The excellent illustrator Mark Crilley shows us how to draw Miku with just a couple of pencils, starting with an ugly blob-and-frame outline and transforming it into something special. We also learn what 'Vocaloid clip-atrons' are(!)
If you don't feel like going through the whole thing (in two parts, below), here's a two minute time-lapse video of the whole exercise...
Here's part one of the detailed and narrated drawing (which appeared a week ago), covering all the line placement...
...and this is part two, uploaded just a few hours ago, on how to make the shading work...
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Happy Birthday, Lapis!
And to celebrate the start of her second year of existence in the world, this clip is depicted as being from her birthday concert, with a couple of familiar members of the audience. There is one design flaw in the video: the backgrounds are so white that Lapis' arms seem to disappear from time to time. I have left a comment at the YouTube page mentioning this.
Keep it going after the song ends, there's a little of what the Japanese call omake – extras...
Keep it going after the song ends, there's a little of what the Japanese call omake – extras...
Friday, 5 April 2013
Nyan Cat
I happened to notice that local (to me) twitterers were discussing an on-line game called Nyan Cat – a name I immediately recognised. It was therefore no surprise, when I looked it up and visited the site, to find Daniwell's song for (and performed by) Miku NyaNyaNya as its background music.
It is good to discover that the Vocaloid scene is penetrating into the Medway consciousness, one way or another. Whichever way that might be, it gives me the perfect excuse to post this...
It is good to discover that the Vocaloid scene is penetrating into the Medway consciousness, one way or another. Whichever way that might be, it gives me the perfect excuse to post this...
The End
That is the title of a new Vocaloid Opera (would you believe) that, from its trailer, seems somewhat strange.
Still, it's an audacious concept, and will break the ice regarding the broadening of Vocaloids into other art media formats. There is already at least one Disc Jockey (DJ) specialising in the music and visuals of Miku (and perhaps others) – I've seen a video of it, not really worth posting here but useful just to mention – and there are no doubt a number of other ideas just waiting to be imagined and put into practice.
Here, then, in the meantime, is the trailer to The End...
Still, it's an audacious concept, and will break the ice regarding the broadening of Vocaloids into other art media formats. There is already at least one Disc Jockey (DJ) specialising in the music and visuals of Miku (and perhaps others) – I've seen a video of it, not really worth posting here but useful just to mention – and there are no doubt a number of other ideas just waiting to be imagined and put into practice.
Here, then, in the meantime, is the trailer to The End...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Tweet of the Day – 2 April 2013
From Alex Wickham (also known as WikiGuido) whose reply here precedes (as per Twitter convention) the originator's tweet...
"So lying, then
RT@tomcopley: Good on Nottingham's Lab council for redefining two-bed council homes as one bed to get round the#bedroomtax"
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