Hey guys! I was out in the entire February. The reason is because I was busy doing my MMD video, Ash’s vacation. It’s already up and has 4k views already. It is the fastest gain I’ve ever seen on my videos. Last month, I didn’t have anything else back up to date because of very hard work on that video. Since I posted my MMD video over a week ago, I started going back to do Yuki’s story and recently showcasing Anti-Aliasing methods because I had an overdue post for SGSSAA and wanted to state about RAYMMD that anti-aliasing is pretty challenging to look better. So since I just decide to do another progress report again after for a while, I’ll list things that I plan to do.

Pretty Rhythm models:
I did plan to so Serenon models from the 3ds game, and I want to start with the stages first, but the stages are in a more complicated situation to where it has a lot of complex methods to look great. Some greyscale objects are colored in the game individually, and some textures looks wrong and it’s confusing to me. The light bloom for example has a weird texture pattern that MMD can’t do. It is quarter of the texture and it is mirrored inside the texture in a game and looking at the model, but even using blender and convert it to pmx, it doesn’t look right. It looks duplicate and there are a lot of those. The mapping effects on textures are also complicated to look right for MMD. I decide to skip that project until someone else has a better method of conversion. So eventually, I will start with Serena, and Kanon. I decide to include them and Kaname as a package and should be out in Spring. Doing the character models is more easier to do than stages. If you are wondering, you can play Pretty Rhythm games on Citra and used it. Because of the new GPU update, it plays pretty smoothly now.

Yuki’s Story:
I do have an announcement about the MMD. We are near close to the finish, and I do plan to have the season last 13 chapters. Yes, it will be a season. After that, a special chapter will be made eventually and that one won’t be based on the journals. It will be made exclusively for MMD panel strips. I am thinking of another season that will base on the current season of the journals, but most likely it will get started in Late 2018. Even though I haven’t put much of season 2 journals, I should put out a lot of it throughout the year. After the MMD Special comes out, there will be a bit of hiatus to slightly update the models and to learn better for MMD panel strips. MMD series is 13 chapters each and we are at 10 right now. Second one may end up the same thing. Although, if I am not that busy in the future, maybe the second season will stay frequent.
The next journal entry should be out by the end of the week. It’s close to done. Also, the second season of the journal entries will have more arcs that last 3-4 chapters, covering the whole topic. Arcs with a main topic is more interesting and I’ve been thinking about possible scenarios in the series, and that’s why this season took a bit of long time to make. Also, be a lookout for Yuki’s Bio this month.

MMD videos:
I do plan to do Miraculous Ladybug next and have five plots. It is not randomness, but it is different from each plots that will entertain the viewers. That video will relate to Pokemon a little, since it will share Kalos characters. By the way, this video is based on all five dreams I had from 2016 to now, and I do want to make a video based on those.
Next video isn’t planned yet, but another randomness is in late spring. Summer might have less videos since I have other things to do, like learning.

Others:
After showcasing MMD’s AA methods, I will study on shaders for a bit, and then I’ll start the production of the video later this month.
I did make shaders for GBA, NDS, and PSP. It is on Libretro already and I do plan to do a next update if I get my hands on a colorimeter. I do plan to get Colormunki smile since it’s pretty cheap and has great reviews, even on forums. For GBA, I do plan to get a light that makes the whites be more closer to 6500k to my screen for accurate color measurements. However, the blue is outside of SRGB color range, and I do need to have the display that has wider blue hues to get the actual data from the GBA screen. I do plan to get a GBC to do the same thing, and I do need a game that shows three main color primaries.
Lastly, I do plan to study 3D animation more and to learn a lot of methods of doing more productive work, whether its MMD or Maya. I do want to exports and transfer models more effectively. Learning about MMD and 3D work is important for me, and my best work that I’ve done so far is [MMD Pokemon] Ash’s Vacation.

Also, my birthday is at Saturday, so I will have fun.