Inochi2D

📖 What is Inochi2D?

An open-source puppet animation framework for moving layered 2D illustrations in real time. It's built from two apps: "Inochi Creator," for rigging your model, and "Inochi Session," for VTubing with face tracking, letting you give flat art a sense of pseudo-depth in motion. Inochi Creator is available free from itch.io under the BSD-2-Clause license and runs on Windows/Linux.

💡 When to Use It

For anyone who wants to try animating a model for free before committing to a paid Live2D Cubism plan. Just layer your own illustration and you can start a character-art stream with blinking and lip sync. It's also a fit for VTubers running a Linux streaming setup who can't use Windows-only tools, or developer-minded streamers who want to read the source and extend it to their liking.

📋 Basic Info

🚀 How to Use

1. Step 1: From the download page on inochi2d.com, get Inochi Creator (free, distributed via itch.io) and Inochi Session, and install them.
2. Step 2: Launch Inochi Creator and load a PSD with your bangs, eyes, mouth, body, and other parts separated into layers. The layers are imported directly as parts.
3. Step 3: Add a mesh to each part and add Deform parameters, linking things like eye opening/closing, mouth opening/closing, and neck tilt to the parameters.
4. Step 4: Export the finished rig as an .inp file and load it into Inochi Session. Set up webcam or iPhone face tracking to move the model.
5. Step 5: Capture Inochi Session with OBS's window capture, set up chroma key or transparent background, and put it on your stream screen.

🎬 Tutorial Video

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