#vroid tutorial

[luk4streams]

I've seen lots of interest on the tentacle hairstyles I've done in the past, so I did this explained process to show you how I do it!! Some of the tips on tutorial can be useful for any kind of hair 👀✨ Here's a small preview, full is here on YouTube! A huge thank you to 8bitNezu for letting me record the process of her commission 💚

[ladydangervt]

I just uploaded a quick tutorial on how to 'cheat' transparent textures in Vroid!

[slayerkid]

You can use your phone camera on VSeeFace!

For anyone interested in VTubing but can't afford a webcam at the moment, or just simply someone looking to use their iPhone to have improved face tracking for their 3D model, I made a simple tutorial for you! This method requires you to use the app version of VTube Studio. The tutorial is short, simple to follow and everything in this video is FREE to use! As long as you own a phone. Click here to check out the video!

[hadoriel]

Made horns and the stars for my vtuber avatar today

You'd think making flat panel 2D stars would be easier than 3D horns but nope

(It's due to the only way to make a flat panel is by making a flat piece of hair in this program so the texture freaks the HECK out hooray)

[oc-ology]

How to OC post without being an artist (or spending money)!

As much as I yelled about OC-posting, some people said that they struggled to know what exactly they should be posting. Obviously the answer is whatever you feel like but if you’re already aimless, that answer isn’t very helpful. Additionally, not everyone knows how to draw (which I think is an obvious method of OC-posting) so I wanted to give some ideas for what people could post for their OC! This will be split up into different sections.

Creating visual representations of your OC

Disclaimer: I will not suggest nor support the usage of generative AI. OCs are about creating something yourself, not allowing a computer to do it for you.

Outside of commissioning someone else for art, it can be disappointing and frustrating to not have any visual representation for your character. An easy way to get a representation of your character is to use Picrew, Meiker and other similar sites. There’s a large number of art styles, types of fashion, species, that can all be used to make your OC and that amount only grows by the day. Many of these websites can be accessed on PC and mobile and take very little processing power.

However, this can be limiting at times since you might not find exactly what you’re looking for, especially if your OC has a unique combination of features. For something with more customisation, you can use video games with character creation to make a version of your character. I personally would recommend games like The Sims or Skyrim as both have very active modding communities. This way, if a certain type of clothing or facial feature isn’t present in the base game then you can often find someone who has created a mod that adds it in instead. This does require you to have access to a computer that can run not only the game but the mods as well.

Another option would be using a program like Vroid Studio to make your character from a base model. This has both a mobile and PC version, although I will primarily be speaking from a PC perspective. The mobile app, while able to create a character from scratch, is a lot more limited than the PC version. The great thing about Vroid is that there’s a lot of user-made content that you can often get for free through websites like Booth, as well as many tutorials for beginners to follow along with. Again, this requires a computer that is able to run it. I would recommend against using Vroid on a laptop as it will likely be too intensive for it.

My final suggestion for character visuals is to take a character from anime or cartoons and simply edit them. This was actually how I first got into making original characters! You can recolour their hair or outfits with an editing program (with some free examples being FireAlpaca, Krita or GIMP) and even edit different images together to create something more unique. Please only do this with characters from existing media and avoid using fanart for this.

Other OC visuals

Other than just what your OC looks like, there are other ways to visually put together your OC. Moodboards are the most obvious example of this, but you can also edit other things such as putting together outfits for them or finding pictures of items they would keep in their bag.

If you have multiple OCs, you can create fake text conversations between them using a number of websites. These can be as silly or as serious as you like!

Finally, you can always build them a pinterest board. I am a massive pinterest enjoyer and not only can you use pins that others have posted to pinterest, you can add your own from off the site. 

Writing

Beyond writing out your characters’ story, there are numerous other things you can write. Keeping in line with what you’ve already written, you can re-write scenes from alternative perspectives. These can add context to what is seen in the main story, as well as flesh out background or side characters and their relationship to your other OCs.

Another fun thing to write is non-canon scenes. Write a beach episode! Write about a character getting sick and someone else having to take care of them! There are countless ways to draw your OCs interacting with their world or other characters that wouldn’t necessarily ever fit into the “main” story.

Next is genre changes. If you had to categorise the genre of your OCs’ current story, what would it be? Now image what if the genre was something completely different? Romance to mystery… Slice of life to horror… Part of the challenge is figuring out what story beats remain the same and what gets changed, including character dynamics! And of course… Alternate Universes. There are too many types of AUs to list but some of my favourites are superpowers, mafia, zombies, time loops and time-travel-fix-its. These are similar to genre-changes but often include a number of AU specific tropes. If you’re struggling to figure out the staples of a certain AU or what kind of AUs exist, there’s a really good page about alternate universes on Fanlore.org!

Other ideas

These are ideas that didn’t quite fit into the other categories.

First is music playlists! There are two types of these. The first is a playlist of songs that describe a character and their story while the second is a playlist of songs that the character would listen to. Some people like to combine the two as well! There are no rules to this, simply have fun listening to music and picking out songs that remind you of your OCs.

Second is incorrect quotes. I remember these used to be beloved by fandom and now they can be beloved by you and your OCs! The concept of incorrect quotes is that well-known and funny quotes from pop culture (such as memes or movies) get written out and your characters are assigned a line of dialogue. While there’s a website that’ll generate these incorrect quotes for you, I personally find more fun in coming across quotes organically while scrolling social media and realising that they fit my OCs almost perfectly.

Finally, ask games. These typically take the form of lists of questions or prompts with emojis or numbers next to them. People can send in the relevant emoji or number and you then answer the corresponding prompt. There used to be a kind of “ask game etiquette” where if you reblogged an ask game from someone, you sent an ask from the list to them as well. This way, it allows the game to continue circulating and you can spread the joy of OC-posting with others! It can also lead you to making friends within the community.

And that’s it for my post! If you have other suggestions for kinds of OC-posting then I would love to see them!

[fricc-darn]

Yuhh get into it!!!

I made a BEN mmd model! Here's how to use it and or make your own model ヽ(´▽`)ノ

Here's the vroid file! Both of the files are the same, so pick whichever you prefer. I added two in case one file doesn't work. If there's an issue please let me know!

https://www.mediafire.com/file/g188jtmismsnf01/Behavioral+Event+Network.vroid/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vifmafoanscfw36/Behavioral+Event+Network+vroid+model.zip/file

You can do whatever you want with the model, have fun! For those interested in making their own models, Vroid is free! It's used for vtubing and stuff, so the uses are endless! You can also use blender (yes, it's free) to make MMD models as well.

I compiled a list of both the written and video tutorials I used for MMD. This also includes motion files and other things for animating.

How to download mmd:

https://learnmmd.com/downloads/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFDkuqMLDI

How to convert a Vroid file (vrm) to pmx:

https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/convert-vroid-studio-to-mmd-with-one-click/

https://bowlroll.net/file/267190

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQXq3EAmYI (don't worry about the pmx editor unless you want to do more specific edits to the model. If you're interested here is the link: https://www.deviantart.com/inochi-pm/art/PmxEditor-vr-0254f-English-Version-v2-0-766313588)

The Happy Hands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf-wZ21zmOo

Extra - MMD sample animation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKccnq2aD3A

The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bnn3aZwxc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_J0WfX_2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93bnn3aZwxc

https://www.deviantart.com/merodythann/art/World-Snow-download-488177446

Get down/geddan meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r48-cyVII_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKHAQPVeIsE

How to export mmd videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVL2sLWxIE

I used this site to convert the avi files to mp4. You can also use windows movie maker 7 and I'm sure there are apps for this too.

https://cloudconvert.com/avi-to-mp4

When it comes to learning MMD the most important thing is to be patient and read the instructions throughly!

[tavernbrawls]

50 More fun things to do with OCs and/or characters you love! pt. 2

Making another list, 2025 edition! Enjoy, and don't be afraid to add suggestions!

Spin the Wheel ideas (Oc Scenes, Oc Challenges)

Burn them a CD (Internet Archive for all your music needs!)

Turn them into objects

Create a list of objects that are important to them and why

Insert them into your culture

Draw them enjoying their own culture

Make an irl shrine for them

Create an Instagram/Tumblr in character

Print out a photo of them and put them in your wallet

Download TwiNote and make convos twitter & posts for them

Find free books & make blackout poetry about them

Find free books & cut out lines that represent them

OC/character scrapbook

Weekly polaroid drawing challenge

Use them as muses to study art/writing techniques with

Pray to them for strength

Think to yourself randomly: What would they think about this?

Create DIY merch for them

Name 5 fast food places & think of their potential order. Order it

Flesh out their extended family

Think about their bad living habits

Let them live through you for a day

Ask the people around you for headcanons & assumptions

Create a paper plush of them (Tutorial)

Write down their most-said catchphrases

Write them venting about someone close to them

If you're a witch, assign herbs & crystals to them

Create a cocktail or dish themed around them

Talk to someone about them, but don't say they're a character, just someone you know

Lay down, put on their playlist, and imagine their animatic

Doodle them on school desks

Insert them into English class practice sentences

Give them voiceclaims

Turn them into a PNGtuber

Fanchildren

Create emotional symbolic art with their animal representations

Prom episode AU

Give your OC an artstyle and draw their friends in it

What instruments represent them? Find songs with those motifs

Put them through the Hunger Games

Vent through them

Draw them into stock images

Ship them with a comfort character from another media

Write them as if you were interviewing them

Spend a week doing only things they would do

Buy a candle/scent that smells like them

Make a Shimeji desktop pet of them (check out the Deviantart group!)

Do amvs or edits of them (bonus if it's Gacha!)

Create a VRoid model of them

Consult a professional (Go up to your favorite art/english teacher, artist/writer friends, or ask someone well-known, and ask them for ideas on how to flesh out or enjoy your characters!)

[livseses]

Plural Proxying in Video Format

So we've been playing around with VRoid and face tracking stuff so that we can have video calls using our faces instead of our body's. Here's a quick little 10 minute tutorial on how we set it up to switch between our avatars:

Avatars made with: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486350/VRoid_Studio_v1294/ And motion capture/virtual web cam with: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2079120/Warudo/

[ladydangervt]

Would anyone be interested in little video tutorials of some of the things I learned how to do in VRoid while working on my models? Currently thinking ones on floaty hair, different types of braids, and how to cheat transparent textures without a third party program.

[moifdoesart]

It took me like ten times longer to find a process for being able to create a gif for a wink, it was a little bit ridiculous.

But thankfully the path I did find made it pretty simple to add extra like the hand and head movement and the little bit of wind so her hair is moving :D

I've looked around and there aren't many people that really take like... partial commissions for this kind of thing so I'm hoping I can make time in the future to look up some tutorials on doing the textures for the clothes. The 3D part is easy but applying painted details on it gets trickier because if I try to do it in vroid on my iPad it likes to crash which means I have to export the texture on it's own and suddenly I have no idea what I'm looking at from a 3D perspective v.v

[ghost-city-aballs]

so after a lot of contemplation (a ~15 minute tutorial video) i made a vtuber model oops

i don't stream but oh well. if i ever do it's there ig (made in vroid studio)

-cas

[utdrmv-confession-box]

Transcript: sometimes I have a visceral reaction to something that’s really normal in anime art styles just because of the resemblance it bears to a specific frans/chans/papara artist’s style. I saw a VRoid tutorial for hair styles (because the preset ones suck) pop up in my youtube recommended and I genuinely had to do a double take because the hairstyle was like 1:1 to those damn Frisk/Chara designs

[trueka]

Hi I just wanted to ask when you make your characters in blender do you sculpt their faces or do you use a different method? I also wanted to ask if you learned everything you know about blender from the froqqy vid you send a long to ago or did you learn some stuff with different vids? If so can you recommend some more vids :?

btw just wanted to say I love your art and you inspire me so much I’m doing blender cuz of you now hehe <3

hiii i actually made the faces in vroid and then uploaded the models to blender, then got rid of everything but the faces and adjusted as i wanted in sculpt mode :) the bodies/heads were made from scratch using what i learned from the froggy tut

also thank u sm im so glad to hear that omgg <33

and i havent opened blender in months but i remember often referencing several other videos, i'll link them below:

anything from intranetgirl is super helpful – their channel

also learned how to project textures onto the model instead of painting them in blender thru this vid –

Blender 2.8 Bake camera mapped projected texture tutorial

some timelapses that i think i learned a lot from –

[Blender + 3DCoat + CSP] 3D Lowpoly TimeLapse (Anime Chibi Girl)

[Blender + 3DCoat + CSP]3D Lowpoly TimeLapse (Blacksmith Girl)

Blender 2.91 - Character Sculpting & Retopology Part 1

i looked at other videos as well for more specific stuff (uv mapping, retopology, rigging, etc.) but i think these were the ones i frequented most. timelapses actually help sm so i rec watching a lot of those!

disclaimer: i was going for a 2000s mmorpg/kingdom hearts 2 look when making my models so some of these might be more helpful if ur going for the same vibe

i hope this helps! i'll update if i remember anything else

[blondedingdong]

Used my day off to mess with my streaming stuff. Stumbled upon the program vroid (its freeeeee) and decided "human blondie GO!". She lacks her proper tail but the fox one works fine for now cuz it looks feathery enough (I made it very flow-ey in unity lmao). Same with the hair. I keep thinking "girl why you lookin like kadaj??" but then I remember OH YEAH RIGHT

Also decided to make her human form look a bit more like her MTT (closed species) counterpart Silver Bleach.

So I guess I'll be reworking Blondie's humanoid form a bit to match the vroid model cuz I have not enough blender knowledge yet to make her hair as poofy as it should be (I did tinker with it and worked with some nice tutorials to learn). Also the loz swoosh her dragon look has. THE LOZ SWOOSH!! BLONDIE WITHOUT THE SWOOSH IS NAKED!!! And her gold tooth... It's a remnant (HAH) from her very first design when she was still a pink raptor all those years ago. Kept the detail for nostalgia reasons.

this is from 2016 holy shit...