[ Bugg | she/her ] Deltarune-specific/sometimes Undertale blog because I don't want to clog my main. Also a place for me to talk about my own stuff. (follows back from sbuggbot)
(Plugs my vessel AU)
I’ve been meaning to make/post an updated Britt reference and tonight was the night. So here’s my Deltarune AU that was entirely borne on me wanting to adopt Ralsei as a little brother and generally wanting to give Kris their autonomy and free will back.
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The Red Soul helps Kris find their original soul, and its discarded vessel body (named "Britt"). One messy soul-swapping and a rather disturbed Susie later, and the Red Soul is in the vessel it designed, as was intended all along - something happened between creating the body and putting the soul *into* the body.
With them free from each other, Kris can do their things again and Britt can finally interact with the world and its inhabitants without disrupting Kris. Initially she just hides in the bunker (and turned it into her home), wishing to stay out of (read: avoid) Kris's path.
Once she's more convinced Kris doesn't despise her presence, she "moves" into Hometown and becomes the school janitor. She pretends to be a human for the most part (not that anyone in Hometown would realize grey is not a natural skin color), but she does have access to some file-editing abilities.
In the Dark World, she wields a bigass shield and focuses on defense. Kris is still the leader of the party but Britt is able to ACT in the way they can if they're absent. Otherwise she has P-Action (P for player; B is taken by Berdly, natch) and a couple other moves - like boosting party members' defense.
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!
I call this piece "If I Hear You Breathe A Single Word Calling Her Neglectful Or Uncaring Or A Deadbeat Drunkard One More Time I'm Beating Your Ass Into Its Atomic Subparticles"
Ppl saying this isn’t mentioning Spamton . The original context was just specifically his fucked up relationship with the dreemurrs. If you include the dark world and ch3 stuff it becomes insane.
Something I adore about Tenna is like. He Does cuss. But hes weird and inherited toriels ocd so he thinks if he cusses at work or, god FORBID, in front of the kids hes the devil which leads him to censoring himself. Though actually now that I think about it, Susie also gets her more intense swears censored. So it could just be a deltarune thing and Toby avoiding the mature rating(makes sense) but bc Tenna’s a TV his swears getting censored are more noticeable to us. My point is tenna is one of the only characters who says fuck and im sick of pretending he isnt and he says it in objectively the funniest possible circumstance
I'm serious when I say we gotta give Temmie Chang half the credit for Making Undertale (and Deltarune)
She's got an animation degree, I know the art in Undertale gets underappreciated sometimes because it's trying to evoke an older simpler style, but the art in Undertale is legit amazing and without Temmie, none of Toby's ideas would have been able to be realized (without finding some other artist and animator)
She deserves more flowers for being the one who made the vast majority of the art assets for an entire game that is one of the most commonly cited games as an influence on others (her style is so beloved and recognizeable, there's a fully complete Undertale fangame emulating it)
ik the vessel from the gonermaker sequence is said to be discarded but i wanna see it appear whatever did you do with my wonderful creation. i want to see my wonderful creation
it is funny being a deltarune fan because we all have a random specific ass blorbo or two that we concentrate on hard but in my experience a solid 90% of the time you ask someone who the best character is and we just go "susie" and that includes myself. yeah I got the spamtenna autism but I am not fucking sleeping on susie deltarune