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Crazy Animation Creation yields fun video and good practice!

Crazy Animation Creation yields fun video and good practice!

How can I get inspired to do some animation creation from scratch in MMD? Is it hard to create your own motion files in MikuMikuDance? How do I get started with my own animations? Crazy Animation Creation… …Practicing Animation Skills yields fun video! Last night I came cross this crazy “free online slot machine game”….

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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 more complicated MMD dance motions – Some new notes…

Making more complicated MMD dance motions – Some new notes…

How can I make more-complicated MMD dance motions? Does it take a long time to make your own MMD dance motions? How can I learn to make complicated MMD dance motions? LAST TIME… I wrote about creating a gentle “ballad” motion for MMD… Easy… THIS TIME… NOT so Easy! Making more complicated MMD dance motions……

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MMD Rotating objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part One)

MMD Rotating objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part One)

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 (Part 2)

MMD Rotating Objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)

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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Animate MMD ballet pirouette motion

Animate MMD ballet pirouette motion

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…

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Make Smooth Motions using Multiple Keyframes

Make Smooth Motions using Multiple Keyframes

How can I make smooth motions in MMD? Why do my MikuMikuDance motions look stiff? How can I make natural looking motions in MMD? Hello everyone! I’m UndeadLuciel, a new author of the LearnMMD community! This tutorial is about how spacing motions across several keyframes would make your animation more natural. How Keyframe Spacing Effects…

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MMD First Steps Make your own motions from scratch

MMD First Steps Make your own motions from scratch

How do I make my models move in MikuMikuDance? Why does my model move so slowly? How do I keep my model from moving until I want her to? Learning to make your own motions is a big part of learning MMD! The more you learn, the easier it becomes and the more you will…

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MMD CameraSmoother Tool smooths camera motions!

MMD CameraSmoother Tool smooths camera motions!

How do I use the MMD CameraSmoother Tool? Where can I get the free CameraSmoother Tool for MMD? How can I create smooth camera motions without dealing with interpolation curves? MMD CameraSmoother Tool smooths camera motions! Making smooth camera motions has just gotten a lot easier with this new tool. With a few simple clicks…

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MMD AnimationSmoother Tool does just that!

MMD AnimationSmoother Tool does just that!

Where can I download the MMD MotionSmoother Tool? How do I use the Tool? Is there a shortcut to making smoother motions? Make animation smoother with one simple tool… MMD AnimationSmoother Tool MikuMikuDance is an amazing software to animate with, with little to no limits on what you can do. Animating is a long challenging…

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AnimationSmoother Tool
Play games within MMD using MMD as a Game Engine!

Play games within MMD using MMD as a Game Engine!

Play Games within MMD! The MMD physics engine is really quite remarkable; after all, it was written by a professor working for Tokyo University. In this article we’re going to show you exactly how good this physics engine is by showing you how to make a vocaloid actually throw a ball. USING MMD AS A…

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