Minty Root's Project Thundercloud II, is a fan
animation staring some of the beloved background ponies of MLP:FIM. I
enjoyed this video for the most part. One problem I have is with
minor script errors, such as that when referring to the elements of
harmony, their main goal is to “find them back”. I know this
doesn't seem like much, but it sounds supremely strange among all the
other roughly grammatically correct lines. What had me listening for
this, was that Celestia says it in the opening, and it just stuck out
so much coming from a 1000 year old plus prim and proper magical
scholar. I also noticed that the script doesn't have many, if any,
abbreviated words. This lends to making the characters feel robotic,
and a little too similar in dialog. I still don't think this breaks
the animation, just that this needs to be rectified in later
projects.
The Doctor's lines where VERY rushed,
almost like he was on the verge of hysterics, or had to finish the
lines quickly because he was in the middle of the pee pee dance. This
mixed with some jerky panning shots, served to take me out of the
story. I by no means am hating on Minty Root or any of the
collaborators of this video. I hope to see many things from them in
the future, but they need to ask others in the brony community for
critiques, and tips on how to fix the choppy animation. If they had
cut some of the dead spots out between the scenes where music just stops for a little to long, they could have
kept the pacing far more engaging, and not broke the immersion quite
so often.
I recommend checking this video out,
and leaving some encouraging words for the creators, because I see a
diamond in the rough here.
Stay calm, and pony on. (Bro-Hoof!)
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