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!
Sorry this one took longer than expected, myself and Shiggy got kinda busy last month. And in the case of Shiggy, sick, too.
Which reminds me.
Just like the last page, @shigg315 helped me out with this one. He helped with the composition and paneling, and colored the backgrounds and did compositing.
This page was pretty fun to figure out. Got more room to breath than the last page which had an establishing shot and a slightly slower pace.
And with this page, we've officially remade the only page that was released after the first scene of Chapter 1 lol.
But hey, that just means that all the pages from here on will be brand-new stuff.
I hope you all look forward to that!
Until then,
this has been Dragon8er,
and I will see you all
Drago-l8er!
Hello, I'm known as Aurora. A while ago, I had a medical emergency regarding my foot. (I'm okay now, thankfully.) However, I'm unfortunately buried in medical debt, and my only option is to make payments of $106 per month, which I can't afford given my varied work hours, not to mention other costs such as rent and utilities. That's why, even though I don't like asking for help... I need it now more than ever. I have set up my Ko-fi for anyone willing to donate and/or request a commission. I'd appreciate it, and that goes for my commissions as well. I will also have my commission sheet and TOS posted below as well. Thank you for taking the time to read, and I look forward to drawing for you!
Support Aurora
💫Aurora’s Commission TOS💫 Introduction: Hello, and thank you for considering me as someone to commission and bring whatever ideas you have
I am not asking for a lot...just enough to pay the 106 USD monthly. If you can't, that's okay too. Please share with anyone if you can.
Granted, I have no idea when I started this AU, but it's somewhere in June 2022.
2022. That's 4 years now.
So I got this commissioned by a friend on discord as a means to celebrate 4 years of a mechanical Asriel. I hope you stick around for the ride, it may have been climbing for so long now, but I can promise you, the drop is coming soon. (well i mean in a good way, like a roller coaster metaphor.) So with that...
Happy Anniversary Asriel, there's more down the line for ya!
EDIT: Almost forgot to mention, AU's logo is drawn by @souptaels!
And so I reveal the new version of "Asgore Adopts Noelle"; now known as "Angelic Fate". Where AaN was just an ideal slice-of-life AU, my plan with AF is going to be slightly bigger and slightly grander; a storyline I had been building in the back of my mind, especially with Chapter 4's release of DR last year, that can be more overtly explored with this new form of the AU. I also plan to make videos with this new form of the AU, as I now have the tech to do so.
So what's going to become of HolidayKing102? Its not going anywhere. If you want to keep reading the old versions of AaN/AF, you can. This will become my reblog/archive account, where I'll reblog stuff I like and want to share.
Thank you all for supporting me through out these 5 years of AaN, and lets all prepare for 5 new years of AF!
And I want to go ahead and apologize for that.
The reasons are pretty straightforward.
After I made the Prologue and the first 16 pages of Chapter 1 back in 2024, basically all by myself, I had completely burned myself out.
And all throughout 2025, I just never managed to work up the motivation to get back to it. Between that and me just being so busy throughout the year, plans just...fell through.
As for why it took so long to upload one this year...I talked about that back on Cinco de Mono. But to summarize: myself and Shiggy were busy.
Which reminds me...
@shigg315!!!
He helped me greatly with this page!
He helped me with composition and layouts, did all the backgrounds and the compositing, and even some cleanup. He even gave me some helpful pointers for the shading, which I did for the characters.
So yeah, massive shoutouts to him!
This page probably wouldn't exist right now without him.
And it certainly wouldn't look anywhere near as good.
I can't promise that the next page will be next week, but we are hard at work on it, and we will try to release it within the month.
Until then,
this has been Dragon8er,
(oh how I missed this)
and I will see you all
Drago-l8er!!!
Hard to believe this bony bastard has been in my life for 7 years.
And I wouldn't have it any other way. <3
Thank you all so much for joining the journey of this AU and this smiley trash bag.
I know it's been a while since this ask blog has...y'know, done asks lol.
And I thank you all for your patience...
All Askable Characters will be Askable for...until I say so lol.
I'm planning on having this go on for at least a day or two.
But also...
Silksuit!Muffet is now askable!!
But not forever.
They don't have infinite money.
(Silksuit!Muffet co-created by myself and @bigfungus7).
But that's not all...
(A WIP)
The comic is coming this time.
I pinky-promise.
I do wanna apologize for this taking so long.
Myself and Shiggy were way too busy in December to get these pages ready for then. And then it just sorta snowballed. Shiggy got a 2nd job, I got a wedding to attend, we just couldn't find the time.
But dammit, we're finding the time for this month!!
At the very least, Page 17 and the new version of Page 16 will be uploaded this month.
I hope you're looking forward to it!
Oh and there was one other thing...
But I cancelled it.
The other day, as a potential idea for Cinco de Mono, I was experimenting around with the idea of a potential Mono redesign.
I decided against it, however.
Honestly, as simple as Mono's design is...at this point, I just kinda love it too much. Y'know, it's been a part of my life for 5 years at this point.
I love Mono.
And I love you all!
So thanks for sticking around!
This has been Dragon8er
and I will see you all
Drago-l8er!
For the past week, I have been working on an UTDR AU Tier List with over 100 AUs on it. Today, I have finally finished AND Uploaded the Tier List
Here is a complete list of all the AUs I sprited for that
You can use the Tier List here
Happy Anniversary to Asgore Adopts Noelle, everyone! Today, AaN turns 5 years old. Due to life, there will be an official celebration (albeit a smaller one) this Wednesday.