...Well, that happened fast. So fast we weren't quite ready for it to happen (sorry about the delay)! It's still kind of hard to believe we've gotten this far, but thanks to you guys here we are! And since coming here every day and commenting and sending us awesome content all the time wasn't enough, 38 of you also took the time to help us celebrate this awesomest of all possible milestones (pending 40 million) with some very cool images and comics. A very special thanks to Virga Rainboom for the above image, which was unfortunately too late for the actual contest, but awesome enough to be our title image on the day.
A scientific panel of three blogponies has gone through all your entries and selected three as our very favorites, because there must be winners. But that doesn't mean we appreciate the others any less! It's not all about being the most talented pony in the world, just about taking the time to try something. And now the time for being sappy has come to an end! Check below the page break to find the winners! And check below that to see everypony who entered!
First Place: Sakuyamon
I've lost more than hour staring at this, enraptured. The cathedral aesthetic is beautiful, and everypony is full of life and vibrant energy. If we can be half this epic going forward, I think Equestria Daily will be in good hooves. Congratulations, Sakuyamon! Second Place: Karzahnii
The energy coming out of this one is just fantastic. We liked it so much that it became our banner for a few days before the judging could even take place. Scootaloo is rocking the house down, and it is amazing. Hopefully she actually learned how to sing for this one!
Third Place: Geoff K.
Distinguished as the only entry to make me tear up. A lot of effort clearly went into this, and I think it provides an incredible sense of perspective on the number and all that it can potentially mean. It's not something that can be overlooked. Thank you very much for this heart warming piece. Congratulations to all our winners! Your prizes are well deserved, and can be collected on Friday. Please contact Jake Heritagu at [email protected], with a CC sent to me so that I can confirm that everything is received and kosher.
This was a really hard decision - there were a lot of phenomenal entries, and it took many hours of debate to finally settle on the winners. But don't be fooled into thinking those are the only three of value: there's some absolutely fantastic stuff gathered in the rest of the field. Dig in and enjoy, ponies!
1) By Annary (this was done in Minecraft, and it is awesome)
2) By Armenta (I would totally play in this league. Or watch it.)
3) By Atlur (30 million pageviews, all the way across the sky)
4) By beancode (kind of a compilation of fanart through the ages)
5) By Black Tea (all attempts to physically draw 30,000,000 ponies are doomed to end in madness)
6) By Colinmlp (to infinity! And beyond!)
7) By D Hooves (this is getting added to my desktop cycle)
8) By Dandy Lion (this one's a link due to implied sauce. But I thought it was silly.)
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9) By EssAeEm (I don't blame her. The counter's hypnotizing.)
10) By Fadri (Scroooooge!)
11) By Fire exit on your right (ponies sure do wind up in space a lot...)
12) By Hobo (memetastic)
13) By Holy Sparks (click the image to go to the actual comic. Then, marvel at it!)
14) By irontiger (I think there's a few more than that by this point...)
15) By Jake Uribe (Rainboom Cross!)
16) By Jose Duran (This is referencing something I don't understand)
17) By Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi (not gonna lie, I giggled like a small filly)
18) By Lawn (What I have seen cannot be unseen)
19) By Light Dasher (I like the look on Trixie's face in the last panel)
20) By Lion vom Silberwald (Luna is a master of her craft)
21) By Meatloaf studios (30 million derptastic hits)
22) By Midge (I'm very relieved that letter turned out to be a hoax)
23) By Nathaniel Fosmer (a little more memeism, I suppose)
24) By Oolong TeA (Oh no, contests are bleeding into each other!)
25) By opusthepenguin (Come to Equestria Daily and find your special talent. Money back guarantee!)
26) By ord (the best part about this is the little Hub logo. EqD should be canon in Season 2)
27) By partyhard (reportedly done in five minutes.)
28) By Prismatic Pretzel (That's a lot of party hats)
29) By Pyrobunneh (buildin' a Celestia out of gems)
30) By Sefling (by the way, if we ever get an office building, that's going to be the slogan we put on it)
31) By Shoutingryan (And now some Courage the Cowardly Dog references. Enjoy?)
32) walsh95 (with a classic EqD site aesthetic.)
33) By Yukitoshii (The Gary's Mod invasion continues)
34) By The Paragon (Animated! Click to see!)
71 comments:
So much awesome!!!!
ReplyDeleteand zeros!!!
^ Agreed
ReplyDeleteAll of these pictures are awesome!
ReplyDeleteSweeeeeet.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, mine looks even better on ED! The rest of these are great, too! This was such a fun contest... seriously.
ReplyDeleteLove it!
ReplyDeleteSo Canada is now equestria? AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteWoo! These are awesome! =D
ReplyDeleteOh I would NEVER do anything dastardly as not give them their prizes! Save complete and utter annihilation on Friday, my entire paycheck is going to those AMAZING winners! I mean come on, they TOTALLY earned it!
ReplyDeleteYou ALL are simply amazing! I cannot express my gratitude for all of these entries stepping up to the plate in my busiest of times in celebrating 30 Mil in a way even I probably couldn't! So much credit...so much bravo and hurrah's to be had! I only wish I could hand out MORE prizes! Sadly time and budget are the death of my prizes, but know that even though they weren't all winners, there were pieces in that had me holding my gut because I was laughing so damn hard! You guys almost brought me to tears!
You guys really make this fandom really worth being a part of and I love every moment of it. I would love to host another contest in the future for you guys, but I've got to get my time and budget back on track before then (Waaaaah, life why do you eat my savings!).
Everyone who entered is one of the most awesome Bronies I've seen and you all deserve credit! Thank you all! So much! SO MUCH!
-So awesome :3-
Oh man, the third-place one is undeniably my favorite. What it lacks in artistic flair in comparison to the others, it makes up in sheer heart. Thank you for that, if you're reading this, Geoff. :)
ReplyDeleteSo....... AWESOME!!!!
ReplyDelete#5: And that's why Rainbow Dash os awesome.
ReplyDelete#19: OMG Rarity's expression XDD
#26: Hahaha I really like that one. Pagevie.
I liked the third place winner the best to be honest, but they were all outstanding! Congratulations Equestria Daily! 30,000,000 pageviews is a milestone by any standards!
ReplyDeleteAwesome art, and lol at #22
ReplyDeleteThey're all wonderful!
ReplyDeleteFUCKING SETH, I PUT 200 BITS ON 31! >:|
ReplyDelete33) By Yukitoshii (The Gary's Mod invasion continues)
ReplyDeleteI WORK WITH THAT GUY MAKING GMOD RESKINS!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
GO YUKITOSHII!
woo! and we already have had 1.5 million views since then
ReplyDeleteHeh... I knew I wouldn't win just going into this... There are too many talented ponies on this site! meh. It was a ton of fun anyway. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a shoutout to everypony... YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced the first one is Equestria IRL.
ReplyDelete2 really nice i love it
ReplyDelete13 oh mother of god it's so amazingly great
10 yay Fadri¡¡
#13 is my favorite :)
ReplyDeleteLove the animated Trixie
ReplyDeletep.s. Pageviws +e
ReplyDeleteThird place: One year = 31,536,000 seconds.
ReplyDelete30,000,000?
ReplyDeleteWeird, the hit-counter is only counting my views!
Anyway, that's a huge number, you should all be very proud.
Really great art and stuff too!
I actually did the math out. Third place is right. That's honestly a little trippy.
ReplyDeleteThat also means we get literally more than one pageview per second. That is astronomically fast. We made 30,000,000 views in around six months.
Two page views per second.
Bronies, you be crazy.
I couldve sworn that first one i've seen somewhere without the writing on it.
ReplyDeleteOooh, that pic I really liked in the Drawfriend the other day was an entry. Got first place too, very nice.
ReplyDeleteSo many great entries. Some made me laugh hard. XD Congrats to the winners and everyone who entered.
3rd place kicked TOTAL ass.
ReplyDeleteTop three are amazing. And I like to see all the different types of art styles, really reflects the diversity of this community.
ReplyDeleteOnwards and upwards! To season 2!
Funny thing is that EQD got 30M not so long ago and we're already a tenth of the way through for the 40th million. At this rate the 100th million will be here by Christmas.
ReplyDeleteHave to say, 3rd place was definitely my favorite.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to all the talented artists who made this possible, even the ones who weren't featured.
16) By Jose Duran
ReplyDeleteIt's referencing the series
"My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute!"
Words cannot describe the amount of elation I feel seeing all these. Great job, everybody!
ReplyDeleteHee HHee, These were all fantastic, now to start planing for 40 000 000 page views
ReplyDeleteI'm glad mine didn't win. I'd feel bad for the other person who didn't win and probably spent way more time on theirs than mine :P
ReplyDeleteAnywho, Woo go ED!
And Woo other artists, your's are awesome!
#13
ReplyDeleteNO.
because CUPCAKES.
SO MANY TALENTED PONIES!
ReplyDeleteI love how in #24 Twilight has Zakk Wylde's guitar. Maybe she's a fan of Black Label Society?
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of the first one. Why? Because Pinkie Pie didn't get a window.
ReplyDeleteThese are really beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWAHEEY I CAN SEE MINE =D EVERYPONY DID A BRILL JOB!
ReplyDeleteBtwim walsh95 but my username on any site is Joedoon if you want to find me! *brohoof*
I made the MLP one omg omg omg omg omg its on Equestria daily thats good enough for me!!!! :D
ReplyDeleteEqD has recived a hit a second for almost a year!
ReplyDelete27 you missed a y in party hard.
ReplyDeletethats a very nice cutie mark you have thar
ReplyDelete*looks at third place winner* Actually, a year's worth of seconds is about 31,536,000- a fair bit more than simply 30,000,000. We've passed that landmark, too, though... and I had completely forgotten about that connection.
ReplyDeleteNice work, though. All of this.
#18 when did Spike become the frog from Warner Brothers?
ReplyDeleteand to think, the counter is already at 30 million and 1 now...
ReplyDeletewe are pony, we are legion
Hehe, looks like the counter broke.
ReplyDeleteYDI for not choosing 31! Lost 200 bits betting on it...
all of our accidental clicks...
ReplyDeletegone!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo....
22. I, for one, welcome our Equestrian overlords!
ReplyDeleteI like all of these, #13 depressed me but when i actually clicked it made me feel far better. i can't really pick a favourite but i quite like #20.
ReplyDeleteAlso is it just me the pageview counter is broken for at the moment? blasted thing needs to be banned to the moon till it decided to work again.
Oh my, #13 artist here. Thanks very kindly for the comments on it! I'm so happy to see all those bronies working on and for the community! Rock on!
ReplyDeleteThe pageview counter appears to have decided working again is preferable to being banished to the moon.
ReplyDeleteAh! #30: Saxton Mare!
ReplyDeleteYou are 1.5 million clicks late, Phoe .
ReplyDelete@Teilzeitbernd
ReplyDeleteIn all fairness, I had the post basically ready days ago, but Cereal got sick and we had to delay judging discussions.
And you ponies keep clicking so fast... ._.
Amazing work these bronies made
ReplyDeleteDamn you, third place winner. *sniffle*
ReplyDelete#28 seriously needs a warning about it's size.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, my computer suffered horrendously from it. It caused such bad lag that I couldn't even afford to read it. It gave my computer a virtual heart attack.
#17 Poor Seth. It's gonna take at least ten times as much internet power to keep you out of that box for more than a day. I did the mad science, and it said so.
ReplyDelete#18 I swear to Celestia, it won't be more than a month before the clopfic writers descend upon this.
Let's see...according to my calculations, 30,000,000 million seconds equates to a little under 5 years.
ReplyDeleteI didn't like the First Place one. I see the artist put a lot of work into it. But it's just simply that they resemble... THOSE... (pre-G4 ponies) But maybe it's just me...
ReplyDelete#2 was pretty cool. But I like #3 best for making that connection. I calculated it, just to check.
3600*24*365
=31,536,000
And I think we just past that exact number, too! And, yeah, it's... really emotional... *sniff*
Number 3 was WONDERFUL! I got all teary-eyed.
ReplyDeleteI love how it was from Twilight's perspective but kind of hinted at us bronies too.
I love you guys, and I love ponies.
Most Epic site on the internets as of right now.
ReplyDeleteAlright. CONGRATULATIONS!! FANTASTIC!!
*sigh* noa off to workz >.< I have to spend the day getting gas station ready for said hurricane >.>
#30: Heck, make it the slogan next time you change the banner. :P
ReplyDeleteWow. That First Place. Those ponies are the only realistic type I would be as OK with as the show's animation. These are the appearances I now mentally relate to the ponies for all crossovers with more "realistic" universes.
ReplyDeleteBut Y U NO PINKY PIE WINDOW?
Yeah that is a lot of hats. You could probably get a bulk rate though.
ReplyDelete@B-Man
Heh sorry about that.