Honestly though saying (or implying) that vocaloid or vocal synths in general "devalues the human voice" is SUCH an incredibly shit take for SO many reasons.
Like yeah Saki Fujita getting so many other roles in voice acting because of her contribution to Hatsune Miku (the anime cameos and stuff are usually done with her original voice, them modified to be robotic) is a bit of an outlier when most other vocaloid and sythns don't have that influence.
You can even sort of wave off the dozens upon dozens of people who go for realistic tuning- like whenever a synth has any sort of clarity, there are like five people commenting about how real they sound. Clearly people do still care about human sounding vocals, because they go nuts over realistic vtuning.
There are many different aspects of vocaloid that use human voices, too- from Set It Off's duet "Why Do I?", human rap artists using Miku's vocals as background, and the entire CONCEPT of Project Sekai which releases AND COMMISSIONS songs for vocal synths and real people.
But the sheer number of vocaloid producers who use their own vocals as back up (MikitoP, PinoochioP, and I believe Kira off the top of my head), the number of producers who can sing and/or do self covers (again Kira, GIGA, Ayase, Teniwoha, syudou and so many more), and the amount of vocal producers who have gone forward with legit musical careers after working with vocaloid (Kenshi Yonezu, most notably, who did work for years under the alias Hachi)
I mean, hell. There are vocaloid producers who go on to become vocaloid vocals themselves- like nostraightanswer, the vocal provider for DEX, who has made both vocaloid and original songs. Some even duets.
That's not even including creators like JubyPhonic, Rachie, Will Stenson, Lollia, Octavia, Razzy and Co., and SO many other HUMAN cover artists who gained following or honed their skills on none other than vocaloid covers. (And that's just a handful of English Cover artists, not like Sati Akura a Russian cover artist or Ado who has commissioned songs from vocaloid artists)
It's also not including UTAUites who input their own voices to use for covers.
"Devalues the human voice" is such blatant bs. They ARE human voices. They are OUR voices. "You'd think by now that we would have learned, behind every piece if art is a human to be heard." (- CircusP, 'Better Off Worse')
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ough i have seen people draw weasels and ferrets and raccoons etc with pointed ears, i think its like, only-ever-drawn-wolves syndrome lol
INSANE❗❗❗ ive not seen this ever i thought they were safe...thank u for confirming this for me. It definitely is that but i think its sooo strange how often i see it with skunks specifically. Like. I feel 90% of skunk fur art i see is drawn """incorrectly"""...i had to fight thru the learning furry art with skunk sona trenches because of no stylized art to ref off of, because its sooooo common for it to be wolf snout cat nose cat ears pink dog looking pawpads but um black with a white stripe!
I didnt even consider raccoons as example though youre so right they also always get huge ears drawn on em + make you rely on the patterns/colors to find out what they are huh
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Where do you get your inspiration.
primarily from nature and my inner child! I'm drawn to things that make me feel a sense of wonder and joy at the world
I also use art to explore a huge variety of different styles and genres - since I have a reputation for being able to draw a lot of different things as a commissions artist, I keep my work versatile and try to take inspiration from.... pretty much everywhere
I never have just one source of inspiration and my work is always changing depending on what I'm interested in at the time :)
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