Noticed that there are two versions of the hikari video, one is higher filesize and one is lower filesize, but both look nearly identical with slight differences in color. Is this something like topu making his own Live2D while also allowing other creators to do so from his artwork as well?
There's also two hoshino videos with very different expressions and sound quality.
Topu does not animate on his own. They used to have three actually, then down to two, and now one.
Aistotle
Neneg
And sweetsmile.
Idk what happened to aistotle but he made the Clara and Silver Wolf animations a very long time ago.
Neneg did the Hikari and Hoshino animations. And his is far superior imo, in terms of quality/movement/time and hired voice actresses for a time for them. You should actually watch them. He no longer animates for Topu.
Sweetsmile is now the only current dedicated animator. And I think he's genuinely ass. It's literally just gifs strung together by fade ins/outs, speed adjustments and uses stock voices. I don't think anyone needs to be an animator to tell that much.
There's also Yoozme who I just recently remembered did one or two iirc, but is not a dedicated animator.