hololive Live2D 3.0 Makes More Interactive Vtuber Models

Cover Corp announced last night the new hololive Live2D 3.0, the latest step in their software, further enhancing the tools for livestreaming with a virtual avatar.

While no exact rollout date has been given, the official Hololive Twitter put out a short video briefly going over some of the new features coming to hololive Live2D 3.0.

The most noticeable of these are the animated hands- any Vtuber fan knows that before this, Live2D models had typically been holding static A poses, with many Vtubers cropping themselves to look like they were being viewed from the waist up and have their hands off-camera.

With the new update, however, it looks like they’ll be able to have canned animations to look as if they’re actually gaming, with animated models for holding a controller or mouse and keyboard.

Interestingly enough this does build up on something that Vtubers had been doing in recent months- commissioning a set of static or animated arms and overlaying them over their models, to look as though they could achieve this same effect.

Other features include improved facial expressions- they didn’t go into specifics about how this would work, but from our own observations it looks like the switch between facial expressions can have actual gradations- allowing for characters to more naturally transition into expressions like blushing.

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