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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…?

I've got a few designs! Main one being inspired by 06, another one by sonic rivals, then another one for good measure hah

Love the hc that silver is winter adapted and that anywhere iblis isn't destroying, it's an apocalyptic winter. So to kind of carry that idea over he has a scarf and pelt that he can put on to keep him warm.

He's a bit paler in the 06 inspired design because the world is overcast, covered in ash, and dark all the time

The scarf has been damaged a few times so he has to tie a knot now. By concidence, I realized having the knot there could part his hair like the quills on the back of his head

Whoever started the joke that silver has a bald spot I greatly appreciate you. Anyways that is kinda part of his design now because I've shaved his head. Perfect for kicking 👍

Another reason for the shaved head outside of the punk look is inspired from this post although I can't verify the source, so I cherrypicked from it. Labrat or psychic soldier silver is part of my hcs (I think the latter title is the name of an achievement from 06!)

Gave him several bandages around his head because. He's always getting bodied/exploded in those trailer promos and in game, has anyone noticed??? I imagine whatever enemy he's facing is going to notice he's got psychokinesis and go "oh yeah? aim for the head lol"

Slightly redesigned his cuffs to fit more human proportions? I like the idea of the cuffs opening and closing from silver's concept art so also included it here! They magnetize into one larger cuff when they're inert

The markings on his hand aren't just part of the glove designs, overexertion over time has burned those circles into his hands, ouch. They glow cyan when his powers are used to the max of his abilities