I was absolutely speedrunning to get this animation done- even if it’s just 13 secs haha
I’m gonna try and get some nice drawings done as well- and start planning what I wanna do for the 10th anniversary- I really wanna do something special. Not super sure of what tho
For every memory, for every feeling, for every shed tear, for every story, for every option, for every character, for every dialogue, for every song, for every Easter egg, for every line of code, for every newsletter, for every ending, for every beginning.
For your patience, for your integrity, for your perseverance, for your kindness, for your justice, for your bravery, for your hope, for your determination.
For everything.
Thank you, for being you.
I think this was the fastest that I ever drawn something fully rendered, and I’m still pissed that I missed Undertale’s birthday by 2 days.
But, are least it’s done, that’s what matters.
I cannot put into words how much Undertale means to me, but I will try:
To be honest, I don’t even remember how I came to know Undertale, someday I just started knowing about it’s existence. And I was already a big fan, despite never even playing the game, only watching let’s play on YouTube. I was really young back then, easily amazed by everything, but Undertale stuck to me like glue, it was like I found pure gold.
Back then I was too young to know what a fandom even was, didn’t really talked to people online about it, only enjoyed fanworks and the game itself, and I’m glad at the same time that I feel unlucky for missing out on the early days of the fandom, it was a wild, uncontrollable beast both in a amazing and terrible way. Nowadays it’s still pretty wild, but unfortunately more for the worst then it is for the best.
Back then I was consuming everything Undertale related like a starving man in the middle of the desert, one of the things that made me go absolutely feral was Underverse back in 2016. For me it was absolute cinema, pure peak, perfection, nowadays I can criticize a thing or two about it, but damn I was an hardcore Underverse (and Cross) fanboy.
The funniest thing about it is that back then I didn’t even know how to speak English, so I just made the lore up in my head, I don’t remember what shit I came up with in my head but it was probably pretty cringy. And when I finally got to learn English, I was like, “holy shit, the thing I thought was peak is even more peak then I thought” FR Underverse lore is mad good, even back then it was one of the most original AUs out there and I was pretty surprised when I realized that it came out only one year after og Undertale, for me UV was way more recent, but I guess that because I have pretty bad time perception.
Surprisingly enough, for how much I hyper focused on the game. one day I just… dropped Undertale. Other interests came like Furry, HTTYD, Troll Hunters, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Omori, Pokémon, Ordem Paranormal, etc… and Undertale got left behind, for many, many years.
Until one day… YouTube recommends me Underverse 0.7-2.
It all went downhill from there /j.
I was like, “oh, wow, I haven’t seen this since…. Since… I don’t even remember. Gonna save it to watch it later.”, then I took more then 3 weeks to actually watch it. But when I did, I rewatched the WHOLE thing. Back then, Underverse had like, 3 or 4 episodes, and now there are is a more then 2 hours long movies. I saw that and went “Holy shit I it’s there’s so much stuff here”, it was an amazing experience, watching it all again, seeing how Jackei improved over the years… and seeing that she also disabled the comments on most videos. I wonder why…. (I know what y’all did).
It was like I opened a black hole and it sucked me back to the original brainrot, that includes Undertale and FNaF, and probably some other media that I do t remember. And now I cannot live without it. I’m glad that I got back into it, because honestly, even after 10 years, it’s still amazing, and it will continue to be even 100 years from now.
Undertale brings me great comfort, it eases my anxiety thinking about it, and I often daydream about the AUs on a daily basis, it is a point of reference for my art and writing, and I feel like I have been partially raised by the game because it affects even my morality and line of thinking. Be silly for the sake of being silly, enjoy the time I have with friends because I love them, be my true self because that’s who I am, wonder if people are really all that bad, and if they can be good if they just try.
By now I have yapped a lot about my experience with watching Undertale, but what did I think about when I actually managed to buy and play the game?
“… Wow.
…. This is absolute peak.”
I was so into it that I finished the game in a few days time, did the pacifist route first, but I didn’t get the chance to finish the genocide route bc I got stuck on Undyne the Undying and the computer I bought the game on is now with my brother who no longer lives with me so :,)
But I WILL finish every route on the game. One day.
Also, DELTARUNE
….. unfortunately will not be really talked about ont his post because if I do it will longer then it already is. But it had pretty much the same effect as Undertale, and it blows my mind that Toby made only UT to see if he could make Deltarune.
Enough talking about my experiences, now let’s talk about the drawing:
Originally I had planned to draw every character as 10 year olds, to celebrate the anniversary. I would post a single piece for every individual character everyday until 15/09, where I would post a big piece with every character side by side.
That plan went downhill because I didn’t have the time to actually make it happen.
Then, one wonderful night I thought, “Hmm, Undertale’s anniversary is this month… I’m pretty sure it’s on the end of it, but let me check.” It was, in fact, not on the end of the month. And I found out about it on the 14th. One day before.
I lowkey panicked when I saw it, and started drawing right away. I tried to do the original idea of every character as 10 year olds, but it just didn’t fly. The drawing wasn’t drawing.
So I started the last minute idea: redraw the surface scene. And that drawing was drawing unlike the other drawing!
It is definitely rushed in some areas, result of being desperately drawn in a span of 3 days. But I’m satisfied of how it turned out, by the end of it, Procreate was starting to bug out and became really slow and that drove me to draw even faster because I thought that I was gonna lose the drawing if I didn’t save it, lowkey Procreate was acting really buggy and slow to respond. But fortunately I nothing happened!
Pretty sure this thing has over 20 layers, the lighting was not easy to do at all.
Let me grab the file data real quick
Uuhhhhhhhh…..
I think I over did it.
Also one last thing about the character placement:
Originally it looks like this:
I changed (mostly) everyone’s placement because I wanted Frisk to be in the middle, with Toriel by their side, so it ended up with Undyne, Papyrus, Sans, Frisk, Toriel, Alphys and then Asgore. Also Chara and Asriel are there because lowkey the story revolves around them and they are super important and they need to be in the art.
Also, remember when Toby posted this?
This was mine submission:
Idk why the background is white when everyone else’s is black.
If you read this until here, wow, thank you! Comment something about it!
That’s pretty much it. Happy 10th anniversary, Undertale!
A wave
rolls forward,
breaks, comes ashore, unrolls --
a white lace wreath spreads out on the sand,
applauding the wave's death,
with a sound
so soft.
by James M. Cox
