Category: MMD Tutorials

An MMD town stage: Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 2

Here is Part TWO in this series… See Parts ONE and THREE… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 2 Setting up the Master Control System The Kelorin town model consists of the following modules: kr3_block_a.pmx kr3_block_b.pmx kr3_block_c.pmx kr3_block_d.pmx kr3_block_canal.pmx kr3_block_denchu.pmx kr3_block_outer.pmx Step 1: You will need a spreadsheet Using PMXE, open up each…

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An MMD town stage: Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 3

Here is Part three… the final part in this series… See Parts ONE and TWO… Enjoy! Making Kerorin Town Great Again – Part 3 Assembling the Town Model The Master Plan This is actually very simple but a little fiddly to set up initially. Once completed the plan will offer: A method to move and…

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Beginner’s Guide: Using Ray-MMD ver 1.5.0 – Latest version of Raycast

Ray-MMD is one of the most popular MME shaders currently available. It also seems to be one of the hardest for many new users to MMD to get working. Part of the problem is that the effect comes with next to no beginner’s instructions and most of the tutorials on how to use the effect…

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Creating Spooky Scenes with MMD

Yes it’s almost that time of the year again and all the Halloween merchandise is on glorious display at COSCO. Right, I’ll admit a bought a large pack of variety candies but those are to fuel my sugar fixes, not to dole out to random kids. After all kids shouldn’t take candy from strangers; isn’t…

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MME PowerShader effect rivals Ray-MMD Raycast image enhancements

There is a MME shader available that can do some of the things that Ray-MMD can do but it is much easier to use. Known as PowerShader, this effect is ideal for bright daylight outdoor scenes. There are few little tricks to get the most out of it and these are easy to figure out….

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INKSCAPE makes creating MMD Comics Easy

Using MMD and INKSCAPE to create comics One of the fun things to do with MMD is to make comics. The process is simple enough: Create a picture in MMD Add speech bubbles and text in a graphics application What this article will be about is how to make speech bubbles using an open source…

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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…

Making Smooth Motions

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…

Making Smooth Motions

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…

Creating Motions

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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Ray-MMD: The Art of painting with Light

Natural sunlight as interpreted by MMD is not white light. MMD by default uses a neutral grey light which emulates the photographic standard of mid-day sunlight in a temperate climate. But why is this important? If your objective is to create photo-real images using MMD, this is of paramount importance, especially when used in conjunction…

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