Talk:Official VOCALOID illustrators/@comment-64.251.182.34-20150304175300/@comment-5051846-20150304183339

What exactly do you mean? I'll give you a general overview of what we know regarding the design process of Vocaloids, hopefully you'll find something useful. (*´・ｖ・)

Firstly, there is no overarching concept which all Vocaloids have to apply to. They don't have to look futuristic, they don't have to be anime, they don't have to have a certain clothes. You can see we have Vocaloids with art in all styles from sketchy traditional work to stock photography. Vocaloids don't have a certain 'look' to them; how the company decides to visually represent the concept is very open, and there are many different approaches.

However, within companies, illustrators might be asked to conform to a specific concept. We don't know if every company does this, but we know that sometimes they will request a certain look for their Vocaloids. For example, Crypton Future Media asked Kei (their illustrator) to base Miku, the Kagamines and Luka around androids. Keep in mind, this doesn't mean any of the Vocaloids not made by Crypton Future Media have to look like androids. Zero-G requested AkiGlancy create a fantasy themed design for the Vocaloid Avanna. They also wanted her to have black hair. During the commissioning process, companies can be strict or open with what they ask their illustrator to do.

Yahama has guidelines which they often ask companies to comply to when laying out the Vocaloid's boxart, but this doesn't necessarily affect the design.

We also know that Yahama has to approve the illustration, and has requested some changes to the design with certain Vocaloids. With Avanna, Yahama asked Zero-G to remove the elf concept Avanna originally had. What motivates Yahama to request changes, and if they've caused the design of other Vocaloids to be changed, can only be speculated.