King Sombra & The Crystal Empire 10th Anniversary Art Event

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Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Champion - Led the charge of major battles for the New Lunar Republic, bringing swift and crushing defeat to the forces of the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
Artist -
Non-Fungible Trixie -

Prog rock pony
I haven’t decided exactly what to draw yet. I’m tempted to just upload a picture of Sombra asking us “remember when I was the worst villain in MLP?” (but now The Storm King, The Pony of Shadows, and every EqG villain apart from the Dazzlings are worse) but that’s just asking to start shit (but at least I would have drawn something instead of just doing an image macro).
If anyone wants to know how to make your own crystal textures the easy way (assuming you have GIMP installed):
  1. Set the background color to a mid grey color like #7f7f7f for the highest color variation.
  2. Open the “Mosaic” filter (under Filters > “Distorts”). Leave the tile geometry as Hexagons.
  3. Set the Tile size to somewhere around 50-70 Update: this depends on the image size. If it’s something high like 3840x2160, use a larger size like 120.
  4. Set the Tile neatness to somewhere around 0.400-0.600
  5. Set the color variation to the max value.
  6. To get rid of the lines, set the Tile height to the minimum value and the joints and light color to whatever will blend in with the background (if the background color is white, make the joint and light color white), then use the “Median Blur” filter (under Filters > “Blur”).
To apply these onto a pony:
  1. Create a new file (or just use the file with the crystal texture or the pony you want to crystalize) and insert the pony you want to crystalize and the texture you just created. The texture should be the top layer.
  2. Use the selection tool to select the entire area outside of your pony, then switch to the layer with the crystal texture and press delete. This removes the background.
  3. Break up the texture into separate layers for the eyes, the mane, and the rest of the body. This step is optional though the eyes should NOT be crystalized.
  4. Set the opacity of the top layer (the texture) to 15% for the body, around 5-15% for the mane, and 0% for the eyes.
  5. You could also use the “Colorize” tool (under Colors) to change the color of the crystals so it could better blend with darker ponies, but this is optional.
If you’re using anything else, I can’t help you. But you can probably figure something out or just use @Melisareb’s texture.
Ciaran
ラ・ゼッタ - For supporting the site
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

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Chrysalis is always allowed.
Thank you! I’ve been smashing my face against tile sizes and not getting the shimmer I wanted. Instead of Crystal Ponies it felt like I was making Amish Quilt Ponies.
Speaking of which, is there a need for folks to edit on a “Crystal Look” for folks who don’t have access to, or experience with, those kinds of tools?
If someone has a finished character (no background seems like the easiest way to try to do this) that you want the ‘Crystal effect’ added to, please post it on the site (to establish your copyright) and let me know (via PM or maybe mention it here) and maybe folks with those tools and practice with them can do the post processing as an edit? That way the original artist still gets the badge.
Silkworm205
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
King Sombra - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Crystal Empire!
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Best Artist - Providing quality, Derpibooru-exclusive artwork
Artist -

Silkworm
I’ve expanded and prepped the SFM files I used for my posters and put them on PonySFM for others to use. Is it alright to share the cover image and tag it with the 10th anniversary tag? It’s not technically a submission for the event, but is something other artists might want to know of.
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