SeeU says 'Byee'

Yet another farewell-titled song by SeeU, this one originally from GLAM (or her 'backing group', as I like to think of them, though I am sure they wouldn't agree!)

I have been aware of this for a while, but haven't posted it before because of its relatively low resolution – though it is still good enough. I had just hoped that a higher quality version would appear, but it hasn't, so we'll need to go with this for now.

It's typical of a tourbux SeeU model (a variation on the one we saw perform with GLAM in I=Fantasy) choregraphed to the usual excellent – I'd dare to suggest world-beating – standard...

Screen Captures of the Day – 4 November 2013

This is a new occasional feature to 'snapshot' instants from the music videos I might (or might not) have featured on the 'blog. The reason for doing so is to allow us to more fully appreciate the costumes, models or whatever else stands out, without having to cope with an ever-changing and move sene.

Today I have for you Miku from doriko's Romeo and Cinderella, and SeeU from Dr.Yun's Star. Clicking on an image will, as usual, display it at full size...

Honey – Yukari and Friends

I haven't featured  any of those multi-performer videos for a while, but this one is actually quite well thought-out and fairly well executed. The motion isn't the most natural, but it's better than many and most of the pitfalls seem to have been successfully avoided.

Here, then, is Honey, with Yukari taking the singing solo lead, and it's switchable to High Definition too.

The performers are, left to right in the following order for most of the track (and no, I hadn't heard of the little UTAUloid on the far left either): Nana Haruka, Lapis Aoki, SeeU, Yukari Yuzuki, IA, CUL and Akikoloid...

SeeU says Bye

This isn't the same as the very catchy Goodbye, but an entirely different song – and very nicely done here, despite being at a somewhat low resolution for the current era. Typically (sadly) there are no English subtitles or other sources for words we can understand, so again it is really just a visual and musical experience – though that is plenty to be going on with!

As usual for a Chori-produced SeeU video, the motion is top-notch, feminine and graceful. One cannot escape the feeling that he must love SeeU as much as I and many other fans do, to put heart and soul so obviously and fully into these wonderful works...

SeeU's Umbrella

This is a nice, light song with a snappy dance routine that would almost put Gene Kelly to shame. The model is the oOlchibiOo SeeU (no, I don't know why these creators give themselves such odd monikers!) of which I was aware.

It's a generally very good model, though it does suffer a little from GUMI-like legs which are similarly unrealistic and not a patch on the tourbux models which have superb limb sculpting (if that's the right term for it).

This is a delightful short video nonetheless, and it is great to have SeeU models that can be used by the animation software that most creators have and know...

Junjou Fighter

I might as well admit it: I am at present looking for examples of good SeeU models that are in a format usable by the MikuMikuDance and AniMiku animation software. The tourbux models are not, so we need others to create their own models in the appropriate file/data format.

Here we have a school model (on the left) and winter (right) and they both seems very good, as this quite decent motion illustrates. I'm not sure about the voice: it just has to be someone else singing this time, but I have not (yet) discovered who it is.

Again, as with the previous SeeU video, no English words are provided, so just enjoy the sound and the spectacle – especially an indoor snowstorm with giant snowflakes! Well, it's original...

Kisaragi Attention

This is a nice performance by the SeeU 'stroll' model, of Kisaragi Attention. This just a visual and musical feast, as I have no English words for it or know all that much of what it's about. I do know that it's the seventh song of the series 'Kagerou Project', and it has the alternative title The Story of Snatching Your Eyes. There is more information here.
 
The stage seems to be slippery surfaced, which is distinctly unusual.

The dressing of the model's hair is interesting – if anyone were to do the same, I imagine it must feel like walking around permanently in a kind of archway. It also swings around quite sharply and occasionally seems to slap her in the face. Still, it's soft stuff, so at least it shouldn't hurt...

Galaco in my Fluffoughts

Along with the standard SeeU, Galaco performs Leave In Summer, You're In My Fluffoughts as a duet. There are no English words provided, but I thought it was important to remind everyone that Galaco is set to be 'deactivated' at the end of October – just ten weeks or so away.

I think it is very sad; but in the meantime we can enjoy performances such as this, and such things will not vanish as they at least are not dependent upon her continued on-line presence and support. There are a few technical glitches in the video, which is a shame (it might be the 'bones' in the skirt, or it might be something else that is at fault) but it's still good, once one allows for that.

It is also sad to note that, even sooner, it appears that the South Korean support community for vocaloids, the excellent CreCrew, is planning on shutting down its website. This could leave SeeU (and her male counterpart, USee a.k.a. SeeWoo) without sufficient support to keep going indefinitely.

This is all very worrying; but for now let's just enjoy the performance. Note SeeU's alpaca depicted on the rear wall of the stage: if your reactions are quick enough you can get a good view of the two of them in-shot together by pausing the video at 46 seconds in...

7 Color Jump

This features the very cute LAT model of SeeU – the standard basic design, with all the hair – in one of those oh-so-light songs. This one includes a lot of jumping!

It's a fairly new video, having been uploaded just over a month ago, and well worth a couple of minutes of anyone's time, just to bring a smile to one's face, even without (yet) the English words...

Tora-Con 2013

This is the official Tora-Con AniMiku event, uploaded by Re:Vb himself (creator of the software) and with embedding enabled, so there is clearly no problem with my posting it here. The event was on 23 March of this year. I thought I posted this before – I certainly intended to, but it wasn't already on the 'blog when I checked. I've now sussed it out: this is very similar to the NekoCon event I posted previously, but quite a bit better in several respects. The other event had only Leaving Donna by SeeU, and the shading didn't work as well throughout, so this video is definitely a worthwhile view!

The AniMiku animation and rendering engine has really come along in the past year or so, and this is an ideal showcase for the quality of its rendering in particular. I have to admit I am impressed with the clarity for stage projection, the shading, and other characteristics of what was by this time version 3.9 (beta) of the software. It has been carefully designed to simulate a holographic projection, and it does seem to at least partly achieve that – in fact, probably just about as well as can be done with non-holo systems.

It lasts just over an hour in total, and features (alphabetically) CUL, GUMI, Miku, Rin and SeeU, performing songs from nine producers/composers. The Rin model looks a little sad, and I must admit I'd have chosen a different one myself.

Even if all you watch is the opening number, I think you'll be pleased you did; but I hope that many visitors here will go further than that, especially for SeeU's choreography and animation (both by tourbux, no less, which explains the top-notch standard) and CUL's song...

Birthday Treat – For Me!

If anyone can 'strut her stuff' without losing her essentially femininity, it's SeeU. I still consider this lady (even not 'real' in the conventional sense) to be the most feminine stage performer in the world, even though here in PapaRoach her style is of necessity a little more like the human female performers of recent years.

PapaRoach is a play-on-words, likening the papa[razzi] to [cock]roaches, really as a result of much of the media's negative reaction to vocaloids in general a while back. Along with the (very touching) I=Fantasy, it shows SeeU's dedication to defending the vocaloids against that onslaught and any others that might yet surface.

The real world is better and broader than the limited subset favoured by those too deeply entrenched within what was the sum total of the music business up until a few years ago – and I saw enough of what can happen to an industry that clings to the past without embracing the new, when I was right on the edge of this very same industry, all those years ago when I worked at R.E.W. in London's Charing Cross Road.

Anyway: this is the version with a jaw-dropping tourbux model of SeeU and an invisible microphone(!) but it certainly merits a second airing after all these months since I first featured this video here...

Happy Happy Birthday to me

I uppose I should be playing When I'm 64, as that is now my age; but instead I'll take this rather nice GaGain song performed (some in English, though with a bit of an accent!) by SeeU...

Everything's Gonna Be All Right

The above line is among the English words sprinkled in among all the Korean, as performed from SeeU's Korean voicebank which does include a range of English phonemes. With no subtitles, it doesn't really help one understand what it's all about; but it's such a delightful song – named Shining Star – that I couldn't resist having it here. Well, okay, I did resist it for a few hours, but relented in the end!

The still image is very appealing too; and her eyes in this are almost as good as in the Tourbux model used in I Like That!, which I have featured here before. So, to quote again from the song, what are you doing now? You should perhaps, I think, be listening to this...

Galaxias!

This short (and unusual, but quite appealing) song has been performed by several vocaloids, and here it is SeeU giving it her own feel, via a rather nice Append-type model that apparently was created by this video's uploader in a three-day stint of designing work.

For just one and a half minutes of one's time, it's worth anyone giving this video a viewing, and I think you'll like the new SeeU model too...

Duet – Asteroid

This is a fairly powerful song by TokuP, here sung as a duet by Miku and SeeU. Miku takes her own character in the video, whereas SeeU is presumably the (frustratingly familiar to me, but I can't place her just now) dark-haired bespectacled young lady.

Incidentally, you might recognise those finned free-flying jet engines from the Project Diva F trailers...

This is one of those songs that you know straight away is good, even though I suspect others will be like me and not take to it wholly on first audition. Fortunately I've been around the music business long enough to recognise the signs and to stick with it, and I hope you will too, even if you are initially not quite sure...

Magnet – A Different Version

I've never seen this dance for the excellent duet song Magnet before, and here (for a change) we have SeeU and Mayu (yes, my supposed bride!) doing the honours. Sensibly, they have left enough room between them to avoid hair collisions during spins(!)

The models are by Mamama and Saboten, so are of high quality in general, though rendered here slightly below their top quality capability, which is a bit of a shame. Also, the Mamama SeeU is known to have a few limitations, such as a restricted range of facial expressions.

Mayu is particularly graceful in this, and I felt unusually tender towards her (as much as one can for someone who doesn't actually exist) while watching this. The stonework stage also adds to the atmosphere of this video, which is best viewed in High Definition if your system is up to doing that...

SeeU – Abandoned

Not literally, though; it's just the name of the song. Sadly, there are no English subtitles, so this is primarily a visual and musical feast, rather than lyrical – but on that basis is good enough!

The video features a pinky-lilac haired model of SeeU that I don't recognise offhand (it's not among my collection of her models images, and I haven't seen it anywhere else before) which is actually quite appealing in its own way, and seems a good choice for this song.

This version of SeeU has tourbux-style hair plaiting (think Paparoach) as a clue, so will probably turn out to be yet another of his excellent creations, perhaps a very new one...

Star, by SeeU

Composed by the famous (within Vocaloid fan circles) Dr.Yun, this is Star as performed by an excellent shorter-hair model of SeeU, wearing two different shimmering outfits somewhat reminiscent of Automan (who remembers him?) in this quite striking video...

Bring It On!

I have been wondering for quite some time whether to post this, as it is essentially the same as Korean girl group Glam's live performance of Glamorous they did on the Inkigayo show, which I have featured before (a few months ago now).

There were camerawork issues with that version, though; and this one not only improves on that aspect but also gives us a chance to pay greater attention to the human performers, at least at the start. I have to admit that, to me, they had previously been just part of the background in effect, and although that hasn't completely changed this time around, I seem to be more aware of them now.

I still focus almost entirely on SeeU from when they "bring her on", and rightly so. This tourbux model is superb, and her motion is, as usual, the best in the business, easily overshadowing the other nine put together – and they are no slouches either...

For the Hatching Chick

Yes, it's Ga Gain again (!) but in completely different mood and style from the last offering I posted here. For the Hatching Chick is written in precisely that vein, and SeeU's voice is perfect for this perhaps unexpectedly touching song.

There are English subtitles again, and it is difficult to go through this and come out the other side without a warm, soft and fuzzy feeling – and perhaps in need of a hanky or tissue...