I've had an idea for a while about if I turned my profile picture into a vtuber rig. It would be a pure 2D side profile of a mallard duck with a rigid < beak that flaps up and down, and the emotion would be mostly conveyed through the beady black eye blinking.
Because the thing about ducks is that despite having kind of static-looking heads and faces at times and at certain angles:
Some of these motherfuckers look like they have cheeks and cheekbones!
Like look at that! That duck looks like it's grinning!
So here's a mock-up I just did:
That's the default, open-eyed vtuber model, as well as the blink cycle. The blink comes up from under the eye in like a n_n arc.
I couldn't communicate my intention super well, but with the speaking, I want the beak to be two rigid pieces that flap up and down like a hand puppet:
And then there's like the open beak with the blink:
