Am I the only one who doesn't like the pony art?

[Esbayne]

Pony art as in the cartoons and back cards and stuff, for all generations! G1 was the best for back card art but I still am not really a fan of it. In my opinion, for -all- the generations, it just looks sloppily done and hurried through to me. >_> *Dodges thrown fakies* I think G3 was the worst for this. Their heads were always odd shapes and squished/oversized looking, their eyes would change position, their smiles looked kinda like they found a box of strange pills and ate them all, and their legs were always stumpy with squished hips. In the G1 cartoons, it was like that too. And I remember in the flutter movie, sometimes the characters would switch voice actors briefly! I haven't seen much G2 art and never seen a cartoon for them if one was ever made, but from what I've seen I'm not fond of that one either. FiM is okay for the fact that they don't have squished body parts and problems the other cartoons had, but the art is way too reused.
I just don't like the art for ponies too much. I understand it takes a long time to make cartoons, but I'd rather them spend longer on it and make it less... Sloppy looking.

Am I the only one who feels this way or do you guys have similar thoughts? Hope I'm not just the one Debbie Downer in the forum xD

[Evening_Moonstone]

I think G3 was the worst for this. Their heads were always odd shapes and squished/oversized looking, their eyes would change position, their smiles looked kinda like they found a box of strange pills and ate them all

When my husband and I watched "A Very Minty Christmas", he essentially said the same thing.  Actually, he showed me this meme and said that's what the G3 cartoons reminded him of:
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[Malicieuse]

I love pony artwork and i love how all art styles are different. Keeps things interesting. I'm mostly bothered with how cheap the artwork has become. No more nice, unique, traditional artwork. Just slightly edited vector artwork. (And yes, i know the concept of vectors isn't bad but they are often used to cheapen things up.)

[relcelestia]

im pretty much obsessed with G1 art

everything else.... not a fan

[LadyMoondancer]

I LOVE G1 backcard art and I LOVE "Rescue at Midnight Castle" and I like "Escape from Catrina" . . . but I didn't like the animation in "MLP & Friends" at all.  The ponies looked like hippos or something and the animation was really, really sloppy.  I mean, even for the 80s it was sloppy.  I think Sunbow put all the animators who could draw humans on "Jem" and all the animators who could draw angles on "Transformers" and "MLP & Friends" got whoever was left.

YES, your description of the G3 art made me think of that same cat picture!!   Back when G3 had just started I heard a fellow collector remark that they were all drawn "like pink pit bulls", and that description has stayed with me ever since.

G4 art often looks very wooden and sort of cheap to me when it's still, but it looks great animated.

The real question is . . . what do you think of G2 art?

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The "eye sparkles" always make them look rather evil to me.  Like they're about to use heat vision to fry their surroundings.

[relcelestia]

oh yes good point about MLP tales!! horrid!!!
im all about the OG MLP!!

g2 art isnt so bad but when they add the twinkle it screws it up :/

[BabyFishDesigns]

I LOVE G1 backcard art and I LOVE "Rescue at Midnight Castle" and I like "Escape from Catrina" . . . but I didn't like the animation in "MLP & Friends" at all.  The ponies looked like hippos or something and the animation was really, really sloppy.  I mean, even for the 80s it was sloppy.  I think Sunbow put all the animators who could draw humans on "Jem" and all the animators who could draw angles on "Transformers" and "MLP & Friends" got whoever was left.

YES, your description of the G3 art made me think of that same cat picture!!   Back when G3 had just started I heard a fellow collector remark that they were all drawn "like pink pit bulls", and that description has stayed with me ever since.

G4 art often looks very wooden and sort of cheap to me when it's still, but it looks great animated.

The real question is . . . what do you think of G2 art?

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The "eye sparkles" always make them look rather evil to me.  Like they're about to use heat vision to fry their surroundings.

LOL!  And that rabbit looks like he's a little stoned or something...

[LadyMoondancer]

I couldn't resist . . .

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[Evening_Moonstone]

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[Dragonflitter]

lol LadyMoondancer!! I think you need to put up more funny stuff like that on your Heck Yeah tumblr!

[LadyMoondancer]

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[Vintergatan]

I actually really like G1-G3 Not going to argue that it isn't sloppy sometimes, but I do like them. I don't even mind G4 artwork even though I really dislike the toys.

[LadyMoondancer]

lol LadyMoondancer!! I think you need to put up more funny stuff like that on your Heck Yeah tumblr!

I really do! 

[Tirac]

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EGGSWEETS!!!

And I'll agree. I always felt something a little... off. About the art. G1 is the best IMO for not messing up but there's always some underlying derp about it.

[KarentheUnicorn]

Meh, never had a problem with G1 backcards till the last couple years when they didn't put much effort into the backcards and stopped putting stories on them for each individual pony or even showing all the ponies in the set, etc. Other than that I actually really love almost all of the G1 artwork.