Fen Vaile

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Commission Terms & Conditions

Thank you for your interest in commissioning me! Please read the terms and conditions below, and don’t hesitate to reach out via Bluesky chat or email if you have any questions. Also, note that these terms only apply to character/vtuber designs and Live2D rigging without VBridger. I do not own VBridger or know how that software works, so I only rig models for the standard VTube Studio program.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

General Stuff

Should be obvious, but don’t commission me if you don’t like my art or rigging style! I love and need references, but don’t ask me to copy someone else or expect my work to turn out exactly like theirs. If my style isn’t your cup of tea (or coffee), that’s totally fine! There’s tons of wonderful artists out there with all sorts of incredible art styles.I reserve the right to decline a request for any reason. Please respect my decision. Trying to bully, guilt, or force me into a commission I don’t want to do will get you blacklisted.

Will do ✔

Simple armor
Horror/gore
Some nudity/NSFW*
Anthro/furry*
Rigging: wave, simple tail/ears motion, crying, hip sway, steppies, simple animations/idles**Depends on request. If I don’t feel confident about my skills with the subject, I may decline.

Won’t do ✖

Heavy armor/mecha
Complex weapons
Hyper-realism
Loli/shota
Rigging: walking, extreme lean, complex poses/animations/idles
Anything related to hate speech, motifs or symbols that promote racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Communication

I typically send updates at least 1-2 times a week except during breaks. Please understand that I am not able to work on art or comms every day and that I may be working on or posting about other projects at the same time.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••You can message me on Bluesky, Discord (if provided), or email anytime for questions or updates. I do not have Twitter.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I do my best to reply within 1-2 business days, except on weekends or during breaks. Unless it’s an emergency, I may not reply until the next business day.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I won’t always be able to reply immediately, and I also don’t expect you to reply to my questions immediately. However, if I’m hung up on something that I need approval or input before continuing, I will wait until I hear back before continuing with that part of the process.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••In the event that an emergency, health issue, or extended break comes up, I will reach out with an estimated time of when I can resume your commission and update you if that time changes. Please also do the same if something comes up on your end.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••Please don’t ghost me if you change your mind on the commission! If I message you and don’t hear back for 3 consecutive weeks without a heads up (emergency, life event, health, etc.), I will pause working on your commission until I hear from you. After 6 consecutive weeks without communication, I may cancel your commission entirely, and you will be billed for the amount of work done.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Workflow & Revisions

I will only begin working after receiving a signed contract and deposit.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••Character designs can take 1-4 months. Rigging by itself can take 2-5 months. Character design + rigging can take up to 9 months, possibly longer depending on revisions, complexity, or unforeseen delays.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I am not always a fast worker. Do not commission me if you have a tight deadline that cuts close to my estimated time frames. I reserve the right to deny a request if I feel it does not give me enough time to comfortably finish the commission by any firm debut dates.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••For designs, unlimited revisions are only allowed during the sketch and flat color phases. I will have frequent check-ins during this phase.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••There are no major design changes during the rendering process unless it’s a mistake on my part. If you want to add a new element (extra accessory/outfit/toggle, second hairstyle, etc.) there may be a fee depending on complexity.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••For rigging, I will have frequent check-ins, usually with video recordings of the process. Adjustments can be made at any time, but keep in mind that large revisions will extend the estimated completion date.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Rights & Usage

Commercial license is only included in the price for vtuber/character designs and rigging. You may commission alt designs from other artists, stream with, make merch, use in RPGs, use as a pfp, etc. as long as credits are posted somewhere and easily accessible by your audience. All other illustrations are for personal use only. Please credit my Bluesky as that’s where I’m most active.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I retain the copyright to the finished art/rigging and can use them in my portfolio, social media, or self-promotion including ads or videos. You may not claim the work as your own. If I make a model based on another artist’s concept art, please see their terms for copyright ownership as they might retain the copyright of their design.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••You may not sell this commissioned work for more than you paid for it. If transferring to someone else, you must inform me of the new owner.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••My work from concept to finished product, including sketches, is not to be used with non fungible tokens, generative AI, or AI training in any way.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Payment, Cancellations, & Refunds

Payment is only available through PayPal invoice at this time.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••For vtuber/character designs and rigging, a 20% non-refundable deposit and signed contract is required up front before I can begin working.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••For other illustrations (skebs, portraits, tokens, etc.), full payment is required up front.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I will only refund your deposit if I have not started the sketching process by the start date I provide and either party decides to cancel. However, once the sketching process has begun, the deposit cannot be refunded.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••30% of the remaining balance for designs will be due once the sketch and flats have been finished, before rendering begins. If I'm also rigging your design, another 30% will be due before rigging starts. Full payment will be due upon completion of the entire project.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••I understand that unexpected things happen, and I am willing to work with you if we need to pause the commission. Just please communicate with me if something comes up! In the event that you have to cancel, you may be billed for the amount of work finished and sent incomplete files once payment is confirmed. I want you to receive what you paid for, even if I was unable to finish the job. You may commission someone else to complete it in the future, and credits are much appreciated if major parts of the design remain with the model. I will not send any files not paid for.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••A partial refund can be issued for the cancellation of smaller projects paid upfront, but the amount is at my discretion based on how much work has already been done. You will receive incomplete files if sufficient work has been done, but feeding them through AI to finish them is strictly prohibited and will result in blacklisting.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••There are no refunds for completed commissions. You will only receive your completed files when full payment has been cleared. I am willing to work with you to extend the due date, but you must communicate with me.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••For full body rig-ready Live2D designs, please ensure your rigger (if not me) can work with over 99 layers. The free version of Live2D has a limit on how many layers it allows. There are no refunds if you commission too large of a model for your rigger.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

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Vtuber/Character Designs & Rigging

Character Designs

Prices are for character and vtuber designs only. All prices include commercial license. See my terms under Rights & Usage for full details. Prices for other types of illustrations will be posted separately when I’m ready to accept those commissions. Pose depends on request if given, or will be a simple A-pose or 3/4 pose of my choice if no request is made. All prices in USD, and payments are only accepted through PayPal invoice at this time.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Full Body

Flat design - $120-200

* Fully rendered in my style, no layers. You’ll receive 2 files: no background PNG and with a simple background + color palette. Not cut for rigging.* Canvas size (not the model size) is typically 4000-5000px width and 5000-7000px height depending on model, 300dpi.

Rig-ready PSD model - $300-$700

*Fully rendered in my style with shadows, linework masks, toggle layers, layered and cut for rigging. You’ll receive 3 files: layered PSD, a flat PNG with no background, and a simple ref sheet with model, select toggles, color palette, + name and socials as text. See examples below.* Canvas size (not the model size) is typically 4000-5000px width and 5000-7000px height depending on model, 300dpi.* The amount of layers varies by design but will be in the hundreds. Please ensure your rigger can work with over 99 layers. The free version of Live2D has layer and deformer limits. If you’re limited on layers, I recommend either a half body or flat PNG design.*I may send questions for your rigger or ask to put us all in a group chat for smoother communication.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Half Body

Flat design - $60-100

* Fully rendered in my style, no layers. You’ll receive 2 files: no background PNG and with a simple background + color palette. Not cut for rigging.* Canvas size (not the model size) is typically 4000-5000px width and 3000-5000px height depending on model, 300dpi.

Rig-ready PSD model - $200-$500

*Fully in my style with shadows, linework masks, toggle layers, layered and cut for rigging. You’ll receive 3 files: layered PSD, a flat PNG with no background, and a simple ref sheet with model, select toggles, color palette, + name and socials as text. See examples below.* Canvas size (not the model size) is typically 4000-5000px width and 3000-5000px height depending on model, 300dpi.* The amount of layers varies by design but will most likely be over 100. Please ensure your rigger can work with over 99 layers. The free version of Live2D has layer and deformer limits. If you’re limited on layers, you must let me know beforehand.*I may send questions for your rigger or ask to put us all in a group chat for smoother communication.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Rigging

At this time, I only rig my own designs. I do not rig models made by another artist. Therefore, these prices are in addition to the cost of the model art listed above. You can commission model art and return later for rigging, but the PSD must be unchanged. If edits other than color changes were made to the original PSD, I may decline to rig it or charge a fee to make any necessary adjustments. I do not have Vbridger or know how to rig for those parameters, so this is only for the standard Vtube Studio with no additional software.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Full Body - $400+

Price varies by amount of toggles, physics groups, animations, and overall complexity. See examples of my rigging below and in my portfolio on the home page.Includes:
Body X, Y
Body Z (Hip sway or steppies might be set to this parameter)
Head angles X, Y, Z
Hair bounce
Mouth open, close, frown
Eyes open, close, smile, big open
Eye & lash jiggle
Brow Y, form
Blush with smile
Breath
Clothing/accessory/wing bounce
Booba physics
Simple arm/hand/finger movement
Steppies and/or hip sway. Can do one on X and one on Z or both on same X/Z
3 free expressions (tears, heart eyes, face shadow, etc)Extras:
Additional hairstyle +$30-$100
Additional outfit +$60-$150
Complex accessory +$20-80
Pet/mascot +$60-200
Wave animation +$30 per arm
Tail idle +$30-60
Ear idle +$20
Extra expression +$10 each•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Half Body - $200+

Price varies by amount of toggles, physics groups, animations, and overall complexity. See examples of my rigging below and in my portfolio linked on the home page.Includes:
Body X, Y, Z (torso only so no hip sway or steppies)
Head angles X, Y, Z
Hair bounce
Mouth open, close, frown
Eyes open, close, smile, big open
Eye & lash jiggle
Brow Y, form
Blush with smile
Breath
Clothing/accessory/wing bounce
Booba physics
Simple arm/hand/finger movement if visible
3 free expressions (tears, heart eyes, face shadow, etc)Extras:
Additional hairstyle: +$30-100
Additional outfit: +$40-80
Complex accessory +$20-80
Pet/mascot +$60-200
Wave animation +$30 per arm
Tail idle +$30-60
Ear idle +$20
Extra expression +$10 each•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Full Body Example

Half Body Example

Ref Sheet Examples

(included only in rig-ready designs)

Rigging Examples

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Design Process

Character Designs

1. Consultation + reference analysis, price quote, contract confirmation, deposit. I may send a questionnaire for specific details about your design.2. Concept sketch, which may include one design, multiple designs, or options for specific parts of the design to pick and choose from. All update images will be watermarked and lower resolution.3. Model art with flat colors and simple details, upon approval of the concept sketch. Expect frequent check-ins, questions, and requests for feedback.4. Rendering begins after approval of the basic model. No more major revisions are allowed at this point unless it’s an error on my part or an extra element is added that will not affect the design.5. Once completed and approved, an invoice for remaining cost will be sent via PayPal.6. For cut model designs, a zip folder with the PSD file and any PNGs will be sent via email or Google drive link. For flat designs, full-res, unwatermarked PNGs will be sent via email or Google drive link.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

Rigging

1. Consultation, which may include a questionnaire about toggles and other rigging specifics. Please note that at this time, I only rig my own model art. I will make models from another artist’s sketch/concept (you must have permission for me to do this and pay any fees required by your concept artist!!), but I will not rig someone else’s cut PSD.2. Rigging starts. Workspace setup and meshing can take several days, then I work on one area at a time. Usually this starts with the head/hair, then chest/torso, then arms, then hips/legs, then extras like wings/tails, then toggles. You will get frequent updates no matter the order.3. I will send video updates throughout the rigging process. Don’t hesitate to ask questions or request recordings of specific areas. If at any point you notice something odd or not quite to your liking, please let me know!4. We can do a Discord call where I puppet the finished model for you if my Discord is provided. Otherwise, recorded videos will be sent via email, Google drive, or Discord for your approval.5. Upon approval of the rigging, an invoice for the final payment will be sent.6. A zip folder will be sent via Google drive link with the completed model files and instructions. Note that this will not include the project file! You will only receive the files you need for VTube Studio setup.7. After you receive your files, please try to set up the model in VTube Studio as soon as possible and test it out. If you notice something off, we will work to fix the issue as soon as we can.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••

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Portfolio

These are some of my most recent rigged models and model art. Higher quality videos might be uploaded to YouTube in the future, if I ever make a channel. Sorry these are somewhat low quality, but I had to keep within a certain file size. To see my 3D work (I love building environments!), see my Artstation linked on the home page.•• ━━━━━ ••●•• ━━━━━ ••