I fully support this thread and I think it's a great way to prevent dramas or Internet Fights from happening in other threads.

>>23206
This, 100%.

Eh, why not?
Sounds fun, so I might give it a try.

Applejack's backstory nuked an idea I had about a rival farm clan, but hey, OC means I still can try spriting my version of the Orange Clan.
If anything, just to sprite that animation of Big Macintosh and OC Big Washington standing by a fence, sipping juice in a King Of Hill way, aka:
...
"Yup."
...
"Mmh-Hhm-"

>>23255
That sounds hilariously awesome "eyup"

Anyway is the story like a mafia style rivalry or Hatfield–McCoy family rivalry? I think it would be great to see the apple family mafia attire.

>>23266

It's a friendly rivality, as the idea I had of an Orange clan was of a small family of orange farmers, where it's principal members were like alternate versions of Applejack's family.
Basically, they were a young mare named Triple Sec, her older brother Big Washington, her little sister Lil' Mandarine and Grandpa Thompson. Applejack and Triple Sec dueled each other to sell their goods at Ponyville plaza, while their brothers rolled their eyes and apoligized to each other for their sister's annoying and stubborn behavior before dragging them away, etc.

>>23185
I'm new here and gonna be working on this for awhile... so here is an early sample for the idle animation. Sorry if I tick anypony off who are currently making their own. I hope yours will be better than mine.

C-Can you add mine?

WHATS THIS?! NO SPOT DESKTOP PONY?!

>>23319
Love that Lyra.How will she move though?

>>23334
Bouncing around in the bucket?
Anyway, somepony can try mine, if that's ok with you

Another good idea, Fallout: Equestria ponies?
>>23319
Also, are there more of bucket sea pony Lyra?

>>23334
The plan is for her to tip over her bucket and swim around a bit before ending up back in the bucket.
>>23342
I'm still working on more. Hopefully I'll get a few more animations done during the night.

>>23319
Nice! That will be cute seeing her swimming around the screen.

>>23323
there is Spot. If you downloaded the newest desktop ponies he is down at the bottom of the selection screen.

>>23322
You should give making it yourself a shot. It is close enough to rainbowdash that you could recolor her and just change a few things around to get your pony. Like I said before their are tutorials on how to create your own desktop pony.

>>23319
Hmm. I've also been working on a Sea Pony Lyra. But I like yours, too.

>>23451
I really like that... her pail is a lot better looking than what I've got so far, and she move more dynamically. I'm looking forward to seeing more.
I should have the animation for mine leaving her pail done within a few hours... then I'd be 40%-ish done.

OC character thread?
Then I may as well post this, just in case.

Lauren's Alicorn and Bucket Lyra are great, though- but as I said, just in case.

>>23464
This makes nice points.
Mine is a self insert though, seeing how it's supposed to be me. I made it to make it.

They made me come here.Here's a Beachberry from blindbags for you:http://angelkat34.deviantart.com/#/d4ccwt7 Working on Blossomforth :)

Here's my first attempt at a trotcycle. Is it any good?

>>23644
She is going backwards and you only have half of the trot cycle there. Instead of having the hair bulge out in front of your character have it instead go up and down cause right now it looks like that's how the hair would react if she came to a sudden stop. Maybe put a line or two in the tail or mane to create some contrast but otherwise you are doing allright for a first attempt. Also what cutie mark are you going to give her?

>>23644
Twilight seems to be running backwards.

>>23680
I worked with a corrupted trotcycle, though, so...ugh. I'd like a custom hairstyle, but I'm no spriter.

Here, can somepony animate these?

>>23744
Those aren't correct sprites.I assume you used MS Paint.Try matching the form of the body.To get the pixel form(the square)follow this-
Click on the paintbrush tool.Look on the bottom,the smallest is the one to use.
When you correct the sprite,I'd be happy to animate her. :)

Pic related,It's a wip of shinebrights,if you look closely on the saddle you'll see what I mean.

>>23753

Instead of giving hypocrite "advice" to others, you should try correcting your own horrible, horrible animations.

At least try to get the trotting cycle right instead of churning out the same truncated animations one after other and shoving them down other people's throats no matter how many times they tell you that they can't be used and need a lot of improvement as well.

You act as if this were a race or a popularity contest, as you always try to cut as many corners as possible so you could keep posting them as fast as you could.

>>23761
Actually,I just wanted to help out.YOU aren't.I want to help them and besides,I don't post any new animations.I'm trying to fix them.Please just let me be,If there's something to change,I'll handle it.

Thank you.

>>23780

Actually, that person is already doing something infinitely useful ~ (s)he wants to keep this project clean of useless spam and clean of ugly stuff that is of no use to anypony.

Look, I checked your posts and thanks to the desktop Ponies thread I also discovered your Deviantart page. You ~are a loud, immature nuisance who does nothing but run in circles flapping her arms around to get everypony's attention, and no matter how many times they beg to you, you ~never listen, ~you never take a second look to what you do, and of course, you ~never, ever shut up.

People posts their animations here to contribute with something good, while you only do things for your own amusement, following only your own interests and you never care if you annoy or upset others because you treat Ponychan as if were your own private playground, where everypony ~must be nice to you, and where whatever stupid thing you say, stays.

The community and the fandom do not work that way, and much less they revolve around you. The faster you change that selfish atitude of yours, the faster you "will let be", because only then you will deserve it.

Or you could just ignore me like everypony else, and watch how the hatred against you keeps piling up over and over.

>>23821
Okay.From now on,I'll try my hardest to change both my attitude and my sprites.

>>23821
Wow, rude much? Maybe Ponyluver isn't contributing much, but I'm assuming she's a kid. She's trying to contribute, it's not entirely her fault that she's going about it the wrong way.

Entirely.

>>23865

Hello, you must be new around here.

"Ponyluver" began as being a thief and after she was forced to drop the stolen material, she began an endless whinning and spamming spree.
The more the people attempted to reason with her, the more she twisted their words and the more she strruggled to remain the same, expecting others to change to suit her own needs.

Next time you try to Whiteknight some one, first check out who are you trying to defend, and why people thinks that way about her.

I haven't said anything for a few days, so here's a quickly put together sample. I'm getting to about 75% done on my Sea Pony Lyra... I keep going back to correct and add new animations. I'll also include sea pony templates and stuff with the dl when I finish her.

>>23908

Now THAT is great.

>>23908
Very nice :)

>>23887
I'm not new, I've been observing this drama for quite some time. So she was a stealing bitch: same goes for everypony at some point. Kids should get some slack.

If she's trying to turn herself around, maybeshe should be given the benefit of the doubt. Aren't we supposed to be about love and tolerance?

>>23966
>Aren't we supposed to be about love and tolerance?

Love and tolerance must work BOTH ways.
Being a pain in the plot and then invoking "Love and tolerance" to go away with it is one of the biggest dicks moves ever.

Oh no..."Ponyluver" is beginning more drama...

GUISE
LET'S GET BACK TO PONIES
TAKE FIGHTING HERE
>>>/chat/37455883

>>24034
i dnt wnt to,its a stpid tred,u crzy ppl

no luna?! why is there no luna!!?!!

>>24034
>>24043
I think its some sort of ploy to make us see how ridiculous this fighting is that somepony thinks it deserves its own thread.
I see through your psychological ploys.

>>23908
Nice! Its coming along great cant wait to see the tail and swimming movement

>>24049
I've got the swimming movement done and I hope it will be acceptable... as for the tail, since she's swimming on the surface it doesn't show up much. The templates I'll include will be full body ones/underwater/antigravity so anypony can make their own sea ponies and hopefully we'll get enough to have desktops full of 'em... if I make them good enough. I'll have to try to work hard on the tails for them since your looking forward to it.

Can you make my pony OC? She looks like this --> http://potatokitty49.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=scraps#/d49s2k7

>>24097

It's a plain Apple Fritter recolor. Can't you even do that by yourself?

Hey guys, seeing how some people is still having problems to animate stuff, I made two animation templates for male and female ponies.

This is the female template:

And this is the male one.

The basic animation cycles for tail movement goes as it follows:

Frames 1-4: Tail up.
Frames 5-8: Tail down.
Frames 9-12: Tail up .
Frames 13-16: Tail down.

Have fun using it.

>>24104
Can you resize it?

>>24117

He contributed with something great for every one to use, and what is the first thing you do? Thanking him?

No, the first thing you do is COMPLAIN because he couldn't read your mind to give you exactly what you wanted.

Dear God, it IS true: every time, EVERY TIME you open your mouth, you ALWAYS do something stupid.
If you aren't even capable to resize something, you should never have tried to animate something, girl. Go play with dirt or something more fitting your intellectual level, and leave the grown ups alone, K?

Honestly, unless you keep doing this on purpose, I can't even think what the dick is wrong with you.

>>24118
Well EXCUSE me.

I'm sorry,please just ignore what I just wrote,this person is driving me insane.

>>24125
> this person is driving me insane.

Now you know how ~everypony~ feels since the day you discovered this site, dear.

Honestly, you would avoid a lot of trouble if you could ~just~ think for a second and re~read what you wrote just before you smash the "reply" button, you silly, picky and ungrateful brat.

>>24132
Plus,I'm 14,not a kid.And fine,sure whatever,Okay.I'm going to try my hardest not to be such a b**** like I was before so I would like to do that without your "help".Oh,can you also get a name like instead of Anonymous?It's really confusing,I'd like to know who I'm trying to talk to.Also,I plan on making better sprites on Sunday when I can use Gimp.

>>24135

Only 14 years old? Brat it is.

And you still would have to resize the templates at 1X before you could start using them, so your complain was baseless from the beginning.
In fact, the only one who complained was you.

>>24132
I really try to avoid drama but god god, just because you hate somepony doesn't mean you have to hate their ever move and bitch about ever small detail how they decide to say and do something. It doesn't make you the better person, and I finally under stand the point of this thread being under /srs/. I suppose i'm not helping.

You two, stop acting like children. If you can't act like adults, then leave.

>>24144
Oooor, even though I'm terrible at this, you can just work with a 2px brush in Photoshop and work with the big sprites.

Age has nothing to do with ability. I'm just stating because this, honestly, has gotten to the part where it is bothering me. I may be younger than Ponyluver, but I really don't see the point of intentionally attacking her.

That topic over with, does anypony have a complete unicorn template sprite sheet with idle/run animations?

>>24289
You can just add a horn to Anonycat's templates, it's not that difficult to do.
In fact, you only need to do it once and then copy/paste the same head over and over until completing the template.

>>24289
> Age has nothing to do with ability.

Age has everything to do with artistic ~and~ social skills.
The younger you are, the less experience you have under your belt. Your patience and attention span are way smaller, and you are way, way more ignorant, hence why little kids tend to parrote out things they know nothing about to pretend having the wisdom they still lack.

Let's say you are 13. A kid 4 years younger than you is 9.
Would you take him seriously if he steps in and starts telling you to rearrange your entire self to conform to his view of what's right and what's wrong? And would you follow his "advice" just because he said so?
No, right?

Because he's just an ignorant brat who doesn't even knows where is he standing and you know he's full of it. You remember saying the same stupid things he said and now that you are older, you know how silly and ridiculous they were, that's why you don't do that anymore.
Imagine now how a person who's over 20 (and maybe older) and with considerable experience under his belt feels when a little tween starts talking about things he knows absolutely nothing about and refuses to take a "no" as an answer because he's convinced he knows what is he talking about.

In fact, as one of my teachers told me once, you should never take serously the opinion of anypony under 20 because these people are ignorant and unexperienced as hell. You will understand this once you get older, but of course, by then it will be ~your~ turn to deal with little know-it-all-know-nothing kids who demands you to listen to them because they said so.

Tl;dr: Artistic skills take years to build, the younger you are, the less accumulated practice and experience you have, is that easy.

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

I am gosh darned down right horrible at animating. -.- So no, I cannot share..


MY FAILURES

WHY WHY WHY MUST I BE HORRIBLE.


:L dunno why I did that, but it's true. Im working on my friends oc because its to freaking easy: twilight recolour for gosh darn sake.

let me extend the earlier warning to everypony else. there will be no more arguments and insults over artistic merit in this thread.

Could we get one of Nyx without the sock on her head?

*reads thread*

God dammit, people. You people take the fun out of everything, you know..
OK, I'm going to post this filly template, and that's all.

I just finished all the frames for Seapony Lyra's animations.(around 400 unique frames)
All that's left is to individually mirror a few specific images (the ones with the bucket since it will have the wet spot on the right side only), then put together and time the animations. I may have a release tonight or tomorrow if I have no complications. (or new animation ideas)

Also a change of plans in regards to my last post,
>>24084
I'm gonna release the templates separately a few days later so I can release SPL earlier. I have plans for 6 different templates, and I intend to include Lyra and her in-show recolors as a starter set. (And possibly Colgate and her recolors... and maybe Roseluck)

die monster! you don't belong here!
Richter Belmont (the fancy one)
>>24519
oh so there were fun without me? lol i think ill read the entire threat now
and should we put all the templates in one folder because its scatter everywhere in desktop ponies?

>>24355
the most important stuff you have to keep in mind is
don't give up, be patience since something good will happen in the end
but don't worry much about now, as you keep making them you'll become better each day
so don't forget to have fun!
ooooorrr... you can do it just like me, letting out my psychotic rage and scream at my hand that he is pathetic and good for nothing!
but i don't think that will help you in anyway...
midnyte and starstep are an examples for not give up
hope it help ;)

woops wrong one
>>24532
lol nice work
400 frames is impressive 0.o

>>24535

33 colors?
I think your gif animator dithered the frames or something.


> and should we put all the templates in one folder because its scatter everywhere

That's one of the few coherent things said on this entire thread bleh.
Maybe we could ask desktop Pony Guy to add the templates to the program's folders, yes.

whoa what a party in here
forgot to bring the fun in it?
some people should read comments with a funny voice, it help and it always crack me up.
>>24538
arg that was me trying to make him fancy
well i guess ill remake him

and i don't know if it should be included in the program's folder or just put it aside with the tutorial
monkeyjay made

>>24543

Well, since Nod32 tends to block out DPG's site, and since a lot of people uses that finicky antivirus, the best choice would be including the templates on the program's folder.

And don't get lost for so long, Noia. We missed you a lot, you know.

>>24545
then in the folder it is
i was just worrying about the size 24MB i was worrying for nozthing
aww i miss you too
BUT you shouldn't miss me i work a lot
and i hate bringing tears (only on halloween hehe)

Deleted post made about 2 hours ago. v1.0 had animation loop problems.
Finished. Hope you guys enjoy it more than you hate it.

Sea Pony Lyra -by Dirkos
http://www.mediafire.com/?9b7fy31o0kryf88
Because Lyra is best Sea Pony

Copypasta from stuff I wrote in the config file:
Sea Pony Lyra
v1.1
By Dirkos!
Based on art by John Joseco http://johnjoseco.deviantart.com/
If you're reading this, I hope you enjoy! If you don't like it, I'm sorry...
Built using the original Lyra Desktop Pony by ??? (Anonymous)
Original sea pony template by Dirkos
Template based on art by John Joseco and G1 Sea Ponies
Shoo bee doo!

Sea Pony templates and starter set will be released at a later date. I'll work hard on them, so it may be more than a week.

>>24689
I don't take credit for the original Lyra sprites, but I did make updates to them that are the current sprites. So, yeah.

>>24689
She looks so nice! Great animations :)

>>24695
Updated config file, but it won't appear until I release a v1.2.

>>24084
Templates are coming along nicely. I'm working on animating them now... it's a lot harder to animate them swimming underwater/in mid-air than swimming on the surface... especially the tail. Here's an example of Lyra using the animations. As for the starter set, when I'm finished, It will have 17 Sea Ponies... and they're all Lyra and Colgate's recolors seen in the show's background + Sea Filly Lyra. I may end up bumping the number up to 23 to include the mane 6 Sea Ponies. Expect to see me make my own thread for the release.

Yes, I'd like a Desktop pony sprite of the OC in the picture I have right now. Can you make him just like Godot From phoenix wright? Where he drinks coffee, yells objection, all that sort of stuff.

That's what happens when there are tripcodes involved.

>>24519
>>24104
>>24105
I love you. I was looking for something to get my pixeling together, maybe I'll end up contributing with something if it goes well.

>>25302

Read the first post of this thread- this is a thread to display completed OC sprites and finished animations.
This is not a request thread.

Who don't you try making that sprite by yourself? Isn't so difficult as many people believe.

I make simple oc pixel ponies, check out mu deviantART page for a preview of my work. yamigetsu.deviantart.com

>>25428

Just because you took Rainbow Dash from Desktop Ponies and recolored her on "evil" red and dark gray doesn't means she's a new character named "ShadowDash", much less she becomes YOUR character.

0/10 try again..

>>25439
He does seem to have used the Dash sprites as a base, but he's made changes to the mane, tail, face shape, etc. I've seen far worse attempts before.

>>25443

A very bad attempt for an OC~ it reminded me a lot of the things done by the Sonic fandom and their Shadow ripoffs.

>>25151
Finally made progress after a terrible block. I just couldn't get some fin animations to look nice... took me 3 nights, but I'm happy enough with it for now. I started the frames for the Sea Filly Templates, so here's an example of them using Sea Filly Lyra. Yeah, its really similar to my previous animation. Also I became aware of another Lyra recolor in another thread, so the starter set number went up to 18.

>>25515
It's cute, but personally, I think the tail looks a bit too big.

Ah what the hay, I'll post mine. He runs around on my desktop all the time, and is set to run whenever any other pony spots him.

He also casts dark magic spells every once in a while. That's about it. :/

>>25515

The tail is too fat, but that's all. The rest looks wonderfully smooth.

>>25575
>>25578

The hood's colors are a bit eye-searing. (Is that a Twilight Sparkle sprite, by the way?)

>>25560
Thanks for the input, you're kinda right. I'll shorten the stretching during the animation... but if you meant how fat it is, I made it that way to make the sea fillies a bit more noticeably different than the sea mares. I'll probably release the templates that way, but I hope that anypony who wants make their own with the templates won't be too off-put.

>>25597

I was going to suggest you to study some Baby Sea Ponies screenshoots from the G1 cartoon, but then I remembered they all used that stupid flotation ring that hid half of their bodies.

>>25595
Twilight sparkle isn't the same color, she's a lighter pastel purple, he's more of a lavender purple.
Eyedropper tool should show that.

I just tried to thin up the tail a bit... but I just can't get it any thinner without it looking lumpy in places. I'll go with the fat tails for now. I'm not good enough at pixel art to make nice looking curly things unravel neatly. Sorry to anypony I've disappointed.
I've actually got all the hard stuff taken care of now, so it shouldn't be long now until I release the templates. To save some time, I'll release the templates + Lyra here first, then power through the recolors for the starter set, which I'll make a new thread for.

>>25575
Oh hai derpy :3

That pony looks cool. Will you eventually put a download link?

>>25633
>Sorry to anypony I've disappointed.

Are you kidding? It looks great, and considering the size limitations, you did awesome.

>>25626
>Twilight sparkle isn't the same color, she's a lighter pastel purple, he's more of a lavender purple.
Eyedropper tool should show that.

People should be capable to tell the difference right off the bat, Pierce. If they need to use a piece of software to tell Twilight and your OC apart, then you are doing it wrong, very wrong.
It's a cheap OC, very poorly made. The world isn't going to end if people doesn't like it and you don't need to post a patronizing drawing either.

Now, if you only came here to continue the nightmare from your old thread, then please be considerate to the other posters and quit while it's still time, Pierce.

I was thinking...
Was there ever any plans to do the desktop ponies for the Mac?
...thinking again...
Macs can't handle .exe files. Exe files are programs. So making the program for a Mac would be really difficult... unless you are an informatics genius.

>>25661

I remember a Macintosh project, but I don't know what happened to it.

>>25655
Again, Twilight doesn't have to be the ONLY character who is purple, MY favorite color. Get over yourself man :/
He was based on a different character entirely. Twilight is technically the same color as an espeon and therefor unoriginal, right?
Yeesh.
The only reason YOU don't like it, is because it's purple and a unicorn and therefor a Twilight knockoff. Which isn't fair at all. Besides that, lots of people like the character. Just because YOU don't, doesn't mean they don't have to. I got the video, and images with comments to prove it.

Now for the last time, QUIT harassing me for every tiny little thing I do. Do something else with your time for once, for chrisake.

>>25679

Excuse ME?
I only joined this place a couple weeks ago and this is my third post on this thread.
What the hay is your problem?

I'm going to report this to the moderators.

>>25679
Heck, his very first design (this image) was directly based on a character I used in the past, named Erebus. He was given a horn because characters I base on myself all have something on the forehead. Why? Because I have a scar on my forehead.

I don't like dark purple, I like pale, lavender purple. So no, I'm not going to change his color just because one guy is complaining that he dares to be the same shade as purple as Twilight.

By that logic:
Applebloom and Spitfire are rip offs of Fluttershy for being yellow.
Photofinish and Apple Cider rip off of Rainbow Dash for being baby blue
Diamond Tiara is a ripoff of Twilight for being purple

If I made him a different shade of purple then somepony will just say he's a ripoff of Berry punch.

The ponies are RAINBOW colored, and you can't copyright a single coat color when his 3 other colors are not related at ALL to Twilight. So yes, if you couldn't tell, I'm rather annoyed by your insistence on nagging at me just for the sake of it.

In the end, almost ALL the ponies that exist are cheap re-colors of a singular base with slight alterations. So. Get over it.

>>25680
Report what, exactly? I'm not exactly insulting anypony here.

Really? This again? Pierce, not every post offering criticism is somepony trying to harass you, so stop being so defensive. You should be able to discuss things like this without snapping at everypony.

>>25685
I'm really not trying to snap here, honest. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to type around here without somepony getting offended somehow :/
But saying a pony OC is "cheap" for being a certain color is just.. silly. And it's been pointed out to me by somepony called 'anon' more than once, usually rusing rather rude terms like "cheap" "ripoff" and "just Twilight with a different mane".

...Why am I not allowed to use my favorite color for my own pony...? Why is it bad for me to question this logic?
I'm not insulting anypony, I'm trying to step lightly, and everywhere I go, somepony called 'anon' quotes one tiny phrase from me and just goes on and on about it like it's the only thing I said. And it only happens in Desktop pony related threads, none of my other threads have EVER had this problem.

So, forgive me for being on edge after all of this, it's just really shocking to me to see people so uptight where everywhere else on ponychan seems rather loose and happy.

>>25680
I'm sorry if I mistook you for somepony else, but I've been harassed quite a lot so again, sorry if I reacted like that. If you really aren't the same person, then I take back the snappiness and just wanna say 'Purple is my favorite color, and I'll see how to make him stand out more from Twilight.'

>>25687
For the record, this anon is different from the one that you were arguing with in the thread I locked last night.

>>25688
Alright, thanks for letting me know. I feel silly now. >_<

>>25687

I don't care about your pathetic personal drama.
This is why I HATE when Aspies forget their medicine and go around bashing others.

>>25688
Thank you for your quick intervention.

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

>>25694
Um, excuse me? That was rude.

>>25694
Wow, you get a mature apology and you turn around and accuse somepony of having aspbergers and act like a total jerk. Way to pull internet argument #11, you jerk.

>>25695

Wow, what an hypocrite.
What the hay is your problem and who do you think you are?

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

>>25694
I'm sorry but I would never directly insult somepony like that unless I was really mad. Accusing somepony of having a serious mental defect is extremely unacceptable, and even more so when they just apologized for their behavior.

It's general social etiquette.

>>25694
>>25698
Don't respond to this poster, he's ban evading in order to parasprite.

I'm sorry, I think I'll leave this thread before it gets worse .__.

Pierce just letting you know that not everypony here thinks badly of you like that anon. You owned up to things which is admirable. Just ignore the obvious parasprite.

>>25703
Thank you ; u; I dunno why that guy has been stalking me so much. D:

>>25700

So wait...it was the same guy that accused and annoyed Pierce all the time? Does that mean Pierce was spot on in his accusation? 0.0

>>25705
Different anon, unless he was on a proxy before. Still a parasprite though.

>>25706

And a hypocritical one him/herself. The offended becoming the offender. That's internet argument 2 right there. :P

So he's guilty of 2 AND 11. XD

http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/

Love and Tolerance ;)
>>25633
After a long sleep and inspiration from some curly root thingies from a Skyward Sword trailer, I managed to make the tails gradually thinner. I guess I was too tired last night when I tried and failed. Here's a pic that shows the fat tails on top and the new thin tails below. Also a zoomed view.
Yay or Neigh?

>>25709
I like the thinner ones. You are coming along great with these sea ponies.

>>25709
Better, indeed. Can't wait to see them animated.

Now, somepony please explain this to me:

Pierce flips her lid to a person because she thought it was an old foe or something. Then a Mod proved her wrong and she apologized.
The offended Anon refused to accept the apology, so he gets banned. Meanwhile, Pierce is praised as a mature heroine and everypony jump to chew on the banned Anon.

Evidently I'm missing something here, but getting banned for not forgiving the person who flamed and accused a random Anon of something that wasn't his/her fault, makes no sense to me.

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

>>25709
Yes, I like that. :)

>>25714

Not forgiving? More like giving a right out degrading insult, and attempting to ban evade. And still doing so, from the looks of it. And why wouldn't said Anon accept an apology anyway? Isn't the motto of ponies "We Forgive, We Forget. Expect Us?" or is that just from the olden days of the fortranz.

Just finished mine, he's nothing special, I mostly reskinned blues.

his name is Kashi Kakes.

http://kashi.krowzi.com/images/Kashi%20Kakes.rar

I think somepony should make animated ponies that would talk and walk or fly around the desktop. It'd be funny and give a good laugh if one of them gave a "facehoof" to another pony.
:D

>>25741
lol you should have him cock his eyebrow once the shades come down

>>25743
I must be missing something because thats what they already do is walk, talk, and fly around minus the facehoofing

>>25743

Windows Ponies already did that.
The thread with the sprites and animations still should be around, so you still have a chance to go dig them out.

>>25741
I was going to say it was a cheap recolor, but then I noticed how you admited it right off the bat, so I give you props for being honest.
Therefore, I will...
*sunglasses*
DEAL WITH IT.
*winny*

could anypony animate this for me? [picture rather large] let me know by email if anypony will [for desktop ponies]

this is optional, but i forgot to mention [and its not in the picture] he has a crown and some royal kind of things...yea a little similar to the princesses [but for a guy] and are black and red [metal red, and theres gems, black] he does got a hoof thing, whatcha call it like i said earlier for all 4 hooves, and something going around his neck with his mark on it, dont want to make it more complicated so yea, email at kingdraggon@yahoo.com

>>26071
>>26073
Well, this is mainly to share created Desktop Ponies, not requesting people to create them. You may have better luck contacting a certain artist.

>>26076
o sorry, i didnt know, well i do now, after reading this thread a lot, but id still appreciate it if somepony was able to, and im not really a brony, plus i don't got a clue as to how anything works with all this

Just dropping in to say thanks to

>>24104

For posting those templates.

When I once tried to make my pony, I had difficulty editing the normal desktop ponies.( I dunno why, but the colors just didn't come out the way I wanted to.)
But now I can just use this. (Currently WIP. Though, I think it's gonna come out okay.)

It sucks that this thread derails so quickly into drama and bad OC spam, though. I hope things will go more smoothly.

Good luck.
(Man, tiny cutie marks are ridiculously hard to make! D:)

would somepony mind making flutterrage and flutterbitch

pic related.

I'm done working on the templates. I could probably make them better, but working on these are more maddening than I thought.

Sea Pony Templates -by Dirkos
http://www.mediafire.com/?2oq5gppjzkdzmgu
Now you can make your own!

Included are the following:
Templates for 'Earthsea, Unisea, and Pegasea' mares and fillies. (Ignore the oxymoronic terminology, which is descriptive only. [Earthsea and Unisea are combined into one template because the difference is a small horn.])
Sea Pony Lyra and Sea Filly Lyra for Desktop Ponies using the same style as the templates. (They were quickly put together. I'll probably make them more official for the starter set. [I also put the individual frames used for them in the template folder to use as an example.])
An extra folder that has stuff I used when making my first Sea Pony Lyra and the Templates. Just because they were there and I figured somepony might find it useful/interesting. (Also has samples for the starter set.)

I'll finish by saying that I claim no ownership to the concept of any sea ponies. The templates are free to use by anypony and any acknowledgement towards me as maker of the templates are optional.
Most importantly, have fun.
If anypony needs informative help, I'll answer any questions posted to the best of my ability.

>>26171

As it has been said a lot of times, this is not a request thread.

>>25694
>has Aspergers
>reads this post
>facehoofs at stereotype

anyways, onto the topic, I'm not good with doing these gif things, and I can't get the only program I have for making gifs with transparency, GIMP, to keep from layering the images on top of each other when animating, not to mention I suck at trench-coats on ponies, so if somepony could make a Desktop pony for my OC, I'd greatly appreciate it. here's a picture i crapped out in a few minutes of him.

>>26182

Just the -previous- post above yours clerarly said this wasn't a request thread and there's no way possible you could have missed it before you finished writing your request

This is why that stupid stereotype keeps running stronger and stronger every year.

>>26192
>>26198

> Disproportionate reaction, agressive behavior, admits having ignored the thread but still expected to get a special treat about his request anyways.
> Complains about Aspergers sterotypes while behaving like a textbook case.

This is why this thread is so full of drama and rage. And this is just my personal opinion, but I suggest you to quit and leave while the damage is still light.
Or don't.
I mean, you will be the one permanently labeled as a selfish jerk, not me.

>>26206

> Desperately tries to refuse to admit he made a mistake.
> Desperately tries to make the guy who called him on it look like the real bad guy here.
> Desperately resorts to passive-agressive attacks
> Desperately tries to manipulate facts to fish for support.
> Desperately tries to deny being the source of problem.
> Desperately tries to create drama as revenge for not getting what he wanted.
>Desperately refuses to admit he keeps behaving like a textbook case.

Dude, you made a blunder. No big deal, everypony does that now an then.
But since you chose to made a huge fuss out of it, and since you just came here to request free favours, I wish you luck trying to be accepted or being taken seriously around here.
You will need it, because people here never forgets.

So i know you can't post requests here now, but is their a thread for requests? I have tried looking around with no luck, plus I cant seem to find a place to post this except here, I've mentioned before I don't know really much about anything about this stuff. I think i may be forgetting something, patience with me, i can never remember everything i want to say in a single message.

>>26211

Maybe the Mods could create a threads for requests and requests alone. Ideally, that thread should be stickied and labeled with big, bold letters to make nearly impossible to miss. Also, a solid set of rules could be made to prevent people from causing drama or using the thread as their private soapbox, etc.

Of course, that doesn't means that all requests will be fulfilled, because the few decent pixel artists that frequet this community are scarce, have their own things to worry about and will not feel confortable with the idea of a growing number of people requesting things from them all the time, but hey.
The worst thing that could happen is receiving a "no" as an answer.

>>26213
perhaps post a link to it when there is one?

>>26269

Why would you need a link to find a thread that is going to be on the front page, pinned and with big, bold letters to make it absolutely impossible to miss?

Also, wow. This OC thread was created to prevent people from getting in the way of other's projects and now a SECOND thread is needed to keep annoying people away of a thread that was supposed to corral and contain annoying people in the first place?

The more people who discovers this board, the deeper and deeper they make it sink.

>>26313
I think it would be absurd to have a general request thread. Who would be doing these requests? It takes hours to make a decent sprite and doing all that so somepony who couldnt be bothered to try making it themselves with all the tutorials available can enjoy it. Plus the maker wouldnt be getting anything out of it besides knowing they maybe made that one person happy when they could of been making some other more popular fandom or cannon sprite that would makes hundreds happy including themselves. I do enjoy seeing what others are doing with their oc's but to expect somepony else to make it for you is a bit much.

>>26321

I completely agree with the idea that a person who can't draw or animate shouldn't even try to create an OC, especially if all what they can do is recolor a premade flash template and expect praises for it. I also agree that lots of great animation templates and guides are already available for any person willing to spend a few evenings practicing and improving their OCs and themselves as well.

For that reason, the purpose of a request thread would be to contain all lazy, annoying, stupid, troublemaking people on a single thread so they don't spread out to hijack project threads with their moronic requests and self entitled demands.
Nopony says their requests will be taken seriously or if they will even be taken at all, but still, having a thread just for requests would be the perfect excuse to kick these annoying jerks out from other threads as soon they try hijacking them or attempt to cause drama because they couldn't get what they wanted.

Think of it as damage control.

>>26324
Why not just encourage people to make the sprites themselves? Granted, it won't stop requests being posted here, especially since it's not all that obvious at first glance that people shouldn't be posting requests here, but it might get people contributing, which is something this thread is really lacking. Even if the stuff they put together isn't all that good, they people can give them constructive criticism, and help them improve.
Yes, some people would still act like jerks and stir up drama about people not doing all the work for them (Although, that is going to still happen, no matter what you do), but then you can just report them and get that sort of person out of the community.
I dunno. Just seems to me like it'd be better to help people than just treat everypony who posts a request like scum.

>>26327
>Why not just encourage people to make the sprites themselves?

Because they don't want to make them by themselves, or because they keep fishing for a super magical ultra-turbo "tip" that could allow them to become awesome overnight without having to do "boring" things like... GASP! practicing!

No, really. Just take a look around and you will see how that small, yet ultra noisy group of misfits keeps causing problems and upseting people everywhere they go.

>Granted, it won't stop requests being posted here, especially since it's not all that obvious at first glance that people shouldn't be posting requests here

It has been menctioned over and over that this thread is not for requests, yet these guys can't bother with reading a few posts before smashing their heads against the keyboard to beg for some strangers to go out of their way to serve them under the excuse of "Love and Tolerance"
As in, "Love them forever and ever no matter what" and "Have endless tolerance for them no matter how annoying the get"

But you have a point, and the best proof is the lone guy who posted to thank the other guy who posted some templates. Still, annoying people is annoying and as long they keep running away unleashed, they will keep causing problems just by being alive.

>>26328
Hmm... Fair points. Thought it'd be worth making the suggestion though. Guess no matter what decision is made, people are going to be unhappy.
If a stickied topic is made one of my main concerns is that there will probably be people complaining about the useless thread stuck right at the top of Page 1. It'd also be pretty poor representation of the community if the first thread people see is full of something people apparently have a huge hatred of.
Allowing requests in the thread relies kind of heavily on people acting mature and not causing drama if their request doesn't get done, and I have to admit, chances of that are pretty low. Plus I have a feeling people have more of a problem with the mere presence of requests, rather than the attitudes of the requester.
Still, I guess creating a new thread helped get rid of the drama (sort-of) when people were complaining about OC's being in the normal Desktop Ponies thread, so it'd probably would work again for requests. Shouldn't be stickied though, it'd just look bad on the community IMO.

>>26338
> It'd also be pretty poor representation of the community if the first thread people see is full of something people apparently have a huge hatred of.

Good point, it would look awful indeed.
May I suggest a thread with a set of rules and a fair warning that not following them would result on a ban?
Something like:

- This thread is the only place where you can make requests, any requests (or veiled requests) posted outside here will result on a ban.
- You can post only one request at a time.
- Don't make absurdly difficult requests like a huge and complex spritesheet.
- Don't assume that your request will be taken. You are asking for a voluntary service, after all.
- If nopony is answering your request, too bad. Don't throw a tantrum or cause a drama hoping to get better results that way.
- Be polite, be patient, be considerate and most important, be thankful.


... something like that. Anypony feels like adding to it?

>>26347

Well, this jerk here is a good example of why this community can't have nice things and the worst part is that some members here are encouraging his rude behavior because being annoying and inconsiderate to others "is his thing"

So yeah, a non sticky thread is the best choice indeed.

I have to think that you guys can take it a nicer way. For me, i wouldn't mind waiting a really long time for somepony to do my request or if nopony did. Though i may not have bothered looking for a guide on how to make one, I didn't people did that...even thought i could have checked. I am not very social so my words can be taken the wrong way easily so do not get angry with me.

>>26378
>I am not very social so my words can be taken the wrong way easily so do not get angry with me.

If you know that your words can be taken the wrong way, then it's your duty and your responsability to triple check everything you say to get sure it's not going to cause a negative reaction.
Doing whatever you want and then passively expect others to "understand you" and "not getting angry" all the time is the best way to stir up trouble and make everypony hate you forever.

Honestly, just use your common sense.

It doesn't works otherwise.

-ignores drama-
Wonder if anypony likes Nyx.
No? Okay then.

>>26422

It's too dark and looks more like a solid black mass rather than Nyx.
Maybe if you try using another color instead of black, such as a dark navy blue?

>>26423
It's kinda hard to see the different shades on low brightness, there are 4 black shades. Maybe a darker BG color helps?

>>26429

Nope, it's still the same.
I know Nyx's original colorscheme, but I still had to put my nose near the monitor to figure out the shape of your sprite.

>>26422
>>26429
>>26431
That's strange. Maybe it's your monitor settings?

Cause I can see it just fine.

>>26432
Because you can see it fine, how does it look?

>>26432

I have a LG LCD monitor and I still have problems to see it.
For the record, I could see Luna's chariot without any problem during "Luna Eclipsed" so it's a matter of a bad colorscheme here.
You could try changing the hue/bright values, though.

>>26434
I took the colors directly from a vector, a huge one, and added a forth shade. Oh well.

>>26433
It looks okay to me. Just a little Nyx. Of course, I'm not exactly the expert on these things. ^_^
The only thing I'm kinda noticing is a pixel poking up a little above her wing, but it's no big deal.

>>26434
Oh, okay. I wasn't suggesting your monitor was bad or anything, but I noticed that there can be some differences between computers. I was trying to think of what might have been the problem.

>>26436
That pixel is from her mane. Kinda hard to see I suppose.

>>26435

Working with a huge vector and working with a minuscule sprite are two completely different things.
The smaller it is, the more to tell the colors apart it gets, as they are all crammed up on a tiny space where they blend together.

Compare fan-made Pony Nyx with the professionaly designed Nightmare Moon/ Luna, where the colors are highly contrasting each other and never become eye straining or confusing.

Here's a couple I made. I mean, if you like moody, dark-palette OC's. Lol not sure what I was thinking. :P

http://www.mediafire.com/?bjm3cb82aht9ob3

Back to post updated Pierce Sprite. This is the original.

And this is the updated version.
Updates include: A paler shade of purple
Mane colors closer to the show (Yes, there are ponies with 'black/gray" manes)
Eye color change
Tail re-animated

>>26681
And then I noticed there's a straight line at the upper base of the tail. Fffuhh, going to fix.

>>26682
There we go. No more straight line on the tail.

>>26681

The eyes look wrong. I can't put my finger on it, but the general shape (plus the glasses) doesn't looks at all like a pony eye.
The mane and the tail seems to be made of rubber that gets stretched up when the pony moves, and the direction it takes is wrong as well~ the tail goes up instead of going down, plus the mane moves as if it's scalp were just a huge wig.

>>26684
Well, in the tutorial it specifically directs people to draw the tail on a specific layer, as all the layers are pre-set. Once drawn, you copy it twice and you have to stretch it to these dimensions:
W96 H106 h-3
W92 H110 h-6

The result is the stretching bounce, apparently.

The hair bothers me, yeah. The tutorial showed what to do with long haired female ponies, but never really went into shorter manes where the stretching directions completely ruin how it looks.
Are there any examples of pony sprites with a similar short mane as this that you could suggest I look at for reference?

As for the eye, it probably looks odd because it's not fully open. Based on this eye seen in the image.

As for the glasses, I originally tried to animate them bouncing on his nose, but it kept giving me a lot of issues. I might have to approach it another way, so the glasses look like an object on his nose rather than being plastered to his face.

>>26686
The tail should stretch down, your tail actually stretches up.
Or that's the impression it gives.

Regarding the eyes, I would suggest you to either open the eye or axe the glasses. Remember, FiM style is all about minimalism and readibility, but right now, you have a lot of stuff crammed on a tiny area and that's no good.

And this is just something personal: why did you put a Cutie Mark on a Blank?

>>26687
Hm, when his rump lifts his tail lifts a little afterwords then sways back down and out. In the show itself, pony tails don't entirely act like regular horse tails, they bounce quite a bit. I just looked through my desktop pony folder at the bigger tails, and they do bounce upwards with the pony's legs.
It's probably the thin strands at the end of his tail that are actually messing it up, some of the grey goes outside the lines and I'll need to fix that since it looks a little choppy when it does so.

This is his very first sprite, before the glasses. I'm currently looking at various ponies with glasses, such as the mayor, to see how to animate in glasses, since he does wear them and he's practically blind without them. It would be mean to take his glasses away from him XD Twist's glasses are far too large for what he wears, so the Mayor is the closest in appearance. Seems her glasses were made smaller and kept on the same layer as her head. I'll see about reducing his glasses size then.

As for cutie mark on a Blank, I'm not sure I understand what you mean? Are you talking about my ask tumblr?

>>26688
The examples you must be talking about are about animations that use tails that wave up and down, while yours only goes up.
I don't know about your tumblr, I don't even know who are you. I just ask because if this character is supposed to be a zombie (I remember you making desktop Blanks) then it shouldn't have a cutie mark.

Regarding your sprite, I just said it looked too crammed and the animation was unnatural.

>>26690
He's not a zombie, he's a regular pony. The Blanks are somepony else's characters.
This pony is Pierce Smoulder, he's my own character.
And I do understand what you said, which is why I am now examining other pony sprites to figure out how to make the glasses look less chaotic.
He's a fairly basic pony, following the usual guidelines of an in show pony, being that he has a 2 colored mane and a singular colored body. If anything about the animation is unnatural, it was due to the directions given in the tutorial offered on the desktop ponies website, so I apologize for that. I'm still looking at other pony sprites to figure out how to fix it up.

The main issue at the moment seems to be the glasses, which makes his face look a little busy. Other than that, are there other features you feel make his sprite look busy?

>>26691
>He's not a zombie, he's a regular pony. The Blanks are somepony else's characters.

Aahhhhhh OK.

>>23185
I'll make offical updates. btw, working on update for this now

VERSION 0(beta) IS OUT!

Includes: pony editor
Game spot for when i put in hoofball

New ponies:
Nyx by Starstep! *applause*
Drunk Berry Punch by CANDYBAG!
Genderswapped mane cast by Jack!
Sea pony lyra by Dirkos!
Beachberry by Ponyluver!
Kashi Kakes by Kash!
Filly Sea pony Lyra by Dirkos!
Underwater seapony lyra by Dirkos!
Blackbird and Lantern Light by LimeyLassen!
Bumblesweet and blossomforth by Ponyluver!
Snow drift and Cyber by Ponyluver!

http://www.mediafire.com/?2llc5nr1hb0xrps

Tell me if i missed anything!

Nyx is done.
http://www.mediafire.com/?tis7y6yieb13bs2

>>27050
Be warned as she'll overwrite the Nyx with the sock on her head if you don't fully rename one of them.

>>27050

It looks like a black blob.

>>27062
Are the colors REALLY that hard to see?

>>27065
Can see it okay here.

>>27065

I think the problem is that Nyx is a terrible character with an awful design, so whatever is created based on her is going to be plagued with problems as well.
Personally, I have problems to see her as well, mostly because of the extremely low contrast and how close the colors are from each other.

I assume you guys are familiar with the "Color Wheel?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel

Practically all of OCs (especially Sonic or Pony ones) are eyesores because they ignore the basic principle of contrast/complimentary colors, Nyx being a noteworthy case of a character donee all wrong.

>>27089
I don't really like her much either, but for a totally different reason. :s

>>27089
I disagree. If she had a higher value she would be easier to see without straying from the original color scheme much, and I don't think, color-wise, she is a bad design.
The blue and purple are analogous, which is also an attractive color relationship like complimentary colors.
Maybe not to your tastes, but they don't break any color design rules.

Dearest Dirkos!
You rock and I love you forever for making Seapony Lyra.
She's the best thing ever.

>>27089
Oh hey the show used those colors.
I can see her okay, it might be a good idea to up the contrast between her outlines and main color, lighten up the body a little, but for the most part, the colors she has aren't a problem.

>>27302

Oh hey somepony doesn't knows the difference between a huge image and a tiny sprite.
The smaller the image is, the closer the colors get on the viewer's eyes, hence the thick outlines used on the cartoon. Yeah, the same outlines that are absent on any Desktop Pony sprites and derivates.

>>27316
I dunno, she looks fine to me. :|

>>27319

I zoomed the image to take a look at the red Scootaloo recolor and whoa, just then I noticed Nyx there.
This is just a hunch, but I suppose you can see them right because your monitor's bright values are set high and because your screen must be really close to your face, as in a small desk or something.

I'm one of these unfortunate sods who still use an old CRT monitor, so whenever you post OCs all I can see are some color blobs, Starly. However, when you go by the cartoon's colors I have no problem at all with the things you do.

I've pretty much finished all the frames for the Sea Pony starter set, but I decided I'd go nuts if I tried to put together the animations for all 17 of them at once, so... every night for the next 17 days, I'll post a new Desktop Sea Pony from the starter set, selected via random number generator. I'll likely post the first one in about 2 hours, then the rest at the same time every following night.
Just a reminder that these Sea Ponies are ALL of Lyra+Colgate's recolors I could find on the wiki, plus 2 that aren't for whatever reason. The name of those two are probably wrong, so please correct them when they show up. I'll say so when they're posted.

1st Sea Pony up is #7... Jenny!
http://www.mediafire.com/?w0q5pucqwx40pad
Jenny is a Colgate recolor seen during the final singing scene during the Winter Wrap Up song if I recall correctly. The wiki mistakenly has her listed as an Earth Pony, but I made sure sure was a Unicorn.

>>27324
>red Scootaloo recolor
ಠ_ಠ

Well, uhh, you can say that, it's fine. You don't have to use what I make. I just make it for those who want it. c:

>>27375

I think is the hair what makes everypony see it as a Scootaloo recolor.
It looks more like a hatless Applejack recolor to me, but whatever.

>>27379
He does have Scoots' mane. :c
But that's hardly the point of the topic, nor does it matter.

>>27381

I think that's the entire point, Starly.
Common sense says that you can't just copy and reuse parts of a unique character without expecting others to recognize it and associate it with the original.

>You don't have to use what I make.

Also, this rude comment equals to shrugh other person't opinion off under the excuse of "if you don't like it, don't look at it" right after having posted it on a public imageboard where everypony can see it.

Common sense, education and consideration for other people's opinion, Starly. After all, you don't want to repeat the same silly grudge you have against Anonycat just because he didn't praised you for the subpar edit you made of his own Big Macintosh sprite, eh?
Back then you used the same "if you don't like it don't use it but I love it anyways" argument to trample any different opinion than yours.

Normally I don't mind your childish behavior because you can do decent animations whenever you feel like doing them, but enough is enough. In fact, from all people working on the Desktop Ponies, you are the only member with a snappy temper and the habit of going full aggro whenever you don't get the comments you expected to receive, so try fixing that, K'?

>>27390
ಠ_ಠ

I honestly don't know what I did, so I'll just shut up.
I never made an edit to Big Mac. :s

>>27398

I think Einstein there is talking about this Big Macintosh edit: http://starsteppony.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-journey-into-desktop-ponies.html

Except that it wasn't made by you, and neither you have anything to do with that kiddy tantrum. (How in Equestria's name can you mistake "StarStep" with "Starly", genius?)

I agree with the part about reusing parts of other sprites and pretending to not being compared with the original, though.

>>27406
>I agree with the part about reusing parts of other sprites and pretending to not being compared with the original, though.

I never once said I DIDN'T reuse parts and not expect to get compared. ichangedthemaneanywayafterthatasitwasinaccurate
But really, the OC was only in the picture because I was attempting to show how Nyx looked next to ponies of other colors.
Sorry for all the confusion and stuff. :s

Rollover animation for my OC. How'd I do?

>>27390
Yeah I was the one who made >"subpar edit" to Big Mac. I thought we had all moved past that though. Anyway I don't remember ever having anything personal against anonycat. I said I didn't like the direction he was going with his newer big macs. On his side I remember him saying basically you're doing it wrong but I appreciate the initiative. I never had any grudge and I don't think he did either. Anyway that was months ago and Im sorry if I seemed childish back then.

Plus what is with all the personal attacks I'm seeing in this thread? Attack the art. Fine. It's expected and warranted but I don't think personal attacks are needed.

Back on topic
>>27411
lol She doesn't like others invading her personal bubble. Nicely done. Also what is the cutie mark of? I keep thinking chili pepper though Im probably wrong.

>>26702
neat idea making them all easy to get. I approve.

>>27416

It's suppose to be an orange, lime and a slice of grapefruit. Her name is Citrus Squeeze.

http://imgur.com/3siNw

Also her pickup animation

>>27417
Just knowing the name citrus squeeze makes it obvious.

Id say there's a little too much black around the eye. Maybe replace a few of the black pixels with the darker yellow like so

>>27418

The eyes looks wrong, but I can't find the exact words to describe why.
Too oval, too "crazy", too non pony, I don't know. I suppose her sour expressions are part of a visual pun, but still, the eyes look... weird.

2nd Sea Pony up is #5... Diamond Mint!
http://www.mediafire.com/?isp4pabb7q7jrbq
Diamond Mint is a Lyra recolor that shows up quite often in the background, usually sporting a saddle and a flower in her hair. I pondered about sticking a seashell or something in her hair, but decided against it.

Needs more discord

also>>23185

I cant seem to get the Cupcakes Pinkamina to work on my android, anypony know why this is?

I have GIMP. How I into spriting?

>>27482

1- Open GIMP
2- Make a pony.
3- Take a look at the pony you just made..
4- If the pony you made is a shitty one, go back to step 2.
5- If the pony you made is good, post it here.
6- If the pony you made is still not good, don't post it here.

And that's all. Easy in theory, difficult in practice.

>>27482
There are some templates dotted around, anonycat posted some earlier in the thread, but I seem to remember seeing some .psd files somewhere that might be a bitter better to work with. Aside from that it's more or less down to what anon above me said.

Hey, can somepony make my OC, please? You can't see it very well, but her cutie mark is a winged heart with a sixteenth note inside.

>>27493
You may want to give it a try yourself, as requests usually don't get filled, unless they're for something other people want to see.
Also because somepony on here likes to start up drama every time somepony has a request.

>>27495
okay, then. I'll get started. probably won't turn out very well, but at least i'll have some form of my oc running around on my screen ruining everything.

>>27495

You can download templates and read some useful tips from Desktop Ponies own homepage: http://desktopponies.co.cc

>>27495
I don't think that just ONE person here is opposed to requests and I don't think it's a good (or wise) idea to pretend that just a single person here dislikes what you like.

Is this something like Shimejis?

>>27499
It is a similar program apparently, according to http://desktopponies.co.cc/1_4_FAQ.html.

>>27500
Neat-o!

I'm early...
3rd Sea Pony up is #8... Lemon Tart!
http://www.mediafire.com/?f1lox5cf58gf0h6
Lemon Tart is a Lyra recolor that seems to be based off of the color scheme of the more prominently appearing background pony, Lemon Hearts. She is another recolor that wears a saddle in most of her appearances. Lemon Tart is the pony who throws up immediately after tasting one of Apple Bloom's cupcakes in Call of the Cutie.

There's a bonus Sea Pony with Lemon Tart. A new Lyra recolor was added to the wiki named Banana Fluff, so I added her in with this one because my numbering system would be messed up if I added her to my list since it's in alphabetical order.
There are a lot of days left... I may end up including a Surprise like this with one or two of the future releases. I won't say if I do, though...

Now I'm late...
4th Sea Pony up is #6... Glory!
http://www.mediafire.com/?mha8kb342o1qyzx
Also known as Spring Fresh, Glory is a Lyra recolor with a uniquely green color scheme. Her only appearance is in The Best Night Ever, as she was a guest at the Gala. She is another recolor that wore a saddle and a flower in her hair.

Sorry for being late. I'll probably be posting these a bit later than my set time from now on, so just expect them posted sometime during the night.

...or I'll be posting them a lot earlier.
5th Sea Pony up is #1... Anti Lyra!...?
http://www.mediafire.com/?gftgw817y1o5prt
This is one of the ponies that I believe I got the name wrong. She's not in the wiki, and the name came from the initial discussion on the pony board about her when she was first spotted. If anypony knows if a final name came up during the discussion that I missed, please say so.
Anti Lyra is a Lyra recolor that uses Cloud Kicker's color scheme, making her look like a big Dinky. She shows up in Lesson Zero, and is unique for a Lyra recolor because she uses the lyre cutie mark, while all the other recolors with visible cutie marks had Sparkler's 3 diamonds.

it would be awesome to have swift storm trotting across my screen while i watch a clip or just reading pony fanfics

>>27643
Hey man, not trying to be rude, but there are no requests here. I posted earlier, not knowing this.

>>27644
i never did post a request i just said that would be cool

>>27648

We can't have nice things because of people like you.

>>27648
You know, if you look at an earlier part of the thread you can find templates to edit into your pony.

You might wanna try that.

>>27668

Considering the average requester, I'm half expecting him to throw a tantrum because using the templates involves GASP! work instead of just clicking like in that flash template he used to "create" that horrible OC.

>>27669
Eh, maybe.

I dunno. I was just trying to help out.

>>27669
Has anypony ever actually done that? It gets brought up every time, but I've never actually seen anypony react that way.

>>27669
Oh, just stop it already! Many people I've seen requesting desktop ponies said they'd try making them by their own after people suggested it. Stop assuming things like that for everypony.
And if you hate OC's why are you even in this thread?!

>>27674

Reported for being rude.

>>27678
Dude! I should be the one reporting YOU for being rude in the first place! Don't try to look like the victim here!

>>27673

The Desktop Ponies thread had a few cases of that, and when Anonycat posted the pony and filly templates here, the first thing people did was complain because he didn't gave them what they -exactly- wanted and they were forced to do stuff on their own.

>>27674

For a person who can't draw or animate, I think you bitch and complain too much.
You appoint yourself as a Pony Vigilant too often as well.

>>27681
I just hate when anons give out accussations and reports everytime somepony asks any questions when they haven't ever sprited anything either.
And you must know I'm currently working on adding sounds for the program. I may not be an artist, but I'm contributing to the program with audio and a little programming (fixing .ini's for said sounds)

>>27682
> I may not be an artist,

Your entire case crumbled just there.
I remember you as the idiot who threw a tantrum because the Desktop Ponies weren't keen about the idea of taking requests and you tried every thing possible to go around their negative, until Desktop Pony Guy himself had to step in.
And then you twisted his words so you still could pester his team with requests because you refused to accept a no for an answer.

Dude? You are nothing but a little ball of rage and self entitlement. Take your head out of your flank, then take out the stick you have lodged up there and then ~maybe~ people would stop calling you "rude".

Yeah, you rip sounds. Big deal, anypony can replace you and nopony will tell the difference.
But creating animations? Nope, that kind of people cannot be replaced and you are miles away from them, but you always try to behave as if you were their boss or their leader, who the hell do you think you are?

Seriously, stop behaving as if you were important and especially stop behaving and if everypony were out to get you.

>>27683
Oh, please, don't bring that here. Desktop Pony Guy has always encouraged to use the thread for requests. It's anons who always dislike and parasprite them and set this imaginary "no requests" rule. DPG had to rephrase the rule to avoid further misunderstandings.
>And then you twisted his words so you still could pester his team with requests because you refused to accept a no for an answer.
When did I do this?! In fact, I approved his actions! And I never did any requests myself, you're just adding words to my mouth.

Let's just forget this whole thing already

Ugh, you guys really need to calm down. This is an image board, not a melodrama. You could all be discussing this in a more civil manner.

Starstep, mind if I ask, what is your opinion on requests. Given that this is your thread, the decision surely lies with you on whether or not they are allowed here, rather than an anon. It might help to stem some of the drama if you allowed or disallowed them.

I am very disappointed in a few of you.
If you can't discuss things in a civil manner, we shall have to start giving you all time-outs every time something happens.
If you're going to act like children.
We're going to treat you like children.

Understood?

>>27692
Well, we are discussing a show for children...

I'll be quiet

>>27696

Bravo.

Also, reading this thread I noticed that the general tone is not taking requests of any kind, and even the idea of creating a new thread for requests purposes, so this one could remain free of that was menctioned but the idea was never used.

And now for the Sea Pony that everypony might have been waiting for....
6th Sea Pony up is #12... Seafoam!
Also known as Sea Swirl from the new Blind Bags, I can't really call Seafoam a Colgate recolor since she has a unique cutie mark. In my opinion, she's the next most deserving pony to be a Sea Pony after Lyra, for clear reasons.

Look forward to tomorrows release.

>>27668
i will try it out thank you for the sugestion

>>27669
and what in the name of luna did i ever do to you to make you be so rude as if your an anti-brony spy

>>27737

Well, that was almost english.

>>27720
Shoo Bee Doo.
Now THIS is what I call a good guy. Keep with the great work, broski.

Maybe your Sea Ponies could be used to make an aquarium-themed screensaver or even an aquatic based game, the possibilities are endless and awesome.

>>27689
wow lots of drama going on. I wont disallow requests totally because some are allright. But I would like for there to be

no make my whole character for me requests.

This is a thread about showing off your work, whether to make others laugh, share what others may enjoy using or display the achievement that you made a sprite or possibly a tricky animation.

Its not going to be a thread to make everyponys oc who wants one. Some requests like "I cant get my cutie mark to look like something other than a blob can somepony please help." or "my gif maker program is acting up, can somepony help make this sprite sheet I made into an animated gif." are valid requests.

Now please if somepony makes a 'make my whole character' request dont jump all over them like a few of you have tended to do. Just tell them "This is not a request thread" and if you want to be nice point them towards the guides or templates. I dont think we need anymore than one or two people telling that to the pony asking. That's my opinion on the matter.

>>27720
I agree she should of been second in line to be made. Good work. Now I may have to add a saddle and seaflower to sea pony Diamond Mint because she just isnt herself without them.

>>27742

Well, then this makes it official: Op has said this is not a request thread, so anypony coming here asking to get stuff done for them will be reported to the staff and hopefully, booted out.
Asking help to finish an almost complete, or perfect and already completed OC is fine though, but let's hope nopony tries to use semantics to twist that into an excuse to slip a full request.

Also, it's just me or some Seaponies just vanished?

>>27745
Or, if you'd rather not waste mods time, you could just do as Starstep actually suggested and politely point out that it is not a request thread and point them towards the guides and templates..

>>27745
I don't know if vanish is what you meant, but I just noticed I forgot the MediaFire link for Seafoam. Derp.
http://www.mediafire.com/?o6b7p664zjr46o0
>>27742
I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks. I actually chose not to try because I didn't think I would be able to make a saddle look... right on a Sea Pony. And in honesty, I didn't want to work on the swimming animation frames for the saddle. The Pegasea wing fin drove me crazy, and it's just a small thing compared to a detailed saddle. I hope for your success.
Oh yeah, the pic is a sample for what to look forward to hidden in the next release. Just like the Surprise I included with Seafoam. Wink wink.

>>27758
*squee* thats an awesome 'surprise'. Backfin idea for pegasea (great word) ponies is a neat idea.

She looks good in the stan..d.... floating? uhh the still ones. I just need to do her swimming which will be the challenge. My arting computer is derping on me so hopefully I can get it running again before the end of the week and get back to spriting.

>>27745
I believe that would be jumping on them. Please just let them politely know thats not what this thread is for. Mods dont and shouldnt be brought in because somepony new wandered into the thread.

>>27761
I just clued in that I could post Diamond Mint's sheets. That might help.

>>27761
>>27764
You may have already isolated the frames, but I figure why not put them up.
Also thanks for the compliment about the backfin, but I can't say it was originally my idea. The Ask Surprise Tumblr has a picture with the same concept, and that's where I got it from.

If I wasn't lazy, I'd totally make some G1 Sea ponies in G4 style. :P

7th Sea Pony up is #17... Tutti Frutti!
http://www.mediafire.com/?t1yp68qe99xkcpy
Also/canonically named Holly Dash, Tutti Frutti was custom made by one of the animators iirc. It's hard to tell if she is a Lyra recolor or not, since in her only appearance she's running, but her running animation matches Lyra's.
Also as some might have guessed from one of my posts earlier, Sea Filly Noi is in with Tutti Frutti.
And probably more.

Earlier and earlier... here comes another favorite.
8th Sea pony up is #4... Colgate!
http://www.mediafire.com/?rq0jtefdpimv5rg
Colgate/TARDIE/Romana (or Colgate T. Romana) probably has the most fanon names for one of our favorites, although it seems her Blind Bag name will be revealed very soon. She shows up alot in the background. She's great. Brushie brushie.

I've almost got 20 Sea Ponies out now. They look even better swimming around together than I thought. It's also kinda funny how I was just gonna do 17... now it's looking like I'll have 30ish out when I'm done.

Ok here she is with some stuff to make it look a bit more sea floorish on your desktop.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35213087/Sea%20Pony%20Diamond%20Mint%20Saddled.zip

Credit to Dirkos for these adorable seaponies and to Starly for the regular Diamond Mint which I based the saddle off of. I think I got everything working right and I changed a few names so now you can just copy the pony.ini of hers minus the name part and add it to the other sea ponies so they can have the seabed effects too. Remember if you try this copy everything but the name in the pony.ini and then copy the seabed effect gifs into each seaponies folder and then each one will help turn your desktop into an undersea pony adventure.

>>27979
That's GREAT.
9th Sea Pony up is #2... Blue Belle!
http://www.mediafire.com/?2vws7iipy2d7289
Blue Belle is a Lyra recolor, seen in the same scene as Glory. She is another recolor with a unique color scheme, somewhat similar to the old Luna, but with mane and body color reversed. Also wore a saddle.

Now that Diamond Mint's saddle is done, I may have to recolor her to Blue Belle, Glory, and Lemon Tart. If I do, they'll be included in the eventual all-in-one release that I'll get done sometime after the 17 days are over with. The .inis will be cleaned up, and I'll try to put in some interactions. At least just some of them following others.

Oh yeah... here's what I'm working on now. Recoloring is just so... mind numbing, so I have to make new stuff to give myself any sense of accomplishment. That being said, I've made a bunch of Background Ponies into Sea Ponies that aren't even available on normal Desktop Ponies, like Noi and Alula, and now these two. Should I make them into normal Desktop Ponies when I have the free time?

And in case you missed my hints, Noi and Alula (and 4 other fillies) are in with the Tutti Frutti download.

>>27988
I'd like to point out that I made normal LB a few weeks back. >.>

>>27990
I must have missed it. Thx for telling me, I would have looked like a chump if I released her without acknowledging you. Can you plz post a dl link for her? Also do you know if Cloud Kicker or any of the fillies I made were already done?

>>27991
She;s in the newest version.
http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/20998+50.html
I have not seen Cloud kicker, Alula, Cotton Cloudy, Noi, and I forget what else.

>>27992
Thanks a bunch, I was still on V3.15. I'm happy now that I posted that what I'm working on now post. I guess I'll start doing that more often.

Hey Dirkos, do I have your permission to use your Sea Ponies in my game? Don't worry, I'll give credit.

I really gotta question.
Why hasn't anypony made her?
<-
I got tired of waiting, so I made her myself. She's currently running around my screen. I must say though, it's a decent attempt on my part since this is the first pony I ever made.

Oh and, I didn't know which thread to put her in so I put her in this, since she is and OC. Her and Nyx I see,

>>28006
Yeah, anypony can use the Sea Ponies for whatever they want. Thanks for asking, though. I'll copypaste what I said earlier, when I released the templates.

I'll finish by saying that I claim no ownership to the concept of any sea ponies. The templates (and Sea Ponies) are free to use by anypony and any acknowledgement towards me as maker of the templates (and Sea Ponies) are optional.

Oh yeah, somepony in /pic/ is asking for Pipsqueak sprites.
http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pic/res/570105.html#570105
I dunno if the Desktop Ponies thread died or not. Should we take care of this?

>>28017
Actually the desktop ponies thread is just on autosage. Usually when DPG fixes something big or comes up with something he really likes he will make a new thread for it.

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/20998.html

Also I already have pipsqueak's trot animation basically finished. Just need to make the standing for him. Also since his tail is short Im still wondering if it needs a bounce animation?

For when you make the sea pony pack I think we need to have them saying more than just that one song line. Also any other seabed effects you think would be neat or what was the opinion on the ones I did make?

>>28007
>I got tired of waiting, so I made her myself.
>I made her myself.
>myself

This.
See this dilligent fella here, dear annoying requesters?
This person is the only one who is doing it right.

Thousand internets to you, dear Soul. We need more people like you around here.

(5 Minutes.)

>>28030
really? I thought we went over this whole "rageing against the requesters" thing, but it looks like some ponies won't give it up.

(5 Minutes)

>>28055
Reported.
The best way to avoid trouble is not kicking a wasp nest in the first place.

>>28063
What? He's correct. Starstep asked people not to jump on requesters, mods have asked people to stop asking like children (multiple times)

>>28055
>>28064

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't >>28030 happy and praising >>28007 for taking care of his own request?

I see no reason to post condescending images and attacking him.

>>28019
Yeah, the plan is for them to say more than just shoobeedooing all the time for the pack. I just have it like that so I can pump them out as fast as possible. And the seabed stuff is pretty neat, I hadn't thought about any before.

10th Sea Pony up is #15... Sunset Bliss!
http://www.mediafire.com/?y7tv6dj7wo28ar5
Sunset Bliss is a Lyra recolor but as an Earth Pony... like Roseluck. She shows up near the end of At The Gala in The Best Night Ever. I had thought she was Sparkler without her horn, but her scheme is a bit different.

Is it okay if I work on the main cast as seaponies?Here is my "Still" for Pinkie Pie(Image)

>>28079

As long this time you could refrain yourself from spamming several dumb posts on a row and manage to finish what you start instead of asking help even to breathe or "contributing" with a ton of unfinished and useless stuff, sure why not?

Also, this time remember to credit each end every of the original creators before you upload eveything on your DA page, since you have a lot of recolored ponies there but no a trace of credit to the original creatos has been given by you.

(5 minutes.)

>>28078
Wow I never knew there were so many lyra recolors. My desktop is now overflowing with seaponies. Glad they will have some more lines to say.

>>28079
Dirkos said it was ok to use the templates so go at it. Also your animations are still jittering and you didn't finish her fins going back up. Plus SeaPinkie's eyes are too far apart. Take a look at Surprise that Dirkos did to see how SeaPinkie should look. Keep at it and you'll get there.

>(5 minutes.)

What.

>>28099
I'm guessing it's one of those time-outs mentioned here: >>27692

>>28100

Ahhh, K'.

>>28079
I was originally gonna do the Mane 6 as Sea Ponies, but I waned away from that idea... I just liked doing the Background ponies more. I figured that I may have got around to it sometime in the future. If you want to try, you can.

Where is the Suprise Seapony?

Is this better?

http://www.mediafire.com/?2m2up6zdpc9d9mv

Just finished Pinkie Pie as a Sea Pony :)

maybe not the best place to ask, but how do you make those ponies?

>>28119
do you have photoshop:-if yes
click here http://desktopponies.co.cc/1_6_Download.html
scroll down...down...no lower there a "Pony making guide!"made by monkeyjay! and voila!
-if not get it with money
-if can't affort it or too honest...yup...well there are free program like gimp, paint and some more, i think.

>>28125
oh and there video tutorial in it
omg!

>>28030
Speaking of which, I was planing on making Calamity and Velvet Remedy.
<- here is her left animation, note the pipbuck

>>28125
paint doesn't do transparency and gimp just layers images ontop of themselves instead of getting the animation you want out of it. just pointing out you used some bad examples for your argument. especially paint. XD animations can't be made in paint you silly filly.

I know I'm late but - YOU HAVE ALLL MY LOVE Dirkos. Also much love to all the guys working on these ponies! <3 <3 <3

>>28132
GIMP can make animations. Yes, you add each frame as a layer, but it is able to turn that into an animation, so not really a bad example there.

>>28114
Surprise was hidden in with the Seafoam download. Surprised?
>>28132
For Sea Pony Lyra and all the other Sea Pony stuff, I actually used Paint for making all the frames (it's actually the old version of Paint ported to Windows 7... the new one is weird), then use Gimp 2 to animate them (after deleting the color that's supposed to be transparent). In Gimp 2, you have the option of saving the layers as an animation when you save as GIF format.
>>28137
*blushies*

If somepony would like to animate Ginger Snap for me, that would be amazing. :D I can make sprites myself, but I don't have anything to animate them as far as I know.

>>28160
You can download the program GIMP for free.

If you make all of the sprites, you can then layer them onto each other in the correct order and save the result as a GIF. Then you'll have the animation.

>>28160
> I don't have anything to animate them as far as I know.

Ah, but that can be fixed very easily, just go here: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-gif-animator.htm#Quick_Selection_Guide

"Your" sprite is just a straight Luna recolor, by the way.

>>28161

Sweet! I didn't know GIMP could do that, actually. I just kinda fail with it. ^^; Uh... How do I get the background transparent? And does anypony have sprite sheets?

>>28165
You first have to add an alpha channel. Then, select the white with the tool that has the colors and the finger, and hit delete. You'll have to fill in some parts that also had white that were meant to be, though. (Like part of the eyes, probably)

As for the sprite sheet, somepony posted trotcycle sprites earlier in the thread, but that's all.

>>28165

Anonycat posted three templates here (Mare, Stallion and Filly trot cycles, go back a few dozen posts to find them) and since you already got links to gif animation tools, the rest is entirely up to you.

>>28145
oh,awesome.Love your seaponies,by the way.

I like yours far more than mine.