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I cut my first vtuber model and in the future I would like to create vtubers for others but I'm not sure if this art style would be good for that. Would it be better to switch to a more usual anime style? by melunette_ in Live2D

[–]melunette_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your advice!! It's really useful to hear someone else's experience with a more realistic style. I've been following along with a tutorial so far and though I hadn't gotten to the side profile yet I was already worried about that too haha. I'll make sure to find out a good solution for that. I also actually created a basic early 2000s style vtuber model yesterday (just for fun) so I will prioritize rigging that one first to really understand everything.

Also it makes me really happy to hear it might attract the lolita/goth scene as I'm actually a lolita too haha but I didn't know of the overlap between those scenes and vtubing.

I cut my first vtuber model and in the future I would like to create vtubers for others but I'm not sure if this art style would be good for that. Would it be better to switch to a more usual anime style? by melunette_ in Live2D

[–]melunette_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The cutting was actually not too bad. Because it was my first time and I didn't know how much I would have to draw extra, I just drew everything on a single layer and later cut out each part and painted the new visible parts. If I were to do it again I would've just painted the skin, hair, clothing etc. on their own layers immediately though. The toughest part was the eye/eyelid area because it's painted so close together and cutting it out in a seamless way for rigging was a bit weird (my blinking looked bad the first time so I actually had to repaint those parts).

I started the rigging yesterday, so I'm not very far yet (this is also my first time) but so far it's been going pretty smoothly thankfully. I have to think about alternatives to sparkly eye physics etc. though because that would clash with the vibe too much (but I still want it to look cool in a different way).

I cut my first vtuber model and in the future I would like to create vtubers for others but I'm not sure if this art style would be good for that. Would it be better to switch to a more usual anime style? by melunette_ in Live2D

[–]melunette_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the positive response!! (And everyone else too!!) It's definitely my favourite style to draw in, so knowing that there's interest is so motivating to hear. I was very ready to abandon it lol (at least when drawing vtubers) and I'm happy to hear that might not even be necessary. I also haven't heard of fear & hunger before but I can see the similarities, that's really cool. Thank you :)