Free assets doesn’t have to mean bad. There’s a lot of high-quality free assets out there in the wild. All you need to do is find them. Here are some of the places that I tend to look.
Note: While these assets are free to use, please read through each artist’s terms of use before downloading and using them. Some require credits to the artist in order to be used. Please respect the artists.
Finding Free Assets
Twitter is a really good place to find free overlays, backgrounds, BGM, and VTube Studio model accessories.
The most popular tags are:
- #freevtuberasset on Twitter
- #freevtuberassets on Twitter
- #フリー素材 on Twitter – Translated to “free materials”, there are a lot of hand assets people use for viral tweets under this tag. Most of them are Japanese posts, so please translate and read the artists’ usage requirements carefully.
Booth
Booth is a marketplace for many things but has a large community of artists creating models and assets for VTubers for free. You can find just about anything here.
Assets get uploaded under different tags and the site may be hard to navigate with many of the items being in Japanese, but you can use the related tags on each search page to browse around.
The best tags that I’ve found were:
- virtual youtuber tag on Booth
Other
- VTResources is a massive list of assets and creators. I personally find it a bit overwhelming to read through due to the sheer amount of items, but there is a lot of cool assets in there.
- VTuber Graphics has a lot of affordable paid assets; however, they do have a section for free assets on their website consisting mostly of microphones (at time of writing).
Personal Favorites
Here are a few high quality free assets that I have come across that you might be interested in.
Hands
Microphones
Video Game Controllers
- Switch Pro Controller-like w/ Changeable Skin Tones by VRTaika on Ko-fi
- Switch Pro Controller-like w/ More Skin Tones by @smatteredstars_ on Twitter
- Generic Controller w/ Pale Skin Tone by toraimukoubou on Booth
Torso
Comfy Blanket
- Autumn-themed Blanket by Lilistration on Ko-fi
