I was in my last year of university and one of the courses I was taking was EALC 169 – Advanced Japanese Pop Culture, i.e. After poking around a bit on the little known Japanese website called NicoNicoDouga and using lots of Google Translate, I learned about this cool voice synthesizing software engine called “VOCALOID2” (or rather, the second iteration of VOCALOID) and an interest boxart character design which was named “Hatsune Miku”.įast forward 5 years to the spring of 2012. It caught my interest because not only was the 3DCG pretty impressive (this was still during the time when Flash animations were still popular) but there was something about the audio that was quite unfamiliar to the western world. The first YouTube reprint of the 3DPV for Miku Miku ni Shite Ageru? / “【初音ミク】3DみくみくPV” Just under 6 years ago, while wandering around the somewhat unknown video-sharing website called YouTube, I came across an interesting 3D animated music video: The complete PDF version of this can be found here. Post Views: 117 This is an essay I wrote while in university, titled “The World of Hatsune Miku – A brief overview of the VOCALOID phenomena”.
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