What animation software do the animators of the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic use?
I’m not sure about the episodes, but the feature film was done with ToonBoom.Top Animation News: My Little Pony, a Bob’s Burgers movie and more
In Pinocchio, how did they turn boys into donkeys on Pleasure Island?
It was the island itself. Remember, in the world of Pinocchio there is an element of magic—and all the characters know it. There are fairies (the Blue Fairy) and even talking animals (like Honest John and Jiminy Cricket). Though a talking puppet was surprising to many, it was just “surprising,” not shocking or unbelievable (well Geppetto was a little shaken up, but he quickly came to terms with it and thought it perfectly possible after realizing it must have been the answer to his wish).Earlier in the movie, when Honest John was being hired to collect “stupid little boys,” he was told that the boys would be taken to “Pleasure Island.” Immediately, the fox gasped, holding his neck and said “Pleasure Island?! But the law!” (implying a possible hanging for the job that was being requested of him).For whatever reason, Pleasure Island is an ominous island that is banned by law. Considering this is a fairy tale, it can be assumed that the island itself was somehow magically cursed. The old man is the only “human” you see on the island. Those helping him are only seen as black shadows with white, circular eyes (and in some shots, you can see they’re actually furry and apish). At one point, the older man even turns red with pointy ears while talking to Honest John, startling both the cat and fox violently.In short, like the fairy and the other non-human characters, I don’t think the person on the island is human. Rather, he’s a being who lures victims to the island with something appealing and then closes them in kind of like a venus flytrap. Many old—and sometimes ancient—stories use this tactic (and sometimes the predators happen to be fairies, in fact). In the Odyssey, it was a sorceress (goddess of magic and daughter of the sun god) who turned Odysseus’s men into pigs when they came to her island. She welcomed them, and later tricked and drugged them.As for why Pinocchio didn’t transform, Jiminy said it himself. When Pinocchio started to change, Jiminy says “Let’s get out of here before you get any worse!” — again implying that it was their presence on the island that was causing the effect.So, in short, the island is implied to have magical properties, and the man who runs the island is probably not human but rather some sort of fairy or being that is quite common in old stories. Overall, like much of Pinocchio (and other old stories), much of what happens is more symbolic than literal.