A few years ago, I accidentally discovered an incredibly beautiful, yet obscure art series called "Canterlot Royal Ballet Academy". The series is ostensibly an MLP fan series, but in my opinion, it's so unique that it's basically original in everything but the character names. The series is an about anthropomorphic ponies in a ballet academy (as the title suggests).I don't know exactly what it is about it, but the series just has this amazing and surreal aura around it that I've never seen anything quite like before. When I first saw the series, I had an incredibly surreal experience that lasted almost a whole day. I first found it late at night. At first I thought it was very strange, but that feeling quickly melted away into pure admiration for it. I experienced a beautiful trance where I became fixated on it. I experienced a very surreal and ethereal feeling I can't quite describe, and I also experienced a very sweet phantom smell.The following morning, I thought it was a dream, and was very pleasantly surprised to discover that it was actually real. The rest of that day, the feeling only got more and more intense, and the whole day felt like a daydream. It only subsided towards the end of the day.Whenever I look at it, I get this very strange feeling as if it is something that you shouldn't be able to see or even be able to imagine in real life. Like something from a magical dream that was somehow transported to reality. Without requiring any backstory, I can picture the whole series perfectly as if it was real. Not like I'm coming up with one myself - but that it feels like there's one intrinsic to it. I can picture this very dream-like incoherence, with an ephemeral innocence to it. I can picture exactly what the voices for each of the characters should sound like. Ethereal voices that feel timeless and that don't originate from any particular place, yet also feel very intimate.(continued)
I've been obsessed with CRBA for years now. I've scoured the internet for every single mention of it, and have been disappointed to find out just how little it has been noticed. It seems like everyone who finds out about thinks it's amazing, yet somehow it has gotten very little recognition. I'm also impressed with just how quickly AVCHonline improved his artistic talent. In just a few years, he went from very crude drawings of cartoons to the height of the CRBA series. Yet his early art still got more attention than his later work.I've made it my mission to make people find out about it and (hopefully) experience the same amazing feelings that I did, so I've created a website to catalog all of the artwork in one place (and in the highest quality). Prior to this, it was scattered in many places across the internet, much of it only in low resolution.I've also created an imageboard for it.The main site is here: https://crba.dedyn.ioThe imageboard is here: https://ib.crba.dedyn.ioFor an introduction to CRBA, I recommend starting with the AcademyLIVE sub-series: https://www.deviantart.com/avchonline/art/AcademyLIVE-Season-01-Trixie-Maud-on-the-bridge-630016849For the absolute peak of it (all of CRBA is amazing, but I think this one in particular is probably the most detailed and stunning): https://crba.dedyn.io/?id=88I also recommend checking out his music and animations for the CRBA series here: https://crba.dedyn.io/video
Woah, really cool find Anon, and I absolutely love your passion for it. I'll try and remember to take a deeper look at it later, you've painted a really vivid picture of how it touched you; I love that shit. Entire imageboard for it is very ambitious too, super cool to see.
>>42699540You talk like you're trying to stealth advertise it but you should be allowed to advertise things that are this cool
>>42699540This shit looks kind of insane but also reminds me of old internet rabbit holes so carry on.
>>42699687>>42699693OP is a chinese commie who saw anthro art of octavia btw lolhttps://www.reddit.com/user/vischete/https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1nf6opz/can_someone_give_me_a_spiritual_explanation_for/
>>42699700This just gets weirder and weirder.
>>42699709https://web.archive.org/web/20250912192354/https://www.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1nf6opz/can_someone_give_me_a_spiritual_explanation_for/HAHA WAIT HE DELETED THE POST TO HIDE ITit got archived
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>At first I thought it was very strange, but that feeling quickly melted away into pure admiration for it. I experienced a beautiful trance where I became fixated on it. I experienced a very surreal and ethereal feeling I can't quite describe, and I also experienced a very sweet phantom smell.>OP is a chinese commieMaybe it's a mind control psyop.
>>42699717>>42699731i can't even bring myself to care these days, it's clearly a thoughtful post that's an interesting read so fuck it, i love my bronies no matter what
>>42699942>>42699942>>42699942>>42699942ok
>>42699700>>42699717lmao
>>42699700the faggot nuked his reddit posts, but some of them were archived:https://web.archive.org/web/20250913024708/https://old.reddit.com/user/vischete/
>>42699540>>42699544Good for you, dude.I mean, so far it only looked to me that it was an AU where many characters were very posh in a dance academy, but if you think there's more, go nuts.Personally, it's not my cup of tea, but it looks nice at least.
>>42699700t. ban-evading phonefag
>>42699540>>42699544Interesting, I'm gonna have a look at it. Never heard of it before. I believe the best word to describe what you experienced is "serendipity". A lucky combination of circumstances. Late at night we tend to be more receptive to such experiences, and so it all came together. Even a perceived smell can be explained, by this experience either having a sort of synesthetic component in the brain or by awakening a very faint and distant memory. It's natural that this initial elation would fade, as days go on external influences fade in and take you out of it eventually. You seem to have posted about it in a bunch of different places, but /mlp/ is probably the one of the better places for>>42699544 it. Don't let negative reactions scare you off please, it's great when someone shows such genuine adoration for something. >>42699779>>42699700So what? Honestly, it makes the entire wording feel far less odd if it's not a native speaker, but instead one with a Chinese cultural background. And as far as I can see there's no political aspect to any of this. It's just someone sharing something that unexpectedly left a huge impression on him.
>>42701507yeah I'm the same way about this shit OP should stick around because he clearly gives a whole hell of a damn about ponies, really neat posts he made, I hope he comes back around
>>42699540Reading the reddit post and the OP, the best I can say is that you've had a touch of beautiful madness friend. Mankind's relation to the sublime is fleeting, so I would expect it to fade into memories and feelings of memories that you long for as the time you felt you touched something divine, or had it posses you rather. Either way, I'm never sure what to do with it. Hold onto it I suppose, and if you can make use of it somehow.
>>42699540not just art but also music and animation, yet I dont think iv ever seen it.i also don't think i've ever seen anyone else do a prohject of any sort with semi-anthro ponies, as in basically just all-hooves regular ponies but walking on two legs.had a look on the boorus, this tempest is top cute.
My wife is so cute as a ballerina
cute!
https://hobune.stream/tpa-h/videos/ZBYaAYiiqoo
What is going on in this thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70N9sUvRXAk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In4U2tyusM0
The Chrissy intrusion is good but what did they do with Shining?
>Shojo mangaThis should be one of the main storylines right here. Of course RD doesn't need a corset. Mistress Rarity is merely asserting her psychological dominance
>>42704420so pretty
>>42705626clearly Cadence has been doing a little nutcracking
>>42699540I take it you're the same person who posted about their religious experience upon finding this on Heyuri a while back?
How come that all ponies in existence attend the same ballet school?
how are the files so LARGE something's hiding in there
>>42708320(OP) There's three reasons reasons.The first is just that they're just very high-resolution PNGs.The second is because I used a tool called jpeg2png (https://github.com/victorvde/jpeg2png). jpeg2png is generating artifact-free PNGs from JPEGs. It can work extremely well in some cases (and in the case I'd say it worked so well that it is impossible to tell that the original images were JPEGs). jpeg2png has an option where it can take advantage of the DCT JPEG uses to output higher bit-depth PNGs than the original JPEG, which can sometimes result in less color banding artifacts. It outputs 16-bit color PNGs, which is somewhat overkill, and such, the lower bits of the resulting PNGs are largely random noise. Since they are mostly if not completely random, they have high entropy and are uncompressable, resulting in a larger file size.The final reason is that I transcoded them to progressive PNGs, which load faster on the web at the cost of a slightly higher file size.
>>42699540>The following morning, I thought it was a dream, and was very pleasantly surprised to discover that it was actually realThis is exactly the type of thing you'd hallucinate or see only in a dream, so yeah awesome that it's actually real. >When I first saw the series, I had an incredibly surreal experience that lasted almost a whole day.>I experienced a beautiful trance where I became fixated on it.>Whenever I look at it, I get this very strange feeling as if it is something that you shouldn't be able to see or even be able to imagine in real life.Obviously you have super-mega autism, but it's also rare for anyone to find the "perfect thing", so congrats. Like >>42702790 says, touching the sublime is fleeting, and not everyone can do it through the same channels, so what you have is something to be treasured.
>>42708669incrediblemy only complaint is that I can't post them here in all their glorybut I saved every one
>>42712460You can reduce the size with ImageMagick. Like this: convert -depth 8 -define png:compression-level=9 0.png 0-o8.pngYou will notice more color banding if you have a monitor that supports higher bit depths though.
I've converted them all to small 8bit versions and put it up here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CMcLRXtyk5V45L9abafbtmy_DpT16yY2
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>>42713383>>42714605true
As requested, I've added links from the Chinese ones to the English ones and vice-versa.
https://crba.dedyn.io/saf-en
>>42711133>find the "perfect thing"It's so damn rare but when it happens its wonderful>>42699540All right OP where do I read this damn thing, your website?
>>42718201It's mainly an artwork series, all the feelings I wrote about came just from looking at it and appreciating its beauty.AVCHonline has written some description on his deviantart though: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adeviantart.com%2Favchonline+canterlot+royal+ballet+academyHe's also written about it on tieba: https://tieba.baidu.com/p/4260628141
Can't say I see the same things in it as OP, but we need more of this kind of passion in the internet. Caring about things is cool, not caring is lame.Have you tried drawing or making anything of your own to add onto it?
>>42718240>Have you tried drawing or making anything of your own to add onto it?I have not. I wish I could, but I have absolutely no talent in drawing unfortunately.
>>42699540Hey OP, why did you post this thread like 50 times on MLPOL?
>>42721130I'd say the answer is pretty obviously autism. Just look at this thread.
>>42721130He's been posting it across a bunch of different imageboards. Seen it on Heyuri, Uboachan and Hikari3 to name a few
