MMD

MMD stands for Miku Miku Dance. It goes hand in hand with Vocaloid, but can stand alone as its own software. Miku Miku dance is named after Vocaloid’s Hatsune Miku. It is a software used to animate the characters from Vocaloid. This animation software is very popular, and it’s used to make some music videos for Vocaloid songs. It’s also used to animate the characters in Vocaloid for concerts.

Miku Miku Dance has a few major components to it. It acts as a 3D rendering software, and everything is editable. Basically, the Vocaloid characters are puppets that you move. Similar to a traditional animation software or stop motion films, each movement makes up a frame. If you combine many frames of movement together, it creates an animation. These animations are usually set to music, and they are the dance portion for Vocaloid music videos.

You can also edit the background, import music for your dancers, and change the camera angles. Because of how versatile this software is (and how popular the characters are, along with the fact that you can get MMD for free) there are also many memes and spoof videos created with MMD and posted on YouTube. Here is an example of an MMD meme. The video is of three guys lip syncing to Backstreet’s Back by the Backstreet Boys. They animated three characters to follow their movements, and I think it’s hilarious. It takes a long time to animate each frame, similar to real animation software.

Here is a picture of the actual Miku Miku Dance software itself in use.

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