General VTuber Design Help

Dr. Arinsu

Dr. Arinsu

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I kinda want to get into VTubing and I have an idea for a VTuber Avatar but I don't have the money or modeling skills to make it. Is there any way I could discuss the idea of it?
 
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Dr. Arinsu said:
I kinda want to get into VTubing...
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This is your first mistake and you haven't even begun.

Dr. Arinsu said:
I have an idea for a VTuber Avatar but I don't have the money or modeling skills to make it.
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I can sympathize with wanting to make the models, but no matter what you are dipping your toes into a very bizarre and autistic subculture. In terms of autism, let's not kid ourselves, it's at least somewhat comparable to furry artist tier. It's a lot of weeb bullshit you want to sell to, but the demand of vtrannies is infinite so it can still be a lot of money, if you're okay with making whatever weird shit the customer wants of course.

Nonetheless, If you're literally starting from 0 skills this is a really fucked up starter destination. This is plenty of complex work: I've been doing much simpler hard-modelling stuff for my own hobby and I'm still at an amateur level, but I'll admit I'm a slow learner and all. You'll need to figure out how to model out the geometry you want, rigging everything to animate, texturing, all of this stuff to a competent degree, unless you subcontract or something, and that shit blows. The smarter you are about automating things and making the programs do what you want, of course the easier you can make it for yourself, but it's still a lot of work to just jump into on a whim.

I'd at least get involved with general 3d modelling hobbyism first. Nobody needs to know you're mainly interested in making anime girls with big boobies when you get around to what you actually want to do, or god forbid you actually want to pretend to be one for simp money. Still, your life.
 
Dr. Arinsu said:
I am more interested in making a male character. Female avatars are too overdone.
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Not like it matters.

Dr. Arinsu said:
But do you have tutorials on 3D Models?
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Hmm...

Well, I'm not much of a video learner and I prefer written tutorials (if at all, for my own 3d model hobby I just thugged that shit out manually and looked stuff up when I had absolutely no idea), but there's plenty of stuff on youtube, of course. My personal favorite was ByteDozer: as far as I know he's indian or something, but for figuring out Blender he was indispensable. He makes little 30 second shorts with no bullshit demonstrating a problem and how to solve it like an idiot or like you know what you're doing. Most of the ideas he expresses are probably applicable in other programs. Essentially: Don't do shit manually unless you got to, figure out how to let the program do it.

Speaking of, at first, just figure out what program(s) you wanna use. For me and mine, Blender is free and it's on Steam too, it's a good enough baseline anyway. You can do everything you'd ever need on it at least to a basic level. Dick around in Blender for 30 minutes and see if you can make anything on your own to see if you can stand modelling at all. I dunno about what most vtuber riggers use but Blender is babby's first model program and it's still good enough for me.

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If you don't mind using a character creator you can try VRoid Studio. It can export to .vrm format which is used in 3D vtubing software.

If you want to create a .vrm avatar from scratch you will need to model and texture a mesh, rig it to the Unity humanoid skeleton, create expression and vowel shape keys, import it into Unity and setup vrm features using UniVRM plugin.
Blender also has an addon that can generate proper skeleton structure, do the setup and export to .vrm without Unity.
https://github.com/saturday06/VRM-Addon-for-Blender

Another option is Live2D avatar format which is made of rigged pngs, but I don't know much about it.
 
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Honestly, anyone on KiwiFarms should be a VTuber. Just make sure to make accounts that don't link to your real life and do good readings about horrible lolcows and good folks who support KiwiFarms. I can only name two.
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Yeah. I might do Degesu. Seems easy enough. Lol.

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Dr. Arinsu said:
I kinda want to get into VTubing and I have an idea for a VTuber Avatar but I don't have the money or modeling skills to make it. Is there any way I could discuss the idea of it?
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can you draw? live2d is free, you're not going to need the pro features.
 
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