Self-produced wallpaper =D

Yay!!! Here I am again in conjunction with the dissection, another self-produced walllpaper was made hohoho. This time wallpaper featuring Maka! errr scythe ftw? I AM Kevin da Toad Reaper!

Equipments: This time only used adobe photoshop CS2

1st Step as usual.... Lineart (T.T)
This time i only took 1-2hrs maybe because the lineart for this character is easier as compared to Yami not to mention increased in proficiency in using the mouse ahahaha. Maka ftw? (to know who is maka go google Soul Eater)

2nd step, base colours !! (equally boring...oh well..at least better that skeleton...)

Oh this is the most interesting step~ Effects! hohoho


Dam she looks so damn cool T.T (big ass weapon ftw, *croak* A TOAD !!REAP IT)
Hmm Ok there is 2 walls one made with purely photoshop just some blending of colours and fonts and the other was made by merging it with a CG found on deviantart.

1. 100% self-made
2. Merging with CGs.Ahhhh. Maka!!!! ^.^ (otakuness lvl-up?)
Another brilliant revio-lution of CG hohoho
(P.S: Ok the truth is i made it when i got bored of doing assignments. Seriously...Monash sucks..BADLY)

OMG VOCALOID2 FTW!!!!

On a specific night when the sun is about to rise, Mr. No-Lifer (a.k.a justin) asked me to search for a software named Vocaloid 2.

Here comes the technical part:

VOCALOID is a Singing Synthesizer technology and application software developed by the Yamaha Corporation that enables users to synthesize singing by just typing in lyrics and melody. Yamaha announced its development in 2003 and in January 2004 the first application software product was launched. It was not released as a Yamaha product, but a software package of Vocaloid Singer Libraries developed by third party licensees which included Yamaha’s Vocaloid software.

So far, Leon, Lola and Miriam have been released from Zero-G Limited, UK, while Meiko and Kaito have been released from Crypton Future Media, Japan.

In January 2007 Yamaha announced a new version of the software engine,VOCALOID2, with various major improvements in usability and synthesis quality. Zero-G and others have announced plans to release products powered by the new software engine in 2007. PowerFX have released the first english package that is powered by VOCALOID2, Sweet Ann. Crypton has followed and announced a series of character VOCALOID2 packages to be released, the first being Hatsune Miku. The second package is stated to be released in December 2007 while a third will be somewhere in 2008.
-Quoted from kei from LowYat.net-

Enough of crapping here comes the juicy part, i couldn't believe the songs below were sang by a software =.= it is just damn good, seriously it sings better than Kitlou (our so-called "rain")
Listen to it yourselves, i just can't get enough of Hatsune Miku's voice hahaha, maybe in the future all the songs will be synthesized by this technology (actually there are now frequently used as background singers)

Samples:

Doraemon:


True My Heart ( From Nursery Rhymes, Lump of Sugar)



Beautiful World


Tori no Uta



A tribute to our national anthem (In japanese slang haha)


Simply amazing....though some of them sounded kinda fake, but i bet if they spent more time in tampering her voice, it will surely sound like a real singer singing....
I WAN THIS SOFTWARE ARRRGGGHHHHHH
I might really learn Japanese just to use this software, i might buy it from Amazon too!!! Simply too cool! !!
MOE MOE VIRTUAL VOICES F T W