It's been just over a year since Deltarune chapters 3 & 4 released! I did the 3D work, which mostly means Tenna šŗ 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 āØ 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 š
There was a time when I was struggling to capture what he wanted for these specific Tenna posesā¦ 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 twoā¦ 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'tā¦? Well. Don't worry about it.
These ones are cuteā¦ 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 legsā¦
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 š
I particularly like these poses - I think I improvised most of these just based off the context they get used inā¦ 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"ā¦! 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 ā¬ļø
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!! Yeahā¦ 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 cuteā¦ Huh, I already said thatā¦?
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!
(and before anyone says anything, YES i am aware of the time era who framed roger rabbit takes place in and Tenna would be too modern (haha, imagine that) but hes so cartoony and this is my favorite movie so let me have this. this idea requires a bit of willing suspension of disbelief xD)
so yk thereās this Ado music video that has been renting free in my mind a few months ago. and i thought it would be cool to draw some spamtenna in Magicās style ! (more Magic drawings that arenāt related to deltarune under the cut :D)
tbh i love the way it turned out!! idk i feel like the vibe of Magic matches with them in a way (i donāt have a clue what the lyrics are about but idc)
i also wanted to say that iām amazed by how my little spam i posted some weeks ago made his first impessions. i didnāt expect that much !! it looks kinda cool here and you all are so nice !
i made these drawings a few months ago, but felt like posting it with the other one !
Mike's First day ---
I've had this one in my drafts for a while now, and I finally managed to complete it, I feel like it's.... very fanon brained all things considered lol but I had fun!
This one is also running on the idea that Battat is Asriel's dice š he just got kinda "Jessied"(from Toy Story lol) under Asriel's bed though.
Also just wanted a bit of focus on Jongler too, I actually had bits of their interaction with Tenna :
the thing was that Toriel wasn't paying attention to Tenna, she was watching Tv but paying attention to her phone, which yeah Tenna was pretty sad about, Jongler tried comforting him by saying that maybe she wanted a bit of background noise, which made Tenna break in tears š
Originally I was going to have Jongler start crying there too, and then Tenna comforts them instead, sadly with the side effect that later Tenna would be way too anxious for making Mike upset and sad with his problems and he tries overcompensating by pampering Mike the next day š
but I guess I didn't want to overdo it with Tenna's sadge scenes on this one
I like to think that even though Tenna doesn't recognize him, he could still use this chance to appear as a random vendor and try sell him random crap he knows he may like, lowkey just to talk to him again but he can't help himself being a little sketchy lol
also god, writing Spamton is so difficult lol I'm not good at sales pitch kinda talk, let alone the brackets quirk he has lol but hope it still turned out funny.
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