NOW! · 6:35am Apr 13th, 2020
I made a thing! (Now 4 things.)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Now, some information about what you're about to watch/may have already watched.
Why's it in segments?
Because I was insane and made a half hour long video, and can't upload more than 10 minute videos.
Half hour!?
Why so long?
I wanted to do an entire chapter.
Is it chapter 1?
Nope. it's chapter 65.
Why chapter 65?
Because it was the easiest for me to work with with few scenes that are outside Ponyville and little involvement of my main character who I don't have sufficient art for, and no skill to make said art.
What's with their voices? Their tone, cadence, pronunciation, and sometimes entire voice is off or just weird.
15.ai is an amazing app, but it does have limitations, as do I and I don't know how to manipulate things to get them to do what I want.
And the visuals?
From the show. I edited them as best as I could to get them to what I wanted. I sourced them all from screencaps with a few exceptions. The gifs where Pinkie moves are from Weegygreen2's deviant art (actually Derpibooru, but the source was their deviant art.) The picture on James' desk has Sara and Amber as drawn by Mutter_Butter. I used a picture of Xellos from Slayers next, and some video of him from Slayers Revolution (or Evolution R I don't remember right now.) The panning scenery came from the preview of the discontinued fan project to remake Chrono Trigger (Chrono Resurrection) And a clip from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The music is almost entirely from the show except one tune from Orange Music Studio.
What was that video and intermission for?
I felt like adding something. I'm not taking this very seriously, partially because of my own lack of skills. So I decide to just have some fun with it. And the video clip actually has a purpose. Early on (before the MLP addition to the story I now realize) I described James as having created a mirror of Truce where he lives. So, you get a look at where he lives. And it's actually good that it's at day as I describe his station and their world as being out of synch as far as time of day (and season) are concerned.
What's up with Twilight's eyes?
Chapter 52. There was an event, Twilight's eyes permanently changed color. Feel free to read about it.
Will you do more?
I don't know. This was an interesting project, but I just don't have the resources and skill to do the whole thing, even like this. You notice that James wasn't there. That's because I don't have any pictures I can manipulate into cobbling him together, and this taught me if I wanted to actually, and seriously tackle a project like this I would need lots of help. Voice actors, artists, possibly animators. And editors. I don't know if you noticed, but I'm not that good.
And lastly, but probably most appropriate.
If anyone has any questions, I'll answer as best as I can.
Thank you.
Interesting... Does that thing generates the voice from provided samples? Can you emulate any voice with this?
They trained a computer to mimic the voices, feel free to check it out yourself, it's pretty fun.