Fifth Anniversary Community Collaboration

@Toyminator900  
Yes
 
@byte[]  
Ohhh, that’ll be useful, thanks <3
 
@Pacific Glow  
If it’s compressed lossily, there’ll be a download link for the original as well.

@Joey  
Thanks.

@Joey  
I appreciate that.

So when will it be done? :)

@AdamAnimationz  
To quote a Swedish Engineer: “Completion date? [chuckles] When it’s done.”

I can’t help but wonder if anyone lied about having a friend, just to get their second OC in. Probably because I was thinking about doing it myself… But since the image is being set in stone now, anyone wanna admit to cheating in some way?
 
There’s gotta be at least one right, out of this many submissions. I don’t just think badly of people do I?

@Minus  
now I think about it…

I considered it to get an OC I liked (but wasn’t mine) in the pic, but thought better of it.
 
If they’re willing to add her anyway, I can figure something out…

Was gonna post like 12 pics of my OC wearing an assortment of disguises. Like she was gonna have a red baseball cap in one. And then another she was gonna have a blue baseball cap lilted slightly to the left. And then another a green baseball cap…
 
Pretty sure I would’ve gotten away with it too. Don’t let them hear you say this, but the mods can’t read so they wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference.

@Cpt Pudge Muffin  
Actually I’m quite literate and can read fluently. Although if there was a fake mustache variant, I would’ve added that simply because it would’ve been hilarious :D
 
Also, one OC did try sneaking in twice. He got caught though :P

@ice1517  

 
OHHH ICE MAH DAWG

@Joey  
Hey by the way I’m officially giving up on this. I’m not going to burden Joey with a half assed submission which I didn’t have time to work on. Monday is my birthday, though, so I’m looking forward to this birthday treat!
 
Will there be a collab next year?

@BloodinMyenam  
I think not.

@Joey  
Was it HJSDGCE’s OC?

@Pacific Glow  
Why wouldn’t there be another one? I was beginning to suspect they would make this a yearly tradition.

@EquestrianScholar  
It could be a yearly thing, or maybe or huge image milestones, like 2 million. Or 10 million.  
Or maybe for anniversaries relating to the show and fandom?
 
^{or never again ‘^’}

@Pacific Glow  
How am I involved in this?!

@BloodinMyenam  
Most likely there will be. There’s going to be a few stricter requirements, however. Nothing too severe, but I’m finding there’s some ponies that are very hard to place anywhere because they either have a gigantic wingboner (which gets in the way), they’re in a completely profile view (looks very awkward no matter where they are in the pic), etc.
 
@EquestrianScholar  
Right now, the odds are very high that this will indeed be at least a yearly (possibly twice a year) occurrence.
 
@Pacific Glow  
Quit making up stuff. At no point did anyone indicate that this was a one-time thing. Also no, it wasn’t HJSDGCE’s OC.

For a future project, may I recommend publishing the background/setting plan beforehand as a sketch, and giving examples (silhouettes?) of poses/perspectives/angles that would fit well within that plan?

@Joey  
Maybe a front of a building or town with an arch that says, ‘Welcome to Derpibooru’
 
Could have a couple of flying ones with hooves over the sign, have some of the show characters in the background. Be pretty sweet.

@Bigshot232  
“Show characters in the background”, I call Luna, I WILL BE HUGGING HER!

Ya’ll seem to be under the impression that there’s gonna be a lot of background visible. Trust me, there’s so many ponies in this picture that the background is gonna be mostly covered.

@Joey  
So basically the background will be ponies.

I look forward to seeing the finished result.

@Binkyt11  
Poni is background.