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…
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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If you do a Google search of the term “moe”; one of the first things that you will find is that there is no one definition of the term and several of the attempts to define the term are somewhat inaccurate. Plus, even the Japanese themselves put several shades of meaning to the term and…
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Have you ever downloaded or made your own model and opened it up, only to see a garbled mess on your frames and facials? Your MMD might even lag or crash. Many people don’t clean up their models after editing them together, making it difficult to use. Today, I’m showing a way that you can…
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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…
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…
How can I convert VRoid Studio models to PMX models? Where do I go to download VRoid models? How can I convert VRoid Studio to MMD? How to Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click ________________ SPECIAL NOTE: May 20, 2022… A reader sent a comment with this info… Great news, everyone, there is…
The PostAnalogTV effect gives you top-and-bottom or right/left close-to-center scene transitions. I am tired of “fade to black”, what else can I use? The old Blackout effect is OK, but I want something different. How can I distort my picture to look like it was on an old TV set? MMD PostAnalogTV effect gives easy…
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