A female captain of the guard woulda been so sweet. (Why are all the guards male anyway?)
I love this and I love the artist so much.
http://alexstrazse.deviantart.com/art/Diablo-3-Movie-Poster-302956793
The ultimate in video game films.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Click play.
Stare.
DREAM.
In the game, you’re playing as the Mane Six, and when you reveal Chrysalis, you get ready for a really tough battle.
Cue Cadence coming in. “Move aside Twilight. This fight is mine!”
“You really think you can defeat me? Not even Celestia…”
“Silence! I’ll make you pay for hurting Shining and Twilight!”
FUCK THIS IS PERFECTION.
I was thinking more of an epic side scrolling adventure like Castlevania or Kirby.
Ordinarily, I’d try to be diplomatic about how much I hate the way people become popular in the pony tumblrverse. But today, I’m just not feeling it.
The internet in general, and tumblr in particular, have absolutely destroyed the concept of mean artistic ability for pretty much every fandom, but the pony fandom has one of the most egregious examples. Pretty much every ‘popular’ new pony blog was discovered by one of the big, established artists. But I don’t have a problem with someone reblogging something they genuinely like, I do have a problem when the result is that a profusion of mediocre or outright lazy artists get propelled into the spotlight, while dozens of better or more dedicated artists are completely ignored.
Further aggravated by this problem is the fact that it’s incredibly difficult for anyone who’s an artistic newbie, for lack of a better term, to get any kind of feedback on their work. The general population of the fandom overlooks them in favor of the bigger, more established artists, while those said artists completely ignore them unless those same newbies brown-nose their way up from the bottom till they get noticed.
And, in honesty, the fact that so many potentially great artists are thrown at the wayside simply because they have more dignity than to grovel and plead for a reblog or endorsement from some big name, and thereby starved of any significant body of review or advice, is downright criminal.
Consider this: How many people, in the average population, do you think have any sort of artistic drive? How many of them like ponies? How many of them draw ponies? And of those few remaining, how many of them do you think gave up on drawing ponies because they couldn’t get any feedback about their work because everyone was out drooling over whatever spammy, lolTMItuesday post some big name was cluttering everyone’s newsfeed with, while that artist was watching their hard work be overlooked and ignored and left to rot.
And let me be very clear. The hypothetical artist I’m talking about here, is not some sclub who just copy-pasted their OC from ponymaker and inserted it into some random backdrop. I’m talking about people, who put hour after hour of effort into their art, to draw it, ink it, color it, shade it, background it, ect, and then they put all their hard work out there for the world to see… and the only response they get is the wind moaning across an empty plain, and crickets chirping in the meadow.
And, as an artist, this offends me on so many levels, and honestly, I feel like it should offend more people. A while back, I used to get hatemail for my art, or people would tell me it was shit. And to be honest? That actually encouraged me. Because it meant people were seeing it, and deeming it worthy of a response. But when an artist puts something out there, and all that they get back is silence, it’s absolutely devastating. And that sort of thing, continued, can completely crush an artist’s spirit, till they just give up, robbing the community of a potentially great contributor.
And I’m sure that someone, reading this, if it gets posted, is going to say “Well this happens in every fandom.” And that’s true. But not to this great an extent. Most other fandoms are much more tight-knit, and a thus a smaller population is better able to disseminate the art of any one member. But the pony fandom, massive and bloated like it is, is also one of the most bottlenecked in the artistic distribution process by the fact that much of the popular art is only popular because some big name reblogged it. Because honestly, the only real, universal indicator for most any given new blog or artist’s fame, is almost always that they got a reblog from someone already well known. Aside from a (comparatively) low artistic bar for entry, this is pretty much the one common factor.
And people will doubtless say, that I’m jealous of those big, established artists. And you know what? You’re absolutely right. I am green-eyed with envy over those people who dictate more or less what becomes popular. I wish that I could have a few thousand people read my every spammy post. I dream that even my laziest margin doodle could get a few hundred likes simply because of my name. I wish that, merely by association, whoever grovelled and pleaded to me could get a few hundred followers just because I drop a reblog and a sentence. And the fact that that sort of power is not an isolated case, but rather the main means of art distribution on tumblr, completely sickens me.
Who am I kidding. This won’t change anything.
Instead of being upset and envious, just keep practicing and putting hard work into what you do. It may take time, but you WILL get noticed one way or another. There’s no reason to be discouraged because more popular people exist. Besides, you shouldn’t be making art for popularity, you should be making art because you like to do so.
