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Happy New Years! I know it’s over a week since New Years, but I write this since then.

Today, I want to post something that I should’ve said sooner. I haven’t made progress posts for a while. I recently had worked for someone indirectly to make a model for a company. It’s a way to get attention to get jobs easier. Job is more important in life, and that’s why I haven’t post much since November, including Yuki’s Story. Let’s breakdown about 2018.

I did move to a better place in the middle of the year, and I did continue to make videos. However, from April to May, I didn’t know when we will be moving, so I was holding off some prodution of my videos, but I did Yuki’s Story MMD instead. At June, it was marked for moving, so I didn’t post anything ever since Ash’s Vacation. At late July, I thought of an idea to make a short Iris video, by using clips from All That! Season 7-8 with the morning scene. It did took less than a week. I did behind the scenes for my two videos this year. Last Year, exactly, I was in the middle of the first quarter of Ash’s Vacation. It was way long. At early March, I finally finished it. At mid June, despite nearly getting ready to move out, I finally finished the script for Miraculous Ladybug Dreams, and that’s when I started my own pre-production layout pass. At August, I started the real thing, and it did took nearly a month to finish. I am kinda goad that I made MMD videos for other shows at least. I did randomness 9 after that. My last video, Iris’s Christmas Rage, it was a quick progress actually, sort of. I was gonna do the big Iris video before that, but I had stuffs to do in life, and I do want to put something related to Iris. I did make a script for the Christmas and made it shorter than the aforementioned big one, but it didn’t have enough time to make it to Christmas. I had an idea from Rugrats clips and use Angelica Pickles’s dialogues for Iris since they both are evil and bratty. That video is short, but it did took me less than a week from scratch, and right on time in Christmas Eve! That was the whole thing in 2018.

I’ll explain about what I should’ve done or learned from. I’ve learned that doing animations alone without the help of the programs would take too long. That’s why two videos took long to produce. Ash’s Vacation and Miraculous Dreams. The first did take three months for doing shot by shot VR like, but it looked pretty good. The latter seems challenging when it comes to animation. I had many models to animate on screen at some scenes. I had to animate the stuffs in the background. It looked good, but I’m thinking about how long it took to make those videos, and what the intended length should be. Longer videos will take more longer. Ten minutes seems good, but the length is usually over a month, especially if many models are on screen. I did use motion and pose data’s to give them walking and reacting animation. The thing is, I have to either find more or make more myself to choose automated reaction to cut some production time. Reason why I am discussing about this is because I wanted to put more amount of videos. Granted, I had things to do in life, but making the videos, you need to learn how to do certain shortcuts without ruining the quality of the video on animation or story pace. Short videos that I’ve done like Iris scares All That casts and Christmas Rage were some ideas in the same week that takes less than seven days. They are less than two minutes, and I’ve learned that there is a way to make the production more efficient. I’ve learned how to use the program, MMD AnimationSmoother, to make the animated character have better animation automatically. I had to do base animation before a smoother one is generated. I did use it on Randomness 9, and they do look better and natural. I’ve learned how to use it. I just had to exclude certain bones that I don’t want to get smoothed like the position IK or master bone. Also, I sometimes must only select the parts where I want the character’s animation to be smooth at. Since it’s automated, it can create some errors or weird animation, but I mastered it. So the base animation can be done slightly less when you are able to get more realistic animated bones automatically. One thing I forgot to mention. During Spring, I was waiting because I didn’t know when I was moving, but I’ve learned something. If there is some trip or if you are not sure if making the next video will hang the production time, I could do randomness since each clips aren’t long to produce. Just learn that if you are not sure or of you have short time, but you want to finish something, start with the small clips first. That way, you will be happy that you already did them to save time.

As I mentioned about computer generated programs like AnimationSmoother, I do want to find better motion data or poses to use on the characters. I also need to make my own to have more list of motion data to use at the appropriate scene. Animate the expressions on the base model. Animate the surprise, the scared, the laugh, and yelling. Doing more of that would help me make the progress be done more quicker. Also, I gotta thing the appropriate length of the video too. This is why learning is important.

Now that I put my ideas down, I do want to do something better in 2019. I do want to put more amount of videos, including Iris videos and randomness, as well as making MMDs of other shows. I did have more ideas this year. I want to do the 10th anniversary of iCarly Parody as Pokemon, and a certain video I plan to do. I am excited to make more videos this year. I also want to finish Yuki’s Story MMD Season 1, and finish the journal series this year. I did say last year that Yuki’s Story journals would be finished in 2018, but I am giving it another year to last. I didn’t have time to do the ONA as said because I was learning things for my career. It’s better to learn first before doing the actual production. Season 2 seems like it would last longer than a year, but I do plan to keep that up to date. The journals should return in production now, and MMD’s Chapter 13 has already begun. 2019 may be the most exciting year for my content.

So what is up now? I’m doing the 3d modelling for someone. That way, I can learn better of how to make models. I know there is VDroid to create anime 3D characters. It’s in beta right now. I decide to do something better from scratch on models. I am training myself to make different kinds of model parts, thanks to that job. The next Iris video should be out next month for the better. Right now, I am experimenting with GAN based upscalers that has been trending for upscaling textures. ESRGAN got much more attention since last month, and it is good to upscale your model’s textures, but we may wait for better ESRGAN models to do them correctly. I’m learning a lot of things. I did post Miraculous Ladybug Quality Analysis few days ago on Tumblr and explained that it’s rendered at 720p 24fps.

Have a happy new year.