Winter Wrap Up

Winter Wrap Up

December 24, 2010 TV Episode My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Studio
Studio B Productions.
In Association With Hasbro Studios
Animation studio
DHX Media Vancouver, Top Draw Animation
Distributor
The Hub

Synopsis

It's the Winter Wrap-Up! Twilight Sparkle does her best to get ready for it without any magic... and ends up learning a very magical lesson.

Characters

Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Caramel, Rarity, Spike, Mayor of Ponyville, Big Macintosh

Credits

Directing

Director
Jayson Thiessen, James Wootton

Writing

Writer
Cindy Morrow

Voices

Voice
Tara Strong (Twilight Sparkle), Ashleigh Ball (Applejack, Rainbow Dash), Andrea Libman (Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Caramel), Tabitha St. Germain (Rarity), Cathy Weseluck (Spike, Mayor of Ponyville), Shannon Chan-Kent (Pinkie Pie [Singing Voice]), Rebecca Shoichet (Twilight Sparkle [Singing Voice]), Kazumi Evans (Rarity [Singing Voice]), Peter New (Big Macintosh [uncredited])

Music

Music
William Anderson

Editing

Editor
Tom Harris

Crew

Creators
Hasbro, Bonnie Zacherle (Toy), Lauren Faust
Story Editor
Robert Renzetti
Art Direction
Ridd Sorensen
Visual Effects Designer
Gregory Roth
Design Coordinator
Kimberly Small
Location Designers
Phil Caesar, Dave Dunnet
Prop Designer
Ted Wilson
Character Designers
Nicole Gauss, Mike Gilbert, Robin Mitchell
Character Builders
Jared Bennett, Jacqueline Robinson, Gregory Roth
Color Artists
Kellie Devries, Alexandra Jones
Storyboard Coordinator
Lesley Crawford
Storyboard Artists
Sabrina Alberghetti, Francisco Avalos, Andy Bartlett, Alex Basio, Sheranne Johnson, Lih Liau, "Big" Jim Miller, Kenny Park, Tom Sales, Samuel To, Scott Underwood, Nicole Wang, Mike West
Storyboard Revisionists
Marshall Fels Elliott, Lih Liau, "Big" Jim Miller, David Wiebe, Nabie-Ah Yousuf
Development Artists
Martin Ansolabehere, Dave Dunnet, Paul Rudish
Layout Coordinator
Alicia Camarta
Layout Supervisors
Joel Dickie, D. Brad Gibson, Michael Vatcher
Key Layout Artists
Brent Bouchard, Jason Campbell, Sean Covernton, Matthew Herring, Jason Horychun, Christopher Leinonen, Dana Smith, Mike Tisserand, Andy Tougas, Carlyle Wilson
Layout Artists
William Bradford, Kuan-Fu Chen, Andrew Hogan, Norm Kritsch, Dennis Levesque, Jen Regan, James Richards, Waturu Uno, Allen Wu
Animation Director
Denny Lu
Animators (Studio B)
Sarah Jargstorf, Marco Li, Graeme MacDonald, Erica Pitt, Holly Saurez, Stephen Wedel, Jayron Zolfaghari
Animation Revisionists
Paul Johnson, Sebastian Lee, Aidan McAteer, Edwin Poon
Clean-Up Artists
Jared Bennett, John Beveridge, Mike Gilbert, Chris Mizzoni, Kent Reimer, Jacqueline Robinson, Garnet Syberg-Olsen
Animation Effects Artists
Ben Galewitz, Jason Ross Belyea
Production Manager
Angela Belyea
Sound Editors
Todd Araki, Marcel Duperreault, Jason Frederickson, Adam McGhie, Roger Monk
Sound Recording Engineer
Jason Frederickson
Sound Re-Recording Mixers
Todd Araki, Marcel Duperreault
Foley Recordist
Rick Senechal
Foley Artists
Don Harrison, Ian Mackie
On-Line Editor
Tom Harris
Off-Line Editors
Ryan Vaugh, Aaron Saunders
Post-Production Coordinator
Kimberly Small
Music
William Anderson
Composer (Main Title Theme)
Daniel Ingram
Composer (Songs)
Daniel Ingram
Production Executives
Robert Fewkes, Sophia Hussain
Development and Creative Supervisors
Brian Lenard, Linda Steiner
Network Administrator
Zorion Terrell
Production Accountant
Marjorie Artamia

Production notes

Flash animation.

This TV series is scheduled to run for 78 episodes.

"Get your muzzle out of those books and make some friends!" That's what Princess Celestia tells Twilight Sparkle. She may be the smartest unicorn in Equestria, but Twilight Sparkle gets an "incomplete" in friendship. There's more to life than learning magic, after all - so she goes to Ponyville on a mission to make friends. There she meets five special ponies who take her on exciting adventures and teach her the most powerful magic of all... the magic of friendship!

The show's main focus is on girls 6 to 8 years old (but girls from 3 to 11 like the ponies). As they watch the show, girls learn about their own lives through the colorful, four-legged citizens of Equestria. The ponies have very different personalities and behaviors, and most girls identify with at least one of them.

Every week, the ponies introduce girls to important concepts in two main areas: 1) interpersonal skills - managing ourselves, engaging with others, and working together to make things happen. 2) history-social science thinking skills - thinking about culture, heritage and environments, as well as civic participation. The show addresses important questions and lessons, just as little girls are starting to think about them.