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

They're 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!