Xingchen

Stardust, also known in Chinese as Xingchen (星尘), is a Chinese VOCALOID to be developed by Shanghai HENIAN Information Technology Co. Ltd., distributed and owned by Quadimension and will be released for the VOCALOID4 engine. She is the first VOCALOID for the Voicebank Customize Project.

She is voiced by Chalili (茶理理; Chá Lǐ Lǐ), a Chinese utaite.

Concept
Stardust was originally a mascot for a group of producers and album series, Quadimension.

According to the Quadimension 3 album artbook and November's design concepts, Stardust is capable of flying to Earth by using her hair. However, it was noted that she does not necessarily need to flap her hair while flying in space.

Her birthday is August 12th.

Etymology
Her name, Xingchen (星尘; Xīngchén), means "Stardust" in Chinese. "Stardust" is her official English name as it appears on her boxart and numerous promotional material.

She was originally known as "Quadimensionko".

Appearance
Stardust's design was based on her original Quadimensionko concept. There were notable minor changes as she was given a skirt, shorter pigtails on the lower side of her head, and a different top in the newly revealed design.

However, due to the Chinese fans' worries about her appearance looking similar to Hatsune Miku, Stardust was later redesigned. Her final design was drawn by ideolo, but was designed by November. Her quad tail hairstyle was still kept, but worn in a different way. She also sported a new one-piece dress. Her arm warmers were replaced with long gloves.

Stardust has a quad tail hairstyle that was created to represent "Quadimension".

Marketing
On September 26th, 2015, an illustration contest for Stardust's official artbook was launched and ended in December 2015. Prizes were available to all who participated. Art pieces needed to tag Stardust's official Weibo page or be sent in to the email address provided. The winners were revealed on January 2nd, 2016: ORRY喵, COCYTOPIA, KYURITIZU, 司哒, and 蓝粑粑. They received gold strap charms of Stardust, a place within the artbook, and payment. Chinese runner ups received silver straps, while overseas runner ups received a digital copy of Stardust's artbook. No physicals were available for the overseas contestants due to shipping costs. The artbook consisted of 30 to 40 pages.

Quadimension asked the fans for suggestions about the name for the album and artbook. The artbook was later named "银河美术馆" (Gallery of the Galaxy) while the album was named "星愿" (StarWish).

A 3D model of Stardust has been showcased, but it is unknown what it would be used for.

A figure was announced to be showcased at Wonder Festival on February 17th, 2016.

Trivia

 * While she is the first VOCALOID developed by Shanghai HENIAN to not be part of the Vsinger project, Xin Hua was the first Chinese VOCALOID to not be part of it overall.