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!
Whumper forcing their fingers deep into whumpee's mouth until they choke and gag, over and over. Over time whumpee learns how to breathe past the intrusion, and their gag reflex is slowly trained out.
"I didn't have to do this for you, you know," Whumper tells them in between sessions. "You'll thank me later."
okay this may be little too specific but. rb this and put in the tags a character you get defensive over. not as in āthey deserve betterā but as in āi know them better than anybody else doesā <3
just antis saying the word āpedophileā so casually again, whatās new? Fucking grow up, you are 100% allowed to hate dark ships, and i honestly donāt like them a lot myself, but itās not an excuse to call random people pedophiles and send a mass amount of people to report an innocent artist. Sorry for ranting to nobody, iām just irritated
Sorry to the specifically 31 year olds.. you're a pedophile for engaging in fandom.. Yeah sorry but wanting Gon and Killua to get together? THATS WEIRD... YOU'RE JUST LIKE HISOKA...
There's totally like no way to just be like "Oh I like them they should be together" and then you go on with your day... You're thinking about these characters fucking... HOW DARE YOU... You you want these kids together SO THEY CAN BANG. š”š”š”š”š”š”š”š”
I literally can't and so many people were agreeing... š My mom ships Harry Potter characters & SHE ISN'T A PEDOPHILE, also SHIPPING THINGS DON'T MAKE YOU A PEDOPHILE LIKING *REAL* CHILDREN DOES
āø I DONT CONDONE ANY HARASSMENT TOWARDS ANYONE THAT IS POSTED TO THIS PAGE, ANTI OR NOT.
I think a lot about who I am to other people in the worldāparticular who I am to strangers as a mere concept in their lives.
Today this woman called our information desk and said,Ā āmy sonās band is playing tonight. I want to come see him, but he never answers his phoneā¦..I want to be there. Have you heard anything about his band?ā
And I felt so bad for this lady but Iām not in the music scene around here so I had to tell her no, sorry.
Five hours later, Iām hiking and run into a group of guys setting up for some outdoor performance, and as I watch them unload the drums it hits me.
āHey,ā I said,Ā āare yāall in a band?ā
They said yeah and smiled and I told themĀ āone of your moms called today. She wants to watch you play, but she canāt get a hold of you. Call your mom.ā
And they all pulled out their phones and started discussing whose mom it probably was as they presumably dialed their own.
And now, unless we meet again and recognize each other, thatās who Iāll be forever to those guysāsome mysterious courier for mom-messages who came out of the woods and told them their mom called.
I didnāt even tell them why their mom called me. Who am I to their mom?? Nobody even asked. They just took my word for it and called their mothers.
The age verification thing is horseshit!!!!!! full stop!!!!! Everyone knows the moderation on this site explicitly targets transgender people, especially trans women & transfeminist allies, people of color, and other marginalized groups, often marking their blogs and flagging their posts as mature.
This new update will explicitly take away the visibility of marginalized people. Raise hell about it. Write reviews and call in like we did for the reblog update. If anything, this is even more important than that one, especially for trans women and people of color who are already flagged.
