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During the Early Access period, we had the opportunity to examine how Vtubers use Animaze. Based on these observations and feedback from the community, we made sure to provide different options for different types of users, including a free-to-use option for casual users and a premium experience for more professional users.  And now, over 30 updates, 15 brand new avatars, and countless exciting partnerships, and one year later, we’re prepared to bring our best selves to the game and present Animaze 1.0! This is still just the beginning for Animaze, and you should continue to expect more updates from us in 2021 and onwards.

Here is a brief view of all the improvements we brought, compared to our predeceasing app, FaceRig:

And now it’s time for the changes we want to present to you today. We’re extremely excited to present to you: 

Twitch Integration: This new feature gives Animaze a whole new level of interactivity and entertainment to avatar streaming! This new feature allows streamers to automatically trigger avatar animations, voice effects, emotes and more based on audience interactions such as subs, follows, keywords in chat, and raids. We’ve also put together a guide on how to set it up right here.

Ultraleap Gemini integration: Animaze now supports the fifth generation of the Ultraleap Gemini hand-tracking. This tracker matches the position of your virtual hands to your real ones more closely than ever before. 

Bug fixes and tweaks:

• fixed UI issue with Quickscenes keybindings being swapped.

• fixed color belt issue when retexturing warning was displayed.

• fixed multiple file dialogs issue when selecting an image for retexturing.

• updated the Learn to Stream slides to include some info on virtual camera video format selection for OBS.

• special actions now exclude head and body retargeting (avatar goes to neutral and plays the animation) when activated. This behavior is by default, although it can be changed through Editor flow on particular avatars and special actions.

• updated the Recently Used shelf flow in galleries to load faster.

• fixed issue with certain VRM models that had meshes stretched or offsetted unintentionally. Avatars that exhibit this issue need to be reimported.

• fixed an issue with Broadcasting action from StreamDeck.

• tweaked performance on stackable emotes.

• fixed account creation flow crash.

• fixed audio input crash when no microphone is present on the system.

• tweaked audio lip sync behavior when blending with face tracking.

• eye wide open now removes the weight on eyes squint and l/r/u/d blendshapes.

• added Popular Avatars and Editor’s Pick shelves in Avatar Gallery.

• increased smoothing on BodyUpDown and BodyPitch by 25% on all webcam face tracking profiles.

• changed cel shading outline method to display fewer artifacts on intersecting meshes.

• added a VRM lighting preset in the Backgrounds Customization section.

As always, we love to hear your feedback on Animaze!! Tell us what you think on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming With Animaze 1.0!