I don't want celebrate TOO early yet, but I am proud to announce that I have been accepted for an internship at a start-up company! Not a horrid job in retail or groceries like my previous job, but a remote Blender animation job that actually uses my skills in computer art! This is an ideal situation for me!

It will last 5 months, but potentially lead to a job at the company. I am still committed to uploading some small art here, on Ko-fi and Linkedin, for every Saturday for the rest of 2021 and I have all of the pieces finished and ready--meaning I shouldn't miss any Saturday even if something comes up, other than maybe uploading a day early on a Friday on occasion. However, I will focus all of my artistic energy for the next 5 months solely on that internship and hopefully turning it into a long-term, paid job, so my uploads may dry up quite a bit in early 2022. Also, I will not be accepting commission and animation requests for a while and possibly even longer if I finally achieve my dream of being paid a (relatively) stable income doing art at a studio, because I will spend most of my remaining free time chipping away at big personal projects and not really worry about maintaining my social media presence anymore.

Rest assured, though, that I may go quiet for the best possible reason of being paid to do what I love, and that when I do upload here or elsewhere again, it will only be highly-polished and weird independent art that will be worth the incredibly long wait!

Also, in the short term I've been avoiding social media simply because I don't want to see any spoilers for Deltarune Chapter 2 until I finish the game myself. You understand, right?

UPDATE: Finished Deltarune Chapter 2. Go ahead and draw your sick Susie fanart like a real BIG SHOT!

Hello, my name is Jeffrey Thrash and I am an animator that specializes in traditional frame-by-frame animation and 3D modeling. I am available for work and my main tools of the trade include my iPad Pro (for 2D art) and a RTX 3060 laptop with Blender, B4Artists, Cycles/Eevee, Paint.net, SculptGL, and any other tools that will help me produce quality 3D art in the most efficient manner possible! My art tends to be stylized and I have a preference for drawing or sculpting hideous creatures similar to the ones you would see in "gross-ups" from Ren and Stimpy or SpongeBob SquarePants. I also have experience with writing comedy, sound design, and voice acting. Here are my prices:

2D (Single Character, Simplistic BG):

Sketch: $7

Black and White (B&W) Line Art Only: $15

Line Art + B&W Sketchy Shading: $25

Basic Color (No Shading or B&W Sketchy Shading): $35

Color + Cel Shading: $45

Painterly/Fully Rendered: $75

2D Animation (frame by frame): Contact me

3D (Character in Public Domain Sketchfab BG):

iPad/SculptGL sculpt (no rigging-friendly topology, but can be completed quickly): $50

Animation-ready 3D model: $100

3D Model with basic skeleton rig: $200

3D Model with basic skeleton rig/shape keys (.blend file format only): $300

3D Animation: Contact me

I generally only feel comfortable doing SFW art (outside of comedic Adult-Swim-like violence), so if you want NSFW art, I am not the one you want. I am at least comfortable doing characters that are sexy in a mainstream way (think Jessica Rabbit from Who Framed Roger Rabbit), including female BBWs and body-building men (although I am not gay or bi, I have far more experience with male anatomy).

I hope I can be of service and I will be more than happy to work with you!

My Portfolio Site

My Ko-fi

I’m going to upload this week’s piece on Monday instead of Saturday, because as you know, September 11th, 2021 is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and as someone who still vividly remembers the attacks and the ensuing disillusioning political division, which happened when I was just 7, I don’t feel comfortable uploading anything this Saturday or looking at the Internet at all.

Thus, Monday is when you should expect to see new art from me. I’ll upload one of my funnier drawings or 3D art so you can have something more lighthearted to look forward to that Monday, and my plan to make and upload stuff for every following Saturday for the rest of 2021 has not changed.

I’m going to post ink-like drawings and the occasional 3D sculpt from my iPad while I work on bigger projects starting with today’s “Stinkums and Stunnmoney” every Saturday for the rest of 2021 (and possibly beyond). I already have all the pieces for this month and October lined up and they don’t take too long to make, meaning I won’t suddenly go back on this or go eerily quiet if these comes up or I manage to get a job that pays way better than uploading free content on the Internets does—I’m fully prepared.

My goal with all these smaller projects is to practice and develop good habits at a faster rate than if I just worked on long projects, plus to promote my Ko-fi and potentially make a tiny income there.

My Ko-fi

Sadly (or happily, depending on your views on weebs), I have lost interest in the VTuber community and have unsubscribed from almost all of them so they don't crowd out all the stuff I do enjoy these days. The only exception is this one underappreciated VTuber called OkaRuko, who I can never understand because all but a couple of her videos are in Japanese, but I still adore for two hefty reasons (four if you count the bottom and belly, six if you count her all-important sweet smile and "beauty queen" handwave)...

https://youtu.be/9qqUFq_fCe4

...Also, I'm working on art things, I guess. I'm always working on art things. This is just an excuse to simp for OkaRuko and hopefully turn you into simps for the Fairest VTuber of All, too. Just remember that she prefers to be called "chubby," not a "BBW."

Please don't hurt me, but I've been watching clips of Kamp Koral from time to time and regardless of what you think of its mere existence or of reboots in general, I think it should be praised for raising the standards of TV-quality, cartoony 3D Animation and rendering. I imagine it only looks this stretchy and fun (but in THREEEEE-DEEEEEEE!!) because it's SpongeBob (sort of) and therefore gets a bigger-than-usual animation budget, but I think anyone struggling with rigging and blend shapes should at least give clips of this show a chance to see what can be done with modern CG animation, even without a massive "Disney" budget.

https://youtu.be/0go7s4iaxE8

I’m currently working very hard on an animation and it’s going to be a while before I post anything, so I thought I’d share some sketches I’ve been doing to unwind and vent.

As you can probably tell by the Ongo Bongonglio sketch, I REEEAAALLY need to vent through sketching these days…

Out of curiosity, how would I go about asking coders for help? Don’t get too excited yet, I have to get a high-paying job before I can even think about hiring people, but for future reference, I am an artist looking for a programmer who is good at using open-source engines like Godot specifically to make nostalgic N64-era 3D platformers and hopefully eventually make a large-scale RPG (turn-based). My art style (for 3D) uses hand-painted/baked/unlit textures as much as possible, plus the most basic rigs I can get away with (if the asset in question needs rigs and animation) and so hopefully it wouldn’t be a huge hassle optimizing my created assets for low-end laptops or mobile/Switch and 60 FPS.

Let me know if you know a guy who knows this guy who knows this guy who knows this guy who knows this guy who knows this guy who knows this guy’s COUSIN…

Also give to my Ko-fi whenever you can. If you know a guy who—(oh no, not again!). Um, if you know someone that can donate monthly, even if it is just the bare minimum, that would be ideal and get me significantly closer to actually hiring someone instead of just thinking about it.

I have recently quit my current job so that I could make significantly more time to practice 3D modeling and hopefully develop my skills for an art and animation job by the fall. This also means I will make no money until I get another job, so I would highly appreciate it if you visited my Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/jeffreythrash), where I will upload most of my practice renders for a while. If you like my stuff, please consider donating some money every once in a while there.

My Ko-fi

I finally got around to watching Super Dimension Fortress Macross (which became Robotech when it came to North America and also India, apparently) through dubious means, at least until Big West legally re-releases the entire Macross franchise or whatever they plan to do with it now they fully own the entire series, at which point I just watch it all again legally!

I am telling you this because soon my fetish for 1980’s/‘90s frame-by-frame animated mechs will consume me and all my future art will consist of nothing more than robots, love triangles and idol J Pop, similar to when I discovered Neon Genesis Evangelion in 2019 and Gurren Lagann before that. You have been warned.