At 8:30 pm EST, renowned Box artist CyberToaster will be holding a stream in which he says thank you to all the people who have donated to our campaign! If you donated at all, no matter how much, just show up at the stream and CT will draw your OC. Haven’t donated yet? No problem! Just head over here and toss in whatever you can, and then be sure to make an appearance at the stream! We appreciate it!
~MagicLlama
Hokay, everyone listen up, before we get a million questions about it.
YES. Many of the Box’s Members have seen the preview.
NO. We have NO PLANS, as of this moment, to do ANYTHING WHATSOEVER with the Equestrian Girls show.
NO. We have NO PLANS to put ANY of our characters into an anthropomorphized state, turn them into humans, or anything like that. However, feel free to draw them as such, that is your right, and we’d love to see any art.
NO. This does not mean that Twilight will become a human at any point in the shows.
NO. This does not mean that Twilight will become an Alicorn in our shows (we haven’t decided one way or the other).
YES. We have opinions on it, but NO I will not presume to speak for the group. There are a wide range of emotions covering this.
YES. We are doing Traveler, hit sequel to “Number Twelve.”
YES. We know that the Brony Community will be imploding in on itself for the next week or so as we fight among ourselves about how this means the show is going downhill or whatever. NO, we are not going to join in. This Tumblr, and anything we own, will be OFFICIAL DRAMA-FREE ZONES. You don’t send hate mail, you don’t call each other names, you don’t scream at us for our opinion.
And now that some of you have COMPLETELY disregarded everything that I’ve said, I wish you all a good evening.
-Sithking Zero
We understand that a small number of US fans have received in error their DVD edition of Series 7 Part 2 early. We respectfully ask those fans not to divulge information or post content publicly so that fellow fans who have yet to see the episodes do not have their viewing pleasure ruined.
If everyone keeps the secrets safe until next Saturday we will release a special new clip featuring material of the Tenth AND Eleventh Doctor!
Well….just saw the Equestria Girls trailer, not jumping to any conclusions, not a huge fan of the human designs, but the idea of Twi in the human world could be in itself interesting enough for me to get past it if written well. The writer has done some of my favorite MLP’s so that gives me hope, but I get the feeling the next week within the brony fandom will be filled with overreacting and kneejerking, so I’m mostly going to stay out of it. You can stop putting it in my askbox….Um…if you don’t mind…
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Hello, it’s Jengah here. We’re going to test screen our new short “The Drapes” over on the livestream linked below in 45 minutes.
http://www.livestream.com/jengahblock
New Sherlock Short airing soon! Come on by!
NEW PERKS ADDED TO THE INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN
Hello! As stated earlier on the Tumblr we have a streach goal for the Indiegogo campaign since we met our goal so darn quickly If we make it to 4k we will make all of Number 12 into a motion comic! To help with this we’ve added two new perks for doners!
30$: A fanfic of your choice among Twilight’s book in the background.
When the motion comic comes out a fanfic of your choice shall be in Twilight’s possession.
100$: Your OC in the background of the episode.
With this perk, provide a reference for your OC and they will appear in the background of the motion comic, in the crowd, in a book, things like that! There are only five spots for this so watch out!
And those are the new perks! Thanks so much to those who have already donated to the stretch goal, and to anyone who does donate, or spreads the word! This is awesome you guys.
INDIEGOGO LINK:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-squeak-make-traveler/x/3196085
Hello guys!
You’re probably aware of the indiegogo campaign to help Squeak out, which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvOXrM…
Since we made our goal so blindingly fast (Seriously THANK YOU SO MUCH Squeak is so very deeply touched) we’ve decided to make a stretch goal. If we can break 4k before the end of the campaign we shall make Number 12 into a full motion comic, like the one shown above, healmed by our poster artist Cybertoaster. If that’s something you’d like to see, donate! Again thank you, and we hope you enjoy Traveler!
Also remember, if you can’t donate, reblog!
Well it all kinda depends on what sort of stuff you want to make, and what skills you currently have. But let’s review a few general tips:
Start small. It’s fine to have great ambitions, but the fastest way to achieve those ambitions is to start with small projects and work up from there. Take us, for instance. The first things we made were shorts, not full episodes. They were only a couple minutes long and they only had a couple characters. Thus, we were able to finish them with only a small crew (which is all we had at the time), and in a relatively short amount of time.
Starting small allowed us to build up our skills and get feedback early on. If we’d started with something big, it would’ve taken forever and we would’ve had low morale and the whole thing might have collapsed.
Only do the basics. I’m in a separate project that tried to start with full animation, which took forever, until finally we abandoned the animation approach and went with animatics. If we’d started with animatics in the first place, we would’ve finished the first episode a lot sooner. (And in the case of PIAB, we decided to just do audio and skip animation entirely. Except now we have a bigger crew so that’s starting to change.)
Build a friendly team. If someone’s a jerk or a diva, don’t work with them. It’s just not worth it. Instead, work with people who are kind and reasonable. (The brony fandom has a lot of these, thankfully.)
Actually make a show. I once saw a group that had a youtube account, a deviantart account, a livestream account, a facebook account, and a bunch of other accounts…but they didn’t really have a show. You have to realize that all this other stuff is just fluff; it’s only useful if you actually have a show. So keep your focus on the show itself, and only add this other stuff when it makes sense.
Use gdrive (or something similar) to share files. It’s really annoying to email files back and forth all the time.
Learn what works for you. For us, we started on ponychan. Then later, when it made sense for us, we started talking on Skype instead. You have to be willing to adapt. Do whatever works for your particular group.
*hugs* I hope that helps.
—Sonicsuns
