[coughloop]

"madame president! the terrorists said you need to drink 2 more gin cocktails in the next hour or so, or they'll blow up every natural wine bar in the emerging warehouse district!"

me: *sprawled across my desk* i don give aa damn about the hostiges. but i aam, thirsy....

[pixelatedcrown]

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!

[ob-2-kenobi]

I miss the days when Dropout doing copaganda was a ridiculous joke that would never actually happen.

No company is your friend, and though it hurts I'm at least thankful to be reminded of that.

[haiimrowie]

@k1ju02's tags:

[elytraqueen]

[transjinako]

[b0tster]

'why do ur lesbian ocs need condoms?'

bsky replies: its not uncommon for some tops to put condoms on the strap because its still possible to transmit std's. also it could just be a joke and shes just doing it cuz shes bisexual or something and has them lying around maybe and its funny cuz they dont need them?

tumblr replies: 'because bia has a massive cock'

[b0tster]

just saw someone say 'well trans woman are infertile so they wouldnt need condoms' and that is so many layers of incorrect i had to sit down lol 💀

[lilyblisslys]

“Yeah, we can eat this twogirl style” my girlfriend, referring to a pizza we just ordered

[lilyblisslys]

Reblog if you want to get eaten twogirl style

[piratelordtoga]

[maekl029]

I have no explanation for this one. You just have to feel it

[that-ipod-robotgirl]

@sempiosoysauce

[minervadeutonomy]

eek, I have a terrible headache and I keep clenching my jaw ugh

[beesmygod]

HARMFUL GAY STEREOTYPES EMBODIED BY MOHG

lives in sewer

kidnaps children actually he was cleared of this one

blood magic

[hexdrake]

never stops being funny

[deepseasmetro]

i dont think theres anything wrong with asking your partner to do things to combat your own low self esteem, like i am a clingy mentally ill insecure little kitten who would get jealous if another cat sat in somebodys lap. But like at a certain point soooo much of monogamy (beyond the Just Controlling Your Partner stuff) is asking somebody else to bend themselves over backwards to soothe your insecurities instead of. yknow. dealing with them. and of course when men especially do this to the women and girls they are dating it is 10000x worse

[wonderarium]

this sewing pattern just touched me while i was in the middle of reading it

[txttletale]

one of the most common random encounters on this website is "guy who is incredibly insecure about their reading ability and will take you using marginally uncommon vocabulary on your own blog as a personal attack intended to lord your superiority over them specifically"

[crabussy]

every time a trans man who does not want to be called a twink gets called a twink I will personally go out into the world and rend 1 parked car to shreds with my teeth. cut it out

[crabussy]

walk with me for a moment. let's think for a sec. I'm not upset but I do want people to understand. do you think assigning a label associated with feminine features, hairlessness, skinniness/lack of muscle tone, and high pitched voices is something that most trans men would feel comfortable being associated with? why or why not?

[crabussy]

of COURSE there are trans men who don't mind it, or trans men who actively enjoy being called a twink. but I am not hairless by choice. I WANT fat and muscles and body hair and a deep voice. and a lot of trans men that get called twinks DO HAVE THESE THINGS, yet they get called "twink" anyway. why do you think that might be?

it's okay if you've done this in the past. maybe just check in before you call your friend or acquaintance something with so many specific, potentially disheartening associations!

[crabussy]

I wonder if the inverse occurs with trans women getting called "butch" too. because there are many wonderful butch trans women!!! but if you call trans women "butches" for traits like short hair or body hair despite otherwise feminine presentation, maybe think about why that is? is she really a butch? or is that just her body? just ask first!

nonbinary people too. are they really "masc presenting" or is that just their body? are they really "fem presenting" or is that just their body? let's all try to be a bit more cognisant of the language we use to describe the trans people in our lives, yeah? [: it's worth thinking about. don't worry yourself into a hole about it, of course! but it's something to check every now and then.

[cleaningouttherooms]

substack simulator

post 1: they don't want you to know that everyone is stupid and angry nowadays. and its because of covid post 2: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of fascism post 3: they don't want you to know that everyone is stupid and angry nowadays. and its because of AI post 4: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of christianity post 5: transmasculine joy is revolutionary post 6: i am the only literate cinephile left in a sea of cartoon watchers. and here are my thoughts about this critically acclaimed hollywood film post 7: no longer identifying as transmasculine and stopping T because the patriarchy exists is revolutionary post 8: ive tied together two social trends ive identified. and they are because of tiktok

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[502-tachibana]

does anyone have fucked up evil thing experiences remorse for the first time

[tamamoland-with-a-gun]

sort of