Win+Shift+S works as a Snipping tool hotkey.
But you can also disable Bing in your Start menu search.

1. Search for something and click the 3 dots
2. Disable the Bing seach app in settings
3. Enjoy a Bing-free Start menu

Blender tip: How to make a surface shader (that just displays a flat color or texture without reacting to light)?

Plug the color or texture directly into the Material Output Surface port without using a shading node.

#blender #shading @blender3d.bsky.social

Blender tip: How to assign different shaders to the front and backside of a geometry?

Use the backfacing attribute of a Geometry node to drive a Mix Shader node.

(This also works for textures with the Mix Color node.)

#blender #shading @blender3d.bsky.social

This is what the twist looks like with just two joints. The verts between the joints are skinned 50% to each joint. So at 180° rotation one joint tells them to go up, the other to go down. And they average that and go exactly in the middle creating the candy wrapper.

When I graph connections in the Node Editor I always find it tedious to get *all* connections and having to clean up after I found the one I want.

This snippet graphs connections for a single attribute.

Code:
https://kleinhei.nz/2020/12/maya-node-editor-graph-connection-for-single-attribute/

When I get into the details of weights painting I often have an an animated range of motion in my timeline.
But depending on the character, scrubbing the timeline can lead to janky motion in the viewport.
So sometimes I temporarily disable time slider snapping to help me judge deformation better.

One thing I do in rigging quite often is place some joints, paint their weights and then realize I placed them slightly wrong.
The Move Skinned Joints Tool only allows for translation so I always have these two commands ready to disable skinning, move and rotate the joints and then re-enable it: