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ArtStation (May 27, 2022 at 2:33:02 PM UTC)
My Little Pony G5 - TV Series development
My Little Pony G5 - TV Series development
These are some development concepts for a My Little Pony G5 2D show pitch done in 2019 at Boulder Media, before the project was placed on hold.
It was a fun collaboration between myself (Character Concept Art), Finnbarr Martin (Art Direction), Piotr Bzdura (Concept Art), Paul O’Flanagan (Direction), and Gillian Comerford (Direction).
MLP G4 VS MLP G5 - Character design silhouettes compared

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Jonny Manz
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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I am who I am
@Crackpot Quackpot
Great point there - the poses are so super relevant when the image is demonstrating the different body types, and the simple truth that without the manes and tails in silhouette, you can’t tell the G4 Mane Six apart (sans Twilight) but you can with the Mane Five apart in that circumstance.
Unkown151601

Unkown User
Twilight is noticably taller then the others so it possible to atleast tell one character apart from the others even without the color, hair, and tail.
Background Pony #BB16
@Crackpot Quackpot
Uh… If the G5 had standard poses, it wouldn’t make much of a difference. G5 will still have an undeniably more noticeable difference in body structure. Even if you gave the G4 and G5 characters horns and folded wings, the G5 would still be the most diverse 🤷
Crackpot Quackpot
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Non-Fungible Trixie -
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My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
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Jackpot
Ah yes, totally not favouritism and bias. A better comparison would be using a neutral stance because the g5 characters here are clearly posing and tiptoeing or what not.
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For what it’s worth, I know of some people who were actually turned off by the lack of variety in body structure among the Mane 6 in G4, hence why they didn’t become fans, while liking G5 better in comparison for its greater variety. (Let’s also not forget Faust wanted more variety but just didn’t want to overwork the animators.)
Certainly strong actual personalities can overcome the lackluster visual cues, and strong visual cues can’t overcome bland personalities, but let’s not pretend it’s irrelevant.
Jonny Manz
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Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -

I am who I am
Lol at all the salt due to people misinterpreting (accidentally or intentionally) what the text is saying. Never change, fandom.
Mr.Myoozik
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@Background Pony #2049
I can understand that, but I feel like a more neutral approach would get the message down across easier without stepping on people’s toes. I get his reasoning that different body shapes does add more to a character and makes them more unique instead of doing copy and paste, and I agree. Also, I don’t know if he knew about this, but there was also the fact that G4 was made using Flash which meant that assets could be reused with no problem which explains why the character models looked so similar. I don’t blame him for not knowing that if that is the case.
All in all, I believe that body type and character personality aren’t mutually exclusive.
Background Pony #357C
@Mr.Myoozik
I’m also trying to respond to this without being passive aggressive, so I hope it doesn’t come off that way. I think Naccari does understand that. However, Naccari is a 2D character designer for Tell Your Tale, so he’s not going to be talking about the acting in his art portfolio since he didn’t work on any of that part of the production. He’s going to be talking about the the parts he actually worked on and can use as reference work, which were the 2D designs and how that conveys the personality.
Mr.Myoozik
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Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.

Music/Charts Enthusiast
I guess Claudio Naccari never realized that the most important thing about a character is their actual personality and characterization regardless of their body type and appearance. The G4 designs were all cookie cutter yes, but behind those designs were well rounded and deep characters which led to a big Internet phenomenon and the reason why we’re all even here in this website to begin with. While I’m glad that G5 is making different designs and shapes to make them unique, but if they don’t have the characters to back it up, then who cares?
I like both G4 and G5 and I hate comparing them both and I don’t like how passive aggressive this post is.
Grapefruit Face
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Me & My Delusions
G4 purists need to hide the G5 tags and stop whining and trying to ruin it for the us who enjoy G5. Stop trying to deny that the mane 5 being different sizes and shapes is a bad thing. The artist’s note about the G4 ponies is perfectly valid.
You’re all just jealous because we can enjoy more unique looking ponies.
Background Pony #357C
I mean, it’s not wrong. When doing the visual design of characters, different body shapes is a big way to make the designs individually distinctive. And yes, FIM’s creative choice to make all the ponies have the same basic body type, whether it was done to reduce the budget since you could reuse assets, or to keep the show designs more in line with the toy designs, or to put the focus of the distinction elsewhere like highlighting the cutie marks more, or to have a more unified style across the show, or whatever other reason they had for it, it did have the effect of reducing the visual distinctiveness of the characters in some places.
It’s also why you see a lot of fan artists use different body types for the Mane Six in their own styles, to help differentiate the characters from each other more. It’s just a stylistic choice. And that’s the reason why concept design presentations like this exist, to explain the move to a different style and what the elements of that style can bring to the table including things that maybe weren’t present before or to express things in a new way. It’s certainly not an attack on FIM or saying FIM was bad.
Starless
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Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
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Non-Fungible Trixie -

Prog rock pony
@Background Pony #4595
Hasbro - we’re full of shit as usual. I am pretty sure I can distinguish them by their EYES alone. Body shape is just a singular thing of the many differences they share. Also, why make them all pony in the first place? It’s because you need your characters to be similar to one another to some extent to be able to connect to each other(without really convoluted plot lines) and as a result, to the audiencealso probably had something to do with them being Equine.
G5 is not even worth mentioning, the very definition of a “corporate show”. Such a nonsensical plot line, I don’t think anything they will do is going to fix it. But I digress, it was always about money.
This. Not to mention the G5 ponies are all shown making different poses just to make the look more different from eachother than they actually are.