This article will be a quick short one. Since there is a plethora of KanColle and Azur Lane character models available for MMD nowadays, let’s have some fun with at least one of them. In this article I will choose one of my favorites, Bismarck Drei by Hinoichi, but you can choose one of your…
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Ray-MMD Shading Mech Girls… … A Petite Kawaii Mech Girl Japanese anime have a lot of franchises to feature mech-girls; these are sort of like magical girls with some far out future tech types of gear and usually armed with super-sized, great big, state-of the-art weaponry such as swords and hand cannons. Some of these…
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img class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-26057″ src=”https://learnmmd.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/welcomehomemaster.jpg” alt=”” width=”800″ height=”800″ /> Japan has some of the finest graphic designers in the world and possibly also some of the worst. But we’re going to have some fun with the “styling” of some of the more “not the best that Japan has to offer” types of advertisements. Honestly, a…
Create Animations WITHOUT Animating a model… … Lazy Boy’s Animation Guide Recently, someone on the LearnMMD team was bemoaning the fact that many MMD animators only animate the upper torso of models and that their legs were never touched. To which, at least two other team members, myself being one, responded by stating essentially, it…
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A couple of days ago, a fan of the Prinz Eugen character from the Azur Lane franchise wrote and asked a few interesting questions about how to set up nautical scenes in MMD which, after some thoughts, I felt were well worth answering. Specifically, they wanted to know how to set up battleship models in…
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Here is Part One… the first part in this 3-Part series… See Parts TWO and THREE… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 1 Revisiting Kelorin Town Kelorin town a fictious Showa period MMD town model by Japanese modeler Kelorin Jo BTA. It is one the most well known of the urban town stages…
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Here is Part TWO in this series… See Parts ONE and THREE… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 2 Setting up the Master Control System The Kelorin town model consists of the following modules: kr3_block_a.pmx kr3_block_b.pmx kr3_block_c.pmx kr3_block_d.pmx kr3_block_canal.pmx kr3_block_denchu.pmx kr3_block_outer.pmx Step 1: You will need a spreadsheet Using PMXE, open up each…
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Here is Part three… the final part in this series… See Parts ONE and TWO… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 3 Assembling the Town Model The Master Plan This is actually very simple but a little fiddly to set up initially. Once completed the plan will offer: A method to move and…
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Ray-MMD is one of the most popular MME shaders currently available. It also seems to be one of the hardest for many new users to MMD to get working. Part of the problem is that the effect comes with next to no beginner’s instructions and most of the tutorials on how to use the effect…
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Yes it’s almost that time of the year again and all the Halloween merchandise is on glorious display at COSCO. Right, I’ll admit a bought a large pack of variety candies but those are to fuel my sugar fixes, not to dole out to random kids. After all kids shouldn’t take candy from strangers; isn’t…
There is a MME shader available that can do some of the things that Ray-MMD can do but it is much easier to use. Known as PowerShader, this effect is ideal for bright daylight outdoor scenes. There are few little tricks to get the most out of it and these are easy to figure out….
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