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Storyboards organize your MMD animation

Posted on June 4, 2015July 3, 2024 By Saihoshi 4 Comments on Storyboards organize your MMD animation

NewAuthorAvatarHow do I make a storyboard for my MMD animation? Why would I create a storyboard? Can I make storyboards for my MikuMikuDance video?

Crafting a Scene in MMD — Making a Storyboard

Before you start any project, you need some sort of plan.  Traditionally, animators and filmmakers will rely on a storyboard, or a visual guide of scenes in order to get an idea of what their film will look like.  Never rely on your own memory, because you will most definitely forget something and your storyboard is actually tangible.  On top of that, any animation or film professors you have will definitely want to see it, if not require it.

For my “Once Upon a Dream” project, I did my storyboards in PowerPoint, since my graphics program has been very uncooperative lately.  We used paper storyboards in my high school and college-level digital art classes, which can be downloaded. This link will download a small 35kb Storyboard Template for WORD or Open Office text page: Download the Template.

I used a standard form and created my storyboard using PowerPoint.

How to Make a Quick Storyboard

This is a very crude method of capturing the key frames that I needed to replicate for my project.  I paused the YouTube video at least every second (and sometimes less, if a key bit happened), took a screenshot, and added the picture to the PowerPoint with the time stamp and words said, as well as any notes I wanted to add.  Of course this can be done with any video you choose, or you can draw it out yourself.

I judged the MMD frames by playing the .wav file and messing with the MMD playback menu until I found where each chunk roughly started.

The Benefits of Actually Making a Storyboard

While animating, I was able to pay careful attention to Aurora’s center of Following the storyboard gives you great control of your MMD animation.gravity and how high the top of her head was in each shot.  This helped me to simulate more natural movements, as opposed to keeping her at a more steady and robotic height.  Having the key frames directly in front of you as you work also takes a lot of the guesswork out of the process.

Storyboarding is a very important step when making any project, and gives you a master plan to fall back on; it’s also encouraging to have a rough idea of where your project will ideally end up.  This isn’t to say that you have to rely on it entirely, but it’s best to go in with a plan instead of nothing at all- especially when dealing with an audio track or when working with multiple people.


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Comments (4) on “Storyboards organize your MMD animation”

  1. Mikie says:
    June 29, 2015 at 10:06 am

    It didnt work. i downloaded it adraely and found nothing just “x” picture. I used to open it with microsoft office 2007.Sorry im noob :D can you help me out of this? i really love the design

    Reply
    1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
      June 29, 2015 at 10:48 am

      Hi… What are you referring to?… What is just an X?

      Reply
      1. KillerBeer says:
        June 29, 2015 at 11:39 am

        The link points to the thumbnail of the actual file which is residing here: http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/template_strybrd_8panels-download.doc

        Reply
        1. Reggie_Dentmore says:
          June 29, 2015 at 12:12 pm

          I have updated the link in the article so as to download the WORD .doc of the Storyboard form.

          Reply

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