
These designs have small similarities to the animals Dex and Daina represent. The final designs have a lot of thought put into them that fans may not notice at first glance. They worked on rough designs for the two characters based on what they wanted to see and then let SteelEmissary work on things from there.ĭuring the first concept art of Dex, Aki and Kenji noticed that Dex was coming out looking quite a bit like Big AL and asked Steel to add their flare and remove certain features to help make Dex look more unique. First concept sketch of Daina Conceptsįrom very early on, Aki and Kenji knew that they wanted to have a “Fox and the Hound” theme. Once cleared, the production of Dex and Daina began in January 2015. After going through the other applicants, they decided on Kenji as the male vocal.įrom there, the two sent in recordings of their voices so that Zero-G could make sure that their voices weren’t distorted by the VOCALOID engine. Programmer her and Kenji singing “Anonymous” as a sample, and Zero-G loved that she and Kenji had already sung together. She noted that Kenji-B and CircusP were both great singers.Īki sent Mr. Programmer asked Aki to give suggestions on who she thought would work. While there were other candidates as possibilities, Mr.

Zero-G chose her for a female voice but wanted a male voice to go along with it. When he revealed he was going to present her as his choice for a new female VOCALOID for Zero-G, she was excited but stunned. He asked for voice samples from Aki who originally thought they were for a music project he was working on. Programmer) whom she had been friends with for a while. The Beginning of ProductionĮmpathP (also known as Aki) was originally contacted by the programmer who wishes to remain anonymous (Mr. Instead of writing out each question, we’ll be sectioning off the answers into a few different categories and summarizing them.

Most of the live stream was centered around answering questions that fans brought up and elaborating on other things that were related to the questions asked. Otherwise, here’s a quick recap of what we thought fans would find interesting: Question and Answer Tidbits If you’d like to watch the stream, feel free to do so here. This stream gave new information as well as recapped old information from the previous streams the two have held in the past. Recently, EmpathP and Kenji-B held a live stream to talk about the production of Dex and Daina as well as their future plans for a concert and a rhythm game featuring VOCALOIDs.
