

The more often you do it, the easier it will become. Take your time and be as accurate as you want to be. It doesn’t have to be exact and this step may take a little while, but it will work out. Now try and pose the body to where it looks like the picture. First thing’s first: save the picture to a folder you’ll remember.Īfter that, open up MMD and your photo side-by-side. Today I’ll be using Forest Fairy – Stock 3 by Mirish, as well as kurumi13‘s model Tokiko. I usually use stock pictures from faestock or Mirish, both users found on deviantART. Now, obviously your first step is to find some stock images. It takes practice and if you don’t start with the easy ones, you may find yourself getting frustrated! Start with easy poses (like what I chose for this tutorial) and then work up to harder poses. But when you are first starting, this is a great tool to use for yourself so you can feel confident about what you’re doing. I still use them for guidelines, because no matter how good you are there is always room for improvement. I discovered that I could use a picture as a reference to help me pose my models. When I first started working with MMD, I had no idea what I was doing and I had a hard time making my models look natural. Let’s start with an introduction to why I (and a lot of other people) use reference images. Hey ya’ll! Over the years, I have been asked, so many times that it’s nearly uncountable, “Well how do you animate poses with a reference image, anyways?” Animating With Reference Images
