MMD Tutorials and More!

Hi, here’s Kaasu!

One person asked me if I can give them some tips for MMD Manipulations. So..why not? Let’s start!

First thing you need to know about MMD Manipulations - it’s NOT just drawing hair, adding lens flares and placing a model in the space. FUCK NO. At least come up with something original. I’ll give you some examples of my works (actually first and third are collabs), that prove my point.

You see now?

Another thing - don’t copy other artists. Sure, you can take some inspiration, but ffs, ispiration doesn’t mean “OH I LOVE THIS ARTWORK, LET’S MAKE SOMETHING EXACTLY THE SAME”. People will fucking slay you.

1. Drawing hair

First things first - if you want to start drawing hair, you need to prepare yourself for about an hour to make it look decent, if you’re gonna make more than just thin strands. I’m not joking. Good shading, choosing colors, smoothing, blending - it all takes a lot of time. You can draw hair in lots of ways:

Only single thin strands of hair

Drawing extra hair strands on hair

Removing hair and drawing it from zero

What you need, is graphic tablet. If you don’t have graphic tablet, for fucks sake don’t even try drawing hair. In 99% cases it’ll look shitty af. Then just don’t do it. Seriously.

I myself made my own hair brush. But I’m sure you can find some legit ones on DeviantART. Also, PaintToolSAI has really nice one for hair, idk how it was called, I do my hair work in Photoshop sooo…

I can’t really show you the right way to do hair, everyone has their own style (MMDC and own style? HAHAHHA NICE JOKE, KAASU) so instead I’ll show you what you SHOULDN’T do.

This is NOT hair. These are fucking caterpillars. Also, don’t repeat my mistake:

Seriously just…don’t do this. This doesn’t look good AT ALL. 

Here are some tips:

DO NOT make hair too detailed. It’s like if you’d draw a simple face and BAM, REALISTIC NOSE! This is how it looks. Not good, shitty.

DO NOT pick random colors. Sample them from hair. You can add some other tint to it, but please, don’t make it too drastic.

DO NOT MAKE CATERPILLARS. FOR FUCK’S SAKE.

DO NOT force yourself. If you can’t draw hair, just don’t do it. Simple as that. You can do a good MMD Manip without fancy hair, trust me.

If you are a stubborn bitch and really wanna draw hair, use hair brushes/stocks. If you want a tutorial on how to use them, let me know, I’ll make a tutorial for that.

2. Lightning

So, you have your render done, now you need lightning, huh? Lemme give you some tips on lightning then.

You can do lightning in many ways:

By creating a new layer, filling with black, adjusting the opacity and erasing parts you don’t need (or using a mask)

By curves

By levels

By Hue&Saturation

Really, whatever you do, anything works.

Let’s see how correct lighning looks like first. Let’s use this big fucking yellow dot as a light source. I’m not gonna make any light color, I’m too lazy, forgive me. I’ll demonstrate backlight and frontlight.

And now what you shouldn’t do:

Like, shit, hell, dude, what were you smoking?

When you do a backlight, you can add some light to the eyes, but not to the whole face. It just…doesn’t make any sense.

Some tips for you:

Make a layer and mark every light source. Really, it helps a lot.

Just read about lightning in some art book. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why! Because it really can help you when you’re just starting.

3. Background and choosing stock images

Good background is as important as the model you use, believe it or not. How to make a good background? Well, you can be a lazy fucker and just slap a model in the background and take all praise for that, or you can try a little harder and compose it yourself, so your background will be unique.

If you decide to be a lazy fucker - shame on you, keep being a walking disgrace you really should try harder, it’s totally worth it.

If you decide to draw a background…well, good luck, I drew it once and the result was KINDA OK, however I’ve never been good at drawing so drawing it by myself made me wanna fucking kill myself, but oh well.

If you decide to compose it from stocks, here are my tips for you:

Find good quality stocks. If you wanna do an image in HD/4K/8K, you should find fitting stocks. That’s why 1000x480 for 8K is an ultimate NO.

Use Hue&Saturation. Stocks needs to look good with themselves, so be sure to adjust their color/saturation! BUT DON’T TOUCH THE BRIGHTNESS, YOU HAVE FUCKING LEVELS FOR THAT.

You can find nice stock images on DeviantART. But I also recomment to check art forums, especially French ones. If you wanna be 100% MLG pro - best stocks ever are on Shutterstock. But you actually have to pay for them so just stick to DeviantART and forums, ok kiddo?

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I think that’s all. Hope you enjoyed this kinda tutorial, if you’d like me to make a tutorial for something else, let me know by sending an ask on this tumblr or @kaasup.

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Stocks used: 

Moonglowlilly @ dA

Models used: 

@redhead-of-the-north aka GingerCat-P @ dA

Works featured: 

Kaasu & @poison-p collab (http://fav.me/d9l2q4w)

Burn The City Down (http://piapro.jp/t/uaku)

Mamama Yuzuki Yukari https://bowlroll.net/file/97233

One type of screamer is the .swf screamer. It’s just a webpage with a demon picture flashing in different colors at a certain speed, but it can cause seizures because it has a loud screeching noise. 

The way to see if a link is a screamer is to do this:

Hover over the link and look in the lower right-hand corner of your browser. 

If, at the end of your url it says .swf, DO NOT CLICK THAT SHIT. 

It will make you shit yourself, no lie!