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pinkpuffballdude · 2 years

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me before rigging a vtuber: aw man $200? that's probably reasonable but I don't have that kind of money :(

me, now having drawn and rigged the Same Fucking Model three times: two hundred dollars is not enough. you should be charging five thousand per parameter.

#live2d #vtuber #this shit is so fucking hard and to make it look GOOD???? skill. talent. practice. fucking blood magic.#true story #if I see anyone ever complaining about how much comissioning vtube riggers costs I will personally eat their kneecaps #you've lost your knee privleges. sorry! my kneecaps now #I tried to tell my dad about the Fuckin Bullshit live2d was putting me through and he had to stop me #because AND I QUOTE. I just sounded like some sifi insert technobabble here nonsense #and honestly. he's right. I barely understood what I was saying.#literally how do people make this shit Good. tell me your secrets.#MAKING A MODEL WHO CAN BLINK AND ALSO SMILE IS THE BANE OF MY FUCKING EXISTANCE. HELL ON EARTH.#I plan on making a youtube video documenting my journey for educational purposes because Holy Fuck #like. like. absolute Bare Minimum. how do you draw a model for live2d.#there's a ton of (really good!) videos about how to navigate the basics of live2d but. but.#I couldn't get anything about How To Draw It.#cause that's like opening an animation program and explaining how the pen tool works #except!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #anyone who already knows how to use it will Know and it's Basic and Obvious #but for someone just starting out that is a HUGE hurdle!!!#my first tip is to draw it like a paper puppet if you've ever made those #make sure EVERY moving part overlaps in a way that let's you rotate/shift it to the fullest degree #including things like The Nose or any scars/birthmarks/coloration #so that when you rotate the head/body/arm/Whatever *you can have those move seperately*#and not have to spend two thousand years carefully warping the texture to make it look like it's moving #I learned this. the hard way.#also don't make your first model with Cool Textures you will regret it #I used the watercolor brush cause it's pretty. never again. not for a Long time.

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