Shuttle Switcher first started when I was a kid, it was a revolving door comedy starring a new cast in every comic. It was a super long time ago, and I forgot most of them, the only one that I remember vaguely was one that made my mother laugh about a man and his unpredictable talking chicken the setting the moon.

The logo for Shuttle Switcher was originally a satellite, but since I was just a kid I confused a satellite with a shuttle thus was the reason for "Shuttle" in the name, as for switcher it's pretty obvious it switches cast members and stories every issue. The inspiration was from satellite television. An assortment of completely unrelated programs in one block.

I eventually got uninterested and moved on to experiment with several other separate comic series. Lot's of the series were left incomplete and the stories were very experimental.

After a long span of time, unintentionally I amassed a huge library of characters.

Several years later after I went digital I decided to revisit the series, except this time I decided to use my already established characters rather than new ones that I made on the fly.

Then after experiencing the Super Smash Brothers Series, I was inspired to take all of my characters from all of their different stories, and combine them all into one universe. With most series having their own respective planet... thus was the start of my most ambitious project ever Shuttle Switcher Dimensional Disaster!

Shuttle Switcher Dimensional Disaster starred Razz the Robot as the main character. She was a robot from the distant future city named Marbletopia with emotions, she suffered from domestic abuse, societal rejection, and isolation.

Eventually in comic 3 her entire world came to an end as it got eaten up by a black mass spreading throughout the entire universe known only as "the anomaly".

As seen above she was rescued by Milly a character from the Sketch Castle, her design and was heavily inspired by a Newgrounds game series called Thing-Thing by Weasel. Viewer discretion advised.

Milly's from a comic I made called Sketch it was about The Sketch King, he was a doodle that came to life inside of an office supply store. The idea behind Sketch was a group of characters living in paper world that had different abilities based off the office supplies they gathered form the store.

Milly is a polite royal servant of the Sketch King, and a guard when she needed to be. She originally wielded a hand pencil sharpener that she used as a blunt object in battle.

Later in Dimensional Disaster I replaced the sharpener with the Storm Chakrams since a comically oversized plastic pencil sharpener was pretty useless outside of her world.

Later Razz met Toasterhead my first ever character. I redesigned ToasterHead of course and gave her the title of doctor. She was non-figuratively a stick figure with a toaster for a head at the start.

Her design was inspired by a mix of Angelica from Nickelodeon's the Rugrats and the Brave Little Toaster (an obscure full feature indie animated film I rented once.)

She can be very ditsy and forgetful, but is hyper intelligent. She invented the Shuttle-T which she described in the comic above.

The Shuttle-T is a massive flying space bus that has all of the amenities of a ocean liner. It's got an arcade, a theater, a buffet, a gym, bed rooms, and much more.

It can pretty much go anywhere, why?

The Shuttle Switcher Universe is very wild, I'm talking 2d paper worlds, a world that exists inside of a video game console, Razz's world in the far future, several variants of Earth, civilizations that were destroyed centuries ago, to even a house in space with a town of living food in it's fridge.

The Shuttle-T just had to defy all logic to go to such imaginative worlds.

Their plan was to gather as many scientists across the universe as they could to make a think tank to stop or even destroy the anomaly, as not even the bus that could travel through time and different dimensions could out run it forever it followed them everywhere.

The Shuttle Switcher Dimensional Disaster comic unfortunately abruptly ended at issue 63, but Razz met her goal of finding a friend as soon she saved Orbo and invited him onto the bus, his background story was exactly like hers. So they were close.

The massive universe eating anomaly never got solved though. But at least Razz issues were resolved.

The entire series was improvised, it turned out to be quite a success I remembered it got like 1,000,00 or so views in the span of three years on comic fury . com and newgrounds. I took it down though.

Why? One negative remark that made me question my art journey as a whole. After that I shutdown everything and quit art for three months straight. It was like a domino that made all of the other negative reviews I got stand out even more. I deleted, trashed, and got rid of the back ups of everything. All of the those thousands of childhood comics burned in a waste treatment center or shredded by my own hand. I was also at a low point at my life too where I adopted the stunted philosophy "know when to quit".

But by some miracle after three months I somehow still remembered mostly all of my collection of 300 characters, and redrew the catalogue that I threw away for them. After that feat I finally realized that I have a photographic memory.

I didn't even need any of those filthy, wrinkled, moth bitten papers as I remembered most of all of those comics.

Months later I rebooted Shuttle Switcher Dimensional Disaster in 3D!

I named it Shuttle Switcher Ghost Galaxy and unlike the first one I actually completed it! 64 issues in total.

Since I didn't have computer space to model dozens of worlds for an intergalactic journey the story took place on four new worlds inside of the all new Ghost Galaxy.

It was another tale with the state of the universe at stake. This time it was a villain's fault instead of a force of nature.

Most of the series was wrapped in mystery, Dr.ToasterHead assembled a team of rescues to save the day like in the original comic. As a soon as the endgame started the mystery was all unraveled.

The small planets they were on were actually separate parts of a massive doomsday device hidden in plain sight.

As the title suggested the doomsday solar system was intended to turn every living being in the universe into a ghost. Not as in the deceased and in the dirt. But ethereal untouchable see through, pretty much ghosts through scientific means.

This dastardly plot was planned by a single robot that was once defender of man kind named The Interceptor. The plan was put helped put into action by Chef Pedro Vanessa and his army of bots that he stole and corrupted from all across the universe.

In the end we learned Interceptor wasn't a cold and calculating inhuman monster that he fronted to be, he was hurting.

He created the hive mind virus that corrupted the bots originally as set of strings to puppeteer the hollow shells of the only ones he called family The Dynanic Defenders. They had their sentience removed by his very own leaders, due to their fear of technological change.

Interceptor built the dooms day device to prevent anymore conflict between robots and humans, by putting organic life in a separate phase of existence from robots.

In the end Dr.Toasterhead disarmed his device after he activated it. She forgave him after he nearly ended her life and decided to lend a helping hand. She used her bus to time travel and get his family back. Interceptor shut down the virus and decided to start life a new on the planets that he made accompanied with reunited family. He used the Ghost Galaxy one last time to travel to another dimension to call home.

Just in case you wanted to know what he looks like ... The Interceptor is the big navy blue bot with the green half circle visor and round shoulder armor in the top left as seen in the linked picture above. I can't display him on this blog as I reached the image limit for this post.

I took Shuttle Switcher Ghost Galaxy down as well.

I still only have a small fraction of it left on my computer.

Three characters made their debut in the Dimensional Disaster comic.

Checkers (a fan favorite) Checkers is the most positive, energetic, hopeful, but naive character that I've ever made. The only thing he ever knew about was the game of checkers and the rules of checkers and that's all he needed to be content even in such dire circumstances.

He's the red and white guy in this comic.

Axe Thundercage

Axe is Orbo's best friend his introduction was the most imposing. He infiltrated the Shuttle-T undetected and started taking out crew members one by one from the shadows, he stopped once he stumbled across his friend Orbo who talked the dwindling survivors down from hunting like a monster.

Everyone assumed the crew members where dead because they were glowing spheres that could still talk but they were just imprisoned by Axe's unknown energy cages, he set them free and they all became buddies. A big misunderstanding there.

And Rx Gal, the Tribal Guy's village doctor. She was introduced in the last few comics before I quit. Right after Razz got a friend a new saga on the video game planet Parkour World was in swing. Rx Gal and Hunter Guy were on a conquest to take over new land due to a lack of resources on their island (completely unaware of the limited time their planet had). Milly, Axe, and newest crew member Jumping Jack Mac got in one of the most dazzling and intense battles that I've ever made.

Here's a comic featuring RX Gal.

In conclusion I had a really fun time making the Shuttle Switcher story book iterations. The cast in each of those comics was massive and it was quite a juggling act keeping everyone in character. It was a lot of work but it was really rewarding.

I wouldn't even think twice if I was given the opportunity to start new adventure with the Shuttle-T.

Thanks for reading and bye for now!

Hello! Pixel here and I'm back with more!

I've been adding details here and there to the Toy Block Jungle Island, an island made of plastic bricks home of The Tribal Guys a web comic I do.

I've finally modeled some plants for the lake, as you can see there's now plastic vines nettles, bushels, and leaves.

I also made the shadows blue in turn making the water blue. Below is the the older render from last post as a side by side comparison.

A blender eevee technical tip for those who're interested to change shadow and reflection color change the world color.

It makes everything pop when the shadows and reflections aren't gray like the default.

As for the rest of the Island I'm still setting things up. I have the basic landscape of the map I just have to add all of the little details next.

CHAOTIC DESIGN STORY OF THE TRIBE

Since the Tribals Guys are not from Earth their designs aren't accurate to any culture, and feature things from all sorts of cultures world wide all in one outfit. Mostly to separate them even farther from real world cultures.

(I know it's a fashion disaster but I wouldn't have it any other way)

For instance Glum Gal the village farmer has an American emo bang since she's depressed, and wears an African wooden mask with rings around her eyes to emphasize she's exhausted, and really messy hair to look like she's just gotten out of bed as she falls asleep at any given moment chronically. She wears modern African patterned dress. Coupled with midrift out 80-90's style. She also wears pigtails to show her quirky childish nature.

As for the sleeves? I just got creative.

Hunter Guy wears a plastic Hawaiian Ti Leaf skirt, coupled with a African wooden tribal mask, has a Native American feather propped up by a 80's exercise sweat band. He also has two gelled up spikes for hair cause he wants to look cool.

Pretty cooky eh? I think the sweat band fits him since he's a hunter and very athletic.

This is Rx Gal the village doctor, her base form was inspired by a spider. She's got spider leg shaped hair and a black widow hour glass just if you're weren't paying attention. Her wooden mask resembles a skull since she's a villain.

Her belt took heavy inspiration form Raven form Teen Titans to further emphasize her dark practices.

I still have yet to texture her model.

There's also a little Shadow the Hedgehog going on her hair style as well. With the multi-tone spikes and general shape.

Well I reached the maximum image limit for this news post, hopefully you found it a good read.

Feel free to comment or emoji.

I've started updating some of my old 3D models since I've gotten better at modeling and texturing over the years.

There are no huge differences but they're differences none the less.

Here's Glum Gal's side by side comparison.

The biggest update is her hair, and if you place your cornea against the screen you might even see some fabric detail, it's duper small though (don't hurt yourself). I also made her mask more wooden in textures well.

Next up is Hungry Guy

He didn't need that much improvement since he's as basic as they come. I remodeled his grass skirt from scratch and made it higher poly (less ps1 jaggedy and pointy) And of course the biggest change is his mask everything has more detail now. To the lines separating his teeth to the cranny in his wooden tongue. And of course the wooden texture. I also fixed that weird blocking problem with his elbows and made his arms and body one mesh instead of socketed in like an action figure.

Well that's all for now. I'm also working on a surprise model. I still have plenty to do before it's finished though.

Heyo!... PiXeL here!

I lost a lot of files, so I'm starting over again,( thus is the price of chasing perfection, starting over again, I don't wanna to fall into that trap again)

Since the Tribal Guys comic has always been a fan favorite (and my own too ) I've decided to I'd like to start there. The Tribal Guys live in The Toy Block Jungle. As the name suggests it's an island made of plastic building blocks.

Here are some old renders I've made for it in the past.

The first model Toy Block Jungle Island 3D model was incomplete and only featured the Tribal Guy's Village, the volcano, Hungry Guy's tent, Oh No! Gal's Castle, and the lake. Other than that the rest of the island was blank or just covered in trees. So I decided to finally come up with a map to make it less of a guessing game.

Here's what I've made so far, it's still incomplete.

After a lot of experimenting and toggling shaders I finally came up with something to show here's a preview of the lake.

I still have stuff to add like plants and foliage but it's looking good so far!

Since my technique has improved I can't help but advance the Guys and Gal's models too!

This is Hunter Guy the main character.

I've update his textures. And now leaf skirt can actually bend, unlike before, and it's not all blocky looking anymore.

I also decided to make his leaf skirt out of plastic to fit his setting more.

His head feather looks fluffy now to boot!

And now you can actually tell he's wearing a sweat band now.

TRIBAL GUYS HISTORY

Tribal Guys was originally inspired by a monster from Super Mario Yoshi's Island's named Spear Guy. Which Nintendo can't decide to cancel or keep.

If you want to go even deeper down the lore hole, The Tribal Guys were side characters from my first ever web comic named the Adventures of Super Koopa Troopa and Friends that I made that forever ago, and lost the files to.

I liked the dynamics between the main three characters Hungry Guy, Chef Bruce Guy, and Hunter Guy so much that I later redesigned their entire tribe and reintroduced them in my deleted Platformer Pests comic series, and added them into Parkour World and gave them their very own island.

Parkour World is the planet of the Platformer Pests and is shared universe for most of my scrapped unfinished game concepts, video game themed characters, and comics relating to video games.

I could go on for hours of all the quirky design choices I made for each Gal and Guy, but I think that's enough for now.

I can't wait to see where this idea goes!

PiXeL out!

Me scrubbing my account clean and re-uploading has been like a yo-yo, I'm sorry. (This is like the fifth time in a row now)

Almost deleted all of my art backups once more but they still seemed to linger in another folder.

I've just been through a rough spot of questioning everything I make after the first time I've deleted my account all the way back in 2022 and throwing away my massive hoard of hand drawn comics, and scrapping all of my digital files and videos, that I've made my entire life.

Most of them were comics, they just featured silly jokes accompanied with toon violence. Quite frankly I had no story writing skills back then and all of them were completely improvised and lacking structure.

If I gained anything from all of those thousands of pages. It was characters development skills, and about 324 original characters, and world building skills.

I don't think every story I made is worth retelling to be honest. But I remember the basics of most of them as I have photographic memory or something. After I filled my trash bin with all of my work never to be seen again. And wiping my computer and Android Tablet.

Once I decided to give art another go in 2023 I remembered like 290 or so characters straight from memory.

I just thought everything I did was wrong after I heard a discouraging remark one day from someone I knew personally and I thought that my art was only making the world a worse place. I just kept on trying to reinvent myself over and over again. And make everything perfect.

But people really liked my work and they still do, I even have a bunch of fan art that I've collected over the years, if anything that's the reason why I've kept on coming back.

I thought I was being super selfish making art in general, and I thought that I was just trying to hide from the real world. But that wasn't really true; now that I look back at it, my art brought together a lot of people online and in the real world. And I didn't really ever want to do it for fame, I hardly have ever even displayed my persona or even listed my name in my own credits.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it, my life has been a traumatic ludicrous minefield full of sucker punches from left to right. Without art; I don't think I could have ever gotten through it all.

Not to sound over dramatic but I've had very few slivers of moments where I felt comfortable, free from bullies, or even at peace. And even when I did have them I was too exhausted to even appreciate them. I could go into detail, but it's an entire iceberg.

After questioning myself for three years straight I finally found an answer. Let's just say it was super blunt, and it was impossible to ignore. Now I finally have a reason to get out of this spiral and to get back to making art with no regrets or stepping on eggshells.

So it's time for me to get pixelizing again! Yahoozal!