I haven't been making art much (cause of reasons) despite all of that I couldn't resist but to tinker around a bit.

Just in case you missed it there's a subtle difference on my account banner, I finally faced my fears and started tampering with the Blender compositor.

(BEFORE)

(AFTER)

Now the pixels stars glow instead of no.

The banner is a classic pixelizer staple. It's an intro a animation akin to the Disney Castle logo or the Paramountain and stars. I sporadically added them the start for my animated shorts for my history of 16 years on here, for all ye that know not.

In Blender I've learned the ins and outs of the Principled BSDF shader in Blender.

It's how I went from this ...

to this

It looks good and all buuut...

My texture library is full of foreign textures by assorted artists, assorted sites, and even some of my own cartoony ones. Paired together the results look like a collage, super inconsistent. Just compare the above to the below.

So now that I know the rules of rendering realistically, now I can finally start to break them!

I've been trying to recreate my own 2d shading techniques into 3d shaders. Why? Simply put I want to crossover multiple characters into the same places for potential future projects, (like I've done in the past with my Shuttle Switcher Ghost Galaxy comic)

If everyone in Smash Bro.s had their original art style it it would be absolute chaos! Which is my current dilemma. It worked in the past for Shuttle Switcher Ghost Galaxy when all of my characters were absolutely bald and texture-less as seen below.

But now that I actually know how to texture I have to texture responsibly.

I have absolutely zero clue where this is going but fingers crossed.

If you wanted to know the reason why I quit art again ...(this is account scrub what? Number 4 now...) the Shuttle Switcher Ghost Galaxy comic got a little dark in the end.

my other comic thepixelizer bytes comic was just too violent

Tribal Guys got pretty rude

I really wanted to turn over a new leaf after quit number one, but I've still got a lot of growing to do I guess.

Wanna slay thine kracken of fun-lack'n then look no further ye! I spend waaay too much time online and found all sorts of stuff to entertain! Let's a go!

MUSIC

To get started here's some music to listen to in the background while you read.

@beenibroh makes some really active, wild, and fun beats that get you moving.

Here are two of my top favorites

If you want to rock here are a few

If you like Techno

Check out Assemblage 23 they make a lot of banger industrial songs!

This next song has to be the most amazing thing that I never even knew I needed.

VIDEOS

@PallidCrest makes some very entertaining cartoons with hilarious dialogue and witty and banter. He comes up with comedy action stories featuring an entire animated universe of characters.

There's this up and coming variety YouTube channel called Skeletal Spyro.

Unlike most YouTube channels Skela doesn't really have a niche and just does what ever she wants.

With the only consistent thing being her unpredictable quirky dialogue, she's quite a character.

Check out Butcher Blue it's a series in it's infancy form @somedumbtank

It's about a mysterious lone robot hero that's only known as Butcher Blue.

Unlike most stop motion cartoons instead of using store bought action figures, every character is a custom moveable 3D print! It's got the vibe of watching an old cartoon like 90's Gundam or the original Transformers.

somedumbtank is quite a pioneer in this new field of animation give him a fan.

The Grinch's Origin story by @DecrepitHands

I can't help but crackup every time I watch this.

Comic

Mark and Zark is a comic by Danmoynihan it's quite a hidden gem, it's a comedy about a boy named Mark that befriends a friendly alien named Zark. It's very wholesome. And it's art style is in a retro 90's style.

https://markandzark.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#content-start

ART

This is a gorgeous piece by Left-v called Promenade I cropped it off to not spoil everything, it's quite a vibrant and detailed art piece.

This is a dynamic piece by the artist @Splootulu, Splootulu makes really imaginative and striking looking characters in a street art style.

GAMES

Saltfree is a fan reboot of an old meta verse game called Manyland that shut down in the beginning of 2024, it's an massively-multiplayer, online, platform, chatroom that also doubles as a game maker. It's an artist paradise! You can pretty much draw anything in pixel art, and place it anywhere as long as it's family friendly anyway. You can make your own character, levels, items, powerups, vehicles, weapons, platforms and waaay much more! You can even animate too, and give everything an interacting function in a click! No code involved, and if you do want to dabble in coding that it's available as well!

https://saltfree.antisa.lt/

Well I hope that gave you something to do. There's so much more I want to share but I think that's more than enough for now ...enjoy!

Pixel out!