【ニコニコ動画】1925歌ってみたゴム There’s been a lot of changes happening on the Internets recently. For instance, MikuMikuDance has ticked up to version 5.22 with a truck load of fixes between this and 5.19, which is the version I had on my computer. This is the 6th update in the last two weeks, and with Windows 7 now
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We showed the Miku cosplay vid earlier, and comments about this fusion of gynoid and moé seemed to fall somewhere within the (alleged) Uncanny Valley. Being that it’s Halloween, it only makes sense to give you another scare, this time with V-ism staff favorite Megpoid! WhooooooooOOOOOOOoooooooh! There’s actually three videos. The other two are accessible
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Thanks to Miyuki for giving us a heads-up to this. Tech/Music blog Close Box and OpenPod got a leak on what is going to be a new male Vocaloid. From my translation: The voice actor is young and well-known. He DTM’s He volunteered himself for the job. He’s also a client. Obviously, we’ll be anxiously
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Duhnuh nuhhhh nuhhhhhh. Duhnuh nuh nuh nuhhhhhhhh….oh hello. We took a deliberate pause >_> to talk about the recent Vocaran but now it’s time to get back to business. It’s time for the virtual rubber to hit the information superhighway. It’s the Vocaloid Ranking Special Top 10. Over the past 25 weeks (76-100), these are
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If you believe that the Vocaloid characters all act as a family unit, then Sonika must be the red green-headed middle stepchild of the group. She’s always trying to make herself noticed, whether it’s through her music or her Twitter feed, and now she has an incredibly self-aware comic with help from web artist and
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Greetings, true believers! In our last episode, we ran through not one, but TWO episodes of the 4th Ranking Special. We covered over 6 dozen songs and a big interview with asaP (with special guest shippotan). Today, we start breaking down the Top 40. A friendly reminder: these scores are determined from their performances from
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It’s been a bit of a hectic couple of days for the Vocaloidism staff. We all sorta found VocaRan SP4 at once, and since apparently none of us can translate without babelfish, we don’t have the full story, and that’s sort of put the Weekly Rankings on the back burner, but do not fret (as
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MikuMikuDance has been updated to 5.13 on both the English and Japanese versions. (The one you want is dependent on your regional setting. Just setting your non-Unicode setting to Japanese doesn’t work anymore.) This is all well and good, but there’s something better on the update front. Nanami Watabe has uploaded a .pmd of Megpoid!
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NOTE: The following contains comments that are based on the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Vocaloidism or its staff. “Roshin Yuukai,” literally “nuclear fusion”, but more commonly referred to by it’s English subtitle of “Meltdown,” has been taken off of Nico Nico Douga. To non-Japanese speakers like myself,
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As is the case with most of our MikuMikuDance reports, we’re a bit behind, but I think this is noteworthy. On the 29th of August, MMD upgraded to version 5.10. Amongst the various fixes between our last article and this one is featured in the above picture. A new “metal” Miku model comes with the
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