Odyssey collaborated with Live2D group Iron Vertex to bring the project into fruition. I thought we could transform one of our characters, or do one that was separate, and one of the projects I worked on was moodboarding it, figuring out the role they’d fulfill.”
“A couple of months into it, I was thinking about how no one else has a VTuber and we should do one.
He’s engrossed in anime style, and from the beginning, he wanted to create something that felt authentic to youth and not pretending to make things they’d like. He doesn’t know VTubers perfectly, but he knows VTubers are important. “It was funny to hear some of the older people at the studio be like ‘what the heck’, but Dax was the one person I think that is why Odyssey has ever done anything different. I was like this could fit for this type of character. Originally she was named Eleven but I pitched it’d be cool if we explored a character similar to Ninomae Ina’nis from Hololive - a really beautiful, sexy octopus girl - and that was the first time they heard about VTuber stuff. “From the very beginning I was trying to bring VTuber culture in,” Vienna said. It required a lot of teaching and learning, and experimentation within the game itself. The path to getting to Sonii, however, wasn’t as straightforward as just commissioning an artist and rigger and getting the model together. This is Sonii! An energetic and loveable bat who works very hard at her new job for 🦇⚡️Artist: Rigger: ( Tag: #soniiARTSonii will take some time to adjust to her new role, but you'll hear from her sooner than you think ~ /c6xYkxauuP- Omega Strikers October 15, 2022 That fleeting idea, more than one year ago, eventually turned into Sonii, the “energetic and loveable bat who works very hard at her new job for Odyssey.” When they saw I had a proficiency in that, having amassed a large following on TikTok, that’s when they were like ‘we should be thinking about that stuff.’ “I was living two separate lives - working for Odyssey while pumping out TikToks, doing my projects for my VTuber debut, and streaming every day. I went into it telling them ‘I have this big thing coming up I’ve been planning for a while, it won’t affect my work but I’ll be doing this on the side’. “Before they hired me, they knew I was planning my VTuber debut. “Whatever I could think of that would help the company, I was allowed to do,” she explained. The success of that got the gears turning on how it could help Omega Strikers. She had the background as an influencer, and also had this new and exciting thing going in the VTubing space. She was organizing playtests and helping grow a presence for Odyssey. Vienna’s role at Omega Strikers was primarily working on community engagement and marketing, and this all coincided with her own VTuber debut. Hime, Crunchyroll’s mascot, even streams on Twitch and collaborates with other stars in the space with anime watch parties and general gaming sessions.Īpplying that to a game studio was something new though. Other companies have virtual characters to promote their products and services. Odyssey and Omega Strikers’ integration of VTubers is not a ground-breaking concept. Creating a virtual face for a game studio
They also integrated those virtual content creators with their ‘flesh’ counterparts with the Creator VS event, giving crossovers between the mediums and also engaging communities in a new way. Now with a live open beta, Odyssey have revealed a VTuber of their own, Sonii, and hosted an invitational tournament to highlight the space.
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