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I suppose that wasn't entirely unexpected. :)
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General Procrastination
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I ought to be working on my story outline, or on my Luna tutorial/star creation tutorials, but instead I'm wasting time making an animated gif of Pinkie Pie, clearly a good use of my time.
Ah well, I suppose that's just how creativity works sometimes. You have to follow along with the flow of whatever is currently inspiring you or you'll never get anything done.
And also video editing is a real pain in the patootie. Which might be a problem, if I had actually recorded more video. Which I haven't yet.
If I could just convince myself to follow my plan, I suspect I'd gain a lot more traction. Creativity doesn't always come easy; sometimes you
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I've been out of action for quite a bit longer than I would like. I haven't given up on the ponies, but I'm way, way farther behind than I'd like to be.
Currently simmering on the back-burner:
1. More vector tutorials on Luna. I will finish her, I swear it! I even figured out how to create the stars for her mane, but I forgot how I figured that out now. I have to go figure it out again and make a tutorial video quickly so I don't forget again. :)
2. Writing stuffs with ~deli73123 (https://www.deviantart.com/deli73123)
3. Watching more ponies! I've only seen the first two episodes of Season 4 so far, and I'm falling behind! I enjoyed the two episodes I have seen, so I'm h
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Inkscape Tutorial finally Complete!
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I got the last three edited and up!
Part 5 - Touchups and Body - http://youtu.be/otA9ga5Vmz8
Part 6 - Lower Mane and Tail - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2JtlYx_K7U
Part 7 - Cutie Mark, Cleanup, and Exporting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhhjspdKVdw
Hooray, it's all done!
It was a big learning experience, and I'm glad I did it. If anypony has any questions or wants me to demonstrate a particular technique, feel free to ask!
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Hey Dash!
You know how you said something about finding out about how to do the starts in Luna's hair but forgetting, well, if you can remember, can you tell me because I sort of need it fro a really complicated OC I recently made.
This one here.
I did some random request for fun and it came out so magnificent that I needed it to become an actual OC
They do look a bit more like snow than stars, don't they! Don't worry, it's actually not that hard to do if you know how! 
I dug through my old research on stars, and here's what I have (see below). Probably a good thing for me to do, because I needed to figure it out again anyway.
Look at this video, around the 11:43 mark, this is the video that first helped me to figure out how to do them:
screencasters.heathenx.org/wp-…
He likes to have stars with 5 corners, but pony stars look more like they have 4, so set Inkscape to use the 'star' tool, set 4 corners, the spoke ratio to .044, and draw a star.
Make sure you turn the fill ON and the stroke OFF for the object after you've drawn it.
You'll end up with what looks like a black X-shaped object with very sharp points.
Use Ctrl-Shift-C to turn it from an object into a path. Delete the four interior nodes near the center of the star to give the interior rounded edges.
At this point, you have something that could be used as a star by sizing it appropriately. The curves could be a little skewed though, making the star look slightly off center, so feel free to fix those if you feel like it.
If you hold down Ctrl, you can size the star appropriately and put it where you want. You'll also want to change the file to white.
You can blur the star to make it look more like the stars in the show via the 'Blur' slider on the 'Fill and Stroke' panel. Somewhere between 1 and 2.5 is probably sufficient for Blur.
Now, if you want to duplicate and create more stars quickly, go to Edit -> Clone -> Create Tiled Clones to pull up the cloning dialog. You can use this to create large clusters of stars with randomized sizes/orientations.
Do remember that blur is computationally hard for Inkscape to display, so I would highly recommend hiding the layer with the stars on it when you're not looking at them, or putting the stars in last.
Hope that helps! Not sure it's as useful without a video tutorial, but I tried!
I dug through my old research on stars, and here's what I have (see below). Probably a good thing for me to do, because I needed to figure it out again anyway.
Look at this video, around the 11:43 mark, this is the video that first helped me to figure out how to do them:
screencasters.heathenx.org/wp-…
He likes to have stars with 5 corners, but pony stars look more like they have 4, so set Inkscape to use the 'star' tool, set 4 corners, the spoke ratio to .044, and draw a star.
Make sure you turn the fill ON and the stroke OFF for the object after you've drawn it.
You'll end up with what looks like a black X-shaped object with very sharp points.
Use Ctrl-Shift-C to turn it from an object into a path. Delete the four interior nodes near the center of the star to give the interior rounded edges.
At this point, you have something that could be used as a star by sizing it appropriately. The curves could be a little skewed though, making the star look slightly off center, so feel free to fix those if you feel like it.
If you hold down Ctrl, you can size the star appropriately and put it where you want. You'll also want to change the file to white.
You can blur the star to make it look more like the stars in the show via the 'Blur' slider on the 'Fill and Stroke' panel. Somewhere between 1 and 2.5 is probably sufficient for Blur.
Now, if you want to duplicate and create more stars quickly, go to Edit -> Clone -> Create Tiled Clones to pull up the cloning dialog. You can use this to create large clusters of stars with randomized sizes/orientations.
Do remember that blur is computationally hard for Inkscape to display, so I would highly recommend hiding the layer with the stars on it when you're not looking at them, or putting the stars in last.
Hope that helps! Not sure it's as useful without a video tutorial, but I tried!
Okay, I've found that for my purposes it's small circles, but if this ever comes up I'll be sure to use this!
Thanks!!!! 
Sure thing!
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And by 'change the file to white,' I actually meant 'fill.' Silly typos.
Please give me something to write about; I'm so bored D=
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