Hello everyone! I'm Yumi, the main spriter and artist of this project.
Together with Xyro, we’ve been working very hard to give our project a makeover!

While we were developing our game we asked ourselves, what made Undertale so whimsical? What was their charm? 

At some point we gave ourselves a try to play Undertale again, we had study sessions where we tried replicating Temmie’s style, Toby Fox’s way of composing.. It was a LOT, even writing some parts of the story, oh boy...

But in the end, it was worth it! And we have some stuff to show you.

While we're looking forward to uploading the demo down the line. We thought that sharing a sneak peak of our progress wouldn’t hurt.

So here we are!

Frisk

I noticed that what I wanted to do with Frisk was really simple. I wanted to divert the style to somewhere that I never tried before. I wanted to get it out of my comfort zone. It took me like sometime to decide if I wanted to change it or not and to be completely honest It was a bit hard. Even so, I put some shading on them! and after some time I decided to saturate the colors and give her more of a human palette.

I didn't want to compromise with the yellow skin that undertale made. I looked for a more human design but still keeping this saturation on their clothing.

I experimented with some changes, for example keep giving her a turtleneck and give her a bow or a ponytail because this is a little kid that we were talking about. I based my design on a lot of feathers that I've seen back in Tumblr. I also wanted to do more and keep the jump suit more consistent with the new reference so I tried to make the color more prominent and to make the jump suit saturated and adding her a little tag.

Clef

Oh boy! this one took a little bit more time than expected because this guy went through a lot of redesigns. It's only three actually.

With our story changing, the oldest design had a lab coat and a hat that kept the essence of the Clef that we know. However, I thought about something else.

I didn't want all of the researchers to look the same with the same lab coat and the same boring uniform that everybody wears so I give it a little spin. What if they were more casual what if they were more presentable per say. And so the new Clef kept his little Hawaiian shirt and I gave him a pair of glasses to go with his design.

I couldn't really draw his hunting hat because it didn't translate too well with the design. And as time went on I changed the colors and we also changed his hair in the meantime because it also didn't translate well with the walking cycle.

Artists problems, am I right?

What else has been made?

Props to Xyro for making the tilesets because he is talented with this!

As much as we wanted to keep the game serious and more of a dark tone and some of the colors of the game, we wanted to give the saturation and the more whimsical look and try just like undertale did, keeping it closer to the game that we all know.

This is our ruins section of the game which has a warehouse look to it.

Xyro made a lot of designs for boxes and crates and even more stuff for this part, but we can’t show you that! Although we made a little change to the colors and- oh! There's Light right there, say hi!

Anyways we made a change to the colors so instead of going over something dull and mute we wanted to go over more whimsical and saturated it, keeping the feeling of undertale.

Needless to say, it took us a stint of time!

Now.. the time has arrived for what everyone was waiting for!

drumrolls...

Wait! Is it just me.. or did that mannequin just move?!

Continuing...

drumrolls...

I present to you a screenshot of our battle screen! Pretty cool right?

We were also having the same thought process as we did with the other sprites, whether we wanted to go our own path or we wanted to make this closer to undertale as we all know so we did! but giving it our little touch. We were also going for more of a digital look with the black and green color palette, and of course.. Frisk is also there! just a mini version of her head with her heartbeat.

Are we getting more?

Of course you're getting more, and we can't thank you enough for the support that you guys have been giving us. We've been working so hard to get this game to the light and with your guys' support it's been great! Honestly we can't wait for you to enjoy our game as much as we enjoyed making it! 

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