guide
Season II
Api-Miku Remodelings
(2018~)
Innocent, Lively and Lovely Api-Miku
Yayoi Sakura’s MMD
Season II CONCEPT
- To try various costumes on Api-Miku (Appearance Miku).
- Hand maid feeling, like a cosutume playing salesgirl at the Comic Market.
Season II FEATURE
- resizing body proportions
- expanding the mesh area until the very limit
- details (described later)
Feature -1. resizing body proportions
- total balance： bit younger than original model
- legs： shortened
Feature -2. expanding mesh area
In the new version, it’s enabled to responde with various costumes, such as ‘Shimakaze from Kan-Kore’, ‘Cherry boy killer’, etc.
Cherry boy killer……
Feature -3. adding shaping and refining on details
| parts | detail |
|---|---|
| shoulder・arms | add curve |
| breast | flattening |
| body | ribs up, shaping abdomen muscle, navel up, shrinking pelvis |
| back | shaping scapula, shaping the line of the back bone |
| hips | shaping tailbone, tightened |
| legs | naturalize the line of legs from gom boots like shape and flat foot |
What I couldn’t write here, it’s done in its own way……
Season I（old ver）, Season IIβ（trial ver）, Season I / II (50%/50%)
Old model. Season I (2015~16)
Cocept
- adhere to the form of the original model.
- complement missing parts in a mechanical manner.
This body mesh was made from shirt mesh……
Reflection points on Season I
Reflection point -1
- Legs are unnaturally long
- Roughly UV unfolding
Reflection point -2
The total proportion of the old model seemd too much elderly. In SeasonII, I arranged the proportion to responde to its face look.
Season I（old models）, Season Iβ（proportion changed）, Season I / II (50%/50%)
Reflection point -3
The old model had a somothing sagging derriere. In SeasonII, it has been tightened.
Season I（old ver）, Season IIβ（trial ver）, Season I / II (50%/50%)
Policy on Season II
keeping a flavor of the old model as much as possible,
- make corresponde “face look/age” with “body look/age” in order to increase a range of selection on cosutumes.
- refine details as well
Working process
Apply new proportion on Season I model
req：test and verify the new policy
res：OK. no probrem.
→
Make a trial model with Season II specification
req：make an own body based on new proportion.
res：Seems, too much twist or edge, and it’s better to shorten abdomen area.
Make a Season II-β ver. By modifying the Season I body
req：I put priority on keeping the original taste. So, I used the Season I model as a base model.
res：something squre or solid…
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Gestalt collapse?
req：half and half between Season II-β and Season I by morph.
res：exactly!?
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Post processing
Though I had refined the mesh cleanly on the II-β version, it cllapses when morph(I version) is applyed.
→ fixed.
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Useless effort？
1 When it’s put clothes on body, it doesn’t shows “change out of all recognition” as expected.
I had turned this principal to advantage, I used to manipulate the form of costumes to change the looks of body proportion on old models vise versa…
2 The default rendering engine of MMD is not capable of expressing details newly atatched.
Maybe SSS shader could solve this.
| guide | An introduction of brand new modelings on “Appearance Miku” |
| status | ver. 1.00, 3rd May, 2018 |