2019 Derpibooru Community Collab

@Joey
 
Is standing on two legs acceptable for that picture? I mean, it will be young OCs, so they shouldn’t take away too much room even while standing.

@Joey  
Oof, that’s quite the heavy load. Hopefully it’s not too far off that this time around or you’ll need a hefty bit of ram to get it done.

@TheOneWithoutAName  
Yeah, that’s completely fine
 
@Bigshot232  
Last year I compiled everything on a Core i7 with 32GB of RAM. This year I got a new PC, with a Ryzon 2600X which also has 32GB of RAM.
 
Worst case, I have an old hypervisor server that has four quad-core CPUs and 96GB of RAM… But I don’t have an OS installed on it at the moment.

@Bigshot232  
@Joey  
Additionally, I have a few tricks to keep the resource usage relatively low. For example, while working on assembling the group, I create multiple PSDs that contain only 3-4 rows each, starting in the front than working my way back:  

 
Then once I finish a group of rows, I export that as a PNG, and then just load that into the next group PSD to use as a guide for the next few rows. So that way Photoshop is only loading a single PNG in one layer instead of roughly 120 - 150 layers of the first four rows:  

 
It’s only at the very end when I merge the PSDs back together (so that I can move a few characters around between groups). That part takes a ton of RAM, but since the collab is about 95% done at that point, I’m able to get by.

Hey, it’s this thing again :D

@Joey  
I’ve always wondered, do you group these characters by color on purpose or is it just sort of done along the way?

@Joey  
THANK YOU FOR THIS.

@Joey  
Pretty cool, now I just have to set some time aside to draw again :]

I now have 3 spaces open, they are free.^^

Image resolution?

@Guardian Talon  
Too bad you can’t fit a pool into this  
That’s actually a decent suggestion if there’s much interest in OCs from the various aquatic species; if the theme is going to be Summery, maybe have the bottom of the image be a beach or pool edge so any swimmers can at least appear from the ~waist up?
 
@SaviorAssassin1996  
Image resolution?

@SaviorAssassin1996  
800 px in height is the minimum, 1200 px is preferred.

@Darkest Lunar Flower  
It kinda started off as a subconscious accident. While I was assembling the first collab, >>1330414, I was mostly focused on avoiding putting colors that contrasted too much next to each other. About halfway through I noticed there was a bit of a gradient forming with warm colors on the left and cool colors on the right. So I just rolled with that and kept that appearance for the image.
 
The finished product looked rather nice, in my opinion, so for the second collab, >>1623600, I was intentionally organizing the ponies by color.

Did a remake now  

@Twilight Schwifty  
Cool :)

Since my robot pony OC’s are off-limits I suppose I’ll have to draw one of my least used OC’s

all the cute ocs owwww its gonna kill me… OwO

@bugatti2005  
I don’t see why they’d be off-limits since robot ponies were in the last collab.

@Salamenace  
“Original species are welcome, so long as they’re in a believable show-style appearance.“  
I’m not 100% sure about that since I don’t think robot ponies would be believable species for the show

@bugatti2005  
Style is more important. imo, your style isn’t too far off from the show, so I see no issue with it.

Hell yeah. I need an easy drawing task.
 
Is an alpaca being slightly taller than ponies ok if I do it in MLP style?
 
He can just be a head sticking out of the very back for all I care,

Friendly reminder that it’s SUMMER themed.

@Ninji  
Sure
 
 
@ZippySqrl  
A lot of people didn’t do the theme last year. It’s optional

Is there a maximum image size limit?

@Lightning Stripe  
Just the limits imposed by the site. Otherwise I just scale down ones that are too large