Background was made in Blender, all characters painted on after the fact. Last time I used this style it got mistaken for toy photography XD but i promise i did all of the characters and a fair amount of the special effects/glow by hand

Thrud is giving himself a curse on purpose. He's a very normal guy who does normal things.

Speedpaint process can be found here: https://youtu.be/jqmUlmmJ89k
Unfortunately it doesn't contain the Blender side of anything.