24:47 AM
I think Lofty's extra leg was supposed to be Heart Throb's but it got colored in as Lofty's instead.  I heard that the having the ponies trapped on their backs and constantly moving their legs was probably difficult to animate.

Somehow I missed Sherriff Ricotta's change to the larger mouse with the green overallls. Does that make 3 character changes?

 I love the winged Galaxy one. :lovey:


Here are a few more


Wind Whistler is purple

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Baby Lofty the Earth pony. She is also missing her symbol

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Baby Lofty the unicorn twins from My Little Pony the movie

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I'm not sure if this is a true error or not. It looks like North Star has an extra leg but it could just be the way the next is drawn over her body.


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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: caracallie on June 22, 2018, 08:40:43 AM
These are all amazing omg!

I'm not sure if this is a true error or not. It looks like North Star has an extra leg but it could just be the way the next is drawn over her body.


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I'm under the impression that it's less an error and more just shoddy drawing. Like with a lot of older animations, background characters moreso resemble the schmooze than any type of Pony I've seen! LOL

My bet is that they just didn't draw the legs properly, though it sure looks funny!

Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 22, 2018, 08:49:10 AM
Today the part of Wind Whistler will be played by Hippety Hop...
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: cookifaa on June 22, 2018, 09:47:43 AM
This thread is honestly pure gold, I've never laughed so hard.

Either the creators were always having bad days or they were just too lazy to correct their mistakes and thought no one would ever notice :lol:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 22, 2018, 04:06:42 PM
Today the part of Wind Whistler will be played by Hippety Hop...


Now we know how all of those ponies suddenly swtiched places and were in scences they weren't supposed to be. :lol:

Director:  "Okay, Cupcake, Posey's supposed to be in this scene but she had to step out for a minute. You're in!"

Cupcake: "But I don't look anything like Posey"

Director: "Don't worry. No one will notice."


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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 22, 2018, 04:19:57 PM
I have had a lot of fun reading though this.  :lol:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Esbayne on June 22, 2018, 07:48:40 PM
It wasn't in MLP Tales or MLP & Friends, but I remember in The End of Flutter Valley, the ponies and the bee people kept switching voices. Was pretty hilarious to hear this gruff, masculine bee-man voice coming out of Morning Glory.

Edit: My bad! I just read that it WAS actually a part of MLP n Friends!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: northstar3184 on June 22, 2018, 10:08:59 PM
For me the errors that stood out the most were:

The switching of Wind Whistler and Locket's voices at the end of the Quest of the Princess Ponies.

The constant changing of Sheriff Ricotta's appearance. Like Carrehz, I'd love to know what happened there.

I never saw what Princess Primrose looked like until the introduction of Ebay and such, so although I thought it was weird she had a blue mane and a red tail, I had no idea that this varied from the toy version of her.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Mewtwofan1 on June 22, 2018, 10:44:46 PM
     I especially like the image of princess primrose. Her expression says it all. “What do you mean my tail-oh god they gave me the wrong tail! Starburst! Can you do your whole “red robins into blue jays” thing on my tail?”
     Megan’s face: those gosh darn animators! Forgetting my ponytail!” Megan is 110 percent done with this stuff.
     As an animation student, I get kind of how these errors got past. You have to draw quickly, and you have deadlines for production. Don’t meet the deadline, you loose your job as an animator. Poor guys we’re probably just trying to finish before the deadline. I mean, it doesn’t excuse the errors like the tail, and the strange five leg mutations, but it does give an explanation. And yeah, these were made to sell toys. So not a lot was spent on production quality to begin. All these errors are quite funny though. I’m sure a few on the production team got a good laugh when they took a closer look once they finished the job.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: mewthemew on June 23, 2018, 06:21:58 AM
Might not be a major animation error, but I don't think pony heads are supposed to reach that far around
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Bubbles is an owl confirmed!
 (taken from the Rescue At Midnight Castle 'n friends version of the movie)
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 23, 2018, 11:47:16 AM
I never thought about how far their heads are supposed to turn.

I found another one from "Ice Cream Wars"

Sniffles and Snookums are supposed to be pink

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But after they climb on Baby Fifi


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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 23, 2018, 11:55:51 AM
I never thought about how far their heads are supposed to turn.

I found another one from "Ice Cream Wars"

Sniffles and Snookums are supposed to be pink

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I am way more worried about the eyes in this image on the right.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Safflower on June 23, 2018, 11:57:08 AM
I never thought about how far their heads are supposed to turn.

I found another one from "Ice Cream Wars"

Sniffles and Snookums are supposed to be pink

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I am way more worried about the eyes in this image on the right.
Exactly. Poor baby... *shudder*
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 23, 2018, 11:57:59 AM
Note the drumstick. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "you'll have someone's eye out with that."

Clearly lesson learned too late.

The colours are actually better on Fifi's back. I can't even figure out on the other image which one is meant to be which xD but on Fifi's back I can tell them apart, even without their horns.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: DreamvalleyMLP on June 23, 2018, 02:18:28 PM
This is a lot of fun, just like spotting them back in the eighties! Thanks for sharing those screenshots everyone! The errors didn't bother me, but the bad animation could be very off-putting sometimes. The pony design in Crunch The Rockdog was cute. The animation in the Golden Horseshoes on the other hand.... *shudders*
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 23, 2018, 04:54:11 PM
Yeah, anyone know the story behind The Golden Horseshoes' animation?  It looks sooo different, especially the first episode of it IIRC?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: tailrustedtealeaf on June 23, 2018, 06:45:53 PM
Yeah, anyone know the story behind The Golden Horseshoes' animation?  It looks sooo different, especially the first episode of it IIRC?
They may have exported it to a different animation studio. Reminds me of when Animaniacs would export to this one animation studio that...didn't have the same quality standards as the others. Their episodes stand out quite well.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 23, 2018, 08:38:32 PM
I kind of liked the animation better in the Golden Horseshoes . . .  It was wonky and off model for sure.  But it seemed to have more emotion?  And was a bit more cinematic than usual, with lots of varying "camera" angles and even shading in some scenes.  Like, usually MLP & Friends was just kind of visually bright and simple and shot from "the side" regardless of what was happening on the screen. 

I remember the "All Through the Night" song in particular being really dark and moody.  I kinda wish that company had done the whole show . . .

That said, it had some really obvious animation errors, like Megan getting off a pegasus and her arm morphing right through the pony's wing, LOL.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: northstar3184 on June 23, 2018, 10:16:36 PM
I kind of liked the animation better in the Golden Horseshoes . . .  It was wonky and off model for sure.  But it seemed to have more emotion?  And was a bit more cinematic than usual, with lots of varying "camera" angles and even shading in some scenes.  Like, usually MLP & Friends was just kind of visually bright and simple and shot from "the side" regardless of what was happening on the screen. 

I remember the "All Through the Night" song in particular being really dark and moody.  I kinda wish that company had done the whole show . . .

That said, it had some really obvious animation errors, like Megan getting off a pegasus and her arm morphing right through the pony's wing, LOL.

Ok I've gotta sit down and rewatch this episode because I never noticed there was a different animation style.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 23, 2018, 10:36:17 PM
Here are some screenshots from it:

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The ponies listen to the legend of the ancestral unicorn who owned the four golden horseshoes (WITH SHADING).

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The Moochick has seen too much.

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Pot is legal in Ponyland.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 24, 2018, 03:33:05 AM
I wonder if it was in any way connected to some of the Jem animation that definitely went to subpar studios. Anyone who's ever seen the Shangrila episode knows what I mean...

I haven't seen the horseshoes episode in about 20 years, probably not since the first time I saw it and knew I wanted Mimic, which may make it even longer (given that I got Mimic in 1997). I hadn't remembered any of this. Maybe when my summer chaos is over and I know where I'm living next year, I'll try and make a point of rewatching some of these episodes as many of them I realise I haven't seen in a very long time.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2018, 05:33:32 AM
Note the drumstick. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "you'll have someone's eye out with that."

Clearly lesson learned too late.

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I didn't even notice that when I took the screenshot but now it really does look like one twin hit the other in the eyes with the drumstick.  :rofl:


I rewatched Quest of the Princess Ponies and found several errors no one has mentioned yet


Ponies missing horns or gaining wings


Princess Sparkle is missing her horn


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Princess Starburst  and Princess Serena turn in to pegasus ponies



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Heads and bodies different colors
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Princess Royal Blue becomes a unicorn

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Tiffany is flying Megan back to Royal Paradise but when the Princess Ponies, Spike and the bushwoolies fall through the wall and are recaptured Tiffany is with them.

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The chair that everyone calls a plant :lol:



The animation and script don't match in this scene. The Moochick's chair comes to life and Megan, the Moochick and Habbit are forced to run out of the Moochick's house, Both Megan and Tiffany call the chair a plant.




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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Al-1701 on June 24, 2018, 06:25:12 AM
Animation errors was as much a part of the 80's as big hair and guys with watches going all the way up their arm.  The explanation was on the Real Ghostbusters commentary, but it applies here too.  It was just too expensive to do too many edits since it involved flying the film back to Japan/Korea for them to redo the cells from scratch and then fly it back to America.  There could have also been translation errors in the shooting scripts.  Like the acting script might have said "plant" but the shooting script said chair.

I like the animation style of The Golden Horseshoes as well.  I think the animation team really wanted to show what they could do.  The show was coming to an end, so it was chance to make a portfolio episode.  It did get wonky at times, but even the modeling looked better than the standard of the show.

Actually, Lofty's fifth leg is Heart Throb's but colored wrong, probably because they had enough legs for Heart Throb.

Galaxy was actually an alicorn twice (the other time was in Baby It's Cold Outside) and Wind Whistler was an alicorn briefly in Crunch the Rockdog.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 24, 2018, 06:35:46 AM
Tiffany is flying Megan back to Royal Paradise but when the Princess Ponies, Spike and the bushwoolies fall through the wall and are recaptured Tiffany is with them.


And Princess Ruby is a sausage-pony. Look how far away her tail is compared to her body.

Also, I think that the miscoloured Amethyst/Sparkle/"Lilac" is actually Sapphire with an unexpected white horn attached? O.o.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 24, 2018, 08:02:46 AM
Tiffany is flying Megan back to Royal Paradise but when the Princess Ponies, Spike and the bushwoolies fall through the wall and are recaptured Tiffany is with them.


And Princess Ruby is a sausage-pony. Look how far away her tail is compared to her body.

Also, I think that the miscoloured Amethyst/Sparkle/"Lilac" is actually Sapphire with an unexpected white horn attached? O.o.
Her symbol is definitely Royal Blue/Sapphire's moon crescent, so she just grew a white horn.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 24, 2018, 11:58:35 AM
Tiffany is flying Megan back to Royal Paradise but when the Princess Ponies, Spike and the bushwoolies fall through the wall and are recaptured Tiffany is with them.


And Princess Ruby is a sausage-pony. Look how far away her tail is compared to her body.

Also, I think that the miscoloured Amethyst/Sparkle/"Lilac" is actually Sapphire with an unexpected white horn attached? O.o.


I missed how long Princess Primrose/Princess Ruby's body was in the group shot. :lol:


You and Jorgito93 are right. It's Princess Royal Blue/Sapphire  with a unicorn horn not Princess Sparkle/Amethyst  :biggrin: It was very early in the morning when I was watching  pony cartoons and trying to take screencaps at the same time.  :zzz:


Ponyfan

   
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: DreamvalleyMLP on June 25, 2018, 02:43:33 PM

Heads and bodies different colors


Those are animated separately to avoid having to draw the pony in its entirety for every single movement it makes. In poor quality shows it leads to this type of color mismatch, but even in HQ work like Disney's it can be noticeable.

Post Merge: June 25, 2018, 03:03:59 PM


Some more favourites of mine:
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Pegasus Magic Star!


She was also a pegasus for a split second in the movie. When Wind Whistler and "North Star" return to Dreamvalley with Megan, Molly and Danny; when they're coming down to land, Magic Star is alongside Wind Whistler instead of North Star. I think that her and Truly were intended to be pegasi, but Hasbro changed it at the last minute. If I remember correctly, Truly was a pegasus in the final song of The Magic Coins; she and another pegasus push clouds together to form a pink heart (I could be mixing up episodes here, but she was definitely portrayed as a pegasus several times). It made sense to me as well, with her symbol being a dove in flight.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Leave a Whisper on June 25, 2018, 04:24:24 PM
I love watching out for animation errors in older shows. Its a lot of fun and can be pretty amusing.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 26, 2018, 06:45:39 AM
The stripes in the hair of prototypes suggest they thought about making them unicorns...but Truly is a pegasus in Brazil . Magic Star is the most magical pony in the uk lore thus growing wings occasionally is child's play.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 26, 2018, 07:17:39 AM
Occasionally the bushwoolies will have skinny, striped arms in MLP & Friends.  Almost like they are wearing shirt sleeves or something?  Like, one of them has an argyle pattern.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think they also appear this way in the opening sequence.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: northstar3184 on June 26, 2018, 07:00:01 PM
Occasionally the bushwoolies will have skinny, striped arms in MLP & Friends.  Almost like they are wearing shirt sleeves or something?  Like, one of them has an argyle pattern.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think they also appear this way in the opening sequence.

Oh yeah, I forgot all about that whole inconsistency.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Carrehz on June 27, 2018, 06:04:53 AM
I wonder about the Bushwoolies, too. Maybe.. hm. Those patterns would probably be annoying to animate/keep consistent (esp. since they didn't really have individual personalities/names.. I know there's one ep where they sorta attempted to individualize them a bit.. maybe "The End of Flutter Valley"? Either that or the Princess ep, I think.. but that never really stuck, anyway) so maybe they nixed them for sake of ease, and either some eps had already been animated with the patterns and it was too late to change it, or there was a miscommunication somewhere down the line that led to the inconsistency? Maybe?

She was also a pegasus for a split second in the movie. When Wind Whistler and "North Star" return to Dreamvalley with Megan, Molly and Danny; when they're coming down to land, Magic Star is alongside Wind Whistler instead of North Star. I think that her and Truly were intended to be pegasi, but Hasbro changed it at the last minute. If I remember correctly, Truly was a pegasus in the final song of The Magic Coins; she and another pegasus push clouds together to form a pink heart (I could be mixing up episodes here, but she was definitely portrayed as a pegasus several times). It made sense to me as well, with her symbol being a dove in flight.

I was wondering about this, too. I could've sworn there was something else (maybe a backcard or something) that portrayed her as a pegasus, but I couldn't find it when I looked so maybe I'm mixing it up with something else :s
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 27, 2018, 06:57:11 AM
I think most of it was just due to human error, to be honest.  The animators weren't from Hasbro, they wouldn't know anything about the ponies except what was in the show bible and on the character model sheets.

With MLP all the ponies having the same character model (except some having wings / horn, or baby vs adult) I can see how it would be confusing.   The most miscolored characters in the Transformers cartoon were probably the Seekers (the three Decepticon jets), who also shared the same character model.

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Here's foreground Starscream hanging out with background Starscream.   One of them should be Skywarp or Thundercracker instead, lol.  This happened ALL the time.  Sometimes Starscream wasn't even supposed to be in a scene at all!  But wait, it gets better.  The animators would also use the colors of Transformers A on Transformers B, like in one case grey-and-purple Reflector was supposed to be in a scene but instead they gave him Starscream's colors.

Edit:  I wanted to add my fave Transformers animation error:  Optimus Prime watches as a SECOND Optimus Prime saves the Washington Monument.  No, there was no 'in show' explanation for the 2nd Optimus. :P

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Here's a minor but interesting error from MLP The Movie.  Rosedust has just called three random flutter ponies over to help her "de-smooze" the Grundles.  They are all pink, all purple, and white with pink hair.

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Oops, they changed the angle of the shot and the purple one has been replaced by an all blue one.

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They changed the angle again and now one of them is all peach.

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Spike's animation leading up to this scene (where he asks Rosedust to unsmooze the Grundles) is also VERY weird;  he is constantly winking (but, like, in a meaningless way, not 'at' anyone?) and just kind of writhing in place?  In a way that I guess the animators thought was cute??
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 27, 2018, 08:25:00 AM
How to promote the whole range of the Flutter Ponies in a few seconds of animation. It's Lily...no it's Peach Blossom...no, Honeysuckle...gotta catch em all!

Eighties animation is brilliant for this kind of stuff. We're spoiled now because it isn't such a widespread thing to see such glaring mistakes. There are some similar ones to the Transformer ones with Jem as well. Although with Jem there's also the interesting recolorations as well.

See the first five episodes are extended from the Truly Outrageous special (or the other way, I can't remember but I think TO was like a pilot so I think that came first). In any case it means extra scenes. But in ONE version, there's a scene where in TO it's 2 of the Misfits, and in the extended episode the exact same scene shows 2 Misfits - but one of them is not the same as before. I think the scene is either Pizzazz elbowing Roxy for wiping a tear at the story of the Starlight Girls being homeless and or Roxy elbowing Stormer for the same, depending on which version.

I am not sure if there's any pony equivalent. Ponies turn into other ponies randomly for a scene or two, but there's no example of a cpmpletely recoloured scene like that which changes all the character nuances.

Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 27, 2018, 08:35:54 AM
Speaking of Jem, I'm sure you will be able to spot some familiar character models in this scene from G1 Transformers episode "B.O.T.".

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 27, 2018, 08:38:46 AM
Speaking of Jem, I'm sure you will be able to spot some familiar character models in this scene from G1 Transformers episode "B.O.T.".

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Haha! Jerrica and Kimber are covert Transformer fans! Jerrica is even taking notes. In disguise though of course. Truly Outrageous!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 27, 2018, 08:39:46 AM
Yes.  And they are in high school.  Clearly those are all high school aged human beings.  This school is indeed truly, truly, truly outrageous.  :P
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 27, 2018, 08:42:52 AM
Yes.  And they are in high school.  Clearly those are all high school aged human beings.  This school is indeed truly, truly, truly outrageous.  :P

Either that or a lot of people repeating. Maybe because they spend too much time starting rock bands and looking after orphans, with the help of holographic computers.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Deep Purple Crystal on June 27, 2018, 08:53:32 AM
How to promote the whole range of the Flutter Ponies in a few seconds of animation. It's Lily...no it's Peach Blossom...no, Honeysuckle...gotta catch em all!
I'm honestly surprised that no user here has mentioned 'The Ice Cream Wars' yet in this regard - even as a kid, the most entertaining part of the (otherwise pretty malaise) episode was watching as the four First Tooth babies suddenly changed to five (with Baby Bouncy randomly teleporting into the scenery for no apparent reason), then back to four (with Baby Quackers abruptly transfigured into Baby Tic Tac Toe), then all six suddenly being present during the climax. It's such a conspicuous error, and what mystifies me a greater deal is how one explains this. Yes, the relatively uniform pony character models would certainly have played a role in the 'transfiguration', but the number of characters suddenly shifting between scenes (translation errors/miscommunication on Sunbow's part leading to AKOM botching several key details)?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 27, 2018, 08:56:04 AM
How to promote the whole range of the Flutter Ponies in a few seconds of animation. It's Lily...no it's Peach Blossom...no, Honeysuckle...gotta catch em all!
I'm honestly surprised that no user here has mentioned 'The Ice Cream Wars' yet in this regard - even as a kid, the most entertaining part of the (otherwise pretty malaise) episode was watching as the four First Tooth babies suddenly changed to five (with Baby Bouncy randomly teleporting into the scenery for no apparent reason), then back to four (with Baby Quackers abruptly transfigured into Baby Tic Tac Toe), then all six suddenly being present during the climax. It's such a conspicuous error, and what mystifies me a greater deal is how one explains this. Yes, the relatively uniform pony character models would certainly have played a role in the 'transfiguration', but the number of characters suddenly shifting between scenes (translation errors/miscommunication on Sunbow's part leading to AKOM botching several key details)?


Isn't there also 2 Baby Lickety Splits at one point?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 27, 2018, 08:58:20 AM
How to promote the whole range of the Flutter Ponies in a few seconds of animation. It's Lily...no it's Peach Blossom...no, Honeysuckle...gotta catch em all!
I'm honestly surprised that no user here has mentioned 'The Ice Cream Wars' yet in this regard - even as a kid, the most entertaining part of the (otherwise pretty malaise) episode was watching as the four First Tooth babies suddenly changed to five (with Baby Bouncy randomly teleporting into the scenery for no apparent reason), then back to four (with Baby Quackers abruptly transfigured into Baby Tic Tac Toe), then all six suddenly being present during the climax. It's such a conspicuous error, and what mystifies me a greater deal is how one explains this. Yes, the relatively uniform pony character models would certainly have played a role in the 'transfiguration', but the number of characters suddenly shifting between scenes (translation errors/miscommunication on Sunbow's part leading to AKOM botching several key details)?


Isn't there also 2 Baby Lickety Splits at one point?
Yep, that was so good of an error that i took a screenshot of it (by the way thanks for reminding me where it came from).
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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Al-1701 on June 27, 2018, 12:35:09 PM
Yep, that was so good of an error that i took a screenshot of it (by the way thanks for reminding me where it came from).
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NO! One is more than enough.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 27, 2018, 12:42:19 PM
Yep, that was so good of an error that i took a screenshot of it (by the way thanks for reminding me where it came from).
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NO! One is more than enough.

Hasbro clearly thought otherwise, given that they made three O.O
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Syreada on June 27, 2018, 03:26:16 PM
I love animation errors! I have found many (lots of which have been highlighted in this thread) in pony episodes. Jem always makes me laugh a little harder because, I can understand to a degree how people might mix up, hey this pony is this colour and this pony is this colour, but when you have a cast of human characters, who are all very different looking, it seems really hilarious that you'd end up with Aja standing next to herself. But animation flubs are always hilarious.

My favorite pony moment though is more of a curiosity rather than a "mistake" there is a scene where Gusty is walking (I want to say this is during The End of Flutter Valley, but I'm not certain. Anyway for whatever reason she decides to dig her horn into the ground and say "My horn itches" THAT MADE IT INTO THE FINAL SCRIPT? AND GOT ANIMATED? LOL WHAT? So hilarious.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Carrehz on June 27, 2018, 03:54:07 PM
"My horn itches" is one of my favourite G1 lines. XD

Oh man speaking of Gusty, there's a bit in "The Glass Princess" where she's just sitting there blowing a bunch of balloons around (like, breathing on them blowing.. idk how to put it into words, ugh). It'd make sense if she was using her unicorn power to keep them afloat, but nope. SOMEthing happened there,

Definitely think most of them happened because all the chars looked basically the same. I'd bet the symbols weren't added into the storyboards until the last minute, if at all (I know the boards for "Call Upon the Sea Ponies" had everyone symbolless, anyway) - it's easy to imagine people messing up. Like, in "Bright Lights" Baby Half Note keeps turning into Baby Lickety Split, and that one's pretty understandable - the other two baby ponies in that ep have matching mothers, but Half Note doesn't.. and (adult) Lickety is in a lot of scenes in that ep, so it's pretty obvious that someone probably looked at it and went "??? These should be matching, right?".

and OMG the undercover Jem girls XDD That's amazing, omg. I love stuff like that.

Another weird one is in "Baby, It's Cold Outside". The ep starts off w/ Truly being one of the principal characters, and then halfway through she changes into Sundance. Which is pretty understandable since they have almost the same design, so I'd normally chalk it up to an animation error.. except for some reason, Sundance doesn't speak in the series (I guess they couldn't get her VA back and they just never bothered to recast her, or something?). And she doesn't speak in this ep, either. If it was an error you'd think she'd speak w/ Truly's voice (suggesting they just drew the wrong symbol), but nope, she's silent. o.O Which makes me think it's more of a writing error, or.. something..?? I'd love to know what happened there.

also heehee, double Lickety XD oh man doesn't that happen in the comics as well? Or was that one of the other baby ponies?
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 27, 2018, 05:15:42 PM
I love “The Glass Princess”. I never get tired of the pony wash scene  but I do wonder if Gusty was originally supposed to be a different unicorn. In addition to not using her unicorn power on the balloons  right before the Raptorians capture her Heart Throb and Lickety Split in the net Gusty yells “Help me try to blow it away!” (or something like that) starts blowing with her mouth instead of using her unicorn power.  If she’d used her unicorn power they probably wouldn’t have been captured. Another strange one in that episode is right before the Raptorians take their pony prisoners into the cave, one of the Raptorians ties Heart Throb’s wings together so she can’t fly away. (It almost looks like he tapes them together) yet a second later her wings aren’t tied/taped down.


Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Al-1701 on June 27, 2018, 06:11:26 PM
It got too cold for Truly (being a delicate Southern Belle and all, so the rest of the episode used Sundance because she was Truly's stunt double.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 27, 2018, 06:16:00 PM
It got too cold for Truly (being a delicate Southern Belle and all, so the rest of the episode used Sundance because she was Truly's stunt double.
Even without speaking she's more interesting than Truly, so i really don't mind it.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 27, 2018, 06:19:08 PM
I know exactly what you guys are talking about with the Gusty "blowing" scenes!!!  All I can think is that they didn't storyboard it clearly and the Korean(? I think they were Korean or Japanese) animators looked at the notes that said, like, "Gusty keeps the balloons floating" and "Gusty tries to blow away the Raptorians" and they scratched their heads and said, "Uh, okay.  So she blows real hard, I guess."  It's soo funny to watch.

Edit:  LOL!  I agree . . . I'm not a big fan of MLP & Friends Truly.  Except the time she tyrannically forced baby ponies to practice a song for hours so she could impress hunky boy ponies. That was amazing.  (She's still a thousand times better than MLP & Friends Heart Throb.)
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: northstar3184 on June 27, 2018, 06:33:41 PM
In The Return of Tambelon, captured and uncaptured ponies kept getting switched around.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: WaterDraw on June 27, 2018, 07:35:25 PM
I don't know if this is technically an error, but it's different from the toy so I might as well point it out.
In Mimic's one and only appearance in the TV show, there's this one lock of mane that is the exact color of her body. I would say they were trying to go for yellow, but in some shots she does have yellow in her mane. So her mane colors end up being;
Red
Pink
Dark Green
Yellow
Olive (body color of her in this episode)
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 28, 2018, 02:02:48 PM
I found a few more and rewatched  "Ice Cream Wars" to get some sceenshots of the First Tooth Babies randomly switching places in between scenes.

Pics are in the spoiler tags :)

"The Glass Princess"

Porcina has her pony captives tied to the pony wash conveyor belt since the glass shackles she makes with her cloak shatter instantly but when it changes to a close up of Heart Throb being sprayed with water, she's chained to the belt instead of tied.


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Shady matches Molly's overalls and both are the wrong color

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Tiny Magic Star and the Bushwoolies have striped arms


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"Ice Cream Wars" First Tooth poines switching places

Baby Tic Tac Toe has replaced Baby Fifi


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Baby Fifi returns but Baby North Star is missing


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Baby Bouncy has replaced Baby North Star

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: DreamvalleyMLP on June 29, 2018, 01:31:09 AM
Limited Edition Lullabye Nursery, Taobao variant, Paradise Estate add-on...? Who knows!

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Jorgito93 on June 29, 2018, 05:07:21 AM
Limited Edition Lullabye Nursery, Taobao variant, Paradise Estate add-on...? Who knows!

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They just lost their nursery and replaced it with part of paradise estate, nothing to see here.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2018, 05:35:39 AM
I've noticed the nursery changes between looking like the playset in some episodes and looking more like part of Paradise Estate in others.   :what:

This isn't really an error but I've always though the way they drew the ponies tied up with seaweed in the skull trap was a little strange.

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Carrehz on June 29, 2018, 06:44:41 AM
It got too cold for Truly (being a delicate Southern Belle and all, so the rest of the episode used Sundance because she was Truly's stunt double.

 :biggrin:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: DreamvalleyMLP on June 29, 2018, 10:54:15 AM
I didn't remember the Gusty blowing thing, so I rewatched the ep... Yeah, it's very very bizarre...

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And for some reason, they keep Molly in camera from slanted angles at times, leading to this...

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Not an animation error, just a strange look. Compare her angle while talking to Shady, with the window at the background. I get a strange déjà-vu feeling from this one; I've seen it in another ep, same angle, but she put her fists up to her face in the end.
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And finally, the Glass Princess ep confirms Bushwoolies having a "shedding season"  :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 29, 2018, 11:00:21 AM
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Dat face.  :P
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Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2018, 11:49:48 AM
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Dat face.  :P

This made me laugh a lot. I haven't seen this episode in a long time, if ever, but that...is priceless.
Shady looks so unimpressed as well in the earlier shot :)
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: invaderhorizongreen on June 29, 2018, 12:28:20 PM
They are still on my want list right now.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2018, 12:34:48 PM
That Gusty screenshot is really funny. :rofl:

Here's a couple more both from "Bright Lights

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Has North Star decided to try to eat the mouse trap bar?


This one looks okay until you look really closely at Heart Throb and realize Hasbro forgot to add something important

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on June 29, 2018, 12:35:41 PM


This one looks okay until you look really closely at Heart Throb and realize Hasbro forgot to add something important

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Ponyfan


The drumstick strikes again.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2018, 01:23:15 PM


This one looks okay until you look really closely at Heart Throb and realize Hasbro forgot to add something important

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The drumstick strikes again.


I’m begining to think that the adult ponies should check the Nusery for potentially hazardous objects before letting the babies play unsupervised. The villains should check their cages and traps also just in case there’s another drumstick around. :rofl:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on June 29, 2018, 01:38:38 PM
That Gusty screenshot is really funny. :rofl:

Here's a couple more both from "Bright Lights

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Has North Star decided to try to eat the mouse trap bar?


And that's how they found out the mousetrap was made of chocolate.

Oh no, Heart Throb.  Her child is a BBE pony but she is NE (No Eye) pony.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on June 29, 2018, 03:37:32 PM
From "Through the Door"

Baby Cuddles is a unicorn and the two baby ponies next to her are missing the skirt part of their costumes.

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: starstrider on July 01, 2018, 06:09:54 AM
I've enjoyed all of these!  Some of them I remember spotting when I was a kid, but some of them I was surprised to see and wondered how I could have missed them.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 01, 2018, 04:22:43 PM
Here are a few more  :biggrin:  Pics in spoiler tags

The Great Rainbow Caper

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Danny and Surprise should be behind the bars like this
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But in this shot Suprise's head is drawn over the bars instead of behind them


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Baby, it's cold outside


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Surprise's leg goes from this
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To being too close to her tail and other leg

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The pegasus ponies are going to try to fly over the rainbow

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 During the song as Galaxy walks in front of them, they look like Earth ponies.

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Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2018, 07:17:29 AM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: LadyMoondancer on July 02, 2018, 07:27:11 AM
That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Wildshadow on July 02, 2018, 08:05:33 AM
That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!

......
...
.

UGH my brain wants to think of weird and stupid drawings to try D= Thanks a lot! =P
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 02, 2018, 10:17:23 AM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.


That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!


:rofl: Now I can’t stop picturing her badly drawn balloons as squashed ants or ants hiding in her balloons

I wonder why the animators chose to draw her balloons that way in that scene of Rainbow Caper.

Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Khoufu on July 02, 2018, 12:42:08 PM
Man, most of these are way better than the errors I usually notice, which are things like miscolors (part of the background is temporarily the same color as a bigger thing it's next to, etc.)
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2018, 03:43:00 PM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.


That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!


:rofl: Now I can’t stop picturing her badly drawn balloons as squashed ants or ants hiding in her balloons

I wonder why the animators chose to draw her balloons that way in that scene of Rainbow Caper.

Ponyfan

Her secret plan with Danny - SWARM!
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Wildshadow on July 02, 2018, 03:46:33 PM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.


That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!


:rofl: Now I can’t stop picturing her badly drawn balloons as squashed ants or ants hiding in her balloons

I wonder why the animators chose to draw her balloons that way in that scene of Rainbow Caper.

Ponyfan

Her secret plan with Danny - SWARM!


....................
......
...
.
.
.

-SCREAMS-
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!

I HAVE ENOUGH IDEAS IN MY HEAD, I DON'T NEED MORE! D=

=P
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on July 02, 2018, 03:51:05 PM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.


That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!


:rofl: Now I can’t stop picturing her badly drawn balloons as squashed ants or ants hiding in her balloons

I wonder why the animators chose to draw her balloons that way in that scene of Rainbow Caper.

Ponyfan

Her secret plan with Danny - SWARM!


....................
......
...
.
.
.

-SCREAMS-
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!

I HAVE ENOUGH IDEAS IN MY HEAD, I DON'T NEED MORE! D=

=P
*whispers*
But you know you want to :D
 :angel:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Wildshadow on July 03, 2018, 07:46:16 AM
I also find it worrying how much Surprise's symbol looks like squashed ants in the Rainbow Caper screenshots. At least when she's leg swapping in the snow (great optical illusion actually for the animators!) her symbol looks like balloons again.


That was the surprise in her balloons all along: ants.

She never said it was a good surprise!


:rofl: Now I can’t stop picturing her badly drawn balloons as squashed ants or ants hiding in her balloons

I wonder why the animators chose to draw her balloons that way in that scene of Rainbow Caper.

Ponyfan

Her secret plan with Danny - SWARM!


....................
......
...
.
.
.

-SCREAMS-
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!

I HAVE ENOUGH IDEAS IN MY HEAD, I DON'T NEED MORE! D=

=P
*whispers*
But you know you want to :D
 :angel:

-hangs head-  :sad:

...you got me T.T

  :think:
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 05, 2018, 05:55:22 PM
I’m still seeing ants inside Surprise’s balloons. :biggrin: :rofl:


Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on July 06, 2018, 04:10:09 AM
I’m still seeing ants inside Surprise’s balloons. :biggrin: :rofl:


Ponyfan


It is the season for swarming...
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 06, 2018, 12:56:08 PM
I found a few more errors from "The Magic Coins"

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 Magic Star's eye look funny

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Lofty is blue

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The baby sea ponies are shown as not having floats when Megan and the poneis find them.


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But in part 2 they have their floats

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Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Taffeta on July 06, 2018, 01:45:34 PM
Maybe the last two just demonstrate how useless Megan is at sea pony first aid.

"Quick, the lifebelts!"

"Er, Megan, the problem is they have NO water..."
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 06, 2018, 07:31:53 PM
Maybe the last two just demonstrate how useless Megan is at sea pony first aid.

"Quick, the lifebelts!"

"Er, Megan, the problem is they have NO water..."


:lol:


At least Megan is better at figuring out mysterious unicorn illnesses than she is at sea pony first aid. Oh, wait she's not very good at that either since she completely  overlooked the fact that Mimic was fading away.

:biggrin:

Ponyfan
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Al-1701 on July 07, 2018, 05:07:19 AM
Maybe the inner tubes hold environmental equipment that stabilizes them for a bit.

The Magic Coins seemed to be animated by different teams who alternated between episodes.
Title: Re: My Little Pony n Friends Animation Errors
Post by: Ponyfan on July 07, 2018, 11:10:06 AM
Maybe the inner tubes hold environmental equipment that stabilizes them for a bit.

The Magic Coins seemed to be animated by different teams who alternated between episodes.
 

I wonder if that's the reason we see so many inconsistencies in the cliffhanger endings of one part to the beginning of the next parts. Even as a child I noticed that part 1 of "The Magic Coins" ends with Megan holding Ripple but in part 2, the baby sea ponies are all on the ground.



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