Q: is there a particular project of yours that taught you a lot while making it or is that just a standard thing for every project
A: the one that really comes to mind is the parking lot video with all the cars ("Perfect"). this really solidified the phenomenon that if you do something 50 times, even if you are clueless the first 12 times, you start to find your way by about the 14th, and then you get super efficient by about the 25th. I watched this same exact phenomenon happen over and over and over again as i worked the assembly line in the modeling of 50 car models. from aligning the assembly line in the first place, to setting the initial shape and size, to wheels, to chassi, to roof to windows to plates to every little thing, done in the exact same order through all 50 models, and i watched the exact same cycle of cluelessness at first, finding the method somewhere between 10 and 20, and getting rock solid on it by the 30th. So reliable, makes me want to apply it to everything. And of course the other element of that car project, was the fact that i actually had to produce not 50 but 4000. And at such a high quantity, it requires me to invent/program a technique for doing it. If i only had to make 4 cars, i'd probably just make them all individually, and i won't really figure out what i'm doing. but if i have to make 4000, then i realize i can make 50 models to give enough variation, then i automatically learn a hell of a lot when tasked with propagating 50 to 4000, and also in making the 50. I vaguelly knew about all these phenomena before, but after doing that project it really made me realize the wide range of benefits that comes with unapologetically doing 4000 of something