[0:00] This app claims they can make a VTuber
[0:01] model and start streaming in just 5
[0:03] minutes for free. So, I grabbed my
[0:06] timer, put on my detective hat, and then
[0:08] tried it out for myself. This is Mask
[0:10] Oz, a free VTuber app whose goal is to
[0:12] be the easiest and most accessible
[0:14] VTuber app on the market. No art, no
[0:16] rigging, and no additional software
[0:18] required. But, I'm skeptical. So, in
[0:21] this video, we're going to check out its
[0:23] main features and then try to recreate
[0:24] my character Zana in a 5-minute timed
[0:27] challenge to test out their claims. But,
[0:30] most importantly, we'll be critiquing
[0:31] everything along the way because Mask
[0:33] Oz, who is actually the sponsor of
[0:35] today's video, has agreed in writing to
[0:37] let me roast their precious VTuber app,
[0:39] which honestly, I very much respect.
[0:41] Let's get it. New to Mask Oz, pick one
[0:44] and start simple. The male models look
[0:45] like they have that freaking yaoi build.
[0:47] Okay, all right, here we go. The men
[0:49] have shoulders for days. They got that
[0:50] upside-down Dorito. Looks like they've
[0:52] been hitting the gym a lot, you know
[0:53] what I mean? If we turn to the side,
[0:55] bro, they got ass.
[0:57] >> [laughter]
[0:58] >> Yo, they got that bakery. Damn. He's
[1:00] definitely giving off like Manhwa
[1:01] character vibes though, I will say. And
[1:03] here in the shop, you can get a whole
[1:05] bunch of stuff including seasonal things
[1:06] like April Fools, maid and butler. I
[1:08] like this one a lot. Oh, this is cool.
[1:10] Oh my god, wait, is this inspired by
[1:12] Mumei? She's got the the hair and
[1:14] everything. The hair color, the fit. Oh
[1:16] my god, wait, is there is there a Mumei
[1:18] enjoyer in Mask Oz? I'm buying this
[1:20] immediately, by the way. Then you got
[1:21] like signature items and then you got
[1:23] like just shoes, which is coming soon.
[1:25] Okay, we got bare feet for free.
[1:27] I keep pressing the wrong button.
[1:30] >> [laughter]
[1:30] >> I'd rather just my mouse button to move
[1:32] them around. Having to press a keyboard
[1:34] button and then do it is kind of uh
[1:36] unintuitive for me. I'm getting a bit
[1:37] too distracted. We forgot to actually
[1:39] check the rest of this here. So, let's
[1:40] do that real quick. So, we checked out
[1:41] the the samples for both girl and man.
[1:44] So, these are the different facial
[1:46] options. This is very reminiscent of
[1:48] like a character creator. You could
[1:49] spend ages tweaking every single little
[1:51] thing. There's a lot of options to
[1:52] tweak. I know that someone out there is
[1:55] going to make the most hideous-looking
[1:57] [ __ ]
[1:59] >> [laughter]
[1:59] >> If you ever pick up this program and you
[2:01] just end up going crazy with it, please
[2:03] show me. I would love to see it. I love
[2:05] this, by the way. This is such a
[2:07] beautiful-looking hair. I'm such a
[2:08] stickler when it comes to hair. Is that
[2:10] the word stickler? I'm not sure. But, I
[2:12] am so particular with hair and I want
[2:14] hair that looks good. And this hair
[2:16] genuinely looks really good. Like I'm
[2:18] very impressed. Now, it's not like VRoid
[2:21] where you can make your own hair, but
[2:23] it's supposed to be for people who don't
[2:25] know the technical stuff and just want
[2:26] to get started with VTubing with
[2:28] something good. In my opinion, if you
[2:29] want an app that does that, then you
[2:30] want something that looks really good
[2:33] just right out of the box. And so far,
[2:34] they've done a really good job. Now, the
[2:36] only thing though, the only thing for
[2:38] me okay?
[2:39] >> [laughter]
[2:39] >> I want to show you guys something. Can I
[2:40] give her like bald hair? Okay, let's
[2:42] just go with like this model. The
[2:43] forehead is massive.
[2:45] >> [laughter]
[2:45] >> Feel like I could play X's and O's in
[2:47] that forehead, you know? It's like a
[2:48] landing strip. I feel like that's not
[2:50] really a problem though because you can
[2:52] just fix that. There's enough stuff here
[2:54] for you to do that. Because of how all
[2:56] the elements of the face are squished
[2:58] together, it leaves a lot of room up
[3:00] here by comparison, which makes the
[3:02] forehead look like way bigger than it
[3:03] probably actually is. Oh, bro, this is
[3:06] Zana's hair. This is straight-up Zana's
[3:08] Oh, what the
[3:09] >> [laughter]
[3:10] >> Actually, you know what? Let's keep it
[3:11] to Mumei hair. I really like this hair
[3:13] for some reason. Like genuinely love
[3:15] this hair. So, eyes is another thing,
[3:17] right? Because you're looking at
[3:18] someone's face, you're looking at the
[3:19] VTuber's face for so long that you want
[3:21] them to have good-looking eyes. The eyes
[3:23] are the windows to the soul. But, I do
[3:25] appreciate how you get the option
[3:26] between left or right. On the right
[3:28] side, you can have this eye or this eye.
[3:30] Sparkles. Sparkle position. Whoa, whoa,
[3:33] whoa. I feel like a slider is uh is an
[3:35] odd choice for something that doesn't
[3:37] really move in a slidery way. He's kind
[3:39] of giving that like uh-huh, uh-huh,
[3:41] uh-huh. You got a lot of options for the
[3:43] eyes. I mean, I guess it is important,
[3:45] right? But, there's so many options,
[3:46] even eyelash length. Eyelashes on fleek.
[3:49] It's cool how you can adjust different
[3:51] eyelashes. You even have the option for
[3:53] double eyelids. That's really cool
[3:55] attention to detail. Goodness, I'm
[3:56] really not a fan of the control. Right
[3:58] click, I it just it's it's not working
[4:00] for me. I'm seeing this mole, by the
[4:02] way. I'm just noticing it now. Why is
[4:04] this so low-res? Everything else is
[4:06] high-res. Why ain't this mole high-res?
[4:08] Got to show some respect to the mole
[4:10] enjoyers. We like those beauty marks,
[4:12] man. Uh we're going to go to outfit now.
[4:14] So, we've got T-shirt with a cherry.
[4:17] This reminds me of a certain brand. If
[4:19] you know, you know. If I were to pick
[4:20] Zana's outfit, it would be like a hoodie
[4:22] shirt. If there's this, then I can
[4:24] definitely color it in Zico's colors
[4:26] like that. I There's no open variant.
[4:28] Shoes would be cool if you could be
[4:29] split up the shoes and then socks as
[4:31] well. I want to be able to separate the
[4:33] set. Like this set is really cool. But,
[4:36] what if I'm like I love these leg
[4:37] warmers and I want to use them with
[4:39] something from here? Like I want to use
[4:41] them with this top. But, then I I lose
[4:43] the leg warmers. I just got bare feet.
[4:45] And I know some of you guys like that,
[4:47] but sometimes, you want the leg warmers.
[4:50] >> [laughter]
[4:51] >> Like in my opinion, if you're going out
[4:52] here spending real money on buying these
[4:55] things, then you would want the
[4:57] flexibility to actually mix and match
[5:00] them with everything else. I think it
[5:01] would be nice to have a default of an
[5:04] open jacket because so many VTubers that
[5:06] I've seen over the 5 years that I am a
[5:08] VTuber have open jacket designs with a
[5:10] shirt underneath or something
[5:12] underneath. It's so popular and it's
[5:14] kind of disappointing to not see it
[5:16] here. Okay, let's check out accessories
[5:18] now. All right, got these all cute. I'm
[5:20] looking like Power from Chainsaw Man.
[5:23] All right, what else we got? I got a
[5:24] leopard tail, squirrel tail, tail tail.
[5:28] >> [laughter]
[5:28] >> I will be your devil if you be my angel.
[5:31] For the most part, they do have most if
[5:33] not all of the essentials as free stuff,
[5:34] which is great. You have a lot to work
[5:36] with already. Uh you got hair, different
[5:38] hairs. This is still my favorite. Close
[5:40] second though is this. I really like
[5:42] this. Or even this or this. Honestly, I
[5:44] like most of the hair. The hair is
[5:45] pretty good. Got so many different kinds
[5:47] of eyes. You got a clock eye, you got
[5:49] heart eyes. Like you can tell that they
[5:51] put in so much effort into making the
[5:54] premium items actually feel premium. Eye
[5:56] lines. Oh, this is cool. They got more
[5:58] outfits here. Mad. Again, there's no
[6:01] like outfit that has an open jacket.
[6:04] Where's my open jackets? I mean, I guess
[6:05] this is the closest thing we you get to
[6:07] an open jacket, but it's like premium.
[6:09] This one is also premium. I feel like an
[6:11] open jacket shouldn't be premium. And
[6:13] this isn't even a jacket. This is like a
[6:14] sweater. It's an open sweater. I wonder
[6:16] if like the guys' stuff is different. I
[6:19] look like freaking Sung Jinwoo over
[6:20] here. I
[6:21] Th- Hang on a second. Why does he get to
[6:24] have a an open jacket? Give my girl an
[6:26] open jacket, Mask Oz, please. This is
[6:30] Like I get it. You want to show off his
[6:31] pecs and his abs and all that kind of
[6:33] stuff, but I think the girls should also
[6:35] have open jackets. I'm sorry about my
[6:36] obsession with open jackets, but like if
[6:38] my boy can rock up wearing a pink
[6:41] turtleneck t-shirt, then my girls can
[6:43] get open jackets.
[6:45] My goodness. Oh my god, I can make him
[6:47] look like that scene from K-pop Demon
[6:49] Hunters. We're going to go back. We're
[6:51] going to go back. All right, we're in
[6:52] the studio now. So, this should give us
[6:54] all the stuff we need for like stream
[6:56] and also tracking. Face track. Oh, it
[6:58] even has hand tracking.
[7:00] All right, I'll start off with the
[7:01] webcam. Oh,
[7:03] look at this. I'm looking up, front,
[7:05] side, looking down, tilt. It's really
[7:08] sensitive. Okay, that's pretty good.
[7:10] Let's try hand tracking. Okay, so it
[7:12] needs leap motion. I do not have leap
[7:13] motion. Uh
[7:15] e ooh a ooh. Honestly, it's pretty good.
[7:19] It needs a little bit of smoothing
[7:21] because it's very jittery. Being jittery
[7:23] though, like gives you a lot of fluidity
[7:24] because it tracks basically everything
[7:26] the webcam sees. Expressions. Oh my god.
[7:29] Ah!
[7:31] IS THAT MY TEETH?
[7:33] >> [laughter]
[7:33] >> MY TEETH ARE FALLING OUT. MY DENTURES.
[7:36] That's my reaction after seeing my teeth
[7:38] fall out.
[7:39] >> [laughter]
[7:39] >> Ooh, sorrow. Oh, my teeth are falling
[7:42] out. Please help, Mask Oz. My teeth are
[7:44] falling out. Motion. Vogue put Oh my
[7:47] god, WHOA, HANG ON. WHOA! WOW, I FORGOT
[7:51] I had a squirrel tail. I'm not going to
[7:52] lie. Wait, these are dances. Oh, they
[7:54] even have soda pop. Ain't no way. You're
[7:56] my soda pop. You're my little soda pop.
[7:58] POP. MUMEI, NO!
[8:01] >> [laughter]
[8:01] >> DO THEY EVEN HAVE IRIS OUT? Did I tell
[8:03] you guys how much I love Rezae? I wonder
[8:05] if they hired like actual dancers for
[8:07] this because it looks very like mocap in
[8:09] a good way. Imagine they had my salute.
[8:11] Hey, Mask Oz, can we sort something out
[8:13] so that my salute becomes an emote?
[8:15] >> [laughter]
[8:15] >> That'd be so sick. What's this? Toy
[8:17] hammer. Oh my god, do this. Ha, it
[8:20] missed me. Yeah, you missed me again.
[8:22] Yeah, you missed me again. Ow.
[8:26] Background. So, you can even have screen
[8:28] screen to put whatever background you
[8:30] want. Or you can even do transparent,
[8:31] which is cool. I love the sunset here.
[8:33] That looks really. Oh, lighting. A
[8:35] little bit of orange, got a little bit
[8:37] of purple here. Oh, I feel like I'm
[8:39] right at home. If you zoom in, instead
[8:42] of there being cell shading, you can
[8:43] definitely see some of the blends
[8:44] happening with the polygon. Am I still
[8:46] sad? Hang on, we got to change this
[8:48] expression.
[8:49] >> [laughter]
[8:50] >> Wait, they have like camera shake? They
[8:52] have the most subtle camera shake ever.
[8:54] I can barely feel it. It's definitely
[8:56] It's there. Y'all need to have like a
[8:58] slider to ramp up the intensity up or
[9:01] down. Just this one thing here is not
[9:03] going to do it. It's a cool idea though.
[9:05] I love it when we have handheld cameras.
[9:06] It definitely makes it feel like more
[9:08] immersed. What's a VFX? Whoa! I'm blue
[9:11] da ba dee da ba die da ba dee.
[9:14] Oh, I didn't do the wink test. Hang on.
[9:19] There we go. Other side.
[9:21] It would be cool to have more options
[9:23] for tracking. You can adjust sensitivity
[9:25] for the eyes, the blinks, the
[9:27] parameters, link blinking as well, which
[9:30] would be cool, smoothness. Just having
[9:32] more than just you select it and then
[9:33] you go. For anyone who wants to take it
[9:35] just a little bit further and wants to
[9:37] actually tweak their stuff to look even
[9:38] better, it would be cool to have these
[9:39] options. You even got glow. I love how
[9:41] it just ramps up like crazy here. Okay,
[9:44] we're going to have like the most subtle
[9:45] glow. You know how I am with my
[9:46] subtleties. Audio. Oh, hang on, we got
[9:49] to turn this on.
[9:50] Oh, it's really loud. Can I adjust the
[9:53] volume? I can't adjust the volume. But,
[9:57] this is really cool. We can have the
[9:59] dance. Hang on.
[10:04] Oh, boo. It ended. Hang on. I wish it
[10:06] would loop. Oh god. [music] Oh god, I've
[10:08] overlaid the music. I've made a terrible
[10:10] mistake. There's three tracks playing at
[10:12] the same time. Oh dear god. How do I
[10:14] stop this? Can I pause? Can I stop the
[10:16] music please?
[10:18] As I was saying, it would be really cool
[10:20] to have a way to loop the songs so that
[10:22] they can act as your like background
[10:24] songs. Because like if you're making a
[10:26] full VTuber setup, you want everything
[10:28] in, right? You want not only the
[10:30] overlays, the model, the background, but
[10:31] also you want the music. And the fact
[10:33] that they have music built in here, like
[10:35] you don't need to go scouting for
[10:36] copyright free songs or commission your
[10:38] own. You have it all here. This is
[10:40] really cool. But it would be even better
[10:42] if you can actually play it as a
[10:43] background song and not just have it all
[10:46] just, you know, one thing. And it's also
[10:48] really loud. Please let me turn down the
[10:50] volume.
[10:52] Now we go to streamer setting. So
[10:54] because this is Korean, if I remember
[10:56] correctly, Twitch isn't actually in
[10:58] Korea. So if you are a Twitch streamer,
[11:01] you actually have to paste in your link
[11:02] here. And then I'm going to do a spout
[11:04] two capture because if you do spout two
[11:06] capture, it saves on a lot of resources.
[11:08] So now if I go to my OBS, add source,
[11:12] spout capture, mascots. So if I want to
[11:15] get my own background, all I would have
[11:17] to do is go to this button here. Uh
[11:19] convert it alpha legacy. Default works
[11:21] as well. If you just pick default, that
[11:23] should be fine. And then you can just
[11:24] like overlay it on whatever you want.
[11:25] It's really cool as well to see like how
[11:27] this tracks with my life 2D model. You
[11:29] know what? Let's put them side by side.
[11:31] I'm curious to see how this looks. Yeah.
[11:34] >> [laughter]
[11:35] >> If this had a little bit of smoothing,
[11:37] this would be perfect. I'm very
[11:38] impressed by the tracking. It's actually
[11:40] really good. I'm using an iPhone for my
[11:43] Ziko's model, but I'm using a webcam for
[11:45] the Mascots model. And this is really
[11:47] cool.
[11:48] >> [laughter]
[11:48] >> Hotkeys. I can select here if I want
[11:51] like a certain expression or a certain
[11:53] motion or even if I want to change my
[11:55] different outfits. Where's my Reze
[11:57] dance? So let's do Iris out. So now if I
[12:00] go all the way here and then press alt
[12:01] three. Yeah.
[12:04] And then I can just press it again to
[12:05] undo it. So one thing that you can
[12:07] actually do is import your own VRM,
[12:09] which is cool. So I'm going to try
[12:11] import the Zana model that I made in
[12:13] VRoid. Okay, so I tried importing in
[12:15] Zana and it it crashed the program.
[12:18] I'm going to try it again. There we go.
[12:20] I imported in Zana. I don't know what
[12:22] happened the first time, but I did the
[12:24] exact same thing and it works now. Let's
[12:25] see how she looks like with the
[12:26] tracking. Uh
[12:27] the mouth tracking not quite working.
[12:30] I'm not sure why. Things are looking
[12:32] quite stiff, but let's see how it looks
[12:34] like in actual motion. So if I go to the
[12:36] Oh no, you can't access the Okay. So
[12:38] when you bring in a VRM, you can still
[12:40] track it like this, but you won't be
[12:41] able to access any of the motions or
[12:43] expressions. To get the most out of the
[12:44] Mascots, you're definitely going to have
[12:46] to create your own Mascots model. All
[12:48] right, so now it's time for the time
[12:50] challenge. Let's see if you can actually
[12:51] create this in 5 minutes. So I've
[12:54] brought in a timer here. We're going to
[12:56] set this to 5 minutes and then we're
[12:57] going to see if it works. Now the caveat
[12:59] here is that I'm only going to be using
[13:00] the free features that you get in
[13:02] Mascots by default. So hopefully this
[13:04] should kind of show you what you can
[13:05] expect and what you can do without
[13:07] spending any money at all. 5 minutes on
[13:09] the clock. Let's go. We're going to
[13:11] forget about the samples. We're going to
[13:12] go straight to the face. That face will
[13:14] look good. You know what? We're going to
[13:16] come back to the eyebrows once we've
[13:17] decided on the hair. And I think we
[13:19] found one here that actually suits her
[13:21] really well, which was this one. If you
[13:22] notice that I actually have like a
[13:23] little bit of a cooler toned my hair.
[13:25] And then that contrasts really well with
[13:27] my red highlight. All right, so now
[13:29] we're going to go back to face. Change
[13:31] the eyebrows to a lighter color. We're
[13:34] going to change this to this eye. And
[13:37] then also remove pupil. I'm going to add
[13:39] in a sparkle. Was it this one? Yeah, it
[13:41] was this one. And then I'm going to
[13:42] change the eye shape so that eye size is
[13:44] smaller. Uh the eye shape is Let's see
[13:48] here. I'm wasting too much time on this
[13:50] one. So I'm just going to keep it like
[13:51] that. That's close enough. Okay, that's
[13:52] all premium so I can't do any of that.
[13:54] So let's skip all of that except for
[13:56] this one. I think I can do like a a
[13:58] little bit of a mole here. We love
[14:00] beauty marks in this household. Actually
[14:01] no, Zana has freckles. What am I talking
[14:03] about? I don't even know my own
[14:04] character. So it makes sense for her to
[14:06] have this. Oh my goodness gracious. So
[14:08] now we're going to go to outfit. So of
[14:09] course we can't use any of the premium
[14:11] features here. So the closest we're
[14:12] going to do Actually, you know what?
[14:13] We're going to start with bottom. So
[14:15] Zana has shorts, so we're going to go
[14:16] with the shorts like that. And then
[14:18] we're going to do this. And then on the
[14:20] top one here, we're going to do See,
[14:22] let's see how it goes. We got two and a
[14:23] half minutes left on the clock. A form
[14:25] of jacket preferably, but we got uh no
[14:28] open jackets. So we're just going to go
[14:30] with something close enough, which is
[14:32] going to be like this shirt. Actually,
[14:34] you know what? She would definitely wear
[14:36] turtleneck. Freaking control left click,
[14:38] right click.
[14:39] Now the shoes. So we're going to give
[14:41] her sneakers, but we're going to have
[14:43] like blue highlights of course cuz it's
[14:44] Ziko's colors. Okay, perfect. What's
[14:46] this one? Is this like Oh, that's a
[14:47] socks. Okay. So that can be like a
[14:49] darker color as well, darker tone like
[14:51] that. Kind of match [music] the rest of
[14:52] the outfit. All right, now accessories.
[14:55] She doesn't have anything except for a
[14:56] wing and I don't think there's a wing
[14:58] option here, at least not at the moment.
[14:59] It would be really cool to have wings
[15:01] actually. Mascots, wings, please.
[15:04] And then we're going to start up with
[15:05] studio. So we're going to save
[15:06] everything here first. Oh, there's over
[15:07] a minute left. Can we do this? Oh my
[15:09] god. Time is cutting close. We're going
[15:11] to ignore all the sliding. Just pretend
[15:12] like none of that happened. Tracking,
[15:14] webcam. Set the webcam tracking. Okay,
[15:17] perfect. I can move. I can talk. Yeah,
[15:19] under 50 seconds left. Okay, we're going
[15:20] to go with the background. Background
[15:22] can stay as normal. Actually, you know
[15:24] what? We are going to stick with this
[15:25] one. We'll put in the lighting we had
[15:26] before, uh which was something like Oh
[15:29] god, what did I have? Screw it. We're
[15:30] not going to do that. We're going to go
[15:31] straight to OBS. Oh god. So we're going
[15:33] to go to the Mascots thing that we had
[15:35] earlier. We're going to enable that. We
[15:37] have extra time. We have extra time. Can
[15:39] put in uh Oh god, where was it? Where
[15:41] was it? Was it this one? What What did I
[15:42] have? What What did I have earlier? Oh
[15:44] god. We have 8 seconds. It's fine. Just
[15:46] set it to none. Okay, time.
[15:49] >> [laughter]
[15:50] >> Also, if you guys are wondering, I did
[15:51] create a premium version of her as you
[15:53] can see here. So what are my final
[15:55] thoughts? While the free options are
[15:56] limited, especially because we don't
[15:58] have an open jacket. Yes, I'm still
[16:00] bringing this up and no I won't stop.
[16:02] The tracking quality and model quality
[16:04] are really good. But most importantly,
[16:06] it really is one of the most accessible
[16:08] VTuber apps I've used so far. I mean,
[16:11] you just saw me make a model and then
[16:13] set it up in OBS in literally 5 minutes.
[16:15] So if you're looking to get into
[16:16] VTubing, try it out for yourself. Link
[16:18] is in the description. It's free and
[16:20] lightweight, so it should work for even
[16:22] low-end setups. But if you want to know
[16:23] what hardware to use with it, check out
[16:25] this video next. Ciao.