In this updated tutorial I'm gonna start out by showing you how to create round bubbly text using any font then I'll dive into the different settings that create a balloon text look including how to add wrinkles and then finally I'm going to show you how you can inflate and deflate the text by utilizing fields and vertex maps and if you want to follow along you can support me by downloading the project files for this tutorial you can find a link to those files in the description below all right so we're gonna inflate some text would make some sense to create some text so what I'm going to do is just start out by showing you how you can create some pretty nice bubbly looking text that we can go and inflate and turn into a nice balloon so I'm just gonna grab a text object let's align that to the middle let's just change this to type and let's choose a different font so I really like rounded fonts any font that's pretty thick and rounded is really nice so I like rounded M plus 2C black and this font can be found on Creative Cloud actually a lot of these fonts that are rounded you can find on Creative Cloud so if long as you have a Creative Cloud subscription you have a lot of rounded fonts at your disposal just make sure you restart Cinema 4D when you install and activate those Creative Cloud fonts or really any font for those to take so you can see there's this Omnis that looks really good and nice and round but the key is they have a nice thick font okay so let's actually use Omnis why not and let's go I'm going to show you a trick that will allow you to kind of roundify and bubblyify any kind of font you can see these edges are pretty sharp right now but what I like to do is I'll just run the object through a volume builder any volume measure so I'll place the builder in the measure text in the builder and looks great let's render this out send it to the client no we need to fix this the voxel size is way too high you can think of voxels as 3d pixels we have way too big of those voxels so I'll just bring this down to 1 centimeter and we're kind of back to where we started from but what we can do with this now is throwing an SDF smooth so I'll just hit smooth and then we can really crank up this smooth here but not too too much so increase the iterations there maybe increase the depth of this font as well and then we can go and one thing I like to do as well is click and hold and do this dialy any road and what this allows you to do with you can almost see it kind of like inflates the object a little bit you can choose this offset and kind of adjust things like that you can see that these two letters are almost kind of touching each other and when you have two objects close to each other under a volume builder they can kind of get merged together so you got to watch that that ever happens what you can do is just go to your text object go to kerning yes we are gonna turn like we are a designer and we'll just kind of current these letters there and that's looking pretty good and yeah I think this is a really good starting place let's maybe increase the voxel smoothing a little bit more and you can also try which way works better definitely the dilate and road first and then the smooth so this is looking good if I hit N and then B to get garage in with lines you can see this is a pretty dense mesh we can always adjust this to like 1.5 hit and A and that looks a little bit nice and rounder to but what we can do is we can throw all of this into not there into a remesh or if we throw the volume measure in the remesh or what we can basically do is control the mesh density so if I hit N and B again you can see this is pretty this pretty dense like me but we're gonna bring the density down to say like 50% and this will basically cut our polygon density in half let's actually bring that down to 40 another thing we can do is since this font or any extruded object will be symmetrical in the Z axis here I'm gonna turn on symmetric Z and so this will just give us a nice symmetrical mesh which is looking pretty nice at this point and let's actually let's do 35 we'll just do that now you don't want too many polygons when we start throwing simulations at this so the lower the poly count the better but you definitely don't want it too super low so that you don't get nice wrinkly detail there so let's say this is looking pretty good I'm gonna hit N and then A to get back to garage shitting with outlines and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to select this remesh I'm going to right click and I'm going to go to current state to object and that's going to bake that object down into a piece of geometry so I'm just going to turn off all these other objects here for now and I'm just going to save them there just in case we need to adjust anything in the future now all these letters are in this single object so what we can do is we can break these into individual pieces of text so TYPE as separate objects and how we can do that is by selecting the object you want to break everything up in and hit shift in C and you can see we have this new fancy commander in the latest version of cinema 4d which is 2023.2 and what I'm going to look for is polygon island which is a island I would love to visit to sounds very tropical and I'm just going to go and double click that and that will actually execute that command polygon island to object and basically what that just did was that broke up all the separated objects and broke them out into individual objects you can see I can rename these so this is T highlight this object you can see it's highlighting the Y so that's Y and then this is P I can't reach on my keyboard and then E there we go and so you can see that we don't actually need this remesh it's empty so we'll delete that and you can see all of our axis centers are kind of off they're all in 000 in world space so I'm going to select all these objects go to tools axis center and I'm just going to hit execute and that will align all of the axis centers to each of these individual objects like so and so our axis centers are all good to go and now we can start inflating this now what I did for the final render is I kind of like adjusted some things made some of the type a little bit bigger just to make this a little bit more whoa a little wow a little more interesting got the Y doing little somersaults there so maybe bring that back shrink the P down a little bit and the E maybe rotate so you can kind of I mean you can even do like the you know whatever type type of thing that you want whatever arrangement whatever type of design that you want whatever type of type design you want here the only thing to watch out for is just make sure none of your objects are intersecting that is a big no no because if you have geometry intersecting with dynamics things are just going to get stuck together and that's usually not good okay so we got our type here and let's go and let's select all of our objects and right click go to simulation tags balloon and because we're going to inflate these objects like a balloon and so immediately if I hit play everything's just going to fall okay but what we can do is hit controller command D to go to our project settings and go to the simulation tab and we can go to the scene tab and just turn off gravity for now so if you enter zero hit enter and now if I hit play everything's just going to kind of float around and you can see that actually I didn't even I didn't heed my own advice and make sure that the objects weren't intersecting so you could see that there's that little ripple which was kind of cool but that was just because the P was intersecting the E and there we go so we just have things floating right now if we go to the balloon tab here you can see that the over pressure is only set to one and this is basically how much pressure is inflating our geometry and let's actually bring this to about three and now we can start to see some really crazy stuff going on where everything's inflating and you know it's kind of cool but we can do a lot cooler than this so what we can do at this point is we can have the inflation happen either longer over time whoops let's hit escape when that happens hit escape and go back so this is basically how long is it going to take for the balloon pressure to inflate the object fully to an over pressure of three and currently that's 110 frames we actually don't even have 110 frames in our project so let's just increase our project length to 300 and so you can see that that's basically controlling how fast this is inflating so if you bring this to 20 and let's hit escape and rewind you can see this kind of inflates even more if we go to like 10 you can see this is going to inflate fully over 10 frames and why this is there is if this is like two things start to explode and that doesn't look very good at all so that's why that's there in case you were wondering so let's just enter 15 for now and what we can also do is you know these objects are kind of floating all over the place and there's no real wrinkles here so to add wrinkles I have all of my tags selected here I'm going to go to surface and we can increase the bendiness to about 10 it's very aptly named the higher this number the more apt your object is going to bend over itself and create wrinkles and then the other important thing to do is increase this target length so basically what this allows your vertices to do is expand beyond the initial length between each other so if we bring this target length to 130 this will allow those vertices to expand beyond 130 percent of the original length that they were at the get go so if I hit play now you can see all the little ripply things and some wrinkles happening you can see there's a little bit of an intersection there which we can fix in a little bit but everything's just kind of floating and not looking all that great so how we can actually help our objects kind of stay where the initial position is like right here is by going to mix animation and with this there's two different things here this is kind of like a the old dynamic system if I right click go to bullet tags and go to rigid body what this is is basically the follow position follow rotation so if you remember if you crank these values up the dynamic objects are going to want to maintain the initial position or rotation depending on which number you select here let's just remove that tag and so this is very similar so you can do this either having the object want to stay in its initial position without using simulation forces or you can have it using simulation forces to help it stay in its initial state so i'm going to turn on width force we can use dynamics and the strength is basically how much it's going to try to maintain its original state okay so with that default strength of one let's see what happens here so you can see now this inflated and this object if I bring this down to point one you can see that it's kind of letting everything go go all loosey-goosey but if we go one you can see that this is trying to keep the objects in the initial position and rotation and you can see how this creates really nice wrinkles now and that is basically all from that target length so if I just had this kind of go like this don't really have any wrinkles so this is very important so 130 let that relax a little bit and we got these nice little wrinkles and you can see that we're getting a little bit of like intersection there so what we can do to fix that if you see any kind of weird stuff happening how you can fix that is by hitting controller command D and going back into your simulation tab and here under the simulation tab tab simulation tab tab tab we have all these different sub steps and you can crank up these values to get a more accurate simulation so if you have collisions and things sticking together usually you want to up the collision passes here so I'll just enter four and four and let's see because the E was kind of there's some little like snappy stuff happening here what can help smooth out all those popping is the smoothing iteration so bring that to two maybe a little damping will help too and that basically just allows the springs that are in the simulation particles to just kind of dampen and chill out a little bit faster but this is looking fairly good and we can even bring down these sub steps here to get a little more wrinkles there we go and that's looking pretty nice okay and we can even go to our surface tab here and increase the bendingness even more maybe some stretchiness and you kind of get this kind of effect so right there is how you can create some really nice inflation and balloon text again you can adjust how much that target length is the more you have that the the more wrinkles you'll get and with that longer target length you can maybe play around with the over pressure and kind of see what kind of looks you you can get 3.5 and so you can see how you can art direct this and add however many amount of wrinkles that you would want you can actually animate these objects as well so you can have this fly into each other because this is that this is that whole mix animation here so you can actually animate all these different objects so you can even have like if I select all these objects right click animation tags vibrate basically this is like your wiggle expression and you can activate the rotation the scale and adjust the frequency so maybe 0.5 whoops not 0.4 let's bring that up 0.5 for this though and even the scale if you wanted to why not and then to let's just give different seeds to all these there's actually an easier way if you select all these and do num times a bunch of numbers hit enter and that's basically going to take the number in the list so zero one two three and basically apply that number that I had there so num is basically zero for this first one and then where we basically go up and we multiply that random number by one two and three and so you see we have all these different seeds and now we can hit play and you get this kind of thing going on where everything's kind of rotating around and really nice and cool and that's just like a really cool effect have all these objects kind of bouncing into each other too so really really nice now one other thing I want to show you and let's actually so we've moved all this stuff out of the way let's try to reposition them here that's all the wiggle stuff what we can do is actually control the inflation using vertex maps because that's one of the new features in cinema 4d 2023.2 is the ability to control the inflation with a vertex map but before I show you all that did you know that for only a like and a subscribe a day you can help support my youtube channel that's like a cup of coffee a day your likes and subscribes will go a long way and alerting you anytime I come out with new content and if you put some kind words in the comment section today you'll receive this free eye design tote bag thanks for your support now back to the tutorial so let's go ahead and let's select all these objects hit shift c bring up our fancy new commander again we're gonna leave polygon island and enter we're gonna search for polygon island using a vertex map that was funny huh anyways let's add vertex maps and we can go to select all these go to use fields and this is going to allow us to use a field to control the vertex map strength so i'm just going to use a linear field and pull that out from underneath the t object there and you can see we're controlling the vertex map with this single linear field here okay and we need to do actually what we can do is delete all these and basically command click and drag and duplicate the same vertex map that is referencing the same linear field and if I select all these vertex maps and the linear field you can see that I can sweep this single linear field across all those objects and so now what we can do is use this vertex map to control what object what part of our type is being inflated and which is staying stationary so all I need to do is select all these not the right way tags all the cloth tags and go to the surface and we can actually have this control that target length and use this map there so if you don't see this just twirl that down and we'll just drag and drop the vertex map and since all these vertex maps are named exactly the same this will work on all these and then the balloon same thing drag and drop vertex map in there and then mix animation we'll drag a vertex map into here as well so let's hit play and you can see that everything's inflated and if I pass this through everything gets deflated but you can see that it almost looks like the set animation or the uh or sorry the mix animation is not working very well and that's actually because for some reason the vertex map for this needs to be inverted and that's basically just because of the the mapped values that the mix animation uses for the with force so we can easily fix that by just command clicking and dragging duplicating the vertex map going to the basic tab and this is very important if you have multiple vertex maps on a single object you want to name it so this will be invert so we know what's what and so there's vertex map and then vertex map invert and then there's this handy invert right in the vertex map and so what I can do is come in click and drag duplicate that vertex map that's inverted and then basically the only thing I need to do at this point is instead of using the normal vertex map we're going to use the inverted vertex map for the with force and so now if I hit play with the linear field outside here you can see that everything gets inflated really nicely and if I pass everything through here you'll see that everything will kind of shrink down and kind of explode a little bit but you want to make sure not to pass the linear field or any type of field through your objects too fast so you can make that linear field a little bit bigger now if I pass this back through though you can see what's going on now the one thing that's kind of causing this to inflate super fast is the if you go to remapping this is linear and what I like to do is instead of having linear I'm going to have a nice little kind of arc here so we slowly ramp up the strength to do that we're just going to go to the contour here and go to quadratic and adjust this curve and so now we can ease in it's basically like an easy ease for this influence and so if you see this this is basically if I adjust the remapping you can see what this is basically doing kind of adjusting how that vertex map is applied over the the span of this linear field and so now let's rewind let's click off of the vertex map so we don't see the vertex maps anymore and so this is going around we have all the movement happening too with our wiggle objects and we can pass this through and you can see this is much smoother because of the now again I'm going to go slow slow slow slow slow and again like this is you know happening over 10 seconds here so you can see as we slowly pass this through it deflates and that's looking pretty nice and then we can go back and actually I'll rewind and we'll do this the other way do the opposite way the the linear field will back through into here so this is with nothing happening and I can go back up through here and inflate everything like so so you can get this really nice inflation effect for free it's bonus and then come back through and deflate the objects as well by the way if you're new to cinema 4d or you want to get a little bit more in depth into learning cinema 4d check out my courses over at schoolofmotion.com if you use promo code iDesign100 you can save $100 on either of my cinema 4d courses all right let's get back into it so and this is without gravity turned on so we can always go back and out of floor make this big enough move this lower and right click and make this a collider by going to simulation tags collider and and then all we need to do is hit command or control d go to scene and then just right click on these arrows and that will reset this to the default value that the gravity was at and we'll hit play and so everything just explodes and is floating around and so actually what we need to do is we can pass this through and everything will deflate and then fall to the ground because we're removing all the influence of all of the balloon effects the mix animation and all that good stuff and so that just collapses just like so if we want to inflate all this from the floor again we just back up the linear field again you would keyframe the linear field here here i'm just kind of passing this through like so we got the nice inflation going on there bloop bloop and there we go we got our text inflated and they kind of float up because they're trying to go back to the original position which where it was when they were kind of floating in the air and they're moving around using the wiggle tags there or vibrate tags i keep calling them wiggle i got after effects on the brain but this is looking really cool and one other thing you can do is well add a little turbulent force here to make these kind of undulate even more so you can see you have the vibrate tags and let's actually let's turn off the vibrate tags you just see the turbulence object going so you can see that it's up the strength here a little bit so it's really pronounced you can see that really nice undulation going on there yeah that's really pronounced cranking that up adjust the frequency for how fast that's that noise is it's basically turbulence is like a noise that's distorting your that looks kind of cool that is like undulating the noise that's pushing and pulling and driving the turbulence this is looking pretty awesome actually and the greatest thing is is that if you would do this with the old version of the dynamic system stuff would be exploding all over the place and be pretty crazy but the new simulation system pretty rock solid as far as i've experienced it but there's so many cool you know random abstract things you can do so really quickly i want to show you this project file that you can download if you want to support me and check out what i did here but this is using a different method instead of using the vibrate tag i just threw everything in a fracture object set that to straight and then added a random effector there's the random effector you can see i just have some you know random values in here and that will kind of move the text around and undulate them using this turbulence random turbulence here and you can actually use some actual turbulence forces here as well and so one quick thing i wanted to show is that this is just going to inflate and then one really cool thing you can do is you got everything kind of moving around and everything's respecting dynamics here and the one big thing is i deleted all the individual balloon dynamic tags cloth tags and just placed it on the fracture object there so very important if you want to do it this way just throw the dynamic tag on to the fracture object and it will do it'll apply to all the objects underneath there but one really cool thing i want to point out is if you want even more wrinkles and i already talked about how if you want to add wrinkles you up the bendiness you up the target length here but the other thing you can do is if you want more wrinkles go into this mixed animation and nice little quick tip for you to end this tutorial but you can just up this strength of the width force and you got even more wrinkles because everything's trying to get back to its original position original state and because of that every one of these vertices are trying to get back to not being inflated right so it's creating even more wrinkles so you can go and combine this with even more target length and even more bendiness here and this almost looks like this type was in the pool far too long and it looks kind of gross so i'm gonna let's pull back on all this wrinkles that you want if you want very few wrinkles put in a strength of one and it's kind of subtle two you can also put in decimals 2.5 just kind of again art direct whatever type of wrinkly balloons that you would like and so i'm just going to go ahead and fire off a IPR render here and there you go so we're slowly starting to see this new iteration of the new simulation system inside of cinema 4d and i'm super excited for all the new features that are adding i'm finally able to update all of my older tutorials and transfer them over to the newest version but there's still some major things like rigid body dynamics and little settings like set initial position and things like that that prevents me from updating all of my older tutorials if you have an older tutorial of mine that you'd like to see me update definitely let me know in the comment section below and if you like the simulation tutorials you want to see me do some other kind of tutorial definitely let me know what tutorials you want to see in the future as always thank you all so much for watching and until next time go out and make something


Welcome to the Bull and Bear Show episode number 28. I'm your host Richard D'Souza here on behalf of Rich TV Live.  And I hope you're having a great day. Happy hump day. These are the last few trading days of November. I'm gonna break down what's going on in the stock market, what's going on in crypto, what's going on in the world of finance. That's what we're gonna talk about today right here right now exclusively on the Rich TV Live podcast. Hope you're having a great day. Happy hump day. Happy last few days of November. December's around the corner. Christmas is around the corner. It's a very exciting time of year. There's magic in the air and there's actually magic in the market. So we're gonna talk about it. So let's get your popcorn ready and I hope you're ready for a great show. Here we go. All right. All right, let's take a look at what's popping today. So big news today on VVOS. 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And you get access to latest financial news in the world of stocks and cryptos every single day, exclusively on richTV.io. Now, what we like to do every day is we like to kind of show you what's going on in the entire world of finance. So interesting day right now because all of the key assets that we're watching are in the green. The Dow Jones is doing extremely well, trading very close to a 52 week high at 35,536, the highest I've seen in quite some time, up 0.33% or 115 basis points. The S&P 500 is at 4,564, up 0.20% or $9.18, so slightly up on the S&P 500. And the NASDAQ at 14,295, up slightly as well as 0.10% or 14 basis points. Now the VIX is slightly green, it's been beat up as the market's been going up, the VIX has been going down, that's the volatility index, and that is a way to trade the markets if you wanna make money on the market going up or down, you can buy the VIX, if the market goes up, the VIX will most likely go down. If the market goes down, the VIX will most likely go up. Right now the market is high, so this would be the time for me to buy the VIX because if the market goes back down, which I believe it will at some point, then you have to assume that the VIX will go up. So I think it's a pretty decent time to buy the VIX. Gold, gold has broken 2,000, this is a big, big, big point for all investors because we've been waiting for gold to break 2,000 and it's happened multiple times this year and every time it's happened, gold has sold off. So the question is now, will we remain over 2,000 or will gold drop below that 2,000 mark like it has every other time it's broken 2,000 this year and previous to that? So that's gonna be very key. Now oil, oil's been up and down, we've seen it as low as $64 this year, we've seen it as high as $95 this year. It's currently kind of right in the middle at 77 and I believe that there's a lot of upside to oil with multiple wars happening, war in the Middle East or in the Ukraine. So there's and apparently Ukraine even attacked Russia. So I think that there's still lots of room for oil to go up plus we're going into, right now it's still in fall, we're going into winter and typically winter is when people spend more money to heat their homes. So the likelihood of oil going higher and gas in the winter is high. Now I can't guarantee it and I must remind you that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes, please do your own due diligence and do your own research before you invest in anything we talk about or discuss here on the Rich TV Live podcast. Past performance is not always an indication of future results and I don't sit there and hold the markets up, you know. 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So you need to be aware of that and I'm very aware of that, I've been in the markets for a long time and I've seen it time and time again and I just wanna make sure that you're aware of it too because like I said, anything can happen in these markets and usually will. All right, now we are streaming all over social media and if you are not following us, please do so, follow us on all devices, follow us wherever you see us, wherever we're live and where you see us, please follow us. If you like these videos, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe and if you have any questions, please feel free to go and put them in the chats wherever you are and I'll do my best to answer your questions. We're gonna take a look at gold today, we're gonna take a look at oil, we're gonna take a look at Bitcoin and we're gonna take a look at stocks, okay. So VVOS, the biggest stock of the day currently at $16.77 and up 282%. Now the next big pick is called China Pharma and they're up 92% today but penny stock, super risky and it's been beaten up. So you need to be aware of that, please be aware this was at two bucks, gone down to a low of eight cents and now it's starting to do a dead cap balance. So I don't trust it plus the Chinese economy has not done well at all. Stock market hasn't done well, real estate hasn't done well so I just don't trust Chinese stocks right now, I wouldn't be in it, not to say it won't go up, anything can happen in these markets, I wanna make that very, very clear, anything is possible in the markets, anything can happen, it can go up, it can go down, it can go sideways. I'm not suggesting this won't continue, it's up 89%, anything can happen but when I look at these charts, I don't wanna buy and there's so many different reasons but I'll leave that for another day. All right, here's WHLR, another one that I've been watching. It's been going up now on the daily chart for three days in a row, so it's starting to do a trend reversal. So see these three candles, that's three green days in a row that WHLR has gone up after many, many, many, many, many days of rent. So definitely want to watch, put it on your radar, put it on your watch list, WHLR, up 72% and up three days in a row. So if you want a momentum trade, you're looking for something that's gaining momentum, typically more than one day in a row. So when you see three days in a row, that's something that's starting to really gain momentum. So be aware of WHLR, however, when you look at the yearly chart, you can see it's clearly come down a lot, which means there is definitely room for it to grow, however, it's come down for a reason, so please proceed with caution. Huge gap to fill for this thing to go back to where it was the beginning of the year, when it was at 16 bucks, you can make a killing, but there's no guarantee it's going back to 16 bucks. So just proceed with caution with WHLR, however, it is hot and currently up 66% of the day and three days in a row. VT, VT at $4.36 up 46% on the day. So this is the yearly chart, and this is the trend, how it's gone down, okay? And this is the top of the zone, $41, and the bottom of the zone, where it hit a low of eight bucks, and it's starting to now find a bottom. So very interesting, we've seen it do this before, so very difficult to assume it's just going down. So very difficult to assume it's just going to continue, but one to definitely watch, it looks interesting. It's up for one day, so I'll be watching very closely tomorrow too, VT, VT up 46%. HTOO, HTOO, they've been up now for a one, two, three, four days in a row. So they're starting to do a trend reversal. They're at $1.52, they're holding over a dollar, which is bullish, and they've got four green days in a row. So this is actually something that's trending in the right direction, I like that. When I look at the one year chart, I can see it's been as high as six bucks. So definitely has a huge gap to fill to go back to where it was. And if it does fill that gap, there's a great opportunity for investors. Right now it's been hot, it's going up almost every day for the last four days. So definitely put HTOO on your radar and on your watch list, it has done well, and this momentum may continue. RDHL, okay, so RDHL has now gone up for one, two, three days in a row. It's up 16% right now, and I've been talking about them all week and they just continue to go up. So I believe everyone needs to put RDHL on your radar and on your watch list, RDHL. It's really hot right now, it's been as high as 11 bucks, currently at $2 and up three days in a row. So it was up way more the last two days, it's only up a little bit today, so it's definitely losing some steam, be aware of that, but RDHL is doing well, put it on your radar and put it on your watch list. Now this is a show that we call stocks and stacks because what we do is we talk about stocks here, talk about crypto here, and we're trying to help you make stacks, okay? So hopefully you're watching closely and you're following us and we can help you make some money. GameStop, now this is GameStop over the last year, you can see that GameStop actually has been as high as $27, I don't think it's worth $27. It's been as low as 11, it might not even be worth 11. So I don't really love this stock, but it's a meme stock, okay? It has lots of investors in on it, it hit a bottom at 11 bucks and bounced and it's up 24% today. So definitely a stock that you need to put on your radar and put on your watch list because it makes these crazy moves. It's a meme stock, when it gets momentum, it goes up fast, like we're seeing today, up 24%. So put on your radar, put on your watch list, GameStop, never bought it, never really been a fan. You see these little stores where they're selling video games and you're like, how's this company even public? I don't get it. So I'm not really a fan, I don't like the business model, I don't like the revenue model, I don't think it's a profitable business, but it's a meme stock and it moves with the market and it's moving today, so it's up 24%. So be aware of it, put on your radar, put on your watch list, GameStop, GME up 24%. And it's just crazy sometimes these meme stocks, they just, they don't make any sense, but people like to buy them. So definitely we'll be here to talk about it. Okay, this is one that I've been talking about was gonna hit a bottom and it did General Motors. So General Motors just reported and they just reported that they're gonna buy $10 billion in stock. So that obviously shows that they're confident that the stock's at a low price. The stock is bouncing today up 10%. So had you got in on the bottom, which was at $26, you would have been able to make a nice quick 10% on your money. I believe actually 26 was the bottom and this move was from 28. So this is about a 20% move from the bottom. This is very, very bullish. As an investor, what it tells me is that 26 is a good price. So if it does dip back under 30, then I'd be looking to be a buyer because especially if they're gonna be buying $10 billion in stock, we could see GM go higher, General Motors, and they're obviously getting very heavily involved in electric vehicles and they're one of the largest car makers in America and one of the largest car makers in the world. So they believe in their stock, they're gonna be buying their stock. They announced today they're gonna be buying $10 billion in stock. So I like share buybacks a lot. So GameStop and General Motors. So GME is GameStop. I don't like it nearly as much as General Motors but they're up 24% today. And GM is General Motors and they're up 10% today. So put General Motors on your radar and you're on your watch list currently at $31.84 and up 10% on the day. And there's still a nice gap to fill for it to go back to 52 week highs at $42. So this could be an interesting trade even from here. I don't know if it's gonna go there. Seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense that it would but sometimes the markets don't make a lot of sense. So definitely an opportunity here on GameStop. Okay, Square. Square's been actually balancing back recently and you can see here how it's gone on the daily chart up now for, since it was at $39, it's now at 64. It's almost doubled from the bottom but it's gone up for one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13. 20 trading days green in a row. That is a trend. So it's gone for 20 trading days green in a row. And remember, the stock market trades five days a week. So that has been green for a month. That is a trend, my friends. So Square is definitely climbing up. Now it's climbing up also because Bitcoin's been climbing up. So it's probably following the same trend as Bitcoin. So this might continue. Bitcoin continues to go up, which I believe it will over the next few months. Square can probably go back up too. And I think we could see them go back to 100 bucks. This is the one year chart. You can see it's been as high as about $80 in the last year. Let's see here. $86 in the last year. And then if we go to the five year, you can see they've been as high as $283. So I like Square a lot. I think they have a great future. And I believe that one day they'll be back at $283. So if you're willing to do a trade and a long trade and you get in on Square at 64, I think there's a good chance that Square is gonna go back to $283. When? I don't know. Could happen in a year, two years, three years, five years. But I think there's a good chance it's gonna happen. I like this company. I think there's a huge gap to fill. There's a lot of money to be made on the stock. So Square, SQ, put on your radar, put on your watch list. I'm very bullish on it. I like it a lot. I don't own it right now, but it's one that I'm really, really, really interested in. They just broke $64. And they're definitely trending in the right direction. All right, oil. Oil having a big day today? You can see we've been charting oil all the way through this process, all the way from $63 bucks to where it went to, that $64 to a high of let's say $93.56. I think it went to $95. But let's just say $93.56 based on our chart. And now it's back down to where it is today, it's $77. So it's bouncing around a lot. A lot of people are trying to keep the price down. Some are trying to take the price up. I believe the price of oil can go higher. You can see that it's made this big move here all the way up to 120. And I believe there's a massive gap to fill here, especially with all these wars happening. And that could be the biggest driver, I believe. And the fact that we're going into the winter time, just feel like there's a chance that we're going to see oil go to 100 bucks, maybe 120 again. I don't know when I just got a feeling based on this chart, like that could happen. Because like the last time we did this, it did the same thing, we're up, down, up, down, up, down, boom. And we had that first one up and then down. So where's the next leg up? So if we have that same price action where we have the next few legs up, I think we could see it go much higher. So I am invested in oil through a dividend, which I'll show you. And I believe that oil is just one of those assets, like gold or like Bitcoin that you want to be in. And I think you want to be in these types of assets because that's where the rich are invested and that's how the rich get richer. And if you want to get rich with your boy rich from Rich TV Live, then you want to take a look at these types of investments because this is what I'm doing. And this is what's helping me in my portfolio and I think it can help you. So here is COMT.  It's one of the highest dividends that I personally hold.  They invest in gold, precious metals, but more oil. So this is a way to invest and get exposure to oil without actually buying oil and collect the dividend. So if you invest $1,000 in the stock, every year, one time a year around Christmas, let's just say around December 15th to December 20th, they pay out a dividend once a year for long-term investors and they give you 30% on what you invested. So if you invested $1,000 around Christmas time, you can expect 300 bucks. If you invested $10,000 around Christmas time, you can expect $3,000. If you invested $100,000 around Christmas, you can expect $30,000. So these are the types of investments that I've been getting into more and more, especially as the market has been very volatile. And I believe that I will continue to next year as well because I like that guaranteed rate of return. Not to say I don't like doing other types of investments. I got all kinds of investments. I'm just saying that these are the types of investments as I grow older and I mature that I like to do because I'm investing in precious metals like gold and silver, which I believe in, and assets and different investments like oil, which I believe in, I think long-term, it will continue to make people money. So that's why I believe everyone should be aware of COMT and full disclosure, I am a holder of COMT, ARM. So I've been talking about ARM recently and I talked about them when they did their IPO, they went up, then they came down. I've not bought this, but I've noticed a trend here. It's now up higher than it originally went. So it's now at a 52-week high. So quietly, it went public, went up, then came down, was in the red, and now it's all the way back up again and it's approaching a 52-week high. So I like this company, I like artificial intelligence. So this is a company that is in the artificial intelligence space. I like ARM, I think it's potential here. You could see it's been up now for five weeks in a row. That's very bullish, that's a trend for me. So it might dip, I'm not telling you to buy right now, it might dip back down to 45, but if it dips back down to 45 to 47, that's where I will be a buyer, because it's already shown its hand that that's the bottom, and I believe based on this pullback and then pump, that if we have another pullback, that it's creating a pattern and I'll probably want to buy it around that 45 to 47, maybe $50 mark. So I'm gonna keep my eye on it, ARM, and it's an AI play, and it's been the year of AI, so definitely wanted to watch going into next year. NVIDIA, now speaking of AI plays, this is the number one AI play of 2023, Monster, also the number one chip maker in the world, NVIDIA, NVDA, put them on your radar, put them on your watches, you can see they've been up for now four weeks in a row, they've been trending up, it's been a huge year for NVIDIA, I like them, just don't like them at this price, I think it's really close to its all-time highs, so I think you need to proceed with caution, not to say it can't go over 500, probably will, but as an investor, I like to buy cheap. Now, another one that I've been watching for years is PayPal, just like Square is coming up, PayPal's coming up, PayPal hit a bottom at 50, we're now at 58, it's gone up for four weeks in a row, starting to break trend, if you look at the last year, you can see clearly it's been trending down, it's been beat up from $80 all the way down to 50 bucks, but it may have found a bottom, and I really believe this company is way too big to fail, I think this is a company that is doing well right now because it has a lot of exposure to Bitcoin, and Bitcoin is going in the right direction, I believe PayPal will also go in the right direction, if we look at all-time highs for PayPal, it looks almost identical to Square, it's all-time high is 280, Square is all-time high is 280, Square is bouncing back from 39 to 64, PayPal is bouncing back from 50 to 58, I think there's an opportunity here in PayPal and Square, those are two that I might be investing in soon, and I think that they have massive, massive upward potential, because I believe Bitcoin is going to really explode in 2024, and I believe PayPal and Square will follow the price trend of Bitcoin, so I think there's a great opportunity here in PayPal to get some huge upside, and I believe there's huge upside in Square, symbol for PayPal is PYPL, put it on your radar, put it on your watch list, I think there's tremendous upside in PayPal, and you can clearly see it on my chart here, I've got it charted, for PayPal to go from $58 to 200 again, or to 280 would be a nice multiple for the investor, and we love to find those multiples before they happen, and that's the potential I see here with PayPal. All right, Tesla, Tesla's been gaining steam recently, I brought this pick last year and told everyone I was a buyer and I was, and then they ran up this year, I sold, sold too soon, it went up even higher, now it's just kind of a little too high for me, I'd like to buy it, it has gone to that $200 mark once this year, so I think that maybe that might be a decent entry if it gets back to that $200 mark, but I'm not interested in buying them at these levels, so if it gets back to that like 196 or lower mark, I think I'd be interested in getting in, but I think at $246, just a little too rich for me. I do believe over time, it's probably a $1,000 or $2,000 stock, I just don't know if right now at these levels is the right time to get in, so I'll be watching closely, I've won every single trade I've ever made on Tesla, and I wanna continue that trend, so if it does dip to a price that I feel interested in, or I feel very confident about, I'll buy it, and obviously I'll let our members on richtv.io know first, and you guys can join us at richtv.io, absolutely free, or upgrade and become a VIP member and get access to all of our trade ideas first. Uber, Uber just continues higher and continues higher and continues higher, and it's been on an upward trend all year, it's absolutely on fire, and you can see here on the daily chart that it's been going up for one, two, wow, how many days in a row? Look at all those days in a row, it's gone green, one, two, three, four, five, actually, I don't even have to do that, let's go like this. It's been green for 30 days in a row, and it's up 35% in the last month, so a huge move for Uber could have made 35% in the last month on Uber, great month for Uber, and it's been a great year for Uber, so it's one of the hottest stocks out there, it's a momentum trade, and it's clearly on fire, so definitely put Uber on your radar and on your watches, and I love Uber, I love their drive and ride sharing program, I love Uber Eats, and I think that Uber is gonna be here for a very long time, I think they're a technology company, I think they're gonna get heavily into AI, and I think they're a stock that everyone should be aware of, UBER Uber. Coinbase, Coinbase, like Uber, has been hot, it's gone up a lot over the last month or so, let's see here, in the last 29 days, wow, Coinbase is up 70%, 70% in the last 29 days, that is absolutely sensational price action for Coinbase, up 75% in the last 30 days is Coinbase, so absolutely on fire, symbol is coin, they're going up, just like Bitcoin's going up, it's really, really hot, Bitcoin's hot, so I think Coinbase is another great trade that we can benefit from and we can make money with, clearly it's up 75% in the last month, so if Bitcoin continues this price up, I believe, and cryptos do, which I believe they will, over the next six to 12 months, expect Coinbase to continue to go higher, I think there's a chance it goes to 200, 300, maybe even 400, if we look at their all-time chart, you can see I have this charted and I really believe there's a massive gap to fill and I believe they'll fill it, I believe their great quality company is going to fill it, when you get all the Bitcoin spot ETFs saying that they're going to have their custody at Coinbase, that tells me that Coinbase is secure, all these huge institutions like BlackRock and Fidelity are going to be putting their Bitcoin at Coinbase, that's insane, so I think Coinbase is a gold mine and I think they eventually go back to 400 bucks and they're still at 128, which means there's an opportunity for it to go much, much, much, much, much higher. Gold, so gold on the chart is actually, when we look at the all-time chart, gold is approaching its all-time high, so very, very bullish price action for gold, I've marked this up many times, every time it gets over 2,000, it sells off, so we're back at that range now, question is, will we hold it or will it go back down? So it's going to be very interesting to see, all of its all-time highs happened in the last five years, so you can see we're right there, like we're right by an all-time high, so going to be very interesting, this is very, very bullish price action for gold, this is going to be very bullish for gold stocks, we're going to continue to watch gold stocks, we're going to continue to watch gold, we're going to monitor everything as it happens and if anything big happens with gold, promise you will be the first place to let you know and many believe that gold is going to all-time highs and it's approaching all-time highs, so there's a very good chance it will, so definitely keep your eye on gold, keep your eye on gold stocks, because it's clearly trending higher, Bitcoin, all right, so Bitcoin is my number one crypto, absolutely love Bitcoin, we're in a love affair, have been for years, started talking about Bitcoin on social media in 2017, at that time Bitcoin was at $1,000 per coin, today Bitcoin is at $37,774 a coin, which is 36 times your money, congratulations to investors. Pat yourselves in the back, you deserve it and Bitcoin has been a fantastic winner for us, it's been fantastic for me and I'm really, really happy about it and Ethereum as well is my second largest crypto holding, pack yourself in the back if you own Ethereum, Ethereum has done much better as well and Ethereum is going up, so it's been a great year for Bitcoin, a great year for Ethereum, but I believe next year we continue that momentum and we go higher, I've already predicted all year that Bitcoin will be going higher and it has been phenomenal, I predict that next year Bitcoin goes even higher and I believe the year after that Bitcoin goes even higher and I've been saying that all year, just like I was saying last year that when Bitcoin was down, it was a buying opportunity and clearly I was 100% correct as Bitcoin is up well over 100% this year. This is the yearly chart on Bitcoin and I'm gonna show you how much Bitcoin is up. Bitcoin is up right now 128% in the last 353 days, not bad, 128% on your Bitcoin. So really, really happy with Bitcoin and I believe that this is just the beginning of a three-year bull market, this is the first year of a three-year bull market which will continue next year and then continue into 2025.  All right, so let's get started. Let's get started. Let's get Bitcoin ready because we're in for a fun ride. All right, here's Apple. Apple to me is like the Bitcoin of stocks. Bitcoin is the biggest crypto in the world by far, by market cap. Apple is the largest stock in the world by far, by market cap. So if you look at Apple's all-time highs, we're right there. Apple's at all-time highs, folks. So has it been a little bit higher yet? It's been slightly higher. Have we ever been to 200? 198. The highest it's ever gone is 198. So we're at 189, like we're not that far from all-time highs. This is just a little dip for Apple. I really love Apple. I think if it gets back down and I bought it last year on the dip and sold it this year on the rip and then it went even higher, I think if it gets down at that 124 mark or lower, I would definitely be a buyer. But I even think based on its trading pattern that even if it gets under 150, that might be a decent buy. But I don't wanna buy it at these prices. I'd like to wait for it to drop before I buy. All right. Amazon. Amazon is another one of the magnificent seven that I bought last year on the dip. This year sold it on the rip. Now it's trading close to a 52 week high. And I really like Amazon.   So these sales have been phenomenal for Amazon. The price has done well for the stock. I've always traded Amazon successfully. I did it again last year buying it and then this year selling it. I'm just looking for a pullback, but I'm definitely a buyer on Amazon on another pullback. Roblox, really like Roblox. I've charted it. I think there's some huge upside here. Haven't got in yet, but if I get in, I'll let you know. I believe there's an opportunity here to at least double your money on Roblox in the next year. MSTR, Micro Strategies. So this is one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world, Michael Saylor's company, Micro Strategies. All they do is buy Bitcoin. All Micro Strategies does is buy Bitcoin. All Michael Saylor does is buy Bitcoin. Okay, $510 stock, business highs $1,200 in the last bull market. I think we could test the $1,000 again. I think there's a very good chance if Bitcoin goes to $100,000, which I believe it will, that we could see Micro Strategies back at $1,000 a share, which means it would double from here. Can I guarantee it? No, it went down all the way to 120 bucks at the beginning of this year. So it's gone from $120 at the beginning of this year to $500 this year. As Bitcoin's gone up, these Bitcoin related companies and Bitcoin related stocks have also gone up. So keep your eyes on Micro Strategies, one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. I believe they hold about 158,000 Bitcoin. I don't know the exact number, but it's about 158,000 Bitcoin in that area. And they're always buying more. They're always buying more. So definitely want to watch. All right, so here's a gold stock that I really like. It's one of the biggest gold companies in the world, Newmont Corporation, on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NEM. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list, gold. Gold is hot, look for gold stocks to be hot too. So keep your eye on Newmont Gold. I think they're one of the top gold stocks out there that you can own. XRP, so if you want to get into crypto, but you don't want to spend $37,000 for one, like a Bitcoin, or you don't want to buy $100 or $1,000 for a Bitcoin, you don't want to buy Ethereum, which is at 2,000 US, then you could buy Ripple. I like Ripple. I want a little bit of Ripple. I would like to get more, but they're at 60 cents, they're much cheaper. Now there's a reason. They have 50 billion coins. Bitcoin only has 21 million. Ripple has 50 billion. That's why they're at 60 cents, okay? So Ethereum at $2,000 has 132 million coins. So the amount of tokens, just like with stocks, the amount of shares matters. So if you have billions of coins or billions of shares, chances are the stock goes down, the crypto goes down.  This is what we teach at Rich TV, learning how to understand the tokenomics of a stock, the fundamentals of a stock, the tokenomics of a crypto, the share structure of a stock. This is very important to me. I want to know how many shares are out there in a stock. I want to know how many coins are out there in a crypto. It's important to me. So I think it should be important to you as an investor too. And when you learn about that, it changes your perspective on what you're buying, okay? So just understand XRP is great technology, very fast, very cheap to buy, sell, and send XRP anywhere in the world. Banks are using it all over the world. Institutions are using it all over the world. And many believe that this will be the most used crypto in the future. So there's a lot of potential there in XRP and it's at 60 cents. So if you want to get into a cheaper crypto, I think XRP is a great option. Google, speaking of stocks that I bought, part of the Magnificent Seven, I bought Google last year, sold it this year, made profit on it. It's going to be even higher. It's gone close to a 52 week high. You can see here at $136. I really like Google. I even like it at this price. I think it's going to go much higher. And I think in the future we're going to have a $200 Google. Couldn't it go back to a 100? Absolutely. I don't think it will. But if it does, I will be a buyer and I'm going to be watching them closely. And if I buy, I'll let you know. Ethereum. So I sold some Ethereum last week. I sold four Ethereum. I didn't really want to and I didn't have to, but I did it because I'm up so much of my crypto this year that I decided I wanted to take some profits off the table. I didn't want to sell my Bitcoin. I didn't want to sell any Bitcoin. So I decided to sell some Ethereum. Will I probably regret it? Probably, because I still believe that Ethereum has a chance to go to 5,000 to 10,000 in this next year to two years. But I just as an investor have to stay disciplined in my approach of if I'm up and I'm up like on my crypto portfolio this year, I'm up over 50,000 Canadian. So since I'm up over 50,000 Canadian, I decided I had to pull some off the table. So I did, I decided to sell some Ethereum. So four, all of our members within RichTV.io on our website, New First. I've told other members that watch us on social media what I've done as well. And now I'm telling you guys that I sold some Ethereum. I'll probably regret it, but I probably won't because I still have 90% of my crypto. I just sold 10%. So in my ledger, so I still have lots more crypto and a lot of more exposure to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and other assets. But in my ledger, I wanted to sell 10% and I sold four Ethereum and I still have 90% for the bull market. So as it continues to go higher, I'm gonna just continue to sell. And my goal is to sell it all and then wait for crypto to crash again, most likely in 2026, where I will be a buyer again. So for the next two years, I'll be more of a seller and then in 2026, I'll be more of a buyer again when cryptos drop. Like I was last year buying stocks and crypto. And this year I've been a seller of stocks and crypto. I will be most likely a buyer again of crypto in 2026. And I might be a buyer of some stocks in 2025 and 2024. Stay tuned because right now I am sitting on the sideline with a lot of cash and doing a lot of dividend investing because I think the market's really high. I think it's very volatile. I think small caps are low and there's some great opportunities of small caps, but the magnificent seven are all high. They're all either at 52 week highs or all-time highs. And I just don't feel comfortable buying stocks at all-time highs and 52 week highs. Now I do feel comfortable buying the big companies that are down this year at bottoms, like I told you, Square, PayPal, Roblox. Those are three that I really got my eye on, GM, Ford. These are stocks that have been beat up that I think have huge upside and we might be able to position ourselves again next year in, but I also don't necessarily know if I wanna do that yet. So I'm watching the market very carefully, sitting with a lot of cash right now, waiting for opportunities and I'm gonna make the right decision at the right time.  I'd rather be 100% sure on my decisions like it was last year and I won all of those trades. When I bought Tesla last year in a dip, won this year selling at Tesla. But Apple last year in a dip, won this year selling Apple. But Google last year in a dip, won this year selling Google. But Amazon last year in a dip, won this year selling Amazon. But Ethereum and Bitcoin on dips last year, sold some Ethereum this year, taking profits along the way. So it's been a really, really good year for investing for me this year and that's because it become way more disciplined in my approach and I'm investing in bigger and better companies. Less small caps, less penny stocks, more large caps and more money into Bitcoin and Ethereum and it's worked well for me. That's been my strategy and it's worked really well for me in 2023. So I'm gonna continue with that strategy going into 2024. Microsoft, Microsoft is trading right around a 52 week and all time high. You could see it's starting to sell off now as it's just grinding higher and grinding higher and grinding higher and has been all year. So at some point you have to assume it's gonna go lower. I'm not interested in buying Microsoft at an all time high, but if it dips down, I love Microsoft and I'd love to get into that stock. GBTC, so just like MicroStrategy's is one of the biggest holder of Bitcoin, GBTC I believe is the biggest holder of Bitcoin in the world that is a public entity trading at $31. I believe they have 660,000 Bitcoin, massive, massive amount of Bitcoin. So this is a great stock if you wanna get exposure to Bitcoin. And you can see this year, it has been an absolute killer going from $7 to $31 this year. So you could have made a beautiful multiple on GBTC this year, had you bought it, you could have been up 282% in the last year on GBTC. This is a Bitcoin related stock. So you can buy a stock, hold it in your trading account. You don't have to worry about the exchange going bankrupt. You don't have to worry about your account getting hacked. You don't have to worry about losing your password. So this has none the stress of being a crypto holder but it has the exposure to Bitcoin because they physically do own Bitcoin. So when you're buying GBTC, you're buying one of the largest holders of Bitcoin in the world. I think it's a great asset. Up 282% this year in the last 320 days been an absolute killer. And I believe that the price of Bitcoin continues to go higher and doubles from here and we go to like 70,000. I think GBTC will double from here. So I think there's a great opportunity for investors in GBTC, put on your radar, put on your watch list. I haven't bought it, but I would love to. I haven't the past and I would love to get into it. I almost got into this at 10 bucks. I hesitated and I didn't buy it and I really regret it because I would have been up 200% and I should have bought it. And I was talking about it and I didn't buy it. I think I put in my top 10 even earlier this year and I didn't buy it myself. So it was a mistake, but hey, that is the markets. Life is a trader, meta. So this is Facebook, now meta for metaverse. I don't even know what they're doing with metaverse but the market doesn't seem to care anymore. When they were going heavily into the metaverse, the stock went all the way to 100. Now they've kind of stepped away from the metaverse. They're still doing it, but they're not putting as much emphasis on it, as much focus on it. Stock has killed it. Stock has absolutely killed it. Met has been one of the greatest trades all year, just like NVIDIA, a big board and one of the magnificent seven, up 208% in the last 315 days is meta. So put on your radar, put on your watch list, great company, tons of cash, young CEO, very aggressive. And I think it's just too big to fail. I think it's too big to fail, too good to fail. And one of those companies that everyone needs to be aware of, meta, and it's done extremely well and love to buy them on a dip, have no idea what a good price is on this one right now. Good stuff, 200%. But love to own them, own them before, sold them many times, done well every single time, won every single trade, bought this stock when they did their IPO at 30 bucks. And today they're 10X, 300. I didn't hold, I should have held, but it's been what, like 14 years. So definitely an interesting company, meta, put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. And that is what I am watching in the world of rich TV. So going back to the biggest player of the day, VVOS currently up 285%. Put them on your radar, put them on your watch list. I'm your host with the most, your boy, Rich from Rich TV. Hope you're having a great day. Wishing everybody a happy hump day, happy Wednesday. 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Hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube. And beam me up Scotty, we're going to color an alien invasion today. I picked up this really cute little stamp set from Gertis Steiner Designs and it has not only the space elements like the moon and the sun or the moon and the planet, but it's got little critters, it's, you know, the little alien critters, it's got a spaceship and I thought it would be fun to make it look like one of the aliens was beaming up the other two. There are some smiley faces in the stamp set that you can add on to these little guys with no mouths, but I decided not to. I thought it would be kind of funny for them to be mute and you can imagine how they talk. Maybe they only talk by mental telepathy. I drew in the planet that they're standing on with a Copic multiliner, but if you want to draw that in later you can always just sketch it in with a marker and add your black line with any kind of a pen over top of your Copic marker when you're all done, but you also, if you get enough contrast between them, don't necessarily have to have a line there. But for me it helped to define where the sky begins and the earth ends and that sort of thing.  Just keep adding more and more. You're practicing blending not only left to right, so I'm doing this circumferential blending, which if you've taken my my Copic Hex art class, you'll know what circumferential blending is, but I'm also doing blending from the bottom to the top. So it's blending two directions at once, which can be challenging, but it worked here, so that was good. I was glad that that came out the way it was in my head when I had this idea for coloring this card. I chose red for the planet that they're on because I knew my sky was going to be kind of blues and purples. I had the yellow in the beam, my aliens were going to be green, so the other color left to me was kind of a red color. I am going to darken that a bit as we go on because one of the things that I like to do is add a lot of color. A lot of folks tell me that they recognize my work instantly on Instagram because they just they see it and they know it, and one of the reasons why is the contrast that I get because I'm not afraid to put a lot of color down. A lot of you guys are just afraid to use up your markers, and I know that because refills are not cheap, but if you're going to create this kind of artwork, that's one of the things you just have to suck it up, buttercup, and realize that you'll have to do is you'll need to have enough colors and enough free inkers that you can feel comfortable doing this because since I know I have the reinkers, I feel very safe in using a lot of color on my work. I'm using Nina 80 pound cardstock. This is the solar white and it's a little harder when you're using 110 pound even though some people like it because they don't want it to bleed through and it doesn't bleed through as much on the 110, but the way that Copic markers blend is within the fibers of the paper. So if you're trying to avoid the bleed through, then that might be why you may not be getting as much good blending and you also may end up with some shiny color on top because with that heavier paper, the ink doesn't sink all the way into the fibers. So that is one of the reasons why I like to use this 80 pound. So the back of my work is always pretty messy. So now that I've got my base color down for that sky, I'm using kind of some purples to transition from the blue into the beam and adding more and more layers of different colors to just keep narrowing that beam down a little bit. Now on the video here, it does look like I've got a weird stripe of purple, but in reality, there's just something about video that doesn't always capture things that little purple stripe does go away when you see the finish card at the end. So now I'm going to work on the ground. The reason that there is a circular little area around them is that light beam is coming down in a circle, which is an oval when you're looking at it straight on. And that's a whole perspective thing that takes a little bit of art school to understand, but it definitely makes it look like they're standing in that beam of light on the ground.  And I'll add some shadows then right underneath of each of my aliens because they're going to be casting a shadow because they've got this strong light on them. Speaking of those kinds of highlights, I'm going in first with my lightest yellow-green pen to just mark some of the areas that I think are sticking out furthest. To try to give them a little bit of dimension, I want to use a really dark green to knock everything else back because I want the light to look like it's really super strong and that they're in a really, really dark situation on this planet that they're on. And stay tuned, I know it looks like a hot mess until it doesn't, but I'm adding my really darkest shadows and leaving those highlight areas which I will soften then with a mid-tone green because I want that outside edge, that very top edge of each one of these shapes and even just the tops of their toes and stuff to look like it's being lit from above and everything else is in the dark. But I want them to retain the look of being green aliens. So it's kind of a challenge to balance both of them together and make that work. So I'm softening out a little more with the light green pen and then I'll need to go in and do a little bit more with the dark again to really enrich the area at the very, very bottom, the really darkest spots, and then go back in with that mid-tone and get that transition going so they start looking good and round. And of course their eyeballs aren't going to be completely white except up at the top as well. Now I'm going to go up and work on my spaceship and give that a little bit of color. I wanted him to have some dramatic lighting too so I'm putting all the shadows on him on the backside of his head so the light is going to be coming up from his control panel on the spaceship. So he's going to have just a little bit of glow on that bottom left side of his face and on his nose and everything else is going to get knocked back around there. Now for those who were worried that my purple went over top of that little bottom part of my spaceship, no worries. Sometimes you go out of the lines but just cover it up with something else and it'll be fine. It's one of the reasons that doing scenes works really great because you can constantly be covering up things that may have been an error or may not have worked as well as you'd hoped. And so now I'm just going to add a little bit more detail here on the outside of my spaceship, give him a little more depth, and add some darker blue in the bubble around him so that that starts looking like it's, I don't know, shiny and transparent. Add a little bit of color onto the moon and then I'm going to add some bubbles. And this is one of those fun things I like to do with the color of Splendor just to add a little bit of motion so it almost gives that light from the aliens look like it's got a little bit of, I don't know, moving up and down going on.  And I'll outline some of the bubbles I did with the color of Splendor as well as just adding some dots here and there. And this is the actual color on it, much richer, a little less of that weirdness that I was talking about earlier. And look how contrasty it came out. It was really a fun card to do, a lot of interesting challenges to give myself in getting the blending to go two directions at once and make that really strong lighting. But I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, click the like button. You can subscribe by clicking on my face. You can watch some other videos there or click to go see the classes over at my new website with classes and leave a comment. And I'd love to hear what you have to say. Talk to you later. Bye-bye.


module 27 trauma reaction. When we talk about the trauma reaction we need to be understand first what trauma is. Whenever any individual is facing any distressing event his or her mind can be damaged because of the pressure which he or she is facing as a result of that stress. And that stress level is out of the ability to bear it. So when the pressure is built up on his brain then his mind can be damaged. And all this process is called trauma. Trauma can be a single related event and it can also be a sequence. And it can also be that there is only one event but it is going on continuously. So trauma can face any person at any stage in their life. Traumas in childhood usually affect any child's life. Why do they affect it? Because the trauma experienced in childhood means that if he or she has experienced any kind of injury, or if he or she has seen any kind of injury or if he or she has witnessed someone's death then these are the traumas which can affect their life. And when a child witnesses these traumas or experiences them then he or she can present different kinds of reactions to these traumas. Now what can be the different kinds of reactions? They are different. It might be anxiety or fear. Now why is anxiety and fear basically feeling? Because when he or she experiences trauma, then the fear will develop in them. And the same trauma related or the same event related which was distressed for her, whenever she sees something, when she meets some cues, then she will start feeling anxiety and she will start feeling restless. For example, if she has witnessed that there is an injury in the house, then what would be happen? As soon as the door opens, then it might be possible that she or she will start feeling anxious or the fear will develop or she will become restless. Similarly, if she or she sees a black mask, then the anxiety might also start to provoke her. Apart from this, it is also possible that the reaction of some trauma is in state of shock or emotionally numbness. Now state of shock or emotional numbness is that no person can express any kind of emotion. Whatever is distressed in their life or trauma they cannot talk about it. Usually, you must have heard that people get shocked at the time of anyone's death. Or someone witnessed an accident and after that they went to the state of shock and they couldn't tell anything. So what happens is that they cannot express their emotions. But it is also possible that they cannot participate in any pleasant event. For example, they don't want to go out. They don't want to socialize. They said that they don't feel player in daily life activities. So this is also an emotional numbness. That they are not able to express their hurtful emotions or they are not able to feel those emotions which are pleasant. Then the re-experiencing of trauma. At a certain time, trauma or that event is so stressful that they can't imagine that in reality this can happen. So to believe that thing at a certain time re-experiencing of trauma starts. That is, they start seeing the same things again and again. And they feel that things are happening. So at a certain time, anyone can re-experience the trauma to get the belief that this thing is actually happened. Then increased vigilance. Like we said earlier that fear develops at a certain time due to trauma reactions. Because of that fear, extra vigilance develops in them. And their bodies are always jet-free and restless. So as soon as a trigger is queued, they are ready to attack them immediately. So due to this, their body gets very stretched. Then avoidance. Another trauma reaction is avoidance. What is avoidance? Either they will try not to go to those places where that thing happened. Or they will try not to think about those thoughts. They will try to repress those thoughts. They will try to avoid it. And they will also try to avoid talking about it. So avoidance can also be a trauma reaction than anger. After experiencing a trauma, people usually manifest anger. When people manifest anger, people in their surroundings definitely get worried about their reaction. But why is that person aggressive? Or why is that person hostile? Because that particular person is thinking that the world is unfair. Due to which, because of that, because of the trauma, because of that, this event happened, that's why the world is unfair place to live.  When we talk about the trauma reactions, we try to understand how different age group people give trauma reactions. Or how their trauma reactions can be different from each other. For example, if a young child has experienced a trauma, then what kind of trauma reaction can be generated or what kind of trauma reaction it will exhibit. That might be a problem in attaching it to your caregivers. Similarly, it starts feeling separation anxiety. That is, its significant ones cannot be separated from them. Similarly, in eating or sleeping, its pattern is disturbed or overeating starts, or it leaves food, or hypersomnia or insomnia develops. And it becomes very easily cranky. That is, it starts fighting on small things, it starts getting irritated, it starts getting irritable. And sometimes, it happens that the children reverse towards a young age again. For example, it can happen that the bed gets wet at night, so these kinds of behaviors are exhibited in them. When we talk about school age children, when they experience trauma, it can happen that their trauma reaction can be different from the young children and it can be different from them that they present more aggressive behavior. And at some time, they become socially isolated. In addition, they become overprotective about their own safety and other people's safety. And if they play therapy with them, or play different games, traumatic events try to relive it again. Such that the children of school age can also have nightmares. In addition, they can have problems in studies and their academic performance can also be affected. If we compare adolescents as compared to these two groups, we usually see that adolescents can be anxious or depressed. Their manifestation of depression and anxiousness might be in a form of irritability. Similarly, they go towards self-destructive behavior at a certain time. As we talked about, when people start doing avoidance, it can happen that they start taking more drugs so that they don't have any kind of memory related to it. Similarly, it can happen that they become sexually very active and get involved in unprotected sex. Similarly, they can get guilt. They might feel that this is their fault or they are responsible for it so they can develop guilt or shame. In addition, as this is the time period in which their cognitions are developing, it might be possible that their negative views start developing. And at a certain time, it happens that if there is such a distressful event that they have witnessed or experienced that they can take them towards suicidality or revengeful thoughts. Thank you.


Last year, at the COP in Cancun, Mexico, parties agreed to establish the Green Climate Fund, a new fund which should become a significant actor for climate finance. They also entrusted a transitional committee with its design. The committee consisted of 25 developing countries and 15 developed countries. Together with Minister Traver Manuel from South Africa and Ernesto Cordero from Mexico, I had the privilege of co-chairing the work of the transitional committee. Let me start off by saying that our work was guided by the principles of inclusiveness and transparency. All the meetings and workshops of the committee were open to service and of service contributed actively to what is now the proposed design of the fund. At the final meeting in Cape Town here in South Africa in October, the committee agreed to submit a draft governing instrument to the conference of the parties for its consideration and approval here in Dublin. So if approved, the Green Climate Fund will be launched here at COP 17 in Dublin. Let me say a few words about the main features and novelties of our proposed design of the fund. Firstly, the fund will be tasked to finance climate actions in developing countries for adaptation and litigation, including red glass. Secondly, the fund will be funded by developed countries but may also receive funding from other public and private sources, including alternative sources. Thirdly, the fund will aim to mobilize the private sector in the back against climate change. And finally, one of the important novelties of the fund will facilitate direct access to resources through national, regional and international implementing agencies. It will also add that the future board of the Green Climate Fund will be entrusted to take important decisions about the funds and future structure. As an example, the draft instrument clearly states that RUT Plus will be eligible for financing through the Green Climate Fund. And the board will decide on how these resources be prioritized and allocated. Basically, I believe that the transitional committee within a limited amount of time managed to make substantial progress and find good middle ground solutions to other issues that we all know are difficult in these climate negotiations. So parties here in Durban now have before them a delicately balanced proposal for the design of the Green Climate Fund, a proposal that provides a good basis for establishing a fund that can channel and catalyze substantial economic resources for climate actions, adaptation, mitigation, including RUT Plus in developing countries, in line with what we all have and visioning. Once the fund is launched, we must start the important process of funding the fund. An empty fund is a little use. It's also very important, I believe, that we get in place a competent and well-functioning board for the fund, particularly in this first critical period, so that the Green Climate Fund can earn the trust of both developed and developing countries and grow over time and evolve and really become the main global fund for climate finance. In order to get there, we first need to launch it. And we have an historic opportunity here in Durban to do just that. So I hope that the parties of this conference will seize that opportunity. Thank you.


Psychologist and professor at Stanford University, Dr. Susan Edelman said, dating can feel like walking a tightrope. One wrong move and you plummet. Unfortunately, subtle actions can sometimes send the wrong messages and make potential partners run. Fortunately, psychology has taken a lot of the guesswork out of dating for us. So to avoid falling into this trap of pushing your crush away without even realizing it, here are five of the most common subconscious behaviors you need to look out for. Number one, putting them on a pedestal. According to clinical psychologist Dr. Carla Mary Manley, having unrealistic expectations of your crush can do a lot more harm than help your chances with them. And while there's nothing wrong with having high standards for your potential partners, you need to be careful not to overwhelm them with too much pressure to live up to an idealized version you have of them in your head. In some cases, the inability to find a suitable partner is due to overly high expectations, Dr. Manley says, but if the bar is set too high in the hopes of finding the perfect partner, the right partner may be overlooked. Clinging too much. In her book, Relationship Sautures, overcoming the 10 behaviors that undermine love. Clinical psychologist Dr. Randy Gunther wrote, Insecurity is the emotional experience of anticipated loss. People who are driven by it often feel vulnerable, unstable, and uncertain of their worth, which drives them to desperation. In order to soothe this terrible fear of being discarded, people often act in ways that rob them of their self-respect and destroy the love they want so much to give and receive. Simply put, constantly seeking attention and validation from your crush will likely drive them away rather than pull you too closer together.  And according to Sylvia Smith, expert blogger at marriage.com, giving someone enough space to fall in love with you is key. Neuroscientists have proven that seeking things and people activates the reward centers in our brain.  Not more. Not being yourself. In his article, Five Ways We Push Away Love, psychiatrist Dr. Vinay Saranga says that, Many times, people in a relationship let their fear of intimacy change who they are to their partner.  So by not being yourself and trying too hard to be someone you think they might like, you're actually subconsciously pushing your crush away. They might get the sense that you're not being genuine with them. And like most people, they can't fall in love with someone they don't even know. Miscommunicating interest Miscommunication ruins chances with your crush in two ways. First is when you don't communicate enough interest in them. While it might seem scary to let your crush know you have feelings for them, not being clear enough may cause them to feel uncertain about you and your relationship. Playing too hard to get might be miscontrude as rejection. The second type of miscommunication is communicating too much interest in other people. Acting too close with certain people, such as friends of the opposite sex, might make your crush mistake them for a romantic rival, and back off altogether unless you clear things up for them. As marriage and family therapist Weena Cullen states, what we can interpret from mixed signals is that the other person hasn't officially chosen to be consistent or commit to you. If you decide that consistency or commitment is what you need, then it will be easier to determine how to move forward in the relationship. In the words of famous psychologist Carl Jung, until we learn to make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. Hopefully learning about these common mistakes will also help you stop sabotaging your chances at romance and invite more love into your life instead. Did going through this list make you realize you might be unconsciously pushing your crush away? No matter your answer, it's ultimately a good idea to try to be more open and honest with the other person about how you really feel. Especially if you suspect they may feel the same way but are too hesitant to act on it. As always, if you enjoyed this, we'd appreciate it if you liked the video and subscribed to Psych2Go to support our creation of more psychology content.


Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, I'm back. Apologies for taking so long to get back here. The trip to the UK was incredible, and admittedly the work has already built up on me, but now I am actually doing my first video in a month. I realize that, apologies. But I just finished watching the first episode of The Winchester's, and aside from the obvious confusion of how this show is kind of coming to be, I thought I'd give my two cents about it and see what you guys had to say. Now, first off, I will kind of say something that a lot of people have also been saying is that the continuity of the show doesn't really make sense. Pretty clearly established that John did not do any kind of hunting until after Mary died. Like, it was the basis of the show for the first five seasons, even into the retcon seasons. That was pretty adamant. And this episode, the first thing they do is they completely throw that out the window. I'm still kind of waiting for it to be established, and that's not even the worst bit, because at the very end of the episode, is Dean Winchester just writing his notes into this journal, was like, when is this taking place?  What timeframe is this supposed to be? What's going on here?  So let's talk about the good first. Now I will say, actually, the camera moves more in this first episode than I think it did in the entirety of season 15. There is a lot more of a dynamic kind of setting. There's a lot more rotation using of lifts and just adding an atmosphere to the crypts that they go through, to the city that they go through. It will give the camera work credit on that end. They actually did a decent job of making it kind of fun to watch, at least. It wasn't stale, wasn't a lot of just static camera talking. The effects, for the most part, were actually not too bad. Now that's something to be said, considering the state that CW is in right now.  One of the first things that Discovery did when they bought Warner Brothers is like, we need to get rid of the CW to the point where they actually sold it for $0. And I can see that effect into the CW because we might not see the CW soon. Like the CW is on the verge of not existing very soon. That is also kind of in the effect of this show too. We'll see how long that actually goes for. I like the music. The music choice has always been good with the show though. I was happy to see a lot of alumni pre-season 12 to 15 come back, like Robbie Thomas is back. He wrote a lot of really great episodes for season 11. He wrote, Don't Call Me Shirley. He is the main kind of show developer here. And they did bring back a few other directors. Admittedly, the guy who did the pilot did a lot of work out in Vancouver for The Flash and other superhero shows. He never directed Supernatural, which I also have to admit, I don't know if that was a budget. I will say that Jensen Ackles kind of did Vancouver dirty, considering Vancouver was the home of Supernatural for 15 years. No mention whatsoever about them not shooting it out here. It shot it in Louisiana or LA, one of the two. It was cheaper to shoot it here.  But now kind of the talk about the unfortunate, this whole episode moves like it's got ADHD. There's a lot of story being told, a lot of like quick, quick, quick, quick. There's a lot of bits that could have actually been maybe spread out into different episodes because the relationship between John and Mary is essentially they bump into each other, talk about licorice, look and there's something there. He just so happens to be at this spot when this demon comes up behind him and she's there and a lot of very good conveniences in this episode. The amount of conveniences throughout are innumerable from the barrel full of holy water. Every other interaction with a monster that happens in this episode, right up until they fight the Ruger thingy at the end and John's just able to one chop it. It was a lot to kind of take and accept as even as a supernatural fan, which immediately there's a lot of those references throughout this entire show or sort of this episode. Some of them are okay. Some of them are really like, like it's so on the nose it hurts.  Now I like the camera work. I thought the movement was good, but I don't like the filters they've got going on. It's like watching a high budget soap opera with this super high fluctuation of lights behind people, the blurriness, the very breathy sort of angelic kind of like filter that is over everything. I didn't like when supernatural went this way and it seems that they've kept that, which I guess we're gonna get that for the rest of this show for however long it lasts, but that wasn't something I enjoyed either. Now is this a respectful to both novice and hardcore supernatural fans? It's essentially just a supernatural greatest hits in like five seconds. They played, I love the change of the world by 10 years after I think about three times. I think it was the only song they could afford. Again, I am very curious of what they're gonna do with this because with one half being the narrative that still is yet to be explained as how this is happening and the other being discovery owning Warner Brothers and wanting to absolutely exercise CW from any kind of existence, those two factors are going to be interesting to watch for two very different yet both converting reasons. So I don't know, I think I'm going to give the opener of supernatural. Sorry, oh my God, I'm just so used to that. I'm gonna give the opener to the Winchester's a very generous three out of seven. Really, I was gonna give it a two but I can't be that harsh on it so far. I have to still see it as it goes. It was very reminiscent of the last five seasons which if that's what you were a fan of for supernatural the last five seasons, you'll enjoy this probably-ish. Again, we had to see a lot more development from the characters rather than being random Scooby-Doo characters. We had to see a lot more chemistry between John and Mary for that to be actually believable. We actually need to have these monsters be more than a Scooby-Doo threat. They take down two demons, no two, two three demons, a roo-roo-roo giant werewolf thing and they also now have a box which is essentially just the ghost buster collecting the ghost box thing. Those are my thoughts about this. What did you guys think? Let me know in the comments below. I'm kind of curious to see what you guys think. Are you going to follow along with this? I'm very much on the fence considering my timeline and trying to go back to watching supernatural season seven but I don't know, it's hard for me to decide whether to watch this show or not. I might give it at least one or two more watches just to see, just out of respect. But I can't really confirm or deny whether I'll commit to this or not. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed the review. Sorry again for being gone for so long. Anyways, I hope you're all doing well. If you liked this video, leave a like and if you're just more subscribed. Until then, see you guys next time.