Haha, thanks! Sorry, I missed this post. Patreon doesn't seem to have a way to notify me of recent comments. Or I just might not have stumbled across it yet.
The Derpy fight scene was actually a tacked on segment, believe it or not. It wasn't originally in the plans and 2 weeks before Bronycon 2014, I decided to make an animatic for it and get some opinions regarding adding it in or not. Overwhelmingly, people liked it, so I completed it.
I chose to use credits to segment it up as a bit of a time saver from a production standpoint. As it was, I barely finished in time for the premiere. If I didn't use credits to segment it up and stall a bit, it would have effectively doubled the work load. I say doubled because I don't think I could have ended the animation any earlier than I did, mainly because of musical cues. Personally, I think of the fight scene as bonus content and I would have loved to do more.
Also, sorry if I'm coming across as overly defensive or something. I don't mean to be. This is just an explanation of creative decisions on my part.
And yeah, I'd have to agree with the trademarking thing. It's a pretty scary gray area, at least in America. The laws need some reworking in my opinion.
KanashiiPanda
2014-11-09 02:43:25 +0000 UTC
Love this and Once Upon a Time...the animation is so fluid. Only complaint (not a serious one) about it is that Derpy's fight scene is cut in pieces by the credits...very stylish, yes, but I wanted to see her kick flank!
Already established that Derpy is freakishly strong for a Pegasus in the show (I'm assuming it isn't limited to her derrier), so would be cool to have a scene in another vid along this storyline that demonstrates that.
Only thing I worry about is you getting money from trademarked characters...I know that your animation style is drastically different from that of the show, but...please, be careful.
Alamandorious
2014-09-13 01:51:41 +0000 UTC
You have me watching this over and over again. Your frame-by-frame animations are fantastic!