MikuMikuDance (MMD)

MikuMikuDance (MMD) is an awesome tool for anyone who loves Hatsune Miku! She’s a virtual pop star created with a singing synthesizer app, and she’s one of the first digital artists ever. The cool thing about Miku is that her music is open-sourced. This means anyone using Vocaloid software can jump in and add to her huge collection of songs!

Create Your Own Dance Videos

Since Miku is such a pop icon, she doesn't just sing; she dances too! With MikuMikuDance (MMD), you can create your own dance videos featuring Hatsune Miku. It’s fun, but fair warning: this software has a bit of a learning curve. Unlike some other 3D dance apps, MMD has more joints in its skeletal wireframe than you'd find in a regular human model. This includes lots of joints for her long flowing hair and even her fingers!

Facial Animations and Movement

One of the coolest features is that you can tweak her facial animations while she dances. So, when you're working on your routine, you'll need to create two sets of animations that match each other perfectly! And don’t worry—you have complete freedom over how she moves! You can twist and turn her in ways that wouldn’t work in real life.

Get Creative with Camera Angles

You can even view the model's skeletal wireframe to help you figure out what to select and how to move it around, which makes it super easy to avoid misclicks. Plus, you can adjust the camera angle! Make it hover around as she dances or sync it up with the beat of the music.

Exporting Your Work

Once you've finished your animation masterpiece, you have options! You can save it as an editable format (the proprietary MMD format) or export it directly as an AVI video file where you can add your favorite tunes later.

Join the Fun!

If you're a big fan of Hatsune Miku and want to add your own song and dance video to her impressive library—over 100,000 songs strong—then MMD is definitely the right app for you!