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It’s been a long time coming, but I’m glad to announce that I am finally considering the facial rig revision phase of mine is now over. It has lasted since around November of last year. The effects were obvious; I have only been posting Pinkie renders and animations for the last half a year. I’ve only been doing that because the facial rig revisions have only been applied to Pinkie, and it wouldn’t be a great use of my time to transfer unfinished tweaks to other characters (AJ, Pear Butter, and Coloratura) while I was still tweaking it. But now I am considering it pretty much done. I know some of you might be sick of seeing Ponk all the time (or maybe you think I’m some sort of Pinkie fanatic), but you can expect my future renders to now feature more character variety effective immediately.
 
Anywho, the point of this animation was to finally test the facial rig and make sure it was all working as intended before I considered it done enough. Got the animation done in about two days. Was surprisingly tricky to bridge all of these emotions properly as they transition without it feeling fake or disingenuous.
 
 
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Background Pony #24B0
Well done, it’s okay. It doesn’t seem like there’s any conflict
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The main reason I wanted to use the movie ears is to allow the base of the ear to be narrow. It allows the rigging of the ears to be much more flexible. The ears I had before would have never even gotten close to bending in the ways they are in this animation. The show style ears are simply too inflexible, I can’t continue to use them because of how restrictive it makes the ears when posing, even though I do agree that aesthetically they do look slightly better on these pony models with the wider base. I’m not good enough at what I do to figure out a better way to make them flexible without making the base smaller.
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I get that they’re movie-style ears, but I think the base of the ears is just too narrow? in the show they’re still fairly connected to the head like the general style, just with the more defined horse-ear shape and the converging edges.  
Iunno, personally I’d just try and make the connecting area slightly wider so it’s not “pinching” so much.
Background Pony #6678
Really missing the old ears here, these ones just look weird to me. That’s my only nitpick.
Background Pony #D3D8
this guy deserves praise for pushing forth the final frontier of animation in this fandom we need a proper 3D feature