I don’t know anything about the underlying company, investors, or business model, but I do use the software to create high quality animation.

It’s a legit application – or more precisely, it’s a legit suite of applications.

Adobe’s Creative Cloud is useful but expensive, and it barely introduced a Vtuber clone this year in Adobe Character Animator.

Personally, I prefer apps like Gimp, Blender, and Live2D over Adobe to do the same things but free (or much cheaper if you choose to go pro). Adobe is expensive. But Vtube offers everything you need without using any of the others. And it plays well with the others.

Vtuber Editor lets you design a model and textures like this:

There are a ton of other applications to do it, and actually that texture above I made using Live2D.

Once you have a model, you can load it into two places – Vtuber Studio and Vtuber Maker.

This is a screenshot from Vtuber Studio. It gives you the character and basic animation without all the frills. You can turn in facial tracking within it and do whatever you need. I have a simple green screen around it because I feed it into my Streamlabs setup.

If you don’t have that third-party streaming setup, you can use Vtuber Maker.

Now this is still a Streamlabs screenshot but gives you an idea the differences between Vtuber Studio and Vtuber Maker.

Basically, the learning curve is about where Photoshop or ProTools would be. It’s great for professionals and amateurs alike to have a shot.

Personally, I got UHD video quality that beats anything I could ever do with a video camera in my price range. I can put this animation against anything professionals are putting out with Hollywood budgets.

But it’s a lot cheaper with Vtuber animation.