No actually. I took inspiration from film, not really television. My biggest influence when it comes to ANYTHING I do is the works of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Especially in the way I write women. 

When putting the movie together in some cases, I looked at elements from Tales from Earthsea, a little bit of Spirited Away, and a small touch of Castle in the Sky to kind of give this greater sense of comedy, emotion, and drama. But most of the infuences for the film come from Disney and Don Bluth. In many cases you could say we’re trying to make a Disney-ish Pony movie rather than a straight forward pony movie in some cases. Which I don’t think is really a bad thing at all honestly.

It allows for more depth and a little bit of magic to really shine through.