#considering also making edits to them to be in gb/a colour schemes

[crunchpixels]

[ID: Shiny bulbasaur line gen 5 sprites that have been edited. Bulbasaur has a corm instead of a bulb, ivysaur has corm tendrils coming out of a long skinny bud, and venusaur has a corpse flower with small leaves instead of its original flower. End ID]

So I picked the corpse flower mostly because it looks cool, and it was my original idea for this series aside from klefki, which you'll see later 👀

It actually took me a while to find a picture of the bulb - or corm - of the corpse flower, and it wasn't very.... inspiring to look at, but it Was very funny making bulbasaur not have a bulb at all.

[ID: Screenshot of a regular bulbasaur edited to have no bulb. End ID]

He's not bulbasaur he's just saur.

Ivysaur went through a couple minor iterations, because when I originally drew it, it didn't have much going on.

[ID: The above ivysaur sprite with no tendrils. End ID]

As you can see, it doesn't feel very integrated, almost as though a blade of grass or something is just behind ivysaur.

[ID: More ivysaurs, this time with tendrils. The first image has them only under the bud and the second has them reaching over its head. End ID]

Adding in some corm roots is perhaps not very Accurate to how a flower would actually work, but definitely adds a lot to it in my opinion. At first I only had them around the base of the bud, but deciding to try and draw together the body and head more by expanding their growth over there too. It took a few experiments and rotations to get them looking right, as in the image they went straight down which was not intentional.

Venusaur had the largest change and took the longest to actually draw, which was adding in the whole corpse flower. I wanted to keep to the same 96x96 canvas, which was frustrating to try and make the flower as imposing as I wanted it to feel - perhaps if I ever decide to draw the mega evolutions I'll pick a 128x128 or larger canvas and make it Really Hit You.

[ID: The above venusaur sprite with no leaves. End ID]

Originally it had no leaves, but again it left it feeling very separate and bare, so I made the choice to forgo accuracy for the sake of aesthetics. The corpse flower is usually leaves, but they don't grow at the base of the flower like I've drawn, but rather they grow one massive leaf with lots of leaflets at the end of a tall petiole or stalk.

For all of these the colour choices were largely the same, I kept the original shiny body colours (though I was originally going to keep the blue, I felt it looked better and made more sense in this case to have it be the green). The eyes I changed from red to purple/pink to match the flower colour and bring a bit of pink back through the line.

[auspicious-voice]

Voicebank Development Log (06/06/2022)

I might be making this into a monthly thing (assuming that I still have voicebanks that are in development), but here's to another development log - entirely dedicated to Maria and Mario's WIP voicebanks!

More under the cut as usual :D Will also include updates on the release!

Voicebank, oto.ini Progress and Rerecording

I come here with good news: Maria and Mario's oto.ini configs are FINALLY complete!! It took me around 3 months to finish them both, even if it only involved adding CV-VC configs ^^; were it not for real life obligations and other matters it would have taken me under a month to finish. Mario's took shorter to finish as I had more free time on my hands.

This is what Maria and Mario's voicebanks look like now. I fixed some errors in the readme and added some more documentation on the add-ons, not to mention that I fixed the FRQ files of their breath samples. They're mostly complete... in terms of configs.

Currently, I am at a point where there's barely any samples that need to be rerecorded, save for a couple of samples that need to be revised as they sound wonky in (Open)UTAU. So, the margin of error is low, but it'll be fixed once I get to rerecord!

Also when is OpenUtau going to have voice colours compatibility with the default phonemizer

Artworks

The next step after completing the oto.ini is to work on the append fullbody art! As of posting this log, I am still drawing the line art for Mario's appends, and Maria's line art is complete. I expect to finish this mid-June (I hope), since I've made my process in making art a bit streamlined... provided that I'm not too distracted. I'm mostly dreading the colouring part, ESPECIALLY figuring out the colour schemes for each design.

I also have plans for celebratory illustrations ahead of the release, but I haven't worked on them yet. I will be including said artworks in the voicebanks as part of their extras. These might include comics (4koma), sketches, concept art, and so on.

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Demo Reel and Video

Maria and Mario's individual demo reels are complete as usual, but I haven't gotten to that one special part of the reel yet, because I haven't even started it. I will once I get around to finishing the fullbodies.

The video itself will be made in After Effects, but my main concern is that I do not have Media Encoder, and I cannot afford exporting a 100+ GB AVI that might make my computer shit itself to death. QuickTime makes the video out of sync for some odd reason, and as much as I'd love to use Handbrake for encoding the video file to MP4, I do not know if I can do that again;; I'm looking into DNx and ProRes for exporting in the meantime though.

But at least my computer can handle After Effects when it comes to editing! I'm excited to use it again following the PV of Identity I made for one of my recent covers.

Depending on how much energy I have for it, I could probably make the video as a premiere. The problem, is I do not know who would stick around for the entirety of the demo reel. Plus I forgot how to hype my own voicebanks up (IDK how younger me used to do it).

Release Date and Other Plans

I've been thinking about when to release these voicebanks, but considering how much free time I have, I can estimate that Maria AUSPICE+ and Mario OPULENCE+ will probably be released Q3-Q4 2022. If things don't work out, please expect them to be released early 2023. Just don't really take these as gospel, but it should give you an idea when these voicebanks will be released. If it were to be released early 2023, perhaps I could release it on their 8th anniversary? Maybe?

As for the release itself (not the video and date), I'd love to do some fun things for it, but I'm out of ideas, oops. Maybe I could host a design content or a cover contest to promote the release. Again, once I release these voicebanks, I'll take break from recording for a while, and once I come back, I'll get started on recording voicebanks for the twins in other languages as well as potential NNSVS voice models.

That's about it for this development log! And now I go and play Genshin Impact and also cry over FGO Constantine because what the fuck happened to me when I summoned him

BONUS: I still post WIPs and tests on my 2nd SoundCloud, so feel free to check it out if you can!

[the-fitsquad]

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‘Pinkwashing’: The Truth behind the Ribbon

Throughout the month of October, it is impossible to miss the amount of pink ribbons colouring anything from KFC buckets to Avon lipsticks. Most people without argument would say that donating to charity is always moral, however not everyone. In some cases, charity is carried out less well than it should be, particularly when it comes to sport.

Firstly, let’s look at which cancers are the most common causes of deaths according to the World Health Organization (2017), accounting for 8.8 million losses in 2015 these are the top five: Lung (1.69 million), Liver (788 000), Colorectal (774 000), Stomach (754 000) and Breast (571 000). Considered, breast cancer is a huge killer, but why is it publicised so much more than the four bigger killers? Answer, simply because it can be ‘pink washed’ (Breast Cancer Action, 2017) and huge corporate companies can make their products look attractive whilst making themselves look considerate in the meantime. Sport is a major catalyst used by Breast Cancer Awareness to promote their cause, highlighted most recently by American sports brand Under Armour (2017) whose online shop have released pink football boots, displaying them on some of their highest profile players including Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka. Interestingly, Niebuhr (1932), claimed that a powerful individual’s donation to charity was an expression of his pity, and a way to express his power. He also suggests the rich or more powerful are more inclined to be generous rather than to grant social justice, which kindly links into this matter.

Similarly, the NFL Shop UK (2017) sell lots of merchandise on their website raising awareness for Breast Cancer Awareness, such as jerseys with various team’s names displayed in pink text. Interestingly, Business Insider editor Cork Gaines (2013) wrote that just 8.01 percent of money from the NFL Breast Cancer Awareness merchandise goes to research efforts, Gaines also reported that stunningly a whopping 50 percent goes to the retailer. According to the NFL any money they take in goes to what they describe as, unbelievably, to ‘support women’ (NFL Communications, 2016) as part of their awareness scheme. This is hard to believe when breast cancer affects males as well as females, another flaw of the pink washing system. Academics have shown that sponsoring events planned for philanthropic causes is one of the most influential corporate charitable events (Chakraborti & Roy, 2013). As well as this, researchers have also discovered that sponsoring charitable sporting events gives companies a substantial foundation in competitive benefit by increasing customer loyalty (Bortoleto & de Moura Costa, 2012). Moving forward, after an array of criticism the NFL has moved on from devoting the month to solely breast cancer, and now teams are told to choose their own charities to donate to during a three-week period in October, naming it ‘A Crucial Catch’ (NFL, 2017). Let’s hope this scheme does a little bit more to support the selected charities.

Of course, it is always moral to donate whatever you can to charity. However, the argument is there and more often than most donators would know, charity is carried out a lot less well than it should be, especially by corporate companies. Businesses do not have a responsibility to society as a whole, but they do have a duty to those who are directly or indirectly affected by their actions (D’Astous & Bitz, 1995; Meenaghan, 2001). Charity should be left to those with genuine intentions to help others for a good cause, not for someone’s or something’s self-benefit. So next time you donate your hard-earned cash, think about where it might, or might not be going.

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