How I animate on MMD + Tips

huhuhu I'm not really good at teaching so I don't know if I did well but I really really hope this will be helpful!

This took so long to make huhuhu for almost a month lol I didn't expect it to be this looong to make @.@ Its the only thing I did for the whole month of December hahaha This was supposed to be done by November but personal events came up and rendered me unable to work on anything.. anyway, I hope this is helpful!

haha I didn't know there's only limited time for endscreen links -.- welp--
hahahaha

I apologize for editing, grammar or spelling errors if there are any hahahuhu

PARTS:
0:00 Intro
0:49 Disclaimer
1:00 Interpolation Curve
7:10 Interpolation Curve (xyz and rotation slots explained)
8:15 Sample motions for square bone (xyz axis move)
9:06 What is Blocking?
10:12 Stepped Blocking vs Spline Blocking
11:35 Tips
11:41 Divide body parts
13:08 Save poses
13:30 Animating bone with physics
14:22 Breathing animation..?
14:56 Facial Expressions
16:42 Using references
17:26 Some Q&A
17:41 Programs I use
18:03 How I plan and make ideas/story
18:42 How I do my backgrounds
19:27 Final words
19:55 100k subscribers!!!!
20:21 Cringey random message you didn't ask for
20:25 has a learning curve* rip grammar 🤣

Music used:
o Music: Swipesy cakewalk by E's jammy jams
샛별님의 음악 최고 ㅠㅠ ♥ 제일 좋아요 ♥
If you haven’t noticed, I use Daystar's music a lot in my videos hahaha
go check them out please~ I love their music
please support them ^^ thank youuu

MORE QUESTIONS:
📍Genshin MMD Models Official downloads:
You need to login and follow Genshin Impact to download.
You might also need to like and add to favorites but depends (I forgot XD)
You can use google translator for google chrome to translate the whole webpage and easily navigate~

📍 How to attach an object to a model (to make them hold it)

▶Attach pmx file to another pmx file:

▶Attach X file to a pmx file/model:

📍 Link to the background pmx file I use:

📍 About MME
This video is just an animation centric video so I didn’t include this here. But personally, I learned A LOOOT about MME from watching this raycast tutorial:
It’s a 16 minute video but I promise you’ll learn a lot from trying this tutorial ^^
I almost never use raycast because its too heavy for my PC. I also currently use the other effects that was used in this tutorial here ^^

▶ How to make Lumine's element glow/Character's vision glow

▶ Rui, Beamman-P and ikeno. I almsot 100% of the time use their stuffs
Beamman-p: stuffs with miscellaneous effects such as object luminous, water and etc.
ikeno-san: ikBokeh all the time and ikPostFog sometimes.
Rui: Lightbloom effect from raycast (there's a separate version of it without raycast)

I suggest go check out their stuffs, you’ll see a loot of MME from them ^^ they are a blessing to the community-- ♥ These 3 creators finalizes/shapes my total rendering in mmd ^^

and lastly, its not necessary but I also add o_tamon's pixelblur effect to like add a soft blur filter on the overall look, idk it lessens the sharpness of the pixels so makes it look complete(?) imo.

▶I also got questions about Manashiku’s shader on twitter (UPDATE)

Please don’t hesitate to DM me on twitter. I’m mostly active there. I’ll try to answer and help if it’s up to my ability ^^ I don’t find it bothersome I swear haha I’d be more than glad to help ^^

[aqira]

I'm not a mmd creator but watching this video made me realise how MUCH work and efforts u put in a single video😭😭 thank you so muchh for all the efforts and masterpieces u have made😭😭💕💕

[Jaizy]

NOTE! I already said this at the beginning, this tutorial might be hard to understand if you have 0 experience with MMD. So please explore the application first before ya’ll ask me how to do basic stuffs 🥲

I apologize for editing, grammar or spelling errors if there are any hahahuhu
I added timestamps so just jump to parts you want to see hahaha
also my knowledge is limited so I may be wrong in some parts here hehe forgive me 😵‍💫🙏
April 2022: I updated description box, please check before asking thank you~

[naligasp]

I’ve watched the tutorial even if I’m not familiar with animation at all because I genuinely love your content 🥺 I admire you so much and I’m so grateful for all the videos you put out! I’m a big chilumi stan and you have no idea how much I love your videos ♥️ can’t wait to follow you in this journey and see your future progress ♥️

[aimzball]

Wow, now I can definitely see how much effort you put in every video you make, and it's no joke! Thank you for your hardwork as always! 🤗

[soloshermitshack]

I use Blender after about 8 years of MMD. Even then, i'll still find a use out of this. Always great to see how ppl learn how to animate stuff. Thanks for sharing!!

[abriannah.]

As a person who knows nothing about animation, this video showed me how much effort, time, and work you put into the smallest details and into a video as a whole. Thank you SO MUCH for all the adorable and amazing content that you make.💕

[bruh-hrmt]

Btw for the physics part, you can do the manual animation trick on on/off mode as well, when you want to turn off your model's physics select all -> physics OFF. this makes the physics bones animateable! After the hard part is done you can select them and press physics on again to turn physics on

[ZannirYT]

Jaizy sensei! Thank you so much ☺👍, and for people who start and learn animation, good luck! Just step by step (don't rush) and you will used to it, practice makes perfect 👍

[bubblyyy]

I can see how much work and time you put into your videos. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. We appreciate it.

[mdbbie]

this would be soo useful for people who are interested in wanting to make animations too, SOO TYSM FOR MAKING IT!! <333

[queen___]

I’ve tried so many 3d animation softwares including blender, and then I found MMD and oh my gosh it’s so much more easy. Thank you for your amazing tutorial, keep up the good work ! 🫶

[souhia_san]

The amount of work you put in each video is just- thank you for feeding us ChiLumine, Miss Jaizy!!

[kimberlysingson]

oh, so the "blocking" term they called is actually called Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose in animation terminologies(one of the principles in animation). I've been an animator for more than 10yrs but I'm new to this software so your steps were very great. I'm using toon boom harmony to animate the series I'm working on right now so I've never animated 3D before. Using curves really helps the animation to be smooth. That's called ease-in and ease-out. The S curve practically just combines the ease in and ease out principle.

[hwoo]

you were the one who the inspired me to download and make my first mmd video earlier this year!!!
Thank you for providing us with crumbs and always making my bad days better with your uploads!
Hope you have a lovely year, dear!

[Yogibo_]

Thank you so much for making this video! I know tutorials can be quite hard to make, especially when you just animate for fun. I use a different program but a lot of these tips still apply and help a lot so thank you! Wished I knew some of these things before animating my first Genshin animation xD But as you said, animating is a learning process ^-^ (Also love your voice!!)

[oliviajanemercado]

Wow, watching this made me realize that mmd making is a very complex process and it really take so much time and effort. Just wow! Goodluck to all mmd makers out there! Stay strong!!!

[jowi]

This is so helpful Jaizy! ♥️ THANK YOU SO MUCH! PLEASE MAKE MORE CHILDE LUMINE STORIIEESSS.

[sapphoris]

I've been wanting to get into MMD for a bit since I learned that's where a lot of my favorite dances are made and it feels like an extension of the posing I already do.

This video was wonderful and you were adorable even if you think you're cringe :3

[stantheanimator]

thank you so much for these tips they definitely help🙏ive been using mmd for about 8-9 years (yea im old🥲); its still amazing how animators put life into things that don't move on their own, if that makes sense lol

[mocking_bird.s]

Jaizy when I first discovered you, I was just getting startedand it was so real I thought you'd taken the scenes out of the play. You're really working hard, and this video is very useful<3