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Nightly Discussion #2904
by CalpainArtist: TheBatFangDashie seems ready for a special night on the town. I wonder where she is going?Evening my friends! I hope you are all doing well tonight. Ready to relax?
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Artist: JanadashieJust a final heads up for those who might have missed our prior posts about the NATG! It's back once again for its 12th run and will be starting tomorrow on the blog at 9pm PST, the same as last year. I'm really excited to see what you all come up with this year and I hope you all have a lot of fun as well. After the past year, some fun would be really appreciated, right?
For those of you who have never participated in our NATG events before it's basically an event where you can try your hooves out on creating art for the first time and improving over the course of 30 odd days.
Artists who are veterans are more than welcome to join as well! Remember, you can never stop improving!
As for what sort of artwork you can submit, you're welcome to submit digital art, ponies made on lined paper, paintings, elaborate origami ponies, chalk board ponies, animations, pixel art or even SFM ponies like we did last year.
We're pretty open on what can be accepted just as long as it matches the theme in some way shape or form.
Finally, all entries submitted for each theme day have to be a new creation of some sort. We won't be strictly policing this, but the way I see it is that if you're submitting old work you're not giving yourself a chance to improve so you're only hurting yourself.
Once NATG arrives I'll have a more detailed post on how to submit, where to view, and what to expect out of the schedule. So until then, you guys have a couple weeks or so to prepare and make time for it, so get hyped, get those pencils or drawing pads ready and I'll see you all then.
For any questions before the event starts, send them to calpain@equestriadaily.comTwitter: Calpain -
[Drama][Mystery]
Author:Paracompact
Description: A distress call issues from a mansion in the snow-capped peaks of the Crystal Mountains. One of the six young residents is reporting evidence of a changeling among them. The Royal Guard rallies to their remote location with all haste, but they are days away—they have charged Detective Pesco and his apprentice Bluebird with investigating the scene in advance.
There's nowhere to run, and nowhere to hide. Identity is a delicate thing, and the changeling's isn't the only one on the brink of unraveling.
Bug in a Blizzard
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Hasbro has released the new episode of Tell Your Tale early again! You know how this works by now, go get it below and discuss it in the comments! For older episodes, you can find them all over at the Episode Post tag here.
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Morning Discussion #2701
by CalpainArtist: ButterSprinkleMake sure to recharge your Apple Horse with plenty of apples in the morning!Hello everyone, how are you all doing? Ready for some chatting to get things kicked off right today?
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Nightly Discussion #2903
by CalpainArtist: AquaticVibesDerpy sending some good vibes your way, everyone.How's it going tonight, gang? Ready to relax and get some chatting in?
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The Everfree Team has returned to pony after a brief journey into anthro, and it's just as catchy and filled with dancing horses as it always is, with the chaos of characters from all the fandoms and SFM models bent into freaky positions as always. Also cosplay. There's cosplay. It's pretty crazy.
Check out Chitty Chitty Bang Bang below!
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Artist: @KeetchV2 Goth Izzy is love. Please make more goth Izzy.
Get art below.
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Community Soapbox - EG Attacking Equestria, Atomic Cartoons Hiring Lighting Artists, and More!
by SethistoIf you are bored and have pony opinions, send a soapbox in! We are low on them again for the first time in a while. As always, these are the opinions of fandom members, not us here at EQD. If you'd like to submit your own soapbox, hit up this post for infos.
Have some headlines:
- Friendship is Magic Miniseries Next Generation
- The Equestria Girls Government Attacking Equestria
- Of Ruins and Time.
- Atomic Cartoons Hiring Lighting Artists is Exciting!
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I've been told I'm biased toward lifesize plushies, so have a tiny Lyra instead as a header!
Get soft poni below.
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Tiny baby Lyra plush by PinkuArt on Deviantart
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Morning Discussion #2700
by CalpainArtist: @Alumx_mlpWhat a morning mood this is.Hello everyone, hope you all slept well! Ready for some chatter to get the day started?Twitter: Calpain -
Nightly Discussion #2902
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Earlier in the month we posted about an AI program called Dall-E Mini that could generate ponies surprisingly well. It got to a point where people have been spamming Twitter and other places with their weird concoctions pretty much nonstop.
The Discord staff here decided to run an event asking people to send in their weird combinations. In the end, they had 32 submissions, some pretty simple and some super interesting! It's really impressive what this AI can do. I've attached them all below if you are curious what they came up with.
As for our side, we want to run a little event here too! Your mission is to go and generate an AI pony scene. It can be anything you want. Screencap the best generation and send it in with what phrase you used and a name (if you don't include a name you will just be called Anon). We will create a gallery in the end with everything people make! Fire those submissions off to submit@equestriadaily.com with DALL-E EVENT as the email subject. One submission per person, so make it count!
Anyway, get a gallery of the ones we got from the Discord side below!
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Zipp looks good in those glasses tbh.
Get the horse art below.
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[Random]
Author: Kodeake
Description:All mares have needs. Even if they’re totally uncool and undeniably lame. Rainbow Dash is the one exception to the rule. After a month away from her marefriend, she wasn’t even the tiniest bit lonely. And she definitely didn’t need - or want - a hug. Hugs were lame, and she was Rainbow Danger Dash. Hugging would only slow her down.
A Mare's Needs
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Artist: Shadowreindeer Open Music has arrived for this week! We have a bunch of interesting songs today from various walks of fandom life. Some epic instrumentals, along with experimental stuff.
Go listen below if you want to give some new people a shot or just don't mind how pony stuff is!
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Morning Discussion #2699
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Nightly Discussion #2901
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Both Friendship is Magic and G5 take a lot of inspiration from real life music for their jingles. We saw it with Sprout's song in the "A New Generation", and of Daniel Ingram regularly cited famous songs and musical styles for his work. We've hit just about every genre out there at this point.
If you had an unlimited budget, what real world song would you like to see get the pony treatment? Who would be your lead singer and how would it play out when animated?
Pop your ideas below! Maybe we can inspire some future horse content!
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Amazon has listed up one of the Mini World sets revealed a few months ago. Originally these were supposed to drop in August, but Amazon has this one set with a July 16 starting date, though it ranges into August.
If you missed our initial announcement of these, you can find them over here. Get the details on this one below!
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Lyra and Bonbon Day happens on the 6th of July for all of you out there interesting in celebrating our best background canon ship.
To submit, send an email to Submit@equestriadaily.com with LYRA AND BONBON DAY followed by what it is as the subject, so LYRA AND BONBON DAY - OPEN ART for the open art post.
You can also use your Artist Training Ground submissions for it, so feel free to double dip in both events! Submissions close on July 5th at 11:00 PM PST.
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Source There are a lot of possibilities for this one! Will she be an apprentice gone wrong? A beast from another dimension? Or just a pony that ended up with alicorn powers randomly?
New Poll Time: Fluttershy Vs. Flutterbat! What form is better?
Get the results of this one below, and go vote on the sidebar for the new one!
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It's amazing how many of these we still see now days considering how time consuming they are to make. Hopefully we still have these long into the future cause I need a kirin!
Get plushie pone below.
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Morning Discussion #2698
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Nightly Discussion #2900
by CalpainArtist: @stacy_165cutLet the moon help lull you to sleep this eve~Good evening, my friends. I hope you are all well tonight. Ready to relax and start a new week together?
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Artist: @Deepfantasy6 The My Little Pony Official Comics just essentially revealed the entirety of G5's magic situation. I'll continue this discussion post below for those that haven't read them yet, but I'd recommend doing it since they seeem to be the big chunky location for story this time around!
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Artist @hattieZAZU Punk Zipp header, because it works.
Get art below.
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[Shipping]
Author:fluttermoontree
Description:There are many boundaries between an immortal princess and her student. Some are inevitably crossed when Spike accidentally sends a fantasy of Twilight’s to Princess Celestia.
In Your Dreams
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A giant Fluttershy and Applejack have made an appearance at a mall inthe Phillipines where a mini Toy Fair event happened the other day. It look like it was a hybrid event with both G5 and G4 toys and signage in attendance, but really the most relevent part is these crazy costumes. I'll toss more images below if you are curious!
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Morning Discussion #2697
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Nightly Discussion #2899
by CalpainArtist: @TokoKamiArtsAre you feeling Great and Powerful tonight?Evening my friends, I hope you all are doing well. Ready for some chatting as the sun sets on another Saturday?
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The next installment in the Elements of Justice series has arrived! If you missed the previous episodes, you can find them over here. What kind of crazy legal shenanigans will we see this time?
Go get it below!
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Howdy everypony! Today for our 8th episode of The Horses Mouth, we are joined by the amazing Robert Cullen. Known in the industry as the founder and director of Boulder Media, an Irish Animation Studio known for its work on many memorable programs such as Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, The Amazing World of Gumball, Wander Over Yonder, Danger Mouse, and many more. Their work on pony includes many of the Equestria Girls shorts, Rainbow Roadtrip (special), and the MLP Gen 5 movie "A New Generation"
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Joining us tonight over on Discord is the wonderful Michelle Creber. Known within pony as the voice of Apple family pone Apple Bloom and as the singing voice of Sweetie Belle, including a ton of fan contributions. Michelle has been a part of pony culture now for a decade and we are delighted to announce she will be joining tonight us over on Discord for our next LIVE Horse's Mouth interview at 9pm PST. Not in our Discord yet? What are you doing?!?! Click HERE to join the fastest-growing MLP community server.
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The feather is pain guys. Pure pain.
Art below!
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[Comedy][Random]
Author:FrostTheWolf
Description: When most ponies think about the Canterlot Wedding, they think of a few main things. The imposter bait and switch, the invasion that followed and how, against all odds, the love between the Bride and Groom was able to push back the invaders that stormed through the city.
Ironically, most of those things just so happened to be included with the event package Princess Cadence picked. And the queen herself? Well, when she says that she planned this, she meant it in more ways than one.
Planned in Advance