Animaze News

Happy update day, Animaze community!
Get ready to upgrade your streams as Animaze has just started supporting Live Feed customizations for your Animaze content!

Today’s update also includes lots of other exciting new features like the ability to set GIFs as backgrounds, advanced Face & Shoulders Tracking through the Maxine SDK, and much more. Here’s the breakdown of the new main features:

• Live Feed customizations through Spout2: What would you say if we told you that you can include your Twitch Chat in your Animaze stream onto a sticker? Or that you can retexture your avatar’s fur to showcase any live feed that you want? This is possible with our new Spout2 integration that allows you to use Spout2 sources for Scene Stickers and Avatar/Prop retexturing
  Find out how you can put this feature to work in your streams right here.
  
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• Animated GIFs customizations: With this feature, you will be able to let your creativity run free and upload gifs for all image-based customizations such as:
  
  • Scene Stickers
    
  • Avatars/Props retexturing
    
  • Backgrounds
    
  • Emotes
    
  
  
  
• Maxine SDK Support for Face & Shoulders Tracking capabilities: In simple terms, this alpha version integration will provide you with an extended embodiment experience that will make shoulder tracking possible. This is made possible through NVIDIA hardware (RTX series NVIDIA graphics card) and software (NVIDIA AR SDK).
  In order to get your avatar’s shoulders to shrug we’ve prepared a useful guide right here.
  

We have also included the following bug fixes and improvements:

• added Breath as a separate animation input which can be customized through Settings > Advanced Tracking Configuration > Overrides > Breathing Behavior. Currently, works out of the box with VRM, ReadyPlayerMe, and Live2D avatars (that have the ParamBreath parameter).
  
• added support for VRM 1.0 (beta version).
  
• increased number of resolution options for Animaze Video Exporter.
  
• fixed issues with general special actions that ended in the wrong idle animation.
  
• optimized how general special actions and idle animations apply on Persona avatars. This optimization will also decrease loading times.
  
• added a change log drawer in Settings.
  
• added Window Aspect Ratio option in Settings > Video Graphics, which keeps the Animaze window at a fixed ratio while resizing it. This is especially helpful for keeping the Animaze Virtual Camera feed consistent when resizing the main Animaze window.
  
• added two features for Dreamoc rendering:
  
• a dedicated Scene that has an overlay that fades to black and a dedicated lighting setup
  
• side views camera offset sliders
  
• added camera controls on the gamepad, active when camera movement is active (F2 - chase camera, F3 - fly camera).
  
• additional displacement options for X/Y/Z axes on Enhanced Body Movement override.
  
• fixed issue with mesh colliders.
  
• idle animations are now properly saved in quickscenes.
  
• removed Animations panel (keybinds still work) from video preview recording.
  
• fixed an issue where the tongue would not work through the ARKit Bridge.
  
• fixed issue where idle animations keybinds would not work without opening the Animations drawer first
  
• fixed issue with Scene Sticker renaming.
  

The following issues are still being worked on with a high priority:

• This update requires the iOS application to be updated as well. Because the ARKit bridge (iPhone-powered tracking) is dependent on the App Store rollout time of the update which might not be perfectly synchronized with the Windows one, there is a possibility that iPhone tracking might be temporarily affected by it. Take into consideration postponing the update on the Animaze apps by keeping them offline or consider updating them both at the same time. If you find yourself in a situation where the iOS app will not update, please try reinstalling the app.
  

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Today we're introducing to you Chleo Bancroft, our new Digital Assistant.

Chleo Bancroft is a jack of many trades, hence why the Animaze squad is welcoming her with open arms. The beginning was rocky though, as Chleo would disappear during the day to attend to her Digital Assistant job. In the meantime, the rest of the bunch would think she is a spy from the human world. Now, slowly but surely they started to see Chleo for who she really is: excellent support for them, making sure everything is running as planned. And ridiculously good-looking too.

This new avatar is the newest addition to the extensive list of Holotech original avatars and it is now available for all Animaze subscribers.

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If you care to take advantage to the max of this new awesome piece of content, make sure you check out our tips and tricks regarding how to get the best video creation out of the Animaze app.

Also, if you're feeling creative, we've also prepared some tips and tricks about customizing and retexturing your avatars, making them your own with a vast array of props or with a custom background.

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Stream as Fruits and Veggie with Animaze's new gang of avatars: Pumpkin, Lime, Cucumber, and Banana! These new avatars are the newest addition to the extensive list of Holotech original avatars and are now available for all Animaze subscribers.

Meet the gang:
Pumpkin: Meet Animaze's champion at squash!
Lime: He has such a zest for life!
Cucumber: He always gets himself into a pickle with the fruits.
Banana: When he grows up, he wants to be in a famous painting.

The veggies have joined the Animaze gang just in time for the Halloween celebrations:

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If you care to take advantage to the max of these new awesome pieces of content, make sure you check out our tips and tricks regarding how to get the best video creation out of the Animaze app.

Also, if you're feeling creative, we've also prepared some tips and tricks about customizing and retexturing your avatars, making them your own with a vast array of props or with a custom background.

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Transform yourself into Albert with Animaze's new avatar! This new avatar is the newest addition to the extensive list of Holotech original avatars and is now available for all Animaze subscribers.

It’s a kooky world out there, but luckily enough we have Albert to try and sort it out for us all with his scientific papers and experiments.

Up above in the mysterious laboratories of Animaze, is where Bertie runs his studies and research. When he’s not explaining why the sky is blue, or other nuclear studies, we can find him sailing away and most probably inventing some smart theory on physics.


The Animaze bunch loves him tons, so for his birthday, they all got him socks, as a prank. In return, Albert shrunk them all for a day. You should’ve seen them all running around tiny as ants.

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If you care to take advantage to the max of this new awesome piece of content, make sure you check out our tips and tricks regarding how to get the best video creation out of the Animaze app.

Also, if you're feeling creative, we've also prepared some tips and tricks about customizing and retexturing your avatars, making them your own with a vast array of props or with a custom background.

More details about Animaze’s ongoing development and art efforts will be revealed soon with an updated roadmap.

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team

Hello, Animaze community!

Get the party started on this update day and let the good vibes flow as we’re releasing new animations, dances, and scene stickers. So get your stream ready and here are the new goodies and improvements we’re bringing to Animaze:

• Dances and Idle animations: Animaze is helping you to get ready to party on stream and to get on those dance trends right away! Starting with today’s update, you can use the following new dances: Chicken Dance, HipHop Dance, Silly Dance, Macarena Dance, Robot Dance, Arms Wave Dance, Twerk Dance, Rumba Dance, Swing Dance, CanCan Dance, Didi Dance. We’ve also included the new Bored, Fight, Ninja, Sad, and Victory idles.
  
  Here’s how they look on a couple of avatars. Pretty cool, right?
  
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• Scene Stickers: React and customize your streams with over 50 new scene stickers. They’re easy to use, fun to watch and they will make your in-stream reactions a whole lot easier.
  
  

Here are some other bug fixes and improvements we are including in this update:

• Made the main menu scrollable and rearranged options.
  
• Changed app default height.
  
• Fixed UI revert issues on Axis Neuron tracker section.
  
• Removed Global Symmetry on sections of the Adv. Config. where it does nothing.
  
• several tweaks to the face tracker (applies to Animaze Plus/Pro 22 as well) including:
  
  • a noise step filter that can be toggled on/off from the Adv. Config. drawer.
    
  • updated Visage Tracker tech to the latest version.
    
  • few tweaks for pursed lips and nose up movement, should fix some false positives while blinking.
    
  • removed lips pressed movement as it cannot be consistently tracked.
    
  • changed default smoothing values for jaw drop and pursed lips.
    

As always, we love hearing what you think about the new content and Animaze! Tell us what you’d like to see added to Animaze on our Discord server, email us at support[@]animaze[.]us, or message us on Twitter!

Happy Streaming,
The Holotech Team