Back in 2014 I downloaded Mahlazer’s “Marie Rose DOA 5” motion set that gives you nice fight scene motion VMD files… and I only used the opening moment of walking motion as I wrote about that download, back then. Just today, only about 5 years later, I revisited that video on YouTube and was amazed…
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Raycast / Ray-MMD is a powerful, complicated MME effect… … so much MORE than an “effect”! We have been getting MANY Comments from our readers about how to use Raycast and then, “Why doesn’t Raycast work?” The answer: Raycast / Ray-MMD doesn’t work like any effect you have ever tried, before. – Raycast is NOT…
Howdy y’all! I’m back from a very long hiatus, but I have come back with little bits of knowledge to share with all of you. Today, I’ll be answering a simple question that you probably haven’t asked yourself… “When posing MMD models, do I need to worry about anatomy?” Why Anatomy Matters… (And What You’re…
Sleepover Gone Wrong (REMAKE) ~The “Making of” Project~ ——- Originally I was going to recreate an old animation I made years back when I had an older YouTube channel before I deleted it by accident. (Long story short) Which was about a sleepover that the three VOCALOIDS: Miku, Rin and Luka were having. During their…
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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I just got MMD, what do I do first? What are the basics of MMD? How do I open a model in MikuMikudance? How do I move my dancer in MMD? Quick-Start Basics of MMD Hello everyone! If you’re new to MMD and have no idea what your doing, you’ve come to the right place….
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…
MikuMikuDance FREE Animation Software & Instructions MikuMikuDance Free Animation Software is available for free download from LearnMMD.com LearnMMD is THE instruction page for MMD, MikuMikuDance. Let’s learn how to do Everything! Getting started with MMD takes a bit of learning. Our StartHere Page gives you the most basic overview for a quick start with MikuMikuDance….
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What is Hitogata? How does the face tracking program work? How can I make MMD facial animation from a video file? Hitogata Brings Face Tracking to MMD Hitogata is a new project from Mogg, the same person who created Face and Lips, the VMD Smoothing Tool, and MikuMikuMoving. It is a facial tracking system that…
How do I convert SFM/GMOD models to MMD? From where do I get SFM/GMOD models? Is it possible to edit converted SFM/GMOD models in PMXEditor? Do you ever see a pretty model that is for SFM or GMOD and wish that it was for MMD? Well, look no further! In this article, I will…
