The story itself looks a lot more promising then I thought it would be... but I want to spend this post to mostly gush over the visuals that I’ve seen in the trailer!
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know the overall style of the movie has been more then a little controversial inside the pony community, but I personally loved it from when I first saw the vectors almost a year or 2 ago, not only that I kinda prefer it to the show style. This is because I adored the finer lines Toon Boom had allowed them to achieve, not to mention the ears look almost 3D which I thought it was very clever how they achieved that with the lines they placed and the gradient they used to give the ears some depth.
Moving onto the trailer itself, the animation struck me as being buttery smooth: every head turn, every little movement the characters did looked and felt fluent and natural, it was really believable these characters where alive and I applaud the animators on pulling this off - even if these motions are unfinished they look unbelievably polished!
You know something is extremely well made both visually and animatedly if I start to wonder if they are using the old style “frame-by-frame animation”, I know they are using vectorised puppets inside Harmony, but the way each character movement was so fluent that it almost look like each frame was hand drawn and I personally loved it - it’s almost like they cared enough to “commission” everything properly! ^^
One more thing on the visual I want to point out is that throughout the trailer I felt the characters felt more... fleshy and alive as I swear I could see their body stretching and squashing as if they were in the real world. Also the film I feel is going to be less 2D and more 2.5D because I could saw the backgrounds looking 3D but shaded in 2D which gives a very nice effect. That is mainly the give away however along with the 3D objects in the world, I notice with camera pans - the rotation of a character was a lot more fluent then what I’ve seen equivalently done in the actual show (which is created in Adobe Flash/Animate), again this smooth camera pan effect gives an almost hand-drawn look to everything which I think looks cool!
Story-wise it looks interesting (SPOILER WARNING AHEAD) - A unicorn that seemingly got banished many moons ago has returned with a vengeance and is not best pleased to put it lightly (I can only imagine how painful having her horn snapped off like that would be), and naturally she plans to take over Equestria and once again the responsibility has fallen upon the mane 6 (Because Celestia knows the Royal Sisters can’t take care of this! XD), so Twilight and the others goes off around Equestria and beyond to set up alliances to prevent the corrupt unicorn from achieving her plan! It’s a good premise for the film, and it’s definitely has peaked my interest.
Overall I’m excited on seeing the final product and I can only hope the final film is going to be as good as the trailer here depicts. I’m interested to see why Rainbow Dash did a Rainboom as seen in the trailer: Personally I cannot wait to find out! So say say we all! 
