° He is older than Doof (to my knowledge from what i recall P&F lore is really timeline inconsistent). He has to be at LEAST 50 years old given that he is a CRT TV. He's likely closer to 70.
° He is canonically both divorced and also a child of divorce and has a buttfuck load of trauma from both events
° He has fangs.
° He is literally doomed by prophecy. Like the Deltarune version of the Bible straight up says he's supposed to fucking die lmfao.
° He does stupid little autistic ass dances (im autistic and he dances like me)
° He probably has BPD and his abandonment issues are so bad he nearly committed multiple homicide over them
° He canonically shrinks to roughly the size of a soccer ball when he is sad
° His divorced ex is Spamton G. Spamton, another Tumblr Sexyman. They used to be partners and they share leitmotifs. They also have a literal daughter.
° Tenna is the one canonically responsible for cracking the egg of Mettaton in the Deltarune universe.
° He can do a perfect 180 mid-air split.
° He has a pronounced lisp.
° He was so torn up about falling out with his partner that he tore down every poster of them together and keeps his dressing room sealed behind a wall.
° He grows a flower out of the tip of his nose when he's happy.
° He was originally supposed to look more like an Ant and had four arms
° He is CANONICALLY into petplay and begs IN-GAME to be walked on a leash like a dog.
I respect the HELL out of Doof, but nobody is doing it like Tenna fr.
See the list of reasons attached by @ spamtennatruther, as well as the short and sweet list written by me below! Both are recommended viewing should you not know Mr. Tenna!
Some notable reasons to Vote Tenna:
- Handsome Apron wearing older husband who would TOTALLY spoil you rotten!
- Queer Single Father who loves his (infant) daughter to death! You'd be a happy family!
- 15 feet of cuddles and kisses and spinning around with you in the air!
- Service Top or Bottom, he'll be whatever you like! You like roleplaying in bed? He's also a TV Host and professional actor by trade, so you KNOW he's good at it!
Caine fanbase/Caineling Beehive, Thank you for your continued support to keep our gentleman's agreement! This wild and wacky show of ours shall go on, and we will win for Caine in spirit!
We are sorry the rng generator forced us to fight. Now is our time to stand together as sister character fanbases and get Tenna to victory!
If you haven't voted yet, make sure you vote Tenna and spread the word to your hive!
Last bunch of fanart for Torn Apart and Taped Together posted before the fic is finished. As usual, it's more inspired by the fic rather than actual fic redraws, but we ball.
Truly the end of the Chapter 3+4 Spamtenna era. I have no words no express how utterly wonderful this fic is; the care that is put into every single cast member is something you must read to believe. Please check out @3muske-tears's outstanding work if you haven't yet, you won't regret it!
Spamton and orange addison comic inspired by @/aubobbies's hilarious doodle about spamton running to orange's door in the early morning.
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!
Please tell me a story where Spamton whispers "I love you" to Tenna, causing her to grow huge with joy!
Well, I'm taking advantage of this post to say that I'll answer questions once I finish answering the ones I already have, and also that I'm preparing something.
can u draw more defernull spamtenna i just love ur art so much sorryyy
I don't plan to finish them, but it made me reflect on how to draw "Spamton's Panic Episodes." Well, here are some doodles by Defernull Spamton and thank u!
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