My Little Pony G3 (2002)

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**My Little Pony G3** is the original Canadian-American CGI animated short film that was released in October 2002 at MIPCOM 2002 that was served as an original television pilot for the My Little Pony G3 franchise.
It only airs in Canada on October 2002 on Treehouse TV. The pilot presentation was also a bonus episode on the Canadian VHS and DVD of A Very Minty Christmas, alongside with the bonus episode on the American VHS and DVD called Dancing in the Clouds.

The television pilot was 30 minute animation done in LightWave 3D, Discreet 3ds Max, Messiah, Alias Wavefront Maya, Kaydara MotionBuilder, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Video Toaster, Avid DS, RealFlow, Discreet Logic Flame, Discreet Logic Inferno, Discreet Logic Lustre, Discreet Logic Smoke, and Butterfly Net Render that is the lead-in to the prototype 2D animated preview of A Charming Birthday which was later released in September 10, 2003 on VHS from Mervyn's.

In Mini Movies, the television pilot has finally premiered in the United States on November 2002 on Playhouse Disney in-between programs. This is the first time that the channel aired the show.

## History

In October 2002, a 30-minute television pilot was created for the series. Unlike the main video series, which was animated by SD Entertainment, the television pilot was animated by EnSky Studios and produced by DKP Effects. The television pilot only uses early CGI animation instead of the video series' traditional animation itself, and had more simplistic sets and new characters to appear later in the toy line series.

## Summary

MIPCOM released a television pilot in October 2002 animated by EnSky Studios and produced by DKP Effects, and SPARX Animation Studios that was set to the early euro-dance version of the My Little Pony G3 music and the early rock-n-roll version of the My Little Pony Theme Song to promote the early TV commercials that they're going to be on television during the TV channel's commercial breaks.

The television pilot already showed a bunch of early 3D animation techniques, though at the time that early 3D animation techniques were made by Sean Maynard for the LightWave 3D software. This television pilot won the 2002 Emmy Awards.

It featured the main My Little Pony G3 characters with early character designs including Pinkie Pie, Minty, Rainbow Dash, Sunny Daze, Wysteria, Razzaroo, Sparkleworks, Sweetberry, Kimono, and Cotton Candy, with the early secondary characters, (Candy Cane, Spring Fever, Snowflake, and Waterfire), and the early supporting characters, (Pink Sunsparkle, Strawberry Swirl, Rainbow Flash, Tink-a-Tink-a-Too, Bumblesweet, Cupcake, Toola-Roola, and Cherry Blossom) going on the amazing adventures in Ponyville featured later in the early themes.

## Description

The five little ponies in Ponyville are filled with excitement getting ready for Kimono's big birthday surprise party as they're celebrating friendship and laughter. But things don't happen...in fact, they don't know why how to make charm bracelets for her big birthday surprise party. Join Pinkie Pie the leader, Minty the clumsiest, Rainbow Dash the brightest, Sunny Daze the sportiest, and Wysteria the prettiest with their five best friends, Razzaroo the nicest, Sparkleworks the happiest, Sweetberry the sweetest, Kimono the wisest, and Cotton Candy the cutest on these high-flying adventures of teamwork, friendship, laughter, and love! – MIPCOM 2002

## Plot

In Part 1, the title card comes up on a daytime sky background and Razzaroo serves as the narrator for this early mini movie plot and takes us into the characters as they play hopscotch. Minty gets very clumsy and ends up taking a pile of pottery on her head. Unfortunately, everyone else's applause, causes her to lose all but the green one. The group head inside Cotton Candy Cafe where Sweetberry is loading up a delicious cake behind Cotton Candy. Enough cherries are piled on and the top portion falls on Cotton Candy's head, leaving Cotton Candy to consume a cherry that ends up on her nose. However, their biggest task is yet to come. Everyone but Kimono, the wisest pony in the land, have been surprised on their birthday.

In Part 2, The ponies each suggest making charm bracelets but the more they add, the more upset Razzaroo becomes. Worse still, none of them can decide what charm bracelet Kimono should wear first so they decide to have one of them ask Kimono what to do without revealing exactly why. Everyone but Minty backs away, leaving her to take on the challenge. Minty does her best and uses a welcome sign as the reason for their dilemma. It takes Kimono a bit to finally understand the situation but suggests they each add their own personal touch to the "welcome sign". Minty heads off to tell everyone the news. After a bit of discussion, the ponies realize that they're going to make a single charm bracelet with a charm from each of them. Having solved their problem, the ponies celebrate with laughter and high-fives before topping it off with a big pyramid featuring Minty and Rainbow Dash at the top.

In Part 3, Minty goes out to get Kimono but it makes the balloon ride less than smooth. They arrive at the castle but no one seems to know they're here as Minty tries tapping twice on the steps to no avail. Finally, she yells loudly enough for the door to open, yielding a big red carpet and a cart with a cake. Kimono has been surprised and the giant charms were used on the castle as well. Additionally, the charm bracelet is one of Kimono's presents that will treasure them always and dives into the birthday cake, allowing Razzaroo to finally put photos into place in her birthday book as the pilot presentation ends happily while the credits roll with the last part of the credits, such as the cooperation productions and the software productions with the copyright date of the pilot presentation.

## Characters

### Main Characters

* Razzaroo (voiced by and Jillian Michaels)

*"Hi! I'm Razzaroo. I can hardly believe Kimono's special day is finally here: it's her big birthday party! Tonight, all of my friends are coming over for Kimono's big birthday party, and I can't wait! I'm making a list of all the fun treats she wants for her big birthday party... it's sure to be a blast!"*
*"Remember, keep playing and learning, and you'll grow up to be happy, healthy, and strong! Bye bye!"*
Body Color: Mauve
Hair Color: Turquoise blue, Hot pink and White
Eye Color: Capri
Symbol: Blue parcel tied with pink ribbons
* Pinkie Pie (voiced by Janyse Jaud)

*"This is Pinkie Pie. Pinkie Pie knows a lot about a lot of things. Like on her birthday, we all got a lesson in how to properly blow up and tie off a balloon. A good tip, but since we already knew how, we pretended we didn’t. After all, it was her birthday."*
Body Color: Hot pink
Hair Color: Light hot pink
Eye Color: Capri
Symbol: Two sky blue balloons and one sunshine yellow balloon
* Minty (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain)

*"Minty is our green machine. She likes green bubble baths, cucumbers on her pizza, and all kinds of green candy. On her birthday, while we slept, she painted the castle green, of course!"*
Body Color: Spring green
Hair Color: Light hot pink
Eye Color: Hot pink
Symbol: Three spring green and hot pink mints
* Rainbow Dash (voiced by Venus Terzo)

*"Introducing the one, the only, Rainbow Dash. Yes, yes, yes, Rainbow Dash does everything in a big, big, big way. On her birthday, she announced the arrival of a new rainbow. We all waited for it to appear, but instead she came to the party with a rainbow wrapped around her head like a ribbon!"*
Body Color: Capri
Hair Color: Magenta / Amber / Sunshine yellow / Kiwi green mane and Turquoise blue / Magenta / Violet tail
Eye Color: Violet
Symbol: Rainbow between two clouds
* Sunny Daze (voiced by and Adrienne Carter)

*"Sunny Daze loves to surf, ski, and play ball. On her birthday, she did more pony somersaults than any of us while drinking lemonade! Yes, yes, yes, that’s fun in the sun!"*
Body Color: White
Hair Color: Sunshine yellow, Magenta, Amber and Violet
Eye Color: Violet
Symbol: Amber and magenta sun with violet swirls
* Wysteria (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain)

*"We love to be around Wysteria. And Wysteria loves to be around flowers! Even at her birthday picnic, she picked wild flowers. Then a bee picked her nose. No, that didn’t come out right. A bee landed on her nose. Luckily, the bee just wanted her flower, which Wysteria was happy to hand over."*
Body Color: Violet
Hair Color: Amethyst purple, White and Hot pink
Eye Color: Spring green
Symbol: Wisteria flowers
* Sparkleworks (voiced by Venus Terzo)

*"Sparkleworks is always amazing. A bit glitzy, but always amazing. On her birthday, she coated the entire town with glitter! Oh, it was beautiful, but what a mess. I’m still shaking glitter out of my hair."*
Body Color: Amber
Hair Color: Magenta
Eye Color: Indigo
Symbol: Fireworks
* Sweetberry (voiced by Kathleen Barr)

*"Ah, our sweet Sweetberry. Sweetberry’s favorite thing is to make sweet treats—from flour, of course! Unfortunately, they aren’t always yummy, like the one and only time she let Minty help and they created a blueberry-broccoli pie. You know Minty. It had to be green, of course!"*
Body Color: Red-violet
Hair Color: Violet and Spring green (with a White stripe)
Eye Color: Capri
Symbol: Two strawberries and white flower
* Kimono (voiced by Kathleen Barr)

*"This is Kimono, the wisest pony in the land. Kimono is the keeper of all precious pony legend and lore. She is, of course, very smart, and up until now, very hard to surprise."*
*"Yes, yes, yes, it was a charming—and big—birthday after all!"*
Body Color: Orchid
Hair Color: Violet
Eye Color: Kiwi green
Symbol: Two sunshine yellow Japanese lanterns
* Cotton Candy (voiced by Kelly Sheridan)

*"Cotton Candy is our official storyteller, and she runs the cleverly-named Cotton Candy Café. Her birthday present to her was easy—we just listened to her talk all day long!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Turquoise blue, Hot pink and White
Eye Color: Turquoise blue
Symbol: White cotton candy on kiwi green stick
### Secondary Characters

* Candy Cane (voiced by Chiara Zanni)

*"This is our best friend Candy Cane. Candy Cane just loves the holidays, because her favorite thing in the world is to give presents to all of her friends. And her gifts are always extra-special, because she makes them all by herself!"*
Body Color: White
Hair Color: Scarlet and White
Eye Colour: Spring green
Symbol: Candy cane and holly
* Spring Fever (voiced by Nicole Bouma)

*"This is our best friend Spring Fever. Spring Fever likes anything new. She's always the first to try a new recipe, and the first to wear the latest fashions! She loves to see new flowers peeking out from under the snow, and hear baby birds singing in their nests. But most of all, she loves to make new friends!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Hot pink, Kiwi green and Sunshine yellow
Eye Color: Kiwi green
Symbol: Group of violet and sunshine yellow flowers
* Snowflake (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse)

*"This is our best friend Snowflake. All winter long, you can be sure to find Snowflake in her favorite place, the skating pond! After she practices her fancy flips and jumps she gives lessons to the younger ponies so they can put on an ice show for their friends."*
Body Color: Capri
Hair Colour: White, Violet and Turquoise blue
Eye Color: Turquoise blue
Symbol: Turquoise blue snowflake
* Waterfire (voiced by Kelly Metzger)

*"This is our best friend Waterfire. This quiet pony always brings a big stack of books to the beach. She doesn't get to read much, though, because all her friends want her to watch their daring dives underwater!"*
Body Color: Turquoise blue
Hair Color: Red-orange
Eye Color: Capri
Symbol: Fire over water
### Supporting Characters

* Pink Sunsparkle (voiced by Chantal Strand)

*"This is our best friend Pink Sunsparkle. Pink Sunsparkle is the youngest and tiniest pony in Ponyville. The other ponies are like big sisters to her, and she always wants to follow them on their adventures. She’d never run too far from the Celebration Castle, though, because this is where all the ponies gather to play and plan exciting parties!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Sunshine yellow, Hot pink, Amber and Violet
Eye Color: Turquoise blue
Symbol: Turquoise blue heart with amber and hot pink 'sparkle'
* Strawberry Swirl (voiced by Britt McKillip)

*"This is our best friend Strawberry Swirl. More than anything in the world, Strawberry Swirl loves to play hostess! She has a party at her house every day, and always dresses up for the event with beautiful jewels and ribbons!"*
Body Color: White
Hair Color: Magenta
Eye Color: Magenta
Symbol: Two magenta strawberries and three magenta swirls
* Rainbow Flash (voiced by Nicole Bouma)

*"This is our best friend Rainbow Flash. Rainbow Flash is always on the move, and she makes sure to look her best wherever she goes! Before a big event, you can find her at the Celebration Salon, getting her ribbons and bows added to a fancy new hairdo!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Amber, Hot pink, Violet and Sunshine yellow mane and Hot pink and Violet tail
Eye Color: Rainbow
Symbol: Sun poking out behind cloud with rainbow above
* Tink-a-Tink-a-Too (voiced by Chantal Strand)

*"This is our best friend Tink-a-Tink-a-Too. This pretty pony always has a smile on her face...and she makes everyone else smile too! Tink-a-Tink-a-Too loves to surprise her friends with cards and little gifts, just to let them know she is thinking about them!"*
Body Color: Violet
Hair Color: Turquoise blue, Hot pink and Amethyst purple
Eye Color: Indigo
Symbol: Two turquoise blue bells tied with hot pink ribbon
* Bumblesweet (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain)

*"This is our best friend Bumblesweet. Everybody says Bumblesweet is just as sweet as honey - and they're right! She likes to make sweet things to eat, too - like fudge and jellybeans and rainbow-colored taffy! No wonder her friends like to drop by and see what's cooking!"*
Body Color: Sunshine yellow
Hair Color: Amber
Eye Color: Kiwi green
Symbol: Bees and a honey jar
* Cupcake (voiced by Maryke Hendrikse)

*"This is our best friend Cupcake. True to her name, Cupcake just loves to eat cupcakes! She bakes them all the time and puts a different colored frosting on every one! Cupcake also loves to play hide-and-seek - but she has to be careful, or her giggling will give her away!"*
Body Color: Light hot pink
Hair Color: Sunshine yellow
Eye Color: Capri
Symbol: Three cupcakes on a capri background
* Toola-Roola (voiced by Chiara Zanni)

*"This is our best friend Toola-Roola. Toola-Roola is one pony who's always in motion! Almost every day she can be found in Pony Park, doing lots of cartwheels. And her favorite activity is twirling - 'round and 'round in dizzy circles, 'til she falls to the ground laughing!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Turquoise blue, White and Violet
Eye Color: Indigo
Symbol: Turquoise blue swirls and three capri hearts
* Cherry Blossom (voiced by Nicole Bouma)

*"This is our best friend Cherry Blossom. Cherry Blossom’s parties are especially fun, because she has them at all kinds of crazy times! Last week she threw a hot chocolate-and-marshmallow party at midnight. This week it's a five o'clock rise-and-shine-for-breakfast bash!"*
Body Color: Magenta
Hair Color: Light hot pink, Hot pink and Violet
Eye Color: Kiwi green
Symbol: Cherry blossom branch
## Credits

* Cooperation productions: CinéGroupe, Ellipsanime, NewTek, Discreet, Alias Wavefront, Kaydara, Adobe, Avid Technology, Next Limit, Liquid Dream Solutions, Hasbro, SD Entertainment, Fat Rock Entertainment
* Software productions: LightWave 3D, Discreet 3ds Max, Messiah, Alias Wavefront Maya, Kaydara MotionBuilder, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, RealFlow, Discreet Logic Flame, Discreet Logic Inferno, Discreet Logic Lustre, Video Toaster, Avid DS, Discreet Logic Smoke, Butterfly Net Render
* Produced by: DKP Effects, EnSky Studios, SPARX Animation Studios; with the participation of NFB and CNC

©︎ 2002 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

## Screenshots

"Ooh! A butterfly! Achoo!""Hey! Come in, everyone!""Let's go play!""It's so nice to see you!""Wow! It's so beautiful!""Hey! It's you!"
## Theme Song

*My Little Pony, My Little Pony.*

*Race you to the Cotton Candy Cafe.*

*My Little Pony, My Little Pony.*

*The sweetest place for us to play.*

*Treats we are sharing with friendship and caring.*

*We'll never be apart.*

*My Little Pony, My Little Pony.*

*You'll always be in my heart.*

## Trivia

* The CGI animation made in LightWave 3D software is very cute and adorable, wonderful and appealing, even for 2002 standards.
* Adorable character designs.
* Likable characters like Pinkie Pie, Minty, Rainbow Dash, Sunny Daze, Wysteria, Kimono, Sparkleworks, Sweetberry, and Cotton Candy.
* The background designs are creative and well-modeled into 3D.
* Pinkie Pie and Minty have a heartwarming chemistry.
* Nice story and plot.
* Awesome theme song, which is another good take of the classic MLP theme.
* Amazing music and soundtrack.
* The narration is interesting, especially Razzaroo's dialogue.
* There's are good messages and lessons to teach kids about not judging other people by their attention to a bad person.
* The television pilot was animated by EnSky Studios and produced by DKP Effects, most widely known as the production of the Canadian children's television shows, *Smart Planet Advance*, *The World of Happy Planet*, *Bailey's Big Backyard*, and *The Monkeydoos*.
* Info on this television pilot is incredibly rare, to the point where it is currently unknown when this television pilot was made, the only proof of this television pilot is being from the various clips on Dailymotion. Judging by the only clips that they're found on Dailymotion, it is most likely that the ponies are going on the amazing adventures in Ponyville.

## Goofs/Errors

* The CGI animation, while cute and adorable, looks kinda creepy and sorta stiff like animation errors and bland graphics in some scenes, here and there.
* Pinkie Pie is a bit of a Mary-Sue.
* Kimono's body is colored orchid because her hair is colored violet.
* Sweetberry having her body being colored red-violet.
* The character designs of the G3 ponies had anime eyes and wide smiley mouths in the early CGI animated television pilot, but they're usually made in traditional animation with different eyes and different mouths (unless you can count on the early CGI animation techniques).
* The CGI animation of the G3 ponies are prototyped that looked like an old PC CD-ROM game in the early CGI animated television pilot, but they're usually made in traditional animation with adorable character designs (unless you can count on the early CGI animation techniques).

## Reception

The television pilot has received mixed to very negative reviews, critics citing the poor and rigged CGI animation and very weak story-lines, but having praise for the Canadian voice cast from BLT Productions, particularly Jillian Michaels (Razzaroo), Janyse Jaud (Pinkie Pie), Tabitha St. Germain (Minty and Wysteria), Venus Terzo (Rainbow Dash and Sparkleworks), Adrienne Carter (Sunny Daze), Kathleen Barr (Kimono and Sweetberry), and Kelly Sheridan (Cotton Candy).