☆ Vocaloid / Utau Links ☆

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☆ Vocaloid / Utau Links ☆
Will be continually updated!

☆Lyrics has been moved to here.

☆Reference / Info
Vocaloid Rankings [Japanese]
Site that keeps track of the weekly Vocaloid rankings on Nico.
Vocaloid Wikia [English]
User-run info site about the Vocaloids.
Utau Wikia [English]
User-run info site about the Utaus.
Vocaloidism [English]
English info site for Vocaloid fans.

☆Images
Pixiv [Japanese]
Site that hosts images, including Vocaloid and Utau. You must sign up in order to view the images.
Safebooru [English]
Site that hosts images, including Vocaloid and Utau.
Photobucket [English]
Site that hosts images, including Vocaloid and Utau.

☆Videos
Nicovideo [Japanese]
Main video site for Vocaloid. You must sign up in order to watch the videos.
YouTUBE [English]
Video site. Has some reprints of videos from Nicovideo.

☆Conventions
VOC@LOID M@STER [Japanese]
Doujin event solely for Vocaloid-related goods.

☆Other
PiaPro [Japanese]
Mixed hosting site run by Crypton where users of Vocaloids collaborate.

☆Utau
Voice Library Exhibition Room [Japanese]
Database for Utau Voice Libraries.
Utau Voice Database [Japanese]
Database for nearly every Utau voice.  

[Temmy]

About Piapro； it's run by Crypton themselves so the focus is mainly Vocaloid. Yes, there are UTAU fanarts and songs uploaded there, but Piapro doesn't really advertise or talk about UTAU much (if at all) on there.

Some links to add:

THE VOC@LOID M@STER event site: http://ketto.com/tvm/
- doujin event solely for Vocaloid-related goods.

Weekly VOCALOID Ranking: http://www.geocities.jp/vocaran_link/
- a site keeping track of the weekly ranking videos on Nico.  

[P u r p l e K a r l a]

I LOVE YOU GUYS crying THANK YOU SO MUCH.  

[lunarslimelunarslime]

Thanks for the info, Temmy.

And you're welcome, Karla.

 

[lunarslimelunarslime]

-wonders if bumping this sticky is okay-
-does it anyways-

 

[Lou-chan]

Danbooru and Gelbooru should also be listed as image sources.
That's where you can find the most Vocaloid fanart.

 

[lunarslimelunarslime]

Uh... links please? biggrin

 

[Lou-chan]

http://danbooru.donmai.us/
http://gelbooru.com/
Every search must have _ between each word. For example, Hatsune_Miku or Dark_Woods_Circus.
Also, there is a lot of explicit sexual images there. In other words, hentai. In order to filter these out, you need to put rating:safe in your search post. Some explicit advertisement banners will still be around though but you could always (or at least those on Gelbooru I think) block them if you have FireFox.

 

[Temmy]

Lou-chan

http://danbooru.donmai.us/
http://gelbooru.com/
Every search must have _ between each word. For example, Hatsune_Miku or Dark_Woods_Circus.
Also, there is a lot of explicit sexual images there. In other words, hentai. In order to filter these out, you need to put rating:safe in your search post. Some explicit advertisement banners will still be around though but you could always (or at least those on Gelbooru I think) block them if you have FireFox.

Or you could just use Safebooru. Absolutely none of those R-18 rated ads on there.

Also, 'booru's and almost all image boards take their Vocaloid fanart from Pixiv. Most artists would prefer someone to at least get the original post of the art on Pixiv over rather randomly nabbing their art off of an image board. >_>  

[Lou-chan]

Temmy

Lou-chan

http://danbooru.donmai.us/
http://gelbooru.com/
Every search must have _ between each word. For example, Hatsune_Miku or Dark_Woods_Circus.
Also, there is a lot of explicit sexual images there. In other words, hentai. In order to filter these out, you need to put rating:safe in your search post. Some explicit advertisement banners will still be around though but you could always (or at least those on Gelbooru I think) block them if you have FireFox.

Or you could just use Safebooru. Absolutely none of those R-18 rated ads on there.

Also, 'booru's and almost all image boards take their Vocaloid fanart from Pixiv. Most artists would prefer someone to at least get the original post of the art on Pixiv over rather randomly nabbing their art off of an image board. >_>

However, Pixiv is also filled with s**t.
Just about all art on any of the Booru sites are always the really good ones, so you don't need to wade your way through thousands of crappy pictures in order to find something good. And also, it's much easier for people who don't know japanese.

 

[lunarslimelunarslime]

... I'll just put up the Safebooru one, if that's okay. :3

 

[StelmariaonE7]

It's sad that, as a human being, I only have but two thumbs to point up at this. If only I grew up by the old Nuclear power plant, then maybe just maybe I could properly convey my approval of this emo

bookmark'd  

[Temmy]

Lou-chan

However, Pixiv is also filled with s**t.
Just about all art on any of the Booru sites are always the really good ones, so you don't need to wade your way through thousands of crappy pictures in order to find something good. And also, it's much easier for people who don't know japanese.

It's actually pretty easy to find the better-looking art. After all, most usually end up in the daily/weekly/monthly rankings anyways. It's also a matter of following the popular and/or skilled artists and seeing what they put in their bookmarks.
Plus, there are numerous english guides for using Pixiv found just by googling for them.

If people are going to use Vocaloid fanart that isn't drawn by themselves, the very least they could do is get it from the actual artist. I'm not even asking them to credit the artist, though that would certainly be ideal. The art is already being used without permission anyways.

That said, the artwork uploaded by artists on Piapro are actually free for the taking. Some artists may have additional rules of using their work, which are listed on the respective pages of the art.  

[Luna Ichine]

Hooray for this post! xd