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May 2. 5. Isnt that that season I wrote some episodes on Retrieved on 2. May 2. 5. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2. 01. January 1. 7. Hasbro Working on My Little Pony Movie. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on 2. 01. January 1. 7. Retrieved on 2. October 2. 0. Berrow Panel. You. Tube 2. 01. Retrieved on 2. November 1. 2. The magic of friendship is coming to the big screen. Retrieved on 2. 01. November 1. 7. Sia Saddles Up For. Retrieved on 2. 01. July 2. 2. Deadline. Retrieved on 2. 01. April 2. 7. PR Newswire 2. Retrieved on 2. 01. August 7. Liev Schreiber, Taye Diggs join My Little Pony Movie. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2. 01. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is a childrensanimatedfantasy television series developed by Lauren Faust for Hasbro. The series is based on Hasbros My Little Pony line of toys and animated works and is often referred by collectors as the fourth generation. The series premiered on October 1. The Hub cable channel. Hasbro selected animator Lauren Faust as the creative director and executive producer for the show. Faust sought to challenge the established nature of the existing My Little Pony line, creating more in depth characters and adventurous settings she left the series during season 2, to be replaced by Meghan Mc. Carthy as showrunner. The show follows a studious unicorn pony named Twilight Sparkle as her mentor Princess Celestia guides her to learn about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight becomes close friends with five other ponies Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Each of the ponies represent a different facet of friendship, and Twilight discovers herself to be a key part of the magical artifacts known as the. The ponies travel on adventures and help others around Equestria while working out problems that arise in their own friendships. The series has become a major commercial success, becoming the most highly rated original production in the Hub Networks broadcast history and leading to new merchandising opportunities for Hasbro, including books, clothing, collectible trading cards, and comics. Despite the target demographic of young girls, Friendship Is Magic has also gained a large following of older viewers, mainly young and middle aged men, who call themselves. Portions of the show have become part of the remix culture, and have formed the basis for a variety of Internet memes. The show is currently in its seventh season of twenty six episodes. A spin off feature film series, My Little Pony Equestria Girls, started in 2. A feature length film adaptation directly based on the TV series itself has been announced for a theatrical release on October 6, 2. United States. Origin. Hasbro, Inc. Licht considered that Fausts style was well suited to that line, and asked her to consider. With the chance to work on My Little Pony, she hoped to prove that. Faust had initially pitched the show to include. The show still incorporates episodic creatures intended to be frightening to children, such as dragons and hydras, but it places more emphasis on the friendships among the characters, displayed with a comedic tone. By the time the show was approved, Faust had developed three full scripts for the series. In order to do so, Faust brought in Martin Ansolabehere and Paul Rudish, who had worked on other animated shows with her. Faust credits Rudish for the inspiration of the pegasus ponies controlling the weather in Equestria, as well as the character of Nightmare Moon during this period. Faust also consulted Craig Mc. Cracken, her husband and also an animator and creator of The Powerpuff Girls and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. After seeing the initial version of the pitch bible, Hasbro requested more character designs from Fausts team subsequently, Faust brought aboard Dave Dunnet and Lynne Naylor to further refine the background and character styles. Studio B Productions renamed to DHX Media on September 8, 2. DHXs other subsidiaries. Studio B requested that Jayson Thiessen be the director, a choice Faust agreed with. She, Thiessen, and James Wootton led the completion of a two minute short to pitch the final product to Hasbro, resulting in the companys sanctioning the full production. Faust estimates that from being initially asked to develop the show until this point took roughly one year. These included Amy Keating Rogers, Cindy Morrow, Meghan Mc. Carthy, Chris Savino, Charlotte Fullerton, M. A. Larson, and Dave Polsky. The writing process began with Faust and Renzetti coming up with broad plots for each show. The two would then hold a brainstorming session with each episodes writer, allowing the writer to script out scenes and dialogue. Faust and Renzetti then worked with the writer to finalize the scripts and assign some basic storyboard instructions. Hasbro was involved throughout this process and laid down some of the concepts to be incorporated into the show. Examples of Hasbros influence include having Celestia be a princess rather than a queen, making one of the ponies focused on fashion, and portraying toy sets in relevant places within the story, such as Raritys boutique. Faust also had to write to the EI. Thiessens production team was also allowed to select key personnel subject to Hasbros approval one of those selected was art director Ridd Sorensen. The Studio B team would storyboard the provided scripts, incorporating any direction and sometimes managing to create scenes that the writers had believed impossible to show in animation. The animators would then prepare the key character poses, layout, background art, and other main elements, and send these versions back to the production team in Los Angeles for review by Hasbro and suggestions from the writers. Thiessen credited much of the technical expertise in the show to Wooton, who created Flash programs to optimize the placement and posing of the pony characters and other elements, simplifying and economizing on the amount of work needed from the other animators. According to writer Meghan Mc. Carthy, many of the small nods to the fandom, pop culture references, or other easter eggs would be added at this point by the studio. Though Studio B performed the initial animation work, the final steps were passed to Top Draw Animation in the Philippines, an animation studio that Studio B had worked with in the later part of season one and beyond. Faust, Thiessen, and others participated in selecting voice actors, and Hasbro gave final approval. Libman noted that for recording her lines as the hyperactive Pinkie Pie,. The production team identifies specific parts of the episode where they want music cues, allowing Anderson to create appropriate music for each. However, Faust preferred more traditional 2. Hasbro eventually agreed to this. The initial production stages were very tight, requiring a schedule twice as fast as Faust had previously experienced, and frequent remote communication between the Los Angeles writing offices and the animation studio in Vancouver. At times, the two teams would hold. Faust estimates that the time to complete one episode was one year at one point, the team was simultaneously working on various stages of all 2. Episodes then aired about a month after completion. Her involvement in the second season consists mainly of story conception and scripts, and the involvement ceased after the second season. Despite leaving, she still has high hopes for the staff members, stating that. Im certain the show will be as entertaining as ever. The central character is Twilight Sparkle, a unicorn mare sent by her mentor Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria, to the town of Ponyville to study the magic of friendship. In the shows opening episode. When Nightmare Moon does appear, vowing everlasting night and causing Celestia to disappear, Twilight sets off with five other poniesApplejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarityto obtain the Elements of Harmony and defeat Nightmare Moon. Before Twilight can activate the Elements, Nightmare Moon appears and shatters them. In a flash of inspiration, Twilight realizes that each of her new friends represents one of the Elements of Harmony Honesty, Loyalty, Laughter, Generosity, and Kindness, and that she herself is the final piece, Magic. The magical power of the ponies friendship reverts Nightmare Moon to a repentant Princess Luna. Celestia reappears, reunites with her sister Princess Luna, and decrees that Twilight shall stay in Ponyville to continue studying the magic of friendship, much to the happiness of Twilight and her new friends.