Dragalia is lost

theories and lore dumps | call me nessa | any pronouns

[wereallylostnowbois]

Hello!

My name's Nessa and I like to talk about video game lore.

Topics of fascination are currently: Legend of Zelda, Dragalia Lost, Spectrobes, Glory of Heracles, Deltarune

You can find my thoughts and theories under the #lore and #theory tags.

The ask box is always open and anonymous is always an available option, so dump lore thoughts, questions, or requests for cat photos in there at your own whims.

[ninten-draw]

I love this yellow guy with a million issues

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[pixelatedcrown]

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!

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

First of us, last of me

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Ouuughh it makes me emotional imagining mewtwo just chilling with normal medical procedures even despite its history cause like,

yeah theyre still poking and prodding at it but this time the air is a little dusty, the lights are dim and flickering, there' a friend by its feet, there's people talking and milling about outside, and the doctor smells like cigarettes

It's easy forget how much our other senses contribute to memories rather than just simple sight and touch, and you communicate that so well :) let the psychic cat be happy and calm in a safe environment

That is one way to interpret that, but I was going for something a bit darker

You ever think about how Giovanni is a skilled trainer and more devastatingly, a cat person?

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[fallenbird-art]

Jupiter from Dragalia Lost (rip)... I love bird dragons sm

[weekly-eons]

IT IS TIME! The whole gang is here! Separated ones under the read more

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

It was the most fun I’ve ever had

Despite myself, I could never hate you for that

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

The hand that holds the hand that holds the knife is untainted

(He never did personally hurt you)

[jaypilled]

are those my only options

[prower-labs]

[javacad0]

I'm tired of saying "Sneasels of both forms and Weaviles and also Sneaslers" all the time, there should be an umbrella term.

[cutekittenlady]

I just call em the Weasler family.

[javacad0]

Genius.

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[bigasscockroach]

revenge of meta knight era despairmaxxing chud vs the manifestation of love

[hopeisour4letteredword]

inspired by shen comix

[pokemonarchive]

Zorua (2026) - Pulsing Aura Illustrator: MINAMINAMI Take

[awolfswill]

Pokemon rainbow