>>1306939>How long does it take to create a new persona? How much does it cost to draw it and and properly rig it for live2d? A 3d model?Depends how much money you have and how functional you need it to be. I mean, the scale ranges from just a flat, static image to something all rigged to every possible degree with all kinds of moving parts and variations and stuff. But it's pretty quick on the lower end. 3D models are actually pretty easy, considering way more of a talent pool is out there to draw from.
>The girls all seem to own all the hardware needed to live stream from home so thats a non-issue.It's just an iPhone X, that's all you need to do their VSeeFace or whatever it is that they use for their 2.5D or Live2D capture. You don't need any special tracking rig or setup for basic face and hand capture. Look at Snuffy right now, she's doing way more with her 3D and just using an iPhone. I believe when they do in-studio stuff, they use tracking cameras and tracking bands, which is why they have a set studio space, but that's not the only way to do 3D spatial tracking. There are ways to do it without pre-set tracking cameras. That's where things get pricy.
>What if there is another fiasco where X company wont allow them to stream a game and they have to purge their library of videos?Well that's what a competent manager would do, is they would be ahead of the talent's content and get pre-approvals and such beforehand. The reason the thing about copyright hit Cover so hard was because they didn't do any of that before and so they had to panic when they were claimed, and protect all of their content or risk it all burning down. If they had gone around and gotten approvals beforehand, that wouldn't have happened.
>What if you get another Haato X Haachama situation and the new company ends up doing the same exact thing as Cover so they dont get booted off of youtube?I don't see how Haato doing extremely tame pseudo-horror videos is even remotely objectionable or dangerous on a platform that literally hosts serial killer documentaries with footage, horror video games, and horror movies. Cover is scared of it because Cover wants to protect their characters from the performers. They're finally realizing that if left with complete freedom, their girls will inevitably make the characters Cover owns into something that is very much NOT marketable as "idol" content, or useful for brand sponsors.
>>1307146>where exactly do you think the money to pay for a management team comes from?Obviously they have to pay their managers, but my point is that you don't need the fucking overhead of Cover Corporation, a big-ass company with dozens of employees, suits, managers, and middlemen all working to use the characters as mascots to make money.
Again, you can easily have a VShojo situation where everything about the business end is decentralized, remote, and handled by a very small team of people so that the performers can keep more of their money and thus continue to enjoy doing their job, and thus keep fans engaged.
