#I NEED TO DRAW FLOWEY BASED ON ONE OF THE SPRITES

[isaacz]

YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW LONG I FUCKING WAITED TO GET FLOWEY CONTENT ON A NEWSLETTER SKJBDIABKABKD AUAAAAJDJSSD !!!!1!1

THEYRE SO SILLY FUCKCKKKK

[tumblunni]

Aaaaa the undertale artbook is SO GOOD! Even when its not having particularly big changes or anything, its nice just to see the progress pics of the background drawings, with the really cute commentary by toby and friends! They just have such a nice jokey rapport with each other and its great to see how much collaboration went into certain things. Apparantly the only tileset that toby sprited all by himself was the true lab, everything else had bits and pieces made by different members of the team. Its amazing how cohesive it all looks in the end, I never would have guessed!

Various fun bits I liked:

* All the Mew Mew Kissy Cutie-related merchandising is designed by GigiDigi, in the initial beta copy toby sent to her it was all just placeholders yelling ‘GIGI I NEED HELP WITH THIS’ in sketchy writing XD She also designed the mettaton posters and mettaton’s bedroom, basically she saved toby whenever he needed fabulous anime things! * Apparantly at one point they jokingly considered adding a ‘team rocket base puzzle’, and anticipate how relieved the audience must be that they didn’t do it * “The water should be cyan on black because black on cyan would look like SHI-shaving cream” * Apparantly Flowey was legit inspired by a creepypasta toby read. * Toriel was originally a simple ‘goddess figure’ in the plot, with a more humanoid appearance and a mandatory plotline death to establish seriousness. Toby says that as soon as he started not wanting her to die here, he grasped the full idea of what he wanted Undertale to be, conceptually. Also the various beta designs are very cute! Toriel has a lot of them since she changed so much, whereas characters like the protagonist just got a few colour changes. * Truly the greatest loss: the ‘cool bus’ sprite. * Apparantly the beta papyrus date time sprites were ‘too good’ so they had to redraw more goofy ones to keep the comedy. Same goes for his ‘battle body’, he originally had proper armour that looked similar to undyne and was TOO BADASS TO BE ALLOWED * There’s a where’s wally page of annoying dogs XD * Confirmed canon that sans’s mouth never opens, and he somehow smashes food against it and it dissappears. Also his seat at grillby’s has a towel on it cos when he drinks the ketchup it falls out of his stomach. * the Temmie monster design came from a group chat between toby and the rest of the game’s team, where one of them had never seen a selfie of temmie and doodled a silly monster as his idea of what she looked like. She loved it so much she had to put it in the game!