My first test of MikuMikuDance with Hakurei Reimu model and static JPEG Background. No dynamic camera angles, no lighting effects, just plain model and motion test for future productions. The background of the video is only a picture I took from my desk, I just estimated the angle for the 3d video.

It seems that it’s not that hard to use MikuMikuDance, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time to do a single pose for every second. But thanks to tweening, most of the frames have calculated measurements of the position of the pose. So for example you raise the arm up from frame 1, and you raise down the arm in frame 10, what would happen is that the program would calculate a movement between frame 1 to 10 so that you would not manually set every pose on every frame.

One of my first few issues with this is that there are no other codecs and compressors installed for saving the Video, when I first saved the AVI file, the two minutes of the video is worth 768 megabytes! So I had to compress it first before uploading to Youtube since my upload speed is slow. Before that, I had to mux the mp3 file with Virtual Dub so that it would have music.

But anyway, just watch the test video below and enjoy…

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Finally, Ichiro-Style has achieved its 100th post milestone. Since its inception from February, Ichiro-Style went through all the troubles from building a web page and setting up a server. There was one instance where the worst case scenario has transpired, the website got deleted without having back-ups and had almost zero chance of recovery (it’s a good thing that google is our friend), but this did not seem to stop Ichiro-Style, it even made us grow and improve (as you can see from the recent change from the theme). But all this hardships didn’t come to fruition without our beloved readers and friends (Special mention to Sankaku Complex and its constituents.) that linked us here.

I suppose I should take this also as an opportunity to bring back our previous articles that seemed to be special. Some of these are my personal favorites, and some are the most frequently visited posts. To start it off, I’ll give you the top 10 of the posts.

10. Motto☆Hade ni ne!

This one is my very first post, which is why I consider it as special. It is about the complete version of the opening song from Kannagi (which is my favorite anime at that time, which also explains why the characters are in the banner). I was all about Kannagi at that time, and I didn’t seem to mind if I ever made all my articles about that anime.
You can see how short the article was since I was not good at it. At that time, I have always found words to be quite shy to me that they hide and I could not write them in my posts.

9. Musuhi No Toki

This is my second post, it’s is again about Kannagi. I could not think of a new post so that is why it ended up with this. But it seems that I always get back at it and listen to the song that contributed to the birth of this website.

8. Nagi-Sama Cosplay

Now it is all about Nagi, she is my anime goddess and inspiration. This post caters an extremely well made cosplay rendition of Nagi.

7. Let’s Go! Omnyouji – Old News On New Site!

This one is one of my personal favorites, the Omnyouji MAD that almost made me crazy listening to it. You just have to find out yourself why by reading the post. You could also check out the lyrics in Kana and Romaji so you can sing along.

6. Perfume – Seventh Heaven

This MAD seems to be one of my favorite, because the animation is spectacular and quite fitting to the music and the mood. This is also one of the animations that made me work on my animation studies at that time.

5. Hatsune Miku – World is Mine and The Greatest Princess in the World

This is one of the best Hatsune Miku songs I have ever listened to, and this post is also one of the most viewed and frequently visited from this site.
This song also comes with a Kawashima Ami version which is also very good. In my opinion, it really beats the Hatsune Miku version as this one is more natural to hear and just quite skillfully made.

4. Violin Meltdown

Another one from my favorite MAD collection is the Violin Meltdown. This video seems to be popular until now, that is why this post continuous to be one of the most visited posts too. Thanks to YouTube, that every time someone watches the video I uploaded, they click the link written at the video description that links back here.

3. Ichiro’s Style in Colors

This post is about my mediocre digital coloring skills helping a friend of mine online with his line art. Not much about it, but it seems special for me.

2. Ichiro’s Epic Fail (;_;)

As mentioned in the introduction, this post talks about the recent Failure of Ichiro (which is me) who did not back up his website and also ending up deleting it together with the whole database with the posts and website settings in it.

1. Philippines bans Sankaku Complex, Cause: Not enough Philippine related articles

Save the best for the last, as some of us might say. This post is my most favorite and also is the most viewed in Ichiro-Style. This article is an April fools that really got everyone fall for it. And I also felt this is one of my best written articles as I really have difficulty with words at that time.
Well since I’ve spoiled it already, you could still read it and look at the comments to find out some of those who fell for it.

And now to sum up this post. I hereby thank all of the readers/visitors specially those who regularly come here and of course Sankaku Complex and company, the bloggers who link here and Nagi-sama who is the one that gave birth to this site.
Lastly, feel free to give suggestions via the comments or you can contact me in the Sankaku Complex IRC Channel where I frequent upon. And also, if you have some extra “peanuts”, you could donate it via the donation cat-box on the right side of the page.

My site is undergoing maintenance and improvement, you can see that by the change in layout and contents.

Anyway, I’m going to be posting regularly next week, so don’t worry. I just need to sort these things out.

I might post some this week, but I’m not sure, so just stay tuned.

You can still use the feed for updates.

Thanks

Thank you Mr. A for the donations! You have saved my site!

Well, really, I need some okane to run my site and to keep my domain.

So, anybody here who likes to help can give some :3

Anyways, Thanks again Mr. A!

Ichiro-Style! is now being hosted in a reliable paid web server, that means this website will be guaranteed to be 99.9% online!

It took a while to get used to in the Control Panel, but it was all worth it, I had fun learning new things, specially how the ftp works and how I can transfer sql files.

Another advatage of the hosting is that I can host my own videos, mp3s and other files that can be downloaded, unlike in my old server (which is my workstation), the upload speed just can’t do it.

So thanks to everybody who goes to this site, I wouldn’t have gone this far without you

Jaa!

Thank you MtRx and Donut! It’s been months now since I’ve created this blog, and it’s also been months since I placed that donation box at the upper right sidebar on the site.

Today, I’m really happy that it’s about time that I had some donations, I’m very thankful for them having to give something which would really help me a lot, specially this time that we’re having a crisis.

So again.. Thanks! and take care always!

My classmates decided to have some fun for action, I’m glad that I was invited, proving that I’m not that invisible anymore (but I think it’s better to still be like that, since it’s good for ninja photography).

So we went to this place called Oh La La, it’s really far, located at Muladbukad(?), Guinobatan, Albay.

I’m glad that I remembered to bring my camera there. So then I took some pics before I got wet in the pool.

I went around to take some pics, but I get lost frequently, so I just don’t get far.

The place is really big, I still can’t even memorize where I’ve been strolling around.

So anyway, I just took some pics randomly…

LOL…

Crappy Camera is Crappy…

Some of the families having their lunch… I wonder where they came from? They look like.. oh nvm…

Look at that kid from the far right, he looks like a… nvm…

Spot the loli…

Some of my classmates…

Shy loli is shy… to bad… her pops is there…

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Some of my classmates…

Yeah, what does hair taste like?

They’re already cleaning it?

Drainage….

I didn’t notice it at first that we’re NEAR the foot of Mt. Mayon!

There they are, taking some group pics.. of course I didn’t go there…

Sigh… Would a DSLR capture this perfectly?

I didn’t have that much pics, I was too busy having my own time swimming… oh yeah, I don’t even know how to swim…

I’m sick today, sigh… My body is all painful, and feels like there’s steam going out from my body.

So I’m gonna be resting for the coming days, and I hope to get well soon…

Another round of Photo Shots!

On top of the College of Arts and Letter building from Bicol Univeristy…

2. Second floor of the building.. Nobody here?

Crappy quality, this is what you get from a 2 megapixel camera…

3. Going up! This reminds me of Japanese random-photoshoot-1s in anime, I see a lot of scenes in this kind of stairs

4. Such fine Filipino quality… I wonder if this still works? Or did it even work?

5. Top Floor!

6 The fourth floor, behind me is the open space

7. Wonder what’s that scrap metal doing there…

There’s a chair! Quite convenient!

8. Oooh… Nice view

That building is what we call the Turtle… I don’t hang out there that much…

9. That’s the Centree also known as The Centenial Tree, It’s over one hundred years old, It become one hundred at the same year (1998) we got our 100th independence day.

That area is also where we buy our snacks and hang out for fresh air…

10. Green… lot’s of green!

It’s hot at this time, I hope I don’t get a heat stroke.

11. Lovey Dovies…

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13. LOL, told ya the chair was convenient! XD

14. The awesome chair!

15. Somehow I found another chair on that shelter and brought it on the other side…

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18. I wonder what it’s like on the other side of that wall…

See the Jeep? Is it the same as from the previous picture? Not! It’s just the same model, there’s a lot of it going around…

19. Hah, the Volcano is now covered with clouds, unlike from the previous photos…

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21. That hill, we call it the Sleeping Lion…

22. Entrance to Camp Simeon Ola and the Philippines National Police Headquarters

23. A satellite dish.. But not anymore. This was mounted on that scrap metal we just saw earlier… What a waste, Isn’t it?

24. Even the drum was put to waste…

Oh, there’s a ladder… Reminds me of Kamichu. Lot’s of anime characters go Emo on top of that…

25. Wondering where all the people went? Here! On the first floor!

I think these guys are all incoming college students…

26. Went outside… and saw this…

Saw them the other day.. They might be practicing for an event or maybe it’s just a workshop, I don’t know….

27. “Feeeeel” That’s what I heard…

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29. No Chicks present… So I just took it from behind… XP

30. That’s the building where I was taking the pics

Still wondering why it’s called the Turtle?

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32. Ha! That’s my friend, I don’t know what he’s doing… weird kid…

Was going to pay for the water bill, but after that I figured out that it might be a good chance to take some pics.

Okay, first behind me is the way to the Daraga Water District (where we apply for water connection). In that picture is the newly built commercial establishment, that’s where we are going to base our Starting point.

So let’s get it on! Iku!

2. So here’s the stairs going up to the Water Station

3. This is a long way up, it made me have cramps on my legs… It’s also too hot this day

4. Half way trough the top…

5. Another set of stairs. It feels like it never ends because of the heat, it takes more energy…

6. What the… It’s Gwapo (meaning handsome, it’s some silly nickname we gave to him), also from the water station paying their bill.

7. See the blue gate, that’s where the Water District is… Forgot to take pictures inside.. silly me..

8. Almost at the top!

9. At last! made it!

Was thinking where to go next, but I figured out it maybe a good idea to take pictures of the church

It’s 11 am-ish, it’s really hot at that time…

10. Took a picture of the town below

11. Here’s the old church… Haven’t been here for months or even a year if I remember… I’ve always thought they don’t close the front door…

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14. Argghhhh.. The heat… Didn’t wear a cap nor brought an umbrella…

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16. If you turn to your right side, you’ll see the Mt. Mayon

17. They say Mt. Mayon is the equivalent of Mt. Fuji of Japan.

18. We’re lucky to take a pic of her without completely being covered with clouds.

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20. Another shot of the church…

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22. Even the sides are closed…

23. That’s the Liñgon Hill, we live near that place… Hmm… I turned to the right and found a mysterious path way…

24. The pathway lead to this place. The structure in the picture is a Cell-Site, This is where we get our signals for our Cellphones…

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26 Hm? I thought it was a dead end… There’s still a pathway? Let’s find out…

27. Turned to my left and found out about this…

28. Been living in this town for years, I didn’t know there was such place…

29. Followed the road… I wonder where this leads to…

30. OMG! Where am I?

31. Checking out….

32. Oh cool, A Tiger Cub.. Oh, I mean a puppy…

33. This… is getting interesting… Didn’t know there was such a place.

The path is so rocky, must watch step!

34. A way down?

35. What the? Some sort of a misplaced building?

36. Above is where we come from

Just look at this… We can reflect here about the economy…

37. Another long way down?

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40. Oh cool, a road, I wonder where we are?

After that step, I became familiar already of the place… I really didn’t think that the path leads here…

41. There’s the building we saw earlier. I still don’t know where its entrance is…

42. Going trough that street is where we went down…

43. It’s the misplaced building!

44. Okay! Get on with the photo walk! Going forward would lead us to the same point we started…

45. This is the way up to the church…

46. At last! The same building we got off!

47. See the stairs. That’s where we climbed up. And on that street is where we walked going here. See the shadows? It’s dead noon! Hot!!!

48. On the other side of the building is the main road.

49. Crossed the street, It’s too hot on the other side…

50. Oh, vendors. There’s a lot more of them at the main market place.

51. See the trees? That’s were we took the picture of the other side of the building…

52. Jollibee!

53. Jeeps… They’re everywhere!

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55. Jay Walkers!

See the road? Find something missing?

No lines!

56. This town is really dirty… One of the reasons why I don’t like walking around here…

57. The wet market

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59. Somehow this reminds me of K-On!

I end my picture spree here.. I’m hungry and sweating all over at this point…

Just a little bit further is the new McDonalds, gonna eat there and rest. Ran Ran Roo!