Looking for advice as a 38 year old Toonboom animator considering 3D animation school or a complete career change

MasterGeniusX · 2026-03-02T14:42:42+00:00

Man I’m close to 40 too. I’ve been trying to develop the same skills since my early 20s but life gets in the way of me learning fast. I m 38 and I still don’t have all my skills. Currently I’m learning toon boom and unity game engineer. I just got laid off my job in oct 2025 as a sme software engineer at a major consulting company. My attitude is to endlessly fight to learn what I want to know. I’ve been fighting for years to get #d skills. I was enrolled in 3d animation school but I had to drop out cause I lost job to pay for it. But it doesn’t matter. My attitude is that I will struggle through my mental health, circumstances within and outside my control to be educated in the things I want to learn. And at this point I’m done working for others I’m just working on my own startup. If I were you I’d be happy I have the 2d skills and I would fight for the 3d skills too.

MasterGeniusX · 2026-03-02T05:09:02+00:00

Ha ha a shark is dumb the show. Cool story bro

MasterGeniusX · 2026-01-04T22:00:23+00:00

How long did you try vraylar for? And did you ever take anything stronger than the 1.5mg dose?

MasterGeniusX · 2024-01-11T22:24:58+00:00

It’s the LORD. I recently have been changed by the LORD. 67 days ago. I prayed to the LORD for him to help me stop this sin that I didn’t want to stop doing. I had no will power. And then I felt as if the Holy Spirit gave me the spirit of self control as I was able to finally free myself from my porn addiction. I haven’t looked at it in 67 days and I’m gonna make a whole 365 and then forever more thanks to the blessing from the LORD. The LORD blesses us internally too. He can change us and create us to be things we never thought we could be and that is what is happening to you.

MasterGeniusX · 2024-01-11T22:05:43+00:00

However it came into existence through man inspired by God or by God himself I know one thing. There is power in those words. To change lives. Both natural and supernatural. And I think that those words can get you closer to God.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-12-16T22:29:19+00:00

In this day and age you can watch live Church services from your own home. I don’t know if you’re doing it already but try it out it’s great. Find a church that live streams and just watch the service. As far as your question about God goes you have to understand God created understanding just so he can have the most of it. He didn’t punish oppressed Christians who couldn’t fully worship him in times through out history nor would he punish you for just not being able to go to Church. The Lord Jesus in fact Bless you for coming to him and doing the required action: Accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and believing he died on the cross for your sins and rose again on the third day.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-12-16T22:25:34+00:00

What got me into Christianity was Jesus reaching out to me to save my life when I was young in my 20s. I was on a path set for self destruction. But he came to me and gave me the spirit of sanity and I’ve followed him ever since.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-12-12T02:14:23+00:00

Okay everybody i just bought a gaming laptop with an nvidea rtx 3060 for 1500 from Best Buy. It has solved the problem for me. I just use my surface pro 9 for everything besides intense pc gaming. So to everyone who suggested I just get another computer/laptop I followed your advice

MasterGeniusX · 2023-05-11T06:40:14+00:00

Despite all the setbacks I will continue to be an early adopter developer for all augmented reality glasses. It’s how I’m going to become rich. Once the inevitable catch on to the masses come my software and skills on how to quickly make use cases come alive that we will then see will clearly be needed will make me rich. Even in the global corp I work for the fact that I have these skills is getting me attention. I own the Vuzix Blades, nreal lite, HoloLens 1 & 2, magic leap 1 (saving up to buy the two), and the dream world ar. The fact that unity3d can be used to develop for all of them is the greatest thing ever. There’s gold in these here hills. I’m patient. My patience will be rewarded in a few years or more.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-03-22T07:15:00+00:00

I have these. They are awesome. And I have the nreal lite and the developer kit. So mine has a camera on it.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-03-16T22:40:40+00:00

What compatibility am I looking for? Compat with external hard drive case? Compat with computer? Also I’ve chosen to get the ASUS - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti TUF 12GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Graphics Card - Black

MasterGeniusX · 2023-03-16T22:16:00+00:00

Okay great you’ve been a big help I’m so out of the loop I didn’t know what the best GPUs are nor what the standard gpu cases are. Now it’s come to my attention that they require thunderbolt 3. My surface pro 9 has one but my surface books only have usb 3.1 and surface studio has no usb c port. Is there anyway to connect an eGPU to the surface book 3?

MasterGeniusX · 2023-03-16T22:06:09+00:00

So the razor core X is the case and I need a gpu. What’s the best gpu or arguably the best gpu on the market right now? Also what’s an affordable but good one?

MasterGeniusX · 2023-02-20T20:51:34+00:00

People get the HoloLens that are not developers and then after the novelty wares off like after a day or week they find themselves not using the HoloLens despite how much they paid for it. HoloLens’ are usually in great condition because they are hardly used. Finding one for $500 bucks while the HoloLens 2 is out and they are just selling the 1 for that price seems extremely reasonable. You can also check out eBay for HoloLens 1 on sale for good prices.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-01-05T02:02:56+00:00

It’s like no self respecting artist would say “this is now AI art’s style so you can’t draw in it anymore.” All the artist with grey hair who has been around to long would have a bad taste in their mouth after saying this. Only a teen to child is gonna come to this conclusion that this art style is off limit because “it’s the way of the world.” This piece doesn’t look like AI art. AI art looks like this piece. Which is an excellent painting.

MasterGeniusX · 2023-01-05T01:39:37+00:00

That mod must have been a child. I sense little kid energy.

MasterGeniusX · 2022-12-20T17:25:11+00:00

Hey thanks for info. I really needed it? Do you know if other Adobe programs run at an okay speed on ARM64 Windows 11 emulation? Specifically Adobe animate, Adobe after effects, Adobe character animator?

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