6-month Hatsune Miku production course to be offered in Tokyo
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TOKYO —
Love Hatsune Miku and wish you could create your own Vocaloid music and music videos?
Digital Hollywood, a Tokyo-based school offering degree and certification programs in IT and digital media, announced they will be holding a 6-month course on CG animation and music video production using Vocaloid software and characters.
The course is called “HATSUNE MIKU, Loves Creator” and promises to give participants the skills and hands-on-expertise needed to become world-class Vocaloid media producers.
Students will study basic 3D CG animation using Autodesk Maya and practice composition using the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid software. All students must complete a “graduation piece” that will be shown at a special presentation in early March.
The course begins Sept 25, with explanatory sessions being held at the Digital Hollywood Tokyo campus on Sept 18.
Vocaloid beginners and amateurs alike are encouraged to apply, though the course is capped at 30 students and a screening test will be held if there an excess of applicants.
Those who are lucky enough to get in will officially be registered under the school’s new “Hatsune Miku film major” and attend two 3-hour hands-on training sessions on Tuesday and Friday of every week, as well as an occasional 3-hour lecture on Wednesday.
While Digital Hollywood does seem to offer an exchange program for its degree courses, the Hatsune Miku course looks like it will be conducted in Japanese only.
If you do have the language skill and want to participate what could be a fantastic opportunity to participate in a burgeoning Japanese pop-culture phenomenon, be sure to sign up for one of the information sessions here.
Source: Digital Hollywood
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CrisGerSan
If you do not know about Miku she is an amazing creation of modern technology a virtual diva and idol who gives live performances due to the amazing combination of software, live concert stage band back up and the unique Japanese flair for superb visual/audio culture.
One of her best concerts to date is shown here if you would like to meet Miku :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSbr1aIvjRg&feature=related
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Green Panda
This is great news. Vocaloid videos already have their own section on Nico Nico Douga and hopefully, this course improves the quality of the MMD videos by giving more people instruction on how to produce them.
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CrisGerSan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uOmQmM1mg4&feature=related is a more complete version of the 2011 Sapporo Concert... it also shows some other vocaloids performing on stage with Miku.
It is great to hear about this course....
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Ewan Huzarmy
Yes, this is great news. I want to create my own version, that performs only for me and lets me go backstage as a virtual groupie.
I can't wait to create a whole harem of vocaloids who obey my every whim. In fact I may just create a virtual existence for myself and live in it, as I don't have anything that resembles a real life.
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Fadamor
Based on the article, they'll be using Autodesk Maya for the animation rather than Miku Miku Dance. Looks like they're aiming more for the live-concert quality rather than the MMD quality.
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CrisGerSan
Each stage of advancement of this project is epic and shows what technology combined with cultural innovation can achieve and this advances all the arts. As a serious researcher of modern visual culture i applaud this work very much and look forward to the continued advances of the Miku team and of learning programs affiliated with it and her.
For those who want to tease about groupies there is plenty of chance to do that with live idols, Miku we take a bit more seriously and also with a lot of respect for it is an immense and very dedicated effort by her support team and the performers who participate so diligently and so well.
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Fadamor
Speaking as someone who's pretty much grown up with the computing world (my first time ever on a computer was in '72 at age 12 when my dad sat me down at a Digital Corp. PDP-8 mainframe terminal and loaded up a text-based football program), I find the story behind Hatsune Miku to be extroardinarily interesting. From singing software; to an identifiable voice; to a manga drawing; to CD's and other marketing using the manga artist's character; to internationally known star, the story is compelling in its own right.
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CrisGerSan
And I am from the other end, i had nothing to do with computers until around 1991 when i began work in book publishing. Since then as a professional artist i have become very interested in digital and virtual work, and continue to research and support work in a number of areas of Modern Visual Culture. This led me to see that Japan is a leader in many of these fields, having a very strong and stable internal culture with powerful traditions, as well as tremendous discipline and dedication to both excellent in the arts and a cultural ability to innovate in amazing ways. All of this has made remarkable efforts like Miku possible when i doubt they could have happened in any other country in the world today. Glad you are enjoying it as many others are....much more will happen with this I am sure.
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