The Trickster's Ninth Episode

Most of Ren Amamiya's original model paintings have been completed, and the rest of the work can basically be completed by computer, but there may be some new ideas in the production process, so it is still inseparable from the digital board .

"What, you guy, you actually drew yourself so handsome, it's too foul." Jinghua looked at Lai Qixiao drawn by Yu Gonglian and yelled.

"If you want, I can also draw an image for you." Yu Gonglian responded indifferently. "But it must be drawn strictly according to the appearance of your real deity."

"It's too much! Anyway, help me to draw more handsomely."

"Don't be stupid, it's tiring to redesign the image." Umiya Lian said to Jinghua while tying the completed original painting layer by layer and planning the deformation area without looking back. "Besides, you don't look bad yourself, so it's not appropriate to sell yourself here."

Jinghua smiled, he was just teasing Yu Gonglian just now, the joke was almost done, so he turned back to the topic.

"Speaking of Amemiya, I have paid a little attention to these so-called Vtubers these two days. Ah~ Sure enough, men are still at a disadvantage in this industry." Jinghua said while sitting by the side watching Amamelian making models.

Among other things, Jinghua judges others by himself. If you let him be fair, he must be more willing to look at cute girls.

As far as Yu Gonglian is concerned, if he doesn't have this level of friendship, he might not really be willing to pay attention.

"Even if you suffer a disadvantage, you can only do it." Yu Gonglian said indifferently.

He already knew that men suffer, otherwise why would he have been planning his debut for so long.

However, even so, the efforts made by Ren Yugong can only "retain the audience as much as possible", and there is no way to change the phenomenon of "do not want to click in from the beginning".

If you want to attract people who don't want to click in at all, you can only rely on drainage and topicality.The so-called linkage business is almost the same principle.

But Yu Gonglian can't find someone to cooperate with!He doesn't know anyone.

As for topicality, it is a very troublesome thing. Arousing topicality can bring a lot of attention, but at the same time it also has a very strong factor of instability.The so-called whole work and hot business are a manifestation of this aspect.

It is true that it is a way to accumulate word-of-mouth and fans by relying on hard power and outstanding quality works, but if you just follow the right path so honestly, it will take too long.And over time, it is easy to go wrong.It's not that as long as it's done step by step, it will be popular sooner or later, on the contrary, time is the most unstable thing.

Even if it really has hard power enough to be liked by people, there are too many emergencies that can destroy a Vtuber during the period before it becomes popular.

Now, because of the involvement of the Yasen Group, the Vtuber world in Japan is in full swing, and all parties have intervened, so it is not an exaggeration to call it the Warring States Period.

Then, the road ahead of Ren Amamiya is very clear—to take advantage of the turmoil caused by the Yasen Group, to fight in the end, to compete with other Vtubers, and to open a way out before the Japanese market is saturated.

If Ren Amamiya is just an ordinary idol business, then probably she can only choose this path.

But compared with other Vtubers, Ren Amamiya still has a way——

Go open up the world!

Chapter 58 Who doesn't love beautiful girls?

After seeing the original drawing of Umiya Ren's model, Jinghua stayed at the Manga Research Club for a while, and left almost as soon as get out of class was over.

As for what I said earlier, although Umiya Ren has a tendency to do this for the idea of ​​​​creating the world, but he himself does not have this kind of self-consciousness for the time being.

After all, his purpose is extremely clear, just for the sake of blankness, and he has no intention of becoming a pioneer for the time being.

His idea is actually very simple, that is to broaden his audience, so what he can take advantage of is naturally his own trilingual advantage.

If some of the existing audience groups are destined to be unable to generate the desire to "click in", then broaden the base of this group, and the number of people who will click in and those who will not click in will increase together.Very simple idea.

Of course, if this is done, it will lead to a new problem - his workload will increase.

After all, although it is relatively simple for him to dub the typed materials later, the typed game materials are in a fixed language after all. If dubbing is required, all subtitles must be read out, and the dubbing work will multiply. , if subtitles are used, it will also add a lot of work.It is also very troublesome to play materials in different languages. After all, Ren Amamiya does not play speedruns. Even if all the materials are read once, the total time for all materials is about 12 hours.

It is not such an easy thing to do trilingual business!

While thinking about these things, the speed in Yu Gonglian's hands did not slow down.After such a short time, the deformation block has been tied quickly with steady hands, and then the masks for blinking eyes and openings have been made.

At this time, Kagura Nana with a little wet hair also came to Manyansha.

Looking at the time, get out of class has just ended, and the other party's appearance is obviously sneaking away early.

When she came in, it happened that Ren Amamiya had finished the previous layering sequence and started to throw the layered materials into the deformer to adjust the deformation parameters.

This is the most time-consuming part of doing Live2D, but it is also the most interesting place.From here, the model will gradually start to move.All kinds of expressions and actions, the creator can design any emotional expression he can think of here.The production and debugging of deformers from small to large, from partial to overall.Some of the changes are done now as part of the camera capture, and some special changes are set up in the animation mode for button playback later.

"This is what Amamiya-san's Live2D looks like when it moves!" Nana Kagura leaned over curiously and said.

Many Live2D expressions need to be debugged one by one. Ren Amamiya is only doing the first expression now.But in terms of novelty alone, it is enough to make people feel interesting.After all, it is now in 2017, and Live2D's facial capture technology has just appeared not long ago, and it has not officially become popular yet.

The previous Live2D was basically only used in some galgames, and it has been used in some mobile games in recent years.

"I'm really more and more curious about what the finished product will look like after it's finished. What will the video work look like?"

"Actually, after adjusting the deformation parameters, it can be used as a semi-finished product for preliminary facial capture. If you are interested, do you want to try Kagura-san later?" It is more natural visually, and said to Kagura Nana at the same time.

"Eh? Facial capture...does it mean that the model will react according to the expression on the face?" Nana Kagura opened her mouth slightly, a little surprised. "Can I try?"

"Of course I can. After all, I have been taken care of a lot. Besides, if I got something interesting, I would really like to share it." Yu Gonglian said with a smile. "It would be even better if there are some suggestions for revision."

"No, no, I really don't dare to revise my opinion. I don't understand this at all." Kagura Nana waved her hands and shook her head repeatedly, looking like she was being bullied. "But facial capture or something, I really want to try it, is it really okay?"

"Of course, it's just a semi-finished product." After Amamiya Ren finished the first expression, she started to make the second expression. "To be honest, there seems to be no precedent for using Live2D in the current Vtuber industry. Everyone is using 3D for business. I have always been very confused."

"If you feel that the word revision suggestion is too heavy, then I will change the wording. Can you ask Kagura-san to tell me what you think later? Anything is fine."

"Is it possible to use facial capture to move? Can I try it too?" Parry next to him suddenly said to this side with great interest.

"Hmm...Parry's words...Parry's type of audience doesn't have any reference value!" Amamiya Ren said pretending to think.

"Eh?...Ah?!..." Unexpectedly, he would get such a response, and Parry suddenly crashed. "Why?! Why did you say such a statement?!"

"Because, even if you don't talk about your impressions, I can guess that Parry is probably the type who only watches my game videos occasionally, and doesn't even click on the live broadcast."

"Uh...uh..." Parry clutched his chest, looking like he was being critically hit.

Can't refute it, it has been completely seen through.

As a result, Pali's appearance made Amamiya Ren and Kagura Nana laugh together.

"I'm just kidding, of course there is nothing to refuse if you want to try the model." Yu Gonglian said with a smile.

"Really? Just now, it was all a joke?"

"Ah...the evaluation part is not a joke. I think Parry is the type who prefers to watch the distribution of beautiful girl Vtuber."

"Okay, don't say any more! I'll watch it! I'll watch it when you're live!" Pali wailed, and Amamiya Ren's words really pierced his heart one by one.

"Don't make it sound like I'm forcing you! In fact, in the final analysis, everyone will tend to choose beautiful girls. Think about it differently. If I must read the distribution, I will probably choose beautiful girls." Amamiya Ren sighed said.

Then he turned to Kagura Nana, and said, "Even if it is a woman, if Kagura-san chooses a Vtuber distribution, it really is a beautiful girl, right?"

"If you ask me this way, I probably...will definitely choose beautiful girls!" Kagura Nana was asked suddenly, but she didn't feel embarrassed. She tilted her head and thought for a while, and she simply affirmed Amemiya Lian's statement.

"Hey! Sure enough, the living environment of male Vtubers is very difficult!" Amamiya Ren couldn't help but sighed.

The vast majority of men, and quite a few women, tend to choose beautiful girls.

yes!Pretty girl, who doesn't love it?

At the moment, all the Vtubers entering the venue are all beautiful girls.

"Sorry! Amamiya-san." Kagura Nana felt that she seemed to have said something wrong, and comforted her.

"There's no need to apologize, it's better to say, I'm very grateful to be able to tell the truth." Umiya Lian smiled and shook her head, looked sideways at the half-finished model in front of her with one hand, and said with a sneer.

"A desperate situation, right? Forget it! It's interesting to fight a bloody way out of it!"

"Oh! As soon as I came here, I heard Amamiya-san saying handsome lines again. It seems that my debut is just in time!" A lively blue figure jumped in from the door.

"Yahoo! Inuyama Yuhime, come on!"

Chapter 59 Those Beautiful Girls

"Are you guys doing something interesting?" Inuyama Tamaki leaned over with a keen sense of smell, saw Amemiya Ren's computer, and said vigorously.

Ren Amamiya is adjusting the mask, because the mask must be set to be removable, so the mask and the expression cannot be directly thrown into a deformer, so the deformer of the mask becomes complicated with the movement of the head.

Think about it carefully, maybe make two models, then copy the part of the expression, and when you want to switch modes, just take out the other model, which is easier.

But... Ren Amamiya still wants to perform the show of picking off the mask, so she can only ask for trouble.

This wave!This wave is called "Party A".

Ren Amamiya adjusted the change parameters of the head, body and mask, then removed the mask first, exported the model and saved it as a file, and turned on facial capture.

Then Amamiya Ren stood up from the computer and stepped aside, saying to Kagura Nana: "Kagura-san, it's probably done."

"Eh? Is Nana-chan manipulating Amamiya-san?" Inuyama Tamaki, who hadn't heard the conversation with Amamiya Ren and others just now, looked at this scene, her eyes lit up.

"..." Yu Gonglian next to him felt something was wrong when he heard this, why was it a little weird?

"Part of the facial expressions of this model are changed by face collection, and some are switched by buttons. But at present, only two expressions of [joy] and [worried] are made." Umiya Ren supported it with one hand Looking at the computer screen on the table next to him, he said. "Click here to switch."

"Really! Follow me and move!" Kagura Nana sat on the chair and shook her body. When she first used facial capture, she was not used to controlling her expression and thus controlling the model's interpretation. In contrast, shaking The feedback from the body is more obvious.

"I feel like I can see Amemiya-san's expression that I usually don't show! Is it possible to do this? A little...a little...success! Ahhh! It's changed back again!" Kagura Nana seems to be trying to make a specific expression with the model, but when she succeeds, she smiles on her face and the model changes accordingly.

After experiencing it for a while, Kagura Nana stood up from her seat, with a calm expression and a smile on her face, but stars were shining in her eyes.

"It's so interesting! It's very interesting! Amamiya-san, I think if you use this for distribution, you may not lose much to 3D." Kagura Nana said happily. "However, if it is facial capture, sometimes the facial features feel a little unnatural!"

"Isn't it natural? It's probably because it hasn't been finished yet. After all the expressions are made, I'll debug it." Amamiya Ren nodded and wrote down the question.

"It's my turn? Can I try it? Yes?" Parry asked, sitting in front of the computer.

"Ah~~~ Is this Amamiya's body? Uh, the physical monster's, Amamiya's body... is different from that of Azaku! Eh~~~~" Parry made an expression on the camera , while deliberately speaking.

"Hey!" Yu Gonglian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, this guy was obviously taking revenge for what he said just now.

"You bastard, don't say such strange things!"

"It's really interesting to enter other bodies like this!" Parry also made an expression on the camera, and then sighed after seeing the feedback given by the model. "But! Sure enough, I hope that such a body is a beautiful girl! It would be better to have a beautiful girl inside and outside!"

"Have you made no cover up yet? You bastard...wait! Don't cut your expression so fast!"

"If both of them have a share, then I can do it too. Now, Amamiya-san, is it possible? Is it possible?" Inuyama Tamaki watched Kagura Nana and Parry experience the Live2D model of Amamiya Ren, Beside it is unbearable.

"Of course, it would be even better if you can share your thoughts later." Yu Gonglian originally wanted to collect feedback from other people, so she naturally agreed.

Parry played for a while longer, then moved out of the way for Tamaki Inuyama.

"Ah~~ It's a model based on Amamiya-san!" Inuyama Tamaki said in a long voice. "Sure enough, I still want to see some things that I can't usually see on Amamiya-san's face!"

"You guys..." Yu Gonglian smiled helplessly, and didn't hear a few words of serious thoughts, but these guys were very enthusiastic about persecuting him.

"Hello! Seniors." Shi Yu Yuyi walked in from the door and greeted politely.

"Hagoromo-chan, come here quickly." Inuyama Tamaki turned her head and saw Shigure Yuyi and greeted her very enthusiastically.