MMD and the use of Fill Lights … Part 1 (Half-Lambert Shader) Fill lights are an important component in the lighting systems used by commercial photographers, cinematographers and lighting engineers. It can be an incredibly complex subject but for our purposes as MMD content creators, fill lights can usually be regarded as simply auxiliary lighting….
Video Dojo Expo Five Entries… The VOTING is Done! We had these NINETEEN Entries! Our competition got NINETEEN Video Entries… …each hoping to be chosen a CHAMPION! The deadline for Entries was Midnight on July 21st. … and the voting was finished on July 28th. The rules for this Expo were simple… Create a “Summer”…
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Hello! … I am Reona… I’m an MMDer who started in March of 2015. Aside from that, I’m a Math Major attending college in the US. What got me into MMD was the many hologram videos I saw back in the day when the diva-ripping community was still getting started and everyone used Meltling Faces…
The Lament of Okada’s Ghost… The secret to making good MMD videos All MMD videos have three common components and these are listed below. One or more performance models A setting for the performance Performance data But all these components should also ideally have a unifying factor, a “glue” if you like, that binds all…
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How do I make an MMD model that has two eye colors? Can I make a model that has two eye textures? Can I modify my model to have two different eye colors? Want to have different eye textures in one model? It’s very easy to make a model that has two eye textures. You…
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Carefully select only the MMEs that you need for your scene. Control the look of your scene by adjusting the settings of your MMD lighting and the MMEs you have chosen. Adjust an MME’s variables to gain its maximum potential effect. Ray-MMD is NOT a must-use effect for modern MMD animations. MME: Less is More……
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Godrays created by Ray-MMD are awesome but they come at a price. Wherein, they’re not really that hard to set up, the process can be extremely fiddly. Ray-MMD Godrays… argggh!!! But, it you were wondering about how some of the really beautiful MMD videos on YouTube that uses Ray-MMD Godrays were set up, this article…
It is I, Kazumi! Aka “that one Sukone Tei stan” aka “RoboCheatsy”! I can’t believe I won VDE-4! I just entered for the fun of it, not expecting to actually win!! Thank you everyone who voted for me, I can’t really express how grateful I am!! I consider this MMD to be one of my…
Making JRPG style scenes using MMD Specifically here in this article we are referencing the JRPG/VN (visual novel) style games which have a distinctive style. This can be summarized as illustrated in the image below taken from Utawarerumono Mask of Deception: The basic elements are very simple: A rendered background image An anime style character…
SUMMER is UPON US… LearnMMD’s Video Dojo Expo FIVE Beach-side… Pool-side… “Hot August Nights” THIS EXPO IS FINISHED! … See ALL NINETEEN Entries! … AND SEE the Chosen Champions! Bathing beauties and sheer summer gowns… beach-parties… surfers… dancing in the moonlight… romance under the stars… cold drinks and hot dreams… moon-palace vaporizing at sunrise. Your…
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I have created several MMD animations from scratch over the last few months and I have discovered this little trick: Sometimes you need a “motion scratchpad” while animating in MMD I would be working along, trying to make an arm move just right as I also twisted the model’s body… and it “looks pretty good”……
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