JanAnimations

Ask-TheCrusaders is an Italian artist and animator of unknown gender. He moderates the Ask-TheCrusaders ask pony blog. He is also the creator of the Picture Perfect Pony Official Music Video Animation. He has an affinityl for livestreaming.

Style
Ask-TheCrusaders makes all his art with vectors. This includes the animations, which are made in Flash.

Animations
Picture Perfect Pony Official Music Video Animation is the animated music video for Mandopony's "Picture Perfect Pony" song. According to Ask-TheCrusaders, the whole thing took roughly 24 hours to make, which spanned over the course of three months. EileMonty, Silverstreak, BerrySweet, and DZ-Aladan, also helped design the dresses for the animation.

Old Trick is a Birthday Present Ask-TheCrusaders made for his friend, Berry Sweet. Her birthday was on May 11, however the video was posted on Youtube July 28, 2012. According to Ask-TheCrusaders, the whole project spanned four days. The Cutie Mark Crusaders are trying to get Berry Sweet and Big Macintosh}} to fall in love with each other, so they prepare some love potion and present it to the two ponies as "punch", before telling the two that they should test it. [[Scootaloo then asks the other crusaders "Didn’t we learn something from this last time? " Which causes Sweetie Belle to suddenly realize that they already did this trick on Big Mac in the episode Hearts and Hooves Day. When they look back at the "couple", Big Mac has already left. Afterwards, as a bonus scene in the credits, Applebloom tells Big Mac that he acted rudely.

 Vocational Death Cruise Day 3 - Ask-theCrusaders Animated Entry  is, as the title suggests, part 3 of the Ask-TheCrusaders “Vocational Death Cruise Day story arc. FrostedLights reviewed the script. The Cutie Mark Crusaders wake up the next morning in the Vocational Death Hotel. However Applebloom makes a horrifying discovery, Sweetie Belle’s horn is missing from her forehead. The two fillies promptly flip out, and in doing so they discover that Applebloom has suddenly acquired a pair of tiny wings. At this point, the screams of the two friends wake up Scootaloo. To everybody’s horror, she is missing her wings, and has suddenly acquired a horn on top of her head. Their screams have gotten on the nerves of the reporter waiting outside, who tells them to shut up since it’s eight in the morning.

External link(s)

 * The Ask-TheCrusaders Tumblr
 * Ask-TheCrusader’s Youtube Channel