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Published: 2014-09-17 19:13:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 15011; Favourites: 865; Downloads: 614
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I think a royal place like Canterlot deserves to be a little brighter at night then just a few castle windows.
I never liked the idea of the entire city been inside the castle because judging by the way the show dose scale its going to be a very tight squeeze. I Personally like to imagine it spreads out across the mountain area and dips down in to private neighbourhoods with parks and lots of manor house. (Yes i have been over thinking this).
I am trying to bring my MLP art up to a very cinematic and epic level as someone who's been inspired by a lot of animation i want to start creating pieces that have a lot of depth and look like they be long in an animated film.
Until next deviation LATERS Bronies
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Speed painted in Photoshop CS6 with my Wacom Pro in 2 hours
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"Mommy, look! There's stars on that hill!"
"Those aren't stars, my dear. That's Canterlot."
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This has 756 upvotes on Derpibooru, and it deserves every. single. one of them!
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I was surprised at Sweet and Elite, having the whole city in there. These are rich people, which means they must also have mansions, big businesses, and let's not forget all the embassies. Surely Canterlot is a popular enough place to have sports teams. The place should be a metropolis.
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Looks like the beginning of an epic saga with adventure, danger, conspiracies, prophecies, tragedies, loads and loads of characters, story arcs and council meetings.
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"I want to start creating pieces that have a lot of depth and look like they belong in an animated film."
Well, I think you just did. Holy crap this is incredible! Everything from the pose to the position to the colors to even the title works perfectly! I could picture this being the big epic scene in the last words of a song.
At the beginning, the foal is tired and getting in her bed after a day out in slummy neighborhood. She starts to sing about life being hard down here, but then starts fantasizing about Canterlot, just up the mountain. Daydreams of her with child like expectations of what it would be like to be rich and living up there (or, if she's more modest, not rich, just dreaming of a better life). At the end of the song, the tempo slows down, view shift back to her in her bed singing in a longing voice, and her final note is her pressed up against the window in this scene, and the camera zooms above her head to a full view of just the castle. Then, the same view of the castle shifts to day, view goes back to the filly. She awakens and realizes she slept in for that important thing, and, somehow, in her being late or missing it, she somehow lands herself in a situation to get into the high life.
I think the song would be called "Just Up There", "Just Up the Mountain", "Up There".
I couldn't stop typing after I started. This all came from looking at your picture. It's wonderful.
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This looks beautiful. I love pictures with an athmosphere and yours has one. It gives me a feeling of nostalgia and happiness, remembering the big city lights when I was a kid. 
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Looking at night out the window of the castle kind of warmth and feeling of loneliness.
but it is beautifully
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Your imaginative headcanons produce lovely results, Jowybean. It combines cinematic and young intrigue wonderfully.
I'm eager to see what else you have lined up! Epic. ^^
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It's funny how often an image that sticks out while I'm browsing drawfriends on EqD turns out to be one of yours! The detail you've put into the window lights is amazing. The scale of real cities is so huge that it's difficult to imagine how Canterlot could fit on a mountainside. Perhaps it only has a population of 1000 or something.
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Sum day wittle twilight iz guna have her uwn caztle !
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Well, I actually think Celestia deliberately keeps Canterlot relatively dark by decree (little to no electric lighting even though it's shown to actually exist elsewhere). Why? Two words: Light pollution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_po…
She didn't need to be giving Luna/Nightmare Moon another reason to be pissed off.
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Oh, so I'm not the only one who has this feeling!
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"Twilight didn't seemed to be any different from the other unicorns when she first entered the academy. There were hundreds, if not thousands of ponies who had the same potential as Twilight Sparkle, and who have similar dreams or ambitions, and had the same capability and willingness to work hard to achieve greatness.
So why did only Twilight succeed?
The answer is simple: ultimately, she was lucky, instead of just being better.
She may be considered a prodigy, but genius and talent can be trained; she attracted the attention of Princess Celestia, but truth be told, any-pony could; and above all else, any-pony could be taught how to make friends. She was just in the right place and the right time to have these circumstances happen to her, gave her opportunities, and push her in the right directions, something that could happen to any-pony.
To suggest that she succeeds because she's special; whether that she's born to be better than anypony else, or she was destined to greatness, would raise... unfortunate implications, especially for ponies like us, now doomed to mediocrity."
--- Moondancer, Twilight Sparkle's classmate, when asked to comment on Twilight's spectacular success.
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A bit pessimistic, aren't we Moony?
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Moondancer, [Shrugs] "In the real world, some ponies are going to get lucky, some ponies are going to get hurt. You won't find any rhyme and reason to it, nor any justice. That's just life; the best we can do, is to live as well as this world would allow us to."
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^ Applause to your improvisation, sir. ~^
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Very welcome. I hadn't seen one of your writing tidbits in a while, and it's notably nice to find this.
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That's lovely! A breathtaking view indeed, and one can only imagine how marvellous it must've seemed to a filly who's sleeping in the royal castle for the first time.
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I can't tell if that is Filly Twilight looking at the castle from the Canterlot courtyard, or if she is seeing the castle from the Ponyville Library and that she just looks really small.
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The show's sense of scale is definitely all effed up; All of the buildings are much smaller on the outside, and if you could really see Ponyville from Canterlot, the whole country would only be twenty or thirty miles across.
This is an enormously cool picture.
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Depends on how high up the mountain Canterlot is. If Ponyville and the Everfree Forest are in a valley near the base of the mountain and Canterlot is placed high up the mountain, then the enhanced sight lines means Ponyville could be much farther away.
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Buildings looking bigger on the inside is a thing in most cartoons, I think.
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Really like this one, has a magical sort of atmosphere that kinda reminds me of classic disney stuff
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Wow this looks like something out of a studio ghibli production, incredible.
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Man, I absolutely love that design, and the childlike sense of wonder evoked in the way Twilight is gazing up on it.
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Magnificent!!! The details you did with Canterlot's light and buildings!
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That's a view epic enough to make a filly dreaming big. Very big.
Wonderful work
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I love the colours and the soft glow from the mountain.
Reminds me of those HDR photos of cities at night.
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Yeah, thats pretty much how I've always imagined Canterlot to work. But wow, that is one spectacular image, Twilight is the luckiest little filly.
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I just want to say I love your interpretation of Canterlot with it being more than a walled-off castle city. In my headcanon, such a manner of construct would quickly lead to gentrification... which, given the abundance of nobleponies in the show, is probably the case. So not only is your rendition beautiful in my opinion- it also makes more sense from a civic design standpoint. ^^
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YES I LOVE THIS
BEAUTIFUL INTERPRETATION OF THE CITY
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Of all of the varying portrayals of Canterlot I've seen, I think this one is my new favorite.
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I flipping love it. Them lights. That city structure. Great thinking here, and fine execution of the idea!
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Oh my gawd. Nighttime Canterlot has never looked so awesome.
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