Bonnie Zacherle Interview

[BabyMedley]

Hi everyone! I attended the MLP Fair as Press for Everfree Network, and I was privileged enough to record an interview with MLP creator Bonnie Zacherle. It was an honor to be able to preserve her thoughts and stories for the historic record and make them available to all MLP fans.

Check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtFksNwHcx8

[spottedslug]

Bonnie is so awesome and super sweet. I enjoyed talking to her a ton.

[ponycake]

This is great, thank you!

You (? or the interviewer if you only did the recording) touched on something that I've always been very curious about. She started talking about the process of MLP, the sketches and sculpting and painting the model. I just wonder how the actual molds were made. Did they really sculpt them by hand? Anyone know that? I wish we could hear the whole process of what the artists and production people do to make those ponies.

[June]

Thanks for sharing, it was very interesting

[Baby Sugarberry]

The originals were hand-scuplted, I remember seeing a video linked around here at one point that was a video podcast where they had a few of the original heads, shy pose and firefly's pegasus pose I think. 

[shabbychicdee]

thanks so much for sharing, loved the whole 21mins of it.
but omg omg omg searched for more interviews and omg she bought out her original idea and i thought of those exact types (natural pony colours) years before i saw that, i love her's so much. i am going to have to do some customizing now squeeeeee.
it would have been so great if hasbro had released that black one and the brown patch one......so much love

[ponycake]

The originals were hand-scuplted, I remember seeing a video linked around here at one point that was a video podcast where they had a few of the original heads, shy pose and firefly's pegasus pose I think. 

That's awesome. Hard to believe people can sculpt that flawlessly. I wonder how they did it or if it's just pure skill. Even when doing a new one and getting them to be pretty much the same size as past ones?

[reanna-mator]

Ooh, I'm setting this aside to watch tomorrow. I love hearing from her.

[SockThief]

Her voice is EXACTLY how I imagined it to be. She is such a legend. Thank you for sharing this with us and thank you, Bonnie!

 

[hathorcat]

Very cool! Thank you so much for sharing.