Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-28951715-20180506163926

the polls back again lololol

On an unrelated note the vocamerica results are coming in t minus six hours///// It's so exciting having a contest like this for the concert.

But I figured I'd ask bc I've got some mixed feelings about Vocamerica: What do you guys think about the concert? I.e., the animation, the songs, the marketing and the like?

There was some convo where Aki broke downt he budget bc someone pointed out they had 20k+ from the kickstarter and all we got were pretty awkward MMD dances. And they're not wrong; I was watching the 2017 concert and some of them look really bad// Like worse than what 20k should be able to buy. (Have you seen the wildfire dance it's actually out of sync and looks awkward af).

Apparently the word on the street is the 20k disappeared bc merchandise cost way more than expected to produce, esp. for the backer rewards, and there were choreographers (students) who she commissioned that did not giver her usable footage, and gave her their footage late, essentially scamming her.

I feel like this could've been avoided if they had a) gotten professional a choreographer(s)

b) cut back on the merchandise as cute as it is, we don't need all of that stuff

c) gotten an accountant or someone with business experience to help them properly budget and get an idea of what they needed to succeed (i.e. done more research with professionals, bc while they did put in a lot of work in trying to figure things out, the fact that they blew threw 20k means that it wasn't v sufficient).

I Just have a hard time understanding how the product we got is a result of 20,000+ dollars and it just disappeared. It made me a little less fond of the Vocamerica concert itself, though definitely more pity for Aki considering all the struggle the team went through.

At the end of the day I wish it was a better product, and backers got more quality for their money. Especially at least it not being an mmd concert (as lovely as Yoi's models are, I hate the elongated middles. Like the proportions are just whacky and they don't look all that great as a result, all v same-face looking too).

But that's just my opinion/criticism. I still support the project and I think it's a great thing, what they're trying to do. Extremely ambitious for their first attempt to bring a thing like this into the world, you know? It's quite impressive that they managed to get where they are lolol