This week I got to screwing around in Vroid and managed to create a model I don’t hate, so I’ve been using it on the last few streams and just wanted to kind of mildly gush about it.
I’ve wanted to do it for a while because I usually had some piece of recent artwork and eventually an animated PNG placed in the corner of the screen, but kind of wanted to do something more eye catching or dynamic. It was kind of hard to justify dropping a pile of cash on the stream though since I’ve been at it for years and pretty much only have single digit viewers unless I’m guesting on another channel, so finding a cheap and easy alternative was really nice. I’m working on editing some assets into my ‘intended’ outfit but since I’ve been on staycation this week, the Hawaiian shirt felt apropos and is kind of within my color range, too.
Like, it’s been a while since I’ve been this excited about streaming and I’ve been sort of conditioned against outright self promotion, so I just wanted to get into it somewhere. Maybe once I’m more used to it and get my outfit finished I’ll do a proper ‘debut’ stream but it feels kind of dumb since I’m not fully rebranding or anything like that and I’m already playing with the model.
Recommend Vroid heartily to anyone interested in getting an easy in, with the caveat it’s really easy to edit models and textures but it really doesn’t do body types past ‘skinny teen’ unless you got crazy with making a bunch of skintone ‘accessories’ to pad yourself out. (I usually draw myself with a wider chin and stubble and all the models are pointy chinned and the facial hair is about as convincing as a Mihoyo background character.) You can edit a lot of things within the program and export the textures as PNG files to hand draw details in, which is what I’m currently doing with my coat and plan to do to tweak the face into closer to my drawing style. Getting the model working was super easy with the use of VSeeFace, which can import the files directly or link to your pixiv/vroid hub account. (I prefer to keep my stuff locally as much as possible, so going through Hub is kind of an extra step for me but it’s good to know it’s backed up I guess.)
