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Silver Fox — Made with Astra

A VTuber model built with Astra, from art to facial rigging

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Can Astra build a VTuber model? Silver Fox documents the result: original character art, layered parts, facial rigging, expressions, and a model running in VTube Studio. Facial modeling is partly working; the body and full-motion polish are still in progress.

PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: 3d asset and model generators · 84 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Art
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • OpenAI Day

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Could you build this?

No Creating a Live2D VTuber model requires specialized digital illustration, layer deconstruction, mesh creation, deformer hierarchies, and precise physics rigging in Live2D Cubism.

What it would actually take: The workflow requires professional digital illustration split into dozens of distinct cut layers (eyes, irises, highlights, mouth interiors, hair strands), followed by importing PSDs into Live2D Cubism. A technical rigger must manually map vertices, set up warp deformers, parameter curves, and physics configurations for VTube Studio tracking. Specialized domain knowledge in digital anime art and Live2D rigging is mandatory, which cannot be vibe-coded into existence.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 45 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #30 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.

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