Artwork created by myself, thedorkyturtle (Spamton) and JVIK on discord (Tenna)!
The au is quite simple. Spoilers for Undertale below!
After the barrier is broken, Tenna and Spamton are brought to the surface and repaired. They decide together to open a flower shop. It's very soft and cute. Spamton finally starts making pipis again. Spamton also goes back to delivering mail again and is the flower delivery person for Tenna.
That's the idea! I hope to make a fic to go into detail with their story! I will link it below when it's posted!
The long awaited fic of these two, starting with their origins before arriving above the surface! This is meant for adults only as there's a lot of sexual content!
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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!
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Spamton is taking over for a bit. Feel free to talk to him, but there will be consequences.
"I just DO, I’m unbelievably down bad for him. He 100% laid that egg that he has, Spamton for sure knocked him up and left him with that egg. Now it’s my turn to knock that TV up."
"He keeps an egg from his ex in the closet that he's ashamed of anyone finding out about, but treats as a daughter. Said egg is hidden inside his official plush. The TV is canonically eggnant. Creator also called him a handsome, apron-wearing older husband. I mean, come on."
"He’s already so desperate and needy for attention you can’t tell me he wouldn’t love it."
"I haven't even played Deltarune but the art is so amazing! it's convinced me that Tenna MUST be mpregged."
"It might fix him."
"Okay so the entirety of The Lore takes like an hour to explain so I will skip that and instead talk about the merch pipis stuff. The offical plushies merch have secret bonus stuff sew inside. For Tenna he has a pipis- something that looks like a blue egg. In canon Tenna has a special pipis he keeps safe and hidden and calls it his darling daughter. Pipis (so far) is exclusively made by a different character, Spamton. Tenna and Spamton have fraught history together to the point where they honestly come across as messily divorced. Spamton's plushie *also* had a hidden pipis inside so the meme is that they got each other pregnant."
"We need more pipis in this world <3 also Smapton."
"THEY CAN TAKE WHATEVER THEY WANT IN THE DIVORCE, BUT NOT HIS KID."
"Pipis."
[Doofenshmirtz]
"he is the number one girldad and i think he'd be really cute with a younger child <3 please he's got empty-nest syndrome he needs this."
hi, author of 51k tenna mpreg fic here, breaking my silence on a new account to say: a vote for tenna is a vote for truth and love on planet earth! never been a character who wants to get pregnant more than this guy! literally never! do you love TV? show up to the polls!!! SHOW UP!!!
realized i was not following you on this new account which is CRIMINAL because you're one of my favorite tenna-centric accounts out there. your takes are SO good and are often genuinely reassuring to read because dang, nuanced and charitable takes on this poor guy are hard to find!! not to mention i just adore your art, of both the pregnancy and non-pregnancy variety lolol. also Thank You So Much for your kind words on csohv again?? i was skimming through your fic rec tag and saw the tags pertaining to it and they really made my day; it brings me a lot of joy knowing you enjoyed it so much :']
hope you're doing well, and thank you again for just being super cool!! <3
YAYYYY i was so happy finding your account again (saw you mention CSOHV in the poll notes and rushed over so fast lol) i still love CSOHV so much. like i do mean it when i say it was like foundational to my understanding of tenna nowadays, and especially during when it was written it felt so rare to find tenna takes that were far gentler to him than a lot of folks tend to do!
hes shown to respond really well to positive reassurance and hes so so clearly starved for it it hurts. hes a character in so much clear pain that gets glossed over by people around him and like. i think CSOHV might have been the thing that made it click for me just how much it would help him if quite literally anybody around him knew just how vulnerable he was + treated him accordingly (and well... him having a known pregnancy as a soon-to-be single parent sure helps make it far more apparent bc, unfortunately, hes great at masking it!). his connection to toriel in it too makes me SICK you get it you get it !!!! its such a bittersweet and hopeful character study of him. i like it so so so much
mark my words i WILL do more fanart one day i will i will..... ive had this sitting in my files forever but heres at least one of the sketches ive got in the meantime:
realized i was not following you on this new account which is CRIMINAL because you're one of my favorite tenna-centric accounts out there. your takes are SO good and are often genuinely reassuring to read because dang, nuanced and charitable takes on this poor guy are hard to find!! not to mention i just adore your art, of both the pregnancy and non-pregnancy variety lolol. also Thank You So Much for your kind words on csohv again?? i was skimming through your fic rec tag and saw the tags pertaining to it and they really made my day; it brings me a lot of joy knowing you enjoyed it so much :']
hope you're doing well, and thank you again for just being super cool!! <3
YAYYYY i was so happy finding your account again (saw you mention CSOHV in the poll notes and rushed over so fast lol) i still love CSOHV so much. like i do mean it when i say it was like foundational to my understanding of tenna nowadays, and especially during when it was written it felt so rare to find tenna takes that were far gentler to him than a lot of folks tend to do!
hes shown to respond really well to positive reassurance and hes so so clearly starved for it it hurts. hes a character in so much clear pain that gets glossed over by people around him and like. i think CSOHV might have been the thing that made it click for me just how much it would help him if quite literally anybody around him knew just how vulnerable he was + treated him accordingly (and well... him having a known pregnancy as a soon-to-be single parent sure helps make it far more apparent bc, unfortunately, hes great at masking it!). his connection to toriel in it too makes me SICK you get it you get it !!!! its such a bittersweet and hopeful character study of him. i like it so so so much
mark my words i WILL do more fanart one day i will i will..... ive had this sitting in my files forever but heres at least one of the sketches ive got in the meantime:
i also love doing specbio shit with darkners in general bc i think a large part of their innards are literally just vague Darkness and things like organs. well. appear when theyre needed and relevant. but i also like mechanical darkners being a bit more complicated. theres a lot more stuff going on in there compared to something like a game piece to keep things running
anyways all this to say YUPPPPP i love difficult patient tenna stuff so much bc it just feels so fitting for him given everything we know + what he's been through. he's a fascinating specimen especially bc of being a CRT he's literally basically like. an endangered species of some variety. he's treated like something to deal with, something to handle, like some kind of zoo animal taken to the vet. like something to observe, to watch, to pick apart
this is once again his #objectification. no harm may have been meant but it doesn't mean he wasn't still objectified during it. turned into something to poke and prod at and figure out what's going on. and he Does need the help! he Does need to Physically get fixed when he falls apart to keep him together. but he still is considered less than a person and often times even necessary pain and observation can still cause harm and lasting effects on a person. he's always watched and never seen
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