Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!

PIAPRO has now started a new contest in collaboration with Good Smile Company to design an outfit for the 2013 edition of the Snow Miku Nendoroid. The outfit needs to invoke a sense of snow and ice and be based on a motif of candy sweets fitting Sapporo, such as white chocolate, marshmallows, gummi candies,
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The official Hatsune Miku Facebook page is asking fans to draw their very own images of Miku (with or without other Crypton VOCALOID characters) so that a few chosen ones could be paraded one-per-day as the official “cover art” for the Facebook page once it reaches half a million likes. In addition to illustrations, photos
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A few hours ago, EXIT TUNES announced their own VOCALOID character, MAYU, during one of their EXIT TUNES ACADEMY live events. The official Twitter account for the event also linked to the official homepage, which currently only has a character image as well as usage guidelines and a link to the official Twitter account (@exittunesstaff).
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During the last Tokyo Wonder Festival, we caught a glimpse of the upcoming Gakupo Nendoroid. It was only a prototype model, and was left unpainted. A few days ago, a painted version of the Nendoroid was on display at Nico Super-con (commonly known as Chokaigi). Read on to have a look!

Its time for another edition of the UTARan~!

A few days ago, Good Smile Company posted a 30-second commercial highlighting a photo collage composed of images everyone took for their “Cheerful JAPAN!” campaign wherein they donated money to disaster relief for each photograph of GSC figures people sent in. The video started off with a picture of the standard Hatsune Miku design and
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It’s been a week already? Well I guess its time for another Vocaloid ranking, and this week includes well-known Ps such as Junky and OrebananaP!

Tda has announced on his blog on the 2nd anniversary of the release of Miku Append that his MikuMikuDance model of the character is complete for the time being and is available for free via download. In his post, he thanked the various people who gave him feedback and created videos/images with his model for
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Re:VB, creator of AniMiku, posted on VocaloidOtaku, asking for help from fellow animators, especially ones who have worked with MikuMikuDance before. He is looking for people who can choreograph songs, implement said choreography in MMD and also fine-tune and improve currently done animations so that they are fluid and realistic for “a huge project” for
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