VTUBER SUMMONED. Our friend is moving to Japan. "Can you model HelluMelu's 2D avatar in Blender?" Elaine Chou asks me. Next thing I know, I'm sending WIPs in a secret chat with our friend Omar Monreal. I send him the finished model, then he works his 3D Printing magic to produce a tiny army of Spot the dogs. Finally, after a few shipping troubles, Elaine gets the print and paints like a fiend. We each learned at least 10 things on the way to making Spot real, but nothing felt more real than seeing HelluMelu's face when they pulled their own avatar out of a little gift bag.