With all these songs, let's just hope this video will be available on mobile,
available in all countries, and won't give us a channel strike.
Haha... don't you just love fair use jokes?
Joking aside, you're about to WatchPony.com and we're countin' down our picks for the
Top 10 Animated PMVs to Officially Licensed Songs!
For this list, we're lookin' at the music videos that feature a full mainstream song
and animated ponies to star the role.
This could be in the form of parodies, recreations or original stories altogether.
But they have to be fully animated which means no animatics or vectors.
Also, we're looking for videos that use the ENTIRE song.
Sorry, JuiceboxAlvin.
And finally, we would like to remind you that this is
an officially licensed song list.
So there are no fan-made songs allowed.
If you feel there's a video that SHOULD be on the list,
be sure to check out our similar list of the Top 10 Animated PMVs
to Fan-Made Songs.
And as always, one video per channel.
Number #10 - Party of Four, Ponies in Reverse.
Kicking off our list are the four best party ponies in all of Equestria.
Animated by Ponies in Reverse, who is rather new to the animation scene
but made an upbeat and cute animation.
With Pinkie Pie, Cheese Sandwich, Sugar Belle and Party Favor,
And two songs in one video.
The song featured was a mashup of "Halo"
and "Walking on Sunshine."
This video even had a cameo appearance of other bronies within the fandom.
Number #9 - Ruling the World, Scyrina
With a very unique style of animation,
"Ruling the World" featured the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"
performed by Lorde.
The distorted audio actually gives this video a more chilling vibe.
Though that may have been just a happy accident.
But the visual style of Celestia and Luna are both beautifully detailed,
but the dark past and origin of Nightmare Moon is what makes this video hard to forget.
Number #8 - Daylight's End, SFS Animation.
Featuring the beautiful song from League of Legends,
"Daylight's End" perfectly fits Luna and her desire
to balance the world of light with much needed darkness.
This was one of Silly Filly Studios' first videos
and it still makes an impression four years later.
A truly simple concept with that elegant movement and melancholy theme
that touches both darkness and loneliness.
Number #7 - Awesome as I Wanna Be, CreatorOfPony
The very first animation created by CreatorOfPony
and we are treated to a short but spot-on recreation of "Awesome as I Wanna Be"
from the hit Equestria Girls film, "Rainbow Rocks."
This was one of the first impressive animations done
with the Equestria Girls models on Blender.
There are many recreations done with SFM,
but this one had spot-on accuracy with the instruments,
setting, expressions and the ending.
Number #6 - Want it, Need it, OmegaOzone
Though this animator cheated a bit by using samples from the show's animation,
most of the most memorable parts from this video
are from the animator's animation.
This video also makes up for this by the accuracy torward the original
music video by Delta Heavy.
It helped the original story but modified the original parts perfectly torward the rest of the song
while still keeping it hypnotizingly dark about holding on
to the impossible.
Number #5 - Strangers, Mr. KupKake.
From the hit song by Scratch21's "Strangers,"
has both love and heartache.
Button Mash stars as the grown stallion with the childhood special somepony, Sweetie Belle.
Now they're all grown up but missing each other
and the time they had spent together.
Scratch21 was also the original voice of Buttom Mash
in most of JanAnimation's productions
which explains the pairing...
And this video was made before Sweetie Belle got her cutie mark,
which explains the alternate cutie mark seen here.
Number #4 - Memories, Nutrafin.
Time to bring out the tissues, we're bringin' out the tearjerkers.
Nutrafin is probably better known for the Smile song reenacted with SFM.
But Twilight's trip down Memory Lane with her loyal assistant and best friend, Spike
make this a truly beautiful video.
This video was also challenging to make as it was shot in one continuous take.
The song featured is Sarah's theme from the
Final Fantasy 13.2 soundtrack. (If that was wrong, please correct me)
Number #3 - The Walk, Ferexes.
One of the few music videos animated by Ferexes
that use officially licensed songs,
"The Walk" is a simple story of the Mane Six
coincidentally walking in the same forest at the same time,
Fluttershy discovers a light that soon brings them all together.
That creates something that no one has ever seen before.
This video also serves as a great compliment
to Fluttershy's dream.
And the song that was featured was "Drops" by Nao Kakimoto
Number #2 - Spitfire's Day Off, CaptainHoers
Who said Pinkie Pie had to be the only pony with excessive happiness?
"Spitfire's Day Off" definitely has the one of the most stylish and unique art styles.
The video was, in all, fluid, fun and exciting.
With both great animation of Spitfire and scenery shots with plenty of Easter eggs.
Featuring the song "Come On Eileen" by Say Ferris,
This video captures the unique feeling we all get when it's our day off.
Before the #1 pick, let's take a look at a few of honorable mentions.
Number #1 - Rememberance, Argodaemon
If you had to choose between friends and forever, what would you choose?
That's the main theme in this video.
"Rememberance" was voted #3 in JHaller's Top 25 Pony Videos of 2015.
With its breath-taking scenery shots and excellent choice of music,
viewers are holding back tears as Twilight visits her friends once again.
A visit that is long overdue.
The songs featured are "Remember Me"
and "Eyes Closin'" both by Thomas Bergersen.
And the two year long production never sounded so great.
Do you agree with our list? Which one was your favorite?
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