Comments on: Everyone loves Hatsune Miku, right?

By: Dacrazybird

Dacrazybird — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:48:16 +0000

Neat!

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:52:29 +0000

Yeah Im impressed how much of a hit shes been, but I must say after so many rehashings of character models, its good to see something refreashing and new once and awhile. Seriously how many characters have necroraped the Rei Ayanami look?

By: Alpha

Alpha — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:33:25 +0000

Ahh, nice. A rapeably fresh take on a overused character.

By: Ralock

Ralock — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:10:13 +0000

So, being in the states, and I admit, out of the loop, what exactly is this? I googled it, but seriously, that didn’t help much, is she a singer? Anime? Manga? Computer Program? I’m confuzed -.-

By: Ouendan

Ouendan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:25:34 +0000

Hatsune Miku is a recently released vocaloid (a vocaloid is a synth set to emulate voice) used with music, taking the samples of a somewhat popular voice actor. Her mascot character has been the target of a lot of fandom due to some clever marketing and people doing a lot of stuff with her in doujin albums and videos over nico nico.

By: Ralock

Ralock — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:12:36 +0000

Ah, rock on.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:41:26 +0000

Ah so THATS what that character is…

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:04:02 +0000

I doooo love her ;_;

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:10:58 +0000

oh man, I just realized that the curl of hair under her left eye makes her look like she has one empty drooping giant eyeball. now I can’t un-see it!!!

By: Core

Core — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:50:59 +0000

I could care less about who this character is…

@Artist
What I do want to comment on is the actual line work. Wow, what a great job, looking sharp!*very impressed*

What kind of software did you use to sharpen the lines up with? Or is it all digital line work?

Thanks for your time.

By: Ouendan

Ouendan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:57:23 +0000

I used only openCanvas 3 and sketched and inked all from digital scratch. I could go into further details about how I do it, but that’s for another day, maybe.
I prefer openCanvas to other software for linework because it is relatively easy to adjust pen settings quickly. Plus, I think it just “feels” a lot smoother to use compared to photoshop or painter.

By: Core

Core — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:03:57 +0000

@Quendan

Thanks for the reply. :)

I was checking out some of the artwork done with oC. Looks like the software is worth checking out sometime down the line. The Event playback feature looks especially interesting.