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Published: 2014-01-04 02:32:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 36196; Favourites: 1594; Downloads: 1404
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"Equine, we've dealt with your kind before..."Twilight trying to spread friendship?
First piece uploaded in 2014! It did start in 2013, but ok. Lets start this year shall we?
I'm so wondering about lands outside of Equestria, like the Gryphon/Griffin Kingdoms or Saddle Arabia or anything really. This one was an idea I had back in 2012, picked it up again (primarily the cliff carvings part)
Ever since Twilight's wings I've also imagined her taking more global tasks now, becoming sort of an ambassador considering her a princess of friendship, spreading friendship to other civilizations.
Besides wanting to do a bit of Gryphon again, usually when I do that I end up making it part of my "First Contact War" Alt-MLP-Universe. Though this is more of a possible aftermath, decades after those events. Universe itself would be primarily the ancient times of Equestria. Oh well, this should be nice too right?
Made the Gryphon nice and big, kinda imagining him being a size compared to Gilda as Celestia is to Twilight... except more buff (or fluff)
So much stuff in this piece... so many layers to colours this, so many adjustments. I kept adding things. No regrets.
Approx time: 16 hours
Time Lapse: youtu.be/o1cMSDPmaEs
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very cool concept, and i love the sceneery
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Well ain't you a big fella?
I like this model of gryphon more than the boxy model you've used in the past.
Love the detail in this.
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Hurrah for more gryphons! Β That's really nice, I love the depth to this piece. One of these days I'm gonna get back to writing my own 'lets visit the gryphon lands' fanfic.
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Awesome. This deserves an epic, or at least an episode.
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This is one epic Pic by you Am, really impressing :3 I hope DHX/Hasbro will see this and design the griffon empire similar when we ever get there^^
Also i noticed that this piece is ratehr grey'ish than usual wich is not a bad thing, i really like it :3
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Love how you mad the Griffon big and gave him an intimidating stance, with open wings and all. Looks awesome!Β
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Your backgrounds and colouring keeps improving. Perspective work is great too.Β
Find this to be one of your best works to date.Β
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I'm really amazed that you are able to produce such amazing pieces as this in a mere sixteen hours. Really, look at all those details and the wonderful background - in addition to the characters, of course.
Love the carved stone faces on the mountains, BTW!
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incredible composition, body language and imagery !
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Thank you for recognizing that no Gryphon is complete without his or her ears.
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Damn awesome work... and only 16hours to do it? Wow
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The Gryphon doesn't look like an eldritch abomination, that odd for your detailed stuff.
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That is some truly Fantastic work mate.
The Color work and all the little Details is outstanding!
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I am curious what the ponies' relationship with the griffons are. Are they on good terms or are they fair weather friends? Something like that would certainly be worth exploring.
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Does that griffin has ears? O_O
Hey, still a great piece.
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Hehe yea, I wasn't sure which route I'd take. I've seen pieces with and pieces without ears. Which I hadn't realised before so it was fun to actually think about it and I decided to go with ears since my previous ones didn't. Adds a little layer to it hopefully, connecting their Bird and Feline parts together.
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Just seems strange to me a creature with an eagle head would have some, though some representation give them ears. And Gilda not having them I assume in MLP gryphons as a race wouldn't have them.
It's not a cannon char though, so it's not that important. Just my excessive attention for anatomy talking, doesn't depreciate the picture as a whole. You have quite the eye for landscapes.
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That land looks like New Zealand, which is pretty cool. What kind of cities do you think the Griffons have? Also, on the Equestria map, it says that Griffons lands lie directly East of Equestria. Wonder what you could make of that?
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Bit late reply of me.
There seem to be quite a bit of options for their city style. Keeping it basic there's already a the possibility of it being highly advance or more low tech or even primitive.
In this case I focused on making them use the environment to build their structures, carving things from stone. Going with the story of them having good body strength given their size and perhaps even nature.
Also part of the reason I'd love to see the show explore any outside land. If not the Gryphons, maybe Saddle Arabia or the Zebra's land with Zecora. They've already mixed a lot of buildings styles in Pony cities already
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I know, right? Thanks to Manehattan, I now have even less of an idea of Equestria's tech level than before!
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... 
This is going to be a running gag, isn't it.Β
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Fantastic Massive Dose of Awesome! (Yeah I like it!) Very well done!Β
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Your work more and more reminds me of Huussii.
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He must've been implanting his thoughts in me when he sits in my stream hehe
He makes awesome stuff and I can definitely see some similarities here and there
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