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Centaur boothill! And lil centaur clem :3c

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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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@dreamsy990

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I am beyond thrilled we got a new Spyro game!!!

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@torielectra83

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I’m consuming Max Steel as fast as I am able to but I keep pausing to spin about it. Because I can’t stop thinking about @dreamsy990 and your friend’s additions to that one post about Dredd and the “Enemy to Parent” ao3 tag.

I’m only ten episodes deep but I need to go faster because I’m haunted by a potential Time Travel “Fix-It” AU where Dredd gets yeeted back in time by some other one-off villain’s plot as collateral. And, like he ends up in his old body a week or so before the day Max moves to Copper Canyon.

Because even if, somehow, this man still doesn’t know Max Steel is Max McGrath, it’d be pretty easy to get alerted to this spike in Turbo energy a second time and, like, do better surveillance about it. Max’s little panic-chase with Butch and Co wasn’t subtle if you knew to pay attention.

There’s probably the immediate impulse to just snatch him off the street. He’s not even Ultralinked! He has no armor, no weapons, no pending reinforcements he trusts. It’d be a cakewalk, if a little messy because of his uncontrolled bursts of power.

…but he’s not Max Steel yet. The makings of a hero are there for sure, but they’re buried beneath panic and confusion. This is the most vulnerable Max McGrath will ever be again, supervillain attacks notwithstanding.

And Dredd? He changes course.

AU where this smooth talking CEO’s limo pulls up to the curve and offers to help Max with his “problem.”

Get him to their offices, away from anywhere he’d cause further damage (or get scooped up by any bad influences) to talk him through what’s happening to him. It’s not a problem at all, actually. It’s an opportunity!

In fact, he could be a great help to them. They’d be thrilled to have him on as an intern! He doesn’t have to, of course. THI has the technology needed to help him return to a normal life regardless, bar some regular check-ins to offload his excess. But they’d really like him to think about this opportunity!

He even talks to the company’s founder—his father’s old friend, apparently—on speaker over a phone who impresses upon him how this could help save lives. That what he’d be doing with them would be important work and that Turbo energy is the future. That they’re invested in his future. In continuing his father’s work.

And Max? Max is tired and he’s just had the most terrifying day of his life. Of course he takes the out. He signs the papers and sits in a weird chair that has him gritting his teeth through the energy extraction. But when it’s over?

He feels a little shaky, but an intern comes in with some lunch and offers him her jacket. He gets calmly walked through what his schedule’s going to look like going forward (coming in before and after school every day, as well as intermittently on weekends like they’re appointments) until their R&D teams can come up with something more convenient for him.

For now they’ve got this weird anklet thing made for him to help “keep his output off the radar”, whatever that means, and some toaster-sized battery-looking things he can fill if his output spikes too hard in the middle of the night. He didn’t even think about that, but he’s glad he won’t short out the whole city block in his sleep. Which is a thing they told him he could probably do.

He also gets another phone call from the founder who thanks him personally for his contributions. Says that if Max ever needs anything, he can come to them. It’s the least they can do.

He’s so fucking exhausted when he gets dropped off at home that when he tells his mom over dinner that he got hired on the spot for an internship, he forgets to tell her where.

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Basically an AU where Naught and some THI employees have to keep Miles Dredd’s new pet project away from all their very obvious supervillain shit. While also beating N-Tek back with a broom to keep him a secret for as long as possible.

But Max is thriving. Between making new friends at school, learning a fuck to about science from the internship, and getting a lot of validation from his over-the-phone mentor, Max thinks he’s doing pretty well for himself after the move.

If only his mom would worry a little less about the whole thing.

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(Somewhere, deep in N-Tek’s hidden base, a dormant Ultralink stirs and dozes and stirs again. On and off. Waiting.)

(He won’t have to wait for very long.)

[wildfyrevalkyrie]

cannot believe i just got marked as “the friend” abt my own damn analysis (/silly)

btw, if you think the army episode validates this au wait until season 2. when i talk about max's neglectful home life a lot of the time i'm referencing some s2 scenes. like there's some of that in s1 (ie: molly is frequently shown to work very late nights at THI (ep 9, ep 21)), but s2 is truly the gold mine.

also in your au itd be interesting to think abt how forge might potentially try to manipulate max away from thi, even if he's not directing max towards ntek. after all, molly investigating thi on behalf of ntek was something that was happening independently of max exploding, and in this au forge wouldn't have had an opportunity to strain max's trust in him.

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Commission o/

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POV you’re interrupting mbart media time. rude, honestly :/

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@dreamsy990

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Let's return to the way Etheirys once was, hundreds of millions of years past.

To a quiet and peaceful time, long before the light of mankind was kindled.

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*knock knock*

So I’m in my Revisiting 2010s Cartoons Era and in trying to come up with a list of things to rewatch I came across some of your Max Steel posts. I hardly remember watching it when it aired but your enthusiasm is a huge vote of confidence. Love when people be passionate about their little guys. Also the SecUnit crossover art is banging so—

Congrats! You got another one. If this consumes me expect the spawning of a side blog and new fics coming in. If it doesn’t, expect a side blog and some art anyway because you inspired me regardless.

That’s all oki goodbyes!!

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LETS FUCKING GO THATS AWESOME

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Quick art

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skyward sword >>>

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this passage is really good

but its resolution is even better

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Black Menswear modelled by Black Men

Creative Director Rock Mitchell

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Hello! Do you have any information to hand on the different in-universe languages in XIV, both in Eorzea and more broadly on Hydaelyn? Thank you!

THE LANGUAGES OF HYDAELYN

The Eorzean Common Tongue

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - The Common Tongue: “Being home to myriad races and cultures, it is not surprising that Hydaelyn is also home to many and more unique tongues. On the Three Great Continents alone, scholars have identified ten score unique languages, and believe yet others may exist in the land’s less-traveled corners. The most widely used is Eorzean by far, but how, exactly, did this phenomenon come to pass?”

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - The Life and Death of a Language: “Most languages spoken today, including Eorzean, can be traced back to an Allagan dialect that dominated the Third Astral Era - a dialect believed by Allagan scholars to have originated with the ancient Hyuran tribes of Aldenard. Both the empire’s size and longevity saw the imperial tongue spread wide from Aldenard to Othard, and even to the western continent, over time rendering most other languages in the occupied territories obsolete. However, the coming of the Fourth Umbral Era severed the bonds that held the empire together, forcing large populations into relative isolation. With no simple means of communication over great distances, the Allagan dialect shattered, each shard experiencing an independent evolution which, over hundreds of generations saw the rise of countless new languages.

By the Fifth Astral Era and the resurgence of civilization, there existed so many unique languages that the abundance gave rise to a new social class of translators and interpreters. Difficulty of communication between cities and nations often resulted in heightened political tensions, and it fell to translators to facilitate communication between the parties. It goes without saying that this skill eventually saw the members of the class wielding dangerously significant monetary and political clout.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - A Triumphant Return: “It was not until the Sixth Astral Era when a dialect resembling modern Eorzean returned to Aldenard to take root, brought back by the very Hyuran tribes from which the dialect had first descended. Despite the Elezen having arrived in the land first, the choice to limit their sphere of influence to the Black Shroud prevented their language from spreading beyond the great holt. The Hyur, however, came in waves, settling every corner of Aldenard (including the Black Shroud), and it was only a matter of time before Hyuran converse had permeated the realm. Yet, while the Hyur have always been known for their adaptability, for reasons unknown they proved adamant in their unwillingness to succumb to the prevailing Elezen tongue. 

Though the Elezen fought to preserve their language against the vulgar tide, the plight was doomed with the arrival of Lalafellin traders from the southern seas. The Lalafells, more interested in coin than pride, quickly recognized there was profit to be had in learning the language of the Hyur. When the Miqo’te tribes followed suit, it was thus the Hyuran dialect became what we now know as Eorzean.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea - A Chronology of the Sixth Astral Era:Year ca. 980* - “As sea trade flourishes, Limsa Lominsa experiences an influx of Plainsfolk Lalafell. Significant numbers of Hyur Midlanders and Miqo’te Seekers of the Sun also come to the city - some in search of a free life, others abducted by and assimilated into pirate bands - and its populace grows ever more diverse.”

*Sounsyy Note: This helps date the rising prevalence of the Hyuran language and the solidification of the Common Tongue as the dominant spoken language in Eorzea to less than 600 years ago, around the end of the 10th century into the beginning of the 11th century. 

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - A Triumphant Return:“Having secured a strong foothold in Eorzea, the Lalafellin traders set their sights on Ilsabard and beyond, taking with them the simple, yet expressive Hyuran dialect that had seen their coffers full to bursting with gil, adding terms they thought necessary for haggling. It was through the efforts of these entrepreneurs that the language slowly spread, taking hold as the accepted parlance for negotiation. Now, it is not uncommon to see merchants from as far as Hingashi* and Radz-at-Han handling their transactions in common Eorzean traders’ cant.

The proliferation of Eorzean throughout Hingashi has sparked somewhat of a cultural renaissance in the once-isolated nation. Access to a wealth of printed word carried overseas by Western traders has opened eyes to a new world of quirks and customs, oft resulting in a wholly unique amalgamation of ideas that would have proven impossible were it not for the common tongue. How an article on moogle legend printed in Gridania’s The Raven led to the mass production of wooden mole-bats throughout the Far East is but one example of the undeniable power of language.”

*Sounsyy Note: Out of context this passage can be a bit deceptive. The Common Tongue came to Ilsabard and the Near East around the turn of the 13th century (less than 400 years ago, ca.1190-1200), but it wouldn’t travel as far as Hingashi and the Far East until roughly 300 years later around the turn of the 16th century of the 6th Astral Era.

Encyclopedia Eorzea II - The Eorzean Alphabet: “While the letters used during the Allagan rule closely resemble those of modern Eorzean script, the sounds they represent today have been altered significantly with the passing of time. This diversion confused early linguistic scholars, leading them to believe they were reading an entirely independent language. It wasn’t until the discovery of tomestones containing ancient audio recordings that similarities between Allagan and Eorzean were proven and scholars could come to the conclusion that at some point in history - most likely the Fourth Astral Era - all knowledge of letters was lost, only to be rediscovered and mistakenly repurposed in the Fifth.

The Eorzean alphabet consists of six and twenty letters which can be written in the upper and lower cases. The shape of some of the letters, as well as stroke order have given rise to the theory that the letters may have once been written with a left hand and from right to left instead of left to right.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea: “In times of eld, countless tongues and dialects were spoken regularly by the various peoples of Eorzea. As migration and cultural exchange between the races became more common, a universal language arose, easing the burden of communication between different people. This language, which came to be known as the common tongue, is now spoken by the vast majority of the realm’s residents. It is believed that Hyuran priests also played a vital role in the creation of the Eorzean alphabet at the end of the Fourth Astral Era, though the precise details are lost to history.”

Encyclopedia Eorzea - The Fourth Astral Era: “For approximately fifteen hundred years the silent war against knowledge continued, the church manipulating what knowledge (if any) trickled its way down to the masses. Religious leaders went even as far as introducing a new alphabet for their holy scriptures, taught only to men and women of the cloth, so as to solidify their control over the realm through the continued illiteracy of the common people. It is therefore ironic that this alphabet for the privileged would eventually evolve into the Eorzean script used throughout the realm today.”

In response to the wealth of new lore on the topic from the Encyclopedia Eorzea II, I’ve gone ahead and practically rewritten the entire post with new info, removed large sections of theorycraft that have since been answered, and also added entire new sections on Literacy and Publications, as well as the relationship between the Hingan and Doman languages and script in the Read More below!

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