Equestria Primates
In general, I have announcements – some good, some bad. The bad is that unfortunately, Equestria Primates is now on indefinite hiatus. Basically, it is kill – I won’t jerk you guys around by building up your hope and saying, “well, it’ll still arrive in a few months”. I can’t promise that because presently there are no concrete plans in regards to a return to Equestria Primates. We’ve got a bit more done, with a scene inside a cookie train using a moving backdrop, rocking trains, and a bit of animation in general. It looks beautiful, but the bottom line is, Petirep finally got burnt out after hand-drawing a thousand pony butts and having only a few minutes to show for the hours and hours of work.

So we talked about it, and what we’ve decided to do is go ahead and start working on Banana Republic shorts. They’ll each be roughly one minute in length and will cover any topic we feel like since we won’t be explicitly constrained to commenting on My Little Pony. Some of it will be slice of life, some of it may be politics, but of course, regardless, we’ll do our best to keep it light, fun, and worth seeing every time we get something out there! Petirep is also experimenting with some new techniques, including vectors and full-blown animation. For those who wanted to know what Taylor and Peyton look like, here’s a concept sketch of the whole trio: