I NEED SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN THE DELTARUNE FRIEND CAT LORE TO ME LIKE IM 5
IM STILL IN THE WINGSING GASTER BUILDING
I PLAYED THE SHIT OUT OF ALL THESE GAMES AND I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON
So like it’s still gaster right….right…..????? Are my theories officially outdated??? Help????? I’m almost 30 undertale was like 10 years ago, everything is still just GASTER TO ME
It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna 📺 I figured it's been long enough to share some "behind the scenes" stuff, starting with a look at the Maya file for his static poses...
I'd individually render the poses to get that early 3D shine ✨ Here's some of them at their original resolutions! I would work from text descriptions from Toby, and sometimes there'd be a Paint sketch to help out. Gigi drew the concept that I modeled from and some poses too!
I had a lot of fun pushing myself to match the dynamic poses Toby had in mind for Tenna - making him so crazy and expressive was something I couldn't have done without his prompts. He'd draw the faces on afterward too, which really brought Tenna to life!
(lots more after the Read More cut...!)
Here are some of the Paint sketches Toby drew to help me with specific Tenna poses! I love seeing his drawings LOL, genuinely really good and evocative 👍
There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna poses… Until Toby acted them out himself, and I thought, "Ah, it's like that. I understand." and then I was able to make them just how he pictured them.
When looking through the renders and choosing what to share, I laughed at these two… Remember when Tenna had a gun? Remember when he bent over in a very specific way that might remind you of another, different image? No? Maybe you don't…? Well. Don't worry about it.
These ones are cute… Tenna is pretty cute sometimes! Has anyone ever thought this? Actually, before people knew he was going to be a strange 3D sprite the Whole Time, I was worried people wouldn't like the style and it'd sour people's views on him. I'm glad that didn't happen.
Toby thought it would be funny to have Tenna do some really smooth, mocapped animations sometimes - specifically free to use ones that often pop up in other things. An extra funny part to me is how many frames these take up in the game, and how his tails are stuck to his legs…
Speaking of mocap, Toby wanted Tenna to use custom mocap animations as far back as 2016 - Ten(na) years ago! I got an Xbox Kinect at the time and learnt how to set this up, but then never used it. Here's a look at messing with mocaped stuff again in 2022. So Normal.
Don't bother trying to help him here, he's just being dramatic 🙄
I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used in… I always liked posing his tie and coat tails as if they were also parts of his body he could move. Which I guess they are?
After I rendered out the individual poses in high quality, I'd force the color palette to be limited to just a few shades and then I'd shrink the result down to pixel sized sprites. Like these! I'd tidy them up a little, but they'd really get improved on at the pixel scale by Clairvoire.
As well as Tenna's sprites, I also worked on his intro "movie"…! Seeing people be completely overloaded by this on first playthroughs would always make me laugh. In game, there's a ton of extra editing done by Everdraed, but my unedited cut looks like this ⬇️
This was the entire storyboard I had to work from, and I'm realizing now that there's the note "put him in car etc" that I never did and actually don't know what it would mean exactly. Working on this had me listen to the accompanying audio many times, but it's good so it's okay.
Here are a bunch of random clips of the Maya project for Tenna's intro movie. This is how movies get made, I think!! Yeah… Just like this.
Say it with him, folks!!
For the 3D Ralsei clip from the intro, Toby really wanted it to look a certain way, and drew more sketches for guiding me with this part than any other. They genuinely helped.
Remember how Toby's original storyboard has the note "covered in slime and shrinks"? That meant I had to learn how to make 3D slime. You can see my tech advancing here.
I'm really happy with how the final Tenna animation at the end of the intro movie turned out! It wouldn't look as good if it wasn't for some 2D animation to reference from SmallBuStudio, so thank you to them for the help! Tenna is cute… Huh, I already said that…?
Phew!! That's a lot of Tenna. I hope it was fun to look through my posts! Oh, one more thing - the Fangamer Mr. Tenna Figurine just straight up uses the 3D model I made, which I think is really funny and cool and nice. Check it out if you want! Thanks for reading!
Presenting my theory on the Anubis blankie statue that has probably been said before
Okay so like Anubis’s whole purpose was to weigh the souls for the afterlife right??
So many people get into weird bs arguments over “they took his blankie!!” And “who cares it’s just a statue it has no blankie.” And like. My crack theory on the matter is this is like. This is the soul weighing. The people who have empathy and compassion for Anubis losing his blankie have the good souls and those who have no empathy and compassion and boil him down to just a statue are like. The bad souls. Bro is actively doing his job. I feel like a crazy person with a tinfoil hat. But like. BUT LIKE!!!! HELLO!!!!
I need everyone’s hearts and souls to come together rn like the ending of undertale with Asriel and together we can break the barrier or whatever I just want tenna to win you get the idea
1: The circus members are brain scans, this folder might be the abstracted members. CA_NeuralScans (Obsolete)
2: 'Abel' did exist, and the circles at the beginning of the episode were most likely Caine killing 'Abel'.
3: The circus was created on October 30th, 1996. Kinger's password is Queenie, and this confirms again that Kinger was his username.
4: Ragatha entered the circus on October 15th 2008, Scratch entered the same day but in 1999, and Caine in 1996. Interestingly enough, he is written in LISP, which has links to AutoCAD the modeling software.
5: Not much to actually say here, Caine's internals are protected by both him and bubble.
6: Assuming the GreenGrounds is the circus, Kinger was likely trying to inject the torment program (what the circus members are being tortured with??) with a daemon (automated process) in order to stop it.
Note a censored name [G_AN_]. My guess is on Grant lmao
Since these pictures are covered by Caine and Bubble, I'll write what they probably say.
"This IS a wacky word, but WRONG word!" "System selecting SAFEST option for reliability, cancel automatic selection? [Y/N]"
"Yes"
"Which backup do you want?"
"C"
"NONE Selected"
"Interpreted as: DELETE"
"Confirm deletion of current unstable program (or AI)?"
"No"
"Negative response! inverting to (?) per (?) protocols!"
"DELETE THIS MOTHER*****R, HAHAHAHAHAaaaaaaaaaaaa"
"No"
"Errored: Proceeding with ORIGINAL decision"
"Actually you're CONFUSED let me HELP, should this program EXIST [Y/N]"
"Yes"
"Override instruction error falling back to default metric"
(Kinger tries to yet again load a backup and stun Caine here)
"Are you really going to delete Caine? [Y/N]"
"YES" (This is where he accidentally hit delete)
okay so, folks are asking me to post my humanization of Caine, so i think ill start with it then XD here we go. human-human 100%. and his birdie-cockatoo named Bubble :] a lot of people on tt liked my idea and im literally giggling and kicking my feet
ok i did it. image for people who like defending caine but also want to make it clear that they Understand that He Did Bad Things. feel free to use, no credit required. enjoy
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