How did you design your first UTAU?

[Maxii_1]

Well I'm making my very first UTAU and he lacks his design so I'd like to know how did you design yours... I think this is gonna be useful for me since I'm a beginner on all this utau-making.

 

[tetodash]

I basically just looked up “Utau” on google images and got inspiration from what other people have done. I was also inspired by some Vocaloid designs too. I was inspired by the crypton Vocaloids and SeeU because of her super long hair.

 

[Yinitara]

There are a few ways to go about designing a utau in my opinion,
You can either create a theme or concept for the character, or develop a design based on the voice type, or sometimes, make a design based on the first thing you see in the room. I prefer creating a rough concept of the character first and then proceeding to move on from there. Interesting shapes can enhance the design as well.
For my utau (Yin Feng), the concept was Yin and Yang (lmao) and while her original design had more references to duality etc, the only thing that harks back to the original theme now is the colour scheme of black and white.
Other things I like to do is look at current fashion trends and incorporate it into my designs. You can look at fashion trends from around the world to help develop style.

Again these are just my opinions :P

 

[Nohkara]

I think that it’s a good idea to what UTAU sounds like before making design. That way you can avoid creating completely mismatching avatar*

*not a bad thing on every case but can sometimes turn some people out. For example if visual avatar is a cute little girl, no one expect that to sound like 30 years old basso male (I know, this is very over exaggerated example but I hope that you got what I mean).

For testing, you can just record 5 vowels (a.wav, i.wav etc) and play those in UTAU to get an idea what they sounds like:
-did they sound yough/old?
-masculine/feminine/androgynous?
-dark or light toned voice? And so on

After that you can think about their costume and appearance. With the color palette, I recommend at least 2 but up to 5 main colors (and I recommend to not use hyper bright neon colors as these can give headeacke to some visually sensitive people).

 

[partial]

I knew as soon as I took interest in UTAU I wanted mine to have purple hair and golden eyes. I took those two colors and tried to find others that I felt went well with them. I like very dull and desaturated colors. I also leaned towards sharp, elf-like ears and long pointy nails as a small nod towards him being a fantasy creature (he is a dragon).

Essentially my boy is the embodiment of what I want to look like.

 

[kyakyakyu]

Firstly I heard how he would sound after recording seven first syllables (a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki). I was heavily influenced by visual kei at the time he was created, along with UTAUs that already have their concept art, and so mine became a male UTAU with eccentric and flashy looks. He also had the style of the hair I liked to draw (perhaps the only hairstyle I could draw at that time www) and so yeah uwu

 

[Zansatsu]

When I created Ou're I actually had a friend help me come up with theme and she helped suggest outfit ideas for him. We eventually settled on a casual futuristic look as the theme and thus my son was born!!!
So maybe you can try asking a friend for some feedback about designing your utau. They could help you come up with a theme or just a general idea for how you want your utau to look.

 

[Essention]

I took two design concepts after messing with Pixton a bit; one that is pretty much me and the one that is my UTAU today. I started a vote to see which fits the voice more and turns out, the one I am using now got the most votes.

I have no experience in character design. I just experimented with what Pixton has.

But I'm still satisfied.

 

[CYVIL]

i just bought a pastel goth adopt clothing xD