It's weird to see fan animation have better qualities then the show

I wish this had an ending. It is such a great story so far and no ending drives me crazy.

I think dinky is a filly who's close to the princcesses, and that it was about a 1000 years ago, when luna turned into Nightmare moon. Dinky had something powerfull hidden in her bow, the elements of harming. She saw luna turn into that monster, and ran after her. Mightmare moon recognized her, and must have still loved her, to try and save her when she fell. The bow untied and the element was atracted to her horn, but dinky is a pony with a horn that doesn't work right. Something went her, and her own attack backfired on her. She tried to free luna. For some unknown reason, luna turned back, or it could all be just a dream. Luna felt compassion for dinky, and they had the same problems in life.

did anyone elses face go from (^.^) to （・_・）after dinky's arms and legs just shattered off of her body?

Animation is crazy, you should be working for Hasbro's animation department.

I find the backgrounds to be stunning, actually. They're the strongest part from my point of view.

Luna's voice and Dinkie's sound like their voices should be switched. Luna's voice really sounds a bit young for her age, no offense. I feel like Luna’s voice is too high pitched, not quite like her majestic, low voice in the show. Of course I don’t expect anyone to sound the exact same as her, but I didn’t quite expect Luna to sound like she inhaled helium.

damn those backgrounds! I love when fan animations really work to show the interior of the castle cause I don't feel like we get that enough in the show, it's always so intriguing. :)

Holy cow those amazing backgrounds!

Hey peeps! fun fact, Minty Root is a excellent animator to work with.

"Whats more amazing fan animation snowdrop or dinkys destiny?" Oh no i can decide!

Good animation, but umm why was Dinky trying to attack Nightmare Moon? From what it seems Nightmare was trying to rescue her my saving her from plummeting to her doom, but ehh.

This was seriously one of the most creative and refreshing videos I have seen for this fandom in a long time. Tbh, I gave up trying to find one that sparked my interests. I am practically a Nightmare Moon/Luna worshipper, and finding an animation featuring said characters with any decent plot substance is disappointingly rare. This video stayed in my head for weeks after watching and I hope you'll reconsider its cancellation and continue.

I realize you all have been discouraged. I know there has been some negative response, some of which is justified, some of which has been blown out of proportion. But with each step of this project, things have improved. The first Project Thundercloud was clunky and plagued with technical problems and a nonsensical storyline. But then Part II cleaned up a lot, although it had its own fair share of problems and general cheesiness. This one was on the verge of something being really great. The animation, the style, the sound, and quite a lot of other things were a huge improvement. Sure the VA choice wasn't perfect for Luna and some parts of this were a little confusing, but its easily the best entry in the bunch. If you've really decided to cancel Part 2, then that's of course up to you. But I'd say you've provided an excellent demonstration of your skills as a creator and given us all a wonderful history of how your work has evolved. It would be a shame to see this chronicle end so suddenly.

I don't recall ever seeing this until now. It was totally worth it!

Oh My God just amazing !!! I want a part 2 please !

Aww man, I was hoping that the writing in this would be better than it is in the thundercloud, but it's just as, maybe more confusing... It still LOOKS spectacular, but sadly only on the surface. None of these characters have had the slightest introduction, so I don't even know why I should root or boo dinky... What even is the plot? I haven't even caught a clear glimpse of one besides "destiny"... I'm sure you guys could do better if there was more character development through mannerisms and interaction, because currently these characters don't seem... Real.

I love that you have Vietnamese subtitles XD

I'm with dinky at 1:42. What IS going on?! Nightmare moon on the moon with twilight as a princess?

I wathing this in 2020... And i'm still impessive about this animation, good work.

410 People are Hasbro's employees....

I think that this animation is wonderful and the idea for the story would have made a great series for a fan animation but that it is held back by a few major problems. Keep in mind that I have never made an animation before and that I know it's really hard but I just feel like I should try to talk about the good and bad parts of this animation in as un-bias of a manor as I can. This is going to be pretty long so don't say I didn't warn you. This animation starts off with Dinky Doo walking through the hallway of stained glass windows in the castle, and we are off to a good start. This walk down the hallway sets a good mood for this animation and we can see how hard the animator(s) worked on this. The backgrounds are perfect and they added a lot of small details that really go a long way in making the world around Dinky come to life, such as the flags in the background. Dinky gets to a door and tries to open it with her magic but fails, and story wise there is another plus. The story gets started quick, no filler or anything like in " Doubble Rainboom". Unfortunately this is where the problems with the animation start to show. The main problem here (I think) is that Dinky is a powerful magic user,but her horn spirals clockwise as opposed to most unicorn's horns that spiral counter clockwise, and this is a great idea. Not only does Dinky's disability sound reasonable and fit into the realm of the show, BUT, it gives a lot of people something to relate to. A lot of people have disabilities that prevent them from doing something that they love or that they would be talented at. But the animation here is really a problem. We don't learn until the END of the animation that this is the problem, and when we do learn it is explained to us with dialog. Animation is a very visual medium and you show, don't tell. You also need to explain what the main conflict is as early as possible, here having animation that just slightly varies from the show would have been a huge benefit. When Dinky tries to open the door you can see her using what looks to be very powerful magic but her horn 'glitches' and backfires on her. Here is the problem, the art style doesn't allow you to see that Dinky's horn is different. Yes it is kinda visible but it's not obvious enough. Most people, including me, don't pay attention to how the horn spirals so even though it looks like you tried to show that her horn was different it didn't work. Because of this people can't tell WHY her magic doesn't work. Dinky finally gets the door open and a small pink thing falls out. I have no idea what that's supposed to be and that's a problem, it never gets mentioned again and you never made it look like it was that important. Yes it is a bit nit-picky but you need to talk about things like that. When dinky looks out a window she see's that the sky is half day half night and she starts to freak out asking what's going on. Now we need to talk about the voice acting. The voice actors are very talented and you can tell they tried very hard when reading their lines to sound as much like the characters as possible, but their voices just don't match. The best way I've heard this complaint worded is that Dinky sounds like an adult and Luna sounds like a kid. I feel like the voice actors could have been switched. Luna has a nasally sounding voice and that would really fit Dinky, and Dinky's voice actor could always try to do Luna's voice. I don't expect the voices to fit the show perfectly but the casting could have definitely been better. Dinky finally see's Luna and asks her what's happening, and Luna flies away, so she goes running through the castle looking for her. Here is where I'm going to talk about a few other nit-picky problems with the animation. Dinky's bow sometimes doesn't look like it's attached to her head, rather that the bow is suspended in mid air above her and is just follows her. This is another really small issue that is extremely distracting once you notice it. Something else that bothers me is that when Dinky turns she turns very suddenly and there's no easing to it. Very small problems like that takes people out of the mood. If you can, in future projects, try to work on things like that. Dinky opens another door and finds Nightmare Moon standing in the middle of the room. She gets scared and runs away leading to another seen like the one where she was looking for Luna. It seems kind of repetitive, like there wasn't a long enough pause between the two scenes. I don't know what I would have done to fix it though so I won't count it as much of a problem. A lot of the same animation problems as before but in one case I found that Dinky's bow was completely missing. One thing that I loved about the scene though was the use of unusual camera angles. It shows that you really tried to do something different and unique and I LOVED it. However Dinky sometimes looks really awkward, as if the way she is running is not possible. It's an easy fix ,however, so try to work on it with future animations. Also that shot of Dinky running up the spiral staircase was absolutely amazing! Dinky ends up outside and falls from the top of the castle leading to more cool shots as she falls down, however there are problems with the animation here too. Nightmare looks stale when she's flying around the castle and what with all the small detail that you put in I really would have expected her animations to be better. She flies into Dinky and I'm really confused about what happened. It seems like Nightmare got hurt but It just looks awkward and the animation on Nightmare just gets more stale and choppy. Nightmare grabs Dinky with her magic and Dinky tries to fight her but her bow comes undone and the element of magic falls out. Again I feel like we could have seen the element of magic more at the beginning and that it could have been explained more. Dinky having the element of magic is just really confusing. The animation during this segment however is beautiful. The element falls but then starts levitating above Dinky's horn and it transforms into the crown Twilight had when she was the element of magic. Dinky tries to fight Nightmare using the element but her magic backfires again and she hits herself. It would have been nice to see her horn glitch out again but that's not a big deal. When she gets hit it cuts to black and we hear dialog from a flashback. Now, for the flashback I would have preferred it be animated instead of just dialog over a black screen. Apparently Dinky tried to pick up some kind of fragile object with her magic and broke it. Someone implied to be Derpy tells her that her magic is not mature enough yet. This could have been really emotional but the scene should have been animated. After the flashback we see that the element of magic made Dinky shatter like glass and parts of her body lay about on the ground. This is extremely creative and I love it. It shows how insecure Dinky is about her magic and relates to how she's failed with it before. It has the potential to be sad but it's just not. Maybe if we had seen more flashbacks of her messing up or something it would have been properly built up but unfortunately that just didn't happen with this animation. Luna ask Dinky about her worst fear and because I already talked about the voice acting I wont repeat myself here. Luna says it's a shame that a unicorn full of magic had to have a horn that didn't work right and she transports Dinky to the Celestial Plane. Luna tells Dinky about how she helps ponies face their insecurities by going into their nightmares or showing them their past or memories, but in Dinky's case this is not enough. Luna tells her that she can't help Dinky with her future because that realm belongs to her sister, and that makes a lot of sense. Celestia knew what Twilight's future was and Luna has shown Sweetie Bell parts of the past before so this is really plausible. Now lets talk about exposition. Luna should have told Dinky about the Celestial plane. Dinky's dialog is very awkward and unnatural sounding and there is no reason for Dinky to know what the Celestial plane is. Again small details like that can make or break an animation's overall quality and this just makes everything silly and awkward in a situation that should be serious. Luna tells Dinky that they are both similar because they both see the world differently and that really doesn't make much sense when you think about it. Luna see's the night differently than other ponies but Dinky doesn't see the world differently. If anything they both feel unappreciated. Now the ending is what makes me feel like this had the potential to be one of the best fan projects ever. Luna tells Dinky the only way to help her is to take her into her own story and prepares to show her how she became Nightmare Moon. You could have done so many good things with this ,and it makes me sad the project got canceled. I feel like you canceled it because some of the things didn't fit with the shows cannon but that's a horrible reason to stop working on such a great project. You can tell a story that doesn't fit within the realm of the show. That's why we have A.Us. Look at WarpOut's "Lullaby For A Princess." It shows something different than what the show gave us and it's wonderful. You shouldn't stop being creative just because an idea goes against cannon as long as there's a reason and there is a very good reason here. Again I've never made a fan project and I hope you're not offended by me talking about the flaws of this animation but I really feel there's a lot of lost potential here. I just hope you understand that I'm trying to critique you not insult you and I hope that something I said helps you to better yourself as an animator in the future. If you read through all of this, thanks.

Now that's the kind of animation we need. This could be a better spin off than Equestria Girls. Dinky should have her own adventures along with Derpy and the other ponies, that would be a good spin off show.

“Princess Luna, are you really nightmare moon” just hits hard it’s so sad how someone so calm and caring and beautiful. someone who only wanted to nurture and care for others because so corrupt because others would reject her love. now her identity is clouded now any episode that was luna based seems to be about her being nightmare moon it’s always mentioned it’s sad

Yup.. Thats mega weird. Luna sounds like a filly. Dinky sounds like a mare. Yup nope.

Two weeks old and found this recommended. Outstanding animation I've seen all month. I cannot wait for the next acts. Keep it up.

If you guys didnt notice, allllll of that was on a dreamscape mostly controlled or at least, slightly manipulated by, princess luna.

Mlp World:Only alicorns live over 1k Years Fanfic World:Everypony can live over 1k

Animation was superb but the voice acting could drastically use a bit of work.

Awesome! DESTINY time!

the animation in insanely good.

I'm beginning to think non of this will ever be continued

Gorgeous animation! Wow a lot of work went into shading and stuff. I loved all of the unusual downward and up facing shots. It really accentuated the dreamy feel. Excellent symbolism with Dinky shattering her legs. I love the fanon that she has a broken horn and that Celestia deals with the future for fillies. I'd love to see where this goes!

The music in this is BEAUTIFUL! As well as the art!

anyone who is not the owner of the crown harmonious element, when used will be repelled by the power of the element itself, this is a very important theorem in magic that not everyone know

Poor Luna, Dinky and Snowdrop? I'm crying

Hello I'm dinky, People call me stinky, I tri hard with my horn, But I just end up looking like corn, People say I'm inspirational, But some call me emotional, I am strong and I won't let them get in my way, They think I should pay, I won't change and keep on going because I am my own hero like my beautiful mum derpy.😄 Message: Don't let people get in your way even if your not happy with yourself just know there is a lot of people that love you and care about you.😁😁

as someone who can barely draw stickmen, i think this is gorgeous. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY GOOD, EVEN IF IT CAN'T BE PERFECT The fandom is becoming so elitist and critical these days that it sickens me. The season 1/2 fandom would NOT have complained about this so much. That's a fucking fact.

The sky at the beginning is BEAUTIFUL!!!

DAMN dude your skilld this was amazing i thoght this was the achul show even man good back grounds good voice work good animateing i do look ford to more of this its truley amazing

Hey, Minty Root! I love this and your animation in general. The stories you do have always been really fun to follow, and you and the voice actors do a great job! I fell in love with Project Thundercloud and am glad I'm still following your work. If you're satisfied with your projects and proud of them then don't worry; they're just the way it should be! I write a lot and know it's hard. But hang in there, I'm with you.

Why does luna sound younger than dinky? Also, why was this recommended for me? XD

The detail in the Castle in Canterlot, as well as the flying scenes, is amazing well done Minty

It's the middle of 2022, and I'm still waiting for the 1st episode of Dinky's Destiny...

This.. was confusing, and conflicted. Art was simply amazing, the backgrounds are incredible, the camera work moving through them was amazing. The characters... were hit and miss, sometimes great others looking just enough off to hit uncanny valley. mostly in their motions. But still overall good. The music.. also amazing. The voice acting... not so good. As many others have said, Luna sounded WAY to high pitched and young, especially compared to the actual foal there. And, rather dull as well. Little emotion, inflection just... not good. And the story... is the worst bit, mostly because "What story"? This was confusing, I have no idea what is going on, where half this stuff is coming from. Is this a sequel to the Thundercloud thing and it's mess of story issues? Art is amazing, story and voice acting, not so much.

Beautiful! Great job minty!

This cartoon had some spectacular shots!

1:31 *looks at moon* Woh... 2:55 Wooooohhhhhh... 4:13 WOOOOHHHHHH!!! OH WOOOHHHH!!! 4:53 *goes outside* OOOOHHHHH MYYY CELESTIAAAAAAAAA!!! 6:32 Oh...OH! Oh yea...Sweet... 7:14 Can I start fanboying over that Dinky is becoming more and more epic and were going to see old Equestria? 7:26 Awwww, COME ON!!! No, but really, this was amazing. I loved it so much. Can't wait for the next part.

I love this! beautifully done. However...WHY DID YOU CANCEL PART 2??????!!!!!!! >:(

this is a beautiful animation, it's smooth its calming it closely resembles the original drawings It's wonderful and I can appreciate how much time and effort this took. This is truly art, animations like this are my reason for becoming a youtuber. Thank you.

Being the music nerd I am, I thought I'd point out those amazing vocals in the beginning are in A minor. The same key that Luna's Future is in.

I remember watching this a long time ago. Thank you so much for the memories.

So what did I think? The music was pretty. The visuals were vibrant and enjoyable to look at. I didn't quite follow the plot, but this is only part 1, so I'm sure everything will make more sense once the series is finished. Though, your videos were always more on the artistic/abstract side, which isn't a bad thing. Part of me feels like the VA for Dinky and Luna should have traded places, because Dinky's voice sounded a bit too mature, and Luna's voice sound a bit too high and youthful. Maybe that's just me being weird, but I found it a little jarring. My only real complaint: did you have to do the audio in Audacity? I mean, you guys obviously have access to the Adobe Creative Suite in some form or another. Why not use Adobe Audition? I'm sure it would have been MUCH easier than dealing with Audacity.

I've been a "huge" fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Because everything in "FIM" look alot like Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends mix together. I would like to see more of Dinky's Destiny Part 2; or maybe a full movie, with permission from Hasbro. Keep up the good work, Minty Root! :-)

I love princess luna!💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜💙

I love the animation it's so smooth also love the backgrounds/audios and the effects so cool I can't wait for part 2 GJ :D

Wow, this was utterly fantastic!!! Just absolutely impressed! Excellent work :3333

Very cinematic and well made. The only problem is that luna's tail is in the wrong place. it should go more upper. 6:25 Good job Minty!

It's was amazing. I like the action of the movement when the pony moves.

How can a fan animation LITERALLY be better than the show. Is that RARE???

Please where is part 2? I can’t find it. Please🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️

I think that this is an amazing animation, and I for one, love the voices. I think Scribbler could have been an amazing candidate for Luna, but this is still an exceptionally amazing piece of artwork. Minty, thank you so much for the beautiful effort that you put into making this. I suppose that because someponies were extraordinarily rude when it came to expressing their opinions, I will have to imagine what the rest of the story is myself. I'm terribly sorry Minty. Thank you for what you have given us, and shame to those who dare to destroy what could have been an amazing series.

Assuming this is an excerpt of a dream sequence, hence some of the more abstract elements shown. Certainly intriguing anyway, and definitely an awesome bit of animation

can't wait for act 2 eeeekkkk so exciting. and to think if this show never happened we wouldn't have this wonderful community

5:56. WHAT HAPPENED TO LUNAS VOICE!!!

You did an excellent job on this, I love the visual effects and how smooth the animation is, although I would recommend giving Luna a deeper voice and adding in some sound effects, such as Dinky's running. Also, I'd like to ask, what is the title of the song in the intro? I realize you gave a source for it, but just the name of the creator is waaay too broad for me to find it.

man nine YEARS already

I remember this animation! it gives me mad "Lullaby for a princess" vibes.

dinky is cutest pony ever every second

The background are pretty the character animation is decent. But my question is this.. Why would you get a 13 YEAR OLD with a high pitched voice to voice LUNA!? And get someone with a mature voice to voice DINKY?! The acting was horrible on Jennabun's part and I follow her (I even gave her criticism on her voice reels and she deleted my comments, isn't she a peach?). This sounds so half assed that someone with little to no acting experience could be a better Luna. Don't read your lines, kid. Act.them.out. This is why you don't get CHILDREN to voice a character with a mature voice. You get them to voice a little kid (dinky)! But this is honestly Jennabun's worst performance, what exactly made her sit down and say "Hey! I can voice Luna!"? Or is it Minty Root saying "you sound like luna! omg!!" then casting her, not bothering to direct her? One word: Lazy. How many auditions did you go through before you though "Wow! This little kid sounds like an amazing Princess of the night!". I am a huge Luna fan and a former voice coach, it's not just the voice inaccuracy it's that I don't feel Luna when I hear Jennabun's voice, I feel a little school filly playing with dolls of Luna and Celestia. Voice Acting 2/10 (2 points for the voice actors who actually know how to act.) Animation 6/10 (For the stunning backgrounds) Music 7/10

I had two problems with this animation. The first was Luna's voice, it just threw me off. No offense. The second was how such a little filly could know such big words. Like jeez. Other than that it was a good animation. well done.

Nightmare Moon sounds like Darth Vader when she says "destiny".

People good news! We found derpys little sister!!!

Dear, Minty Root i'm so glad I found you because of Pikapetey. this is the first video I saw from you and i'm very impressed. there were only 3 things that the animation looked odd the rest was AWESOME. 4:08-4:12 the drop of the crown was off. In 5:37-5:42 the animation was slow played at 2 times speed it looked perfect. From 6:25-6:39 the Luna walking looks off I have no idea why. anyway i'm going to see more from your Channel. thanks for this great animation. everything else was great. thanks so much!

It’s been years and I’m no longer in the fandom but I still don’t even know what this story is about

this is amazing O_O the animation, colors, effects..everything!

wheres part 2? I really injoyed part 1 :)

This is a little bit confusing but it's so damn pretty!😅😅😅😅

This is Like Flashback Animation or Something, Because You know It's like Throwback where Twilight Sparkle Has already Born

This is amazing! I would love to see what happens next!

Me liking comments from five years ago

I think Princess Luna's voice is great. I always think it's amazing how well people can do the Royal Sisters' voices.

I loved this soo much. The animation was amazing and I felt a sort of Kingdom Hearts vibe while watching it.

This is why i subscribed

When's the next trailer coming Minty?

lol what the heck is going on, cannot piece together the story at all.... great animation though

I don't see why you people don't like this...it's pretty good. And besides, have you ever done better? :T

Man, I can't believe it's already been 7 years...

Very nice! The animation was beautiful and I loved all the background visuals. The voice acting...well....it was good, but the acting felt a little flat on both VAs. Jennabun sounded young, but for a 13 year old she did good. Can't wait for more!

2019 Holy shit man. I still love it x)

this is some really great looking stuff, a lot of the backgrounds look better than what we got on the show

I really hope this project doesn't die like manny other good, animations and fanfics... I love this!

this is so cute! i look forward to seeing more :)

Can someone explain to me what's going on?

whoa this is amazing......I love animation and in the future wish to do animations like this but man this is so amazing...

this is the best mlp animation i ever sen.

really good video Minty keep up the good work.

J'ai hâte de voir la suite ! ^ ^

2:12 Are there 2 lunas!? 3:12 No, thats Celestia on the moon!!! Get twilight and the rest! 4:55 Oh my god!!!!!!!!! Is she a statue!? Made out of stone!? Not a pony!?

This is some high quality fan film right here.