MikuMikuDance, Free Software by a Fan for Fans

Have you ever wondered how can there be so many 3D miku videos on the Net? No? Then you're in the wrong blog.

Seriously folks, does every freaking Japanese know how to animate 3D models? Apparently not, until a kind guy came along. He programmed a 3D software that has Miku's model data by default, and even a fool (that's me) could make her dance.

It's called MikuMikuDance, or MMD for short. You can download the software here. It's truly amazing, so easy to manipulate the body (oh yeah), even the facial expression! To top it off, he has refused any sort of donation/payment. Not for the money, he says! Damn, where do these Japanese find the time to do such noble things?!

Thanks to him, many have created, to date, 3,118 niconico videos with the tag "mikumikudance". Ranging from just replicating the Virtual Instanity music video to creating original dances for songs like the one from Macross Frontier. The power of creativity are now in hands of the fans!

For that reason, there's a new event in NicoNico called the MikuMikuDance Cup. Participants would enter their videos of Miku using MMD into the contest. The 2nd MMD Cup is due this 30th, so you can expect a lot of crazy innovative videos.

I especially like this entry, pure biasness because it's my favourite song of Polysics.



Love it, so random and has a bunch of cool Japanese Internet Memes inside. I kinda know most of them, wonder if that's good or bad. Can you spot them? There's even the angry german kid in there! And watch out for Miku's hair of doom!

MMD, giving power to the fans.