NoxiMation

""And I want people who are a part of this everlasting struggle to know that you could find something in it. There will be storylines that you can purely enjoy for their humor, their captivating plotlines, character studies or escapist superhero fun, but in spite of that there will be a few chapters that might speak out to you and more 'real' experiences.""

- Noxi, "Day 5: Social Commentary" Cheyne Ali Phoenix Hero Anderson, known online as NoxiMation or Noxi, is a multi-faceted artist and content creator. He's best known for his work on The Changers: Xonerate Defense, among other videos on his YouTube channel which cover topics from art analyses, character drawing timelapses, and music.

Appearance
Noxi is a 5'11 Afro-Carribean American with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. He often styles his hair into a flat top and wears eyeglasses. He had begun to dye his hair in 2021 with various colors, such as blue, green, and blonde.

History
Noxi was born on July 25th, 2003 in Jersey City, NJ as the youngest of four children.

He was raised and surrounded by a family of artists that had given him great inspiration and support from very early in his life.

"Creativity runs in Anderson’s family. His dad is a filmmaker and director, his brother is a music producer, one of his sisters is studying television and film production, while another is studying art and design. His mom is a singer too."

- Rebecca Panico, NJ.com

He had created The Changers (later renamed to the Pre-Changers era) on September 17th, 2010 at 7 years old, thus launching The Changers metaseries.

He created his first YouTube Channel in 2013 titled RyugaKyoyaMasters and focused heavily on Beyblade-centered content, such as AMVs and battle requests. The next year, he had retitled his channel Rock Pegasis, and the year after, Somersaulter 500. He continued making the same types of videos, but in addition to much more varied content such as Super Smash Bros. battles, video logs and animations. He had gone under another revamp in 2016; by this time he was going by Nerd Noxious.

He had cancelled the Pre-Changers era in 2016 due to demotivation and began work on it's reboot, the Pilot Era.

In late October 2017, he had published the first trailer for the Pilot Era animations. It was the first time he had shared his work on The Changers publicly on the web.

It was by January 2018 that he had started to go by the name NoxiMation on the Internet, and strived to make his videos cleaner and more tightly edited, while also showing a bit of his personality.

The Pilot Era was officially launched on March 30th, 2018 in the form of three animated videos published on YouTube. The original channel it was published on has since been archived, but the videos were re-uploaded in September 2018 on Cheyne's current channel.

January 2019: After the release of the Pilot episodes, Noxi had begun to dig further into his universe and continue it with a season of episodes called The Changers: Hydroflow. Only a trailer had officially come out of it in November 2019, but many pieces of concept art and unused episode scripts can be found online.

Because he wasn't confident in which direction the story was going, and because he wanted a complete overhaul and deepening of the series' lore, the series was cancelled. He also had little to no previous experience with recruiting other talent on his projects, so he would often mismanage.

Starting in very early 2020, he had begun building his universe from the ground up once again. Over the course of the year he had come up with major elements like Xonerate, The Paragon Gene, and Ivy becoming a fourth member. He began making many model sheets and concept arts for characters and locations, and is still doing so to this day. However, he has a much clearer idea of where he wants to take his story and strives to write well-rounded characters that should be interesting in any premise, rather than shaping those characters around events that 'need' to happen.

""To get to a product you have to ask and answer questions... and when you think you have the answer you have to ask yourself, 'why?' It's literally just infinite branches of a core idea. I should've been trying to write people, instead of writing events for the sake of the events.""

- Noxi, "Art Talk"

In November 2020, The Changers: Xonerate Defense was released under Webtoon Canvas, thus starting the CXD Era. The next month, NoxiMation was featured in an NJ.com article and was asked about his experiences making the comic and what his creative process was. Two months later in January, he was given the opportunity to have a video interview with the site.

In June 2021, after a year and a half of enduring the struggle of virtual learning, Cheyne Ali graduated from High Tech High School and was hired as an artist for the JCMAP (Jersey City Mural Arts Program) that same summer. He is enrolled in Rhode Island School of Design, indenting to major in Film/Animation/Video and is set to begin taking classes in September 2021.

Summary
NoxiMation has many social media accounts in which he often posts art, discusses his work on The Changers and gives his input to discussions about the animation industry and overall nerd sphere. He began taking commissions in May 2020 and has continued to since. He's collaborated with much bigger channels such as XanderFlicks and The Ink Tank, lending his musical and animation skills to their projects. He also hosts a merch page where visitors can purchase memorabilia of The Changers ranging from T-shirts to wall art. In June 2020, he reached the milestone of 1,000 followers on Twitter. In June 2020, he officially launched his own website: thechangers-tas.com, which acts at the premier hub for Changers-related content.

Handles

 * YouTube
 * Instagram
 * TikTok
 * Twitter
 * Merch

Trivia

 * His favorite color is purple, despite his social media branding utilizing red and black the most.
 * His birthday is in late July, making his zodiac sign Leo.
 * He's been compared to Steve Urkel from Family Matters by his high school classmates.
 * The character of Cheyne is based on him, but is not a direct copy. Most aspects of the character are series-original, but Noxi sees him as a sort of "self-evaluation", using his character to break down his own insecurities while also relating them to the context of the narrative.
 * When asked which Changers character would most likely get made into a plushie, he said "Out of the Core 4, I'd say Ivy because she’s the cutest".
 * When asked how he came up with the name Changers, he said "The original idea for Changers was for (them) to use monster bracelets to transform into Universal-type creatures, so at first the name was used super literally. Nowadays I have managed to give it meaning in the actual subtext".
 * Noxi makes a cameo in Chapter 11 of The Ink Tank LLC's Danny Phantom-Ben 10 crossover comic "5 Years Later" as a mover employee.