My Journey Into Desktop Ponies

Last week I rediscovered desktop ponies and found that it had infinity improved since I last tried it. The community had kind of created a standard look to the ponies and the ponies seemed way less buggy and less computer intensive as they once were. Now there was only one thing wrong. There was no Big Macintosh! There was lots of side ponies that had more animations than just the standard stand and trot but yet no Big Mac. I figured I would try my hand at correcting that.

So I tried spriting which I am not all that familiar with. I looked and found a Big Mac sprite, which was unanimated, that I thought looked pretty good and got to work. I changed the face so he looked less depressed and made the back curve less so he would look stronger, then I animated. Here are my results.

Not bad for never really spriting before. The community itself though didn't seem too thrilled with it though. Since it is a really nice community no one outright called me a dumbass but it was hinted at and many people seemed annoyed that I wasn't using the new base macintosh. Now the original Big Mac I found and the new base are both made by the same person but I think the newer one makes Mac look pretty girly. He is supposed to be strong but he looks kinda weak. So when I didn't pick that one, I think I made the right decision. Plus I can always use my sprites if that newer Mac ever does get animated, which people have been talking about doing animations for Big Mac since I first found Desktop Ponies months ago and yet has never happened. I did correct the bucking animation that no one liked, since I messed up the pony anatomy, though I am hesitant to show it to the community since they would probably be annoyed that I'm still trying with this Big Mac instead of the new one. So I will post it here and let whoever finds it here enjoy it. Plus if you are really good you could add the apple in Applejacks folder and have it fall when Big Mac bucks.

What Have I Done?!!

Ok so I've been keeping up with drawing ponies but then I saw this comic The-Mysterious-Ticking-Noise and I had to find out what it would sound like and before I knew it I was singing and editing and making this creation right here

Now Ive never really edited audio before but I downloaded Audacity and tried my best. After I finished that one I also tried doing one with real pony voices but I had trouble with trying to get background music and noise out so I will try again later today but no promises.

Daww

Ok so the next drawings were a pony with wings and pony as a filly. I did scratch for flying with guitar heads for wings but I ran out of time before I was able to make it look good so instead I will put up my little sleepy Fluttershy and a quick outline of little AJ

I must say its tough work trying to finish a drawing everyday and trying to make it look good. Oh well I will get faster with practice and hopefully better.

The start of art

Hey Everypony,

I am StarStep and I am going to use this blog to post the things I am currently doing with My little pony: Friendship is magic.  Mostly it will be artwork (most done for the training grounds for Equestria Daily) and a few videos and maybe some other things if the inspiration hits me.

So to start out here are the first three drawings I have done for the training grounds. Sorry the first two are hard to see but there was no store open this memorial day weekend that had the stuff necessary to get the scanner I acquired up and going but they came out well for using a webcam. They will be scanned in later.

I missed the standing pony one so the first one is a jumping pony.

I chose Pinkie Pie jumping on cupcakes or muffins, maybe both!

Next is trixie cosplay ponies.

I put the caption in to make people realize that rarity had traded a brand new Galloping Gala dress for trixie's old clothes because that's what she'd do but I dont think it came across that way. Anyway I will be revisiting this image to photoshop and make Trixie's dress look great. I mean its got the ursa minor paws with the symbol on the hat and still kept her signature stars on parts of it. Yes I was listening to art of the dress the whole time I was designing it. Yeah I know I can be a dork.

Last is my entry for pony eating a fruit.

Soarin' was the first pony that came to mind when I read eating and since I haven't seen him in the other days of the training ground. I figured he was due. I retraced my original work in photoshop since I had some extra time today. Here you can compare the two.

Thats all for today.
-StarStep out