When I say "crappy", I meant it looked more like a preliminary sketch for a vocal synth design rather than a final drawing. It just seems rushed and lazy to me.
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I will give them one thing at least they made it a free upgrade if someone already for some reason had her v1 thats been my biggest gripe with sv2 is having to pay more for a voicebank I already bought everytime lol
I'm fully comfortable making fun of the artwork considering it's attached to a product with a triple digit price tag and that is supposedly aimed at professional musicians. If this was just some random person's UTAU, that'd be a different story; but this is a company with employees and investors and startup money and an Inc. suffix. Not to mention all the silly Web3 nonsense that just looks more and more out of touch as more time goes by.
I didn't actually know the artwork was originally some Twitter artist's OC that Studio ENTRE apparently just "adopted" for their vocal, and that honestly makes it even more embarrassing and sketchy to me. Like, all that investor money and you couldn't bother hiring an actual designer/illustrator? You just went trawling through Twitter for some amateur artist (who's also likely very young, but I couldn't find an actual age listed anywhere) and asked to use one of their characters? For a "studio" with such professional ambitions, their practices are, ironically, very unprofessional.
I didn't actually know the artwork was originally some Twitter artist's OC that Studio ENTRE apparently just "adopted" for their vocal, and that honestly makes it even more embarrassing and sketchy to me. Like, all that investor money and you couldn't bother hiring an actual designer/illustrator? You just went trawling through Twitter for some amateur artist (who's also likely very young, but I couldn't find an actual age listed anywhere) and asked to use one of their characters? For a "studio" with such professional ambitions, their practices are, ironically, very unprofessional.
I still don't respect Gemvox but I gotta admit I kinda thought they'd just leave Topaz on SV1 without any Korean usage despite having promised that, so... good on them for that.
I don't feel comfortable making fun of a random person's art they just decided to use (and hopefully pay for), since they had no idea they were drawing for a professional vocal synth. The art seems amateur and has a number of problems, but I think we should leave it at that.
I totally get where you're coming from, and I would never openly talk smack about it where I thought the artist might see it. But once a piece of art gets attached to a commercial product like this, it ceases to be just a work of art and becomes promotional material that is open to criticism. In this context, I personally don't see any real difference between making fun of Topaz and Jasper's art and making fun of Dreamtonics' alphabet soup vocalists. In my opinion, both are poor representations of the products they're supposed to be a prospective buyer's first impressions of, albeit for very different reasons. And some might argue that it's unfair for an amateur artist's work to be viewed this way, and I'd agree with them! That's why I think it was weird and kinda shady for the company to use the art in the first place. They put the spotlight on this random (and likely quite young) non-professional's artwork, and they almost certainly did so because it would be a lot less money than actually hiring a character designer/illustrator.
I agree that it's almost always fair game to criticize art attached to commercial products, I just think this is an exception.