Halfway into making art in order to rig it for facial mo-cap in Live2D & I realized it was gonna be a lot more work than I remembered it!
Below is what I did abt 2 days ago, progressed lots since
Now I've got the hair basically ready, segmented into front, left, & right bangs, & main hair. Got the eyes ready for open and shut but still gotta add in a half shut version, & making good versions of all mouth positions, etc.
Suffice to say it's fun af to try and problem solve this project mine.
I am absolutely intending to use this as a moving stream avatar. It's gonna be great, if I can figure out importing it into some facial capture software I've got.
My main goal is that with this avatar, I want to add in hair physics, which I didn't do with the last one (just ended up hard animating gravity into the head tilts which made it feel very static/stiff and sans the feel of inertia).
Anyway, the main benefit here with this avatar will be that I won't ever have to feel stressed about how good I look once I get back into streaming c:
Bedhead? Hah! No worries
No makeup? No problem ;)
Someone shy in background who doesn't wanna show up on stream video? No issues here!
Annnd, it's my own art that I'll be piloting. So it's just like, "fuck yes. I made that!" Kinda deal~
I added in some crow feathers along the collar of the clothing to get the crow motif of "Lucy the Crow" into the avatar, as well as doing a number of other small quality of life changes (extending lines, fixing small errors, etc).
But I just realized that although the eye layer setup is currently perfect for Clip Studio Paint or Photoshop etc... I gotta have an eyewhite layer on TOP of the skin layer which the pupil will clip to in Live2D in order for things to work proper
@porsupah It is quite tempting to add them :P
Maybe I could do em as like a cat ear prop headband xD
I do meow rather convincingly a lot, and will likely be meowing on stream at random intervals because it is fun.
Also, a character with a crow motif meowing still fits the crow bill, since they sometimes mimick other creatures, I think, right?
LucyTheCrow
Shy bunny