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Should be about School Times!
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Airs: April 21st, 2012
Directed By: James Wootie Wootton & Jayson Thiessen
Storyboarded by (All Seniors!):
Sabrina Alberghetti
Raven Molisee
Justin Nichols
Tom Sales
Official Synopsises:
Part One!: Twilight's brother, Shining Armor, is marrying Princess Celestia's niece, Cadence.
Part Two!: Twilight discovers a dark secret about Cadence right before the wedding.
We split this up differently than other 2-parters have been split (from my understanding). Like I was saying to Sabrina earlier, we were all doing the types of sequences we're best at. The result is something we're all pretty proud of.
-Raven
Joy 
But that was fantastic. Although I wish there had been one more episode of story to really flesh out Cadence and Shining Armor's relationship with flashbacks and give just a few more scenes between. But still, loved it ^^.
My parts:
-The Wedding Rehearsal (Where Twi bursts in/Is shunned by all & banished/B.B.B.F. Reprise)
-The Crystal Caves (Twilight discovers the real Cadence)
-And the "This Day Aria" villain song. First song that I've gotten to board and it was pretty intense but enjoyable.
You know, all of the 2-parters could probably have benefited from an extra episode. I'd love to do a full-length movie if ever there is one.
I'm very glad you enjoyed this one though.
Also I LOVED the aria. The way the song is sung between both characters was a great touch. The best part I think was where Cadence is so eager to get to Shining Armor and she's struggling to get the mine cart going and we see Twilight's expression, how she realizes that Cadence really does care for her brother and right then and there she accepts them as a couple and helps out Cadence.
I think it's probably my favorite scene in the whole wedding.
Well really yall did amazing on the whole season period. So many little minks to the fandom, like Lyra's cutie mark on Bon Bon's saddlebag, them two being together so often, Derpy and The Doctor put together. Having Pipsqueak from the Luna Eclipsed episode show up, Fluttershy hiding in a tree, and DJ pony3's eyes being red.
I dunno who is responsible for all those things, or if we're just reading too much into them or what. But if they are indeed nods to the fans then thanks to the entire team.
be pretty tight with the timing--
oddly this sequence took the
most of my time. "
Not odd. Normal.
If opportunity ever rises try to
get a look at musical board
sequences, "Aladdin, Beauty
and the Beast, Animaniacs,
etc" and you'll see that some-
times the boarding is so tight as
to be seen as animation extremes
for the 'tween animators. Layout
gets ticked because not much for
them to do if done tight enough.
"I'd love to do a full-length movie
if ever there is one."
Soooo...What your saying is...if
the chance arose you wouldn't
mind living near Burbank for
almost a year boarding an MLP
feature, if it couldn't be done in
Vancouver.
Congrats on the year's work.
I have always worked on very tight boards--this is not the part that's new to me. One of my favorite things is posing to audio which in itself is very specific. The difference here was doing it in flash, so I could take more into consideration (like the different musical instruments--cymbals crashing, bells ringing, etc). Controlling timing with an animatic is less precise--in flash I was almost completely animating things myself.
As for re-locating, I didn't seem to mind moving from Wisconsin to Vancouver for an indefinite period to work on a television show. So I probably wouldn't mind relocating for a year to live in my native country.
right that it is difficult to perceive
proper tone from text. So let me
apologize for not using more
concise wording.
I was focusing on the sentence
fragment, "...oddly this sequence
took the most of my time." I read
your post in a way that seem to
indicate that you were surprised
by the amount of time it took to
do the "villian song" as opposed
to ordinary dialogue sequences,
as this was your first effort into
that area of boarding.
Most musical sequences, if done
well, consume more time and
material resources than dialogue
sequences, ie, it is a "normal"
thing to expect, and budget for,
[...if you've done it before.]
I totally forgot this was your first
effort in boarding such a sequence.
Yeah. I screwed up on that. My
bad.
On moving, some folks move once
and refuse to budge after that, for
any reason; some will move at the
drop of a hat after stating they will
never move again. Depends on the
folks. Didn't know. Now I do.
Good luck on Season 3.
P.S. On paragraph 2 of your reply:
Excellent.
By the way, thanks for telling us what scenes you did! But considering how much else there is, the other three guys (*Sibsy, Justin, and Tom) must have had to do a lot! Did your three scenes really account for 25% of both episodes?)