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  • ShapeMosaic effect distorts naughty bits and faces.
    MME ShapeMosaic effect counters Wardrobe-malfunctions and more! MMD Tutorials
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  • Adding & Working the Stage Lights with Dummy Bones MMD MikuMikuDance Dummy Bones
  • Mouthing words requires sudden motions without drifting in MikuMikudance 7.39
    Short sharp sudden motions require MikuMikudance skill Making Smooth Motions
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MMD Rotating Objects 360-degrees -Miku’s Guide to the Galaxy (Part 2)

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…

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Making Smooth Motions
Animate MMD ballet pirouette motion

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…

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Creating Motions
How to create credible characters for your projects.

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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MMD Tutorials
The Art of Moe and the genre’s backstory.

The Art of Moe and the genre’s backstory.

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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Random Thoughts & Visions
MMD Contest: Video Dojo Expo 1!

MMD Contest: Video Dojo Expo 1!

ENTRIES are CLOSED! No more Entries will be accepted for this competition! Now… You can VOTE to select the Winner… it’s a Viewers Choice competition… VOTE for your Favorites! Choose the Winners! – – – WIN your WRITE-UP on LearnMMD.com… … become a Video Dojo Expo Champion! LearnMMD’s Video Dojo Expo Competition!   SIX creative…

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CONTESTS
PMXEditor PMXInfo Analyzing Optimizing MMD Models

PMXEditor PMXInfo Analyzing Optimizing MMD Models

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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Fixing Broken Models
Ray-MMD: The Art of painting with Light

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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MMD Tutorials
Download instant fight scene motion by Mahlazer

Download instant fight scene motion by Mahlazer

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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Animation Shortcuts
Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

Raycast / Ray-MMD First Steps

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…

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MMD Tutorials Featured
Posing MMD Models: Anatomy Matters!

Posing MMD Models: Anatomy Matters!

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…

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Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click

Convert VRoid Studio to MMD With One Click

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…

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    MME Plastic Effect adds plastic realism to MMD model parts MMD Tutorials
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    Alter Sphere Files for a quick color change in MMD Reggie Dentmore
  • Optimise computer assets by culling unseen MMD model parts Chestnutscoop
  • Soboro's MotionBlur3 effect tutorial
    MotionBlur3 Effect adds visual reality to your MMD videos and stills! Reggie Dentmore
  • MME: Less is More… Select only those that you need. Cook Torrence effect
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    Give MMD Pictures Different MMEffects For Different Feelings BigPerryman
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