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1: Viiru and Pesonen at Pride

2: One morning Viiru and Pesonen came across an article about Pride while reading the paper. "I've heard of that!" yelled Viiru.

3: "People dress up in colourful clothes and have fun there," said Viiru. "Should we take a trip there?" asked Pesonen. The city's hustle and bustle felt as exciting as it did daunting. Viiru thought the idea sounded magnificently fun. [Newspaper: Findus-pea]

4: "But then we need to make you some colourful clothes," Pesonen told Viiru.

5: Right away, Viiru rushed to fetch cloth while Pesonen took out the sewing machine.

6: Pesonen sewed pantaloons each more colourful than the last under Viiru's watchful eye.

7: Viiru tried on the pantaloons and hats, all of them definitely worth a trip to the city! But Viiru thought the most fitting for Pride was...

8: The most colourful and stripey outfit!

9: Even Pesonen got a colourful and lively ribbon around his hat.

10: The journey towards the big city was easy atop Pesonen's bike.

11: "Look, Viiru!" pointed Pesonen. "The Pride is probably over there."

12: There were all kinds of people and things to see at Pride. The size of the crowd was many times that of home! "Pesonen, look!" gushed Viiru and pointed towards the stall.

13: [Sign: Pride King] The stall vendor had all sorts of things for sale. "There's a paw on it!" shouted Viiru.

14: "Surely a little cat needs their own flag," smiled the vendor and passed Viiru a flag to wave.

15: "There's another one available for the mister here as well," said the vendor and winked at Pesonen.

16: Deeper in the park area was even a stage, where a show was in full swing.

17: Even Pesonen's inventor imagination didn't expect such a performer!

18: Not used to such hullabaloo and seas of people, Viiru and Pesonen were tired before long, even though they'd had fun as well.

19: At the end of the day they pedaled back home.

20: "Just where were you clucking about?" probed Rilla. "All colourful like that!"

21: "We were at Pride! Folk dressed merrily, were together and there even were performers!" explained Viiru.

22: "Couldn't we hold the farm's very own Pride?" suggested Pesonen.

23: And so Viiru, Pesonen, Rilla, and the other chickens held the homestead's own Pride celebration. "Next year we'll invite Kosonen too," thought Pesonen.

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…?