Used and Unused Assets

[Lord LunaEquie is me]

So, in light of needing to make a few cards missing from my collection that have come out since my big printing adventure, I was briefly rooting around the card art repository, and I noticed a few things.

The first, is that there are completed but unused art, such as for a goal called Baka Kawaii Kissu (which obviously was meant for Weeabu Paradaisu), and that I'd love to make those into cards, probably with some help again.

The second thing I noticed was that, in cross-referencing with the text-only card database, that at least a few of these unused art pieces have been made into cards, most notably Cat Burglar Scootaloo and Con Mare Sweetie Belle in an expansion called Cutie Mark Criminals.

Now, of course I'm curious where these expansions can be found, but mostly I want to ask if anyone had done any cross-referencing as to what all art has remained unused? If no one has, I might embark on that quest myself, but I don't want to put that much work into something if it's already been done.

[N.A. Larson]

A lot of that artwork is from private commissions HPG did back in the day. Whenever we find such a card, we add it to the database. The only way to find out if an artwork is ACTUALLY unused is to ask HPG.

...Which I did for Baka Kawaii Kissu, because I've been thinking about that one myself! 😜 Based on the art style, I think it was actually meant to be part of the Cherry Blossoms Under Hoof fic from Core Deck. I would put that art on a Ship card and give it a title more reflective of the scene, like "Romantic Rivals" or just "Rivals". The way I see it, Dash and Trixie are both trying to capture the heart of the same pony (the one Dash is talking to on Tsundere Rainbow Dash), and in this scene, Trixie has been waiting in Dash's path to tell her she has no chance because Trixie is prettier/refined/richer than she is (throw in a Fufufu or an Ohoho for good measure). I haven't watched anime in a long time, so I'm open to suggestions with the flavor text/title. This card's been on the back burner for a while, but since you also have an interest, let's revive it.

Another one I'm working on is the unused Fluffle Puff art (also going on a Ship card), which I asked Fluffy Mixer about at BronyCon, which reminds me I need to get in touch with him to see if he has an idea for flavor text.

Oh, and Cutie Mark Criminals was made by Preston Moore (‪@TailsFox88‬ on Twitter).

[Lord LunaEquie is me]

I guess I'll see about cross-referencing the material, then. I'll let you know what I find. I know at least Trick Candle still checks the Horrible People email, because last year I got a same-day response when I was asking about the Shipwrecker arts.

As to making Baka Kawaii Kissu into a card, I consider myself to have watched a fair bit of anime, but I have a hard time even understanding the concept of "weeabu", so I can't speak in ani-meme or whatever you'd call it. Making it into a ship card does sound like a good idea, though, because I can't get a feel right away for what kind of goal it would be, unlike with, say, Blood And Shadows.

[N.A. Larson]

Blood and Shadows is one I'd like to know if it ever made into a card. I could see it being a Kefentse x Celestia or OC x Celestia Goal (or break up an OC with Celestia and replace it with Kefentse), but I could also see it being a Ship with the caption Pixel Prism gave it back when she posted it on Tumblr: *Slurp, slurp*

[Lord LunaEquie is me]

Went through all the goals... Gonna head off to bed now. Here's what I've found so far; you can look through these if you want, if you feel you would recognize any that weren't in the spreadsheet of all the cards.

OHGODWHYDOSPOILERSNOTWORKEVERYTHINGISBROKENHELP (I will try to format this later) Formatted, but good god this table system is awful.

Name	Found under	Finished/Sketch?	url
Big Mac is Big Mackin'	card	early version, no background	here
Blood and Shadows	card	complete	here
Defanged Chrysalis	card	sketch, became Chryssie	here
A Beautiful Symphony	goal	sketch	here
A Dragon's Honor	goal	sketch	here
An Awful Lot of Running	goal	finished	here
Background Pony Party	goal	finished	here
Baka Kawaii Kissu	goal	finished	here
Beautiful Quartet	goal	finished	here
Beware the Groove	goal	early version	here
But I Thought You Wanted Whining	goal	finished	here
Contemporaries	goal	finished	here
Cupcakes	goal	finished, (from unfinished It's Practically Canon expansion)	here
Family Appreciation Day	goal	early version	here
Grand Theft Waifu	goal	finished	here
Incur Leekfish's Wrath	goal	finished	here
It's Always The Quiet Ones	goal	sketch	here
Kiss and Make Chaos	goal	sketch	here
Leave the Box	goal	finished	here
Leave the Box (Zalgo version)	goal	finished	here
My Waifu	goal	finished, early version	here
No Fate But What You Make	goal	sketch	here
Now It's A Party	goal	sketch of Ain't No Party Like a Pinkie Pie Party	here
Oh Caramel	goal	sketch	here
Oh the Places You'll Go	goal	finished	here
Patter	goal	sketch	here
Personal Training Session	goal	sketch	here
Power and More Power	goal	sketch	here
Princest	goal	sketch	here
Retcon	goal	sketch, looks like an early version of Now Kiss	here
So Many Ponies	goal	finished	here
The Doctorderpy	goal	sketch	here
The Fun Has Been Doubled	goal	sketch	here
The Sage From the Past (sketch)	goal	sketch	here
The Sage From the Past (finished)	goal	finished	here
Under the Table	goal	finished	here
Will It Fit	goal	finished	here
Wizard's Duel	goal	finished	here
You Are Amongst Royalty	goal	sketch	here

[N.A. Larson]

I don't get it. I thought you were looking for unused, complete art? Also, a couple of these are in the database.

[Lord LunaEquie is me]

I mean, if I make or have someone make a card, I definitely want finished art, but my main purpose here was to go through the ENTIRE database to see what wasn't used, so that it becomes a known quantity (or whatever the proper term is).

I definitely missed Cutie Mark Crusaders Matchmakers because I was only looking through the goals, when the art got put on a ship, but after a while I just wasn't being super observant; as long as I didn't recognize the art (and it didn't show up after a CTRL+F), it went in the list.

That said, I'm not surprised that I missed a few in the text database, and I'd be grateful to anyone able to whittle down the list which I've already pulled out. After that, then I'll see about contacting Horrible People to see if they can confirm usage of the (hopefully only a handful of remaining unclaimed art).

I'll be tackling the Ships next, because that's the smaller stack and I've already got five art from Goals or Actions that became Ships.

[Lord LunaEquie is me]

Well, ships are done. 2/3 of the way through the master folder now. Well, considering the size of the Ponies pile maybe more like 5/8. Ponies, too, so the master folder is all done.

Name	Found under	Finished/Sketch?	url
Chemistry Lab Experiment	ship	sketch, early idea for Chemistry Lab Explosion!	here
Extra Credit	ship	finished	here
Freaky Friday	ship	rough version, no background	here
On Probation	ship	sketch	here
Rush Week	ship	finished, art for the photo in Rush Week	here
Uprising Against the Robot Uprising	ship	finished	here
Wacky Tragic Circumstances	ship	finished, early version of Wacky Tragic Circumstances	here
Cheese Sandwich	pony	finished	here
Fashion Forward Pound Cake	pony	sketch	here
Flufflepuff	pony	finished, different art than the Fluffle Puff card	here
Flutter*****	pony	finished	here
I'm So Alone Twilight Sparkle	pony	finished	here
Musical Mischief Mando	pony	finished	here
Rebel Without a Cause Scootaloo	pony	sketch	here
Shrekicorn	pony	finished, OHGODWHY	here
Sonic the Hedgehog	pony	finished, GOODGODNO	here
Super Diva Sweetie Belle	pony	sketch	here