This voicebank is free to use within the non-commercial purpose regardless of for private person, fan circle or commercial person. Please let us know if you agree by clicking on the “Accept” option below. The best advice to creating UTAUs is to have fun with it.This website uses cookies to give you the best online experience. Those are just a few tips for how I handle UTAU character designs! Nothing is a hard and fast rule of course. And there’s all the time in the world to re-draw it. Sketchy/simple official art can be just as pretty. You don’t have to make every standing picture perfect…I tend to do that and it makes them take forever, haha. Perspective shots are great but not for default standing pictures which may be reused for covers/other material. My general tips here are to plan it in a way that shows off most of the design.
Standing Artĭeciding on a pose for your standing art can be tricky. Sticking to a limited set of colors means I’m not struggling to find some that look good together.Ĭreating a Pinterest board for your UTAU’s overall aesthetic can help to take inspiration from! It constantly gives new suggestions and ideas base on the images you add to it. Colourpod is a good place to find palettes. I personally start with color palettes before drawing out an actual design, and when I settle on a design I adjust the colors further until they’re exactly how I want them. This is the Lycoris concept that eventually became Alta. One of these eventually became the basis for Alta’s design! Other times, I find a design I want to settle on quickly. I went through many, many concepts for Lycoris before settling on my final one. My Omichron was loosely inspired by Macne Papa, but you probably wouldn’t guess that immediately! There isn’t anything wrong with being inspired by an existing vocal synth as long as it’s not a blatant ripoff. The best advice I can give for these is to add some defining feature that makes them unique from their inspiration. Many UTAU designs were/are inspired by existing Vocaloids or the Macne series. Commissioning another artist may be an option if money is no object. In fact, there’s quite a few UTAUs in existnce who started out as picrew OCs. Even using a picrew or a free to use base is better than tracing(as long as it’s allowed). The best advice for designs is to not trace any other art, official or not! If you trace, say, a Kei art, people will notice and their view of your UTAU may sour. Character design is subjective and a very complex topic, so I’ll just sum up some tips for UTAUs that I kept in mind. UTAUs may get more publicity than your OCs that aren’t tied to some other known property, so many want to give them good and memorable designs. DesignsĬhoosing to not give your UTAU a design is feasible, but that’s also a conscious choice. UTAUs are all part of the same “category” of vocal synths, so having a name similar to another can make it hard for people to find info about your UTAU. Looking at Vocadb and UTAU wiki is an easy way to check for that. Speaking of appends, the most straightforward way to name them is by voice type (Solid, Soft, etc) but unique names are fun too! I named all of Lycoris’ vbs after phases of the moon and have stuck with that choice.Ī good tip is to not give your UTAU a name that already exists in UTAU land. Having a single UTAU with many updates and appends is also common. Making all your UTAUs in the same art style and theme can be fun, but don’t feel obligated to. From the start I wanted all my UTAUs to have lore, and for them to be mythical/fictional beings of some kind. Lycoris is a Greek name, Omichron is a made up name that’s Greek-ish, and Alta Maha’s name was inspired by the Altamaha-ha, a creature with roots in Indigenous Muscogee tradition.
Japanese naming conventions can be difficult to learn if you’re a beginner. I chose to give all my UTAUs non-Japanese names in order to make it easier on myself.
Using “-loid” or “-poid” suffixes is common, but may make your UTAU seem more like a software than a character. Using the “Ne” kanji (which can also be read as oto) was common from 2008-2012 and is still used sometimes today. It is extremely common for UTAUs to have Japanese names which are filled with meaning. Find different ways to put those elements together or add new ones! Naming Conventions Thinking of what you want to see in an UTAU can help with the design process.
Some are subjective while others are specific. Here’s the list from 2019 of some qualities I wanted to give Lycoris. I design UTAUs based on tropes and qualities I like and want to see more often in characters. Beginning Phaseįirst, I made a document using ideas I wanted to include. This is part guide and part inside look at what I do while creating my own UTAUs. I thought it might be useful to some people. Hello I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time, as someone who puts care into creating my UTAUs.