Working on a Live2D Kris project lately! Spent way too much time just on the face rig, but here's a sneak peek of the progress. Planning to make some even cooler and flashier animations once it's done!
I've always loved the sequence where characters fall into the Dark World and get their transformations, so I tried recreating it in my own style!
Also, I' incredibly excited for Chapter 5! Seeing all the news and amazing creations shared by the community lately has me so hyped and looking forward to it.
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!
A bit nervous but wanted to share a little milestone! I’ll be vending for the very first time at a local convention in Taiwan (called BIO, an event dedicated to Western media) at the end of this month.
I've been busy preparing booth decorations and crafting some merch lately. Filmed these short clips just to document the process. Thought I'd share the progress here. Wish me luck! 💦
Just felt like sharing a few thoughts on my art process lately.
As a long-time artist, I've always known that the core logic and rendering methods for light and shadow remain the same, no matter the medium. Yet, even with a solid workflow in mind, shifting to a different creative tool still brings subtle differences to the final piece.
I've always been a Photoshop user, where my digital painting routine is deeply ingrained. PS offers so much flexibility with layers and blending effects, making it effortless to fine-tune details. Because of that, my desktop pieces usually turn out a bit more polished, intricate, and honestly, a tad more efficient to make.
On a recent short trip, however, the urge to draw forced me to switch things up. I've never quite gotten used to drawing on an iPad, and I have immense respect for artists who create masterpieces on it. This time, I tried painting Kris in Procreate, and the process felt much closer to traditional painting. Due to some of the software's limitations, I ended up merging everything and working almost entirely on a single layer toward the end. While it wasn't the easiest way to manage layer effects, it allowed me to leave behind more raw, intuitive brushstrokes.
When comparing pieces I've made in different software (PS, CSP, Procreate),I can always spot subtle differences. I wonder—as viewers, can you tell the difference, or is it just me?
Drew another fanart of Asa! I really love how her smile in the anime is both elegant and adorable at the same time.
I also recorded the drawing process this time—hope you all enjoy it!😊
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