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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator

@pixelvertice.com

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Live2D Specialist Just random ramblings here. My Live2D work is in https://twitter.com/pixelvertice Got business? [email protected] https://pixelvertice.com | https://seiryu.live

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Oct 17

Hi I'm a #Live2D animator and I love exploring new possibilities with this medium
Here are some of my favorite pieces from what I've worked so far!

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Sep 3

It feels nice when an old client pre-2020 get back to me asking if I still have their model files.
I always do, in fact I still host my first commissioned models... those are Live2D 2.0 files, they weigh almost nothing compared to today standard

First commissioned Live2D model files from 2016

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Sep 1

Say that you have a killer hook to catch instant attention, would it entice viewers to watch the whole thing? I know most youtubers tried to do this, but they offer a long form content. How much can you stretch a showcase reel to keep people engaged?

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Sep 1

A minute max seems ideal length. I've seen couple of longer ones, particularly if the model has bunch of toggles but I wonder how's the viewer retention on that much content

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Sep 1

Do people actually watch Live2D showcases? Like the whole thing? I know some people do for learning, but if you are a regular customer looking to comms someone do you still watch them fully? If you do, what do you want to see and how long they should ideally be?

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 31

while designing my website i realized i have to record bunch of new showcases too....... man

a balcony with a wrought iron railing and the word trinity on the bottom right

ALT: a balcony with a wrought iron railing and the word trinity on the bottom right

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🍔DISCO🧀 @discothedevil.bsky.social · Aug 27

Every Vtuber model should come with a dedicated pizza button

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 27

i dont know if this is intentional but they are referring new cubism core SDK as 6.0.0 instead of 5.3.0

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 27

Rotation deformer position can now be flipped instead of staying in place!

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 27

I know one person who has been begging this for months...
You can now combine Blendshape parameters, and edit them as well. Be careful as it can get confusing with certain setup

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 27

You can now copy over properties like opacity/screen color/etc to other objects. Deformation data are not transferred over

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 27

New Live2D 5.3 QoL updates:
For the glue addicts, there's a new "hardness" property to set glue brush radius similar to deform brush!
Also you can set weight display opacity

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▫️▪️ Rya ▪️▫️ | Live2D Rigger & Artist @ryaink.bsky.social · Aug 26

Trying to apply one-size-fits-all solutions in Live2D is a bit of a pitfall and will probably hinder you in the long run. What works for one model may not work for another and if you can't adapt then you're probably going to have a bad time.

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 26

Symmetrical mesh editing is here!! Vertices position and deletion are now properly mirrored

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 26

you can invert the brush as well by pressing Shift

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 26

Live2D 5.3 Beta is now live and they are adding new features that weren't present in alpha test!
- New deform brush modes (fisheye deform made easier)
- Automatically fix warp thats too small for its child objects
- WebM export aka transparent video!

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 25

Yeah I just found it's very newly added, just in time lol
Maybe I'll look into it, so far Notion databases has served me well for project management. Going to see if Obsidian has similar robustness

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 21

Finally found a reason to use @obsidian.md over Notion... the free-form Canvas note. Perfect for planning my new site. I think I'll move over my Notion notes that doesn't require database here

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 20

gotta put all that 64 GB RAM into use..

Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 20

I got passed down a Live2D project. 6 outfits in 1 model, 16K atlas, 11 PSD files, all parameter IDs are unnamed... I cleaned it all up and the file size is reduced by 90%.

Good optimization practices needs to be talked more, I applaud anyone who can push themselves working like this 😭

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · Aug 13

Works also for hair!

Most of my tutorials are on my Patreon for free by the way, you can just tip if you want: www.patreon.com/c/k_eke

.... I am terrible at promoting myself, I should talk about it more than once a year :')

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · Aug 13

There is this one also, if you want to animate tails moving or things ondulating.

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · Aug 10

I think this lip sync tutorial can still help many, so here you go :)

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Aug 7

For the first time in a while I have no waitlist ahead of me aside of small model jobs here and there.

Got this urge to open a new batch but at the same time I think it's perfect time to try some new things.. I hope there's still some work to do for me lol

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Kala 👽💫 Astral Vtuber @kalasketch.com · Aug 5

BLIP TV! Will be fun to watch things on our new alien themed overlay as we travel through space! 🍿👽

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Ran 🐲 Live2D Animator @pixelvertice.com · Jul 29

thank you @Live2D can I now send my resume? 🙏 I'm 日本語わかりません but willing to learn