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This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Undertale.

To do: Add sources. (There were some links in todos in previous revisions of the page, that are probably the sources of some of these images.) Add comparisons

Contents

• 1 Areas
  • 1.i Ruins
  • 1.2 Snowdin
  • i.3 Waterfall
  • i.four Hotland
  • 1.five CORE
  • 1.six True Lab
  • ane.vii New Dwelling
  • 1.8 Outside
• 2 Characters
  • 2.1 Frisk
  • 2.ii Flowey
  • 2.three Toriel
  • 2.four Napstablook
  • 2.5 Sans
  • ii.6 Papyrus
  • 2.seven Snowdin Shopkeeper
  • ii.8 Temmie
  • 2.ix Gerson
  • 2.10 Undyne
  • 2.11 Alphys
  • 2.12 Mettaton
  • 2.13 Bratty & Catty
  • 2.14 Burgerpants
  • 2.fifteen Asgore
  • 2.sixteen Photoshop Flowey
  • ii.17 Asriel
  • ii.eighteen Misc. Monsters
    • two.eighteen.ane Vegetoid
    • ii.xviii.2 Whimsun
    • 2.18.3 Migosp
    • 2.xviii.iv Snowdrake
    • 2.18.5 Ice Cap
    • 2.18.half-dozen Jerry
    • two.18.vii Nice Cream Guy
    • 2.18.8 Snowdin Canine Unit
    • ii.18.nine Grillby
    • 2.18.10 Jimmy Hotpants
    • two.xviii.xi Monster Kid
    • ii.18.12 Aaron
    • ii.eighteen.13 Shyren
    • two.xviii.14 Royal Guards
    • two.xviii.15 Heats Flamesman
    • two.18.xvi Muffet
    • two.18.17 Final Froggit
    • 2.18.18 Knight Knight
    • two.18.nineteen Whimsalot
    • 2.xviii.twenty Reaper Bird
    • two.18.21 Everyman
    • 2.xviii.22 Snowdrake'southward Female parent
    • 2.18.23 Endogeny
    • 2.18.24 Lemon Staff of life
    • 2.xviii.25 Migospel
    • 2.18.26 Moldessa
    • 2.eighteen.27 Unnamed/Various Monsters
• 3 UI
• iv Cutscenes
  • 4.1 Intro
  • 4.2 Scrapped Flowey Cutscene
  • four.3 Pre-Asriel Fight
  • 4.4 Asriel'southward Flashback
• v Other

Areas

Ruins

Sketch of Frisk in the doorway of the Ruins. Judging by the artstyle, this seems to have been drawn by Temmie.

Concepts past Toby for the first few rooms of the Ruins. Interestingly, the Flowey sprite in the corner seems to be more than detailed, perhaps even xvi-bit.

Various screengrabs of early versions of the Ruins, using diverse early on tilesets.

According to Toby, the demo was finished with the tilesets used in all except the last of these screenshots. The EN stat in the kickoff i was intended to be used for magic earlier it was cut, and the third screenshot showcases i of the first working rooms, which Toby was proud of.

Various concepts for the beginning proper room of the Ruins, forth with a cute doodle of Frisk. The barren tree was moved to simply earlier Toriel's house in the final game.

Temmie'southward concept for Toriel's business firm. Nobody drew her firm in-game, so Toby just used already existing tiles for it. The waterwheel was supposed to ability her electricity, which is why h2o appears before in the expanse.

Concept for Asriel's former room by Temmie. The astronomy-themed decorations would be reused for Asriel's side of the bedroom in Deltarune.

Diverse unused or alternate objects seen throughout the Ruins.

Very rough sketch by Toby of what he wanted Temmie to flesh out in Toriel's living room.

Drawings by Temmie of potential layouts of diverse rooms in Toriel'south house. Of notation is a separate room for the dining tabular array, and a bathroom which, while not appearing in the final, would later be revisited for Deltarune.

Snowdin

Concept art past Temmie of Sans' first appearance.

Various unused traps for the span right before Snowdin Boondocks. Presumably removed considering they wouldn't fit properly with everything else.

A couple potential designs for houses in Snowdin Town, drawn by Temmie.

Drawn by Temmie. At that place was planned to exist an water ice cave halfway through Snowdin which would've had fireflies reflecting light off the walls in a mode like to this. This was scrapped as Toby couldn't figure out how to exercise information technology, and information technology wouldn't have fit in with Papyrus and Sans' shenanigans.

Another drawing of the aformentioned ice cave, forth with a putter of Grillby. Hi, Grillby!

Apparently after the final X and O puzzle, the player would enter an ice cave that would take a bevy of random events inside, such as these. Of note is the diagram on the wall of what seems to exist Asriel'due south GOD of Hyperdeath form, various statues, a museum with a couple of Loox-es, Temmie, and chill snowmen.

This was removed by Temmie's suggestion every bit information technology would've been way too much work for something that would only prove up for a few seconds.

Preliminary layout for Grillby's eating house.

The page on the left consists of concepts for Papyrus' room. Of note are the descriptors of him and his holding, and the fact that a skull in his spare attacks is probably not actually a skull. Hmm...

On the right are early designs for monsters in Snowdin. The one-eyed monster on the bottom-left and the face of the burn spirit would be reused in the Ruins for Loox and the face up of Vegetoid, respectively.

Concepts for what seems to be the ice dog sculpture that Lesser Dog builds.

Earlier, much bigger Snowdin Town concept by Temmie. The programme was to have the boondocks be one huge area that could scroll in all four directions. Nevertheless the blueprint was likewise complicated to direct the thespian to Papyrus, and Toby couldn't come up with enough house ideas, and then information technology was scrapped. This concept would later exist partially reused in Deltarune'southward Hometown.

Afterward design for the town, much closer to what ended up in the final. The librarby and the store would swap places in the final.

Very very crude concepts and notes for Papyrus' firm.

Waterfall

Temmie's (frankly gorgeous) concept art of what seems to specifically be the marsh.

Sketches of various background objects in Waterfall.

Seems to be concept sketches of how Waterfall could potentially expect. The 1st one seems to be what was chosen for the final.

Rather humorous concept fine art past Toby, featuring italicized captions and an unknown character at the top. Co-ordinate to him, this is merely him "figuring it out"...

part ii - marsh  h2o should be black because cyan would just expect like Shit (italicized, fancy font)        

...And yet more, this time for Waterfall'south marsh with some choice words for cyan-lovers (the art book hastily censors it to say "shaving cream", so the Twitter upload is provided instead). The terminal version of this area has cyan water anyway.

More than beautiful concept fine art by Temmie of the marsh.

Unused drawing of Photoshop Flowey meant for i of the walls, presumably the text that describes a diagram of an unknown being. Was removed as it doesn't actually make sense.

Concept art by Gigi D.K. of Mettaton's old house. Co-ordinate to Toby, this room was added belatedly into development.

Temmie'south concepts for Napstablook'south firm. In Toby'southward description, he muses about making the inside of Napstablook'southward house and Papyrus' shed the same, and never changing it.

Still more Temmie concept art, this time of a room design.

Gigi's concept for Undyne's fish business firm. Toby liked all of these, but scrapped them only because they wouldn't fit on screen.

Gigi'due south (and drak for the tail) terminal sketch for Undyne'southward firm.

Concept Art	Final

Crude sketch by Toby of the interior of Undyne's house. The pet fish in the corner was supposedly removed for being "too weird though. Information technology'd be like a bunny walking a bunny."

Crude mockup of Undyne's crag by Toby. This groundwork would later be improved by Merrigo.

Really rough sketch of the view of Asgore's castle by Toby.

Rough sketches of various Waterfall objects, virtually notably the Bridge Seeds.

Hotland

Top view of the Cadre from a distance, fatigued by Merrigo. Co-ordinate to Toby, the 2nd floor of Hotland was supposed to have this, but he just didn't put information technology in.

Temmie's concept art for Hotland, showing off some of the more mechanical elements that were somewhen scrapped.

Temmie'south sketch of what the tileset of Hotland should look like, which Kenj used as a base for the in-game version.

Despite Toby's confused commentary, this seems to exist concept art of the behemothic ice cubes from Snowdin cooling down the Core, although specifically in Hotland here.

Temmie's concept art for both floors of Alphys' lab. Notable points of interest include an actual bed, Undyne'due south spear next to the bed, and what seems to be a large indoor garage door.

According to Toby, Temmie was in school by the time they started work on Waterfall, so she just had time to sketch things that Toby or i of his other friends would take to sprite. This explains why Alphys' bed is seen only equally an extremely piece of cake-to-describe cube in-game, as Toby couldn't depict a bed.

Humorous placeholders for the Mew Mew Kissy Cutie posters in Alphys' lab. Toby evidently only put these in and then the final creative person, Gigi D.G., would see it while playtesting.

Toby's extremely rough placeholder for the MTT News Show, on which he laments why he fifty-fifty tries.

One of several attempts to figure out the front end of the MTT Resort, by Toby.

Sketch by Toby of the within of the MTT Resort. The pillars were removed because they would've obscured likewise much of the screen.

All the same more concepts of the MTT Resort's various rooms. In the PDF version of the art book, Toby explains a scenario that was cutting from this location: while sleeping in your hotel room, a white round brawl next to the bed would uncurl to reveal the Annoying Dog, who would then swallow the snacks from the nearby snack bowl and scurry out. This was presumably removed as it isn't that humorous of a concept.

Crude concept art of Muffet's room by Toby, of grade. She was supposed to have her ain little "parlor" with a tea tabular array and chairs; while the sprites for these all the same exist in the final game, they were ultimately unused.

Cadre

Concept art of the transition from the MTT Resort to the Core, past Gigi D.G. According to them, Toby wanted them to "capture the feeling of leaving a party and heading into a dangerous area".

Toby's rough sketch of the Cadre's tileset, along with Temmie's cleaned upwards version of it.

According to Toby, Gigi drew this after playtesting considering they thought the original leadup to Mettaton EX'south fight looked boring.

Truthful Lab

According to Toby, this scenario in which the walls would laugh at the actor would've been seen in the unnecessarily long hallway in the True Lab. Toby scrapped this because he idea some would find information technology likewise scary, and most would observe it too cheesy.

New Home

Toby's sketch of the iconic Judgement Hall, before Gigi made it look presentable.

Outside

Rough and non-as-rough sketches of the ending view of the land above, past Toby before Merrigo made it await cute.

Characters

Frisk

Frisk'south original pattern, with black hair, slightly lighter stripes and no bobbing up when taking a step, compared with their final design on the meridian. Co-ordinate to Toby, their hair was changed and then information technology wouldn't blend in with the many black backgrounds throughout the game. Toby also elaborates that Frisk'southward sprites are supposed to look somewhat lackluster to give the histrion a different expectation when starting information technology up bullheaded.

Flowey

Various early Flowey faces by Toby. A couple are the same, some are but slightly different and most went outright unused. According to Toby, these were some of the first sprites he made for the game.

Toriel

Very, VERY early (and creepy) rough design for Toriel in a mockup for the battle interface.

Very early concept sprites of Toriel by Toby. Most interesting are the various face designs on top, which includes a very crude preliminary design for her head that moreso resembles a crocodile rather than her concluding design. Along with this, there's many early on faces without horns (ii of which were posted separately on Twitter in higher quality, and can be seen below), which were added equally Toby realized she looked too similar to the Mimigas from Cavern Story (a noted inspiration). Beneath all of that are early versions of her battle sprites, which include some which went completely unused, such every bit her holding a plate of nutrient.

The death sprites are so early because, according to Toby, killing Toriel was originally mandatory. Withal, Toby felt like killing her was wrong, so he decided to make her sparable, which seemingly birthed the game's main selling point of murder or mercy.

Happy Toriel with no horns.

Sad Toriel with no horns.

Humorous Toriel dialogue posted by Toby earlier the original demo released.

Very early designs for Toriel in the overworld, all designed by Temmie, along with a couple unused sprites for her final blueprint.

Various other early on Toriel overworld sprites, forth with a very tiny Chairiel.

Early concept art by Temmie of Toriel and Frisk.

Sketches of Toriel, drawn past Temmie around the time the demo released. Co-ordinate to Toby, Temmie gave this to him the first time they met.

More than "concept art" for Toriel, supposedly intended for one of the borders in the console versions. It was not added due to it being "evil and cannot be used".

According to Toby, this is "concept art" for Toriel. In authenticity, this was just a joke drawing made for the Kickstarter. This did really stop up being used in an edited land in the "Beauty" border in the console releases, yet.

Napstablook

Apparently, Napstablook was just a placeholder character Toby made for his battle mockups, featured here. Playtesters loved them then much that Toby decided to make them an bodily graphic symbol. Along with this, Toby also explains that their battle theme was non made for Undertale, but was used as a reference to Pepper Steak from one of Toby's inspirations, OFF. These mockups also evidence the unused Energy stat in battle, and with the spell push as well shown hither, it suggests you were supposed to build upwards Energy for using spells on enemies. Undertale's sister game, Deltarune, would get on to use a similar mechanic in the grade of Tension Points (TP).

Sans

Sans' original, uhh... dissimilar design. Despite the haunting expect, obviously he was basically the same at this indicate, but told more skeleton puns.

A couple outfit designs for Sans past Temmie. Plain he was supposed to run poker at a casino at one indicate, and wear a visor on his head. This casino and visor idea would later be reused in the Xbox port released in 2021.

Sans doing a pose that isn't seen in the final game, pointing to the right. Toby mentions that he was actually supposed to do this at one point.

Humorous notes by Toby outlining the diverse aspects of the Sans date at Grillby's.

Toby explaining to Temmie how Sans playing trombone should look, complete with a helpful stock image with Sans' face fatigued over information technology. The comedic usage of stock images would, oddly enough, exist revisited for the healing attacks of K. Round and Sweet Cap'n Cakes in Deltarune.

Papyrus

2nd boss is a skeleton. Named ~~Times New Roman~~ (scratched out) Papyrus I WAS RAISED By A NEWSPAPER  I TAKE WHAT I Desire, WHEN I Desire IT. I'One thousand A MAN'South Human.  wears a fedora when you date HOW DO YOU Similar MY Manner. -> [blacked out] Russ, we need to talk  Hullo MY DARLING, I'VE MADE SPAGHETTI  ~~it'south ~~difficult~~ totally uncooked~~ *crunches on it* It'Southward A Petty RARE  has a brother  named comic sans and a [blacked out]  named [blacked out]        

Probable the kickoff concept fine art for Papyrus. He was originally supposed to exist a typical "squeamish guy" who browses Reddit, wears a fedora, watches little kids shows like "My Petty Boney", and crunches on raw, uncooked spaghetti noodles. This personality was completely flipped considering Toby felt every bit though he'd be too unlikable otherwise. He plainly had some other relative, but this was edited over in mail (after the picture was taken). Though this is speculation, many take said this is most likely Gaster or Grandpa Semi.

papyrus   sans  mettaton   mettaton (anime)  second date  don't  I expect ...  RADICAL?!  yup.  blood brother killer        

More concept art of Papyrus, Sans, and Mettaton, looking closer to how they appear in the final game; though Redditor Papyrus however had yet to be abased, an early version of his "Cool DUDE" dating wear has already been visualized. An early on version of Mettaton EX'due south blueprint is as well nowadays. This features the very infamous "blood brother killer" line from the final game, and is likely the showtime draft of said line.

Very early dialogue portrait for Papyrus' starting time neckbeard pattern.

Early Papyrus dialogue sprites, some of which notably lack his eyebrows.

Concept art of Papyrus' battle body by Temmie. Originally it was intended to be a Captain Falcon-esque blueprint, only ended upward "existence something more than like the miniboss from Sting Chameleon's phase".

Toby's vain attempts at drawing Papyrus' battle sprite. In the end, he gave upward and sketched the pose in the bottom-right for Temmie to describe instead.

College quality version of Toby's sketch of Papyrus'south in-battle pose. According to Toby, the greyness pixels are a result of resizing in Microsoft Paint, then this may not be what the original version actually looked like.

Among the unused thinking sprites in the files of the final version, the fine art book includes this additional unused pose for the engagement/hangout with Papyrus.

Temmie Chang'southward offset attempt at Papyrus'southward overworld sprites. Toby thought the outfit looked "as well cool", then he toned it downwardly a bit past changing the eyes and the scarf.

PAPOOSE  LOVES TRAPS        

Posted by Everdraed on Twitter. Supposedly, this was fabricated to be used in the borders on the console releases, similar to the "Towel" cartoon.

Snowdin Shopkeeper

Diverse early on potential designs for Snowdin's shopkeeper by Temmie, of which Toby laments not keeping the bonnet in the terminal design.

More early sketches of the shopkeeper, i notably showing her with two young bunny children.

Mockup by Temmie of the store screen, featuring some other early shopkeeper and some humorous item choices.

Temmie

Betty Kwong's original pattern for Temmie, drawn before Tem was fastened to Undertale. This blueprint was drawn past Betty in a livestream in which she drew what she idea her online friends looked like, and Temmie loved it so much that she adopted information technology every bit a mascot for her social media for a long while. Somewhen, this blueprint ended upwards in Undertale as Temmie'due south cocky-insert ala the Abrasive Dog to Toby.

A few of Temmie's sketches of herself, fabricated before joining the Undertale dev team.

Temmie's early on ideas for the Tem Shop, showcasing some slightly dissimilar box designs.

Toby'south early sprites for the Tem Shop, heavily referenced from Temmie's concept art, along with some unused faces.

Seemingly early versions of Temmie'due south overworld sprite.

Unknown sketch of Temmie, in both intended apply and creative person.

Gerson

Early concepts of both Gerson and his store. Toby drew his faces, and Temmie did everything else.

Undyne

Toby's very first drawings of Undyne, with a very, very different pattern.

ii pieces of concept art for Undyne. This iteration of Undyne was far more fish-like than the final version. The design was based on an Axem Ranger from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

Toby also said in a subsequently tweet that he considered Undyne'due south head existence realistic, looking identical to a existent fish'south head. At that place is no art of this concept.

Various overworld poses and notes for Undyne. According to Toby it took him a while to figure out her personality (she was originally more aggressive, had several different accents for a time, and at one point really into fashion and singing), and he only figured it out while writing her pre-battle monologue.

Temmie'due south old pattern for Undyne in her armor, which Toby tweaked as she looked besides much like a generic knight.

Early versions of Undyne'southward final overworld sprites, most notably without the longer lower wear and stark lighting of the final.

Various early Undyne faces past Toby, some showing some early designs.

Various early concepts for both Undyne'due south boxing sprites with armor and without it, compared to Papyrus and Toriel'due south battle sprites.

Toby's early designs for Undyne's date attire. The top ones were Toby's kickoff pattern, which Gigi stated made her wait similar she's going for a jog instead. His friend Jones suggested that she wear a jacket on tiptop of information technology, which ended up beingness the final design.

Diverse unused overworld sprites of Undyne maskless in her armor, including her talking and her pilus bravado in the wind. Interestingly, judging past the placement of these sprites in the fine art book, these were most probable some of the last regular sprites of her fabricated.

Early concepts for Undyne the Undying'due south appearance. She originally had completely vertical hair - which was only removed every bit information technology wouldn't fit on screen - and briefly had a mermaid tail.

Alphys

Toby'due south very showtime drawings of Alphys, who was originally a guy. Toby changed the gender (only past adding eyelashes) as he grew to dislike it.

Toby's first sprites of Alphys' original design.

Early concept fine art for Alphys, drawn by Temmie. The drawing on the left was based directly on her dialogue sprites, however was rejected every bit information technology was considered too smooth and round by Toby. The triangle on the correct was fatigued every bit Toby told her that Alphys "looks like a triangle".

Temmie'south overworld sprites, some being placeholders, for Alphys (apparently drawn when she visited Toby at one point). Toby changed her eyes to make her look cuter.

Many, many early face sprites for Alphys, some with their final versions included as well. Forth with this, at that place's a size comparing between her total battle sprite and Mettaton'southward old battle sprite, also seen beneath.

Mettaton

Toby's original drawing of Mettaton, who was inspired by the robot from the classic Wallace and Gromit short A Grand Day Out.

Concepts by Toby of Mettaton's battle sprite, especially his legs. Likewise a couple of... interesting side profile sketches.

Storyboard by Temmie of Mettaton'south get-go advent.

Very very early attempt at coming up with Mettaton EX's battle sprite, by Toby. While completely scrapped in this game, elements of this blueprint would be reused in Deltarune for the bedraggled NEO robot in Queen's basement, which in-universe is designed by that universe'southward version of Mettaton.

Many unlike boxing sprite ideas for Mettaton EX (and a few for regular Mettaton). The "trail of sparkling tears" was going to be used when EX gets hitting, however this was replaced with him enjoying it instead. The angle of the sprite in the peak-right, alongside the basis of the fights confronting regular Mettaton (not beingness able to defeat a giant robot by normal ways), was direct inspired by R7308 from Mother a.k.a. EarthBound Beginnings, another one of Toby's main inspirations. The angle was scrapped, every bit it would've looked weird adjacent to Alphys' regular perspective.

Unused thought (fatigued by Toby) for EX's battle, which was apparently programmed in at some point, just removed as the transition apparently didn't look skillful.

Diverse stages of finalizing EX'southward appearance, by Toby. The bottom-middle design has hands and legs by Temmie.

A couple of unused arm poses for Mettaton'southward get-go battle.

Bratty & Catty

Early designs and faces for Bratty and Catty. IPGD (ipunchgaydeer) redid the designs, and Toby touched up the optics for both.

Burgerpants

The very first concept art for Burgerpants, who patently started out as a PaRappa the Rapper-inspired character but went "incorrect".

yeah???  i'll fucking do information technology        

Uncensored concept art for Burgerpants with some... colorful commentary. According to Toby, Burgerpants is the only grapheme whose final design matches the concept art 1:1.

Asgore

Toby's commencement sketches of Asgore, earlier his personality was figured out.

Very early art of Asgore by Toby, once once again before his personality was figured out. The meridian-right sprite was actually used in the original Kickstarter trailer, and the sprite on the lesser-right was inspired past Sinistral and Male monarch Berebus from Brandish, still another one of Toby'south chief inspirations.

Temmie's version of the early on Asgore, with one notably lacking his facial hair.

The progression of Asgore's overworld sprites. Asgore's hair was black/chocolate-brown for most of development, and was changed near the end to make his sprite more readable. Apparently Toby hardly remembers his new hair color.

Many early and unused Asgore faces, one of which is an absolutely cursed shaven sprite. The sprites on the bottom were meant for his special assault, explained in Toby's own words: "His eyes were going to flash six times in a row alternately, followed by six spear swipes. Then both eyes would flash white and he would elevator his spear above his head, roar, and slam his trident into the box, creating giant shockwaves." This was removed considering it would've been too difficult, and his spear wouldn't have fit completely on-screen.

Co-ordinate to Toby, Asgore originally had functionality where he could hold his spear at any angle, and fifty-fifty spin it. Toby didn't like the results, however, so in the terminal game his spear is at a set point.

Toby'due south concept of Asgore's spear attack, which he sent to Temmie and 3 or 4 other unnamed artists for them to describe. In the cease, Toby had to draw the last sprites himself instead.

Photoshop Flowey

Early on concept art by Toby of Photoshop Flowey. The left side is actually in the files of the final game still, yet the correct was cut out. This was redesigned a couple times until Everdraed had something comprehensible to work with, the concepts of which are shown next.

Various other designs for PF, in society of completion. By the first image Toby had actually already programmed all the moving parts of him, and by the second image he finally realized the souls could fit inside the 6 big petals at the top. The final prototype was the concept Toby gave to Everdraed to piece of work off of.

Many unused faces originally intended for the ending of PF's fight, one of which interestingly looks like a psychotic Asriel. These were cutting as they were too comedic for the tone of the scene.

Sheet of the weird faces that prove upwards on PF's TV screen, including some unused variants. By the wording in the art book, it seems Toby made these faces and heavily edited them to make them look creepy.

PF'due south "normal" faces, including many unused ones, some of which are taken near straight from the sketches earlier. Toby scrapped nigh of these as he hated how they looked.

Everdraed'south in-progress screenshot of PF'southward final design. Everdraed explains that he shot Toby an electronic mail afterward the demo came out request if he could work on the game, not knowing Toby already had him in mind for this dominate fight.

The messed upwardly teeth were intended to be used after the SOULs dropped his defense to 0, specifically after he gets hit. The Giant Side Vines (equally Draed puts it) were originally going to creepily undulate, simply were nearly likely removed as information technology would've been too visually distracting and disruptive to layer sprites behind it for Toby.

This groundwork element was meant to give the boss an "animal, vegetable, mineral" vibe, and would've been animated as struggling against each other.

Yes, that's a worm.

More than moving vines for the groundwork, which Toby once once more removed as it fabricated information technology likewise visually busy.

According to Draed, he was intending on suggesting a mechanic where PF's screen would brandish various bitcrushed atrocities depending on what was happening in the fight, such every bit attacks. These are only two of them, the outset existence of unknown origin and the 2nd being of a house breaking down. These were scrapped over concerns over rights problems and content problems, which given something listed below, must've been pretty bad...

A gag meant for the Venus Flytrap, where information technology would've had a "vacancy" sign that would change to "no vacancy" when full of flies. Toby removed this equally he felt it was too lighthearted of a gag to be in this tense fight.

Everdraed imagined this less as a random lighthearted joke, and more-so "sort of a roach motel concept that at first seems playful simply is actually kinda sinister and gross when y'all recollect about it." He likewise felt as though the flies could change direction when the plant is total and attack the player, but conceded that programming the fight was probably already hard enough for Toby without this rather unpleasant attack blueprint alter.

Evidently non even Draed knows what this was supposed to be used for. This is also part of a gif where the nostrils would sniff very weirdly. Permit u.s. not think near this further.

All of these are the original, high definition Photoshopped images that would later exist downsized to fit in the terminal game, along with some differences.

The Venus Flytrap was originally going to walk around on the bottom with cactus artillery and swat flies away, but these arms were removed and the trap was reworked into the last version every bit the arms weren't menacing.

The arms were going to be much beefier, and take retractable petals and swing effectually, the whole shebang.

Most interestingly are the bombs, which are photoshopped versions of the Little Boy and the Fat Human, the nukes that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively to terminate Earth War II, only with Flowey's grin on them. (No, this is not a joke.) This is a concept Everdraed loves to visit fourth dimension and time again, as it brings to mind a child trying to come to grips with terrifying and traumatic experiences in life, something which ends up fitting this fight rather well. The Petty Boy would end up being scrapped, presumably out of back-up.

Asriel

According to Toby, Asriel's developed God of Hyperdeath form was inspired past a program he fabricated to exam visual effects in-game (shown to the right), which for some reason he put Toriel with evil eyes into. Toby liked the idea so much that he made an entirely new grapheme pattern based on this.

Toby's first concept of Asriel as a child, which was inverse every bit he wasn't beautiful enough and he had horns for some reason. Toby originally also envisioned the player fighting him as a child every bit well, yet he was anile up for the fight proper.

Toby originally flirted with the idea of Asriel having "boyband hair" for near 5 seconds, co-ordinate to him. Apparently the intention behind the God of Hyperdeath design was to evoke this feeling, and Toby's glad that fanart of him with this kind of hair exists.

Toby originally wanted to requite Asriel bigger horns, but shortened them as he thought they looked too stupid.

Progression of Asriel's boxing sprite. Toby made him float as he thought he looked stupid just standing.

Various early on sprites of Asriel's boxing animations, including weaponry and many of which notably lack his tuft of hair. The weird eyeball was meant to be part of an unused (but programmed) attack where his head would spin and then fast that it would turn into an eyeball that shoots out tons of beams. This was scrapped as the attack was too difficult to dodge.

Two unused attacks: the first would take eyes announced randomly and fire lasers, and the second would accept Asriel fire blue and orangish thunder from his hands that would spin around.

Very early on, very rough sketches of Asriel's last form, complete with some creepy faces! Toby manifestly designed these earlier he had even finished his first grade.

Early-to-final versions of the Hypergoner assault, which Toby is pleased concluded up looking "happier".

Many early or unused last form and kid Asriel assets, including some unused faces and an absolutely massive Delta Rune. Toby wanted the dominate to accept up the whole screen as he felt final bosses always do that.

Misc. Monsters

Vegetoid

Vegetoid started out equally a pumpkin named Pumpunk (and later renamed Squashy), but was changed at some point in development. The Squashy overworld sprite can actually be seen in the GAMETEST_7 demo played on Fangamer's Twitch aqueduct.

Whimsun

Whimsun's battle sprites, along with an unused variant with butterfly wings. This unused version was meant to exist a harder variant of the enemy, but was removed as Toby didn't think the cease effect looked skillful.

Migosp

The first concept art for Migosp, who originally had different moves for the "spared" bullet, and more arms.

Snowdrake

Magnolia Porter'due south original sketch of Snowdrake, which seems to have been translated i:i in-game.

Water ice Cap

Magnolia Porter's Ice Cap sketch, same bargain as Snowdrake above.

Jerry

Jerry.

Nice Cream Guy

Temmie's first blueprint for the Nice Cream Guy, which Toby subsequently tweaked, most notably changing the colour of his fur and the umbrella.

Snowdin Canine Unit

Toby's admittedly stunning and beautiful origin sketches of Doggo, Dogamy and Dogaressa. Toby explains that Dogamy and Dogaressa were inspired by Brian Lee O'Malley's Trobblers.

Concept art for the diverse members of the Snowdin Canine Unit. Toby states the face on the spear and gauntlets on Greater Domestic dog were all his idea. Toby felt they looked too real, then he (and Temmie) made them look shittier. Plainly, they only started on these redesigns afterwards Toby made sprites for Doge, as she ended upwards going unused in the last game.

Toby'southward rough sprite sketch, along with the final sprites, for Doge earlier they went unused.

On the left are Toby's original boxing sprites for Greater Dog, based straight on Temmie'south concept art, which Temmie later helped change into what concluded upwards in the final version. On the correct is also an early version of his overworld sprite.

Goof by Temmie, which later was used for the cutscene before Greater Dog's fight.

While the original version of this Lesser Dog drawing isn't in Toby's easily anymore, he explains what exactly this is:

"I told Temmie to draw a smaller version of Greater Dog every bit a counterpart, so she did... but her sketch had this like, weirdly long and puffy neck. So every day after I told her that I had some important concept fine art to look at. And then every time it would just be her drawing of the domestic dog, but with its neck badly extended in MS Pigment. Until it only reached this betoken and its neck was really long."

This thought was later put in the final game as Lesser Dog'south master gag.

Grillby

Fuller version of the Grillby putter seen in the Waterfall concept art to a higher place. He'due south pretty hot, right?

Higher quality version of the concept art putter of Grillby from Sans' date as seen to a higher place. He was fabricated less nerdy (and less Dilbert-esque) for the final design.

grillby  black skinny pants and nice shoes HE  LOOKS LIKE DILBERT IN THIS DRAWINg (grillbert? ?? ?? )        

Jimmy Hotpants

Toby's sketches of Jimmy Hotpants, plain to explicate to Temmie how to correctly describe them.

Monster Kid

Magnolia Porter'due south original drawings of Monster Kid, of which she states she's happy they got an expanded part.

Temmie'due south first versions of Monster Kid'southward overworld sprites, which Toby afterwards tweaked to make them await less angry.

Various ideas for Monster Kid'due south tripping animation, including a scrapped "victory" animation.

Aaron

One of Toby's friends asked him to put a monster in that is "very muscular and strong", and so he told Temmie to draw a muscular horse pattern considering she hates muscles and horses.

Shyren

The original versions of Shyren and her manager'due south battle sprites, featuring some weird looking eyes that, judging by the caption, Toby is glad he removed.

Majestic Guards

Various early versions of the Royal Guards, including the later unused RG 03 and 04. Almost interestingly, the lesser-right corner has an Amalgamate version of all 4 of them, apparently named ASURA, presumably removed for numerous logistical reasons.

Heats Flamesman

Heats Flamesman concept art, forth with their terminal sprites. Patently just walking past them would've shown that you lot supposedly knew their proper noun, judging by the notes.

Muffet

Kickstarter backer Michelle Czajkowski'due south original uncolored and colored drawings of her character, Muffet. Toby states that he basically traced the design in-game for her boxing sprite.

Final Froggit

Early design for Final Froggit, featuring a more haunted appearance and a husky blitheness.

Knight Knight

Sketch of Knight Knight, forth with an early on battle sprite for her.

Whimsalot

Original design for Whimsalot, with a dissimilar head.

Reaper Bird

The first designed Amalgamate, Reaper Bird was later given longer legs to go far creepier.

Everyman

Sprites for the Everyman assault, including an unused reverse-chomping head. He is described every bit "a good guy who shows up on occassion", if you're wondering.

Snowdrake's Mother

Original concept sketches for Snowdrake's Mother, along with sprites of diverse Snowdin enemies to utilize equally inspiration.

Endogeny

Various concepts for Endogeny, along with various other dog enemies as inspiration.

Lemon Bread

Even so more than concepts and inspirations, this fourth dimension for Lemon Bread. Toby confirms her proper name is a reference to Gunstar Heroes.

Migospel

Early sprites of Hard Mode enemy, Migospel, including a variant with three legs. Toby had to downsize information technology, Moldessa and Parsnik afterward as he made them too large originally.

Moldessa

Early Moldessa sprites, along with some shape ideas for its confront.

Unnamed/Various Monsters

These lovely chaps were meant to be the characters who snore to the tune of "Determination" while the player sleeps in Snowed Inn. Originally, after sleeping, the player would exist able to talk to them and they would exposit humorous dialogue. Toby forgot virtually this concept though and didn't intendance to go back and really implement this.

Original versions of the teethy monster seen inside Grillby's, with a lower half not seen in-game.

A couple Waterfall characters, including an before, more professional-looking (and pink) version of Onion-san.

The riverperson was originally going to randomly wear this flowery muumuu, merely Toby didn't implement this.

Unused cheerleader enemy for Hotland who was going to bring along Vulkin and, interestingly, Woshua with oversized football helmets.

Another unused Hotland enemy, this LARPing Harpy (known equally Larpy) would characterize every move every bit if information technology was an RPG, and to spare him you'd accept to play an RPG, inside of this game'southward RPG interface. The concept of a nerdy, game-obsessed avian would be revisited in Deltarune'due south Berdly.

Unused lizard NPC for Hotland. Obviously Waterfall would take many fish NPCs, and Hotland would have many lizard NPCs.

A couple unique flop battle screen designs intended for the bomb defusing encounters.

Patently Hotland would've been full of robot NPCs, notwithstanding they were all removed as it felt "wrong" to accept any robots bated from Mettaton.

Toby'due south sketch of the harpy riding a hot canis familiaris, which was translated about exactly to sprite form in the final.

Life's a procedure.

Various different versions of the Snowdin demon NPC, who at one indicate had a blueish, frowning version that Toby most likely forgot to put in after. Also, interestingly, an overworld Anneal sprite of this character, like the Amalgamate version of the Imperial Guards seen higher up.

Various early concept sketches of potential Difficult Mode enemies, merely three of which went used.

Various random enemy concepts by Temmie, none of which ended upwardly in the terminal.

Yet more Temmie monster designs. The teethy guy concluded up in the terminal, sitting at a berth in Grillby's.

Judge what? More than monster designs by Temmie, yay! The slimy cleaning dude would be used in the MTT Resort, and Toby states that he liked the bird and broccoli unicycle designs.

Various NPC designs past Temmie, who would've guessed? The beautiful rock at the meridian-left would be used in extra tiny class in Snowdin.

Elderly NPC design by Temmie.

Placeholder of... something. Toby's commentary is not helpful here.

Various placeholder NPC designs by Toby, the left of which was actually used both in the MTT Resort and in greyscale class for one of the Gaster Followers.

Unused artsy NPC blueprint by Temmie... or Toby. Toby does not provide helpful commentary here. Maybe she was related to the Art Club?

Various NPC ideas by Toby, along with a couple sprites. Of these, simply the orange fish and Onion-san would finish up in the last.

Yet more than NPC ideas by Toby, including Mr. Sunshine from earlier, a rat who is an obvious parody of Templeton from Charlotte's Web, and some clams. Interestingly, Clam Daughter hither is the only advent of "fun effect" content in the entirety of the art book.

Almost interestingly, however, is the design in the tiptop-middle of the showtime image, with the censored proper noun. Many take speculated that this is a very, very early version of Spamton from Deltarune, based on the similar slick-backed hair, pointy nose, tiny appearance and constant smile, along with the hastily cut off speech communication chimera and the aforementioned censored name. We may never know for sure, even so...

Even more than NPC designs past Toby. The only i of these to be included in the last is the dude belongings the Spider Donut. The haniwa-esque monster-in-a-box was going to be included, but there weren't enough boxes to make it work, and evidently Large Stomper was "really popular" according to Toby. While the cube characters don't appear in the last game, they do bear some similarity concept-wise to Ice-E.

Many different Hotland monster designs by Magnolia, with only Vulkin and Gyftrot (who was changed slightly and plopped in Snowdin instead) catastrophe up in the last. The seagull was a ploy by Magnolia to have Toby include a seagull in the last game, every bit she loves drawing seagulls.

UI

Various mockups of the battle organization past Toby, including some unproblematic placeholder designs, and the creepy Toriel from earlier. Almost notably, there were more options for the chief choices, such equally Check, Talk (which would by and large be merged into ACT), Magic (which was completely scrapped) Goods (which became ITEMS) and Run (which would be combined with Spare and turned into the MERCY pick).

Various tries at figuring out the concluding design of the battle interface, near notably showing off the unused Free energy magic mechanic. Along with this, in that location are early on versions of the final's main choices, the Spell icon actually going unused in the last game's files. The season text in the second epitome, another reference to Gunstar Heroes, would later be reused in the fight with Lemon Bread.

Various mockups of the overworld menus, including an early spelling of Undyne'due south name, wowee!. Most notably, SAVEing was originally a menu option that could exist chosen anywhere, and it would runway how many kills the player has, rather than the stats screen showing it during a Genocide run. Also the prison cell telephone was originally gonna be Frisk's friend, merely this idea was scrapped for being "really bad".

Loading screen design past Temmie that Toby removed because he preferred the loading screen to look shitty.

Mockup of the demo's instruction transmission surprisingly drawn by Temmie on a trackpad.

Mockup of the dating sim sprites during Papyrus' date. Don't worry, Aaron is just a placeholder.

Every major boss fight was supposed to take a different unique background, such equally this floating one for Asgore (which actually was programmed). In the finish, all but Undyne's were scrapped.

All of these sprites were meant for the very end of Papyrus' "really cool regular attack", which originally would've had bone attacks and so devolve into tons of ridiculous things. Ideas include an unabridged circus and a row of 19 buses (which is a reference to the Homestar Runner short, Potent Bad Electronic mail #87 - Mile). This was scrapped for "every reason", according to Toby.

Cutscenes

Intro

Temmie's very first sketches of the game'south intro. In the PDF version of the art volume, Toby explains that the intro was originally going to take Frisk fall down into the Underground instead of Chara, however Temmie accidentally drew one stripe on their shirt instead of two. Instead of changing this, Toby decided to work it into the story, and have the intro tie into the cutscene during Asriel'southward boss fight.

Slightly more than finished versions of the intro by Temmie. These were actually used as placeholders in the GAMETEST_7 demo mentioned earlier.

Scrapped Flowey Cutscene

-> if you lot defeat asgore in 1 hit  uhhhhh you win?  (burrows into the footing)  credits play with goofy sitcom theme song music        

Storyboard for a never-implemented cutscene that would've occurred if the player somehow managed to defeat Asgore in a unmarried striking. In the final game, the only time this happens is during the Genocide Route, where the outcome is far more serious. Unused Flowey faces meant for the scrapped cutscene are as well nonetheless left in the final game.

Pre-Asriel Fight

The cutscene before the Asriel fight was so complicated, that Toby decided to make a crude storyboard of it. The end results are... interesting, to say the least. Of annotation is that Papyrus' "pepis" text, a reference to a fake swear word used as an in-joke among Toby'south circle of friends, bears an uncanny similarity to the "pipis" sign that accompanies the enemy/assault of the aforementioned name in Deltarune.

Asriel'south Flashback

Temmie'due south original storyboard for the Asriel flashbacks. Toby came upward with different ideas later on, shown below.

Storyboards for Asriel's flashbacks to his life with Chara virtually the end of his boxing in the Truthful Pacifist road, plus some concept portraits of Asriel himself. According to Toby, several planned scenes had to be cut from this sequence in the last game for timing purposes; indeed, of the scenes shown hither, the only ones nowadays in-game are Asriel encountering Chara after they fall into the Underground and Asriel & Chara holding bouquets of flowers. Toby's notes, from left to right and summit to bottom, read as follows:

eat pie read books play in the flowers  they're all wrapped upward in bandages, like mummies.  3 poses: - asriel holding flowers, chara property as well many - them eating pie, chara holding a knife → knife side by side to chara - them looking at stars, parallel to earlier        

The contents of these notes also confirms that "Chara" is indeed the canon name for the Fallen Man that the player names at the beginning of the game.

Other

Concepts for the logo of the game. The artist is not listed in the art book.

Drawing made by Temmie right after the demo released for the Kickstarter, showcasing a few early, silhouetted versions of characters that would announced later.

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Source: https://tcrf.net/Prerelease:Undertale/Concept_Art

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