I was even more overwhelmed seeing everything there - the sound effects, the 3D assets that they added, the texturing to the characters. Upon seeing My Little Pony in its entirety, animation director Lean Lagonera couldn’t help but feel emotional. To celebrate its latest achievement, Top Draw Animation treated its employees to an advance screening of the film. Hopefully, there will be more opportunities not just for Top Draw but also for other studios in the Philippines to do something like this.” It’s testament to what we can do, and all we can hope for is that it’s not going to be the first.
Top Draw senior EVP Stella Dearing (who co-founded the studio with her husband, former Hanna-Barbera executive Wayne Dearing, in 1999) told The STAR, “With this movie, we’re trying to highlight Filipino talent. It took a crew of at least 70 people and a year to finish not only key animation, but also other production services like layout, background and rigging or the process of modeling characters for animation. The latter was commissioned by the My Little Pony franchise owner Hasbro, a US multinational toymaker that has expanded into gaming and entertainment.Ībout 80 percent of the film was made in the Philippines. Top Draw acquired the big-screen job being a longstanding outsourcing studio for the Vancouver-based DHX Media. It’s the first-ever feature film for the 19-year-old Ortigas-based animation company. The Filipino artistry is now on full-length display in the movie adaptation, which is on its second week of showing in cinemas. for all of the popular cartoon show’s seven seasons.
Unknown to many, the My Little Pony franchise, which has become a pop-culture phenomenon, especially after the 2010 series reboot My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, has been tapping the services of the homegrown animation studio Top Draw Animation, Inc. MANILA, Philippines - Filipino animators have worked their magic in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic series and the My Little Pony: The Movie.
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