I've said it before, but I'll expand further: Ina and Calli specifically have very distinct styles of movement. Calli in the Myth or Treat that I linked does not move like the Calli we know from either her own personal live shows or real life. Normally I think she would have been there to do her own dancing, but she's been insanely busy and constantly travelling for the past...several months(?) and she probably just couldn't make the time to learn choreo and record while in Japan.
And Ina, she just literally does not move like
this (40:24, timestamped to her song with Marine), that is how the JP girls move being in studio and taking dance lessons together and what-not. Watch Ina's Holofes performance again if anyone can find it. It was great, one of my favorites actually, graceful, elegant, etc. But I can't imagine her IRL doing the sort of 'bouncy anime girl' choreo that the JP's are always doing. She would probably literally die.
Gura and Kiara (and somewhat Ame) I could go either way on, because they do have more of the 'JP style' and interest in idol dancing/physical performance and being 'traditionally cute anime girls'. But for them I fall back on the logistics argument...
Yes they have access to studios, like whatever they used for their Holofes performances, but even back then people talked about the logistics of renting those places out even just to record a 5 minute video. Holofes was a major event where the 3d models were first being unveiled, and Cover probably paid out the butt to make sure the quality was up to their standards at each of the studios the girls had to go to (
at least one in NA and one in EU). A cameo in a birthday stream is not nearly the same level of importance as Holofes. If it were economically viable for Cover to rent these places out for
minor events, there is NO WAY that Kiara would not have just paid out of her own pocket to record her Birthday Live (a
major event for her) in that quality. In fact,
she explicitly said that all of the studios in Europe that she got quotes from were 6 figures for 1 day. Let's just go with the absolute lowest '6 figures' (very generous of me), $100,000 for a studio for a day, to record a 1 hour stream. Let's just pretend that a 5 minute cameo takes 1/12th of the time to record as a 1 hour stream and the studio offers smaller time segments like that (again, being very generous), that would still be an $8.333.33 (repeating, of course) expense per cameo. From a business perspective, even this extremely low estimate is still not really viable.
So once again: 1. For some girls, the movement simply does not match their own personal style. 2. Logistics of 'major events' vs. 'minor events'. 2b. Their real '3d Debut Streams' are going to be major events; if it were so easy to get these into these mocap studios, why the huge delays and girls constantly hoping to be able to travel to Japan to be able to record them?
And I've said this before too; this doesn't mean I'm pooping on anyone or being mad at Cover or anything, it's more "eh, that was fun, can't wait to see the real thing". I'm just excited for the
real debuts and I don't need to pretend to be all amazing-super-hype-Nolan-style excited over these in order to still be excited for those.
