When talking about this strange 3D character it is possible that the strangeness is not found with in the figure itself, but in the people that worship it. The strangest 3D character model in the world is without a doubt Hstsune Miku. She is worshiped by thousands, her fanatical fans even petitioned to get her glorious name etched into a space craft. She has a huge Facebook following too, her own record label, she sells out every concert, and her voice is not even real, but created from a synthases of many voices.
She is one of the biggest pop stars around.
She is a Japanese hologram, and the strangest 3D character in the world. She is a giant, bigger than life, literally. She is an Anime style 3D holographic phenomenon!
Thousand come to watch this bizarre high tech none human perform synthetic music. They wave their futuristic glowing sticks and praise her performance.
On one hand I can understand the fascination toward technology, toward fulfilling the fans fantasy and making it real. After all that is what this is all about. It is no different from any other boy band, or any other prefab musical creation meant to fill the void when young people start to go through puberty.
The producer sees a way to satisfy a market, and creates a product, either a human product, or a holographic one.
Either way the music and performance is usually synthetic, over produced, and bland.
Compared to most of the human contemporaries Hstsune Miku is actually not that bad. At least it is new, interesting, symbolic in its approach of creating a star that is several times larger than life, which kind of makes it poetic. And being a 3D artist myself, I love the 3D aspect to it.
The 3D animation is amazing, but kind of zombie like in terms of this thing not being alive, like falling into the uncanny valley. This is like 3D GGI in real time, she's a bit of a 3D monster? And it still seems a little odd to have an even stranger audience not just enjoying the kick of something out side of the box, but actually worshiping the hologram as if she is real; to the point of getting her etched into a Japanese spacecraft.
There seems to be something missing, the human element, not the sweat or swagger, but the possibility of making a mistake. Even though some crazy 3D music videos resemble perfection there is still the feeling of randomness. I'm not sure if this is the case with this one.
That is what makes us human. For me this kind of perfectionist idol worship could leave to dangerous things like futuristic religious fanaticism, and people feeling inferior under the impossible fantasy of being perfect. Yet humans, as imperfect as they are, seem to be obsessed with things like even replacing broken parts of themselves through 3D printing body parts. How far will this technology go?
The fact we can create 3D characters with a click of a button in the endless 3d universe, and they might be perfect, we are not perfect, but the dream of perfection outside of ourselves is very real.
She is one of the biggest pop stars around.
She is a Japanese hologram, and the strangest 3D character in the world. She is a giant, bigger than life, literally. She is an Anime style 3D holographic phenomenon!
Thousand come to watch this bizarre high tech none human perform synthetic music. They wave their futuristic glowing sticks and praise her performance.
On one hand I can understand the fascination toward technology, toward fulfilling the fans fantasy and making it real. After all that is what this is all about. It is no different from any other boy band, or any other prefab musical creation meant to fill the void when young people start to go through puberty.
The producer sees a way to satisfy a market, and creates a product, either a human product, or a holographic one.
Either way the music and performance is usually synthetic, over produced, and bland.
Compared to most of the human contemporaries Hstsune Miku is actually not that bad. At least it is new, interesting, symbolic in its approach of creating a star that is several times larger than life, which kind of makes it poetic. And being a 3D artist myself, I love the 3D aspect to it.
The 3D animation is amazing, but kind of zombie like in terms of this thing not being alive, like falling into the uncanny valley. This is like 3D GGI in real time, she's a bit of a 3D monster? And it still seems a little odd to have an even stranger audience not just enjoying the kick of something out side of the box, but actually worshiping the hologram as if she is real; to the point of getting her etched into a Japanese spacecraft.
There seems to be something missing, the human element, not the sweat or swagger, but the possibility of making a mistake. Even though some crazy 3D music videos resemble perfection there is still the feeling of randomness. I'm not sure if this is the case with this one.
That is what makes us human. For me this kind of perfectionist idol worship could leave to dangerous things like futuristic religious fanaticism, and people feeling inferior under the impossible fantasy of being perfect. Yet humans, as imperfect as they are, seem to be obsessed with things like even replacing broken parts of themselves through 3D printing body parts. How far will this technology go?
The fact we can create 3D characters with a click of a button in the endless 3d universe, and they might be perfect, we are not perfect, but the dream of perfection outside of ourselves is very real.