AFTER LIKE FOUR WHOLE DAYS OF TRIAL AND ERROR AND FRUSTRATION HE'S HERE! 3D SHANEBUG!
I'm still pretty new to Blender so I'm sure he's not the best model one could make, but hey, he's here, and I ultimately won my battle last night when trying to stop the shadows from flickering in the rendered animation of just him in his jar (turned out to be something with the background of the scene). I added the little stars and fireflies in afterwards with my regular paint program's animation software since I felt like he needed some extra little embellishments and there was a lot of empty space to his right.
Here's a still because the GIF got a little bit crunchy with all the converting I had to do to edit it and everything lol, frankly I think his skin turned out a bit too pale but I don't really feel like re-editing my textures right now 😅 At some point I'd like to maybe try and do that thing where you make a bone controller to switch their facial expressions and model his little sardine can bed, but for now I need to just let myself take a rest from Blender because I cannot do anything in moderation