Custom Big Boss Model

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I've been trying unsuccessfully for several years to get Metal Gear Solid stuff into MMD. in fact solid snake was the first model i ever opened up in MMD.

but I realized that MGS is hugely popular in MMD but unfortunatly all there was for people to use was Negiyaki's Big Boss model and Solid Snake model....while they were nice models they did'nt exactly really work so well with Big Boss. Solid Snake's model looks like a custom version of his SSBB model if it was more cartoonish. while his Big Boss model is barely recognizable as the charecter because it is extreamly cartoonish.

so I got my hands on a model of Naked Snake(a.k.a. BigBoss) from Metal Gear Solid Operation Snake Eater. after converting it and loading it into PMDe for processing into the correct size and tweeking it so that it could be passed on to a MMD user with biped rigging skills could finish him.....i realized that the entire model was composed as one item...meaning that of the multiple textures only 1 was being used.....so only his legs were rendered properly while the rest of him was all messy.
after many unsuccessfull attempts at separateing the mesh
I got mad
and decided to his body to peices and try what I call
The Headfak manuver. rather then be bothered by waiting to find someone to rig a model i just headfak it and you end up with a custom model. pretty much i remove the body except for the head and attatch the head to an already rigged model.
now I have done this before to a model of posed model of Naked Snake from SSBB but it being posed makes the model of snake in an Organization XIII outfit appear to have a broken neck.

this is Negiyaki's Big Boss Model compared to Naked Snake in the early part of MGS3

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Negiyaki big boss MGS3 Big Boss

you see? it's very cartoonish and animeish...and though i do enjoy anime and am of japanese heritage myself...it just dos'nt suit snake very well
so what do I do? playing peace walker has inspired me to create a better big boss model.

so i take the head of the metal gear soild 3 model and stick it on the already rigged body of the anime style big boss model
then i take the textures from the game model and use them over the custom model.

and this is my end result

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oh the stage is MMD made and the crocodile is from resident evil 5

all that remains now is separateing the eyepatch mesh from the rest of the head and adding his missing eye. this way by use of MMD's slider feature you could add or remove his missing eye and eyepatch so that the model could be used from either the early MGS3 or any of the other games that feature Big Boss.

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guess what game the skull is from and guess what game the stage is from..one can be found on this site.

also I realized something. Snake in Super Smash Brother's Brawl....is both Big Boss AND Solid Snake. while Solid maybe a clone he does look different from big boss, notebly in build and such. big boss being well big and torked up and snake being more ninja like.
but when i put the solid snake model you guys ripped from brawl next to his metal gear solid 3 headed custom....

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it's pretty much solid snake with big boss's head minus the eyepatch..looks like i'm not the only one who enjoys headswapping

so is this chimera model good? it's parts from several sources..all of the same person. combined to make the ultimate MMD Big Boss.