#vtuber rigging

[jesterpunk]

order here: ko-fi.com/jesterpunk/commissions

i've recently quit my retail job and i need to take a break from consistent animation work, so i'm going to do some vtuber commissions for the next month or so!

you can draw me your own rig and just have me rig it, or if you like my art style, i can do it all!

✨ 3 slots, starting at $300

✨ more info + examples

examples shown in this post are jester & skiff from my own channel, Florence (inkythefirefly) and Gunnar (gunnartherat)

[tia-spark]

❗Dear riggers and model makers ❗

Got a question for u!

I am currently making my own vtuber model and wanted to 'know if I am meant to draw all the mouth shapes too? Would this make it easier to rig or too complicated?

Iv been going over it a lot in my head and I don't know who to ask sooooo I decided to ask the void of tumblr

Short version - do I draw all these mouth movements for my vtuber model or leave it for the riggers and just draw the smile? 👇

[ghost-toe]

hi! please bear with the random self-promo personal post :)

i'm looking to get artist verification on an art commission platform called vgen, as i want to start offering live2d rigging commissions and that's a great platform for such things! they have a semi-intensive verification process to make sure all artists offering commissions there are: 1) not scammers and 2) not using AI for all their art. one of the methods is to get 100 likes and 5 comments on a post asking your audience to vouch for your vgen verification, which is the point of this post!

i mostly post artwork over on my toyhouse, as i've previously gotten all my commissions through there and i'm shy about big social media platforms. unfortuantely, toyhouse is fairly private and there's not even a way to "like" a post, so tumblr is my best option for verification!

here's a few examples of my live2d work. a wider assortment of my art is in my toyhouse art gallery, and my toyhouse commission thread (sadly many discord images are broken now) has correspondence with many clients and images that used to be proof of completed comms before they all broke :>

i would very much appreciate if you could take a few moments to vouch for my side gig just by liking this post! thank you <3

my vgen page is here! https://vgen.co/robot_toes

[inkyharpy]

O_O

[takiminada]

vtuber model i've finished for benbevoicing (not sure if he has a tumblr)

[renanjamin]

𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼TWIGGY𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼

the completed model from my VTuber giveaway is finally here !!!! this is Twiggy (Norway Lobster Ver.) for @twigsagi101 !

✮VIEW SHOWCASE✮

[stormhollows]

🌙🌃 Model progress!

(Again, using Inochi2D here. Not Live2D!)

[nemmienimbus]

I love making VTuber models :)

[kai-2124]

hair physics started, also ears sorted out a bit more now i quit cause im getting lightheaded wheezes

..im so in love with the waggly ears tho gosh, it's so fun

[funwalker]

Rigging....

[Another crosspost from cohost. The original was posted on Feb. 17, 2024. I forget to post about them here, but I do make vtubers as my main source of income. I figured more people might like to see this.]

Complex mouth rigging + Added in some animation smears.

Since @Isa-ah asked how I did it, I'll just do a quick breakdown here. The mouth is made of three layers: the line for the top lip, the line for the bottom lip, and the mask for inside the mouth (which the tongue is clipped to). If you use the deform path tool to draw a path while multiple meshes are selected, it groups those meshes together so that they all move together. It's pretty difficult to get everything to behave the first go round, and your mesh needs to be set up in a particular way, which is why the mask for the mouth has very limited geometry in a sort of zigzag pattern so that any vertices in the middle wouldn't get left behind. This geometry can be further subdivided later, but it works best fairly low poly to start with.

I basically just drag the corners of the mouth in so that the geometry collapses in on itself to be really small. I use both the deform path and also the temporary deform tool to collapse the faces pretty tightly. So the widest mouth has the full geometry, the mid-sized one has the outer two lines collapsed in to the corners of the mouth, and the smallest one has the next two lines collapsed in.

Usually this can create a "tearing" effect on the exported model (where the smaller faces are collapsed, the more white bleeds into low opacity or anti-aliased faces), so sometimes I cover the collapsed geometry with another mask, but it can probably also be minimized using vtube studio's "get rid of white outlines" feature.

There's also still a bit of cleanup required since the deform path usually forgets about some vertices, but it really does feel like magic when you learn to do it properly. (Also sorry if some of this explanation was confusing... I did my best without just making a whole tutorial video. Haha)

[4444o98]

My first ever attempt at drawing & rigging a vtuber model!!!!

[chronicallykiki]

StarlyteRigs Rigging My Vtuber: Part 3

⭐ Part 1 ⭐ Part 2 ⭐ Part 3 ⭐ Part 4 ⭐ Part 5 ⭐ Part 6 ⭐

[rizetsuarie]

Anyone on here interested in some Live2D wips? :3

V: @daiggun-ttv

[dearchose]

It's going really well!

I'm probably going to go live this week end to continue on the model! I'll still update you here :3

[nephilimfreckles]

physics tests

[kai-2124]

Still got a lot to do but progress so far, arms are a bit scuffed still but hey theres movment dklsfj Also say hi to my cursor i didnt realise it gets recorded as well