ZaCloud's Weekly Nothing

Yoski broskis! (USA, 1982, she/her, affectionate aro-ace, disabled neurodivergent) I both reblog and create my own fan works for Undertale, Deltarune, Blackrock Chronicle, & more! Fanart, fanfiction, animations, AMVs, & comics. I now have a sideblog for my own Undertale & Deltarune creations. Follow that it if that's why you're here (working "Next" links included): https://zc-undertale.tumblr.com. My Pillowfort Account: https://pillowfort.social/zacloud.

[hollenix]

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[xzacloudx]

The shadow crystal as a prism aaaadhklbtsdvj?! And the light burning like a magnifying glass in the sun‽‽ Genius!

[sillystell]

YouTube Version | Bluesky Version

Wahooo I actually had so much fun doing this! I'm glad I waited until I had the energy to animate again instead of just rushing into the idea. I took my time, did some rough sketches, planed the animatic and just over all I feel so happy!

It's the rare occasion where I don't feel drained when uploading! It is still late though, whoops. Getting better tho.

[sillystell]

Cheeky little Making Of Reblog

This one was really fun! Like I said in the original post I took my time, slowly planning poses by sketches on my iPad. It helps when I can plan away from my computer. I spend all day working on it and just being able to draw in the living room being next to my husband and my dog, feels a lot more chill.

I did a proper animatic this time too. Usually I would just draw out the roughest drawings and do my best, but I wanted to just take a bit extra time. The sketches really helped! Planned it all out trying to hit the rhythm of the music.

While I sorta gut feeling knew this one perhaps wouldn’t take off; I find stuff with Tenna tends to do better “numbers” wise, I just felt so happy the whole time! This is my favourite thing I’ve animated so far. Spamton as a character is very fun to work with. He’s strange and follows a “anything goes” cartoon logic that is very freeing. A lot of very talented people gave a lot of the inspiration on how his “lip” sync should work and it was so morbidly fun to play the deformers on his teeth to find pleasing shapes.

I hope I captured that fight or flight feel I got when I first saw him in game.

[fennidae]

Sorry, had to get this idea for image friend out of my system

[smieska-draws]

idk idk idk

[vampiric-menace]

Happy Holidays from holidaygirl1225 and her oversized parrot/weird uncle

[smieska-draws]

i need to get used to showing messy stupid WIPs

[xzacloudx]

Oh! His heart on a chain = the pointed tail of hell! :O That's genius!

[mypuchiart]

What in the 2025 winter newsletter— Sooo what happened to Spamton was actually pretty much Tenna’s fault???? You’re telling me it could all have been avoided?!?!? that he knew something bad was about to happen to him if he signed the contract BUT DIDNT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT… GGNNFNFNGNNF… BECAUSE HE WANTED ALL THE FAME FOR HIMSELF?!!???!!!?? #damnyoutenna

[doorinatree]

Ehhhhh kinda. I think Spamton must have known the consequences of singing the contract too, and it’s more likely he had a better idea of those consequences than Tenna, or Mike, since HE had direct contact with the benefactor. And yet he stilled signed it.

I think Tenna must’ve thought that what ever the ‘bad thing’ was, he could combat it. I mean he is literally an overlord of his own dark world and really quite powerful. And he did say he wanted BOTH he and Spamton to be big and successful.

Was he wrong to coerce Spamton into signing it anyway? Absolutely, yes that was selfish. But is he a bad person at heart? No way! And I think he seems to carry a lot of guilt that he doesn’t want to face, leading him to blame Spamton instead of himself.

I think he lacks understanding or empathy of boundaries. And he certainly falls prey to his own desperation. And sometimes? Yeah he’s a straight up over controlling selfish jerk. But at his core he did care about Spamton, and Mike too, and wanted them to be happy.

But yes, in the moment he chose fame over Spamton and that was HELLA WRONG. But the events following to Spamton were not purely his fault is what I’m saying. Also can we pls see his as morally grey? Not a cinnamon bun, not pure evil. Just a mess.

[mypuchiart]

No, yeah! Spamton and Tenna care about each other, but they’re also characters that tend to put their own needs above others. both so morally grey that it gets complicated sometimes.. What Tenna did was wrong, although I don’t forget that Spamton ALSO made a lot of bad decisions out of desperation.

Just speculating here, but I also think that Spamton may have known about the contract. If Mike (=Friend?) knew about it and told Tenna, why wouldn’t he have told Spamton as well? That is, if Spamton didn’t already know, if you go by the “Spamton was aware of the prophecy” theory (which now seems more canon to me) or at least parts of it, like the lord of screens cleaved red by blade.

So it’s possible that Spamton more or less knew about the catastrophic events that were going to happen to him and partnered up with Mike to try to prevent his fate. Mike’s motivations are still unclear but he does seem to have genuinely been Spamton‘s friend (pun intended). maybe he wanted to see if they could defy the prophecy, similar to how Ralsei tried by sparing and befriending all the darkners.

And I really wonder what’s the deal with Mike. Was he the one on the phone when Spamton ran away from Tenna looking paler than he already was? Since that happened right after his contract with Tenna, I’ve thought it could’ve been Mike telling Spamton that they were screwed and that the prophecy was about to come true. Spamton ran in fear. Did Mike run away in fear too? Or was his disappearance one of the inevitable consequences?

[taralen]

[[LATE]] SPAMTOBER DAY 22: HEAVEN

"Behold, I go forward, but [[they]] are not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive [[HYPERLINK BLOCKED]]"

Took forever because I couldn't figure out what to do with it. I streamed 80% of the process to some friends, and so they got to see me suffer... It is based on "Job" 1880 by Léon Bonnat. The quote is inspired by Job 23:8. Like Job, Spamton lost everything as an outside force toyed with his life, but he never lost his faith.

[buginsoup]

guess he's allergic- to himself?

[lana-belem]

[take my breath away - spamtenna animation]

[xzacloudx]

This is sooo goo-ood! The expressions & body language especially, & the smoke vision part is extremely creative & well done!

[ciderjacks]

Hang on guys im experiencing revelations

[ciderjacks]

Started off with some normal observations that I was struggling to connect. And then. Um.

I don t know

[dellerose]

also if we assume gaster is the final boss this still works because gaster is a representation of creators of works of fiction and in part toby fox

[xzacloudx]

Yup, I've been thinking about this since Chapter 2. Gaster is a piece of Toby.

"MY DELTARUNE."

And it's been foreshadowed for a long time...

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[ciderjacks]

Is this a safe place? I hope this is a safe place to say this. 

Every time someone mentions how hard or cringe it must be for Kris every time Tenna brought up some nostalgic thing from the past I just… have to mentally pull up, man… I kinda don’t care.jpg. 

“Ooh, he said DECEMBER’S NAME just like that! Ooh he brought up Asriel!! That has to be so uncomfortable for Kris!” Well Kris + rest of the Roaring Chat involved him in this highly dangerous plan with a mysterious, powerful person, coerced him into doing this HUUUUGE favor for them endangering Toriel via emotional manipulation and threats of repeated abandonment using their absolute power as a Lightner in the Light World over him, and POSSIBLY (not assuredly, at least not yet) planned to let him be destroyed or at LEAST severely hurt according to the prophecy REGARDLESS of how well he stalled. Frankly, he had the right to say 66 fucking Decembers. Or 666 MORE.  I actually don’t think Kris truly even dislikes Tenna that much beyond annoyance at said blatant nostalgic references and the pain of loss of innocence he represents to them (perhaps attempting to distance themself from him because of that + guilt over what they’re doing), and they ARE a kid who’s being coerced/manipulated into doing this dubious shit themselves. But they’re still DOING the same shit to him, they’re still lying to their friends. Combined with that and The Knight’s comically late appearance, I cannot help but just laugh grimly at the stupid prizes won from stupid games for the Roaring Chat members. 

NO YEAH I MOSTLY AGREE - I. Ok. I personally think Kris actually loves Tenna a lot, it’s weird how many people think they don’t?? Idk. Ppl don’t get Kris, and they have this view of them as some detached emotionless person, when like……. Kris is nostalgic. Kris is so nostalgic. I get the sense they like this plan about as much as Tenna likes this plan (which is to say. They Do Not Like This Plan)

This is clearer in sword route so I don’t necessarily blame people for misinterpreting it, but Kris is uncomfortable/irritated bc Tenna keeps attempting to reference the deal. The moments of Kris making a face at Tenna when he references stuff like “getting Dess to come back” or “bringing the family back together” isn’t them being like “ughhhh how could he bring up my broken home” - its “shut up shut up shut up shut up you’re gonna get us found out you big sentimental idiot”

ALSO YEP. THE KNIGHT PUSHING SHIT BACK SO FAR. Another thing that really isn’t taken into consideration enough by the fandom. Tenna isn’t making new boards bc he wants you to stay, he’s making new boards because he’s being made to stall way more than he’d been told he would. He had to improvise everything past board 1 and he’s not happy about it.

I LOVE Kris and I think they’ve done a lot of genuinely fucked up stuff and I don’t think it’s their fault bc look at what’s going on with the adults in their life. Look at their relationship with their childhood friends mom. Look at their relationship with the Knight. It’s all fucked.

But do also think the dialogue implying they used their position as a lightener to effectively force Tenna into this plan is like. Bad. One of the shittiest things we’ve seen them do so far.

[xzacloudx]

Good points all around. But remember, Tenna himself confided to Susie that Kris doesn't seem to like him anymore. We still don't know exactly why Kris stopped watching TV.

And if you don't do the sword route, Tenna says in his battle:

"Who do you think taught you to LAUGH and CRY!?

... What, you think it's MY fault you forgot HOW!?"

That sounds too personal to ignore. Kris definitely feels something deeply negative about Tenna, outside of their mission.

(All I can think of is, maybe Kris buried themself in watching TV during the domestic disputes as a coping mechanism, to the point that they avoided dealing with their feelings, which led them to depression & dissociation? So they either stopped watching so they could try to get back to their life, or stopped even caring about anything on TV anymore? Just personal theories based on the game text; like I said, as far as I know, we don't know yet.)

So yeah, it can be both. ✌️

(There's one more interesting detail; if you do the Sword Route, Kris damages Tenna WAY more than normal if you Fight him. We don't know why that is either, as far as I know. Maybe it's from them wanting to shut Tenna up about revealing their deal? Or it could be from the trauma of us forcing them to do that route & they're taking it out on Tenna? Or the Sword game reminded Kris of the past too much & reignited their hard feelings toward Tenna for whatever reason they're there? Again, I wish we knew...)

[meltesh28]

animated the "It's okay not to smile" scene from chapter 4

youtube link

[xzacloudx]

Every frame is amazing! So much art, in motion, put together so well. You made the characters all so expressive! Fantastic adaptation of this heartwrenching scene!

[skywardwarriorcg]

Please do not use this without my permission! Thanks!

Here is my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/skywardwarriorcg :)

Credit was given at the end of the video.

About a year ago, I had the silly idea to animate a parody of the Pixar logo animation, except using Nubert with the Deltarune logo. After getting extremely sidetracked with a ton of SPM, SMRPG, ENA, and other Deltarune projects, it’s finally here. XD I was quite overdue to work on another hand-drawn 2D animation since my project list was flooded with mostly 3D work, and I’m pretty happy with the result! This time, I focused on squash and stretch, as well as simulating a moving camera with manipulating the logo’s perspective, plus more sound effect integration. Somehow this is only the second time I’ve animated Nubert, with the first being in 3D. My man!

Also, this is my first animation I’m posting right to Tumblr! I hope this place will be a great home for my projects while YouTube continues its reign of chaos. XD

Hope you like it! Thanks for watching!

[hilippa-arts]

Here is the animation that i did 2 years ago but forgot it untill now

[xzacloudx]

Jeez that's creepycool! I love so many of the details. The intense sense of scale in his movement to lean down, the way parts of him come into the light, the way his hand settles unevenly on the ground, the blast of steam from his mouth...! Amazing work! Thanks for sharing this! X3333

[smieska-draws]

HERE IT IS YAY I DID IIIIT! ;0; enjoyyy!

here it is on youtube as well

[xzacloudx]

This is absolutely amazing! Such hard-hitting scenes & fantastic composition! 😃

[zc-undertale]

I just drew for the first time in ages, made The Roaring Knight (I'll probably make them look more horrifying & organic in the future, this was just practice to get their basic form figured out).

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