[0:03] Hello my YouTube friends!
[0:06] Believe it or not this fully animated 3D
[0:09] Vtuber cost me exactly $0 to make and the
[0:14] best part you can build one just like
[0:17] this and have it running in
[0:19] OBS in less than 15 minutes.
[0:21] I'm going to show you the completely free
[0:23] software stack for creating, tracking and
[0:27] how to bridge all of this into OBS for
[0:30] your next live stream.
[0:32] We're going from blank canvas to
[0:33] broadcast ready so you
[0:35] know what, let's get to it!
[0:38] I don't want to be repetitive today so
[0:40] everything I'm going to show you is
[0:42] completely free and there is a link to
[0:45] each piece in the description down below
[0:47] so you can download it and follow along.
[0:50] That is the best way to learn.
[0:52] Let's get right into character creation.
[0:55] So to set up our model we're going to go
[0:56] ahead and use Vroid Studio.
[0:59] It's totally free, you can see it's for
[1:00] Windows, Mac and you can download it on
[1:03] Steam or of course the App Store.
[1:05] We're going to go with Windows and it
[1:07] just puts it in there so now we need to
[1:09] just go to our download folder.
[1:11] Once it's downloaded we're going to go
[1:12] ahead and just double click on it and you
[1:14] don't need to put this in any special
[1:15] place just click next and we're going to
[1:17] create a desktop shortcut by clicking
[1:20] next and it's just going to install.
[1:22] And it's that easy we can just click
[1:24] Launch Vroid Studio and finish.
[1:26] Boom!
[1:27] There it is.
[1:28] So we're going to click Get Started and
[1:30] agree to the terms and since I'm going to
[1:32] show you what to do we're just going to
[1:34] go ahead and click Skip.
[1:35] Alright so this is
[1:36] Vroid Studio right here.
[1:38] For whatever reason the sample models
[1:39] isn't working, doesn't really matter.
[1:41] We're going to go
[1:42] ahead and create a new one.
[1:43] We want a masculine one.
[1:44] Really they pretty
[1:45] much both look the same.
[1:46] You can use your scroll
[1:47] wheel to zoom in and out.
[1:49] You can use your right
[1:50] mouse button to spin it around.
[1:52] See it at all the angles.
[1:53] If you press your scroll wheel you can
[1:55] move this guy around like this.
[1:57] All of this is pretty much
[1:58] exactly what you would expect.
[2:01] If you've ever done character creation
[2:03] for any kind of video game
[2:05] this is like that on steroids.
[2:08] You literally have access to every bit
[2:12] and piece of your character.
[2:15] On the face you can move every piece.
[2:18] Your ears, your nose, your mouth.
[2:22] You can change all of those things up but
[2:25] it goes a lot farther because you can
[2:27] adjust the whole body, the torso and
[2:30] every aspect of the clothing.
[2:33] And I could certainly go through every
[2:34] bit and piece but since I'm sure that
[2:37] you've already done character creation in
[2:40] a game just imagine character creation
[2:43] where you have access to every bit and
[2:46] piece on that character.
[2:49] There is one thing that I want to show
[2:51] you though because while you can modify
[2:54] these characters in any way you see fit
[2:56] it doesn't make any sense for me to tell
[2:59] you that but not show
[3:00] you how you can do it.
[3:02] Obviously that's not
[3:03] the look I'm going for.
[3:04] I'd rather have him look like he's
[3:05] wearing blue jeans or something.
[3:07] So what we can do is go to custom up here
[3:09] and we can adjust them.
[3:11] I already did the adjustment on these but
[3:13] I'll go ahead and show you how I did it.
[3:15] I'm just going to go to edit texture
[3:17] right here and it'll come up here with
[3:19] some colors, base colors and otherwise
[3:21] and I'm going to move him over here so we
[3:24] can see how the colors work and we'll go
[3:26] to the base color and I'm just going to
[3:28] go with some blue jeans, go with darker
[3:31] ones like that and we can have our accent
[3:34] color here and we want it to be blue but
[3:38] it can be dark like that.
[3:40] That'll work.
[3:41] So we can click out of here and we can
[3:43] save the item or close without saving.
[3:45] It'll still save the
[3:46] colors that we have right here.
[3:48] Now our shirt doesn't actually look black
[3:51] which we want it to be black so we're
[3:53] going to do the same thing.
[3:54] We're going to edit our texture and we're
[3:55] going to come in here and
[3:57] we're going to go black.
[3:58] There we go.
[3:59] So what if we wanted
[4:00] to add a big logo here?
[4:01] Well you would think you'd be able to
[4:03] just click it here and input your logo
[4:05] but it doesn't really work like that.
[4:08] And what we would do is right click on
[4:10] here and export and it's just going to
[4:12] export this layer PNG right here.
[4:16] So we're just going to save that and then
[4:17] we're just going to go
[4:18] into an editing software.
[4:21] In this case I use Photopita.
[4:23] It's totally free.
[4:24] I'll leave a link in the description.
[4:26] We can just drag our layer on there.
[4:29] Super easy.
[4:30] And then download whatever logo you want,
[4:33] drag it on and all we have to do is put
[4:36] it where we want it or shrink it up.
[4:38] Now needless to say there would be a
[4:39] little bit of warping or something like
[4:41] that because these are 3D assets.
[4:45] So one of the things that you could do if
[4:46] you wanted to is take this logo and maybe
[4:50] give it a little bit of a shift and then
[4:53] stretch it like this a little bit.
[4:55] It'll look a little weird here but it
[4:58] will look better on your character.
[5:01] And then we're going to click the check
[5:02] mark and we're going to go with file and
[5:05] export PNG and we can just
[5:08] call this whatever we want.
[5:10] And then what we can do is go back into
[5:12] here and all we have to do is go to our
[5:15] layers here and click on the image and
[5:18] just go to our downloads where that just
[5:20] went and click on it
[5:22] and click open and boom.
[5:24] There it is.
[5:25] And then all you have to do is remove
[5:27] your base color and you can see that it
[5:29] shows up and looks pretty good.
[5:32] Now you can go in here and tweak this up
[5:34] in your photopea so it's exactly how you
[5:37] want it or whatever but for the purposes
[5:40] of this that looks pretty good.
[5:42] We can click on here and save our tops so
[5:45] it's going to save it as an item.
[5:47] So we can come in here anytime if we
[5:49] wanted to dress them up in a different
[5:50] way and boom it's
[5:52] going to still be there.
[5:54] The last thing we have we've
[5:55] got to do is our socks here.
[5:57] Those look like socks that we would use.
[6:00] And right here we want to go with shoes
[6:02] and I'm going to go with a pair of
[6:04] sneakers of some sort.
[6:05] These kind of look like Jordans.
[6:07] I like it.
[6:08] That will work just fine.
[6:09] So now we've got our character all
[6:12] created and we can go into
[6:14] accessories and add them.
[6:16] There aren't really any in here.
[6:18] We can also look at our character and
[6:20] adjust or outline the width.
[6:22] All that sort of stuff.
[6:24] Add rim light shading, eye alignment,
[6:26] change up the bones,
[6:28] whatever you want to do.
[6:29] So you can get
[6:30] accessories and all that stuff.
[6:31] I'm going to show you how
[6:32] you can do that as well.
[6:34] But pretty much once you're done you're
[6:36] just going to want to
[6:37] save your character.
[6:38] So we're going to come up here and click
[6:40] export as VRM and we can reduce polygons
[6:44] and all that sort of stuff.
[6:45] But there's no real need to do any of
[6:47] that if you have a
[6:48] reasonably decent graphics card.
[6:50] So what we're going to do is export.
[6:52] It's going to bring this up.
[6:53] Now the program we're going to use is
[6:54] going to be a VRM 0 and all we have to do
[6:57] is put the name of
[6:58] our character in there.
[6:59] We'll call this one Mike
[7:00] and the creator is also Mike.
[7:03] And basically that's about all the
[7:04] information that we have to put in here.
[7:07] And we can put redistribution prohibited
[7:09] at whatever blah blah blah and export.
[7:12] It processes this up and we just get to
[7:14] decide where we want it to go.
[7:16] So that looks good.
[7:17] We'll save it right there.
[7:18] And now we're exported and
[7:20] ready to get this thing working.
[7:22] Now you could spend hours or even days
[7:24] creating your character.
[7:27] Every aspect can be modified and you can
[7:29] open each asset and paint your own bits
[7:32] and pieces if you're
[7:34] artistically inclined.
[7:35] That works exactly the
[7:36] same as the logo on the shirt.
[7:39] Every asset from the face to the shoes
[7:41] can be downloaded and modified.
[7:43] So to use these models with OBS we're
[7:46] going to go ahead and use
[7:47] a program called VC's face.
[7:49] It's totally free.
[7:50] All you have to do is
[7:51] click here to download it.
[7:54] Boom it downloads.
[7:55] Go to our download page and what we're
[7:57] going to do is right click and unzip it.
[7:59] And there is really no install here.
[8:02] You just run it right from here.
[8:04] So what we're going to do is right click
[8:06] and copy this and then we're going to
[8:08] take it and put it somewhere.
[8:09] We'll be able to find it later.
[8:11] So we'll just stick it over here.
[8:12] I'm going to right click and paste it.
[8:14] And we'll double click in here and we are
[8:17] going to right click on the faces here
[8:19] and we're going to copy as path.
[8:21] Then what we're going to do is go to our
[8:23] desktop right click and
[8:24] we're going to go to new.
[8:26] Shortcut and we're going to paste that
[8:27] path and click next and finish and boom.
[8:30] Now we have a shortcut on our desktop.
[8:32] We can just double click on
[8:34] that and we're ready to go.
[8:35] All right.
[8:36] So here it is.
[8:37] VC face loading an avatar is super easy.
[8:41] We already created one.
[8:42] So we're just going to add it.
[8:43] Click opened and then we can set our
[8:45] camera camera settings all this stuff.
[8:48] You can just click recommended settings.
[8:50] It'll scan your system and put the best
[8:53] settings possible right here.
[8:55] You can select our dude.
[8:56] We actually see him down here.
[8:58] Just click start and you can
[8:59] see it works really really good.
[9:02] When I blink it blinks.
[9:03] When my mouth moves it moves.
[9:05] It really does a nice job but you will
[9:08] see that my hands don't really work and
[9:11] that's really kind of the only bummer.
[9:13] Now there are free plugins that allow you
[9:15] to add hand tracking to CV face but I
[9:18] found them to be pretty
[9:20] bad and add a lot of latency.
[9:22] So I found another solution for face
[9:24] tracking with hand tracking built in.
[9:26] Let me show you.
[9:27] So to control our little guy we're going
[9:29] to use this program called Warudo and we
[9:32] could just go over here and click
[9:33] download and you can see that the
[9:36] unfortunate aspect of this is you have to
[9:37] download it on steam.
[9:39] It's really easy to get a steam account
[9:41] and all that sort of stuff.
[9:43] So I'm just going to go ahead and open
[9:44] steam and we're going to search for it
[9:46] and it's totally free.
[9:47] So we're just going to add it to our
[9:48] library and then we can just go over into
[9:51] our library here and
[9:52] find it and install it.
[9:54] So once it's
[9:55] installed we can just run it.
[9:56] Only thing annoying about this is that it
[9:58] has to run the steam
[9:59] client while it's running.
[10:01] So next we want to click on basic setup
[10:03] and so we're going to go ahead and select
[10:05] our character folder.
[10:06] In this case I have a character saved so
[10:10] this will be the folder.
[10:11] So what I'm going to do is cut our
[10:13] character and we're going to open the
[10:15] character folder here and I'm just going
[10:16] to paste it in there.
[10:17] And close all that stuff out.
[10:19] Then I'm going to drop this down and we
[10:21] can select Mike and click OK.
[10:23] And we're going to go ahead and let it
[10:24] help us configure our motion capture.
[10:27] So do we want to track full body?
[10:29] Probably not.
[10:30] Upper body.
[10:30] Yes.
[10:31] We don't have Leap Motion controllers.
[10:33] We don't have an iPhone or iPad that
[10:35] supports face ID because not everybody's
[10:37] going to have one but we
[10:38] do have a working webcam.
[10:40] That's our working webcam.
[10:41] We're going to click OK
[10:42] and then face tracking.
[10:43] There's a whole bunch of
[10:44] different ones that you can use.
[10:46] We're going to go ahead and start with a
[10:47] media pipe and we can customize our face
[10:49] tracking right here with different info.
[10:52] We know our blend was already VMR zero.
[10:54] So and body movements.
[10:56] Yes.
[10:56] Auto blinking.
[10:57] Yes.
[10:58] Eye movements.
[10:58] Yes.
[10:59] Head movements.
[10:59] Yes.
[11:00] And all this stuff is pretty good.
[11:03] Lip Sync.
[11:03] We're going to go ahead and click yes.
[11:05] We're going to select our microphone and
[11:07] we're going to go ahead and
[11:08] click yes on there and click OK.
[11:10] And we can customize our post tracking so
[11:12] we can use the keyboard the
[11:13] trackpad all this sort of stuff.
[11:16] Mere tracking fingers
[11:17] only and all that's fine.
[11:20] We're going to leave that and click OK.
[11:22] Yes.
[11:22] We want to import the expressions of
[11:24] course and click OK.
[11:25] And it tells you what your expressions
[11:27] are and how to access
[11:28] them with the shortcut keys.
[11:31] So take a picture of this or whatever.
[11:33] Write it down somewhere
[11:34] so you know what they are.
[11:35] We're going to click OK and we want to
[11:37] use a transparent
[11:38] background and we're done.
[11:39] So here we go.
[11:40] There are all kinds of settings that you
[11:43] can change and move and do so that you
[11:46] could literally set
[11:47] this up any way you want.
[11:49] You can change your environment.
[11:50] You can change the directional light.
[11:52] This will affect how your character looks
[11:54] and all that kind of stuff.
[11:56] It's really pretty amazing.
[11:57] Then we've got our character right here
[11:59] and we can go through and mess around
[12:01] with different media pipe settings and
[12:03] everything else on how this is handled.
[12:05] And we can change the shortcuts for our
[12:08] emotions if we want.
[12:10] So all of this stuff is in here.
[12:12] We can save animation profiles.
[12:14] The amount of customization that this
[12:16] program has is absolutely unbelievable.
[12:20] It's really really awesome.
[12:22] And then of course the media pipe.
[12:23] This is the motion tracker.
[12:25] We can go down here and what we want to
[12:26] do is go ahead and
[12:27] calibrate the face tracking.
[12:29] And then what we want to do is we could
[12:31] change the global sensitivity and all
[12:33] that stuff on here if we like.
[12:34] Our eye blinking
[12:35] sensitivity and all that stuff.
[12:38] And then hand tracking.
[12:39] We want to calibrate our hand tracking.
[12:41] So put your hands up and
[12:42] then go ahead and calibrate it.
[12:44] And there we go.
[12:45] So now when we go down here you can see.
[12:47] Now I don't know what this stuff is.
[12:49] So this gives you your frames per second.
[12:51] How fast it's tracking you.
[12:53] All that sort of stuff.
[12:56] And there we go.
[12:58] Turn the pendulum physics off.
[13:00] If you want that stuff off you can see
[13:02] over here it shows you your
[13:03] hand tracking when it's on.
[13:05] But we really need to kind of move
[13:07] ourselves or zoom ourselves out.
[13:09] So we can just go in the window.
[13:12] Zoom ourselves in and out.
[13:14] Basically move it around just like you
[13:15] did on the other piece.
[13:17] Rotate it around.
[13:18] So there we go.
[13:19] And of course we've got all of our hand
[13:21] movements and everything else.
[13:23] Now all we have to do
[13:24] is get this into OBS.
[13:25] Go ahead and click the plus.
[13:27] And this time we're going
[13:28] to do a video game capture.
[13:29] You can have as many of
[13:30] these in there as you want.
[13:31] We'll just call this VTube.
[13:33] Click OK.
[13:34] And we're going to go ahead
[13:35] and capture a specific window.
[13:37] We're going to drop this down
[13:38] and select the right window.
[13:40] Right.
[13:40] There we go.
[13:41] And then we're going
[13:41] to allow transparency.
[13:43] And that's it.
[13:44] Now all we have to do is
[13:45] place this wherever we want.
[13:46] And there you go.
[13:47] We're all set.
[13:49] Now I don't think this one is quite as
[13:51] expressive as the other one.
[13:52] Let me show you what I mean.
[13:54] If we go into our game capture again.
[13:57] Let me go to VTube.
[13:58] Let's just call this one VC.
[14:01] And what we're going to do is capture a
[14:02] specific window once again.
[14:04] And allow the transparency.
[14:05] Click OK.
[14:07] And there we go.
[14:07] So now we have two of them
[14:09] running at the same time.
[14:10] So you can see the
[14:11] difference in expression.
[14:12] Now I get it.
[14:13] This stuff is on here.
[14:15] It's really easy to get rid of these.
[14:17] All you have to do is
[14:18] hold down the alt key.
[14:19] And you can drag these off.
[14:21] And there we go.
[14:22] So I don't know.
[14:23] What do you think?
[14:24] Obviously it is really nice
[14:25] to be able to use your hands.
[14:27] But we've got VC on the left.
[14:29] And we've got Warudo on the right.
[14:32] Which allows you to
[14:34] use your hands and stuff.
[14:35] But I still think VC is much more
[14:37] expressionate and all that sort of stuff.
[14:40] And of course I have to use two different
[14:42] webcams in order to make this work.
[14:44] Because the same webcam can't share both
[14:46] without a lot of latency.
[14:48] But it just seems to me like there is a
[14:51] lot more expressive
[14:52] activities going on with VC.
[14:55] So it's up to you.
[14:57] And they're both free.
[14:58] So try them out.
[14:59] Now let me know what you think about the
[15:01] two trackers in the comments below.
[15:04] And do you want to
[15:04] see more about VTubing?
[15:06] There are a lot of different
[15:08] things that we can explore.
[15:10] From where to find assets, to creating
[15:12] and modifying the stock assets.
[15:14] And even advanced
[15:15] movements and character setups.
[15:17] Let me know about it
[15:18] down in the comments.
[15:20] And if you want something even simpler
[15:22] you should check out
[15:23] this video on PNG tubing.
[15:25] It's all totally free there as well.
[15:27] And if you're always looking for tools,
[15:29] tips and tricks to help make you a better
[15:31] live streamer or YouTuber,
[15:32] subscribe to the channel.
[15:34] My name is Michael Fire Jr.
[15:35] Thank you so much for watching.
[15:37] Have a great day.
[15:39] And I'll see you in the next one.