MMD's Major Model Drama

If you’ve been following this blog long enough and carefully enough, you’ll notice that I was conspicuously absent for most of the Spring.  I apologize for that, and all I have to explain myself are a diploma and these pictures from my Las Vegas trip.  Seriously, though, I do feel bad for disappearing and hope [...]

MikuMikuDance Ver7.0.4 released

I just happened to visit the original author site nonchalantly, when I spotted a Ver7.0.4 release (I remember the last time I wrote about it when it was v5.0 or something.

Anyway what’s new in Ver7.0.4 is:

Ver7.0.4(2010/04/29)

Movement of physics joint on Y axis are restricted in -90<90 degree setting. Should be acknowledged that Bullet joints movement [...]

Weekend Spotlight - Cup Runneth Over

【ニコニコ動画】【第4回MMD杯本選】Chaining Intention【PV】

The 3D Anime Olympics known as the 4th MMD Cup has now concluded and all the awards have been given out.  Over 200 people created over 11 hours of MikuMikuDance footage, which ended up being watch over 4.3 million times.  Above is what was deemed best of the best, but I think [...]

MMD Update: February 2010

Caught between a road and a rolling place

Sorry for the late report; life got in the way.  The DirectX9 version of MikuMikuDance is now up to Version 7.0, with major changes coming to the Self-shadow mode.  Both the high-end and low-end versions got a new model in the “Rin act2″ which is displayed at [...]

Weekend Spotlight - They say it's your birthday

♪♪♪ by こみね

We’re gonna have a good time this week.  Well I will, at least, because by the time you read this, I’ll be well-entrenched in Ohio otaku craziness.  So in honor of Megurine Luka’s retcon, we’ll look back on her first year of Age 20 by counting down her top hits like you [...]

MMD Update – December/January 2009

Sung from the heart, pain from the ears

For the first time after a long while, MikuMikuDance did not see an upgrade this month, meaning it stayed at Version 6.08.  However that doesn’t mean that nothing happened.  There were plenty of news and notes and holiday festivities.

MMD Update – November 2009

Of course they used protection; their shoes are on.

As a semi-hearted attempt to implement featured articles on a regulated basis, I’m going to start doing an MMD article at or around the 1st of the month to recap the news and notes. This won’t stop major stuff from being posted [...]

MikuMikuDance goes next-gen with Version 6

One bad touch deserves another

On November 11th, the Vocaloid Promotional Video Project has released a brand new version of MMD.  Version 6 is going to be a new, souped-up version of the software we all know and love.  Because of this, it’s in a “pilot” version available in the usual places.  It’s still not [...]

New NND, MMD; Same WVR

【ニコニコ動画】1925歌ってみたゴム

There’s been a lot of changes happening on the Internets recently. For instance, MikuMikuDance has ticked up to version 5.22 with a truck load of fixes between this and 5.19, which is the version I had on my computer. This is the 6th update in the last two weeks, and with [...]

Vocaloid Ranking SP4 – Part 2, or is it 3?

Image source: ふな

Greetings, true believers!  In our last episode, we ran through not one, but TWO episodes of the 4th Ranking Special.  We covered over 6 dozen songs and a big interview with asaP (with special guest shippotan).  Today, we start breaking down the Top 40.

A friendly reminder: these scores are [...]