Concert at SkeCon

This is the video of the concert by Synthesized reality Productions (SRP) at the recent SkeCon event in Sweden. It's a single fixed camera, which could have benefited from being zoomed in a little, but it will do. It isn't shaky, unfocused, distorted or any of the other audience-recorded efforts' failings, and is of high video quality.

The event starts off with SRP's Yume introducing the show, in English, followed by Miku and 'Viva Happy'. Later, Gumi, Rin and Len appear – all three at once for one item – also Luka for 'Just Be Friends'; and near the end we also have Miku's now famous 'Senbonzakura' in her correct outfit for this song. The show is rounded out with Yume re-appearing to dance with SkeCon's own mascot Rosu to dance to 'Happy Synthesizer'. Plenty of goodness is in there for just about any fan!

The whole video is almost an hour long, but I found it better to view in three or four 'chunks', simply because of that fixed, slightly distant viewpoint from which I needed to take an occasional break...

Yume Has Cat Ears Too

As is common with Japanese anime-style characters, Synthesized Reality Productions' mascot Yume has her own cat ears (nekomimi), in her case as part of a hooded outfit.

Here we see her rather nice 3-D model – complete with whip-tail hair (as I'm calling it!) – dancing to (appropriately) Nekomimi Archive, singer as yet unidentified. The motion is generally very good, though with the occasional 'sliding feet' anomaly I have mentioned before that detracts from the naturalness of the motion, and breaks the spell, if only momentarily.

There are no English words provided (and I think that SRP are going to have to bite the bullet of making it a policy to always providing them for non-English songs, as their primary market is the USA) but it's still fun to watch...

Yume and Friends

This dance has been prepared for Synthesized Reality Productions' (SRP) concert already planned to be held at Kami-Con next February. That event has two mascots – Shio and Kosho – and SRP has their own mascot, Yume, whom we have encountered previously.

Here all three of them dance to Gravity=Reality, sung by vocaloid Luka, in a nice dance with very good motion – though it is a little disappointing that all three do exactly the same actions in perfect sync through, including eye movements. Perhaps between now and the event a little more realism (okay, pseudo-realism) might be introduced by tweaking the three motions individually a little.

If not, it's still very enjoyable as it is, with (|left to right) Shio, Yume and Kosho. I have to admit that I do like the design of Kosho's skirt. Within the action itself, one just has to hope that Yume's hair braid doesn't whip the others as they dance...