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!
OKAY HELLO DELTARUNE FANDOM
I FINALLY HAVE THE COURAGE TO SHOW MY WONDERFUL DARLING ADDISON OC, DAZZLE EM ADDISON ! <3
I wanted to base them kind of after beauty/fashion stuff I guess ????? So with that they're a Fashion/Beauty Addison, selling clothes and mostly makeup products and doing decently well in Cyber City
Also here's a sprite version of Dazzle !!! (Made by my brotha @ofmossandmen ! thank youuuu)
Anywho I'm about to ramble and show more doodles of Dazzle under the cut and let me tell you I ramble A LOT so,,, HERES MY RAMBLINGS, RAHHHHHH
Okay okay so get ready for my long ass ramblings
-So during their early Addison days they did relatively okay for the most part, not crazy good but not crazy bad either y'know ? Just enough to get by
-But they always felt... out of place, in a way. Looking back to then they'd realize it was most likely just them having gender dysphoria and not feeling comfortable and confident with themselves then, but at the time they felt so... aougfljrighoxf about themselves
-Idk I really like the headcannon (? I think ?? or maybe its fact idk I may be stupid lmao) thing with the Addisons and Poppups go hand-in-hand. Like the Addisons could/would have their own Poppup and such like that, so therefore Dazzle Em themself has a Poppup
-Dazzle named their Poppup 'Bling' <3
-Eventually Dazzle became a little more well known ?? I guess ???? Not like super popular like Big-Shot popular, just more common I suppose
-Eventually they do their own little makeup line stuff and their own fashion line
-They mostly focus on the fashion part because they find it supperr fun and relaxing in a way ? (not when patterns aren't working or when they get stabbed by pins and needles or when sewing just... isnt sewing right, lemme tell you that shit SUCKS)
-I'd like to think kind of the way Dazzle met Spamton was by hearing about him a lot so they thought "Oh hey... I have an idea." since they wanted to get a little bit more of that fame to get a lil extra cash in their pocket
-And it worked ... maybe a little too well
-I only say that cus they got really close and became like inseperable besties (and totally nothing more ahaha totally not together nope no never)
-BUT huzzah ! Dazzle's more popular and now has Spamton to hang out and talk with and do stuff with
-Eventually Spamton brings Dazzle to TV World to meet his buisness partner, Mr. Ant Tenna himself ! And hooo boy does that go well
-Idk I'd like to think that at first Dazzle was slightly intimidated by Tenna because of the absolute MASSIVE height difference between the two (because Tenna's like what ? 15ft? DAZZLES LIKE 5'6") but they got over it after a while because he was fun to be around
-Eventually Dazzle sticks around a lot at the studio with Spamton and Tenna, even occasionally helping out around the place from time to time
-Occasionally Dazzle would make Tenna some costumes and do so for others in the studio, and Tenna offered Dazzle a job as the studio's costume designer and such- which at first Dazzle was kind of "ehhh I dunno" but they came around quickly after and did make costumes and help fix and touch up other's costumes and/or clothes
-At first I feel like Dazzle would be more nervous about actually being on stage and doing shows or ads and such in the studio and stayed more backstage (mostly working with costumes), but eventually came around and asked if they could work in Ads and such. Sometimes if Tenna asked and Dazzle was up for it they'd go on and be a contestant on one of Tenna's gameshows or whatnot
-Unfortunately when it becomes the time Spamton leaves and disappears, it absolutely WRECKS Dazzle. Their main 'friend" and totally nothing more now up and gone, without any signs of his wearabouts. Not even in Queen's mansion anymore
-Both Tenna and Dazzle are wrecked and absolutely going through it :(
-Dazzle works more with costumes and their own Fashion buisness as a way to 'cope' (more like burry their feelings and prove their 'fine'), works more around the studio and stays at Ramb's bar a bit more often
-Being more around in the studio they grow a bit more closer to some people. Mostly likes talking and hanging out with Lanino and Elnina, Ramb, Battat, and couple few Shadowguys
-They do NOT fuck with the Pippins, not really at least (again, only exception is Battat. They like theorizing with him and just listening to what he has to say)
-Unfortunately grows more distant with Tenna in their fit of hiding themself in their jobs :( (DONT WORRY THEY GET BETTER IN THE END AND EVERYTHING I PROMISE THEY STILL LOVE THEIR TV HUSBAND)
-But eventually with overworking themself to burry their feelings effects them... a lot. Hence why they look so disheveled and tired post-Spamton leaving
-Idk, I have yet to really think about how their reunion with Spamton would go and how Tenna and Dazzle would fix the distance between them but they all get better in the end I swear I just dont know exactly how yet LMAO
Okay.... enough of my long ramblings and info about Dazzle, HUZZAH MY DOODLES !!!!! There would be more but Tumblr wouldn't let me add more </3
Its been about a year and some months since my first (and so far only) post about these two dipshits but I am still cringe and I am still free. So heres my art dump of a small portion of WitherRose through almost 2 years now <3
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