It Doesn't Matter TF Stages

Thursday, May 21, 2026

I don't have enough done to do an It Doesn't Matter update today, BUT, I can do it tomorrow. And since I will probably have trouble with Thursday deadlines now that my Intensive German Language class is full force, Friday as update day will probably work better anyway...so, I think in light of that I'll take the opportunity to do that now!

After putting together the backgrounds for the establishing shots for this scene, I needed to put together an updated reference for Tails' TF progress...since my original batch was made in 2016. Chaos. Literally 10 years ago. Fuck.

So yeah, my old TF stages needed redone. In 2020, I redid Knuckles' TF stages, and those I'm still pretty happy with. But for Tails and me? Those needed re-did. Going into the end of Zone 1, I put together stage 3 of Sonic's TF on the fly based on my Knux stage 3, but that made things a little more difficult than it needed to be.

When I needed to do the TF from stage 3 to stage 4 in scene 1 of zone 2, I put it together the first image. So! I've set up for myself that there are 7 stages of the TF...with a secret 8th stage being stage 0, or their base human form. So stage 0 is fully human, stage 1 is literally just a human with just the faintest amount of fur, and stage 2 is - as I wrote in my scripts from day 1 - "more pointy", so like, slightly more visible fur (literally from 15% opacity to 30% opacity) and pointy ears (or slightly smaller ears for Knux). ^_^;; Admittedly, I let those ears get away from me through the course of zone 1. But, whatever, it's a TF animation.

^_^;; I'm sure that's fine.

The first image with Sonic is stages 2, 4, and 5, with some of stage 2 and 3 from zone 1.

Tails' TF stages are 2, 3, and 4, since his next appearance in this scene is in stage 3.

And then for context, the third image is the Knux TF lineup I did in 2020, the fourth the Sonic TF lineup from ALLLL they way back in 2016, fifth is Tails from 2016, sixth is Knux from 2016, and seventh is all three members of Team Sonic from 2016!