| id | vroid-studio | |||||
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| name | VRoid Studio | |||||
| url | https://vroid.com/en/studio | |||||
| publisher | pixiv | |||||
| category | characters | |||||
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| license | custom | |||||
| commercial | true | |||||
| attribution_required | false | |||||
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| added | 2026-07-19 | |||||
| verified | 2026-09-23 | |||||
| status | active |
pixiv's free anime character creator, exporting VRM. The published guidelines allow commercial use of exported models, including in games, but the base meshes and preset items stay pixiv's copyright under licence. This is not CC0, and pixiv says so.
- What you own and what you license. Textures and hair meshes you make from scratch are yours. Model meshes, clothing meshes and preset items remain pixiv's, licensed for "as wide a range of purposes as possible"
- Commercial use in games is stated outright, as long as the item has no special clause in its licence. Some bundled items and sample models do carry special terms; check an item's licence before shipping it
- You may not build a character creator with it. An application that generates or outputs models from VRoid-made meshes and textures needs a separate licence from pixiv, which pixiv may refuse. Personal-use tools are exempt
- Credit: none required by pixiv. The VRoid Studio Terms of Use (Articles 11 to 13 on pixiv's policies page) license Provided Content for any purpose and any use, with no credit condition. An individual item with its own displayed licence can still differ, as can VRoid Hub models
- VRoid Hub models are a separate question: each carries its uploader's own conditions, and pixiv's terms tell you to ask the creator how to credit them in a game
- vroid.com blocks scripted requests; these pages were read in a browser
- For a base with no strings, prefer quaternius-universal-base-characters or mpfb
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vroid.com/en/studio/guidelines(2026-09-23): "All content provided by pixiv, including the base models when creating a new avatar, is not CC0." -
Same page (2026-09-23): "Any individual or corporation may sell or use for commercial purposes any mesh, texture, or preset item provided by VRoid Studio, including models, clothing items, and accessories, provided that no special clauses are indicated in the license."
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Same page (2026-09-23): lists "games, applications, software" among permitted for-profit uses, and "You cannot create an application that can generate or output 3D models, avatars, or items consisting of deformed or combined meshes and textures that were created in VRoid Studio."
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Live pixiv "VRoid Studio" Terms of Use, Article 13 (2026-09-23): "a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use, duplicate, archive, modify, and display Provided Content, subject to restrictions common to all licenses, for (1) any purpose and (2) any use, except where different license conditions are specified and displayed for individual items of Provided Content"