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nice one, wise guy

[c0zm4z]

blog intro 🔆

🌻hi there. idk why it took me so long to make a blog pin, but wtv. I use to have one, but I deleted it. 🥥current likes: cookie run, tally hall, south park, smiling friends, power puff girls, TADC, animal crossing, and moral orel 🪻i draw a lot but i get scared to post. it gives me some motivation whenever i get requests. feel free to do that. I don’t do commissions, but that could change in the future if my artstyle gets better. 🏳️‍⚧️i use he/they

[krei-ations]

I love seeing those fanarts of Burning Spice Cookie that make him look like a 2000s cartoon character. You KNOW that man wakes up with an axe at his bedside to throw at the alarm clock in the morning, only to comedically miss and hit a dart board that, for some reason, has darts, arrows, knives, and other objects stuck in it before having to physically get up and turn the alarm off.

idk just something funny that came to mind.

Anyways, here’s a meme with that Steven Universe episode with the fire salt but the doughnut is just BSC.

[lasagnaforem]

Backrooms (2026) - Kane Parsons, A24

[elmonocutre]

(Warning: this is incomplete)

at first I wanted to draw a wholesome interaction in a similar style to moominvalley, since I think herald and fount's relationship would be quite similar to moomin and snufkin's in some ways (I'm not gonna elaborate on that)

but then I remembered that trees are supposed to have shadows, and the style went out the window.

also, I put this aside like 3 times, so you can see full illustrations transitioning into a comic

it's not finished and I was kinda hesitating to upload this bc of the sudden change in the artstyle, the weird angles and the childish chatter were pissing me off, but I already did it.

the next part would be fount (still unbothered by herald's presence) explaining how children's books not only can contain political ideology but also show a lot about the author's mindset (I think none of the virtues actually understood how common cookies saw the world, because they never had the opportunity to be in their shoes, and that's why they never understood what they needed)

then herald would tease him bc 'of course fount is trying to learn about cookies through books' and threatens to eat the cake— finally managing to get Fount to put the book aside, and they'll end up eating the cake together while cuddling

(and sugar of happiness would realise she maybe didn't send the best cookie to convince fount to get his ass off there, but at least she has a nice sight. meanwhile flour of volition... she'd probably be high in the background)

[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!

[mmmmmmrmn]

[c0zm4z]

ykw I really wanted to draw ts 🥹

no wonder he wants attention and feels alone. vlud has it rough I think

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[kaylmao]

[daisilynn]

Rankin-Bass Jack Frost you will forever be near and dear to my heart🥺🤞🩷 PLEASE watch some rankin-bass cartoons if you haven’t, they really just radiate so much charm and joy no joke……

[realest-slenderman]

if one of my pages seems abnormally long and information dense sorry guys that’s just my birth control side effects sheet that got mixed in with the regular pages #fridays

[c0zm4z]

Gender swaps never really felt fair. I’m not the hugest fan of them, since 90% of the time it’s the girl character becoming an “appealing, better version of the original” with scars and more trauma because they’re a guy now, and the guy characters becoming sexualized because they’re a girl now, so they have big titties and no original body type bcs all women are hour glass and long hair. I’d like to be proven wrong.

[spawnoferis]

Oh, do NOT start me on this. BECAUSE I HAVE SO MUCH BEEF WITH GENDER SWAP STUFF BC OF THIS AND MORE.

I'm thoroughly convinced at this point that, when it comes to gender bends, TF2 artists are the only ones with any idea of what they're doing (take this with a LOT of salt; *my sample size is small) because they DON'T this. They don't exaggerate it; you can TELL it's the same character.

And it's not only the sexualising that bothers me, but sometimes they change the character's personality for some reason too???? Like, a blunt, cold male character will suddenly become 'just a silly tsundere' girl for, like, no reason?? And they always try to swap their hobbies, interests, skills, etc if they're stereotypically gendered??? Like, what??? Can we NOT do that please?????

Not to mention that gender swaps aren't that great when it comes to nonbinary characters, because if the artist doesn't just leave the enben alone, they'll try to do it based off ASAB (or perceived ASAB if the character doesn't have a canon/confirmed one).

Overall, if you're (not directed exactly at you, mootie) going to do gender swaps, I say put in the effort to do it right.

Stop oversexualising the characters, stop exaggerating sexual dimorphism, use realistic body types, AND JUST DON'T DO ANY OF THE THINGS WE'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT HERE, I BEG.

*A good example tho is how @/dailyheavymedic gender swaps their Heavy and Medic---it's done incredibly in my opinion.

[c0zm4z]

you can always trust a TF2 artist to be the most immaculate person ever who donates to charity, saves cats from trees on the daily, and has their degrees in all aspects of health while still being in their twenties. and also good at art idk

[c0zm4z]

Gender swaps never really felt fair. I’m not the hugest fan of them, since 90% of the time it’s the girl character becoming an “appealing, better version of the original” with scars and more trauma because they’re a guy now, and the guy characters becoming sexualized because they’re a girl now, so they have big titties and no original body type bcs all women are hour glass and long hair. I’d like to be proven wrong.

[detectivehole]

what's that one thing where they asked how ripely from alien was so realistic and believable as a female character in scifi for once and they were like "well we just took the dude from the original script and made him a girl and changed nothing else. it works bc men and women are the same?" and people were like "woah no way" and then didn't learn anything from that for 20 years

[detectivehole]

"how do you write such believable men as a woman?" "how do you write such believable women a man?" and the answer people who are good at it always give is "i just write people. were literally the exactly the same. do you think the opposite sex is some sorta totally different animal???" and people respond "woah that's wild. yea i do. and im not gonna stop thinking that goodbye :)"

[anarchistmemedistro]

[self-loving-vampire]

[c0zm4z]

some ocs I forgot to show

[awaiting-real-burningspice-plush]

Day 231 of posting until we get an official Burning Spice Cookie plush

(admittedly an inaccurate number bc i have missed Many Days due to being forgetful)

and...

OH MY FUCKING GOD

MY HEART IS ACTUALLY POUNDING THIS FEELS UNREAL OH MY GOD OH M YGOD YAYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[c0zm4z]

and then we woke up

[koiagain]

I guess you could say he’s ve… he’s a very h…