Tutorial: Ponies IRL

Hopefully I'll have some more tutorials in the future, but these are pretty much the steps I use to create my videos.

My background is in Photoshop, so After Effects wasn't too difficult to pick up, but with both programs, the end result is easy. The hard part is knowing how to make it be as believable as possible, and a few of those tricks I hope to share.

The end result is how much effort and dedication you put into it, but some things to help the process are:
- Storyboard
- Program Shortcuts
- Knowing the science behind lighting/shadows.
- Knowing the science behind acoustics.
- Most importantly...Know what you are capable of working with, and what will end up wasting time.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the property of The Hub channel and its affiliating company Hasbro, Inc.

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[SonicStarArmy]

Excellent tutorial, I sure picked up a few things from it (though I'm a novice movie maker). Love your vids BTW. And one more thing, how much does it cost for all the software used to make this? I'd get it for free, but I hate piracy. And just one last question; How much experience have you had with making these kinds of videos, 'cuz I'm going to need a lot at my age.

[navybrony]

@SonicStarArmy After Effects CS5 is around $1000, and Photoshop (I use 7, so it's probably very cheap if you can even find it) is about $700.

I have many years of Photoshop experience, which carries over relatively well into AE, but you still need a basic knowledge of animation. I recommend getting into photomanipulation, and trying to put something in a picture that isn't there, but making it look like it is. Doing that in AE is pretty much the same, except it's motion.

[WolfDemonProductions]

Is there a reason you went through all those steps in photoshop to delete the background rather than using the quick selection tool? Given the flat colors, and the obvious difference between them, I find the quick select tool to work insanely well. Couldn't you have created an empty layer under the scene, used the quick select tool to select the background and just pressed delete (possibly using the refine edges tool)?

[navybrony]

@WolfDemonProductions From using photoshop for 9 years, I've grown a personal distaste for the quick selector tool, to the point I just don't use it anymore.

But yeah, it probably would have actually worked for a cartoon background with flat colors.

[DonutsAdvocate]

Is there anything Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 can do that After Effects can't? Cuz I'm starting to feel the former is a waste of money

[navybrony]

@DonutsAdvocate Adobe Premiere is a more streamlined program for editing movies. While After Effects has nearly the same functions, it's more meant for effect creation.

I myself use After Effects for creating effects, and then transfer my rendered scenes over to Pinnacle Studio for actual movie editing, because I find trying to edit a whole movie in only AE to be confusing and frustrating.

[AlanaYeahWhatever]

Or somebody could just find Equestria already...

[navybrony]

@bettaman94 Search google for JDownloader.

[PvtDuskAndawn]

hahahahaha....i didn't understand anything :3

[SonicStarArmy]

@navybrony

O_o, I'm not going to be making these kinds of videos any time soon. I don't have a job, nor am I the legal age to get one. And I'd have to save up 100 weeks worth of allowance to even have a chance at getting it. And that's just for After effects, it'd be 170 weeks total to get Photoshop with it.

Hmm, I see. Okay. I have a little bit of experience with GIMP 2.6 and I can mask photos fairly well. I've made a few Stop-Motion Animations, does that qualify for something?

[heyfosehs231]

@navybrony nice vid dude it tought me alot about AFE,hey uh do you have a skype account if so hears my name,bronydr1 hit me up bro.

[xF4LK3Nx]

WHAT!? It does not exist for real!?

[WolfDemonProductions]

@navybrony I'm not sure how long I've been using it. I would guess only 3 or 4. So far the only tool I completely neglect is the magic wand tool, since the quick select tool can do the same job, more accurately in only a second or so longer.

[TheBuilderman123]

I Recommand Using Vegas And Paint NET Because I Don't Have The Money To Get Both Photoshop And After Effects.

[DonutsAdvocate]

@DonutsAdvocate

SHIFT CLICK dammit!!

[DonutsAdvocate]

How did you make it so when you use the brush tool your dots auto-connect? My gosh, primitive question but I can't figure it out for the life of me.