i joined tumblr when i was like 14 because i’d recently started reading homestuck. i’ve been trapped here ever since. if you ever see another “liverbaliver” on the internet there’s a 99.9% likelihood that’s me
repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck
there should be big extended events in tomodachi life, like there should be a chance for one if your miis to spontaneously develop a zombie virus, and a zombie apocalypse starts on your island and lasts until one of your miis develops a cure or everyone is infected. (once everyone is infected it turns out there actually was no virus, and everyone was just kind of placebo'd into believing they were zombies)
there are so many lines in I Saw The TV Glow that go so hard. "there is still time" is the one everyone talks abt, understandably. but also
"I found my heart, Isabel. I found yours too. And it was still beating."
like. even if you don't know it. your heart is still out there. YOU are still out there. it might be far away, on the other side of the tv screen, but it's still there. and it's still alive. it refuses to die.
i think that's what i saw the tv glow did honestly.
that moment when you're watching it as a trans person, and every cell in your body is begging her to not stop, to not run away, please please please. you need to see it more than you've needed anything. and then she does. she sees everything inside herself in a bathroom all alone where we've all been, and she closes it all up, her emaciated and sickly body barely holding her up, and she walks back into an arcade room apologizing for her outburst to a building full of people who refuse to see or hear her.
and then you realize, while your chest feels like it might just cave in under the pressure, that this film refused to afford you the relief of seeing someone else do what you must, to give you that false and fleeting pressure eased. no. if you want this film to have a good ending, you have to make it yourself. you have to do what she could not, because otherwise, well. you just saw your future.
honestly i could handle the remake looking like a fanmade recreation in unreal engine if i felt like we had any guarantee they weren't going to touch the lore at all, but i'm very concerned that they're going to try to 'fix' certain things and make the parts that are already bad worse. plus i think they might actually be framing it wholly as a retelling of the story of OoT, not necessarily as just a modernized way to experience the same story? i could absolutely be wrong, it could just be a gimmick for the trailer, but like
like. the monologue is directly based on the Deku Tree's first-person intro monologue from the original game. in the trailer, it takes a lot of those same phrases and changes the pov and tense, so instead of the Deku Tree describing things that are currently, imminently happening, it's a speaker from the far future (in a post-Hyrule setting, apparently) describing events that happened far in the past.
after thinking about it, idk whether or not i'd prefer it to be a remake of the same story, or for it to have the plausible deniability of being itself a retelling of that story. in the first case, if they make shitty changes, obv it sucks because it explicitly and directly attempts to revise the original work. but even in the latter case, while it would ostensibly be an attempt to keep the original canon intact, i feel like it would've only been formatted that way specifically for the purpose of being able to alter big aspects of the original story and world. like, technically without disturbing the source material, but functionally setting itself up to disturb it as much as possible.
obviously remakes shouldn't be conflated with remasters, we can't criticize it for being more than just graphical improvements, and it does make sense that they'd want to start from scratch on a modern & more accessible gameplay format for this game. but i feel like they've also set it up to be able to alter the narrative as is convenient for them to make it mesh more with TotK, ideologically speaking. and i think it would take away a lot of the enjoyment i personally would have about reexperiencing this specific Zelda narrative in an updated format, if it turned out to be just. a completely subjective, revised spin on that narrative.
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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