MineZapp

Hi! I started a Tumblr account to have a more public place to post the art i make! I draw Deltarune-related things, primarily.

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EVERY DELTARUNE RECRUIT

I've finally done it. I've drawn all 34 existing recruits! :D

This was an awesome project. I made a tumblr account just for the sake of posting these.

I already had to reduce the image's resolution just so I could post it at all, so I don't know how detailed it'll be compared to the individual ones I've posted already.

I'm not sure what I'll draw next, but I think it'll be similar to this in some way.

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the roaring knight

at least, my design for her. i had fun making this

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ralsei playing games

cute moment from chapter 3

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color experiments

some fun fictional flowers and potion bottles i've drawn to get better at rendering, color choices, and shading. i like them

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my computer will not turn on. i have no choice but to draw traditional

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contrary to unpopular belief, most people walk around using their legs, not just their arms

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Tasques Managed

i threw together two tasques with tasque manager because that's the encounter that happens in-game

i was planning to arrange them like this previously, and it looks really nice. glad i thought to include the letters

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chapter 4 stuff

didn't have anything new to show today so i did some of the previously mentioned fun stuff with a few of the chapter 4 recruits

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silly guys

these are not recruits, I’m just doing them afterwards for fun because they’re the iconic funny blobs

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the second half

all of them are done- and the only reason all of them aren't in this image is because i haven't made that yet

tomorrow, once i've put them all together according to my self-imposed rules in a way that looks aesthetically pleasing, i'll post that, and the journey will be complete

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tasque manager

i got stuck a few times during this one, but i just kept going because- well- this is the final recruit.

i've drawn them all

i'm not truly finished, though, until i'm done assembling them into one big image. tomorrow!

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round 8 complete

tasque manager is the only remaining recruit i haven't drawn- so, just her

i might end up being a few hours late, but i hope to have them all completed and assembled on new year's day

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bibliox

i wanted to go for an interesting interpretation here, so i drew it standing up, showing eyes under the hat

it was tricky to maintain the pareidolia mustache+beard/book thing going on, but i really like how this looks, it turned into a different style of beard

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zapper!

has anyone ever drawn regular zapper ever

jongler probably makes up at least 90% of all zapper art

well, here's my design! i tried to include as many iconic buttons as i could while maintaining the general appearance

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"hey, virus, you've gotta pay"

another nice duo. these two are what, rivals, law enforcement and criminal, doctor and patient, antivirus and virus, all at once

i planned to wait to show off more fun pairings like this until i was finished, but i'm so close anyways and i'm impatient

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ambyu-lance!

despite its interesting design, ambyu-lance was never suggested, and ended up being one of the final recruits

i spent way longer on the lineart than i intended, but i'm pretty fond of it overall

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@minezapp hi i like your wicabel design so much and i rendered it

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WHAT?? Oh my god, I've never even reblogged a- a thing before- This is crazy! Thank you so much! It's so shiny and it's got that glowing red light reflecting off of it?? Because of the handle at the top?? And the background is GORGEOUS- I was hoping to maybe give some of them a background myself at some point, but that background was just going to be, say, the color blue??

I'm jumping up and down and my jaw keeps dropping as I see all the little details. Thank you!!

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glad you enjoy it :] the actual scene setup for this is like. A bit ridiculous lmao

the bell fields were extremely quick to set up with the array modifier, which is great, because they were a bit last-minute after realizing just using deltarune spritework for the bg looked awful.. the raw render also looks slightly different, since i had wanted it to look much moodier for most of the project:

which would be nice if it didn't kill every detail in a 50 mile radius, but oh well! i did some light editing w/ color dodge and contrast until everything was clearer.

also did more work with materials this time around, mainly using procedural textures for normal/bump mapping. the skirt uses blender's inbuilt wave texture to paint stripes, as well as the boundaries between each stripe, which are then used to fake some extra depth in the model by using them as a bump map..

meanwhile, on the b-side, a random noise texture is stretched wide and used the same way, giving the impression of brushed metal - this is also plugged into the stripes from before for a little texture

and all of this gets fed into the same BSDF to make a nice bell-like skirt.

the brushed metal texture gets re-used on pretty much every other material, and the technique of converting brightness to normals is also used for the embossed swirls and runes on the bells.

these were also mostly done in blender, because rendering a flat piece of geometry is easier than learning adobe illustrator. there's a little square camera that renders them out, and then i pump up the contrast externally.

the model has a really basic rig for posing, but it's not really anything special, since i barely had to account for deforming or weights or whatever. probably the only interesting thing about is is that there's a REALLY basic IK setup on the hair, but like.. it could be soooo much better lol

the skirt also had a deeply irritating issue where blender played kind of weird with the skirt normals for some reason, and i could not find out what the hell was causing this, so i just had to work around it by making them much less pronounced. it was going to be much rounder originally.. ah well

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oh my goodness seeing all of this is my favorite thing

the metal texture is perfectly fitting here, i love it so much, and it makes the reflections look so interesting!

the version with the more subtle bumps is about what i was imagining, i think i prefer what you ended up going with, even if it was only due to glitchy rendering

the way all the different bells and pieces connect together is so perfect, and i especially enjoy the width and thickness of the hands.

my favorite part that you didn't mention here is the glow of the red handle at the top, and the way it reflects off of everything!! the resulting pinkish and white highlights in the final image are beautiful, and it makes so much sense for it to glow considering how bright that bit is in the original sprite compared to the rest of the character.

this made my day 100%, and i'm glad you liked my art enough to create even anything based on it, let alone something as elaborate and amazing as this :D thank you SO much