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*Ralsei mutters to himself to stay calm.

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when i first heard about the male loneliness epidemic i was like oh yeah close camaraderie and bonding between men is often discouraged in favor of competition or, if not discouraged, at least filtered through a lens of individualism that precludes deep connections. and then i learned what people meant by it (men arent getting laid) to which i say skill issue

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erm chapter 5 leak ???

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Thank you so much!

Hey. I love your animatics so much, you’re one of the best Deltarune artists I’ve ever seen, and I just have to ask how you do it? What’s your process? What brushes do you use, what app do you use? How do you find the motivation to finish stuff?

Hello!!!! Thank you :3 I have been doing this for likeeeeee a long time now. It’s just fun for me :3

1.What’s your process?

I usually make a playlist of potential songs for a fandom and listen until one really wedges its way into my head. Then I print out the lyrics so I can write my ideas down. Pencil is a must so I can change my mind :3 my twin helped me ‘script’ this last vid so some of her handwriting is here.

Then I storyboard. You can do this in a sketchbook but I’ve also done is as just a series of sketches in procreate

Then I go over all of them to make them look pretty, add any shading I want, and I’m done!

2. What brushes do you use?

I primarily use the bencil. I also use jingsketch and loish basic packs but the bencil is my bread and butter.

3. What app do you use?

Capcut. I used to use Splice until they started making you pay TEN BUCKS A WEEK. I’ve also used various computer ones before. What I can get my hands on that’s free.

4. How do you find the motivation to finish stuff?

I don’t always add lights and darks and shadows - sometimes my stuff is just lineart, it’s less work.

I do usually small pieces of a song instead of an entire song so it’s more manageable.

My sister @browniefox is kind enough to help me script and board my stuff or look over my scripts to help the process along.

The sketch/boarding phase can go a long way - getting your posing and stuff down in one fell swoop means that when you get to refining the board the ‘hard part’ (imo) is already done and then next part is mostly drawing and less thinking.

Work in whatever medium is most comfortable or makes you happiest - I’ve drawing with pencil and paper, pens, on notecards, with watercolor, in procreate. Whichever I was vibing most with at the time.

Recommend having a pal who supports you. Most likely you will not get a lot of views, so never make it about the views. Make it about the enjoyment it brings you.

Keep your storyboard loose and low effort! You’ll be putting in more effort later.

Lmk if you have any other questions!

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deltarune sillies the sequel

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What with how the past several decades of Dracula adaptations have been going, I feel like there's a golden opportunity for a meta version that appears to be going the "reincarnated One True Love" route at first, only for Mina to quickly figure out that this is just a pickup line/recurring scam Dracula dusts off every century or two. I'm picturing one of the Brides taking a weary drag on a cigarette all like "he said he'd crossed Oceans of Time to find you too, huh?"

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never to meet, forever apart

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Damn bro....

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dessknight dessriel truthers rise up. they're perfect for each other

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This is so amazing. I’ve been waiting for someone to make a comic of this exact moment, and your artstyle is beautiful.

things took a weird route just now 🤔

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The interesting thing is…. from the glimpses of SOUL-less Kris we saw in Chapter 1 + 2, it was notable how…. strangely they seemed to move. We saw them walking with a sort of zombie-like gait that maybe implied they weren’t in full control of their body still, or maybe just that they were in immense pain.

It led to a lot of people speculating that Kris does need a SOUL to some level. Maybe the SOUL is Kris’ but we’re a foreign entity that has taken it over, or that Kris’ original actual SOUL has been removed and replaced with us. If Kris needed the SOUL to live, that would explain their slow, deliberate movements and also why they keep putting us back inside despite clearly hating being under our control.

So now, with Chapter 4 giving us a much better glimpse of SOUL-less Kris doing stuff… it’s notable that they seem… fully capable of moving ‘normally’. Angrily, but normally.

Even when they do the whole Creepy Zombie Walk thing they are notably faster than they seemed to be in Chapters 1 + 2

They can do things that require fine motor skills, focus and swiftness like playing the piano, handling glasses, and beating the shit out of us with a hockey stick and it's all animated as smoothly as most other Deltarune Animations. Not really implying effort or stiffness the way that original Creepy Zombie Walk animation did.

And while Susie only gets a brief moment to interact with SOUL-less Kris in the Normal Route

Noelle has prolonged interactions with them in the Weird Route (both on-screen in Chapter 4 and off-screen in-between Chapters 2 and 3) and... while she does note that they sounded 'weak and shaky' and obviously their behavior seems weird on account of the whole 'traumatized by the Unkillable Evil Time-Demon only they can see" thing

... There's nothing to really indicate that there's anything outright unnatural or 'zombie-like' about the way Kris moves and interacts with her while SOUL-less. Since this is the Weird Route, Noelle even note this is the most natural and Kris-like they've acted in the last few days.... until we take over again.

And now we know they can go without the SOUL for a fairly prolonged period of time. The Ominous Phone Voice of Probably Carol does tells them they need the SOUL, it seems unclear why.

So… what that means for SOUL-less Kris’ behavior before? It’s possible that even if Kris can operate without a SOUL, it still hurts like hell. So right after tearing out the SOUL they are in Maximum Pain and it's hard to ignore, causing them to move in a struggling and slow manner. But the more they go without it, they kinda get used to it and the pain fades into the background - allowing them to do stuff more-or-less normally.

(Basically Kris has Chronic Pain but the only Painkiller that works for them is Demonic Possession)

…Or, knowing Kris, maybe this… was all an act. They were only behaving like This because they knew we were watching. It is pretty notable that they walk around normally in the Holidays' Kitchen while we're eavesdropping on them and only swap to the Creepy Walk Animation once they notice us....

Maybe this is an act, either to make us underestimate the things Kris could do SOUL-less… or because they’re a little teen Edgelord so they just enjoy playing up the whole Soulless Zombie thing when they have a chance.

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Deltarune has given us a lot of striking images, but Susie touching Ralsei's face in a gesture of forgiveness and leaving a bloody handprint on his cheek because she punched a stained-glass window might just take the cake in terms of getting thematically freaky with it.

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"If you use em dash in your works, it makes them look AI generated. No real human uses em dash."

Imaging thinking actual human writers are Not Real because they use... professional writing in their works.

Imagine thinking millions of people who have been using em dash way before AI becomes a thing are all robots.

REBLOG IF YOU'RE A HUMAN AND YOU USE EM DASH

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Omega Flowey: No you’re supposed to obey me!

The 7 days left until Deltarune:

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it actually completely unironically pisses me off that there was times when i wasn't alive and there will be times when i'm not alive. i should have been there for everything

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hello fellow Cats enjoyers

Being that it looks like the full Cats 98 video on youtube got taken down again, here's a copy that I ripped from yt the other day while it was still up; you should be able to watch it right in google drive

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