A Vocaloid Reenactment of Whaddya Know, Haddi Man?

ninjamitsuki · **Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:14 pm

Don't know where I should put this...

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AROEJgnTMIQ

Technical blabber about how I did it for those curious:

Vocaloid2 (Yes, there is a Vocaloid1, but I only have one voice for it, and it's hard to use) is a singing synthesizer software. The Japanese and some of the English ones have character designs, so that's why I was able to make animations of the characters as well. The only Vocaloid voices without any kind of character design are Leon, Lola, and VY1. Anyway, I have the Vocaloid2 software, and Miku Miku Voice, so what I did was record me saying the lines from the clip, put it in Miku Miku Voice, put notes in the proper places, and the program automatically makes a somewhat accurate vsq file that sounds like the talking. Keep in mind that Vocaloid2 is meant to synthesize singing only, not talking, so being able to make them speak almost naturally is a very big accomplishment, especially as easily as that. Unfortunately, Miku Miku Voice is not very good for analyzing and automatically making vsqs for singing (Which is why I still had to fine tune the singing parts in Vocaloid2, and it still didn't sound good), but it works miracles for talking! The animation was made using Miku Miku Dance, a very simple to use 3d animation program for animating Vocaloid characters as well as other characters, as long as you have models in the right format. And yes, the crudely drawn pictures for the theme song were quickly put together in MSpaint.

Which voices I used for which characters, for those curious:

I used Hatsune Miku for homsar.
I used Kagamine Rin/Len, Kaai Yuki, and Gachapoid for the children.
I used Big-Al for the theme song singer
I used Megurine Luka for the stave it off guy.

All of the voices except for Megurine Luka and Big-Al are meant to sing in Japanese only, which is why they have accents when I tried to make them speak English.

Any comments? If anybody has any requests for any Homestar Runner scenes you want me to reenact with Vocaloid2 and MMD, feel free to suggest! I'd be glad to do them! This was a very fun project for me, and it would be awesome to be able to do this again!