If with "this beast" you mean Inigo Quilez, he worked at Pixar for a while, made shadertoy, and teaches the world maths via shadertoy, his own website and his y

If with "this beast" you mean Inigo Quilez, he worked at Pixar for a while, made shadertoy, and teaches the world maths via shadertoy, his own website and his yt channel. So he's doing pretty well I'd say [0] https://www.shadertoy.com/ https://www.shadertoy.com/ [1] https://iquilezles.org/ https://iquilezles.org/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez/videos