Hey ya’ll! Over the years, I have been asked, so many times that it’s nearly uncountable, “Well how do you animate poses with a reference image, anyways?” Animating With Reference Images Let’s start with an introduction to why I (and a lot of other people) use reference images. When I first started working with MMD,…
Summary of “the making of ” of ALL my videos… Before I begin with my series of “The making of” articles, I wanted to make one article that generally summarizes how I make all of my MMD videos. I decided to write this article first because the process is common to all of my “making of” articles…
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Where did MMD come from? Where is the users manual for MikuMikuDance? Why is MikuMikuDance so hard to use? Is MMD a professional animation program? Who did they write MMD for? Why doesn’t MMD have a Users Manual? Why does MMD HAVE to be EXCRUCIATINGLY CONFUSING? Reader… This doesn’t work. When I click load and…
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Why is the first frame of my new video scrambled? What causes that first frame of video to be full of static? Is there a fix for it? Why is it “sometimes” and not ALL the time? Scrambled first frame of video… … must be Voodoo! It drives me crazy when I “Render to AVI”,…
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Learn MMD Basics before jumping into a big project! A reader wrote a comment… I tried to make a movie. I’m new to MikuMikuDance and I want to make my own but I don’t know how. Please help me learnmmd?! … and LearnMMD’s Silent Headset replied: Hmm…first off…make sure you already get the hang of…
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What are ethics? What is public domain? How should I release an MMD model? What are MMD rules? How can I release to the public domain? If you’ve been following along with LearnMMD for a while now, you’re probably familiar with its Keep the Faith series, encouraging you to behave in a manner that supports…
How can I keep the Japanese file names when I download and extract new MMD models? Do I have to use Applocale to keep the file names from getting scrambled? Bandisoft’s free Bandizip® software lets you keep the original Japanese file names! Over the years that I have been enjoying MikuMikuDance, the on-going bugaboo has…
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How do I create a Diva Performance MMD animation? How do I make a professional-looking MMD music video? What software do I need to make top-end, high quality MMD videos? What is the actual process for creating quality MMD animations from scratch? Creating MMD Diva Performance Animations … An Overview In the final analysis, MMD…
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I have, like, writer’s block. How do I get started with my MMD animation? I can’t make my MMD video, it’s too hard to get started. Create your collection of saved poses… Animation Shortcut: Use Saved Poses to get your MMD Animation Started! When you first load your model… “There she is…” frozen in that…
What screen size should I use for Widescreen in MMD? How do I set the screen size in MikuMikuDance? What screen size does YouTube recommend? Widescreen! Most people enjoy a screen dimension of 16×9 “Widescreen”… could be 1600 x 900 pixels… but that’d be too large for me… my file size would be huge! For…
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How do I do MikuMikuDance? What do I do with MikuMikuDance? How do I use MMD? What is MikuMikuDance? What do I do first with MMD? Getting Started with MMD… So … you saw some cool MMD videos on YouTube … you found your way to LearnMMD.com to download the latest version of MikuMikuDance, you…
