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MMD Cup #3 winners announced!

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:47:31 +0900

The winners of the 3rd MMD Cup was announced!

Video of closing ceremony:

【第３回】MikuMikuDanceCup TRILOGY 表彰閉会式【MMD杯】

The winner is "Yumeno Nakae - Mona Mona Dane"
This character- "Mona" is a legendary AA(Ascii art) character from the anonymous BBS "2channel".

【第3回MMD杯本選】夢の中へ【MonaMonaDance】

2nd place is "K-ON! Watashi no Koi wa Megalava".
K-ON! is an animation which cute girsl form a band and play music as their club activity,
this video was funny because of the gap between the cute girls and the hard core music this video makes them play.

【第3回MMD杯本選】けいおん！「私の恋はメガラバ」

3rd place is "Dial connected-Tsuki Dokei -Lunar Dial- Touhou PV-"
Touhou is one of the most popular doujin games (I wrote a post about Doujin Game here in the past)

【第3回MMD杯本選】Dial Connected 月時計～ルナ･ダイアル【東方PV】

As there are soooo many awards, I won't introduce everything :P

"Theme" section - the first theme is "Seasons" and the winner is:
Vocaloid On Ice - Miku's ICE☆SHOW -

【第3回MMD杯本選】Vocaloid On Ice ～ミクのICE☆SHOW ～

"Seasons Theme" section - "Scenery award" winner is:
"Tagatameni Hanawasaku"

【第3回MMD杯本選】誰ガタメニ花ハ咲ク

"Seasons Theme" section - "Deep Blue award" winner is:
"Island"

【第3回MMD杯本選】　アイランド

Next theme is "Future" the theme award winner is this one (which does not allow embedding)

miku

"Special award -QBK award" goes to "Hatsune Miku kicking a ball"

【第3回MMD杯本選】初音ミクが球を蹴るだけ

"Special award- Technology award" goes to "Shoku"

【第3回MMD杯本選】蝕

Tripshots award goes to "AI-GAN-DOU-BUTU"

【第3回MMD杯本選】AI-GAN-DOU-BUTU

AgoAniki award goes to "Aru Datanshi no uta"

【第3回MMD杯本選】或る堕天使の唄【初音ミク】【オリジナル曲】

Yuka Okada award goes to "Summer Day"

【第3回MMD杯本選】夏の日

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Miku's Ice Show-comparison with real performance by Mao Asada

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:03:59 +0900

Another excellent MikuMikuDance video, which is one of the participants of the 3rd MMD cup (competition).

The video is Miku's ice skating performance copying Mao Asada- a Japanese top ice skater- and the following is a comparison video (Miku on your left, Mao on right).

【第3回MMD杯】ミクのICE☆SHOW ～浅田真央ｓｐ比較：修正版

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4-Bit Microcontroller "Don't Say Lazy"

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:28:02 +0900

"Don't Say Lazy" is an ending theme song of anime called Kei-On.
This video is playing the music "Don't Say Lazy" using 4-Bit Microcontroller.

【大人の科学】4ビットマイコンで Don't say “lazy” 【けいおん！】

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Project Diva

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:36:05 +0900

Crypton Future Media, the company that created Hatsune Miku and some of the other VOCALOID series has teamed up with SEGA and launched a game called "Project Diva" using VOCALOID characters.

Project Diva is a game for PSP. Using the "free play mode", you are supposed to click on the right button at the right timing of the music when the icon appears (like DanceDanceRevolution). You can change the room settings, gain items by playing which enables you to decorate the dances more. "Edit Mode" enables you to grab your MP3 music and add the characters to dance to it with your favorite background and favorite character with favorite costumes, create PVs and games out of it.

There's a bunch of videos of the games uploaded and here you can see some of them.

【初音ミク】ProjectDIVAでRED ZONEを作ってみた【エディット】

【ProjectDIVA】 Canned Heat / Jamiroquai 【エディット・弱音ハク】

【project DIVA】巡音ルカ　ダブルラリアット【エディット】

【ProjectDIVA】初音ミク in Perfume チョコレイト・ディスコ

【初音ミク】初音ミク -Project DIVA- HARD　初音ミクの消失指も【Project DIVA】

【初音ミク-ProjectDiva-】　とらドラ！OP　プレパレード

Look at the player's fingers toward the end of this video... amazing!

【初音ミク Project DIVA】プレイ動画と親指の動き【初音ミクの消失】

This one managed to trim out the character.

【七夕革命】Project DIVA　BB　ワールドイズマイン（ハート）　【再び】

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Evolution of MikuMikuDance

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:54:34 +0900

I wrote lots of posts about Hatsune Miku and MikuMikuDance(MMD) in the past, let's take a look at how MMD evolved :) This is the original MMD (VPVP) site.

MMD is a free tool to create choreography of 3D Miku model.

The evolution of MMD is actually AMAZING. This one is made with MMDver5.0- doing a bunch of physical calculation experiments using MMD.

【MikuMikuDance】物理演算実験集【おバカ】

Let's look at the history and evolution of MMD (this list is only featuring some big changes, there are lots and lots of small minor versions and changes).

Ver1 MMD was simply making Miku dance.
Ver2 enabled to use lightings, change camera settings, add accesories.
Ver3 was recreated from scratch. Added several character models such as Kagamine Ren, Yowane Haku and Akita Neru. Added dummy bone to move accessories. (Meiko model was added as Ver3.01A) Enabled people to create their own models.
Ver4 added twist mode, added local mode (which the object/character is center of the video creation) and global mode (which the environment is center of the video creation). Miku model ver2 was released. BTW, English mode was added from ver4.03.
Ver5 physical engine was added!

This is how local mode and global mode differs (the same x-y-z axis of Miku's elbow refer to different direction)


図２）localモード時の空間軸	図３）globalモード時の空間軸

Enabling users to create their own models was a fantastic step. This is the summary page of MMD models and there's sooo many now from various VOCALOID series, animes and games. Website of Masa- the original creator of MMD 3DModel, Kio model, Monsters, maid Miku, Black Rock Shooter and many more by Anomaro, Nendroid and many more cute 3D Models by Hachi,and this list will go on and on forever so I'll stop now but it is simply AMAZING.

From ver 4.03 there is English version which you should definitely check out :D

MikuMikuDance Ver4.03 New Release (with English support)

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From S to N

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:24:42 +0900

Mr. Housuke Nojiri (producer name in NicoNicoDouga is Shiri-P), a science fiction writer is famous for his love of NicoNicoDouga.

Recently he won the SF prize (Seiun-shou星雲賞) for his SF novel "Peer Peer Douga from South Pole (南極点のピアピア動)". (Congratulations Nojiri-sensei!!)

A NicoNico user LK074 (his producer name in NicoNicoDouga is Chosaku-ken Bibiri-P 著作権ビビリP which means scared of the copyright) saw the lyrics of a song in the novel and created a music that goes with that lyrics for Nojiri-san, Mr. Takehiko Nadearahe - the professional artist who drew the pictures for "Peer Peer Douga from South Pole" provided the original picture and Chosaku-ken Bibiri-P created a video.

So I think we can say the following videos are peer production of a bunch of creators including professional and award-winning author using the NicoNicoDouga as a platform to create a content. I think this is AWESOME! The title "PeerPeerDouga" has its origins from "Peer Production" in the first place :)

ＳからＮへ――南極点のピアピア動画（前編版）

ＳからＮへ――南極点のピアピア動画（後編版）

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Machine Muzik

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:28:52 +0900

This is another 3DPV of Hatsune Miku.

If you don't like scary stuff please do not watch this though.

【初音ミク・3DPV】machine muzik

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PTAM

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:13:57 +0900

I wrote a post about PTAM in the past.

Today, I've found an awesome video of a 3D Miku dancing to the music "Love & Joy" using PTAM technology.

It even has shadows... check this out!

机の上でLove＆Joyを踊ってもらった

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idolm@ster videos recommended by Mr.Shinya Matsuura

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:57 +0900

A non-fiction writer and a science journalist Mr.Shinya Matsuura posted on his blog a bunch of idolm@ster videos that he likes which are interesting...

Interesting remix of "Doopee Time" song + Roy Lichtenstein's pictures + Im@s pictures by FeriniP.

[修正版]アイマス×リキテンスタイン／ドゥーピータイム

Video of "fashion show" showing how users can change the cloths that the idols wear, by Ferini P and same Doopee song as well.

[修正版]アイマス・ファッションショー／ドゥーピータイム

Beautiful remix video of Iori dancing to the music "Claire de Lune" by Claude Achille Debussy by MoguP

アイドルマスター月の光冨田勲

Uh, this is a very weird one... modern classic music +im@s by CarminaP

「スターズ・アトランピック'96」よりⅠ.出会い

Very cute video by TsukasaP

アイドルマスター／魔法のたまご／主に真

"Rintoshite Saku Hanano Gotoku" by Tsukasa P

アイドルマスター／凛として咲く花の如く／iM@Sオールスター

Beautiful video of silhouette of Makoto using the same music "Rintoshite Saku Hanano Gotoku" by WacWacP.

アイドルマスター凛として咲く花の如く【音m@s撫子ロック祭】

This one I introduced a while ago... "Flower and Ice" by NaokiP.

アイドルマスター (MAD PV) ”Flower and Ice” 伊織、雪歩 H.264

The last one is.... a strange one (^^;;; Erik Satie's music "Vexation" You're supposed to play this 840 times according to Satie... I don''t think I can bear that...

アイドルマスター　「Vexations　ヴェクサシオン」

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Miku videos2 - Rock, Pops and Underground Music

nobody@vox.com(fumi25) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:12:22 +0900

Continued from Miku Videos1 post- best Miku songs selected by ASCII.

I think Anshin / JakkanP

【初音さん】アイシンクアンシン【オリジナル】

Payapaya☆Shalala /TeppuP

【初音ミク】パヤパヤ☆シャララ【やよいちゃん+モケケ+鉄風P】

Jagabongo / KonpeitouP

初音ミクオリジナル曲「ジャガボンゴ」

Chousou (Bird Funeral) / UtsuP

【初音ミク】　鳥葬　【オリジナル】

MikuBosa / bicco

初音ミクオリジナル曲「ミクボサ」

World Is Yours / SuP

【初音ミク】ワールドイズユアーズ【オリジナル】

Hypothesis / YoyoP

【初音ミク】はいぽせしす

Momiji / Animator P

【ミクカバー】もみじ【禾火】

Helicobacter pylori / PiroriroP

【初音ミク】ピロリ菌のうた【オリジナル曲】

Atturpore / NattokuP

(This one is KagamineRen not Hatsune Miku...)

Atturpore / 鏡音レン_オリジナルドラムンベース

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