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Category: Character Modeling
Spy x Family CG Fan Work
October 30, 2022Spy x Family (pronounced "Spy Family") is a popular manga series now available as an anime. It has some great characters and a fun plots. ...
Read moreAnimation Hair and Cloth Physics Bounces
May 15, 2022One common problem with animating characters is when you instantly cut from one pose to another for characters with physics on hair or cloth. Physics ...
Read moreTiling for Expressions with VRoid Characters
January 19, 2021If you have watched Suvidriel's YouTube channel you will know you can have multiple textures for your VRoid character face, clothes, etc using tiling. This ...
Read moreExample Expressions from Blendshapes with VRoid Studio, HANA_Tool, and Unity
January 15, 2021This post includes an update on my plans to do expressions with VRoid characters for the purpose of creating short animated video clips using Unity ...
Read moreUnity Blendshapes to add Muscles to VRoid Characters
November 3, 2020VRoid gives you a lot of flexibility over many things of a character, but arm thickness is not one of them. You can control the ...
Read moreAnimating VRoid Facial Texture Changes in Unity
October 19, 2020Some expressions involve changing the face structure (a smile is created by a blend shape) while others involve changing the texture of the face (like ...
Read moreChanging Facial Expressions (part 3)
October 14, 2020I recently shared a blog post on a Unity script I am experimenting with to add ARKit compatible expressions to VRoid characters. Of course the ...
Read moreChanging Facial Expressions (part 2)
October 10, 2020I previously wrote a post on Changing Facial Expressions where I went through the basics of how to control facial expressions in Unity. Since then ...
Read moreGenerating iFacialMocap Blend Shapes in Unity for VRoid Characters
October 4, 2020I have been exploring iFacialMocap, an iOS app that uses the iPhone "ARKit" library to convert facial expressions into a series of movements. These can ...
Read moreCopying BlendShapes in Unity with a Script
September 7, 2020My goal is to create characters in VRoid Studio and then use them in an animated video created in Unity. A part of this challenge ...
Read moreChanging Facial Expressions
August 10, 2020VRoid characters in Unity include "Blendshapes" (called "Shape Keys" in Blender) that morph the eyes, eyebrows, and mouth on the face to create different expressions. ...
Read moreControlling VRoid Eyes in Unity
August 8, 2020The eyes are an important part of acting. They convey a lot of emotion, from their shape to what they are looking at. It is ...
Read moreMaking VRoid Characters Blink in Unity
July 29, 2020By default, characters loaded into Unity using UniVRM do not blink. You can animate blinking yourself using animation clips, but UniVRM also provides a script ...
Read moreVRoid Studio Characters and Animation in Unity
July 26, 20203D models are created by external applications and then loaded into Unity as assets. Characters, furniture, buildings etc are all models. VRoid Studio can export ...
Read moreSetting the scene: VRoid + Unity for animated cartoons
July 20, 2020"I wonder how hard it would be to use VRoid Studio and Unity to create an animated movie?" I am starting this series of blog ...
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