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    Download Early Miku 1052C-Re0710 MMD Models from 2010! Downloading New Models
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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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"the making of" my video
Create MMD Abstract Art from Low-Res Videos!

Create MMD Abstract Art from Low-Res Videos!

This is an idea I have been playing with for the last few months… Create MMD Abstract Art from Low-Res Videos! The Image Capture is Simple! You can create MMD Abstract Art… Go to YouTube and play an MMD video… and, in settings, set your video resolution to only 240p… and then view your video…

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MMD Tutorials
Recoloring MMD’s Control Panel GUI Interface

Recoloring MMD’s Control Panel GUI Interface

Hi and welcome to your personal MMD care and color service, where I give you some tips on how to change the colors of your MMD software to give you fitting colors that suit you and make your MMD software comfy enough to make it feel like home! It’s pretty easy actually and doesn’t require…

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Genbento
Culling unseen MMD model parts optimises computer assets (PART 2)

Culling unseen MMD model parts optimises computer assets (PART 2)

How can I make my MMD run faster? What if removing parts using Subset-Extract isn’t enough? Removing un-needed model parts optimises computer assets. Sometimes, culling, removing unwanted/unseen model parts, using MME’s Subset-Extract can make the world of difference for your computer performance. But other times, it simply isn’t enough… especially with extremely detailed assets. This…

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Chestnutscoop
Optimise computer assets by culling unseen MMD model parts

Optimise computer assets by culling unseen MMD model parts

How can I make my MMD run faster? How can I optimise computer assets as I run MMD?  How can I speed-up my MMD computer? What can I do to speed-up MikuMikuDance on my computer? For those of us with low-performing laptops or PCs, creating in MMD can be a challenge. MMD uses much more…

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Chestnutscoop
Good MMD videos require Inspiration, Vision, Planning: The Lament of Okada’s Ghost

Good MMD videos require Inspiration, Vision, Planning: The Lament of Okada’s Ghost

The Lament of Okada’s Ghost… The secret to making good MMD videos All MMD videos have three common components and these are listed below. One or more performance models A setting for the performance Performance data But all these components should also ideally have a unifying factor, a “glue” if you like, that binds all…

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MMD Basics
Making JRPG style scenes using MMD

Making JRPG style scenes using MMD

Making JRPG style scenes using MMD Specifically here in this article we are referencing the JRPG/VN (visual novel) style games which have a distinctive style. This can be summarized as illustrated in the image below taken from Utawarerumono Mask of Deception: The basic elements are very simple: A rendered background image An anime style character…

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MMD Comics
Starting-out Using MMD Reader discovers missing elements.

Starting-out Using MMD Reader discovers missing elements.

A reader commented: Is it against any rules to sell an All-in-1 software pack in different variations? Like after I get everything that I think I need to start an MMD from scratch, there are still things that I don’t think about because I’m new to MMD? Starting-out Using MMD… … Reader discovers missing elements….

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MMD Basics
Making your own Japanese Maid Cafe poster

Making your own Japanese Maid Cafe poster

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…

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Random Thoughts & Visions
How to create credible characters for your projects.

How to create credible characters for your projects.

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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MMD Tutorials
The Art of Moe and the genre’s backstory.

The Art of Moe and the genre’s backstory.

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…

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Random Thoughts & Visions

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  • Why MMD Does not run on Apple Computers Kazuki Matsuoka
  • Import models from Source engine based games (HL2, Portal, TF2 etc.) Blender
  • YouTube serves video playback quality to best suit your viewing-screen HD Videos in MMD
  • LearnMMD’s MEME PARTY 2 a Success! CONTESTS
  • Miku virtual idol starts our Brave New World Random Thoughts & Visions

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