sea critter guy

🦈azalea/azzy 20 he/him water enthusiast + multifandom artist 🦈

[azzy-21]

Greetings azzy nation!!! I'm an art student and use this blog to post my art and talk about stuff I like. I'm a hardcore Pokemon, Zelda, Undertale/Deltarune fan. I reblog a ton of stuff so feel free to block my rb tags!

Read below to see all my navigation tags!!!

MAIN TAGS

my art: #azzyart

text posts: #speaking

REBLOG TAGS

fandom rbs: #holymoly

original art rbs: #cool art

misc personal use: #politicalrb #me #chuckles #useful #interactive posts

[catmask]

ive had trans men ask me before how to overcome the insecurity/fear that they are transitioning just to escape misogynist treatment and wondering about the validity of their identity. the simple solution is that u must continue to engage and fight misogyny even when you are not a woman. prove your fear wrong

[catmask]

u really cannot out-validate an insecurity that u do not do the work to fight against the structure that supports it u know. i am the gender i am simply because it looked fucking yummy. the reason i dont experience doubts w it in this way is because any time i do i turn around to face the thing im 'running from' and punch it

[catmask]

💯💯💯

[arrimorr]

Thinking a lot about Papyrus and flowey being friends again....my fav comfort and horror dynamic at the same time. What a duo

[pixelatedcrown]

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!

[azzy-21]

Azzy head sketches from this morning :P trying to post more wips

[azzy-21]

Attack for mt19937 on art fight!

[azzy-21]

art fight 2025 attack on @fishfood22 …. forgot to post it when I originally made it but it deserves to see the light!!

[legendofdinner]

majora's mask if it was 2-Player, featuring Gyorg (N64)

[epicsause-official]

just got an idea for a banger couples shirts design

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[jsheios]

in it together

[jsheios]

Alt

[fishbrainns]

deltarune 2daysmorrow

[hostilemuppet]

Now that I barely use this account I have a controversial deltarune take are you ready

[hostilemuppet]

Kris being the only human in a monster town as a queer (specifically trans) allegory makes very little sense considering that not only are there other trans people in town (the transfem waitress with a lions mane) but they're not even the only trans person in their class (monster kid is also nonbinary). I obviously don't know the guy but if this was the message Toby fox was going for i think itd really undermine his queer isolation metaphor by surrounding them with other queer people who are treated casually like its not an issue

"Only human in a monster town" is clearly supposed to represent them being a poc and/or foreigner in a predominantly white/monocultural neighbourhood and a transracial adoptee. Like they literally used to wear fake horns to make themself look like their adoptive family. But the average utdr fan is a white lgbt who is incapable of recognising marginalisation that's not focused on queerness and whose understanding of adoption is "found family trope"

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[foxsnails]

Get wet, get wiggly, it's World Eel Day!! I forgot to implement the theme even though I'm the one who chose it oops. That just means I may need to draw a few more eels

Drawn in ink (the wettest medium

[azzy-21]

DELTARUNE UPON US THIS IS NOT A DRILL !!!! I’ve been working on this for a hot minute and went into crunch time to finish it before everyone had played chapters 3 and 4, I hope you all like it!!

[gorryb]

It always there, the Tail