I can hardly believe it myself, but I’ve finally finished this long-standing project of mine!
There’s already a thread on this forum where I shared work-in-progress updates and intermediate results: Get the moon. Animatic for animation short
Now, the short film is completely finished and uploaded to YouTube.
English subtitles are included—they were manually created and follow the original source precisely.
There’s also YouTube’s auto-generated dubbed audio, but it’s not great: it’s essentially a double translation—first I translated the original into Russian, and then YouTube translated my Russian version back into English.
Here is a video link. Enjoy watching!
Hey, congrats on getting it done! Not a fan of MLP franchise myself but I just like seeing people use Synfig. Gonna say that I have mixed feelings about backgrounds - they look nice, kind of like if they were done using acrylic paint, but somewhat out of style and the animation itself is, oof, pretty rough. Timings and tweening do need a lot of work.
The main goal of this project was to carry it through from start to finish while strictly following a proper production pipeline:
script → storyboard → dialogue voice recording → animatic → breaking down the entire timeline into individual shots → animating each shot → final editing → credits.
Character models and background asset creation happened somewhere after the storyboard but before actual animation began.
And I managed to stay remarkably close to this planned workflow!
Sticking to this structured approach meant I could always pick up right where I’d left off after any break. It created a kind of ratchet mechanism—the production wheel only turned in one direction. No matter how infrequently I returned to the project, or how little I accomplished during each session, that wheel still moved forward, even if just a tiny bit. And inevitably, it rolled all the way to completion.
