Originally posted here https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/ARB4C1uXKPbHWKl8YS
TL;DR version
This year I have:
- Set Text-To-Speech model up! (three times)
- Made 3D character, including design and winter version
- Created somewhat unique video design
- Finished four videos!
- Made my own blog and hosted it on Neocities!
I have actually wasted several years before with unsuccessful attempts before, so I build up some skills, namely, skill to actually finish started projects
I am planning to do a lot of things in the next year, including:
- Finishing stream setup (tts is not real-time because of typing speed)
- Making a debut of some sort
- Making a collab with “Goblin Queen” (if she will not mind at this point)
- Creating a videogame I will announce some details about later. It will be cute, open source and… Magical!
Full version (a lot of text)
New Year conclusion:
This year I have:
- Set Text-To-Speech model up! (+set it up again twice in trying to make everything faster and more efficient)
- Made 3D character, including (not really thought out, it basically was a quick replacement for one I scrapped because of reasons) design and winter version
- Created somewhat unique video design (graphics loosely based of Material Design v2 guidelines + some inspiration from Playfool channel)
- Finished four videos!
- Made my own blog and hosted it on Neocities!
While everything seem to be made in a very short span of time, this all is conclusion to the long journey that started years ago, when vtubers just started to gain popularity. My results (not gonna lie, I think they are pretty decent) were possible thanks to many failures I have made while gaining experience in:
- Character creation (both searching tools, learning how to use them, and generally gaining inspiration and knowledge on design. This is kind of a waste because design I use is one of the most boring ones I have made, but I made it very quick so at least I do not waste time and efforts now)
- Presentation making (I did not know that will come in handy there, but it somewhat helped my lacking montage skills so my first serious video was already better in some qualities than my friend’s, who is making videos for quite some time :smug3: )
- Ideology (I learned about FLOSS/FOSS/OSS just this year, but I liked it so much I have finally found thing to talk about endlessly - so the reason to finally get serious and start channel and topic of that channel is here!)
- Software-specific stuff (linux and software for it, command line and BASH, obs and PeerTube, Kdenlive and subtitle creation tools)
- Text to speech (voice is my biggest pain point here, I have wasted a lot of time looking for a solution, originally proprietary one, recently for a OSS and self-hosted, until I found opentts Docker image and coqui-tts in it! Actually, I’ve design for a voice and not the other way,)
- Learning to finish started project - most difficult of all for me, but surprisingly, I started to learn this too!
I am planning to do a lot of things in the next year, including:
- Finishing stream setup (pretty hard, main issue is - tts is almost instantaneous at this point, but my typing speed is not)
- Making a debut of some sort
- Making a collab with “Goblin Queen” ( if she will not mind at this point)
- Creating a videogame I will announce some details about later. It will be cute, open source and… Magical!