MMD News and Notes

It’s been a while since we last had an actual MMD post, but that doesn’t mean things have been happening. The freeware animation program had six updates in the interim, mainly dealing with problems with the MMDxShow.dll file. I don’t know the whole story, but I’m guessing that new problems arose as old ones were
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Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #97

“See what happens when college consumes my time? Hopefully this won’t be the case next week (just pray to God my professors don’t give me a whole load of work to do).” -DK, on Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #96’s review Unfortunately, it was the case. Now I have a Thesis, a “Mini-Thesis”, and a JAVA program
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MMD Cup 3 Finals Preview – Supplemental

By now, you’re probably tired of V-ism’s coverage of the 3rd MikuMiku Dance Cup.  After all, we’ve previewed all three themes’ top entrants pretty extensively and got you aware of something you may not have initially known about.  You can’t think there’s anything else, right? Well, you’re wrong.  46 of the 80+ entries score got
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Loli Miku

I just want to share this attractive model from KiyoP. For lolicons out there it must feel nice to watch this little cute Miku to dance about. I first found out about her in this video over on youtube (Nico link). You can download the model from the link in this video. Avoid ecchi poses,
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MMD Cup 3 Finals Preview – Theme 3

So far in our MMD Cup shenanigans, we looked at the seasons, we looked at the future, and now we’re gonna take it easy.  No, not in the above sense.  Honestly, I’m glad yukkuri isn’t one of the themes.  There’d be no originality whatsoever, just a bunch of floating heads.  Instead, we’re doing raku, which
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MMD Cup 3 Finals Preview – Theme 2

Let’s look into…the future Reader: The future, Joe? That’s right, loyal reader, the distant future!  All the way to the Year 3000! Reader: . . . Okay, then how about August 14, 2009, which is when the Finals of the 3rd semi-annual MMD Cup will commence.  86 entries have been submitted and we have been looking over
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MMD Cup 3 Finals Preview – Theme 1

As we move closer to August 14th, Vocaloidism will preview some of the top vids from the 3rd MMD Cup Qualifying and see if they’re up to snuff.  With over half of the 86 entries earning a perfect score, leave it to V-ism to sort the trash from the treasure. In our last installment, the
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Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #96

【ニコニコ動画】週刊VOCALOIDランキング #96 T’is time for another edition of the WVR review! But… umm… unfortunately this is gonna be quite brief since I didn’t do prior research (I was busy with other stuff during the week), so I won’t delve too much into the new songs that made it to this week’s rankings. As a side note:
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Preview of MMD Cup 3 Finals Preview

One of the neat things the Vocaloid community does is the semi-annual MikuMikuDance Cup.  For those who don’t know, it’s an Iron Chef-style MMD video contest with the winners determined by the fan community on Nico Nico Douga.  The qualifying round for the 3rd meet is now in the books, and with 86 videos in
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MMD v5.02 released two weeks ago

Honestly, I think we at V-ism should post at least 1 non-Vocaran story per week, even if it’s going to be fluff or something barely relevant.  Here’s this week’s article: The folks at the VPVP have released version 5.02 of MikuMikuDance, fixing a bug involving sound playback.  So if your audio’s been wonky, well there
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