The following is a presentation of TFNN The TFNN Bull Bear trading hour every trading day live at 10 a.m. Eastern Call now toll free at<PHONE_NUMBER> or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The TFNN Bull Bear trading hour Now Tom and Tommy O'Brien Welcome folks appreciate you grow and a problem with us out here We have the down investors down 385 Nasdaq's up 100 S&P's off 36 gold contract up $15 and 40 cents trading 14 84 notes It's silver up 26 cents 17 dollars 23 cents an ounce light sweet crude down 40 cents $55 57 cents a barrel notes and bonds you talk about a bid and talk about volume man 10 year up 26 ticks at 129 23 the 30 year up two full points 159 14 and King dollar King dollar down 116 ticks trade 97 739 Euro at 110 the yen is at 108 point six five and the pound is at 129 to one the US dollar and Two days S&P's you're talking big numbers here, man Boy, you know last December is is looming large as we're we're we're now 30 minutes in the second trading day of December Yeah, and I was just mentioning you from the futures from the high we had early yesterday morning in the S&P 3158 about we made it down to 3069 that's 90 90 S&P points and it's 10 a.m. On the second trading day of December And you know it's so cool folks. I said as I said to you yesterday Right, you know yesterday. I was talking to tell me about the the trade last week on the gold market Yes, which is 1.75 million for a 4,000 a strike price in 18 months and guess what by the end of the day I was talking a lot. I can't wait to get our man Mr. Kevin Hanks on because yesterday you had someone committed a hedge bet yes And guess what they are Timing is everything is everything man Mr. Kevin Hanks a TD Ameritrade think a swim as we do every Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and folks you want to understand option Option strategies outstanding program and you they can tell just from last week to this week Who ever put that trade on it was a hedge evidently, you know, but bottom line like four billion plus You want to stand the option market? You know in this market Kevin Hanks. What's going on? Good morning, Tom. Good morning, Tommy, you know these are I want, you know I'm not gonna tell you why I was up, but I was up this morning at about 4 o'clock a.m. Chicago time when I love it Trump made these statements on the air. Yeah, and What I said when I came on TD Ameritrade network this morning was I Didn't hear what the mainstream media is saying he said I didn't hear it Yeah, I heard him going through a bunch of scenarios. He picked out about four Yeah, and one of them was waiting till after the election Yeah, so I believe me. I believe this market was overextended on the upside and looking for any reason to sell off but if you're selling this market off because of What you perceive Trump's comments were to be about China trade. I think you're making an error Yeah, but where we run so quickly a now You know two and a half three percent sell-off is perfectly natural And and not something that people should panic about for sure. No, it's a tradeable event. There's no doubt We can hear it in your voice last week. I mean, you know that that's that's the reality You know it's so cool and what you hear about Kevin and this is really important folks We're in this business for a while. There's certain times that I'm not saying you don't want to get any sleep But it's really close to that Kevin, right? Do you know what I mean? No, it is right that because you realize that hey, this is it man Okay, and you know you only have shot Spans of time where you can get some good volatility and whether you're a bull or go when you get good volatility There's a lot of different trades that you can set up, you know Yeah, and if you're trading, you know day one was a good hard sell-off Well, we're in the middle of day two here and a day to sometime during day three You know if you're bullish you start to nibble on this market for sure Yes, because this is a good healthy correction here that is perfectly part of a healthy economy Yeah, well, you know and what's gonna be so intriguing here, man I just said to Tommy, you know, we're walking in here I says, you know what picture, you know, if you're running money meaning if you have a responsibility for someone's money folks That market is up so dramatically. It's like there's gonna be a lot of movement out here today Because I think when you take the the side of you know, am I gonna take the 15 put 20% that some of these money managers may be up Or I'm gonna risk it.  Yeah, it is, you know It's a big number. There's no doubt about that. Yeah, and you run the case of showing strong hands versus we can't Right. The bottom line is do you believe in this economy going forward with you know a 10-year that is sitting here Where is it now this morning? Probably probably below one eight. Yeah, I think it's like one point seven four That was a quick acceleration Yeah, and that that is something that you got to look at and say do you believe in buying stocks and a healthy US economy with a 10-year of one seven four That's what everyone has to make a decision. Definitely. Yeah, and you know, the bottom line is that there's already a lot of cash out here And it doesn't look to me that you know these notes and bonds they just continue to want higher price So whatever this whole low interest rate structure is it's not over It's it's not over by any means now It's gonna get interesting here Kevin in the commodities market is this dollar dollar yesterday It's the first time that we had some price spread, you know, we'll see what you know It's not a lot of price spread today. It's only buck 43 on the way down But that could get interesting in the commodity market in general, of course, I mean You know, there's micro and macro when it comes to looking at commodities in the US dollar and obviously the US dollar is a big macro effect commodities all over the board so Depending on when I think we're at a micro trade right now But the dollar, you know, there's so many things out there looming on the horizon that can affect the US dollar You know and and You know Trump talking right now to NATO. He's on the air right now or just before I came on with McCron from France You know all of that can move currencies, you know, this is a week with everything going on with NATO and Non-farm payrolls on Thursday. This could be a week where bonds commodities dollar Interest rates they all move bigger than stocks do Yes, you know, because bonds will always move on payrolls day stocks sometimes but not every single time I go to a great week to trade the market to a friend who's a bond trader this one I said the tenure just moved a tenth of a percent in like a few hours. Is that a lot? There was a time Tommy when you used to go to the bond market to escape volatility Now it's as followable as anything With Kevin saying you're talking about the bond market of the 30 year we used to trade off it on the 90s And if the 30 a move like four or five ticks man, that was like a monster, man You'd wait for it to move a tick right Kevin. It was Percentage of a percentage if you're moving big numbers on a 16 percent number We're moving big numbers on a 1.84 percent down to 1.74 in you know, three snaps your fingers No time. Yeah, right. And then of course Kevin, you know, this is one of the biggest movements We had since I guess last July volatility those options players 11 4 4 to 17 and a half and a few days, right? Yeah, it doesn't take much 1% move to get that thing right back to 16 You know 16 on the Vixx and now above it Sell a little 1% for two days in a row one, you know down and this thing's gonna screech towards towards 16 And then slide a little higher like so not really surprising folks right here 45 minutes from now You want to understand option options strategies futures great time to trade folks check it out Kevin You have a great one safe one. We look for the program in 45 minutes. 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Yeah, I think you hit the percentage number versus the No, yeah, no, like either way So Apple is putting 39 negative points Goldman 38 bowling 30 Home Depot 24 nothing really heavy, right? I mean, this is all screwed up because I don't know when the last time we saw all 30 Dow stocks in the red Yeah No, I'm with you. All right, but yeah Caterpillar down big money Now the reason why Caterpillar and again, this is where you know percentage wise huge move on Caterpillar on a hundred only $139 stock. Yeah, but price wise only down the jump around 346 Right, you know if that was a $300 stock that would be down six seven eight dollars You'd be putting more into it, but everything everything and so yeah, you got Ross coming out saying us No, no, where is it Ross says us can live without the port of Hong Kong. Well, of course they can do That's that's the warships versus they the warships haven't been there for a while anyway Tafts guess what folks, okay, we're gonna have tafts everywhere That's my take on this thing if they put if they come up with these so December 15th is the next time that they raise the tafts Okay That's in China You know, but by the time that Trump comes back from Europe I suspect that France is gonna be taking conniptions Because they're wine and cheese and the risk that now that won't come on until Sometime in 2020 because that's be a public No, I Don't know what we'd you call it, but that's because course That's a public response first before it goes into effect, okay bottom line is that you can expect more Taxes that's what they are. That's right. I was just jumping around some of the stocks. So there's caterpillar down about 2.8% I saw Apple getting hit as well this morning 2.8% almost on the number, right the chip stocks, of course Intel 2.7% we're gonna AMD 2.7% right on the dot and look at the pop that They got as well off the low but still down about 2.7% on that that trade worry. Let's see where some of The oil stocks is oil trade a lower. Yeah, Exxon down about 12.23 TV X right Chevron. Yeah, only eight tenths Big numbers no definitely and if we go pull up all here AKS so check this out folks This is getting taken over. But what do you see the the premium is nothing? So AKS is getting bought as that nine cents, right? Okay, this is getting bought by let's see who is he getting bought by Cleveland Cliffs For 1.1 billion in stock This is how this is what happens here is that the debt structures inside some of these steel companies are so dramatic that It's almost like You'd like to get bought out You know what I mean? So you don't have the debt anymore and it looks like they have some work to do in terms of whether That's gonna be a done deal because that is a 16% premium But the market only pops four cents and you're not even trading at three dollars and the bio price is three thirty six Yeah, so the market saying There's some work to do for that there is so let's let me this CLF because watch this we put CLF This this stock's not in good shape either Put this baby up here Yeah, yep, the the shareholders of Cleveland Cliffs not excited to be buying a case deal $2,821 $2,111 2018 $12 and 80 cents 725 People go back to AKS and put it in a little bit of a longer-term chart. I just want to see how that's rated Yeah, so even since October it's from two bucks up to three bucks. Oh, yeah, this is a tradable stock Yeah, those are 73 dollars in 2008. Yeah, the world changed a lot from 2008 to 2009 $11 in 2016. That's a fair comparison from you know, when we go in there Because yeah, I guess, you know, let's see. I just want to see three thirty six was the price I was trying to see when the last time it even traded at that And you have to go back to the end of 2018. Yeah. Yeah, and we went to the gold contract GC I think we're in G. Yeah You'll see it. That's it's caught the bid they get Your idea for gold quite a day for everything right now You're up 1580 you got 279,000 contracts now that you know that gets you inside one zone the range Rather high range that the big hot that the high range is 1499 Okay, you know, we popped inside here though, which is nice, which is like 1477. Okay Good volume. No doubt about that before we jump away Do you mind if I just see where we are because this is It's gonna pop it up. Yeah, I just think I just want to see where if we draw like these types of lines See if we because we're close man. It's quite a little downtrend, right? Yeah, so it's still got some ways to go another day like today to break that Interesting enough man that goes right to about 1499 1500 that'd be the up Like the yes the channel line time because it's a it's it's a pretty You know symmetrical you take a linear regression line Which is kind of like the highs and the lows you match them up parallel lines. That's a pretty pretty Clear channel. You know, it really is so that'll be interesting if it makes it up to the top end of that channel hasn't been a big pullback from Let me see if I can this will change it, but That's all right. We saw the channel. Yeah, it's not bad That is a very small pullback from the aspect of they are yeah, yeah from The move higher. Yeah, just over point three a two. Yeah, it's very bullish. Yes, you know, so yeah Could be very bullish, right? Silver's on the move. Yeah Anytime stocks down 40% anything you call it very bullish just like could be very bullish That could be no. Yeah. Well, I'm Fibonacci at point three a two as a small retracement of five Oh is a normal retracement of six one eight is bearish That's kind of some down 40% to call it bullish though. That's where I I'm with you. I got it the Look at the apple. Okay, so I guess, you know, this is well actually it's going the NDX This is it always that I've mentioned this a couple weeks ago It's blows my mind the the NDX just how fast they can go down. Oh, I mean look at this Yeah, you know, so I think it's 250 points. We're up about 84 50 right? Yep 84 45 I was looking at this morning 250 points About 3% though right in line with the S&P this time. It really is because you had the S&P at 31 58 We made down to 3069 yeah, but 250 and DX and DX points gone And let's see so you got United's down 2.8% wins off 2.7 Macau's got some problems cadence designed down to Yeah, let's go look at when okay, so when And I guess you you got a factor in right if there's huge problems with China. Oh, yeah, Macau Yeah, I mean we've pulled up some of those charts in terms of the Macau revenue versus the Vegas revenue peanuts in Vegas compared to what these companies pull in That Macau game I know Amazing those big whales over there Yeah, stand right there folks Tommy and I are coming right back our phone numbers eight seven seven nine two seven six six for eight dollars down 412 now stick off 97 S&P's off 30 60 golds up 1670 30 year up two points plus nine ticks. 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Yes everyone's and so What is going to happen here folks is that If in fact these taffs go into effect It's actually gonna this part of it is going to hit the consumers more than anything. Okay Um, and what I'm wondering is that will consumers really pick up on that and say, okay, I better buy The apple now versus you know what I mean three months from now Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, because that's you know, December 15th bottom line hits the taff But what that means folks is that that means stuff coming in After December 15th and everything that we're going to be buying that at christmas is already going to be in You know, but that's going to get intriguing You know, I have to uh, how much uh, people actually educated uh as to you know It's going to hit the consumer right in that parking lot like fast and furious and I will this take me some time But I have found that chart. We'll get it up in the next break man that mcow versus Vegas revenue because it's mind-blowing when we check out that chart. No doubt and so let's go over to the dollar So yesterday what you had folks is that you did have price movement on the dollar today's not not that big It's down 100 ticks. Not in light of what else is going on, right? Yeah, no, no, exactly. So we're at 97 750 I think it's 97 701 I'm looking at yeah 107 97 107 Is the bottom of this consolidation? So I suspect we'll make our way down there The real question is going to be how you know what I mean if you just come down slowly It's no big deal if you come down with force. It's a different ball game The euro that's what moved the dollar down so dramatically yesterday the euro had some nice movement I look at that movement. It's hanging up there as well Interesting. We're coming right into december 15th. We're not going to have to wait long No, we're not because that's a critical date. We'll find out real quick whether uh, you know, like oh look at this The ponds moving. Okay. Yeah, I believe you might have trump and boris meeting today. Yes Boris was trying to play that down And uh trump trying to put it out there. Yeah Yeah, there's going to be if there's there's definitely a few wild cards over there. There's there's no doubt about it Uh, and then the end. Yeah, the end is helping the gold market tremendously. Okay We just went from that 109 73 to 108 64 And that looks like uh lower prices are going to continue coming at us the bond. This is just phenomenal us Let's see. We on h now. I think we are I believe you're correct us h. Oh, there we go Yeah, so we're in march bonds This move here, man. You don't you don't see two full points in the 30 Too often. No, you don't that's look at the size of that move Yeah, like I said, I joked with my friend this morning saying even on the 10 year just move tenth of a percent, man I mean, that's that's what interest rates are based off of you know You're going to get a 3.9 percent interest rate yesterday. Well, you might get a 3.8 today That just doesn't usually happen. No, no, it certainly doesn't the uh And you know if you go overseas we go, you'll you'll see yesterday that you know the dax that came down Well, we came down hard too, but the dax had a big movement. Oh, that's a big one, isn't it? The dax went from 13,338 to 12,954. Yeah, so it's 380 points in index that's at 13,000. That's like 3 percent. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and look at that Well, the footsie two days in a row. This is Yeah, this is some serious damage and everything's kind of been getting hit. Yeah so This will get intriguing and all the indices folks ETFs all they all had an expansion of volume so that the real kicker is you know We get another expansion of volume today and it's going to say, okay, now you get follow-through on the way down Then of course, uh, people have a lot of choices to make here How about some of the retail stocks if we could because of course, uh cyber monow a target And now it's going to be a dichotomy of things hitting it. Of course, you had huge numbers for the retail Look at that. It's not down. Look at that remarkable. It's not down. Yep. Now that's impressive That is very impressive on a day where stocks are just getting crushed Yeah, I believe I heard the number for cyber monday was nine plus billion dollars. Um, not online Just staggering numbers. So what we're looking at folks, you know, targets up 44 cents at 124 dollars and 42 cents I mean, I mean this stock was just trading back two earnings ago at 85 dollars And if you just back it up to where we were on november 19th 109 yeah, we're trading at 124. Let's see what amazon's doing now amazon has a high volume low So I suspect we're going to be going after it. Uh, they're down 25 bucks. Yeah Uh, it's kind of hanging around in this range from about 1700 to 1850. Um, how about walmart? Well, you're not a monster Yeah, walmart a lot more exposure. I think then then Target might have um, so down a bit but still not too dramatic in light of what's going on Yeah, and then bby is that best buy that's best buy. Let's see how they're doing They've been a had a great earnings last uh, was that last week? I think That's a pretty dramatic downfall down more than 2% Yeah, yeah, I mean Still up a look at I mean that day remember it started up like six seven percent finish the day of like 12 13 14 percent Went from 77 to 83. Yeah, and uh, we're right back to 77 But still the day before that you traded from 72 to 74 Bell brands I gotta pull it up. Yeah, I think it's lb. There is lb. Okay, so let's see what's happening here I was in some baths and body works. Yeah, I made a pass that victoria secret storing saw the lines man Um, well, I guess what yesterday not kind to them And uh today as well Yes, the real question is going to be is that Okay, so the low there was 1580 1582 I hear this is kind of cool folks You know the real question is going to be is this making a low or not? But I want to show you something see the low swing point here is 1582, right? Okay, and that low September 6th, okay at 24 million shares when I see these bars here We have we get a bar on the 22nd What's 78 million shares, right? But you see the low is 1580 That was 1582 It just got there. But yet, you know, is it pushing the low with all I am odd Is it stop pushing the high and you don't know yet? But that's something to keep your eye on because what does happen is that okay? Is that someone that's saying, okay a big fund man? I'm gonna start accumulating this particular price Okay, and if that's the case what will end up happening Is that you'll see an additional sign of strength whether it's a month two months, you know coming into the marketplace I just wanted to see that, you know most that are to put it on a daily right because as a weekly Yes, that volume took place on that huge bar where and I think it was earnings Um, yeah, it probably was, you know, which which is cool. Yeah, yeah, you know because That would be you know, you bang back into that with light volume And then what I don't like to see I like to see a second sign of strength to say, okay It really does want to go how about Coles as well kss kss I visited Coles on black friday. It's a glutton for punishment. Yeah sitting in some of the lines, but uh I I said to you right we came back in here on Yesterday, and then we were just chatting even one of the breaks and I said it was remarkable that within Coles They had to have an employee that stood with a sign At the end of the line because it was so big and it's remarkable that they've been struggling a lot Okay, that that in this retail environment you can be a company that is struggling And you have so many people in your store that you have to pay an employee To stand with a sign at the end of the line where people are lining up to give you money That's a tough environment when that's what you have going on and Investors are saying that you're in big trouble and they're gonna be around they that's you know, but it's tough Guess what that's very affordable stuff. Where's their margins? Where's their profits? That's the other side of that stay with your folks. 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Uh, that was our 404 analysis now 94 s&p's are off 33 And uh, we have this chart. This is a pretty cool chart folks Seeing the amount of revenue that is in macau versus las vegas man. Oh man, right? So we pulled this chart We were talking about it, uh In september so this chart i believe going even just through july so this changes But you can see that peak that it made 2013 2014 And then you had china kind of in the top one's macau, right? Yeah, yes The white one is macau revenue. Yeah, the blue line is navada and they call it Row games of fortune gross revenue games of fortune, right? And uh, And this is how much the the casinos are making gross revenue. It's 10 times Yeah, it's 10 times right now and it made it almost up to 20 times and the real thing there is that there's no growth At all and that's where you see, you know that that's why vegas now nobody gets free rooms for anything Because vegas has turned into a tourist destination and entertainment for families for shows for parks for restaurants It's just remarkable though to see this the size of the difference because even Being somebody that's been to gave vegas many times I would not have believed that macau could be that much of a staggering difference But man, they love to gamble macau and the whales really love to gamble and that's where you can make or break Your whole quarter when you have a whale coming in there that might drop 50 100 million because look at what this number now this is in millions. So you're talking about 328 million for navada You're talking about three billion from macau One whale in macau could be a make or break the whole You know the whole time for for navada where you have you know billionaires over there that might lose 50 million dollars Make 50 they might get a hot shoe man and make a hundred million bucks Uh, just remarkable to see that chart. I pulled that down off bloomberg when I saw it and we'll keep it We'll keep it in our arsenal to break that open every time winds got some problems My god, seriously, let's go look at lvs too because they get a big presence in macau also. Yeah You get las vegas sands. That's at 61 69 That's that's not a bad-looking chart. You know it's going sideways. No, so they're still they're still doing all right Can we look at mgm because that's not quite the same deal, but of course they got a casino going up in the northeast now and yeah um Doing well, but man everything I I read about is that they're making a lot of money But they're not making nearly as much as they said they were going to make okay when they applied for the Um license and all this stuff and when they took out the loans That they needed to get it done to build You know, that's right because now what they're doing is they'll lease backs and all that. Yeah, right, right? So They're looking to take in 12.9 billion 13.2 next year. Um Yeah I wonder how this so the strip 5.7. Yeah regional. I wonder what where that plays into things if that would be something That's going to be probably one of Massachusetts. Yeah, they they have different probably and maybe they have some in Different areas of the country, right? Uh 2.9 china 2.4 and then management and other about 661 And then wi and and we got to look at this one so you got win They break down Look at yeah all macao This is pretty impressive folks. So they're growing by 27 over a three-year period of macao too. Yeah Look at the difference. So 5.1 billion macao revenue 1.7. Love vagus. Yeah, and they got a few places in vagus It's not like they have one place, right? Yeah. Yeah Now what did happen? We saw the peak in that chart was about 2013 2014 You had a slowdown really big to about 2016. Yeah, so then they've had that grow from 2016 to 2019 again But I bet that that they had quite a pullback from 2014 to 2016 when china started putting, you know, um prohibitions on outflows and all that type of stuff that Um, the big whales over there had to curtail Their disposable income at their hands.  Yeah, let's go take a look at the xAU the hui both of these You know, we had some good volume in them last week. Um, you know, you get them up right now 142 So this one That's a quick pullback from the highs though, right down more than a buck already today from the high Let's look at that Yeah, no too dramatic. I guess but but it's something's hitting it. Yeah So it's still up folks, but it's down from the high Yeah, uh where the gold bugs index is not as bad. Yeah. Yeah. So the gold bugs index right now. That's up 660 trading 222 and Now this is this is where it's going to be really. Wow because you know The the run let me pull us back more so you can see this so the run that we had and May was pretty extraordinary. I would agree from 147 All the way up to 237 You know now we've been down, you know since august, right? Yeah, and But it's surprising to me how stealth this is meaning that we're you know, we're right next to the highs now You know, which is really like and to put a little difference, right? We put the we put the trend line on gold Yeah, and it hadn't come up to that point. This is good. It broke it But you put it here and even no matter where you try and find it that's a break, right? That's a beautiful thing if you even draw it just from kind of like this trend line where they match up pretty well those three tops Yeah, I mean you slam through it as well. Yeah, you got to break the conviction Yeah, that means we're going to the highs and and it wasn't a clear downtrend channel where the the price of gold The lows correlated as well. Whereas this one. Yes, it's kind of just uh straight line across type um, yeah So that's you know, so you get the equities leading the contract folks, which which, you know Is not a bad thing that that's what this comes down to Um, you know, we've been looking at royal and frank on avada and both of these need some help man You know same thing today for tonight since I'm all over. Let's see where because they're all like really close to this upper trend line of what might be Whoops, what do we just do? That's really interesting. Yeah, that's really close. That's a break That's a break that hasn't held yet. Yeah, right there. Let's look at frank and avada. This is good news Frank on avada. We're at a critical level. That's for sure, right? Oh, the much different story there This is right next to its highs. I mean, that's almost a vice versa. Yeah, that you're bumping up to a high level Top definitely much different and that's that this is the leader frank on avada is the leader man Uh, so this this will get interesting watching now. This is going to shake out Because boy, oh boy, this one's just a straight rocket ship. Yeah, there you go. That's all you got to see on that one This is crazy. Every time I look at these, you know 26 employees Oh, well, this is an all-time high today for the year for the year So 26 employees 18.8 billion dollar company And 850 million. Can we go back some of the casino companies go to wind? Okay Because I noticed so they read about and the wind might have been the 12.2 12.4. Yeah and 26,000. So that's awesome because it was 26 26,000 employees. So they got a wow for every one employee over at uh, what we're just looking at frank on about Yeah, you got a thousand over at wind and uh winds were a 12,000 12,000 12,000 million is what it is 12 billion dollars and uh Frequent about an 18 billion dollar company. That is wild, huh 26 people.   Yeah, right. No, that's that's why they can do it with 26 people Right. Unreal. Stay right there folks. Tommy and I are coming right back We have the dial down 452 more pressure in the dial. Oh boy. Nazik down 111. S&Ps are off 38. 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We're 81 94 now And uh Stock's moving yet apple up there just kind of posting the pre-market action what you can have on your radar caterpillar intel you had down dramatically amd Walmart just huge moves man target even I mean we saw it had quite a rebound Look like target was going to open lower not so much even microsoft down as well And uh, the story we haven't touched on to be interesting elon He's going to court today for his pedo guy rant on twitter and he is the pedo guy that had to do with the tie Soccer team when he went after this cave diver for no reason and then doubled down continually Like elon likes to do when he's being a little bit of a maniac So he is in court today as a witness and then you have the 9 a.m. Update up there check it out that I did Um easy access along with the link to tiger tv So check that out and that'll be a regular thing on the front page of tf and there we go Stay right there folks. 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What is up everybody, this is 2019 donors optic collectors edition tiered random teams number two. Thanks everybody for getting in The first ten spots are entered to win early bird spots early bird spot These people right here, so let's go ahead and roll the dice and we're gonna go six times Six times name on top wins Good luck One two Three maybe a met wrong New York team maybe Five and six Ryan are there you go You got the early bird spot there and now let's do the randomizer six times for a list of customer names and the combo teams six times one two three four Five and six Yeah, Jordan stuff has gone way up. I mean pretty much any even like Ken Griffey has gone up You know, there's so many people coming back into the hobby You know since the late 80s early 90s late 90s So I feel like those cards will you know? Keep going up. I'd imagine Six times on the teams, you know until people Stop caring about those players five and six Patriots down to the Eagles and Ravens So here you go here is the list of teams Matthew Patriots Texans Nick Jaguars Bengals Nick L Raiders, sorry Redskins Bucks Sean Broncos Dolphins Peter Steelers Lions Nick L Cardinals Falcons Ryan Cowboys and Panthers Austin Bills Packers Seahawks and Saints Ryan Chiefs Ryan Redmond Chiefs and Rams Sean Vikings and Bears Kale 49ers and Jets Austin Raiders and Colts Ryan Redmond Giants and Browns Nick L Titans and Chargers and Austin Eagles and Ravens Remember if you are gonna trade you have to trade your whole block of teams So we will be right back see if there's any trades All right, no trades. Good luck. Thanks everybody last break here tonight Jason be back Sunday 2 o'clock Pacific 5 Eastern have the store reloaded with some breaks Trying to get as many breaks up I might fall asleep so Check the website in the morning and if there's not a ton post and maybe check around like Time Jason goes live Yeah, a lot of people do that drew like I know Adam Ray Rice and our chat I think he joins a lot of like our memorabilia breaks.  I like the memorabilia too You know, it's a lot sometimes it depends on your situation, but It could be a lot easier to display for a lot of people too Remember no veteran base ships all rookies entered hollows of course Hit ship Nick Chubb Relic for the Browns Brown's the first hit of the break Bryce Love bronze Travis Homer hollow Hunter Renfrow number to 79 orange scope nice one there for Austin and the Raiders and then we got a Jared stittum looking like the starter in New England unless they sign somebody late here Matthew S with that one. I guess Brian Hoarder. Maybe could be Competing with him Rashawn Gary nice one there for the Packers bronze auto who got the Packers Austin did Sony Michelle Gary Jennings Jr. Hollow and Taylor Rapp a man the soundtrack on the Jordan Documentary has been awesome. I I've been following the Playlist on Spotify ton the 90s hip-hop in there obviously serious the Bulls theme song Yeah, I'd like to try star breaks. We actually have a try star Remember really a product coming out in May. I think I forget what it's called try star quest. Maybe something like that I was funny when when a horse Grant was on there talking about the pistons Especially if you're watching the explicit of language edition And it was funny Jordan Talking about Isaiah Thomas to he obviously still hates him although what Jordan did to Isaiah Thomas where he kind of left him off the dream team there sort of Kind of I guess it's petty If you think about it Isaiah Thomas might be one of the more underrated players in the NBA because all Documentary they've been talking about how the NBA went from Larry Bird to To magic and then to Jordan, but in between there magic and Jordan the pistons won two Championships and Isaiah Thomas was clearly the best player on that team So and they went through Michael Jordan. It's not like they didn't go through anybody. All right, there's a Jones But the NBA does not like Talking about the pistons clearly And there's Kyler Murray base There's Jared Stidham bronze nice Matthews with the Patriots Quinn and Williams hollow There's Melvin Gordon for the Chargers number 79 Cam Newton insert of course will ship and There is the autograph right quell armstead for the Jaguars bronze auto for Nick Stanley AJ Green There's AJ Brown hollow nice one there for the Titans Clellan Farrell bronze and as the Joe Jaspi concert series gonna introduce Nick at night Can you write me a theme song? Because once the Bulls duck is over I think I'll change up the intro Gotta get a ghost rider for it. And if you're looking for more optic football We have an optic football four-box hobby break on the site. I think there's eight left That'll probably break with Jason on Sunday I Would imagine that sells out and that's our last a few boxes of optic football For a little while probably Andy Dalton hollow just out of Cowboys. There's Jared Stidham hollow. That's a nice one probably 50 60 bucks out of that Matthews with the Patriots Marquise Blair There is Michael Gallup relic for the Cowboys frying land hour Benny snail bronze Farrell hollow Alshon Jeffrey to 79 for the Eagles Orange scope and Jordan Scarlett auto for the Panthers. That's Ryan Landauer as well Debo rookie to nah saying it should in between the nine and Nine o'clock in whatever time I come on It should be you should have an intro song for me or a sign-off song for you, I guess either way Because after the Bulls documentary is over. I'm gonna switch intro songs. It's just a temporary Like in like in the special episodes of TV shows where they do a different theme song Like in isn't it in the family guy Star Wars ones? They do a different one something like that at Oliver a Monty Hooker Hollow and we got an orange scope to 79 Corey Davis for the Titans Nice auto coming up. Whoo Daniel Jones bronze auto for the New York Football Giants nice hit Ryan Redmond nice one That's how do we've seen from Optic retail so far Dwayne Haskins Rookie Deontay Johnson hollow for the Steelers in a relic of Rashad Penny Seahawks Austin. Wow did really organ with to July 6th. Wow. I want to feel like I Want to feel like California still May 15th, but I don't know seems highly optimistic But at least from what I know You know all I do is sell baseball cards But a lot of companies have been you know putting a lot of money into you know getting new right equipment and stuff So people can do zoom meetings or you know getting computers or web cameras all the software set up IT so they've been spending a lot of money with setting people up at home that You know, they might they probably won't want to rush it back so people would still be working at home and And yeah, I mean it's it's cheaper than you know having office space and running AC or whatever cost going to that Miles Boykin bronze. There's Donald Savage Jr. Hollow and There's Levy on Bell number 79 For the Jets. So even if they do technically open up California I would imagine that still a lot of people are gonna be staying home There's Jonathan Abram Otto for the Raiders Nice John you gonna listen Griffey. Yeah, I mean I would imagine like I said his stuff has gone way up And there's Kyler base I'd imagine it Although you could have said his peak was a couple months ago and it wouldn't even hire But I'd imagine he's at his peak right now Because you know, he's already been elected in the Hall of Fame, right? Yeah, definitely Carry on Johnson There's Marquis Brown Hollow Garner Minshew bronze. That's a nice one for the Jaguars Nick Stanley And you know, it never hurts to have cash coming in times like this Joe Mixon Donner's threads Bengals and Jared Sidon base But yeah, I mean I'm in a few Facebook groups of like buying selling trading sports cards, and yeah a lot of people have been listing like 80s 90s cards, and I feel like they've always been sold every time I look at it Gotcha. Okay, that makes sense. Then yeah, so like maybe the more City-based areas or places with cases will be later. Yeah, I'd imagine the California would be like that All right, a few more boxes to go halfway through trace McSorley bronze those all get sleeves Garner Minshew hollow, that's a nice one Nice hit Jaguars nice stuff for Nick Stanley Yeah, it could be the same way that organ is handling it right Joe. Yeah, that sounds probably right 61 to 79 Phillip Rivers. I Saw a funny post where it's like all the essential workers who have been doing No traffic on the streets They said oh, there's new rules for you guys to learn It's kind of funny Richard Sherman hollow There's earth Smith jr. Hollow Joanne Winfrey There's number to 50 Rashad penny two color relic in there for the Seahawks Austin and McCall-Hartman could we be having a What is this redemption? See I call them orange scopes John, but I don't know what they're called. I don't think nebula I think scope, but maybe I'm wrong. I might be calling it the wrong thing the whole time But they're kind of cool looking and you get one per box all right rated rookie autographs bronze card 169 and Nikhil Harry the Patriots The pack's going out to Matthew S. But yeah When it comes to sports, we'll see I don't know I think having fans in the stadium this year is out of the question totally But when it comes to no fans, I don't know. Let's see the seer Adderley auto for the Chargers That's going out to LA bolts Nicholas L Seyquan Hampton Amani Hooker Get that out of here There's a Michael Gallup again Like we've had a couple of his for the Cowboys Fainting a little bit here TJ Hawkinson bronze Damian Harris hollow Patriots And we got an orange scope ODB Odell Beckham jr. 71 of 79 in the gardener Aguars really killed it the only concert Since I've lived here. I've only been to one. It was at the forum I've never been in the blue whale. I don't know maybe though has been to a lot of concerts at three boxes to go Tyree Jackson auto Buffalo Bills and we got a Jared Stidham Base rookie. Yeah, that's true Working at night for a concert. It's not great. Although Sundays. There's a lot of Sunday concerts Byron Murphy at the Bowl, maybe the Hollywood Bowl. I've never been there. I'd love to go one day One Thornhill. I feel like that's something as a LA livery have to do Mitchell Trubisky But yeah, I get what you're saying Especially working on Saturday to Debo Samuel bronze Hakeem Butler hollow Yeah, we got to go to the Bowl, right? AJ Green to 79 and a Kyla Murray base Another one AJ Green number to 79 is for the Bengals Drew Lock insert and two boxes to go. Oh, yeah, definitely. Maybe even next year's Bowl schedule, too. I mean, I don't know. I might not go anywhere until there's a vaccine, which might be a while I did see like there's artists doing Like online concerts. That's kind of cool. I saw like post Malone did Hold near Vana set, which is kind of cool. Nirvana with Travis Barker raising money for COVID research was pretty cool. Oh At the New Soccer Stadium, John. I haven't been in that stadium. I kind of want to Kind of want to go to a game Sometime next year Calvin Ridley relic LAFC There's Kyla Murray bronze. Very nice Nice. I have to get more of these collector boxes They take kind of a long time to break but they're really good value all these non-ontographs have a lot of value Nicholas L All right, Aaron. Have a good night I'll talk to you. I'll be in the chat and probably helping Jason Paksack the mixer maybe tomorrow, so I'll see you then 9 of 79 Derek Carr for the Raiders Austin Yeah, the new stadium the new LAFC stadium looks pretty cool They have ever been to a professional soccer game either Lonnie Johnson Jr. Yeah, I mean, I don't know Aaron Rodgers hollow Nikhil Harry hollow and Ben Bangu, I Don't know free back concert versus seeing Joe and Nick and Jaspie's in person Would be a tough decision Yeah, it was the old shop So I don't blame you on that decision. It feels a new shop. I would have said man We open this brand new shop for nothing But the old shop wasn't really even a shop, so No, I'm a John on this one, but yeah next time Definitely, we're even closer to the airport, you know, and we have a card bar Watch sports and stuff Definitely no excuse next time There is the third Michael Gallup. I think third or fourth Donner's Threads Relic You're sure not really buying into this for the relics, but it's kind of crazy the ante Johnson bronze You see your Adderley hollow We got 14 of 79 Brian Burns orange scope Trace McSorley bronze auto For the Ravens someone's got the Ravens Austin Fletcher Cox hollow. We got an Easton stick hollow and Kelvin Harman So you're there you go. Thanks everybody for getting in appreciate it optic 10 box break number two in the books


design systems. I'm Mayank. And I'm Arnab. And we are designers at Cubol. Now, Cubol is a big data in the Cloud Enterprise Company. So we do a lot of work for some of our biggest customers, including Adobe and Swiggy and Ola, that many of you guys would know about. And as designers, like most of you, like we were sweating about delivering the best quality products. Sweating about every pixel, sweating about all the elements that we were designing. And that's when we realized we needed a superhero, someone to come save us from all these problems that we were having. The other thing where we were still small, but we were growing exponentially. We were hiring people. Our team was growing. We were not geo-located. So we had teams in India and teams in US. So there was a lot of collaboration going on. And so the idea of the superhero was essentially someone who can come in and help us collaborate better and innovate faster. And that was a robust design system. So today, we are going to put you in the shoes of a movie director, because designing a design system is almost like shooting a superhero movie. So get ready for that. And let's start directing our design system. All right, so first thing first, when actually someone gets started with design systems, the person would go over internet. The N number of things about it. And you probably get confused or get overwhelmed about what exactly design system is. And that's what you ask. So what is a design system? There would be N number of quotes written about design system, what exactly it is. There would be N number of perception about design system. So one of these quotes are from Moosley. That's a Moosley publication. Design system is essentially our collection of rules, constraints, and principles where they wanted to tell you that, okay, it's basically these pillars or these functions that needs to be there to build up a design system. But no, that's not exactly what it is, right? It can be anything. Like right now, when you are over internet, basically you know you need it. You know you want it and everyone is building it. So it's like, yeah, even we want to do it. We have a problem, but it's not defined. So right now for you, the hero, or the story around the hero is pretty much mysterious. So that's why we call him a mysterious hero right now, right? All of these that are written over there, a design system can be a visual language, pattern library, brand guideline, you know, voice and tone, design language, and style guide. None of these are like wrong. All of these can be a design system. So here's a great example of how, you know, MailChimp has a design system just about voice and tone. I mean, imagine the whole company has its standardization around voice and tone, like how a marketing guy would come and you know, look at these documentation around how to write a document for external facing stuff or internal facing stuff. The product management team, the engineering team, as well as the product design team, right? They all are looking into this design system for to write things or, you know, writing errors or things like that, right? Yeah, so this is one of the famous material design guidelines, right? Where they have actually written about how you need to go through the UI elements and stuff like that, right? How you get an end to end process of building a UI, right? So that's what they're talking about. If you see both of the, you know, examples, they are actually a design system, but the purpose are totally different, right? Basically you need really, really good bad guys, right? So you need to have or you need to know who are the villains out there for you to solve or the design system that needs to solve those problems. So in our case, there were three villains with us. First was inconsistency.  You ship some of the other way and there would be inconsistency in terms of small, small things like curves or, you know, how the button looked like in other page and in a different page altogether. So our developers have their own mode. They might even do something out from what you have actually shipped to them, right? The second one is inefficiencies. I mean, these are the conversations that were happening earlier when we didn't have the, you know, design system altogether, right? Where the designers and the developers were actually building the same thing. We didn't want that.  I mean, the time that is going through and these kind of inefficiencies we wanted to get rid of, right? So the third one was collaboration. I mean, from the first day itself, the vision of our design system was to actually build up a design language where the developer and the designers are speaking the same language. Even the product managers are using these design system to come up with sketches and stuff like that. So also collaboration, why? Because as Maing said, that our offices are in US and India and the design team has been, you know, divided over there. So we needed a robust system where both the areas of designers need not to think about the pixels again and work upon by just plug-in playing, right? So, yeah, now you have the villains. It's time to characterize your hero. Right, so you know who are the bad guys and these bad guys might be different for each one of you, right? So for us, those were the three main ones. And once we knew the bad guys, it was time to define our superhero's power, right? So our superhero here is called Space. That's what our design system is called. And his main power is to turn mundane tasks into a delight for our customers. And once we had those superhero abilities defined, it was time to find the right producers. And producers are no one but people with budget, people with authority and people with need. Now people with budget and authority are folks like your head of products or your head of engineering, your engineering managers who come and dedicate certain resources to come and work with you on the design side and help this design system into a reality. People with need are essentially people like us, designers, as well as some developers who would be writing code on a day-to-day basis. Now, so it turns out it's really easy to convince people with need, like designers and developers, they're already on board. For people with budget and authority, you need to show them actual data. Because otherwise they'll always be like, hey, why are we working on things that that's not customer facing? We'd ship things and we'd probably take longer time to ship things and this is not gonna work. But this is a great example of what happens when once you introduce a design system. As you can see at the bottom here, once the design system comes in, the number of read writes as well as the files that are written and written by each developer, that goes down drastically. That all means that there's a lot of efficiency that comes in the whole process once you have a design system. That also means that as far as faster to go to market once you introduce a design system. Now, the other part of this is actually a big number. So you can actually calculate the amount of money that you would save a year based on some of those efficiency numbers. So in this particular case, a company with six teams who have 11 deliverables a year could save as close to a half a million dollars a year just by creating a design system. And this particular number is something which you can use to justify the whole project itself because your design system would pay for itself. So now you have your producers on board it. If these don't convince your producers, I think it'll take more time for them to understand what design systems are for. And once you're at that phase, now you need to realize the design systems are ever evolving. You'll start growing the design system and that will lead to decline in inconsistencies and faster go to market. So now you have your producers on board and it's time to actually get started. So how do you get started? We'll put on a pilot show.  Not just the designers, but also the people who are part of it. So we went on to, you know, redesigning, like this was also the point where we realized, you know, there would be like a couple of components and actually Cuba will need a major redesign at that point of time. So we thought doing a design system is the right time right now. All right, so we went on to, you know, pick up the major pages of the product and went on to redesigning those things, right? So this is the one, which this is the first image that we got out from. So, you know, these are like very, very, like simple design tokens that you can take out from whatever the redesigns that you have done and put it out there, right? Things like, the biggest thing that you can take out of is that the number of hex codes that you have over there, which is like predefined and that's all you need. That's exactly what you need, right? I've seen our code where there were thousands of hex codes which were like really, really random. I mean, why do you need 10 to 20 hex codes just for a shade of gray? So that's what was happening, right? These are the things that we wanted to tackle with. So on the meantime, I was also, you know, experimenting with a couple of iconography that we can do and the illustration style we can pick up.  You know what, this is how a design system would evolve. The first things first is actually, you know, when you are doing a project and since the design is on a basis of product management or, you know, engineering, it needs to have a metric to solve, right? You need to hit a metric because it's really important to see if this is actually going to successful or not. So what we did is we sat down with the pillars of product development cycle, right? Who are the pillars over there? So for us, it was product management team, the product design team and the engineering team, right? So you need to have the perspective of all of these, like right from engineering point of view, from the product design point of view to the product management point of view and come up with a metrics. So these are like a couple of metrics that we came up with and these are some common metrics that you can go and hit upon. Obviously you can, you know, go and define a lot of other things, but yeah. So let's see over here, right? Time saved per feature. I mean, imagine your buttons and, you know, the fundamental atoms are already built, right? You do need your, and while you were actually shipping it, you've already done your QA. You don't have to go back and see all of these things that whether these are function properly or not. Eventually what happens is you see a delivery increase at that point of time and obviously these fundamentals are already solved. So you see a lot of bugs reduction. The main point of design system is to also have a coherent experience altogether, right? All the pages, all of the things need to look equal, right? So the usability metrics also improve at that point of time and way better experience comes to the user, the end user. Yeah, so it's, this is the point where you actually start directing things, right? Yeah, so you define your, your criteria as you define your metrics on how you'd measure a design system. So now it's time to actually get your hands dirty, start building the components itself. So how do you get started? Well, the first thing you do is create an interface inventory.  And then you make a list of these items, you make sure that you're also capturing your different states. So for example, for a button, it could be the active state, the disabled state, howers, clicks and so on and so forth. And you start thinking about them. Once you have made your inventory list, you need to start adding some characters, right?  Mood voting exercise in our particular case was something that we did to understand what does KubeL stand for and what does the KubeL brand stand for. And so through these mood voting exercises, we picked one of them and derived three main things. Now the three main things were the color palettes. Obviously we did a little bit of it during the pilot phase, but through the mood voting, we actually made some fine changes to that particular palette and started with our primary and secondary colors. The other thing was, so here, so here are the primary and secondary colors. We also defined what our text colors would look like. The next thing was, you know, again fine tune the typography, right? So typography means not just the font family, in our case, which was Helvetica Nu but also font scale, font widths and those kind of things.  So we defined those and then looked into iconography in our particular case. Our website was a desktop, our product is desktop. So we picked an icon style that is suitable to that. If you are doing a mobile side, your icons would differ. So once you have these characters, you start building up your components. One thing to keep in mind is that your components should talk to each other and not only that, but think about atomic design principles, right? So you start up with the smallest of particles which are called atoms. So in this particular case, you can see your text field is one atom and your search icon is another atom. As you start combining these two together, you form things like molecules, right? So now your search icon and your text field has come together and it has formed a molecule which is your search bar. Then you start combining your molecules together to form organisms. Organisms are essentially a construct where relative tasks come together. So this is a sidebar in our particular case and that's an organism. And when you combine organisms together, you form templates. When you are at this point of stage, you've already defined your page, right? So this is giving you a good indication of what your page would look like. There's also a chance over here to fine tune your organisms and atoms a little bit at this point. So these are like some of the atoms that we have in our design system. So as you can see, we have tabs and we have tabs with icons and so on and so forth.  One thing to keep in mind while designing the atoms itself, organism itself, it should be replicatable. So it's available. It's something that's used across pages and not just in one page because otherwise you'll end up with a lot of organisms. Right, so that's now you've created a design library, you've created a movie, now it's time to ship it. All right, so yeah, this is the actual time where you and your users are actually interacting with your design system, right? So it needs to be available on a very top-notch way, right? As in, it has to be really, really redefined. It has to be properly defined in a way that everyone can consume it, right? So in our case, the tools were sketched, zeppelin and documentation, that'd be the documentation that we have. Go ahead. So yeah, you can see, this is our sketch library and the purpose of the sketch library at that point of time and from the initial basis, what we thought is these should be pre-configured components or symbols in sketch. So that on a very literal sense, you're actually not playing with the pixels. So indeed, it was never sweating on pixels again, right? So we went on to define it in a very granular level. We tried that, the only thing that the designer needs to do is just to go and configure those things. That's it. That's that level of automations that we were looking for. And another interesting things that we did was, we used zeppelin as a core governance body in the product development lifecycle where the developers actually come here and this is how exactly the governance body looks like because design system is nothing but a governance body at the core of your product building process, right? So what we did is basically give them a pet name, like give them a pet name in terms of the design tokens that we had, like the color palette and the textiles, right? So yeah, I mean, here's a great example, right? Where the developer came over here for a CSS code over there. So what he did is basically just selected that and there's this, you know, the pet name that we have already given. So the purpose of the design system is to have less conversation on these small things. So things like this, this way is basically what we were trying to solve.  That's the variable which is also defined in the code, right? So we use something called a SAS or a CSS processor to compile all of this and create variables in CSS itself. So yeah, and now finally the documentation. I know this is the part where we actually lack upon and don't wanna do it, but that's the heart of the design system, right? Because you don't want to have a lot of conversation around why do you wanna do this, how exactly this is going to implement and stuff like that. So yeah, for us, write as much as possible because if it's not written, it doesn't exist, right? Things like, imagine a developer is coming and asking you what's the reason of having a notification system with that styling and stuff like that. I mean, you don't wanna have a conversation like that. I mean, this is the point of time where we want to innovate, iterate faster for that. We need a design system and you need to write a reason why you do that. So document as much as possible, where to use it, how to use it and stuff like that. And that's what your design system website is made for and one important thing, right? This is the most important thing is because this is the, okay, what's that? This is the only time when you're doing the design system, you're not going back and doing it again. So accessibility, accessibility can be in any way. I mean, there are a number of examples that you can see over internet, but these are one of these, right? Well, there was this one button. You can see that's the darkest shade and what we did is that the color contrast wasn't working fine. So there are a couple of guidelines like WCAG guidelines and stuff like that where you can at least hit double standards for colors and stuff like that, right? Yeah, so that's how our design website looks like and that's how our repo is maintained by our developers. And yeah, I think that's the hero, right? So thank you. And here's the closing notes by Mike. No, so hopefully we were able to give you enough on a high level and how do you go about building a design system?


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All ready so Let's play this Good stuff. Um, I am reading through your email and you are mentioning a couple poses 72 and 19 19 and then 72 You talk about the face. I think what kind of I Somewhat agree. This is for sure cute. This I'm not a massive fan about this is mouth shape And I'm not sure if that's what you're reacting to but this gives this is a weird shape and I think I think it's okay to go from a Front view to a profile. I think it's this also helps with the silhouettes the sea curve Reversals and all kinds of stuff. I think it's important to have visual contrast. So it's not always front on But when you go up here, she could also puff her cheeks open the mouth There's going to be in a different mouth shape eyes. She might be wide-eyed because it's Potentially a lot of effort. I think once you go in there, it's going to be a lot better And when I say go in there meaning adding the facial work For those moments there, I don't mind. I think it's a good change from front to side Back to front. I think that's not too bad. So I wouldn't be too worried About that because I'm not sure if in your email You're implying that you just want to keep her always in the front I don't think so. You're just asking how you can make her side view shape a bit cuter To me my reaction is this I'm just not a fan of this this mouth shape So I think once you have life in there, it's going to be a lot better Now you also talk about the camera potentially being handheld, I'm not sure I will I will keep this pretty Pretty static with just the tilt and not go to handheld here But speaking of camera, this feels like you are also translating Or maybe the pivot is in a strange position. Hold on Still coughing Yeah, I don't know this feels like the camera is here and then the pivot is here and it's kind of rotating We're getting going up but also closer to the character. I'm not sure what's going on here So I would just make sure that once you're in this position This pivot off of you know, that's your camera very old-school camera You're looking through here and your pivot and you're just pivoting up I mean you can also just pivot in the middle doesn't have to be super mechanically accurate But I will stick to rotations only not have any translates because given the perspective change here I am suspecting a translate change as well. You could have a slight TY translate up in Y on top of a pivot tilt up a little bit If you don't want her to be so from below and and massive and imposing, but maybe that's also the point So for now, I would stick to just the pivot In general the movement I saw sir, you're also talking about IK FK matching stuff like that. That's totally fine and And then you talk about some pops in the arms which I'm seeing as well I am fully on board with what you're saying So my impressions if I just ignore everything you're saying And I'm gonna ignore this. I'm just gonna look at what are you showing in this animation? There are a couple things a Watch out how These guys by guys. I mean her arms her arms just go up. They're very twins Timing is pretty much the same and the posing is the same Then that's cool. I like this and You said you added the pause there you added some frames It's cool, I would just once you're fine-tuning this You can potentially even stabilize the head even bit more and add some more but wiggle just to give more of a Pam alright, I'm gonna just and I'm gonna get up Just because this is also any reaction to this I Just have I watched this and all I'm seeing is a is a human That sounds super weird an adult an adult doing this and maybe Not saying that you have to look at animated movies for reference because they've gone through the Curcature parts, you know the stylization of it But still for inspiration. I would really look at Boss, baby just because it's the most recent with the baby There's some really really interesting movement there Obviously not when he's in full on adult mode, but there's some more baby moments in there I Think Jack Jack would just be too too young for an Incredibles reference But there's just something about Even this as she goes over there I would have her lean a bit more over this way So she goes whoa and then over there just have you a bit more contrast of baby movements with adults talk I know we talked about that before and you have some of you have some ideas about that But I would just kind of keep that in mind of it was this is super successful The locking of legs is definitely something that babies do and a bit of a wiggle there That's all great. That to me is such a great baby moment But then when she gets up here right this This hunching over with hands here and all of that is so adult so if you can make this Not say messier, but maybe the wipes are much more extreme where her arms go all the way out to here So it's much more You know, it's just not as coordinated and clean You know something like that that goes full on just really broad moves of cleaning her knees Even though her knees are technically not dirty That will be better and then when you get up through here Be mindful to not have just the one axis back rotation But you can have a little bit of over than to the side again when you go up here She might be this is too much, but you know in a In a move like this where she's slightly off-balance and then when she gets to this She gets back into a bit more stabilized posture again It doesn't have to be as far back as I just drew it But I would highly recommend to infuse the shot with more elements like this This feels full on like a baby. So moments like this. Whoa rebalance then go down Okay, now up and then whoa, but that is going to be a big deal for a baby This moment and especially this Going up like that to you know sway a little bit and then regain balance So that would be my biggest impression about this so far I think it's going to be very cute with the face shapes I think I wouldn't worry too much about the profile view to me. She's mostly this locked There I say commander in chief face depending on if you get that reference Other than that the foot stuff is cool. That's already working really well I'll be very careful about the camera and the translate is also evident in how this part here We can see how closer we get to the baby. So I think that shows us as well So if if you prefer this this view in terms of how close the baby is to the camera Then I would start here and then tilt down if you like this view then stay here and just tilt up that makes sense Alrighty, so I would say keep going and Like you said locks and matches stuff we can work on that Later because you want to block out the first thing the whole thing first So that we don't have to go into detail and then suddenly you have to make bigger changes So going through email. I agree with all of your steps and your plans. I'm looking at this right now so yeah, let me know what you think and Because I don't want to tell you to add more of the unstable baby stuff if you if you prefer to have it more of an adult thing and now we talk again we talked about that before but I'm just gonna give you always my first impressions and then you can always Overwrite it of course because it is your shot after all Alrighty, thank you All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you