The movie takes a little bit more inspiration from some of the more classic Disney films as I’m not as partial to the Renaissance films as I am the films that were created when Walt was alive.

I grew up loving more things like Pinocchio and Fantasia rather some of the films you listed. Mostly because, as I stated before, those movies loved playing around with emotional simplicity and depth. They were flawed, but beautiful works of art. So I felt like giving the pony universe that type of feeling made the overall vision behind the piece a lot more complex and interesting to play around with.