man I've had this blog since 2012. the icon and blog presentation aren't gonna change for better or for worse. I'm 30, I blog about whatever I want and my tastes change a lot. a few consistent interests are oldschool runescape and turn-based RPGs.
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So with the Nintendo Direct, literally anything could happen - but the word on the street has been that they've been remaking Ocarina of Time.
And look I'm just gonna be real - while I get that people are a bit buttmad about BotW's open world design taking over the past decade of mainline Zelda, I think committing to a full scale remake of the first 3D Zelda is going too far in the opposite direction.
You have people who simp for the Modern Remake of the Best Game in the Series when it comes to any series - for ages it was FF7 until that came to pass. That is a remake I've come to really enjoy. But I also enjoy the Final Fantasy series as the anthology that it is. I'm looking forward to whatever the fuck FF17 is gonna be.
And to me, it's all the more bizarre considering how much the Zelda series committed to change and growth from Ocarina onwards. Wind Waker was controversial in its day for looking like a fun cartoon; that reputation alleviated, but it defined that game for a long time because its art style devalued it in the eyes of Ocarina fans. Twilight Princess comes out, and it's darker - but it's still enough of a bizarre offshoot that Ocarina fans still don't like it.
Then Skyward Sword was its own can of worms, and like from what I hear it had a very troubled and rushed development. What I can say for Skyward Sword is that it implemented the stamina gauge that Breath of the Wild would revolve around.
But every time, Nintendo committed to something different. Ocarina and Majora were more mature and realistic for their day - Wind Waker was a cartoon. Twilight Princess was super stylised. Skyward Sword was a bit more rounded and bright art style wise. Breath of the Wild, to this day, is still one of the most incredible looking games Nintendo ever made - and it was a MASSIVE departure from the rest of the series!
And while Tears of the Kingdom is a bit stagnant in comparison, we also got Echoes of Wisdom in this same timeframe, as well as a Link's Awakening remake to carry the torch of 2D Zelda.
So it's just like - I don't really want to see an Ocarina remake. It could be argued that it's the best jumping off point to return to classic 3D Zelda, but I also feel like. why not go back to the drawing board and try to bring back classic 3D Zelda elements in a new game, y'know. why not do a Wind Waker, or a Breath of the Wild, and pivot off sharply to the left of what people are expecting. Like idk, an Ocarina remake as a return to pre-BotW Zelda just feels like an admission that they went a bit too far in redefining the series and they needed to rein it in by using this game as practice.
And I guess I'm the way I am because the game is available via NSO, and it got remade for the 3DS last decade. Ocarina already gets play. People have access to this game.
I dunno. I wanna see the next new Zelda game, not a remake. Maybe that's hypocritical considering that I came around on the FF7 Remake and I've been obsessed with it for a while now, but I know Final Fantasy will be back with a new mainline title at some point. We got 16 between Remake and Rebirth - I don't think there'll be a new Zelda on Switch 2 until close to the end of the console's life cycle, and I'd rather see something fun and new instead of that mainline slot being filled with Ocarina of Time again. But that's just me.
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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i was taking a picture of this to make a stupid post and my friend lola looked right at me and was like are you taking a photo of that for tumblr? and the cashier overheard and said you still use tumblr? with like audible judgement in their voice and now i feel really fucking humiliated
