As I said earlier, I have a few important announcements regarding the second part of my animated trilogy based on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic called Project Shadowbox to give you for Christmas Eve.

First of all, I have to start with the most important of all. I am very proud to announce you that BaldDumboRat (The voice of Derpy Hooves) returns for this sequel.

On the topic of voice actors, GloryOfTheRainWings and Cougar MacDowall are also joining us for the project.

The audio itself is getting a lot of improvement, most notably with the balance. I got a lot of complains about how the BGM was just too loud and the music choice wasn’t the best. There won’t be a single theme from a video game in this. The audio synchronization is also done differently, there won’t be anymore the lip-sync problem from Thundercloud.

The improvement is not only with the audio, the animation itself is also improving and I’m very excited to announce you that Project Shadowbox will become the first MLP fan film released in 4K, it’s four times the pixels of the TV show, being in 1080p. This will however stay in 1080p on Newgrounds. The scenes are also saved in two pass 100Mbit/s H.264 video rather than single pass 80, so it should look a bit better.

I also made the switch to Adobe CC, but you shouldn’t see a big difference. It’s just that it got better performance and it’s finally in 64bit.

There is a lot of hand drawn content in this project, many backgrounds are completely original. I didn’t want to stay with only what the show did and I wanted to make something by myself.

The animation is also getting something that the show doesn’t even have, in Project Thundercloud I made sure not to mirror manes to avoid the problem of the Ambidextrous Sprite (This is becoming a technical problem for me with Vinyl Scratch), but now I’m doing the same for horns.

The film should be released this summer, and it should be around 17 minutes long. This will also be my last project to be released on Newgrounds, as I want to focus more on Youtube releases.

So this is all, I wish you all happy Holidays and a very Minty Christmas.

(I said it was going to be huge, but I didn’t expect it to be that much)