Animagraffs

By Leo Gura - October 1, 2024

This channel has the most mind-blowing 3D animations of how vehicles. It’s so impressive my jaw dropped watching it. A single guy created these insanely detailed and precise 3D animations in Blender. It takes him months to model and animate each one by hand. He even composes the music. This guy deserves an award for excellence. This is YouTube at its finest:

I often like to say that humans are stupid, but the intelligence of humans is astonishing when it comes to engineering. The engineering intelligence that went into creating these vehicles is so astonishing that just understanding the scale and precision of what humans have accomplished here can be a spiritual experience.

Do you comprehend the scale of intelligence that was required to engineer the SR-71 Blackbird? Do you? Really look at it. Try to imagine what it would take to engineer an SR-71 yourself.

Humans are stupid when it comes to matters of politics, spirituality, and philosophy. But humans are insanely intelligent when it comes to feats of engineering. That’s one of the paradoxes of mankind: astounding technical intelligence, yet profound metaphysical, epistemic, philosophical, spiritual, and political ignorance and immaturity. How can we be so smart and so stupid at the same time?

Side Point: Notice, if you developed the kind of 3D modeling skills and attention to detail that the maker of these videos has, you could easily make a great living either by making your own videos, or getting hired by a studio. Developing this kind of 3D modeling skill would be challenging, but doable. Very doable. You could even do it all by yourself, 100% online, at home, just by watching Blender tutorials and courses.

Notice that the excellence of your skills would be obvious to anyone just by watching a single one of your videos. So you would only need 1 video to sell yourself to employers. You would not need a degree or even a resume. All you’d do is show them a single video and they would hire you immediately, simply because you are so excellent they would be fools not to hire you. This is a powerful example of how you can bootstrap yourself to major success. But don’t draw the lesson too narrowly here, I’m not just talking about a career in 3D modeling, you can apply this method to all sorts of other careers that have nothing to do with 3D modeling.

People often complain that no one wants to hire them — that they apply and apply but no one calls them back. That’s only because you have not demonstrated any exceptional skill. The solution is not to send out 100s of applications but to make yourself stand out by developing and showcasing exceptional skill. Or, to put it more simply: teach yourself to making amazing things, and people will instantly hire you, and you can ask for 150% the normal salary. And, you don’t need a voluminous portfolio. Don’t focus on quantity, focus on just 1 amazing piece of work. This is how you bootstrap personal success. You could do this even from a 3rd world country. You could do this living in Iraq. The best way out of poverty is to build the skills to make amazing things. If your skills are good enough someone will offer you a visa out of your underdeveloped country. Or you can just enjoy working for yourself.

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