How to create a Vtuber Design right! Advice + Ideas

[00:00] your video design is one of the most

[00:02] important things when it comes to your

[00:03] content it represents you and it will be

[00:06] a thing you see every day for the next

[00:08] few years until you graduate so today

[00:10] I'm going to tell you how to do that se

[00:12] right and how to make a good character

[00:14] design why should you listen to me I'm

[00:16] an artist and character designer and

[00:19] I've been reading since 2 and a half

[00:20] years and I've rep it nine whole times

[00:23] and there soon will be a 10th one

[00:25] hopefully it will be the last one

[00:26] because with this one I'll make sure

[00:28] that I'm not going to repeat the

[00:29] mistakes every so far and I'll teach

[00:31] them to you so you don't have to reind

[00:33] nine times as 12 or more so first of all

[00:37] your M should represent you as an

[00:40] example if you have a Gman personality

[00:43] don't make your M Dy Mommy okay one of I

[00:45] previous mod models um looked kind of

[00:48] like this it was really edgy and I don't

[00:51] know and well I was just kind of

[00:54] miserable when I had to mod cuz it's

[00:55] just not me I'm not etchy at least not

[00:57] my personality um if also seen another

[01:00] YouTuber say your model should reflect

[01:03] your content but I don't think that's

[01:04] true it should it should represent your

[01:07] personality as an example um ji DOI if

[01:10] you look at her model you already know

[01:12] this a gremlin or at least like a person

[01:14] with a lot of energy like she does

[01:16] gaming content and like why would she

[01:20] make a model based of gaming content it

[01:22] w make sense it will make sense though

[01:25] to make her model based off of her

[01:27] personality um now secondly a thing it

[01:31] will also represent is what you like

[01:33] okay Implement clothing styles colors

[01:36] Aesthetics and accessories that you like

[01:38] into your design as example one of my

[01:40] feing friends Jam peanuts they're um

[01:43] their style is soraa and they like they

[01:46] like rainbows like everything colorful

[01:48] and you can see it on the model thirdly

[01:50] and one of the most important things to

[01:52] consider then designing is your theme

[01:55] it's really really important to have a

[01:57] clear theme you should be able to look

[01:59] at you and be able to tell what thing

[02:01] you have going on except if you're

[02:02] really come to them of or species and or

[02:05] speci species I cannot pronounce the

[02:08] word if you don't know how um I

[02:10] recommend writing down elements that are

[02:12] similar to your theme and then

[02:13] implementing them into your design an

[02:15] example if you are a demon add horns and

[02:18] a tail possibly add small Wings maybe

[02:21] could add fire um how you add fire to

[02:23] model well you could make a small fire

[02:25] pin you could add it to your texture um

[02:29] if you don't know how to do D let me

[02:30] show you an example um I made a design

[02:32] recently and one of the um elements was

[02:35] emotions look at this there was a small

[02:37] hard cut out on the chest there's small

[02:39] tears on the skirt and under the eyes

[02:42] and there's also small hearts on the

[02:43] boots if you can't get with anything

[02:46] yourself you could look up the signs

[02:47] with a similar theme and see what other

[02:49] people did um but don't copy don't copy

[02:52] that's not don't copy also if you don't

[02:55] know how to get inspiration I'll talk

[02:57] about that as well after the next advice

[02:59] which is is balance details sounds kind

[03:02] of dumb but let me explain I think

[03:04] there's three types of details big

[03:06] details middle details and small details

[03:09] kind of like food sizes unless you're

[03:10] American let me explain them with a

[03:12] design I made recently look at this

[03:14] cotton candy girl a big detail will be

[03:17] the skirts or the pigtails a middle siiz

[03:19] detail could be the Ruffles and a small

[03:22] one could be the candy all over there I

[03:24] hope you kind of get what I mean cuz I

[03:26] think it's kind of important to balance

[03:27] this uh cuz if you have too much big

[03:29] details it's going to look plain if it

[03:31] has too many details it's going to be

[03:33] overwhelming and a pain in the as draw

[03:35] and well we do not want to be up charge

[03:37] foric design so listen to me also if you

[03:40] made it this far I assume you like this

[03:42] video so please like because a lot of

[03:44] people forget to do that even though

[03:45] they like the video as I said earlier I

[03:47] was going to talk about how to get

[03:50] inspiration so now I'm going to do that

[03:52] first of all how I get pictures

[03:54] personally um I like to use Twitter

[03:57] because I often come across adoptables

[03:58] or just genuinely character design

[04:00] that's that's my time liit I don't know

[04:02] about yours um so what I really

[04:03] recommend is Pinterest if you don't have

[04:06] it freaking download it okay you missing

[04:08] out

[04:09] buddy what I do is I just search up the

[04:11] species and download some photos like as

[04:13] an example I search up vampire or c/

[04:15] weer or cat character just just stuff

[04:18] like that um and then I also look up the

[04:20] elements and hairstyles and then when

[04:22] you think you have enough photos like

[04:25] maybe 10 to 20 it can be less it can be

[04:27] more it's time to get it a mve

[04:30] board I actually only started using M

[04:33] bars until very recently I always just

[04:36] put the inso in my reference window but

[04:38] now I'm looking but now looking back I

[04:40] don't really recommend it anymore

[04:42] because a lot of times I looked at one

[04:44] photo for too long and forgot the other

[04:47] ones also I use Pixar to make the mood

[04:50] Parts you can add photos really fast

[04:52] it's free and yeah it's just really good

[04:54] so if you don't have an app to make them

[04:55] I I really recommend it uh

[05:00] I'm sorry I'm sick next is how easy it

[05:03] is to grow a character I already

[05:04] mentioned this earlier that you

[05:05] shouldn't have too much spell details

[05:07] because well you might either get

[05:09] upcharged or be frustrated every time

[05:11] you Dy yourself so yeah but it's not

[05:13] just about small details I'm about to

[05:15] say next is mainly going to apply to

[05:17] artist try to make a design easy to draw

[05:20] for you as an example I suck at drawing

[05:24] t-shirts okay so I'm not going to aim to

[05:27] give my character t-shirt or if you

[05:29] don't like drawing white hair maybe you

[05:30] should maybe you shouldn't go with white

[05:31] hair Al I'm just saying this for mental

[05:33] sanity okay if you really want white

[05:35] hair or whatever go with it okay take

[05:37] this little grain of salt pretend you're

[05:39] a white woman that thinks salt spicy

[05:41] that's how much you want to take his

[05:42] advice from me okay okay you got

[05:45] it oh yeah also think about rigging

[05:48] unless you're another rigger then that's

[05:49] not your problem but again it's not that

[05:51] big of a deal at the time recording it's

[05:53] 2024 and there's pretty much TOS

[05:57] everywhere now a last advice for this

[05:59] this video is make your design

[06:02] recognizable you can do that in many

[06:04] many ways one will be the Silhouettes

[06:06] personally my favorite things to make

[06:08] that s out is Big clothes like sleeves

[06:11] big hoods or capes I think we need more

[06:14] ERS of capes I also really love unique

[06:17] hairstyles and big Tails a few video

[06:20] mods that did this really well is first

[06:21] of all crushy Oli CR I'm not sure if I'm

[06:25] pronouncing name right probably not um

[06:27] maybe you've seen her before um she's

[06:29] from whole life and she's a Zombie Beer

[06:31] which you can already tell by looking at

[06:33] her and I I love her design and model

[06:35] overall cuz um what makes her model or

[06:38] like silouettes s out so much first of

[06:40] all is a skirt it's big and it's really

[06:45] um unsymmetrical which is also good um

[06:48] and you should consider that too and

[06:51] also the buns and the SW I love this SW

[06:53] I love that detail one we also a really

[06:56] good Sid is Juju Wenda she is a

[07:00] um I probably pronounce it wrong too

[07:03] he's a small preev um preed YouTu um

[07:07] she's a she's a I think vood doll vood

[07:11] doll beer and I just I love the design

[07:13] um I love the Buns I just I love

[07:16] everything about it it's so cool um I

[07:18] yeah the was made by gentle power who is

[07:21] um a fairly small um character designer

[07:26] here on Twitter um and their designs are

[07:28] really really good you should definitely

[07:29] check them out oh yeah something you

[07:31] could also consider is how much your

[07:33] character stands out among other

[07:34] characters with the same species or

[07:36] theme let's test this out uh my current

[07:39] model is a shark let's search that up on

[07:42] printerest and see how much I would send

[07:44] out this is also just pin um I'm sure if

[07:46] I'd be compared to other viers I would

[07:48] perhaps stand a little less but it

[07:50] doesn't really matter because again I'm

[07:52] Pro I'm probably going to reprint soon

[07:54] it's going to be the 10th time

[07:59] but yeah that's it with this video

[08:01] already um I really hope you found this

[08:03] helpful and that you're now more

[08:05] inspired to make a character sign Al a

[08:07] small reminder that I do commission so

[08:09] if you really don't want to do it

[08:10] yourself I can always be the one to do

[08:11] it for you but for now bye-bye and

[08:14] please show me this bye

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