Chapter 36: Ta Ta Ta Ta

-I was really intrigued by the image you used in your broadcast. I didn’t know you could use so many different expressions so naturally.

It’s really amazing! It’s a live performance method using a standing image, right? It’s a video format that is occasionally seen in Japan, but I never thought I’d see it in Korea.

And live on a broadcast! I hadn’t thought of this before, but when I combined it with the work I’ve been studying and doing recently, I thought it would be quite interesting, you know?

This is called Live 2D, right? It makes the picture move. It’s not a gif file that just plays a fixed picture, it actually tracks a person’s facial expressions and movements and moves accordingly! What do you think?

-Uh, um. Uh, uh….

Shortly after the call started, a person named Hayoon poured out a torrent of words to Osorin.

And Osorin, who heard it, either didn’t understand what she was saying from the middle, or was simply surprised by the sudden tension, lost her human language.

But as if the returning reaction didn’t matter, Hayoon continued to talk to Osorin and propagate her thoughts.

What’s going on all of a sudden….

Since Jina brought her, I asked her in a private message.

Me: What’s with this person all of a sudden?

Me: Jina’s former editor?

After a while, a chat came up.

Jina: I told you at the dinner, there’s a friend who’s leaving

Jina: It’s her

I remembered what I said at the dinner.

Although it was a joke, Jina promised me 3 times as much and asked me to work with her.

She said that one of the editors had quit.

Jina: I brought her because I thought the child editor would like it

Jina: How about it

Jina: Do you like it?

Me: I might not like it

Jina: The new broadcast method you used this time

Jina: You’re not going to end it here, are you?

Jina: I thought there would be something next

My hand stopped at Jina’s chat.

Did I tell her?

No, I haven’t told anyone about virtual broadcasting.

Jina: Just a feeling

Jina: I think the child editor is drawing a bigger picture

Me: Yeah.. well..

Me: You’re right

Me: So how did you get her?

Jina: She was admiring your broadcast and thinking about various things

Jina: She’s a kid with a lot of desire for improvement

Jina: So I thought it would be good if I put them together

Jina: Her current job is Li..?

Me: They make the skeletons of game or animation characters.

Jina: Yeah, that

When you see the production process of game or animation characters, they often put dots on the joints and connect the lines to the center.

That’s Rigging work.

Simply put, it is the work of inserting joints into a doll to make it move in various ways.

And that was a necessary job to become a VTuber.

‘I thought it would be the hardest to find a rigger, but I found one so easily.’

There are three things needed to create a virtual character.

An illustration that will be the face.

Rigging that will be the movement.

Tracking that recognizes and synchronizes real-world movements.

Especially, illustration and rigging work are the most important, so they are called mama or papa, meaning second parents.

Among them, rigging work was only interested in the game or animation industry before VTubers became popular, so the number was absolutely small.

So I was wondering if I should find someone in Japan, which is showing signs of popularity….

Me: Honestly, thank you

Me: You brought exactly the person I was looking for

Jina: For your information, I paid the cost in advance

Jina: So do what you want

Jina: Osorin doesn’t have a lot of money yet

Jina: This is quite expensive

Me: No, but still

Jina: Anyway, this is what the child editor wanted to do, not Osorin, right?

Jina: Then do one thing I ask you to do later

Jina: I’ll call it even with that

Certainly, Osorin doesn’t have much YouTube revenue yet.

If you combine it with the broadcast revenue, it will be a decent company salary, but this kind of work can be worth more than a salary.

It is said that it costs more than 5 million won to make a high-quality virtual character.

It’s okay if I pay all the expenses because it’s the direction I want, but Osorin will definitely stop it.

Considering that, it would be more comfortable to just gratefully accept Jina’s favor in exchange for a wish.

‘But somehow, it feels like I’m paying the price with my labor, not with money.’

Suddenly, the image of a s*ave being sold to another house came to mind, but I shook my head.

Me: Then I’ll gratefully accept it

Me: I just need to help Jina, right?

Jina: I’ll do it later, so look forward to it

Me: I won’t do anything impossible

Let’s put our foot down.

This person is different from Bom, she can subtly escape.

You have to be careful with people who have survived in the internet broadcasting world for a long time.

Jina said okay and sent a chat teasing me not to be too scared, and our conversation ended.

Then, at the right timing, a personal chat was sent from Osorin.

Osorin: Are you two talking separately..?

Osorin: Please save meㅠㅠㅠ

-So that’s it. You put points all over the body to make it move. It’s not just the joints, but also the small movements. Especially the eyes and hair.

In 3D animation, the hair is shiny, right? That’s because you put rigging on each chunk, put in weight values, and so on. But sometimes the hair goes through the body, and that’s—

-I see~

Oh right.

They were still talking.

-Similarly, clothes, especially skirts. If you combine it completely with the body and make it one lump, there won’t be a big problem,

but it will be a little awkward, and if you put the clothes on top of the body, problems such as the body piercing the clothes will occur. To solve that, the model is important, but rigging is also important—

-Wow, that’s amazing~

Hayoon, who speaks every detail, and Osorin, who responds with a soulless voice.

She probably responded with genuine admiration at first.

That’s why Hayoon was excited and her mouth opened, even though she wasn’t asked.

Osorin: Come quickly and save me!!!

Osorin: Racoon, please!

Discord’s personal chat notifications rang in succession.

It somehow sounded like a desperate emergency rescue signal.

It seemed like Hayoon and Osorin were getting along well, so I stayed quiet and chatted.

I was also shy, but it was also because it wasn’t certain yet.

I’m going to wait a bit and talk to her.

‘Then now, I need to think about finding an illustrator….’

This is also a headache.

Because Bom was there, I could at least imitate a VTuber, but now I can’t even do that.

Bom said that she received many broadcast offers from various places because of the <5 Years Later Childhood Friend> video I made for her and her appearance on the variety show.

She even said that she received a lot of advertisements and that she would be sitting on a pile of money, and I still remember her voice laughing.

This person said she wanted to go up with acting just a few months ago.

I guess she couldn’t refuse the huge amount of money.

I can continue to edit broadcasts and YouTube with what I have now, but if that happens, there will be many people who follow us someday, and there will be no difference between them and us.

In fact, there are signs of people trying to imitate my editing style here and there.

In order to make our own unique feature, we need to make continuous updates or create something that cannot be approached.

‘But if I make her draw new illustrations continuously, it will become an exclusive contract, and if I want a high quality, the cost is a problem.’

Both are largely related to cost.

I thought I had given up my obsession with money, but in this case, I realized that the more money you have, the better.

I was thinking about that.

The mister was lying on the living room sofa, scratching his belly.

I saw the mister, who had a bushy beard and was scratching his calf with his foot.

“Ah, right. There was the mister?”

“Huh? What.”

I was so absorbed in internet broadcasting these days that I didn’t look around.

Come to think of it, isn’t Bom a person who appears on TV?

TV shows people with various abilities.

And that mister is the one who films it.

One of the mister’s many nicknames came to mind.

“Mister, don’t you have any filming to do these days? I’m bored.”

“I don’t have filming, but I’m always planning.”

“Do the cast members come to that planning?”

“Some people come to say hello to me, or some bored kids come to play. There are some who are staying at the broadcasting station. I think there are a few even now.”

“Then, can I go with you tomorrow?”

“Do you want to see celebrities?”

“That’s about it.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter. Then, I’ll pick you up after school.”

“Thank you.”

One of the mister’s modifiers.

Genius collector.

There must be at least one person related to drawing among the collectors the mister has gathered.

Let’s get some help from the mister at a time like this.