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Live2D is an animation technique used to animate static images—usually anime-style characters—that involves separating an image into parts and animating each part accordingly, without the need of frame-by-frame animation or a 3D model.
A VTuber (Japanese: ブイチューバー, Hepburn: BuiChūbā) or virtual YouTuber (バーチャルユーチューバー, bācharu YūChūbā) is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics.
Nijisanji (にじさんじ, stylized in all caps as NIJISANJI) is a virtual YouTuber agency owned by Anycolor Inc. (formerly Ichikara Inc.). [3] [4] [5] The agency was founded in 2018 with the purpose of promoting the use of Live2D models and streaming as opposed to the 3D and clips format popularized by Kizuna AI.
Idol Showdown is a 2023 fighting game developed by Besto Games. It is a freeware fan game featuring VTubers from Hololive Production as the playable fighters. [1] The game received positive reception on release, and the developers announced plans to continue adding additional characters to the game in updates.
Neuro-sama is an artificial intelligence VTuber and chatbot that livestreams on her creator's Twitch channel "vedal987". Her speech and personality are powered by an artificial intelligence (AI) system which utilizes a large language model, allowing her to communicate with viewers in the stream's chat.
A whole ecosystem of talent agencies and investors exists to manage these online personalities, which often differ from the creator's real-life persona. [50] YouTube's 2020 Culture and Trends report highlighted VTubers as one of the notable trends of that year, with 1.5 billion views per month by October, [ 51 ] and in May 2021, Twitch added a ...
MikuMikuDance (commonly abbreviated to MMD) is a freeware animation program that lets users animate and create computer-animated films, originally produced for the Japanese Vocaloid voice synthesizer software voicebank Hatsune Miku, the first member of the Character Vocal series created by Crypton Future Media.
Kizuna is an online virtual character completely constructed using software. [21] As the identities of producers in the background are not revealed, [ 22 ] [ 23 ] video animators, producers, video editors, [ 24 ] and players of games are unknown.