The Xerox process replaced manual painting with machine copying, which resulted in black, 'scratchy' lines. Before the Xerox process, linework from sketches was copied and manually painted onto sheets of celluloid, which allowed for colored outlines. From a technical viewpoint, colored character outlines fell to disuse with the advent of the Xerox process. From a stylistic viewpoint, the colored character outlines 'soften' the characters whose colors would otherwise sharply contrast with bold black outlines.

The show's creator and original character designer, Lauren Faust, notes that this is both a stylistic and a technical choice. The characters in the series have colored outlines of varying thickness. The Movie is animated with Toon Boom Harmony. With the exception of the musical shorts, which are still done by DHX, the My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Summertime Shorts are animated by Hasbro-owned Irish animation studio Boulder Media Limited. The layouts are turned into an animatic, and then an animator works from the animatic, taking several days to a week to animate a one-minute scene. The storyboards and layouts are done prior to the actual animation by the studio's leading artists. The show is distinct from most other animated shows for having a layouts stage, which details the action more thoroughly than the storyboards, with respect to key poses, composition, and color balancing. The storyboard artists have a month to board an entire episode.

Like classic cartoon shows, episodes are storyboarded in addition to being scripted to facilitate the visual aspect of the animation. An episode takes several weeks to animate at the same time with the other episodes, not including scripting, storyboarding, and voice recording, which are done beforehand. Each crew works on three episodes concurrently each episode is staggered by a week from the others. There are three animation crews, one in Canada and two in the Philippines.

You can assist by editing it.įriendship is Magic is animated with Flash 8, in conjunction with many third-party and proprietary customizations, many of which are developed by co-director James Wootton. This section should be expanded or updated (, , ).

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