My VDE-3 Entry has Music, Camera, Dancers… Now for the HARD part. … gotta animate the Lead-Singer! THIS is how I create my animations… I start with a concept. I needed an idea for LearnMMD’s Video Dojo Expo 3 “Gotta Sing… Gotta Dance!”… While listening to this old Robert Palmer song “Trick bag”, I “had…
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Are there any LAT model shaders? How can I use shaders with LAT models? Do they make a shader for LAT models? Why does my LAT model look so bad when I use a shader on it? Create Stunning Scenes for LAT Models with MME Hello, everyone! My name’s Kazumi, though some of you may…
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How can I make my MMD video sound like it’s in front of a live audience? How can I add audience applause to my MMD video? Where can I get applause for my MMD animation soundtrack? Add Life to your MMD soundtrack with Laughter and Applause! I am starting to work on my “Gotta Sing……
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How can I set up Raycast/Ray-MMD toon-shading? How can I use toon-shading with Raycast? What is one method of toon shading? Ray-MMD Toon Shading Basics Hi, folks! I’m MuffinMo, and this is my first article, so please treat me kindly. Today, I’m going to teach you how to do toon shading with Raycast-MMD. This is…
How do I modify MME effects? Can I create a NEW MME effect? How do I change the way an effect looks in MMD? Modified MME Effects Files yield NEW Effects for MMD! I was playing with MikuMikuDance last night… still studying what can be done with those rotating skydome images… and I created this…
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This article will be a quick short one. Since there is a plethora of KanColle and Azur Lane character models available for MMD nowadays, let’s have some fun with at least one of them. In this article I will choose one of my favorites, Bismarck Drei by Hinoichi, but you can choose one of your…
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Ray-MMD Shading Mech Girls… … A Petite Kawaii Mech Girl Japanese anime have a lot of franchises to feature mech-girls; these are sort of like magical girls with some far out future tech types of gear and usually armed with super-sized, great big, state-of the-art weaponry such as swords and hand cannons. Some of these…
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How can I make my own customized skydome? How can I animate a skydome? Can I change the size of my customized skydome? How do I make a skydome seem to fade away? Customized Skydomes replace stages… …and can enhance MMD animations As my video entry into LearnMMD’s “Video Dojo Expo 2”, this last December,…
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Create Animations WITHOUT Animating a model… … Lazy Boy’s Animation Guide Recently, someone on the LearnMMD team was bemoaning the fact that many MMD animators only animate the upper torso of models and that their legs were never touched. To which, at least two other team members, myself being one, responded by stating essentially, it…
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A couple of days ago, a fan of the Prinz Eugen character from the Azur Lane franchise wrote and asked a few interesting questions about how to set up nautical scenes in MMD which, after some thoughts, I felt were well worth answering. Specifically, they wanted to know how to set up battleship models in…
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How can I speed-up my MMD motion file? How do I adjust the speed of a motion after I have already created that motion? How can I get my motion to match the speed of the music? How can I slow-down my MMD motion file? I saw a comment from a reader asking about how…
