Using MMD and INKSCAPE to create comics One of the fun things to do with MMD is to make comics. The process is simple enough: Create a picture in MMD Add speech bubbles and text in a graphics application What this article will be about is how to make speech bubbles using an open source…
It has recently come to our attention that people find that it is not easy to rotate objects 360-degrees in MMD, so this 2-part tutorial will show you how it is done. Since we want to have a bit of fun too, we are going to show you how to spin a globe as well…
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MMD Rotating objects 360-degrees… Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy – Animating the Earth and the Moon (Part 2) In Part One, we downloaded our planets and prepped the objects to be rotated… loaded our object into PMXE and centered-up the center-bone and added a Motherbone. Here, in Part Two, we will animate MMD rotating objects…
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Over the last few years several people have asked me how to animate an MMD ballet pirouette motion sequence. Now to be totally honest, although I know how to spin a MMD model through a complete 360 degree cycle, I know next to nothing about ballet. So, this article will make up for my past…
MMD is a great vehicle for creating anime still imagery and videography. At its most basic level, you can load up one of the default models, apply a pose to it, may be add in a few MMEs and then create a render of the model. The fun part, however, is to make those models…
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If you do a Google search of the term “moe”; one of the first things that you will find is that there is no one definition of the term and several of the attempts to define the term are somewhat inaccurate. Plus, even the Japanese themselves put several shades of meaning to the term and…
Natural sunlight as interpreted by MMD is not white light. MMD by default uses a neutral grey light which emulates the photographic standard of mid-day sunlight in a temperate climate. But why is this important? If your objective is to create photo-real images using MMD, this is of paramount importance, especially when used in conjunction…
Ray-MMD Advanced Lighting: A Night on the Town You sometimes see urban scenes of Tokyo at night in Japanese anime with a plethora of lights from different sources, office building, street signage and the like as in the image shown below. Tokyo street at night. Image source: www.japan-guide.com. Image re-used here for non-commercial, illustrative…
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RAY-MMD comes with a nice set of ready to use sky boxes, but did you know you can create your own? RAY-MMD: Creating your own custom sky box But before we get to the “how to“, let me briefly explain “why” you would want to do this. The answer simply is because custom RAY-MMD skyboxes…
Someone wrote asking about how to use the Time of Night sky box that comes as standard with RAY-MMD; so this is what this article will be about. In fact, RAY-MMD comes also with the SKY NIGHT sky box for rendering night time scenes. However, the two have rather different applications and it really helps…
RAY-MMD and the original Miku Append… A RAY-MMD demonstration featuring texture and environmental lighting Nowadays, we can see plenty of Tda style edits rendered beautifully in videos on YouTube and NicoNico using RAY-MMD, but you hardly ever see the original Miku Append model treated in a similar manner. Well, that is understandable since that model…
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