Update: I've added a new section to the main page of this group, listing the type of screenshots we need at the moment.

Alright, thank you all who offered your suggestions (or even that you're around and paying attention), I've noted and contemplated each of the recommendations. In the end, I've decided to go with an imageboard for now. You can find it at:

mlprepository.booru.org

This is where the scouts will post their findings. Of course, I don't expect them to upload hundreds or thousands of images each time, a few images can be sufficient if they show the thing we need well enough. I've uploaded one screenshot as an example, note that the tags should reflect the contents of the image in an almost absurdly detailed fashion: "adult, mare, three-quarter view, talking, standing, indoors, door, cabinet, furniture"... this will make it easier for artists who to find the particular things they need for reference a lot.


So, let's start with what we need for the next couple of comic pages. I may or may not have mentioned already that this chapter will be BonBon's "origin story", going back to her fillyhood in Marehattan. So we will need screenshots depicting the streets of said city, the pedestrians roaming the streets, and indoors (homes, shops, if there were any shown in the show). Also, we will need images of fillies (different views, emotions, etc). One way to find such screenshots is going through existing repositories (I looked up on the mlp wiki galleries years ago, please let me know if you know any good such mass screenshots repositories and I'll post it on this group's main page), or watching the episodes you presume have any and make some yourselves (I used to use UMplayer, it's easy to make screenshots with it).

(And like I said, we don't need hundreds of images depicting the very same scene, a few can do the same. And needless to say that all images should be screenshots from the show, and thus be of the SFW kind. The screenshots should also be of acceptable quality, 720p is ideal I think (but 480p is acceptable too)).
Alright Team, let's get this show on the road! Well, slowly but surely.

First of all, we need a place where the scouts can put their findings (screenshots). It should be:
- relatively convenient to access and mass upload
- can be viewed easily
- added bonus if it can categorize images

Unfortunately dA is out of the picture considering this, as this group can only feature images that were already uploaded somewhere (on dA), so we can't directly upload to it.

Anyone has any idea?
Apparently it is not possible to directly submit art to a group without also submitting it to my main dA account, and I cannot submit already existing stash images either, so I'll link it here:

UPDATE: the page is out, thanks everyone who helped! :)

sta.sh/01jpb4km3jq0

You can view it here for a couple of hours, see if there's anyone around today to take a last minute look at it and maybe suggestions, primarily about the writing. If you have any other kind of comment, please leave it for the real upload on my main site, as I will delete this one and upload a corrected version over there. :)
Alright, I'm sending out the invites for people who volunteered so far.

Unfortunately the basic group doesn't have the feature to name or rename groups, so I won't categorize people for now (although I could upgrade it to a "super-group", but doing so for only one feature that's useful for us seems like a waste of points imho).

I'll also have to figure out an optimal way of doing the collaboration, e.g. we'll need a common image posting area, where the scouts can put the screenshots they have found which everyone should be able to see. On the long run, this could be made into a database from which anyone could get useful material from.

Advices and recommendations are always appreciated.

But first and foremost, welcome to the group! :)

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