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Secret World Legends Ninth Anniversary Community Contests and Events
Secret World Legends' Ninth Anniversary is still underway and there's much still a sweetling can do, so why not check out the swarm of community contests and events being hosted throughout the event?
This year marks the Ninth Anniversary for Secret World Legends and the Fourteenth Anniversary for the launch of the Secret World as a whole,
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Happy Ninth Secret World Legends Anniversary! The Anniversary Event runs from 19 June 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT until 10 July 2026 at 9:00 AM EDT! Celebrations in Agartha await!
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people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.
Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼
The above excellent statements shine a light on how ludicrous that whole "friendzone" thing was. "Wait, she thinks of me as a friend? REALLY? SWEET! This is the best news ever!"
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!
I've said it a million and ten times, but the dialogue in SWL is straight up poetry. Whoever was on the writing team put their entire heart and soul into it.
I've said it a million and ten times, but the dialogue in SWL is straight up poetry. Whoever was on the writing team put their entire heart and soul into it.
I messed around with Hero Forge for the first time since Hero Forge came out ages ago. I made an attempt at my Secret World Legends character appropriately dressed in an approximation of the Illuminati agent uniform! I don't know what to do with the hands, but I don't think it's awful so far!
December 19, 2025 12:00 AM (UTC)→January 18, 2026 11:59 PM (UTC) Krampuskarte Screenshot Contest Gruß vom Krampus! The Holiday Devil is no
Let the Winter Holidays into your home by partaking in the tradition of Krampuskarten! Krampus wouldn’t have it any other way. He won’t let you leave Niflheim without hearing his say!
Spread this special brand of love in Secret World Legends by taking a screenshot of Krampus for the Secret World Legends Krampuskarte Contest!
The contest runs from 19 December 2025 to 19 January 2026! Get ready and post those cards, sweetlings!
It's the final day to enter the Secret World Legends Krampuskarte Contest! Every participant receives a gift from Krampus for their efforts. Don't let your Krampus cards go unsent!
If you haven't taken a screenshot yet, don't fret - there are ways to get a qualifying screenshot even while Krampus is away: Dress up as Krampus, use the Holiday Devil or Krampus-kin pets, or visit the British Museum of the Occult!
Agartha's dutiful denizens will be sorting through the Krampuskarten soon, so get your screenshot submitted!
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