This is Simmy! You can also call me Simon or Leo. I'm 31 and nonbinary. They/them or he/him, please! This is my main blog. I hope you have a good day ♥ Find my art at https://princetsimmy.tumblr.com/ !
Watching Tenna participate in the sexyman contest is so funny because most of the people who want him to win are like "Go Tenna! 🎉 Go Tenna! 📺❤️" or talking about drawing him and whoever he's competing against making out sloppy style while most of the people who want the other guy to win are like "If Tenna wins, I'm detonating the bombs."
Tenna just dropoed below 50% in the tumblr sexyman tournament and he is very sad about it. If you want to cheer him up, vote for him in the contest and spread the news on other big platforms such as reddit (r/deltarune please if you have high karma!) , twitter, big discord servers, youtube, tiktok, everywhere! If he wins this, Toby Fox might write a small bit about it like he did for Sans! We've come so far, Caine hasn't lost just to see us fall now. Here's a link to the poll and some info about him!
💬 1181 🔁 2819 ❤️ 5814 · Tenna Propaganda! · Neutrals, consider taking a look before voting to form an opinion on Mr. Tenna!
We know he's
guys im convinced that Tenna winning the tumblr sexyman poll would unlock my brain from this writing block and we would all collectively bask in the radiant sunshine of his victory. the words would flow and the fics would write themselves, isn't that beautiful!
my wonderful friend @princetsimmy drew this absolutely gorgeous Tenna just for your attention!!! gaze upon him......take him in....he's so husband-shaped. so pretty....so utterly deserving of YOUR vote. how could you look at this man and NOT want to hand him the crown?? doesn't the thought of mr. Ant Tenna winning the tumblr sexyman poll fill you with determination?
small heads up: i’m gonna be offline pretty much everywhere til i finish chapter 5 (might be a while because i’m replaying from the start and i’m only at jevil since my wrist was fucked up before)
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!
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