Oliver
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Oliver is an English Vocaloid developed by PowerFX and new VOCALOID company, VocaTone.[2]
Oliver's voice provider was a 13 year old boy from Britain, who for legal reasons cannot be named. He is the first young boy Vocaloid not to use an adult voice and the first Vocaloid 3 English voicebank.[3]
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Concept
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Keeping within the "monster" theme of PowerFX vocaloids, Oliver is also a monster similar to Frankenstein's monster, like Big Al and Sweet Ann. According to Vocatone the reason he has bandages instead of stitches was because stitches did not suit him. The main inspirations for his outfit were the uniforms worn by the Vienna Boys Choir, and the type of clothing upper-class males wore in the late 18th and early 19th century.
According to Lawlietlk, the illustrator of Oliver, she was only told Oliver was a "classical" type of vocal originally. "James", Oliver's bird, was drawn from references; however, Oliver's design was done without any references.[4][5]
Oliver's bird is an American Goldfinch.
Oliver's design was not influenced by Oliver Twist, in spite of the similarities, which are regarded as a coincidence. VocaTone did not realize the similarities until quite late in development.
He has a Dal Segno on his cloak.
EtymologyEdit
According to VocaTone, his name was originally "Cody".[6] It is unknown why "Oliver" was chosen.
Vocaloid ReleasesEdit
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Everfree | |||
 | Author(s): | AKI4K1 | |
| Category: | Original song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
| Nicovideo Broadcast Youtube Broadcast | |||
Description
An electronica original song that takes advantage of Oliver's soft tone | |||
You Were There | |||
 | Author(s): | hakei1211 | |
| Category: | Cover song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
| Youtube Broadcast | |||
Ice Sculptures | |||
 | Author(s): | baggagelizard | |
| Category: | Original song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
| Youtube Broadcast | |||
Take You Back | |||
 | Author(s): | TheIndisputed21 | |
| Category: | Original Song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
| Nicovideo Broadcast Youtube Broadcast | |||
Hero | |||
 | Author(s): | J Sime | |
| Category: | Original Song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
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Description
A calm,peaceful song. | |||
Pumpkin March | |||
 | Author(s): | Momocashew | |
| Category: | Original Song | ||
| Featuring: | Oliver | ||
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MarketingEdit
Added by Bunai82Oliver was mostly discussed at Vocaloid Otaku forums where news and updates of his pre-release were being spoken about. The success of Vocaloid Otaku forums led to a discount being offered to those who signed up to the forum for up 3 months prior to his release. Vocaloid Otaku was already being used by PowerFX and Zero-G as their fanbase forum for gaining feedback from the English Vocaloid fans; however, the feedback and reaction was better received overall than even in the past with other Vocaloids, making this approach one of the companies' most successful marketing attempts on any Vocaloid.
The art was also drawn in a sketch style, giving a less refined illustration than previous Vocaloids.
TumblrEdit
Oliver has a Tumblr Oliver Fanclub.
FacebookEdit
Oliver also has a Facebook page. A poll is currently being held for fans to vote on the type of merchandise they'd most like to see with Oliver.
TwitterEdit
He has a Twitter account.
Taiwan ReleaseEdit
Oliver had a demo uploaded to youtube by Ecapsule called "Realm Beyond", though no official announcements have been made it is likely he is due for a Taiwan release.
CompetitionEdit
A competition for Oliver is currently being run by VocaTone with the prize being Oliver himself. Details are found on the VocaTone website. MMD model have been supplied with the competition for use of entry as MMD is one of the methods for entering the competition with, though MMD is not required for entering the competition nor these specific models. Those taking part must create a PV to accommodate the song "Birds", competition expires on the 4th of December.
The winner was announced on the 28th of December 2012, the wining PV was porifra.[7]
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PopularityEdit
Oliver was the best received English Vocaloid within the fandom. At one stage he had more fanart on Pixiv prior to release then some of the Japanese Vocaloids for Vocaloid 3 who had been known for some time prior to Oliver's announcement. His forum topic at Vocaloid Otaku reached 100 pages (sorted 20 posts per page), arriving at the number quicker then other topics about unreleased Vocaloids. Oliver's first two demos "Circus Monster" and "Scarborough Fair" also managed to get over 30,000+ views within their first month of upload, which was not seen by past English Vocaloids.
In April 2012, Oliver overtook Big Al's on English Vocaloid popularity. Oliver is currently the most popular Vocaloid designed to sing only in English in the Vocaloid fandom both in Japan and overseas.
In late August 2012, his PV demo song "Dinky Dink" became the first demo for a English only built Vocaloid to reach 100,000+ views.
TriviaEdit
- A choir styled Vocal had been planned since the very first Vocaloids went on sale in 2004, however, originally Zero-G were the ones who had intended to release such a voice.[8]
- Since Oliver was the first English Vocaloid developed since the Hatsune Miku Facebook account had been set up, a number of less informed fans have been known to classify him as "the first English Vocaloid". This is not the case and the very first Vocaloids Leon and Lola were English Vocaloids and were released in 2004. This is no fault of the fandom itself, but a long term issue that has been noted about some communities within the Vocaloid fandom that lack more experienced Vocaloid users.[9]
Notable for...Edit
- First "young boy" Vocaloid actually voiced by a young boy
- First English Vocaloid for Vocaloid 3
- First male Vocaloid for Vocaloid 3
- First PowerFX Vocaloid for Vocaloid 3
- First VocaTone Vocaloid
- First PowerFX Vocaloid with a Child's Voice
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External linksEdit
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Other :
- New Engloid Blog- Oliver (tag search)
Fandom :
- Oliver fanart DeviantArt / Pixiv / Piapro
- Oliver models on MikuMikuDance wiki
- Oliver derivatives on Fanloid wiki
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