so ive been having a lot of thoughts about defernull mettatenna
mostly doing my own thing, i wanted to try redesigning mettaton (no shade to the og design it just doesn't do it for me) and it kinda. Snowballed out of control so enjoy some concepts and the accidental 12 page comic that came out of them
So apparently "as a flamingo, the pinker you are, the healthier and better quality you are" and exhaustion turns them white. Therefore: new timeline Cabs. For @sunnyaliceart's prompt "Cabanela wearing a pink coat like a flamingo or any other color of the rainbow" as part of @fyeahghosttrick's Ghost Swap!
yippee ghost swap! this is for @sunnyaliceart's prompt about jowd being good at skating and cabanela being terrible at it, i decided to draw hockey jowd because i like hockey
This is my first time participating ghost swap, despite me being not hyperfixated on gric at the moment and have a hard time getting myself to start drawing grick, i have fun! I hope y'all like em ^^
@sunnyaliceart jowd being great at ice skating, but
cabanela surprisingly is terrible at it
fun fact, my thesis animated film is about is about ice skating, so it just makes sense for me to pick this lol
the rest of the prompt i choose feels like going to spoilers territory and i know most of my following haven't ghost trick yet sooo
VV GHOST TRICK SPOILERS AHEAD VV
@frogpotat yomiel aura farming
@pennamepersona sissel learning how to read post game
@the-grey-hunt lynee on the run with sissel
@allpatchedart sissel/yomiel working at a cat cafe
@diathadevil sissel and lynee arguing
gotta yap a bit bout this one- i originally want to make a comic about it, but omg it was not a great time for me to be not hyperfixated on ghosts, so i thought i'll skip it, but even after i finish the other prompts, this one sTILL LINGERS ON MY MIND CUZ I ALSO HAVE A SIMILAR IDEA MONTHS AGO IN MESSY DOODLES- so i settled with drawing a single image, and that satisfy me, end of yap session
One year ago @runicmagitek posted the first chapter of this little mettatenna fic idea they had. One year later, it's turned into a massive story full to the brim with heart, drama, and yes, maybe even a little bloodshed. So, @sunnyaliceart and I came together to make this to show how much it means to us!
Thank you Runic for sharing your spark with us 💖 Keep on shining bright! ✨✨✨
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!
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