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NicoNicoDougaRyuuseigun

"NicoNico Douga Ryuuseigun" is an anthology of NicoNico users' favorite songs- ryuseigun means meteor shower.

This one was the original video that was uploaded:

ニコニコ動画流星群

And many people started to singing this song. This is a video that remixed 22 of those singers' songs.

大合唱_ニコニコ動画流星群

This is the list of the video of each of the singers' videos.

One of the most viewed ones is this one:

歌いたくなったのでニコニコ動画流星群を歌ってみた

Many NicoNico users played the song with musical instruments.

Some NicoNico users gathered to play the song as orchestra and uploaded the performance video:

【☆ニコニコオーケストラ☆】ホールで『流星群』を演奏してみた

This is a video that remixed the videos of NicoNico videos to the song. (Might not be interesting unless you know the original...)

ニコニコ動画流星群　をニコニコネタで。[リマスター]

Re:Package

Re:Packaged is an album that is all sung by Hatsune Miku and created by a group called Livetune, went on sale on 8/27 from Victor Entertainment.

This is a special site within Victor especially made for this album

Re:Package(初回限定盤)

livetune feat.初音ミク

It has 15 excellent Hatsune Miku songs including "Packaged".

初音ミクがオリジナル曲を歌ってくれました「Packaged」 Full Ver.

Although most songs can be viewed on Nico Nico Douga, most fans bought the album, and the result was that this album got 3rd place in 8/26 Daily Oricon ranking. (Oricon is the most prestigious ranking of music sales) Congratulations!!!

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9th on 8/27 Oricon Daily Ranking

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Also, 3rd in Amazon ranking -music category

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Some other songs from the album on Nico Nico Douga

初音ミクがオリジナル曲を歌ってくれました「ストロボナイツ」

初音ミクに歌ってもらった２発目【シューティング☆スター】

初音ミクがオリジナル曲を歌ってくれました「Last Night, Good Night」

【初音ミク】オリジナル「リラホルン」fullver.【livetune】

初音ミクがオリジナル曲を歌ってくれました「ファインダー」

初音ミクに歌ってもらった３発目【椛】

初音ミクがオリジナル曲を歌ってくれました「Light Song」

【初音ミク】オリジナル「ドキドキ♪ハートチューン」demo 【livetune】

【初音ミク】オリジナル「over16bit!」fullver.【livetune】

List of music by kz
List of music by かじゅき

AquesTone

Vocaloid (Hatsune Miku etc), MikuMikuVoice, Vocalis, Vocannaindesu etc are all for Desk Top Music creation- meaning you will make the song file at your desktop, taking time tweaking, and is not suitable for live performances.

AquesTone is a software which enables you to play the music with a midi keyboard and it plays the voice of the vocals. So this is rather meant to be used for live performances.

It is faster to understand by watching the demo video:

【試作品】歌うソフトを作ってみた

Some more videos using AquaTone:

【初音ミク】Vivid Summer【オリジナル】

【AquesTone】 なつまつり 【Electribe】

【歌うソフト】AquesToneで「アイモ」

you can download the file here:

Vocalis and Vocannaindesu

Many people started to make research on how to make the Vocaloid sing naturally.

National Institute of Researchers at Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, or Sansouken) created a software called VocaListener that imitates real human's song and presumes the voice parameter automatically. They uploaded several demo videos:

【初音ミク】 PROLOGUE 【ぼかりす】

【鏡音リン】 Game of Love 【ぼかりす】

After Vocalis was announced, 400P launched a couple of videos using a similar technology to Vocalis -to imitate the human voice data with Vocaloid- and named the technology "Vocannnaindesu (><)" .

Here you can see a couple of videos using Vocannaindesu.

【本気MEIKO】 Dearest (pf mix) 【カバー曲】

【初音ミク】 Dearest (yks remix)＋α 【カバー曲】

It is great to see one product (vocaloid) launched, and the technology surrounding it is created one after another so rapidly.

MikuMikuVoice

The difficult part of creating songs with Vocaloid such as Hatsune Miku is that you need to adjust a bunch of parameters to make it sound natural.

Creator of MikuMikuDance has created another software called MikuMikuVoice, which enables you to import wav data and export to Vocaloid editor so that you can use all the data and the parameters. You can download the software from here.

This is a good example of how it works- first it plays the original sound, miku sound imported, and both.

【MikuMikuVoice】自分でうたって比較してみた【初音ミク】

Another demo video of how this creator used MikuMikuVoice

【MikuMikuVoice】鳥の詩をいじってみた【初音ミク】

Songs using MikuMikuVoice

【MikuMikuVoice】人間→ミク声変換でオリ曲を歌わせてみた【神ツール】

【初音ミクKAITO+SFC音源】想いをこめて【オリジナル番外編02】

UTAU - handmade VOCALOID-

VOCALOID was made by YAMAHA, and Crypton made the package softwares such as Hatsune Miku,
Kagamine  Rin/Ren, etc.

Then, there was a creator who tried to make a software with similar function, made it available for free online, and uploaded the video of how to use it. This software is called UTAU.

How to use UTAU (basics)

人力ボーカロイド支援ツールらしきものを作ってみた その１ 導入編

There is a voice library of a woman's voice by default, but what is interesting about UTAU is that you can create your own library with you (or other people's) voice. Some people has already made some voice library online for free. This video is how to of importing and using other voice library.

ボーカロイド持ってないので作ってみた（人力ボカロ支援ツールその２）

This video is using UTAU and voice of a famous anime voice actor.

「ハト」、時々超音波　【UTAU with くぎゅボイス】

Kasane Teto was supposed to be an April Fool joke project by 2Channelers, but as people got more interested, it still used by some users.

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Some songs made with UTAU and Kasane Teto

【UTAU】耳のあるロボットの唄(オリジナル)【重音テト】

【重音テト】星間飛行【カバー】

【重音テト】初音ミクの暴走【修正ver】

【重音テト】嘘の歌姫【初音ミク】

UTAUで「夕日坂」

【初音ミク・重音テト】ぐるぐる大航海【合わせてみた】

ARToolkit

Quote from ARToolkit official website:

ARToolkit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a real card. It can be seen by the user in the head set display they are wearing. When the user moves the card, the virtual character moves with it and appears attached to the real object.

You can download ARToolKit here:

ARToolKit is used by over 300 researchers worldwide for a very diverse set of projects, which you can see some from the list here:

Now, let's take a look at what creators in Nico Nico Douga has come up with :D

ARToolKitで初音ミクも『ｳｯｰｳｯｰｳﾏｳﾏ(ﾟ∀ﾟ) 』

You can see that this AR imagery is actually moving on this board held by the creator's hand.

If you check this link (tag result of ARToolkit within NicoNicoDouga) you'd be able to see so many creators trying out ARToolkit within NicoNico community.

To be honest, playing with ARToolkit is not very easy... and yet so many people are creating those videos. Amazing community!!

It is impossible to follow up every piece, so let's stick with the creator who made the video above.


Just like other projects, this creator has uploaded the process of how he came to play with ARToolkit.

2007/11/21 First trial

ARToolKitで初音ミク

2007/11/24 this time it moves its hands (and the model is Hachune Miku -parody version of Hatsune Miku)

ARToolKitで初音ミク(その2)

2007/12/5 moves the feet

ARToolKitで初音ミク(その3)

2007/12/19 this is an explanation video of how to use ARToolkit, so that others can start using it too. I love this spirit of NicoNico creators :) They are so open and sharing.

ARToolKitで初音ミク(その4)：解説編

2008/1/7 creating shadows

ARToolKitで初音ミク(その5)：影をつけてみるテスト

2008/1/19 final video- dances to a song

ARToolKitで初音ミク(その6)：LIVE

You can download the source from here:
http://www1.axfc.net/uploader/He/so/122663.zip [key:armiku]

BTW, those videos are using the model of Miku created by 3DCG@Nanoha

It looks like many are using the model... you can see another one here.

【ARToolKit】 ベッドの上で初音ミクを‥ 【その７】

"Augmented Reality figure" ARis is going to be sold in Japan, and it has already been presented in Wireless Japan expo.
You can see the video here:

【ITmediaNews】電脳メイドさんをツンツン

According to their website, they are using an AR software framework called "GTE_AR_Framework" developed by Geisha Tokyo Network.

AR stuff are really fun. I've actually tried some of the AR glasses.

ARglass

I am watching the AR vision - my finger is pointing to the image that I am seeing in the glasses.

This is another AR glasses - this one is handmade!

ARglass

You carry the camera and the board.

ARglass

You'd look like this :)

ARglass

Music created with PC effect sounds

Amazing video: "Played MojiPittan using Windows Vista Effect sounds"

vista効果音で「もじぴったん」

I think this whole series of creating music with PC effect sounds started with this video called "Hello Windows" which made a song with Windows XP effect sounds.

Hello Windows

People started to make remix music of Hello Windows.
This one is my favorite... Hello Windows + Dango Daikazoku remix

Hello Windowsにだんご大家族を合わせてみた

Hello Windows + original song remix

「Hello Windows」にオリジナル曲「Window」を混ぜてみた

Hello Windows + original song remix- sang by VOCALOIDS (Hatsune Miku and Kagamine Rin)

【初音ミク・鏡音リン】　Hello Windows　歌わせてみた

Another remix of Hello Windows

【ゲイツに】Hello Windowsをアレンジしてみた【愛をこめて】

Another song using Windows XP

【踊るWindows】WindowXP効果音で本格的に曲を作ってみた

Another music- this one is made using sounds from Windows Vista

Hello Windows Vista

What can you do with Excel?

Creators in NicoNicoDouga does lots of interesting things...

Here is an example... they do a bunch of interesting things using Microsoft EXCEL.

Create anime video using Excel

エクセルでひぐらしのなく頃に解OP

Explanation of the above video

おまけを解説してみた

Lucky Star opening anime black and white created with Excel

文字列でらき☆すたOPを再現してみた

Another one inspired by the above anime- this one is with colors

Excelでらき☆すたOPを再現してみた

Created PuyoPuyo game with Excel

エクセルでぷよぷよつくってみた

You can download the file here.

Draw a picture...

Excelで長門有希

This creator uploaded the process too :)

Excelで長門有希～作業工程～

draw a picture using autoshape

Excelのオートシェイプで水銀燈描いてみた

Made a dot-picture and made it move

Excelにネギを振らせてみた

VOCALOMARK

As I have written in my previous posts, there are LOTS of people creating 3D videos in various ways as well as using MikmuMikuDance.

Here's another one, VOCALOMARK created by a creator called FarSeer.

VOCALOMARK進捗08/08/28

This 3DCG is created using XSI engine. XSI is a 3DCG animation creation software created by Soft Image. XSI is used in various games and movies such as Idolm@ster that I introduced in this post. You can see that the face of Miku in the video above looks so similar to Idol M@ster videos :)

 
What I find interesting in NicoNicoDouga is that the creators uploads the process of creating things. With commercial products, you can only see the final products that are sold, but because NicoNicoDouga creators uploads the process, we feel more sympathy towards the creators as well as the final outcome and we cherish it more.

The following is a series of videos uploaded by FarSeer (who keeps a website called FakeFar and always uses "FakeFar" tag).

7/3 the leg motion is still weird

FakeFar不定期進捗動画08/07/03

7/5 showing how the leg motion is made... looks much better now

FakeFar不定期進捗動画08/07/05

7/15 making much more movements... and a lot more smoother

FakeFar不定期進捗動画08/07/15

7/20 dancing to a song

FakeFar不定期進捗動画08/07/20

7/27 becoming a real "video" not the shooting of the creation process such as in the earlier videos

ミクでDo-Daiダンス(仮）　物理エンジン搭載Ver

8/12 added the face expressions

ミクでDo-Daiダンス(仮)　表情追加Ver

...and the newest one is the one at the top of this post :)

2009/1/8 update

AND IT'S DONE!

This is the "complete" version.

初音ミクで「Do-Dai」

2009/1/14 update

This one is the above complete version video + Miku Do-Dai song

初音ミクで「Do-Dai」と初音ミクのDo-Daiを合わせてみた