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Kate Trish

@katetrish.bsky.social
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Artist of all things dark & dreamy. AD + motion GFX for film/tv/games digital advertising. Supporting indie creators with Hollywood creative advertising graphics expertise. LA -> New England. She/her. KateTrish.com

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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Contemporary grifters want unearned status/wealth. That's it. They aren't creative geniuses who don't do the work or people with Ideas but no Talent. They have no actual interest in creative projects. That's why they don't understand the work, try to learn how to do it, or respect the people who do.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Design and animation are not an exercise in Vibes. This work is a combination of science, communication, technology, strategy—Visual appeal and impact is not a mystery, especially in the context of cultures, industries, and specific platform placements. Let the experts do their part.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Where are my fellow spooky bitches?
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Video games are (in many cases, at least) interactive storytelling. That is art. That is valuable.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There's Angry and then there's finding out that you're likely being cut out of a major project prematurely because your client's Top Hollywood Studio Client doesn't wanna pay to finish the job...+ no one was gonna tell you, even though you went above & beyond to help the team win that opportunity.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I stand by it: Surprise!Inviting people to plans with friends/family is Jail Time, for me. I agreed based on the original plan. I don't want to Suffer or be the person who has to cancel last minute, when I find out you secretly invited someone I can't stand or who completely changes the dynamic.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Low down payments? For first-time homebuyers in a competitive market, with high prices/rates? Funny. A bunch of us need to fork over well over $100k just to close on a starter home, then expect major repairs with our giant mortgage payments (+ good luck getting a place without waiving inspections).
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What The Disgusted Face
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A big 🖕 to all the "friends" I've had who hated to see me win. Cannot relate. I got a voice note from my bestie about some of her good news today, and I declared "I FEEL LIKE IT'S *$@&ING CHRISTMAS". Multiply your joy exponentially by feeling happy for your friends.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sure, you might have some luck, but you aren't successful because you're lucky. You're successful because you made sure you were ready for your opportunity. You made the most of it, when it arrived. You worked for and with and through it.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Is she Difficult or did she ask a simple, reasonable question you couldn't answer and refuse to investigate?
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Back in the day, when academia was trying to squash my creativity, I worked on some really cool illustration concepts. There were so many narrative sketches like new mythologies about creativity, inner worlds, sisterhood, etc. I love my more symbolic/abstract work, but I do miss that. 💜
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The actual Math on raising your rate as a self-employed creative? I can work 24hr less this month + match my highest grossing month in '25. When I decided to be bold + slightly increase the base rate I chose for '26 at the last second? The difference is $650 so far this month. Raise your rate.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sometimes I get frustrated with Logistics and Timeline and Everything. Then I remember I'm successfully self-employed, buying myself a house is within reach, I've done things other people can only dream of, and I've won every battle so far. It's all relative. Gotta zoom out once in a while.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I wanna be friends with all of the charismatic bad bitches who end up cleaning dishes at house parties/dinners—not because they're Socially Drained but because they hate the idea of the host having to deal with that shit later (We can yap AND wash dishes, okay?).
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How do you say "I'm a self-employed contractor, you haven't booked my time, you have no deadline, and I'm busy with urgent work for your team and others, so if you keep pinging me within an hour of sending a request with NO explanation of WHY I will cry and otherwise be upset with you" in Corporate?
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I'm pretty sure I'm never taking an indie project with a micro budget again, and that's really upsetting me. I want to be able to support those projects, but I can't do it if the clients are going to be so severely disrespectful and go so far out of scope that they ought to multiply the budget 10x.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A service I won't offer: You Try to Design It, I Fix It. Want to do it yourself? Go for it! If you want a graphics expert to make the graphics, let them handle it—not AI, not your editor, not the random fella who had an idea, etc. Treating experts like button-pushers doesn't really work for anyone.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Too many pros in #creativeadvertising hide incompetence behind the Idea or Creative Vision. They aren't makers, but they'll insist on prioritizing Creative Integrity over strategy, operations, etc...while ignoring what the makers need from them. It's a Downplay What You Don't Understand tactic.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Welp. I was going to apply for a Principal Art Director role (because I occasionally still explore staff roles and why not), but the pay is very low, and they require each applicant's residential address just to apply. Weird behavior. No, thanks!
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I will never even TRY to have one distinct style. I’m not living my creative life in a box just to be understood by someone else’s Target Audience or Ideal Market. I’m for the ever-evolving weirdos. The chaos is the point.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Marketers Who Don't Understand Graphics Please Stop Making Fake Social Media Safe Area Charts, 2026. Executives think you know what you're talking about, and it's creating chaos for the folks who have to design quality gfx for global campaigns.
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Sylessae @sylessae.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing. Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing. Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing. Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing. Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing. Buy a cheap sketchbook and just start drawing.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Caught a fella posting on LinkedIn about how experience is overrated. That's true sometimes, but I worked with him. No one knew what his job was. He had a senior title + approx. no knowledge of the work (BIG problems). We don't need to brag about not knowing the basics after years in the game.
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Alexis Rose's Iconic 'Yikes' Face in Schitt's Creek
ALT: Alexis Rose's Iconic 'Yikes' Face in Schitt's Creek
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Where are my mid-30s-40s girlies who love to trust themselves and make a big change when the ✨everything✨ is misaligned? www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...
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Shifter, an art print by Kate Trish
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A tip: If a highly qualified, experienced professional agrees to take your low budget project for an extremely reduced rate and gives extra support...doooon't insult them. The boldness with which folks who don't understand design/animation will criticize an expert never ceases to amaze me.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
That feeling when you're finally Really Ready to get a new painting made but you have a mountain of Real Adult Work to do. 😐
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Shoutout to the boss babes who receive approximately no sympathy, empathy, or measurable support because they're viewed as Too Capable and Successful to need care or attention.
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Keanu Reeves: You're Amazing! MarketMove
ALT: Keanu Reeves: You're Amazing! MarketMove
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Confession: I'm Bothered when people say "usdeddick" instead of "aesthetic" and call things "aesthetic" (e.g. "That's so aesthetic", not "modernist aesthetics" or "aesthetic qualities"). No, I don't need an explanation about how language and linguistics work. It's just a peeve.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What if a round of tarot-based commissions, though? 👀 I loved the memento vitae-themed commissions I did years ago (2018 WHAT). It's a LOT of fun to compose private commissions full of someone's personal symbolism, within a set theme/structure.
Ink line drawing on paper, featuring a 3/4 view jackalope skull, surrounded by a bed of larkspur flowers. Signed digitally by artist Kate Trish, katetrish.com.Cropped image of an ink line drawing colored with vibrant watercolor on paper, featuring a left-facing fox skull, surrounded by a bed of wildflowers. Signed digitally by artist Kate Trish, katetrish.com.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Except you ARE sacrificing quality and removing craft, Mr. Scorsese, in ways that extend beyond one project—especially if you promote this. Allowing pros to do what they do & understand best is not just "wear and tear on the crew". It's their hard-won job & valuable contribution.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Artists, show me how you paint hands! ✨
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My last 2 invoice payments just went directly to the IRS, because self-employment is chaos. Buy that print you've been eyeballing. 😉 www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...
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Framing Life, an art print by Kate Trish
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There are a couple hours left to take advantage of the INPRNT Memorial Day Sale and grab some art prints! www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...
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Colorway, an art print by Kate Trish
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
From early 2018. Quote post with an old piece YOU still like. 🖤
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hey, #advertising and #marketing friends: Emojis/emotes? Gotta license them. That font? Yes, you need your own license. Icons? Those, too. That trending audio? Ya really gotta license it. You may be able to get away with neglecting to license these assets, but it's not wise or safe.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I wish more folks understood that constant availability and immediate support cost money. Independent contractors, small businesses, ANY business—You can't expect support from them as if they're employees, unless you've reserved that time and attention with contract terms and appropriate payment.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Let the designers design. I promise the unqualified vibes input is not Better—no, not even This One Time—and it is absolutely costing time and money unnecessarily. If you need something that requires graphics changes, a qualified designer will be able to come up with the best possible solutions.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#portfolioday? I'm the goober known as Kate/Trish/Kate Trish. I'm a hands-on motion art director specializing in entertainment creative advertising. I'm also an independent artist with a love of inventive portraiture that explores the dark & beautiful web of the inner world. KateTrish.com
Grayscale surreal digital painting by Kate Trish. Textural strokes disintegrate a feminine portrait, dragging forms upward. Lips and nose are clearly defined, while shoulders and eyes blend into a loose, white environment.Vibrant digital painting by Kate Trish. A feminine figure with a red body holds her golden face or mask in her hands, floating above her shoulders. The waist and top of the face merge with a textural, colorful background with ribbons and strokes implying upward motion. The face's expression implies a hopeful, upward sight line with reflective, pale eyes.A radial symmetry drawing by Kate Trish, featuring a leafy wreatch covered in skulls facing opposite directions. Dark roses grow outward from the top, bottom, left and right, with large Death's Head Hawkmoths in between, flying outward. Half a pomegranate, vibrantly colored, sits inside the otherwise muted wreath, spilling seeds downward. A slim sword with gold pommel pierces through the whole composition. A portrait of Evangeline Lily as Kate Austen from LOST, by artist Kate Trish. Commissioned for auction by Cancer Gets LOST, for charity. Kate is painted in 3/4 view, looking right, set against a translucent Dharma symbol and green mountainside.
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Gaith @gaith.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I don't think we talk enough about the effect of art on us. I can see one drawing I really really like and I'll be happy for the rest of the day I'm not exaggerating. Your art makes someone feel that way. Your art makes someone happy. Your art helps someone get through the day.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Reject apathy. Cry about the moon.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Don't design motion graphics in Photoshop, thinking it's fine to import a PSD into After Effects and animate later. Please. Design and build using the proper tools from the beginning, whenever possible.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Planning some small-scale ink drawings to make the most of limited workspace while I stay with family. It's a great way to explore more ideas, + smaller drawings are more affordable/practical for folks who want to collect original art. What themes should I explore? www.katetrish.com/art-portfoli...
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Line Drawing — Art and Design by Kaitlin Trisciani
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Read the NDAs, kids. I was going to submit to the freelance pool for a well-known, global agency that has folks sign the NDA upfront. It has a non-compete clause that would prevent me from working on projects with any of their clients for 1 year if I do any work for them. That's ABSURD.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I specialize in art direction for social/digital creative advertising (specifically for entertainment campaigns). So why is it so hard to communicate my relationship with social media when asked BY OTHER PROFESSIONALS? "I should probably put my phone down, honestly" <- 1st thing I said this round. 🤪
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
RE: Current chatter—I'm glad many people aren't just accepting vague justifications for generative AI use that don't make sense. There are very good reasons to trust the part of yourself that sets off alarms when leaders offer vague half-explanations for morally or ethically questionable shortcuts.
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Luis Illingworth @heyraguio.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hey, friends? Friends. I feel like a lot of folks understandably get confused about what they should do when someone sends them creative work for review, whether it's commissioned artwork, graphics for an AV project, etc. If you aren't The Expert, you don't need to supply expert critique/guidance.
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Framing Life" by @Kate_Trish<br><br> Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...
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Framing Life, an art print by Kate Trish
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Zodiac: Scorpio" by @Kate_Trish<br><br> Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/kate...
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Zodiac: Scorpio, an art print by Kate Trish
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Kate Trish @katetrish.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I love a Concept Album. I love some music with Narrative and Lore. Ethel Cain and Sleep Token? Ohhhh hell yeah. What else do I need to be listening to? Who has the recs?
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