Everyday I dread darkner Flowey and in which creative way Toby is going to torment him and how the fandom will receive it and the possibility that there won't actually be a Flowey and that I will be worried for days for nothing
Wait.... Isn't Flowey a Deltarune character first before everything else?
Out of all Undertale characters, he's one of the only ones who actually spawned in his head like that and didn't require much concepting... That means...
Everyday I dread darkner Flowey and in which creative way Toby is going to torment him and how the fandom will receive it and the possibility that there won't actually be a Flowey and that I will be worried for days for nothing
Wait.... Isn't Flowey a Deltarune character first before everything else?
Out of all Undertale characters, he's one of the only ones who actually spawned in his head like that and didn't require much concepting... That means...
Everyday I dread darkner Flowey and in which creative way Toby is going to torment him and how the fandom will receive it and the possibility that there won't actually be a Flowey and that I will be worried for days for nothing
If that secret boss is darkner Flowey and that darkner Flowey SOMEHOW becomes the next Deltarune sexyman I will haunt you all about the fact that I've been here before it was normal and fine to draw him excessively hot for no reason. (gestures at my blog and it's just normal art of Flowey)
I thought I'd scrap things like the placeholder Dark Worlds from DRSIM as the new chapters come out, but never fricking mind, DRSIM is still 100% canon. Maybe I AM Toby Fox.
I thought I'd scrap things like the placeholder Dark Worlds from DRSIM as the new chapters come out, but never fricking mind, DRSIM is still 100% canon. Maybe I AM Toby Fox.
one genre of fanfiction that seems to have mostly disappeared since i became an adult is shenanigans-type fics. like not exactly crack but just "the gang goes to 7-11" type, extremely low-stakes plot stories. the beach episodes of fanfiction. i just feel like i don't see those around so much anymore. whered they go. i miss them :(
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!
Hey, so like, what happened to the Deltarune Self-Insert Blog?
Currently learning how to make a video game, continuing the Party Bad Omen comic and also busy with personal stuff, studying and all. You'll have the last seven pages of that comic before I can continue the main DRSIM comic. I'm done with 4, currently working on the last 3. Thank you for caring, I didn't know there were people who were wondering where the comic went, this'll make me work faster I hope. <3
I also migrated to drawing on a new device so it's not my phone anymore where I can just pull it out and draw whenever I want so I'm much slower with my art. It's a tablet that was supposed to have a stylus but now I have to connect a graphic tablet to it which sucks cuz it's limiting. At least the screen is so much bigger and it doesn't have green streaks on it. I'll get used to it.
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
most tragic thing about wanting to see more stuff of your oc is that the c is o and YOU have to make the stuff. devastating. why can’t art of my beautiful baby just appear in my hands. just materialize under my pillow, like from the tooth fairy
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