Chapter 51: The last pride of the female character shaving craftsman.

“Do you usually watch internet broadcasts often? Besides Han Ari and the Cosmo Live members, do you watch other VTuber broadcasts too?”

“I watch pretty much all the VTubers. There’s Otherworld Idol, Donut Churros, Estelle, and also…”

From major companies, to rising stars who recently started gaining attention, and even small-time VTubers.

The names of the VTubers that Soyul followed poured out endlessly.

“Do you mainly watch clips or shorts?”

“Of course, I watch live.”

…Pardon?

“That… aren’t there times when the broadcast times overlap?”

“That’s why I have six monitors connected.”

“Wow… that must be a complete control center.”

She had heard of professional traders or the head of the stock gallery using six monitors.

But she was hearing for the first time that someone runs six monitors to watch VTuber broadcasts.

Jina also sometimes used dual monitors to display four live windows on one screen, watching eight broadcasts simultaneously. …This is three times that? That’s really not easy.

Of course, she wondered if there was even a computer that could play that many videos at once.

“You know that platform collaborative Blockcraft broadcast you did last time?!”

“Yes, yes. ‘Welcome to Dongmakri’! Everyone played so funnily that I didn’t know whose broadcast to watch…”

…Huh?

“Wait, Soyul-nim… could it be?”

“Simultaneous playback of 24 live channels!”

“It was a bit laggy, but I lowered the quality a little and somehow managed!”

“Kuh…!!”

Just… how good are the computer parts you’re using…!

I’m envious…

That financial power to capture so many VTubers at a glance… I’m really envious!!

“Of course, these days… I don’t really watch other VTuber broadcasts besides Han Ari and Seasons.”

Of course, she doesn’t watch live, but she still diligently watches well-edited YouTube videos, Soyul said jokingly.

“You really seem to like VTubers.”

“Well, I have a lot of time on my hands. I can’t go outside, so I play games, watch comics, and watch internet broadcasts in my room… Envious, right? Haha…”

Her laughing voice was drooping.

Envy.

Rather, it was the emotion that Soyul felt.

The reason Soyul can’t go outside…

Again, probably because of the accident.

“Do you watch broadcasts of general streamers?”

“I don’t really watch them.”

VTubers, no matter how realistic, are ultimately beings living in dreams.

General streamers remind you of the painful reality when you watch them.

Because it reminds her of the gazes of people who treat her like a pathetic girl.

That word filled Soyul’s throat.

“So… do they call it aftereffects?”

Soyul forcefully swallowed the words that lingered in her mouth, and squeezed out the suitably vague word ‘aftereffects’.

“So I don’t watch dramas either. The same goes for entertainment shows.”

Even though she had turned away from reality.

Soyul gave an involuntary bitter smile because her own appearance of demanding ‘realism’ from VTubers was so contradictory.

“If it’s aftereffects… it seems something bad happened.”

It was already a fact that she had heard from Hyun.

Even so, she pretended not to know and asked again.

She wanted Soyul to directly say in her own mouth what situation she was in.

“Actually… I almost can’t go outside.”

Soyul hesitated and carefully began to speak.

Her voice was still trembling.

But when Jina gently nodded, she seemed to open her heart little by little.

“I injured my legs, so I can’t walk. Of course, I can go out in a wheelchair… um… haha.”

Numerous emotions and words were contained within the dry laughter.

“Maybe I just wanted to turn away from reality under the guise of being completely obsessed with VTubers.”

Jina silently listened to Soyul’s lament without saying anything.

Jina doesn’t have much talent for talking.

She doesn’t know what to say to comfort the other person, and she has no tact.

However.

As for just listening quietly so that the person facing her can confide their feelings even a little.

She is good at that one thing.

“Jina-nim, can I ask you for a favor?”

In the subdued atmosphere, Soyul plucked up her courage and spoke.

“Could you… possibly make my avatar too…?”

Jina stared intently at Soyul, then slowly nodded.

“Of course. What kind of style do you want?”

The basic avatar, which had hardly any change in expression, smiled brightly.

That’s how happy Soyul was.

“That, that… I’d like the movements to be very natural…”

“That’s basic. And?”

“Also…”

Soyul’s happy dilemma began.

She is feeling the emotion she felt as a child when she first set foot in the toy store in her grandfather’s department store again.

After a long deliberation, Soyul uttered the words with difficulty.

“I, I’d like it to be cute…”

“What kind of feeling specifically?”

“I want it to feel like an SD character. Round, small…”

Hmm? SD character?

That SD of super deformation?

…That SD, which is the most detached from the word realism??

“Soyul-nim, didn’t you say you wanted the VTuber character to be realistic?”

“Well, I did say that… but that’s only limited to the movements… I can’t give up on being cute…”

“Soyul-nim, you’re greedy.”

“If you put it that way… Summer’s boob size isn’t realistic either…”

Jina was in agony for a very short time.

‘…Can I say this?’

The two lumps attached to Summer’s avatar are the size that reflects reality.

Rather, it was nerfed a little for balance.

Should I give her the red pill? Or not?

While Jina was seriously contemplating, Soyul spoke again.

“And… Daon’s cuteness is justice…”

Hmm. If the VVIP customer said so, there’s nothing I can do.

“I’ll give it a try. But it will take some time.”

“It’s okay. I know that creating an avatar is a time-consuming task.”

It may take longer than Soyul thinks.

That’s because SD-style avatars have different proportions than ordinary people.

It’s easier to make another avatar at the level of Spring or Summer, Autumn or Winter.

Because there is a template avatar, ‘JINA’.

But SD-style avatars are outside the range that Jina can cover.

It’s probably a big challenge for Jina, as she’ll have to relearn everything from the basic skeleton.

“I’ll contact you again when the avatar concept comes out.”

“Yes…! It was really nice to meet you, Jina-nim.”

“I was also happy to meet someone who likes VTubers, the model I made, this much.”

Just as Jina was about to take off her VR headset and press the log-off button.

“If it’s okay…!”

Soyul’s voice cautiously grabbed Jina.

“Can I call you… older sister?”

Jina hesitated for a very short time.

It wasn’t exactly a matter of gender identity.

Since the title Hyoin calls her has already been solidified as Jina older sister, there’s no reason to feel awkward now.

Rather, she felt a little guilty about whether she, a 30-year-old, should be called older sister by a teenager in her late teens.

‘Well, if I think of her as a late younger sibling, it’s not completely unreasonable, is it?’

Jina scratched her head and answered in a nonchalant voice, “Of course.”

“Small and cute, but exceeding movements that are not awkward and are realistic…”

SD style characters.

At first glance, it seems simple, but it’s not easy if you really want to make it properly.

“While not losing your sense of reality, drastically reducing the proportions of the head and body… this, I think there’s a lot of data missing?”

Jina had already reached the pinnacle of motion technology for realistic avatars.

But SD style avatars were a completely different area.

SD characters are often deformed into 2-headed or 2.5-headed figures.

However, existing physics engines and motion data are mostly made based on standard human bodies.

AI tools are no exception.

When Jina applied an SD-style character to the AI modeling program she usually uses, a bizarre model was output.

Her arms were twisted behind her back, and her knees were bent outward.

This is not a problem that can be solved by spinning AI gacha.

“As expected, the current AI model doesn’t seem to be able to capture this outlier data well.”

Then, she just needs to retrain the AI ​​model to match the SD-style character.

Jina walked around various asset sites, scraping together various SD-style character-related materials.

She separated the numerous avatars she had collected into head, body, and limbs and put them in different folders.

Then, she trained the model for each folder.

Like a Lego person.

Jina was thinking of training an AI model for each body part and assembling the results.

The training criteria were roughly set.

The head should be chubby and round.

Enlarge the eyes. Omit the nose, and only allow the mouth to express simple vowels.

Make the arms and legs thinner at the front and back.

Make the hands and feet cutely exaggerated.

And the body, which is even more important than the face.

After letting out a deep sigh at the stumpy log body, which was reduced to about half the length of the real avatar.

Jina unleashed superhuman concentration and somehow carved out the secret feminine lines from the chest to the waist, pelvis, and hips.

What? Flat, flat, straight body?

No matter how SD-style it is, she can’t allow that.

This is the last pride of Jina, a master at carving female characters.