So, we need to have a talk about the shit-fest you are about to embark on known as Weightpainting. Now, my objective is to get as many of you as possible through the next two weeks alive.  But before we go any further, I'm gonna give you some advice that I wish someone gave me when I was doing this for the first time. Weightpainting is hard. The human body is f***ing weird. There's no such thing as perfect weightpainting, and if there was, you are definitely not getting paid enough to do it. What you're about to learn is so difficult that it's basically its own professional field. Because the people who specialize in character animation are almost never the people who specialize in anything else. They're completely separate skills. So, if you are doing this for the first time, and you find yourself getting frustrated and spending days or even weeks struggling to get the joints to bend just right, relax. There's a reason why people pay a lot of money in order to buy the skills that you're about to learn. Now, I will specifically be teaching you the Super Smash Bros. style of rigging in animation. Now, why smash? Well, for one, it's my favorite game. Two, it's a beautiful style that literally millions of people around the world love. And three, there's a lot of open source data about how the characters were created, what the rigging system looked like, how many polygons each character had. And it's a great system to base your own style off of, because their rigs obviously worked really well with characters ranging all the way from simple things like Kirby to crazy things like Ridley. So, no matter what your character looks like, the Smash style rig system is very likely to be compatible with it. Now, both Super Smash Bros. and Guilty Gear XRD use bone correction systems. They have the normal skeleton that you'd expect to see on every rig, and on top of that, they have little bones that make micro adjustments automatically in order to save the animator time. So what does that mean? Well, it means that in order to get smooth bends, your rig is gonna have a few correction bones that you can use to make adjustments when things get fuggly. But we are gonna make those adjustments automatic. We are gonna use constraints and drivers in order to program the correction bones to move on their own. So you don't actually have to spend any of your time making corrections. The bones will automatically correct themselves when the main bone starts to move. So, at the end of building your rig, as the animator, the only bones that you're actually gonna use are gonna look like this. That's right. This is it. This is all you need to control the entire body. Everything else happens automatically. Also, at the end of the series, I will be giving this rig away to you guys totally free. You can use it, study it, or edit it for whatever the hell you want. And real quick, I just wanted to say thank you to those of you who are supporting me on Patreon. It really does make a huge difference for me. And to be completely honest, if it wasn't for their support, I would have stopped making videos a long time ago. So please take a second to appreciate the beautiful names you see here on the screen. They are the backbone of the channel and I could not have done this without them. If you enjoyed this content and you'd like to support or improve it, definitely consider joining the squad. Would love to have you on board. In the last poll we had on Patreon, you guys voted on what animations you wanted us to get into. And as a result of popular demand, looks like we're gonna be going into facial rigging, slice of life, and action animations before the series is over. So, I hope you guys look forward to that because I'm definitely excited to show you guys what's coming up. But before I let you go, I wanted to end this video on a high note to help you relax for what you're about to experience. How many of you have seen this animation before? Probably most of you. But have you ever noticed Falco's toe? Look real close. You can see the tip of the toe was not weight painted completely. Now I'm gonna ask you a more important question. Does it really matter? Honestly, does it really matter that Snake's leg is totally coming out of his stomach? Did the fact that Pokemon Trainer's leg is completely going through itself ruin anyone's experience with the game?  And nobody should. Because the animations were beautiful, the game was still fun, and that's the point I'm trying to make.  Because even the professionals mess these things up all the time. And that's because the animators understand that there is not enough time in the day to make everything perfect. There never is. The time you spend perfecting your weight painting is time you're not spending perfecting the actual animation.  So you need to remember that at the end of the day, the number one most important thing is that people enjoyed the final product. That's it. So don't get caught up in trying to perfect the weight paints. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just needs to be good enough. So relax, get ready to rig. And as always, hope you have a fantastic day. See you around.


Hi, I'm Denise Dumas, and I'm the VP of Platform Engineering at Red Hat. And we are the team that bring you Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a whole lot of other software that you may or may not ever hear of, but we're underneath every product that Red Hat has. When you want to deploy an application, you want to make sure that it's going out on a platform that has built-in security. You want to be on a box that's performing well. And ideally, you don't want to have to worry too much about those things yourself. You want to be in a place where there's great runtime support and where the runtime works with you, not against you. You want to have things like strong cryptography available through the system libraries. You want to have reliability underneath you. There are a whole lot of things that you worry about as an application developer, and there's another whole class of things that you don't want to have to worry about, which is why it's great to have a really solid, scalable, secure, and high-performing operating system like Red Hat Enterprise Linux available underneath as your deployment environment. The operating system matters in a whole lot of ways that developers never see. The operations team maybe sees more of it, but for the most part, our role is to try to insulate developers from the problems that go on down below. So for instance, take performance tuning. I have guys who spend their lives examining the performance in all sorts of different use cases and all sorts of complicated and real-life applications. And what we do with the information that they discover is to put together tuning profiles. So if you have an application of a particular type, we can provide a tuning profile for your database, for your real-time application, so that you don't need to understand all those characteristics. We build things like the Intel, MXP, and AXP instruction sets into the compilers and then make sure that other pieces of the operating system take advantage of that. So it's there in the run times for you and the libraries that you're going to use, but you don't have to worry about that unless, of course, you're writing an assembly, but I don't think anybody does that anymore. If I had to pick three things that would make developers love Red Hat Enterprise Linux, performance, security, reliability, Red Hat Enterprise Linux matters a lot to developers because it gives you insulation from the deployment environment. When you build an application for RHEL, you can deploy it on RHEL, the operating system. 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We want to make sure that we've had the opportunity to take something in-house, do some validation, stabilize it. You don't want to be taken right off the trunk. Absolutely, the best way for a new developer to get started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux is to go to developers.redhat.com. There's all sorts of content there to make your life easier. You can get access to the subscription that you need. You can pick up great information and there's a community there, which is always helpful when you're learning how to develop on a platform. You can get answers to your questions.


A list showing which countries have the highest average IQs is going viral right now. Let's talk about it. It's almost like if you train from a very young baby to be a scholar, it makes it easier to get a corporate dollar. Anyway, let's run the clip from Worst Asian Podcast. Ranking the IQs of all the countries around the world. Oh! The first six are all Asian countries. Get the f**k out.   South Korea. Yo. Number five, mainland China. You know you're cheating. Number four, number four. It's Hong Kong. Okay. Hong Kong is one of the financial hubs of the world. So maybe that has a lot to do with it. We're not just doing this to, you know, our own horn. Number three, Singapore. Oh, f**k it. Crazy rich and also crazy smart. Zing, I like that. Number two is Taiwan. Congrats to Taiwan. All the semiconductors and sticky tofu makes you really smart.  What do you think is number one? It has to be like Indians. Number one, Japan. That actually makes a lot of sense. Japanese is number one. Boom! Listen, I had to look into this list. I had to, you know, Google it. I had to look at this chart, that chart. Here it goes. Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Belarus, Finland, Liechtenstein, and Germany rounding out the top 10. So listen, guys, I'm not saying IQ even matters. I'm not saying it's this or it's that. I'm just saying that these are the recorded stats. And East Asia, Andrew, was really high, I guess, to nobody's surprise, right? Right. And, you know, I think lists like this, anytime you see a whole bunch of data, for me, I still question what the scientific method was behind it or I guess what the IQ test that everybody took is. But I guess regardless, it kind of makes sense to people, I guess.  That's the nerd zone. I just drew a circle around the map. Everybody here is a nerd. Yeah, so whether it's IQ, whether you relate it to amount of college admissions or these Asians who are in the Ivy Leagues or type of engineering jobs or STEM jobs or STEM majors in the country, obviously there is some correlation to that. But whether or not it's actually IQ and how much IQ matters in someone's life, I don't personally know. A lot of people say IQ is just the ability of a government to provide a stable infrastructure to give baseline education to everybody and then also train IQ from a young age. Guys, listen, we're not going to get into that debate. We're just going to assume that it matters a little bit for this one, right? Anyway, make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications, check out SmileEyesSauce at SmileEyesSauce.com.  So I guess there was some other ones in there. I had to go by the intellectual capital index ranking. So then we had to go from that and went South Korea, Singapore, China, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, US, Switzerland, Israel, France. So, and then we had to look at one more thing, Andrew, the HCI, the HCI has to do with educational potential. Like how well are you utilizing the human capital that already exists within your borders? It went Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Finland, Macau. And China was all the way down at 45 at 0.65. Singapore was at 0.88. According to the HCI human capital index, it means that Singapore is really close to its max potential. Mm, you mean max potential of its people or the country? How they're utilizing the human capital within their country. Interesting. I'm gonna pop up HCI here, guys. Listen, I am not an expert at all. I am not co-signing any of these polls. But obviously, like you said, it kind of just goes along with what people would think, right? This might match up with who you see in your honors class in American high school or candidate, Canadian high school. Yeah, I mean correlation, causation, which one is it? It's a split between the two. But either way, obviously, all these rankings of human capital and GDP and all that stuff, it probably correlates, so. Yeah, I mean, I think that if you look at a lot of East Asian countries, they really focus a lot on early life education really, really young. Like we said, Andrew, you know, the parents, they want the kids to be able to make the corporate dollar. So they're training their kids from a young baby to be a scholar. Right, and I wanna be clear that all these countries on this initial IQ test list, which first of all, I don't know what test they sent to everybody, but regardless, all these countries generally rank high in all these other metrics. So it just means they have like really standard schooling and they're very strict. Even Finland, to Canada, to South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, obviously, if you ever Google what one of those classrooms look like, it's very strict, very organized, they're going to school for long hours. So that's the correlation. It is not like an average American public school. For sure it's not. No, it's even better than the average public school in America. By the way, if people wanna know where America ranked, Andrew, it ranked all the way at 29. For IQ? Yeah, for IQ. Despite, I want to say, near the top per child, per dollar expenditure. Because there's even lists about how much everybody spends. Interestingly enough, Andrew, everybody else on the list was over $1,000 per student per year in terms of government spending. China was at $181. Well, no wonder, David, that the places where the kids have to go to school and it's super strict, like no wonder they end up having, I guess, high IQs and also high achievement. Right, right, right. IQs at least in terms of raw test-taking ability. Anyway, let's get into the comments section. Somebody said, IQ is important, yes, but it does not determine your success in life, hard work, emotional intelligence, educational education, a common sense, work ethic, and knowledge of yourself does.  And other people were talking about book smarts versus street smarts versus experience versus common sense and just plain old regular self-discipline. Yeah, I would say that IQ, your just raw IQ is mattering less and less. It's not that, obviously, you know, probably a lot of smart people still have a decent IQ, but yes, there's all these other factors. And I think in a more complicated world, which we are becoming more and more complicated, handling all these different things, I do think emotional intelligence does matter probably more than it ever did. I mean, let's just be clear here, Andrew. We are East Asian. East Asians are stereotyped as just being book smart and not street smart, right? Right. That is a, especially Chinese people. That is the stereotype. Maybe to the highest extreme, that's a Chinese stereotype. Is it a stereotype for a reason? You guys tell me, I'll say this, it's like saying height and, like, if you say IQ is the only thing that's important in life, that's like saying height and muscle are the only things important in life. I think that having good height and having good muscles can help for a lot of things, especially athletics and getting women and stuff like that, but it's not everything. But nobody would turn it down.  But like, of course, it doesn't mean everything in life. Somebody said, I wish that this was filtered out by income level, but I do think that, like you said, that all the countries are stabilized at a certain income level to be able to even give the early brain cognition exercises to kids. What I disagree or what I question about the IQ statistics is like, some of those countries, like when did they ever get an IQ test? Like whoever gave the test to them, you know, like in some of these super poor countries, like what data do we have to show from that? I'm sure it correlates with other things. So that's why people believe it to be true, but I guess that's my question. Right, right, right. What is the test? It's like access to food typically scales with GDP per capita, right? Because you're just gonna, like why do those correlated, right? Somebody said, I have absurdly high test scores in IQ, but honestly, I lack a lot of common skills that are natural for other people to develop. I lack a lot of self-discipline, motivation, clarity, objectives, and ability to develop new good habits, and I have bad social skills. I think that this is a pretty common stereotype of people who are like 130 and above, right? Like who just have like a lot of IQ. Somebody said, if you look at inventions by country, Asians are very few. They are smart, but they are very not original thinking because their learning is all rote learning, not innovative learning. This is also a common stereotype, right? Yeah, I mean, like I said, I think that they could focus more on creativity and innovation. Japan might be a little bit outside of that, but like, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, I think that that's the stereotype. I think that the West did invent a lot of stuff, no doubt, but I think that Asians, pretty much like are able to run everything and like maybe what, make things better too. Like, you know what I mean? Like we didn't go through the Reformation. I don't know.  Somebody said, shout out to Japan. Andrew, Japan was number one. And Andrew, guess what else came out of Japan? Kuman, Sudoku, they still are using the Japanese abacus, the Soroban, which is the version of the Chinese abacus to this day for training.  Basically someone was saying that the way Japan does brain training, it makes it seem fun to the kids, whereas the kids in China, they get brain training, but they just gotta live at the school and it's really harsh and like unappealing. Right. Yeah, I agree with that. I think that even to achieve quote unquote, this IQ score, like it looked different. I think the Japanese kids had more smiles and laughter on their route there, to be honest. That's what I really think.  Yeah, that's like teaching the test, right? Somebody said, it has to do with methodology and balance. You know what I mean? It just has to do with like, basically someone was saying, there's a limit to how useful IQ is. Once you fill up that bucket, it overflows and your time is better spent filling other buckets like EQ or spirituality or just like fulfillment buckets. Yeah, I agree with that. I think that that's the main thing. Somebody said, how come all the higher IQ countries got really high suicide rates, huh? I mean, yeah, there's a lot of pressure out there. I think it's also correlated that the really quote unquote high IQ countries, Andrew, they have like, they're really a religious. And I think that religion sometimes like prevents you from doing that too. That's what I think. Somebody said, why doesn't India make the top five? And then, you know, another person made the comment saying that in India, there's a really disparate distribution of resources on an educational level. Some families might get a lot. Some families may get very little. And that's just due to the structure or the distribution of funds there or the public funding or infrastructure. Somebody just said, of course, a lot of people talking about Hong Kong. Why was Hong Kong, Andrew, measured separately from China? So obviously Hong Kong, it went back to China in 1997, but they still have their own currency. They still have their own language, even though it's switching to Mandarin more recently now. Of course, Andrew, a lot of debate about how hard schooling is in Japan, Korea, and Chinese speaking countries. Why do you think it is that people like literally live at school? It's almost like, you know how some people treat their senior year to like get into college, like UC Berkeley? It's almost like that from the time you're like in first grade. Yeah, I mean, I don't think having a high IQ or even having strict good schooling from a young age makes you happy.  You know, she is different. Yeah, because all the Asian countries on the happiness scale rank a lot lower. They're all in like the 20s and 30s. At the peak. At the best, they're at the 20s and 30s, Taiwan and Singapore, versus there's a whole bunch of countries ahead of them. Oh, Scandinavian countries were super happy. Yeah, now, I don't know, maybe the Scandinavian countries, maybe they have a good balance, I don't know. Listen guys, everybody knows East Asians, I would say the balance in terms of how much they're going to value just cognition and brainwork versus the other aspects of life. It's not a balance that everybody else would pick or distribute. And that's the truth. Different cultures are different. Somebody just said all Chinese related countries, it's all related back to the creation of the ancient national exam during like the Tang dynasty or the Song dynasty. And then yeah, Indian sphere, Sino sphere things. I'll tell you this. Chinese or Oriental countries, they love tests. They love them. Like you think you like them, they love them to a 10 out of 10 max level. And I'm not saying that that's the best plan or it's the most balanced plan. It's the most holistic. But in my experience, that's kind of how those cultures are. Like at a very broad macro bird's eye level. Ultimately, I'll tell you this. I think the way the world is in 2024, I think the discipline, EQ, mental stability and common sense all matter together for sure way more than IQ. And you could argue individually just as if not more important than IQ. Yeah, I think that these lists are interesting but I also think you need to look into all these other things and draw your own conclusions because I think if you take, there's a lot of statistics out there on the internet. So do your own research but ultimately that's why we made this video so that we could have a conversation. So you guys can let us know in the comments down below what you guys think about this. Does it matter? Does IQ matter? How do you even test for it? Is maybe the testing for IQ outdated now, right? Because a lot of those tests are made decades ago but who knows? Anyways guys, let us know if you found this interesting. Please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hot pop boys. And until next time, we out. Peace.


The military is unlike, I think, any of the civilian jobs I've had. You learn a type of camaraderie. We still have Navy friends that we've known for over 40 years. And in the civilian community, you may know people on a daily basis that have lunch with them, and then you move on to your other civilian employment. As soon as you find somebody that's been in the military, you know they understand that and you have an immediate connection. Both my husband and I are on Medicare now, so we're of a certain vintage, and we do a lot of volunteer work. And I don't think I would have been doing that volunteer work except that I feel such a strong community to our military. And we're both very patriotic. And so just having that camaraderie of other military people, I feel I owe my country a lot. I feel I owe the military a lot because, you know, I got through my undergraduate degree because my parents were helping, but without the GI Bill. You know, again, I'm old school and the GI Bill back then paid for our tuition, our books, everything. And I wouldn't have gotten an MBA, I'm sure. And so I wouldn't be the person I am today had I not done 27 years in the military, in the Navy. Thank you.