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Design for Animation

Week 1&2: Topic Chose

Why Virtual Idols are Trending Towards Popularity and Successful Virtual Idol Case Studies

Keywords:

  • virtual idol
  • live streaming
  • IP creation
  • character design
  • people in the middle

Introduction:

Virtual idols are rapidly becoming popular in all aspects of social media and film communication, such as the game-based K/DA girl group, virtual model imma and YouTube anchor mysta, etc. Virtual people have won public acceptance and respect, and they are more plastic and affable than real idols and have more possibilities for development. In this trend, I would like to study some cases of virtual idols, why they are so successful, and what part of the virtual idol industry can we, as animation majors, use our expertise in.

upper left: K/DA, upper right: Mysta, below: Imma

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