This App Makes You A VTuber in 5 Minutes For FREE (MASCOZ Review)

[00:00] This app claims they can make a VTuber

[00:01] model and start streaming in just 5

[00:03] minutes for free. So, I grabbed my

[00:06] timer, put on my detective hat, and then

[00:08] tried it out for myself. This is Mask

[00:10] Oz, a free VTuber app whose goal is to

[00:12] be the easiest and most accessible

[00:14] VTuber app on the market. No art, no

[00:16] rigging, and no additional software

[00:18] required. But, I'm skeptical. So, in

[00:21] this video, we're going to check out its

[00:23] main features and then try to recreate

[00:24] my character Zana in a 5-minute timed

[00:27] challenge to test out their claims. But,

[00:30] most importantly, we'll be critiquing

[00:31] everything along the way because Mask

[00:33] Oz, who is actually the sponsor of

[00:35] today's video, has agreed in writing to

[00:37] let me roast their precious VTuber app,

[00:39] which honestly, I very much respect.

[00:41] Let's get it. New to Mask Oz, pick one

[00:44] and start simple. The male models look

[00:45] like they have that freaking yaoi build.

[00:47] Okay, all right, here we go. The men

[00:49] have shoulders for days. They got that

[00:50] upside-down Dorito. Looks like they've

[00:52] been hitting the gym a lot, you know

[00:53] what I mean? If we turn to the side,

[00:55] bro, they got ass.

[00:57] >> [laughter]

[00:58] >> Yo, they got that bakery. Damn. He's

[01:00] definitely giving off like Manhwa

[01:01] character vibes though, I will say. And

[01:03] here in the shop, you can get a whole

[01:05] bunch of stuff including seasonal things

[01:06] like April Fools, maid and butler. I

[01:08] like this one a lot. Oh, this is cool.

[01:10] Oh my god, wait, is this inspired by

[01:12] Mumei? She's got the the hair and

[01:14] everything. The hair color, the fit. Oh

[01:16] my god, wait, is there is there a Mumei

[01:18] enjoyer in Mask Oz? I'm buying this

[01:20] immediately, by the way. Then you got

[01:21] like signature items and then you got

[01:23] like just shoes, which is coming soon.

[01:25] Okay, we got bare feet for free.

[01:27] I keep pressing the wrong button.

[01:30] >> [laughter]

[01:30] >> I'd rather just my mouse button to move

[01:32] them around. Having to press a keyboard

[01:34] button and then do it is kind of uh

[01:36] unintuitive for me. I'm getting a bit

[01:37] too distracted. We forgot to actually

[01:39] check the rest of this here. So, let's

[01:40] do that real quick. So, we checked out

[01:41] the the samples for both girl and man.

[01:44] So, these are the different facial

[01:46] options. This is very reminiscent of

[01:48] like a character creator. You could

[01:49] spend ages tweaking every single little

[01:51] thing. There's a lot of options to

[01:52] tweak. I know that someone out there is

[01:55] going to make the most hideous-looking

[01:57] [ __ ]

[01:59] >> [laughter]

[01:59] >> If you ever pick up this program and you

[02:01] just end up going crazy with it, please

[02:03] show me. I would love to see it. I love

[02:05] this, by the way. This is such a

[02:07] beautiful-looking hair. I'm such a

[02:08] stickler when it comes to hair. Is that

[02:10] the word stickler? I'm not sure. But, I

[02:12] am so particular with hair and I want

[02:14] hair that looks good. And this hair

[02:16] genuinely looks really good. Like I'm

[02:18] very impressed. Now, it's not like VRoid

[02:21] where you can make your own hair, but

[02:23] it's supposed to be for people who don't

[02:25] know the technical stuff and just want

[02:26] to get started with VTubing with

[02:28] something good. In my opinion, if you

[02:29] want an app that does that, then you

[02:30] want something that looks really good

[02:33] just right out of the box. And so far,

[02:34] they've done a really good job. Now, the

[02:36] only thing though, the only thing for

[02:38] me okay?

[02:39] >> [laughter]

[02:39] >> I want to show you guys something. Can I

[02:40] give her like bald hair? Okay, let's

[02:42] just go with like this model. The

[02:43] forehead is massive.

[02:45] >> [laughter]

[02:45] >> Feel like I could play X's and O's in

[02:47] that forehead, you know? It's like a

[02:48] landing strip. I feel like that's not

[02:50] really a problem though because you can

[02:52] just fix that. There's enough stuff here

[02:54] for you to do that. Because of how all

[02:56] the elements of the face are squished

[02:58] together, it leaves a lot of room up

[03:00] here by comparison, which makes the

[03:02] forehead look like way bigger than it

[03:03] probably actually is. Oh, bro, this is

[03:06] Zana's hair. This is straight-up Zana's

[03:08] Oh, what the

[03:09] >> [laughter]

[03:10] >> Actually, you know what? Let's keep it

[03:11] to Mumei hair. I really like this hair

[03:13] for some reason. Like genuinely love

[03:15] this hair. So, eyes is another thing,

[03:17] right? Because you're looking at

[03:18] someone's face, you're looking at the

[03:19] VTuber's face for so long that you want

[03:21] them to have good-looking eyes. The eyes

[03:23] are the windows to the soul. But, I do

[03:25] appreciate how you get the option

[03:26] between left or right. On the right

[03:28] side, you can have this eye or this eye.

[03:30] Sparkles. Sparkle position. Whoa, whoa,

[03:33] whoa. I feel like a slider is uh is an

[03:35] odd choice for something that doesn't

[03:37] really move in a slidery way. He's kind

[03:39] of giving that like uh-huh, uh-huh,

[03:41] uh-huh. You got a lot of options for the

[03:43] eyes. I mean, I guess it is important,

[03:45] right? But, there's so many options,

[03:46] even eyelash length. Eyelashes on fleek.

[03:49] It's cool how you can adjust different

[03:51] eyelashes. You even have the option for

[03:53] double eyelids. That's really cool

[03:55] attention to detail. Goodness, I'm

[03:56] really not a fan of the control. Right

[03:58] click, I it just it's it's not working

[04:00] for me. I'm seeing this mole, by the

[04:02] way. I'm just noticing it now. Why is

[04:04] this so low-res? Everything else is

[04:06] high-res. Why ain't this mole high-res?

[04:08] Got to show some respect to the mole

[04:10] enjoyers. We like those beauty marks,

[04:12] man. Uh we're going to go to outfit now.

[04:14] So, we've got T-shirt with a cherry.

[04:17] This reminds me of a certain brand. If

[04:19] you know, you know. If I were to pick

[04:20] Zana's outfit, it would be like a hoodie

[04:22] shirt. If there's this, then I can

[04:24] definitely color it in Zico's colors

[04:26] like that. I There's no open variant.

[04:28] Shoes would be cool if you could be

[04:29] split up the shoes and then socks as

[04:31] well. I want to be able to separate the

[04:33] set. Like this set is really cool. But,

[04:36] what if I'm like I love these leg

[04:37] warmers and I want to use them with

[04:39] something from here? Like I want to use

[04:41] them with this top. But, then I I lose

[04:43] the leg warmers. I just got bare feet.

[04:45] And I know some of you guys like that,

[04:47] but sometimes, you want the leg warmers.

[04:50] >> [laughter]

[04:51] >> Like in my opinion, if you're going out

[04:52] here spending real money on buying these

[04:55] things, then you would want the

[04:57] flexibility to actually mix and match

[05:00] them with everything else. I think it

[05:01] would be nice to have a default of an

[05:04] open jacket because so many VTubers that

[05:06] I've seen over the 5 years that I am a

[05:08] VTuber have open jacket designs with a

[05:10] shirt underneath or something

[05:12] underneath. It's so popular and it's

[05:14] kind of disappointing to not see it

[05:16] here. Okay, let's check out accessories

[05:18] now. All right, got these all cute. I'm

[05:20] looking like Power from Chainsaw Man.

[05:23] All right, what else we got? I got a

[05:24] leopard tail, squirrel tail, tail tail.

[05:28] >> [laughter]

[05:28] >> I will be your devil if you be my angel.

[05:31] For the most part, they do have most if

[05:33] not all of the essentials as free stuff,

[05:34] which is great. You have a lot to work

[05:36] with already. Uh you got hair, different

[05:38] hairs. This is still my favorite. Close

[05:40] second though is this. I really like

[05:42] this. Or even this or this. Honestly, I

[05:44] like most of the hair. The hair is

[05:45] pretty good. Got so many different kinds

[05:47] of eyes. You got a clock eye, you got

[05:49] heart eyes. Like you can tell that they

[05:51] put in so much effort into making the

[05:54] premium items actually feel premium. Eye

[05:56] lines. Oh, this is cool. They got more

[05:58] outfits here. Mad. Again, there's no

[06:01] like outfit that has an open jacket.

[06:04] Where's my open jackets? I mean, I guess

[06:05] this is the closest thing we you get to

[06:07] an open jacket, but it's like premium.

[06:09] This one is also premium. I feel like an

[06:11] open jacket shouldn't be premium. And

[06:13] this isn't even a jacket. This is like a

[06:14] sweater. It's an open sweater. I wonder

[06:16] if like the guys' stuff is different. I

[06:19] look like freaking Sung Jinwoo over

[06:20] here. I

[06:21] Th- Hang on a second. Why does he get to

[06:24] have a an open jacket? Give my girl an

[06:26] open jacket, Mask Oz, please. This is

[06:30] Like I get it. You want to show off his

[06:31] pecs and his abs and all that kind of

[06:33] stuff, but I think the girls should also

[06:35] have open jackets. I'm sorry about my

[06:36] obsession with open jackets, but like if

[06:38] my boy can rock up wearing a pink

[06:41] turtleneck t-shirt, then my girls can

[06:43] get open jackets.

[06:45] My goodness. Oh my god, I can make him

[06:47] look like that scene from K-pop Demon

[06:49] Hunters. We're going to go back. We're

[06:51] going to go back. All right, we're in

[06:52] the studio now. So, this should give us

[06:54] all the stuff we need for like stream

[06:56] and also tracking. Face track. Oh, it

[06:58] even has hand tracking.

[07:00] All right, I'll start off with the

[07:01] webcam. Oh,

[07:03] look at this. I'm looking up, front,

[07:05] side, looking down, tilt. It's really

[07:08] sensitive. Okay, that's pretty good.

[07:10] Let's try hand tracking. Okay, so it

[07:12] needs leap motion. I do not have leap

[07:13] motion. Uh

[07:15] e ooh a ooh. Honestly, it's pretty good.

[07:19] It needs a little bit of smoothing

[07:21] because it's very jittery. Being jittery

[07:23] though, like gives you a lot of fluidity

[07:24] because it tracks basically everything

[07:26] the webcam sees. Expressions. Oh my god.

[07:29] Ah!

[07:31] IS THAT MY TEETH?

[07:33] >> [laughter]

[07:33] >> MY TEETH ARE FALLING OUT. MY DENTURES.

[07:36] That's my reaction after seeing my teeth

[07:38] fall out.

[07:39] >> [laughter]

[07:39] >> Ooh, sorrow. Oh, my teeth are falling

[07:42] out. Please help, Mask Oz. My teeth are

[07:44] falling out. Motion. Vogue put Oh my

[07:47] god, WHOA, HANG ON. WHOA! WOW, I FORGOT

[07:51] I had a squirrel tail. I'm not going to

[07:52] lie. Wait, these are dances. Oh, they

[07:54] even have soda pop. Ain't no way. You're

[07:56] my soda pop. You're my little soda pop.

[07:58] POP. MUMEI, NO!

[08:01] >> [laughter]

[08:01] >> DO THEY EVEN HAVE IRIS OUT? Did I tell

[08:03] you guys how much I love Rezae? I wonder

[08:05] if they hired like actual dancers for

[08:07] this because it looks very like mocap in

[08:09] a good way. Imagine they had my salute.

[08:11] Hey, Mask Oz, can we sort something out

[08:13] so that my salute becomes an emote?

[08:15] >> [laughter]

[08:15] >> That'd be so sick. What's this? Toy

[08:17] hammer. Oh my god, do this. Ha, it

[08:20] missed me. Yeah, you missed me again.

[08:22] Yeah, you missed me again. Ow.

[08:26] Background. So, you can even have screen

[08:28] screen to put whatever background you

[08:30] want. Or you can even do transparent,

[08:31] which is cool. I love the sunset here.

[08:33] That looks really. Oh, lighting. A

[08:35] little bit of orange, got a little bit

[08:37] of purple here. Oh, I feel like I'm

[08:39] right at home. If you zoom in, instead

[08:42] of there being cell shading, you can

[08:43] definitely see some of the blends

[08:44] happening with the polygon. Am I still

[08:46] sad? Hang on, we got to change this

[08:48] expression.

[08:49] >> [laughter]

[08:50] >> Wait, they have like camera shake? They

[08:52] have the most subtle camera shake ever.

[08:54] I can barely feel it. It's definitely

[08:56] It's there. Y'all need to have like a

[08:58] slider to ramp up the intensity up or

[09:01] down. Just this one thing here is not

[09:03] going to do it. It's a cool idea though.

[09:05] I love it when we have handheld cameras.

[09:06] It definitely makes it feel like more

[09:08] immersed. What's a VFX? Whoa! I'm blue

[09:11] da ba dee da ba die da ba dee.

[09:14] Oh, I didn't do the wink test. Hang on.

[09:19] There we go. Other side.

[09:21] It would be cool to have more options

[09:23] for tracking. You can adjust sensitivity

[09:25] for the eyes, the blinks, the

[09:27] parameters, link blinking as well, which

[09:30] would be cool, smoothness. Just having

[09:32] more than just you select it and then

[09:33] you go. For anyone who wants to take it

[09:35] just a little bit further and wants to

[09:37] actually tweak their stuff to look even

[09:38] better, it would be cool to have these

[09:39] options. You even got glow. I love how

[09:41] it just ramps up like crazy here. Okay,

[09:44] we're going to have like the most subtle

[09:45] glow. You know how I am with my

[09:46] subtleties. Audio. Oh, hang on, we got

[09:49] to turn this on.

[09:50] Oh, it's really loud. Can I adjust the

[09:53] volume? I can't adjust the volume. But,

[09:57] this is really cool. We can have the

[09:59] 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.