Thanks so much for all the happy birthdays everyone! Always really nice to see

Yeah you’re totally right! There are other uses.
I was being a bit presumptuous and snobby about it, sorry.
I mainly meant, unless you have a specific purpose for it, just using an expensive suit doesn't add as much as people think it does and just tracking the hands is usually plenty to look good

Yeah, people are weird about mocap for vtubing. There's really no need unless you're straight up doing a concert. Most streams involve sitting at the computer so you can just get away with tundra trackers on your wrists and that'll already look really good and even that's overkill.

As someone who's been there, good luck, it's really hard but super rewarding! Make sure you make progress every day, even if it's just 5 minutes worth and figure out a version control solution like github, I wish I'd known about that sooner.

I look forward to seeing what you make!

I voted for Kodos.

lol and I saw you picked the Saiyan pods and went "Dang, that wouldn't have occurred to me but that's a good pick!"

I'd love to see tips for hair modeling and painting. My method is ok but I'm trying to improve it

Also just a handful of technical things I really like:
-Gradients that overlay on the screen, usually from the corners or top edge
- Direction edge lights on the characters
-Flat framing
-Bloom, generally only in the bg
-A lot of backlighting
-Very flat texture painting on char, more detail on bgs

Man, you nailed that aesthetic