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Hi, I'm Vikki Hill, Project Associate for Changing Mindsets at University of

the Arts London and I'm delighted to, once again, welcome Dr. Gurnam Singh,

Principal Lecture in Social Work at Coventry University and Visiting Fellow

in Race and Education at UAL. Welcome! Thank You, Vikki! Great. Gurnam today

I wanted to just frame our conversation around the Changing Mindsets

intervention so I'll just talk a little bit about that. Which is that Changing

Mindsets is a HEFCE funded project that began this year and it's an

intervention which is focused on closing the attainment differentials for black

Asian, minority ethnic and working-class students. And it's based on Carol Dweck's

theories of implicit intelligence and it aims to develop a growth mindset in both

students and staff (to avoid a student deficit model) and to alleviate the

negative effects of stereotype threat and implicit bias as barriers to

learning. So we are, we are working with professor Patricia Devine who's a

special adviser on the project, who from the 1980s has demonstrated that people

exhibit implicit or unintentional racial bias that can influence behaviour and

even in those who don't explicitly or consciously support racial stereotyping.

Her work is about developing bias habit breaking interventions and

providing the tools needed to break habits. And then we also draw upon the

work by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson on stereotype threat. So, from the mid 90s

their work has shown that stereotype threat can affect our actions and

performance and it relates, really, refers to the risk of confirming a negative

stereotype about a group into which you belong or alternatively about the risk

of not conforming a positive stereotype about a group to which you belong. And

the studies that they have carried out demonstrated how stereotype threat can

have a substantial impact on student attainment and on performance. So, Gurnam,

I just wanted to ask you, really, to expand on this in terms of your own

research. Well I will do and I think it's important just to put a bit

more meat on the bones for these three concepts that we're working with. One is

of course Changing Mindsets and Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat and they are

all, you know, connected very much, talking about the same thing. But if we're just

gonna begin with Implicit Bias, I think we could all agree that we all possess

all kinds of biases and we harbour stereotypes about any number of things

that's not, there's nothing wrong with that.

Most psychologists would say that bias is quite a normal aspect of human

functioning. And because it would be impossible for us to constantly assess,

sense information our minds career was what we call heuristics or mental

shortcuts that ease cognition and make decision making easier, you know, for

example, you know another friendly system, we use a rule of thumb or you know we

talk about an educated guess or intuitive judgment or even a guesstimate

we said, this is my guesstimate. And stereotyping,

another concept sociologists use is common sense, we use a common sense kind of approach. Then, so,

our implicit bias is a form of unconscious bias you know where we make

judgments about others that don't stand up to reason and that's the key thing yet

examples, common examples, women area bad drivers, men are natural leaders, black people are

dangerous, and those kind of things. And actually there is an online test the Harvard

Implicit Bias Test, which is called Project Implicit, and you know anybody can google

that and do the test themselves. So that's Implicit Bias. I think Changing

Mindsets is also, you know, has a kind of a scholarship research base of its own, and that

research it has a longer history in the US particularly in the UK more

recently. And it was an attempt by progressive educators, particularly in

secondary education, I think, it's really, it's only recently touching higher

education. It was associated with this attempt to improve attainment levels of

students by confronting these kinds of stereotype, stereotypical views, common-sense views

that intelligence, particularly, was fixed it's a characteristic, almost, in

the DNA and that can, it was, challenging this view and you know for

them you can change people's sense of intelligence or their capabilities

through student effort and pedagogy. It wasn't a kind of, you know, a destiny.

The other concept is stereotype threat and all the kind of major studies on

sociology of education, you know you can go to Bourdieu's work, Balls and Ginty's, Bernstein's

work and even people like Willis. And more theoretical work of people at

like Paulo Freire and the work of Rosenthal and Jacobson is really important. Who

argued that the experience of schooling and university only valorised the experience

of students of the most privileged background, white male upper-class and

then does the opposite for those that don't fit those kind of categories. And one of things that can impact a

students performance, particularly in the context of race, gender and class is what

Claude Steele, and you mentioned Claude Steele earlier on, who's a psychology

professor at Berkeley, his term stereotype threat. And Steele defines this as

the experience of anxiety or concern in a situation where a person has the

potential to confirm a negative stereotype about their social group. But

in contrast to Rosenthal and Jacobson's work, I think Steele focused on the

impact the stereotypes had on individuals. I mean, Rosenthal and Jacobson

were talking about impact on teachers and how they then made assumptions about

students and performance, yeah? Steele was more concerned with the impact of

stereotypes on students themselves. And what he found was that whenever race was

emphasized then black students consistently did less well than white

students therefore confirming suggestion that performance can be negatively

impacted by the prevalence and awareness racial stereotypes, yeah? So that's really

kind of the background to some of these ideas,

yeah. So, when we're thinking about this and what what are the implications for

for, for the university? So you know we know obviously, through Steele's work about how

students are affected but also thinking about academic staff and how might this impact upon them, this work?

Well I think, I think this notion of internalisation, that's the important thing, and I think institutions can internalise these

stereotypes, typical kind of ideas, common sense views. And of course students do

themselves, you know. So because the idea of innate intelligence

some how correlates with educational attainment and that is so embedded in

society and in higher education culture, strategies confronting this common sense

view have got to be multi-layered I think, you know. That's the first thing I

think for universities they have to approach this at every kind of level so.

And as you know, until relatively recently, any growth, interesting growth

mindsets and implicit bias will have been confined to kind of specialist interest in

educational psychology or maybe teacher education but now there is a kind of a

much broader attempt to focus on attainment and closing gaps. Changing

Mindsets is seen to be one of the many strategies that appear to have a good evidence base.

It means challenging the mindsets of staff, I think, both academic and support staff who maybe internalise

ideas about innate intelligence, about other people of other races, yeah? And of

course that could be internalised, um, negatively because if you're stereotyped

yourself negative then you internalise a negative stereotype. Gender and class

stereotypes also could often be a player here. So, so far universities have been

doing some work on implicit bias which is a good starting point but for me this

work needs to go much deeper. At the moment we've moved, as I say, from what I

would call unconscious bias to conscious bias. Okay so it's progress but bias is still there.

I think what we need to do is, we need to move towards what I would call conscious

non-bias and then ultimately to unconscious non-bias, yeah. So I think they are the stages we need to go through.

And how would you foresee that happening then? What would be your idea, your vision, for

the ways forward? Ok, I think the universities need to nurture a new world view, I think

that we are looking for a paradigm shift where the idea of innate, bounded and

fixed intellectual ability becomes totally redundant. I think that that

affects the way we select students, the way we define and construct curricula, the

way we talk about the university experience , you know,

we still have this tendency to talk in elite terms in terms of, you know, you

know high and low and all those kinds of things. In some senses the work on closing attainment gaps is also trying

to take us away from, even paradoxically, this notion of attainment, into the

gaps themselves, yeah? Because every individual in a sense needs to be judged

on their own kind of contribution that they make. yeh? I think for students, by the way, I

think we need a lot of sensitivity and skill in working. I don't think that you

can as it were force people to drink the water, you know drink the water. You have to

convince them that drinking the water is a good thing for them, yeah? And in

university because we have people who have high levels of critical

thinking of reasoning skills, we need to engage with them at the critical level

of evidence, reason not just emotion. Yes, yes.

Can I ask you more on that? I know in your essay about 'Intellectuality in student

attainment in the contemporary higher education system', you you delivered an

intervention that was student based about developing intellectuality and and

how that reduced stereotypes threat. Do you have any other case studies or

interventions perhaps with staff that you think are, or have had, positive effects or are

particularly interesting? Well we had a case study where we did that research

because we were trying to, as much as we could, try to replicate Jacob Jacobson

and Rosenthal's studies about where, if you give, give some information

to teachers about the ability of students and how that then impacts the

way in which they might judge them. But it's difficult to replicate because of ethical problems, but

we what we did do is that we took a group of postgraduate certificate

lecturer students, but lectures who were new lecturers, and we split them into two

groups and we gave each group a sample of essays to mark and it was the same

sample so we simply just replicated the same sample with the two groups. The only

difference that we did do was in one sample we try to suggest that this

was written by people who maybe were not from English

backgrounds, as it were, whose language might be different. There was some hints that these people

might not be White English ethnicity, yeah? But they were superficial, they weren't

there was nothing to do with the content of the arguments. But what was really

interesting it was about when we took the averages of the marks and everything, there's

about a 15 to 20 percent difference in the marks allocated, yeah these were

essentially the same pieces of work. So that was an implicit bias, it was

assumptions that were made based on certain kind of message that were being taken.

Yeah, so you know, that's there really I think, you know the evidence is there

and I think that we can do this work, you know, with colleagues. It doesn't have to

um, you know, we don't have to get into any complex kind of methodology, I think. So what

would be your your three takeaway points, three three points for

moving forward in this kind of work, what would they be?

I think that we've got to try and you know go for a win-win situation. I think

the first point is to communicate this work, not as if somehow this is robbing

Peter to pay Paul. I think that if we're going to be you know confronting

stereotypes it's really about being more objective in the way in which we

assess, yeah, because stereotypes in a

sense compromise our objectivity so I don't think that's necessarily against

the kind of the broader culture of higher education which is to try and be

more rigorous and more objective, yeah? I think that's the first thing. I think you

know what the main barriers in alleviating the affects of stereotype threat

or implicit bias and how can these be addressed that's the first

thing we need to focus on, yeah? And, you know, James Baldwin noted that most human

beings possess and I'm quoting here 'a rigid refusal to look at themselves' and I

think, you know, sadly, I think academics are probably the worst at that

you know, we we always look at the students but we don't look at ourselves

now. So I think we need to, you know, we talk about reflective practice but I think we

need to trigger reflective practice beyond this sense of well I did this

and I did that, I think we need to then situate our reflections within new

paradigms, and I think that's really important.

And so, I think that those things so they're attitudinal changes and I think

we need to present evidence in as transparent and a plain way to

academics because certainly you know we'd like to think that that if nothing convinces

academics evidence would. OK, Gurnam, thank you very much. I just wanted to

finish there and say thank you for joining us and and also for those

watching, you can find out more information about this from the Changing

Mindsets website which is mindsets.port.ac.uk There's a blog there where

you can post questions and comments and find out more about Gurnam's work as

well. OK, thank you very much. Thank you very much, Vikki.

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5 Monero (XMR) Facts you didn't know about! - Duration: 2:32.

what is going on my coin brothers and sisters welcome back to crypto land and

in this video I want to talk about five shocking things most people don't know

about Monero and number five is the most shocking of all so make sure you stick

around till the end so you don't miss it okay so number one Manero XMR which by

the way is the number ten on the coin market gap right now was released in

2013 under the name of crypto note it is open source and works with a proof of

work system with three distinct benefits number one security privacy and on

traceability you heard me country's ability no transactions are private by

default and they don't show up publicly on the blockchain making it untraceable

number four they use stealth addresses so they use encrypted addresses to be

untraceable they use ring confidential addresses so you don't know how much

Manero is actually being transacted and they also use ring signatures where they

basically use numerous signatures per transaction and only one of them being

legit so you actually cannot link it back to anything number five and the

most shocking one is nobody knows this or at least most people don't know this

Manero is right now is the coin where that people use to buy drugs and weapons

and all that stuff on the dark web on sites like alpha Bay and Oasis back when

Bitcoin started doing that on on the dark web

now it's Manero so people that say you know bitcoin it's untraceable it's used

for you know by criminals and stuff like that no show in this video it's actually

Mineiro that's being used for that so there you go that was it that was the

video for today those were five shocking things that I wanted to share about

Mineiro really quick hope you got something out of this that you didn't

already know if you did share with your poem brothers and sisters and I will see

you on the next video and until then stop that link I started living the corn

life beets

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Poor Russ 😢 😢 😢 - Duration: 5:34.

God Damn you can't front like you don't feel for the homie Russell Westbrook.

In last nights match up against the Orlando Magic who at the time was in the middle of

a 9 game losing streak they ended up having my nigga Russell with the Muscle looking more

suicidal than a pregnant teenage Muslim girl in an arranged marriage.

Whats good with these cats?

In a game in which these dudes should of coasted to an fairly easy win the Oklahoma City Thunder

drop the ball in what was a truly embarrassing loss.

The dude Aaron Gordon came out and balled like he's never done before.

Leading both teams in points Aaron Flash Gordon did though did get a lot of help.

With the Magic's complete starting 5 scoring no less than 31 points a piece this was a

complete team win as they man handled Oklahoma throughout.

The Magic had a complete grip on the game like they were fucking King Kong.

And when it came to the later portions of the game the Magic went on a 28-5 run in which

the Thunder didn't score for 8 1/2 minutes.

What the fuck is going on with the Thunder?

These niggas out here playing like trash.

These dudes had a November to forget as these cats went 0-7 on the road throughout the entire

month.

And even though Russell Westbrook turnt up in the 4th Qtr to score 20 of his 37 points

in the closing minutes this was only after he was turned into a murder victim after the

homie Elfrid Payton straight broke his ankles on more than one occasion.

Well at least for the Thunder December starts tomorrow.

So Maybe Santa will have something for these dudes in the month to come as long as Santa

doesn't mark Russell down as Naughty for his mean spirited dunks on his opponents like

he's the Grinch that stole Christmas.

Deadass.

Oh shit, let me find out that the Los Angeles Lakers may actually be a problem.

In last nights match up against their Conference rival the Lakers were able to go Tit for Tat

the whole night.

Well more like Brandon Ingram & Kevin Durant went tit for tat all night.

That was a pretty dope performance by the young shooter as the Lakers almost made the

Warriors lose back to back games for the first time this season.

With Golden State needing an extra quarter to win as they beat the Lakers in overtime

their struggles for the most part looked to be a mental issue.

In fact, had the Lakers not been so generous by leaving open lanes for the Warriors to

attack the basket all night Golden State's 22 turnovers in many other cases would of

cost them the game.

Even Steph Curry was looking like funny money.

Not being able to find his shot early on in the game my guy Steph was cold from the field

as he shot 35% from the floor including 3 mutha fuckin' air balls!!

God damn my nigga lemme find out he's been studying Lonzo Ball's game film instead.

But what ever the case as expected Steph Curry got plenty of help from the rest of his boys

as the Warriors late in the stretch was able to finish the job as they were able to put

the Lakers away for good.

But with a close 4 point loss the Lakers have plenty to be please about.

So much so that after the game this nigga LaVar Ball still had the audacity to say his

boy was still better than Steph Curry.

Can't this nigga get off his nuts already?

I'm not going to clown Lonzo as he still finished the game shooting less than 50% but

thank God for his unselfish play and pure court vision as the young homie led both teams

with assists clocking in 10 of them.

But whats just as important is that in this big time match up money was able to play a

total of 43 mins which was only 1 min short of Brandon Ingram.

Especially after taking a bad fall as homie busted his head open but was still able to

get back out there and help his squad take shit to them Warriors fuckin' neck.

But what did you make of this prime time game?

Are the Lakers that much closer to being the real deal?

Are the Warriors high turnovers a cause for major concern?

Should coach Steve Kerr get on his team's ass about not playing with a full effort?

I mean, with this being week 7 and all the Warriors still have a long season to go as

they are fuckin' sure to make it to their 4th consecutive NBA Finals.

But you already know, I Don't Have An Opinion, I Just Spit Faxx!

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There will soon be letters that

will go out to people in

Virginia and Ohio --

Mr. Hatch: I got the point.

Mr. Brown: This is not a

giveaway.

This is something that we have

done bipartisan --

Mr. Hatch: Nobody believes in

the chip program more than I.

I invented it.

I was the one who wrote it.

Kennedy came over and helped to

put it through.

Mr. Brown: We recognize that,

Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Hatch: Of course.

I don't think I do everything on

my own here.

I have to have good Democrat

friends to do it.

I don't think you do either.

But let me tell you something.

We're going to do chip, there's

no question about it in my mind.

It has to be done the right way.

But we -- the reason chip is

having trouble is because we

don't have money anymore.

We just add more and more

spending and more and more

spending, and you can look at

the rest of the bill for the

more and more spending.

I happen to think chip has done

a terrific job for people who

really needed the help.

I have taken the position around

here my whole senate service.

I believe in helping those who

cannot help themselves but would

if they could.

I have a rough time wanting to

spend billions and billions and

trillions of dollars to help

people who won't help

themselves, won't lift a finger

and expect the federal

government to do everything.

Mr. Brown: Will the senator

yield again?

Mr. Hatch: Unfortunately, the

liberal philosophy has created

millions of people that way who

believe everything they are or

ever hope to be depend upon the

federal government rather than

the opportunities that this

great country grants them.

I've got to say I think it's

pretty hard to argue against

these comments, because if you

look it over, for decades now,

we have been spending more than

we have, building more and more

federal programs, some of which

are lousy, some of which are

well intended, and some of which

are actually good like the chip

program.

We're going to get chip through.

There is no question about that.

I'm going to see that it gets

through.

Mr. Brown: If the chairman will

yield for one more moment.

Mr. Hatch: I will for a

question.

Mr. Brown: I want to make one

comment about chip, if that's

okay.

There are letters that are going

to go out -- my state -- I so

respect what you did with

senator Kennedy.

I know your work was exemplary

on it to chart the children's

health insurance program.

I get that you were -- we all so

appreciate it.

Mr. Hatch: I wrote the doggone

bill.

Mr. Brown: We so appreciate

that, Mr. Chairman.

My concern is that -- you know

some of these families.

When you write a bill like that,

you meet a lot of these families

that benefit.

209,000 in my state alone.

Some of those kids, those

parents are going to get a

letter in the mail if we don't

move on chip in the next week or

so, they are going to get a

letter in the mail that says

sorry, your child's health

insurance is going to expire

while we're sitting here dressed

pretty well.

I know you said you grew up with

the poor people, with the poor

people is how you said it the

other night.

But I worry that families -- and

these are families with jobs.

You know that about chip.

These are families making $8

or $10 or $12 an hour that don't

have insurance.

They will get letters saying

your insurance is canceled.

How can we let that happen?

How can we let that happen, Mr.

Chairman?

Mr. Hatch: I don't intend to let

that happen.

I think we will get chip taken

care of, and hopefully a number

of other things, too.

But we are going to have to

resolve some of these big

problems around here it seems to

me before we get those problems

solved.

But to prey upon the chip

program as the be all and end

all here of every aspect of this

bake, that isn't quite right

either.

I don't know anybody here who is

not going to support chip when

we bring it up.

I am one who wants to make sure

we bring it up.

I appreciate my friend's

feelings on this matter.

Look, I like my friend from

Ohio.

He is sincere, he's dedicated,

he's liberal and well-meaning.

But I'd like to see him be a

little more concerned about

everybody else.

Let me just finish by saying

that I'm happy to be in this

body.

It's the greatest deliberative

body in the world, but we're not

living up to our potential.

And we're not doing the job.

We're getting into these little

snits and fights around here

that don't amount to a hill of

beans in the final analysis.

I'd like to see us all get

together and start running this

country in a good manner, living

within our means, finding ways

of increasing our economy so

that we can take care of the

poor better than we are right

now, and doing the things that

we all know we should be doing.

With that, I will -- with that,

I will yield the floor.

Mr. Wyden: Mr. President.

The presiding officer: The

senator from Oregon.

Mr. Wyden: Just to respond

briefly to the chairman.

The chairman I think said about

eight times that what really

ought to be the focus here is

working together.

I so share that view, and I

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A ROUND OF GWENT | Creating GWENT's Premium Cards - Duration: 26:23.

And I'm gonna need a real push.

There is a lot of Easter Eggs coming up.

Yes, she's going to be moving like this, travelling, and it's going to be cool!

A ROUND OF GWENT

Hi everybody, and welcome to A ROUND OF GWENT Episode 4!

As always, I'm joined by co-host Paweł Burza.

Hey guys!

And today we have special guests Abi and Lorenzo,

who are going to be telling us a bit about the cards within GWENT -

how they are created and how you go from static cards

to the amazing premium cards which we see in the game.

We're also going to be learning a bit about the evolution of the cards

over GWENT's lifetime.

CREATING GWENT'S PREMIUM CARDS

So, would you like to tell everybody at home what your role is in the company?

I work as an animator on GWENT and my favourite faction is Monsters.

Nice!

That's not my favourite faction. I prefer Scoia.

Yes, exactly, the best faction!

My name is Lorenzo and I am illustrator,

and I love card games so I'm really happy to be a part of the team.

I'm not the only one who loves card games here...

Me too! We play a lot.

So you're responsible for the static art, and you make them come to life.

That's right.

I am the first step, you are the...

...third step?

It's like a pipeline, you start something and then you move along.

It's really cool but if we go back,

you remember we had GWENT as an addition to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,

and then, step by step we were changing the art style, improving it -

how did the process pretty much look?

Because the versions in The Witcher 3, they didn't have the cool banners,

they were not as shiny, glossy, they didn't have the new frames,

and also you were not limited as to how many gold cards you can have in your deck.

But then we started developing them and making them a lot more different,

and I think also Nilfgaard was a big part when the art style changed and improved.

Could you Lorenzo talk a little bit more about that?

Yeah, it's funny because GWENT started as some kind of improvement

of the dice poker from The Witcher 1 and 2.

I think at that time we just wanted to add this kind of feeling of

"okay it's a mini game but you have to feel this old school game feeling".

All the cards were looking more or less like tarot cards I would say.

With very static images and it was really cool, we enjoyed that.

But when we decided to go for a standalone game,

we had to come up with something more dynamic.

We were going to showcase a lot of characters so they don't just have to stand there.

And we had this idea of making them Premium, with animation,

so of course you can guess that people were not going to stand like this,

doing only one pose.

I think that's the reason why we tried to, like you said, make them more dynamic.

Just from animation point of view, if you see the old cards,

the characters are basically just standing, as if they are a portrait.

That doesn't give much room for imagination in terms of animation

and what you can do with characters.

All you can do is just make the character look around,

and that's not very interesting compared to the cards you can see now,

where someone is killing someone, or for example Geralt just throwing Igni,

so you have more room for VFX, and animation, and ideas.

That's pretty cool.

We were mentioning the evolution with Nilfgaard,

I think that because we had a lot of new illustrators coming to work on GWENT,

because we needed a lot of cards actually, and we pretty much ran out of ideas.

Okay, this character is standing with the sword,

or this guys is shooting with an arbalest.

At some point we just had to come up with new compositions, new colors,

and the cool thing is that we have a lot of space in each of the cards

to use our ideas, not just a small frame.

The whole card is visible on the battlefield, which is really cool for us.

I personally really enjoy the parallax effect

where you are able to move the card around and see around a corner.

Peek around a corner!

Yeah, it lends itself to the emotion of the card.

This has a cool story actually,

because when we were thinking about making Premium cards,

our art director Kasia Redesiuk,

she was really looking for something different for the Premium cards,

she came out at the studio with this picture of a cat.

I know this story!

I love this story!

What story is this?

It was a gif of a cat, very psychodelic.

Full of colors, moving back and forth.

I think she showed it to Adam Badowski...

"That's the Premium version!"

"That's the Premium version, it has to look like this!"

"I'm not sure..."

And the rest is history.

It was a lot of work, and I think the first Premium card was an Arachas.

It was looking very very cool.

I remember when you tilted the card

you could see that there was a little mouse in the corner,

adding a little bit of back story to it, adding a little bit more to the card.

So could you tell us a little bit about the process of creating

all of these wonderful Premium cards that we have in GWENT?

You obviously start with some kind of idea, based on the lore I guess,

and then come up with its versions?

Usually the writers of the game, they come up with the pitch that we read,

and we try to respect that pitch,

but when we come up with new ideas of course there are no issues.

This is how it starts: we provide three sketches,

and then we just gather all the illustrators together,

and we choose one of those three sketches.

Once it's done, we just work to achieve the illustration.

And then we pass it to these dudes!

To do the hard work.

Once the illustration is done, we pass it to the modelling department,

who then creates the model of the illustration, and then we work on the animation.

Depending on the illustration,

if the character is from the game, then we look at The Witcher games

and see if the character has any specific movements,

what was the role in the game, and then we implement that on the cards.

But if the character is not from the game we have to do some background research,

similar to a detective, you know - what's the story,

if he is a good guy or a bad guy, what are his characteristics,

and once that research is done, we'd see the illustration

and try to understand what is the story that is being told in the illustration,

and if we can justify the art with the animation and VFX on top of it.

One example is one of the Crones, Whispess.

She has some twitching going on,

that was in the game so we added that in the card as well

to stay true to the character so she's not just another creepy old lady.

But that's not the best part, right?

Sometimes when I'm walking around the studio I see you guys acting kind of weird.

I recognize the cards.

As animators, we have different approaches

that we take towards animating the cards.

Some of the animators actually act it out,

so if they are working on a character they record themselves

and just repeat the movement

and they actually get in the mood of the character

so it looks quite funny, especially when they are shooting outside

because inside people know what they are doing

but outside, when you are walking around, you're taking a stroll

and there is a guy who is just being a weird person running around.

Creepy to the outside.

That can go terribly wrong in so many ways!

Some person just looking at a guy and calling the cops,

"you know, there is this weird person doing something"

and next day one of the animators is missing.

But luckily it did not happen.

I personally listen to music when I'm working.

Not that kind of music.

For example, when I worked on Hym, the illustration was so creepy...

To come up with ideas I was listening to the soundtrack from "The Conjuring"

because it's just so depressing in a good way.

In a good way...

And it actually set my mood and you can visualize what's going on

so it helps a lot.

You can take references online as well.

So there's a lot of ways that the animating team gets into the zone.

Yes, you have to go into that zone and not get out of it until the animation is done.

We've obviously got some hidden acting talents within the team here as well.

Oscar-winning performances.

But it's also for the static illustrations, for example if you want to show a pose,

you most likely need someone to sit down and take a photo of that person.

Yeah, we do that a lot.

Basically, most of the pictures I have on my phone are pictures of my own hands.

Because the hands are the most tricky part you need to draw.

We do that a lot, also like you said, we're just thinking the pose,

we have lots of plastic swords that we use.

They look kinda ridiculous because they are made of foam.

I saw those, I was like why do they need those, do they fight in between, or...?

I wish we had proper equipment like you do - where is the sword by the way?

It actually fell down, here it is.

Take care of your sword, man.

That's what we do, because we really need to be as realistic as possible

and in that case you really don't do that without a proper reference.

I think everyone really appreciates the art within a game,

it's one of the main selling points of GWENT,

the beautiful art that you guys create and how immersive the cards are,

and the attention to detail,

as well as the little Easter Eggs which come along with some of the cards as well.

You have to be patient to find them.

There is a lot of Easter Eggs coming up.

The one I like is the one with Regis, which is one of the cards that you enjoy, right?

I love Regis, he is one of my favourite characters.

But don't tell anyone what's happening after what, 5 minutes?

Yeah, you have to watch the card for 5 minutes and then you will see what happens.

It's a little detail, I think players - not most of them actually, caught that.

Could you tell us a bit about what your favourite card is,

your favourite Premium card in the game?

My favourite Premium card is Vilgefortz.

I saw that card and he was just absolutely destroying that person with fire.

"That person".

No spoilers!

Who's that person? I don't know...

Well, after his face is burnt we will probably never know who that person was anyway.

He looks so menacing, and he is enjoying what he's doing,

and I absolutely love that.

Yeah, he is a villain, isn't he?

Yeah, that card turns ME evil!

If I get that power, I would totally do it as well.

The ones who act that one out - you have to watch out for them.

Yes, I would totally do that.

Sometimes we really look forward to the animation,

when Nemanja was illustrating this card we were like

"Oh that can be out of control!"

And it did.

So what's your favourite Premium card?

My favourite Premium card has also the best name, it's Assire var Anaheid.

It's the lady with the cat portal.

I think it's a crazy idea and I love it.

The VFX guys came up with a different atmosphere

and a color atmosphere at some point,

and I think it's really well done. Also, it's very psychodelic.

You were mentioning that you love to listen to creepy music.

Yeah, to get into the mood.

Psychadelic cat music, I think it fits.

It fits into the whole illustrator persona.

Talking about new things, we also have 3 cards,

3 new Premiums that we want to showcase.

We've got a bit of a reveal today.

Yes.

Is it a leak?

It's a leak. You know I love leaks.

So, we have a new version of Geralt, Geralt: Yrden.

Would you like to tell us a bit about Yrden and how it was created, or who created it?

This card was made by Anna Podedworna,

and the cool thing is that it showcases Noonwraith in the background.

It fits perfectly the quest in the game,

first time that it really gets important and that's the only way to fight the Noonwraith.

Yeah, definitely.

The sign is very fitting. So, we've got... what have we got so far?

We've got Quen, Aard, Yrden now, Igni obviously.

So Axii maybe on the horizon.

The next one will be Geralt: Vodka.

Yeah, I think I like that idea, there should be a card Geralt: Vodka.

In Yennefer's clothes.

At the party in Kaer Morhen. That would be perfect.

So we said we have a new Geralt, but we have a new Ciri as well.

This is version 3 of Ciri.

This one was hard to create.

What's up with the hands, tell me more!

What's happening is that she is travelling between the worlds.

Woah, okay!

That was the idea, and because she is not doing it in the game,

that was kinda hard to come up with an idea - "okay, what does it look like?"

So, what I wanted to showcase is like parts of her body are in different dimensions.

So basically you can see that she doesn't have like 4 different arms of course,

it's just they are kinda warping around her,

it also gives this kind of a clockwork feeling.

I was very curious to see what the animators and VFX artists

are going to do with this one, cause I don't even understand what's going on here

but they will figure it out.

So how did you find tackling this problem

of making time-travelling between different dimensions translate to 2D?

The concept was so tricky, how do you show that in animation?

It's not a 3D model so you can't rotate Ciri around,

you can't put her wherever you want.

We took reference from the fight in Kaer Morhen,

where Ciri loses all her control and she is screaming,

and all the energy around her.

And the card looked very similar.

So we said okay, let's try it out.

We have an intro for the card where she screams and everything,

the energy, everything just goes up and she is screaming.

What we thought we could do with the hands,

instead of animating the hands seperately behind her,

to not make it look like it's a different time,

it's going to follow the same path of the original hand,

it's just that it's going to jitter so that she looks like she is losing control

over her powers and she is kind of teleporting but not teleporting...

Glitching through the matrix.

Glitching, exactly.

Like Roach.

Then, the VFX guys added on top of that and they made the energy look so intense,

I think it will be very clear what's going on and won't be as confusing.

You guys did a very good job, thank you for that.

I don't think it was an easy concept for anyone,

Travelling through space and time. It's quite hard.

It's difficult to get what Lorenzo had in his mind listening to psychodelic rock.

Yes, she's going to be moving like this, travelling, and it's going to be cool!

And then the guys were like "I don't see it".

Oh wait, okay.

I think you're starting to understand me, that's pretty cool.

I really like the consistency through lots of cards which have a similar experience,

we have this version of Ciri, and also Pavetta and Ithlinne,

who are all known as sorceresses, channeling their power.

It's pretty impressive.

Talking about impressive things, the third card that we have is Uma.

The most requested card by the community.

My favourite character because it's cute and creepy at the same time.

Just jumping up and down, trying to catch a butterfly.

Does he catch it at some point?

No, he doesn't catch it.

Catch it and eat it.

That would be cruel!

Did you do that guys, no?

No, but the animator who worked on it actually recorded himself.

Skipping outside?

Yes! He was outside of the studio recording himself, twisting his legs,

like Uma with his hands, even the facial expression and the neck.

And he was just running around and we were like "what is he doing?!"

But he did it so well, if you see Uma and his performance,

you wouldn't know which was the real one.

It's true, I saw the video!

It's an Oscar-winning performance.

Everyone needs to see that.

I think we need to see that video.

Definitely.

It's also a lot of hidden talents within the art department.

Yeah, sometimes it gets a bit dangerous because they go into the character so much

sometimes we need to get a psychiatrist...

You're not this person!

And then they have like multimple personalities disorder

because everyone has worked on so many cards.

Wow...

Being an animator!

It will be fun, they say. It will be safe, they say.

NO.

So, it was really interesting learning a bit about some of these brand new cards

which are coming

but now we are going to take some time to look at some of the pre-existing cards

and dwelve into the lore a little bit more.

Adalbert has been cooking up something for the past few weeks

and he is very excited to share it with you.

Greetings!

You play!

You play, you play, you play!

Perhaps lamely, perhaps exceedingly well.

But you put in hours, and so you think you know all there is to know about the cards.

But you do not know what lies beyond them.

So I am here to tell you.

To tell you what lies beyond the frame.

BEYOND THE FRAME

To start, three women - all formidable.

I knew them all, did what they commanded.

The first - Jutta an Dimun.

A sword maiden unparallel.

Since childhood, vowed before the goddess Freya,

she would only wed the man who would defeat her in a duel.

Many brave lads for a while attempted as much and failed, miserably so.

Who do we see here?

Yes! Jutta sat upon her tuckus, defeated.

And whose shadow looms over her, two sword hilts erect over his shoulder?

That's right, witcher Geralt of Rivia.

Wed - they did not. But other things...

The second - Keira Metz.

An eccentric, a hater of the filthy outdoors,

a maker of aphrodisiacs, a user of aphrodisiacs. A pusher of aphrodisiacs.

But upon the card we see Keira emitting a kinetic blast,

t'was at a battle of Kaer Morhen

in the age when the Wild Hunt descended upon the Earth.

A battle that swayed the world's fate,

and that which Keira found her mate and partner,

in the witcher Lambert.

And though we do not see Lambert on Keira's card,

we do see Keira upon Lambert's card, flailing her arms about

and sending elves flying.

Alas, I was caught in one of her blasts -- yes, I was there too.

elsewise I could not have brought you this tale.

And last, the third of our formidable females, who alas ended chained to a rock.

Birna Bran, for of her I speak, widow of king Bran of clan Tuirseach,

mother of his first born son Svanrige.

She had the will to power.

And did what was required, perpetrating a great massacre at a feast,

but I ask you - what else did those clans deserve?

And so I ventured down to the coast

to witness and document her noble suffering,

her slow but admirable waning whipped by wind and water.

Alas, a gust tore the scroll from my hand and slapped her across the face,

rendering a suffering, a trifle.

A fact I much regret.

There you have them, Gwenters, one and all - three formidable females.

Join me next time for more... words.

BEYOND THE FRAME

Yeah, I think she deserved it, right, the slap on her face.

With the newspaper.

It was harsh.

Actually getting to know the story behind the cards is really really cool

because some of the things that he mentioned, like Jutta -

I didn't know it was Geralt's shadow.

I didn't look at the cards so much to actually notice that.

It was good to get the background story,

like you guys said - the cards themselves they already have a story

but to learn more and more it's really cool.

And I've seen that Lambert card so much

but I never realized Keira was in the background.

Me neither!

Like the same scene with different angles.

It adds like a 360 dimension to it.

We're used to the trio cards, Shieldmaidens or something,

but this gives you like a 360 view of a situation.

Let me tell you that it's a nightmare for the animators.

Yeah, but the illustrations are usually so good all the time,

you know what's happening in the card so it's actually not that difficult.

It's only the concept that gets tricky sometimes, like with Ciri,

but most of the time we know what's happening.

Cool! So we can even go more complicated next time!

Oh I shouldn't have said that.

I can take that back...?

Okay, awesome. So now we're going to move onto the next segment of the show

which is one of our favourites, and this is the Community Corner.

COMMUNITY CORNER

Alright guys, welcome to the Community Corner!

What I have for you today is actually a piece with me here.

And I'm gonna need a real push to unfold this beauty.

Redania, Mahakam Mountains...

Here we go, it's a map of The Witcher world

and it's really really cool and hand-made,

and it's actually used in The Witcher School.

Nice little details, you have like Toussaint, there is Temeria, Redania... all of them.

They even got smaller places like Vengerberg.

Oh yeah, that's where Yennefer is from!

Of course.

I like this one. It's by Katarzyna Humelt, she made it.

Someone died to make this.

That's a bloody hand here, I don't know what's up with that.

Nothing good for sure.

Let's fold this away.

I'll just put this here.

Moving on, we also have an awesome shield.

Cheers to you.

Cheers!

By Alejandro Anzoleaga and he is known also as Mahakam Workshop on Facebook.

Our shields are our ramparts.

I love this, it's like a full-sized Shieldmaiden's shield. It's incredible.

Looks totally like in the illustration.

Really really good.

I think you would need one to protect yourself, you have the sword.

I have the sword but I don't have the shield.

You don't need it, you're sort of a berserk.

Burza Shieldmaiden cosplay confirmed?

Maybe next episode.

Alright, moving on, it's Ibealia Mademoiselle and it's a Temerian soldier.

It's really really cool because it's a different twist to the character.

I really like the art style, it could totally be a GWENT card.

It looks like it's coming straight from the studio, should be a part of the card collection.

It's really good, awesome work.

Also, we have 2 cosplays that we had with us at the BGS, so Brasil Game Show.

Yeah, we know them pretty well.

Shermie and Nadya - Shermie Cosplay and Nadyasonika,

were shot by Bruno Antonucci Fotografia.

Speaking of shooting, there was a catapult at the show, right?

Yeah!

There was a life-sized trebuchet, or catapult, at the Brasil Game Show.

We were catapulting t-shirts.

Oh, just t-shirts, no boulders?

No no, it was safe. Everybody was safe.

No one got hurt.

Also, I encourage you to send us your memes,

if you follow us on Facebook or Twitter,

in the comment section you can add your own meme.

And the meme we have today is a Nilfgaardian Knight who is praising the sun.

Step by step, step by step - it's really cool.

Nice, do you praise the sun everyday?

Of course.

Several times a day.

It's so cold, you have to do that.

Especially when it's winter time and it's cold.

Praise the sun.

As always, I want you to send your Plays of the Month -

you have to go to playgwent.com/POTM

Simple as that.

That was fantastic!

It was really nice to see all of the creations in the Community Corner,

in particular the physical props which people are making.

Maybe we could get a few sets and decorate the place in here.

Okay, so that is the end of the show.

I really hope you enjoyed learning some stuff from our guests this week,

learning about the cards within GWENT.

It's been really interesting hearing the behind the scenes,

especially what the artists get up to here.

It's been very informative.

And what the animators have to do.

It's not a secret anymore!

Hopefully we'll see some of that footage soon.

SoonTM.

We have a lot to see.

Wonderful. Thank you so much for watching the show today,

we really hope you enjoyed it, learned something new,

and we will see you on the next one very shortly.

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