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Windows 11 S Mode: The app you’re trying to install isn’t a Microsoft verified app.

Windows 11 S Mode: The app you’re trying to install isn’t a Microsoft verified app.

Windows 11 S Mode. Why won’t my Windows 11 computer let me install the C++ programs? I cannot install the C++ Redistributables. How can I get out of S Mode? I cannot run the C++ programs for MMD. Get Out of Windows 11 S Mode … a Windows 11 C++ installation workaround! “The app you’re…

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Troubleshooting MMD Featured
Learn MikuMikuDance in Small Steps! New LearnMMD Video Series

Learn MikuMikuDance in Small Steps! New LearnMMD Video Series

Learn MikuMikuDance in Small Steps. Where can I find easy-to-follow MMD instructions on YouTube? How do I do MikuMikuDance? New LearnMMD Video Series: Learn MikuMikuDance in Small Steps! A New Set of MMD Instruction Videos from LearnMMD.com! This month, December of 2023, sees the start of a new video series created by Eric Reinhart for…

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MMD Tutorials Featured
SEARCH LearnMMD.com… it’s Easy!

SEARCH LearnMMD.com… it’s Easy!

Search LearnMMD.com to find your answers! With the posting of this article, LearnMMD.com has 758 tutorials and articles, all online, at the moment. Plus the many special pages and extended articles. You can search through it ALL by using the Search tool located in the top right corner of almost every page. I am proud…

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MMD Tutorials Featured
mikumati NXDE G-IDLE models dance “No Thanks” by Hyolyn – Download Links

mikumati NXDE G-IDLE models dance “No Thanks” by Hyolyn – Download Links

Where can I download mikumati’s beautiful NXDE G-IDLE models for MMD? Can I download the MMD motion files for the song “No Thanks” by Hyolyn? I need a MikuMikuDance model set featuring Miku, Rin, Luka, Haku, and Gumi! Download beautiful NXDE G-IDLE models by mikumati and download the Motions and WAV files for “No Thanks”…

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Create 450-Frame MMD animation from scratch!

Create 450-Frame MMD animation from scratch!

How do I create a 450-Frame MMD animation from scratch? How do I start making motions with MMD? Can I make my own MMD video from scratch? Create 450-Frame MMD animation from scratch! Inspiration will come… just get started! Actually “getting started” is the hard part. I have found that “inspiration” will come when you…

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Rio Carnival Miku is my latest MMD Model Adoration Slideshow video

Rio Carnival Miku is my latest MMD Model Adoration Slideshow video

Where can I download the Rio Carnival Miku MMD model? How can I make an MMD Model Adoration Slideshow video? Where can I find the Everglow Adios MMD Motion files? Rio Carnival Miku TDA edit by dA’s shiro-nekovocaloid is the subject of my latest MMD Model Adoration Slideshow video! I am enjoying creating these “MMD…

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Lexasio’s Steampunk Teto & Miku star in MMD “Kiss Me” animation

Lexasio’s Steampunk Teto & Miku star in MMD “Kiss Me” animation

Where can I download Lexasio’s Steampunk Teto & Miku? How can I make my own “Kiss Me” MMD animation? Where can I get an MMD nightclub stage? Lexasio’s Steampunk Teto & Miku star in my newest “Kiss Me” animation! That is always a great place to start a new animation project: find a new beautiful…

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Sexiest MMD Model Dance Motion you can Download

Sexiest MMD Model Dance Motion you can Download

Where can I get the Sexiest MMD Model Dance Motion for my MMD model? How can I show-off my sexiest MMD model?  How do I make camerawork to show-off my MMD model? The Sexiest MMD Model Dance Motion you can Download… I run a FAMILY SHOW here on LearnMMD.com … so I used “the girl…

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ureshiiiiii “HAND CLAP” Free Motion & WAV Download – Awesome!

ureshiiiiii “HAND CLAP” Free Motion & WAV Download – Awesome!

Where can I download the Hand Clap motion? How can I make my own MMD Hand Clap video? ureshiiiiii’s “HAND CLAP” Motion is a lot of fun! Make your own HAND CLAP MMD video! ureshiiiiii is one of the most well-known MMD motion makers. The motions he creates are so smooth as he moves from…

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Study MMD Motion Files to SEE and LEARN about creating animations

Study MMD Motion Files to SEE and LEARN about creating animations

How do I make smooth motions in MikuMikuDance? What can I learn if I study MMD motion files, VMD’s? How do I create life-like MMD animations. How can I make my models DANCE? Study MMD Motion Files… SEE the art… … and LEARN about creating animations! We MMDers have all download motion files, .VMD files,…

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Making Smooth Motions Featured
Older MME Shaders rival Ray-MMD Raycast results and are easy to use!

Older MME Shaders rival Ray-MMD Raycast results and are easy to use!

Are the older MME Shaders still available? Is there an easier way than using Raycast to get photo-like 3D results with MMD? What shaders can I use as I work with MMD? Older MME Shaders are easy to use… … and may rival Ray-MMD Raycast results! I had a reader ask me a question about…

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Material Shader Featured
Add Life to your MMD soundtrack with Laughter and Applause! VDE-3!

Add Life to your MMD soundtrack with Laughter and Applause! VDE-3!

How can I make my MMD video sound like it’s in front of a live audience? How can I add audience applause to my MMD video? Where can I get applause for my MMD animation soundtrack? Add Life to your MMD soundtrack with Laughter and Applause! I am starting to work on my “Gotta Sing……

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Making Soundtracks Featured
Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

Raycast / Ray-MMD is a powerful, complicated MME effect… … so much MORE than an “effect”! We have been getting MANY Comments from our readers about how to use Raycast and then, “Why doesn’t Raycast work?” The answer: Raycast / Ray-MMD doesn’t work like any effect you have ever tried, before. – Raycast is NOT…

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MMD Tutorials Featured
Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click

Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click

How can I convert VRoid Studio models to PMX models? Where do I go to download VRoid models? How can I convert VRoid Studio to MMD?  How to Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click ________________ SPECIAL NOTE: May 20, 2022… A reader sent a comment with this info… Great news, everyone, there is…

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Mae Blythe Featured
Let’s Play the Sample Dances and Learn About MikuMikuDance

Let’s Play the Sample Dances and Learn About MikuMikuDance

What do I do first with MikuMikuDance? How do I play the sample dance in Miku Miku Dance? The MMD sample dance doesn’t play smoothly. Let’s Play the Sample Dances and Learn About MikuMikuDance When you first open Miku Miku Dance, you are faced with an intimidating number of buttons and drop-down menus … and…

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Intro to MikuMikuDance Featured
A Discussion of unloved Vocaloids

A Discussion of unloved Vocaloids

Miku. Len. Rin. Kaito. Gumi. IA. SeeU. Megpoid. Gakpoid. I’m Sure you’ve heard of these lovely vocaloids, But… … there are so many more wonderful sounds! so many wonderful new designs and types and themes! SO….. why do we focus on Hatsune-Chan? It’s not like she was the first vocaloid or anything… (no; saying that…

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Downloading New Models Featured
Reader asks how to create MMD artwork… stuff like posing, camerawork?

Reader asks how to create MMD artwork… stuff like posing, camerawork?

A reader asks… Is there a tutorial on how to create MMD artwork, like those you see in Deviantart? … I mean stuff like posing, fixing camera positions, adding rain and lightning, bending limbs and more for a picture, especially the posing and limb-bending parts which I can’t seem to do right. All of what…

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MMD Basics
Apply Multiple Effects on an Entire MMD Model Using M4Layer Effect

Apply Multiple Effects on an Entire MMD Model Using M4Layer Effect

How can I apply multiple effects to an MMD model? Can I use more than one effect at a time on my MMD model? Can I combine multiple Effects? Can I layer Shaders and Post Effects in my MMD animation? Use the M4Layer Effect to combine multiple Effects onto a model using Layers, allowing to…

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M4Layer Effect
MMD Plugin Manager… I Found a Treasure!

MMD Plugin Manager… I Found a Treasure!

What sorts of MMD Plugins are there? MMD Plugin Manager? MMD Plugins. Plugin MMD. More MMD plugins? Quick links at top My fork, which has a couple bugfixes by some guy naming himself Duke Nukem, great guy, the best. The one I forked from, which may or may not be updated. Usage is below and…

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MMD Tutorials
2023: Hatsune Miku is 16 Years Old by design and in reality!

2023: Hatsune Miku is 16 Years Old by design and in reality!

Finally, in 2023, Hatsune Miku is 16 years old! When did Miku make her first appearance? When is Hatsune Miku’s birthday? Hatsune Miku is 16 Years Old… … by design and in reality! Hatsune Miku was created to be the mascot, the voice and the face, of the Sony/Sega/Yamaha Vocaloid software that was released in…

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MMD Tutorials
Introducing MMD model 1052C China Qipao Miku

Introducing MMD model 1052C China Qipao Miku

Where can I download MMD model 1052C dancers? I want the 1052C China Qipao Miku MMD model. Introducing MMD model 1052C China Qipao Miku …in an MMD Model Adoration Slideshow! The 1052C MMD models… I have always loved these 1052C MMD models; they have a style all their own. There is no mistaking them! The…

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"the making of" my video
Download Jomomonogm’s Snow Miku 2019 for MMD, a most unusual model!

Download Jomomonogm’s Snow Miku 2019 for MMD, a most unusual model!

Where can I download Jomomonogm’s Snow Miku 2019? What is so unusual about this Snow Miku 2019 model? Where can I download MMD models? Download Jomomonogm’s Snow Miku 2019 … a most unusual MMD model! What makes her unusual? She is tall and beautiful with an outstanding costume… … and her natural facial expression is…

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"the making of" my video
MMD animation made-from-scratch Forgotten Vocaloid Mew Rags on Reggie’s MMD Videos

MMD animation made-from-scratch Forgotten Vocaloid Mew Rags on Reggie’s MMD Videos

How do I make my own MMD animation from scratch? How do I start my MMD animation made-from-scratch? What do I do first? My MMD animation made-from-scratch: Forgotten Vocaloid Mew Rags on Reggie’s MMD Videos… An MMD animation made-from-scratch! My goal with this animation was to create something totally new without using downloaded motion files….

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"the making of" my video
Rediscover your old MMD Animations: Love them again!

Rediscover your old MMD Animations: Love them again!

Rediscover your old MMD Animations: Love them again! A labor of love… Remember how it was when you made your old MMD animation… how excited you were as you “lived it” for the hours that it required to create. The music was drummed into your head as you listened to it for the thirtieth time……

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