Sexy Big Boss (MGS5) - Character WIP
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Hey, polycount. It's my first time posting something substantial on Pimping & Previews because I always was kinda afraid of putting my art out there. But lately I'm thinking that there's no way I can do this by myself without the help of this great community. So yeah, here I am standing before you to strike me down and call me noob and maybe even help me a bit 
I humbly ask for your assistance and guidance on my way to create this awesome character that I would really like to do justice to.
The character was inspired by this:
Credits for this art go to Anne Pogoda.
As you can clearly see, it's a very very sexy cross-dressing Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes. I thought it was really funny and that's why I decided to do this.
These are my references and inspirations for the head:
And this is WIP Head:
References and inspirations for the body:
And this is WIP Body:
Assets WIP:
Please don't go easy on me. Even though I suck, I'm hoping to learn something from all of you I'm a very hard working guy and you can be sure that I will listen to each and every piece of advice
I humbly ask for your assistance and guidance on my way to create this awesome character that I would really like to do justice to.The character was inspired by this:
Credits for this art go to Anne Pogoda.
As you can clearly see, it's a very very sexy cross-dressing Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes. I thought it was really funny and that's why I decided to do this.
These are my references and inspirations for the head:
And this is WIP Head:
References and inspirations for the body:
And this is WIP Body:
Assets WIP:
Please don't go easy on me. Even though I suck, I'm hoping to learn something from all of you
I'm a very hard working guy and you can be sure that I will listen to each and every piece of advice
Replies
Your proportions are a bit off, I think that the torso is quite short; so are the legs (I think if you make the arms a teensy bit shorter and lengthen the torso, you might be able to get the balance correct without sacrificing the thicker build of the character). Legs are a little weird looking from the side and behind.
You need some g-string ref (...awkward), it's not quite sitting right. String should probably be just under the belt, groin area is just a little off in general.
You also need ass ref. It's a bit (a lot) square right now, too much so even for a dude this ripped.
Keep going, hopefully someone can elaborate (I'm off to bed, so I can't). I might pop in again later and see if I can't help a bit better. Love to see this finished up to a final render, lol.
How else is he supposed to afford all of that ammunition?
I also spent a few days on modeling this highly detailed handgun
And I'm pretty glad how this holster worked out. Making it took some adjustments to a new zbrush workflow for me, especially stitching which was a real pain in the neck at first.
Once again, I humbly ask for advice and critiques.
Have a good weekend!
I also tried to model his behind to look as sexy as possible. You decide if I succeeded in that.
Next time I'll be updating with some new assets, hopefully. Or anatomy. Or a bit of both :poly101:
Good ideia! haha
These two weeks were a great learning time for me. With the help of some of you guys I really pushed myself to practice polygonal modeling, thanks for that :thumbup:
YOU DID IT!! (I am Anne btw, I created the "Quiet Boss" artwork - and someone on Facebook dropped me that link)
You are my personal hero!!
If you want me to think up a funny final pose for him just let me know. And feel free to add me on Facebook, too! (The Anne Pogoda with the stupid looking Mr. Spock is my private profile. XD)
great to be hooking up on Facebook btw. ;D
I will make you an overpaint with the images you sent me. And I was thinking that the face could be a mixture of the Hot Toys figurine face and the face in the game.
I took some reference pictures of my figurine, and will throw in Ground Zeros later to take some pictures there, too, so I can compare things and make you some suggestions on how the final face could evolve.
Are you looking for a "carved" final look for the hair or will it be er... "hairy"?
If it is going to be "carved", the figurine might serve some great reference there, too.
- Anne
PS: Here are the pictures
Thanks for the photos. I will be happy any suggestions you have on how to make the character look even better
As for hair, I will be making him a realistic hairstyle that uses all the modern tech for video games, so it will look fairly realistic.
Well, that what makes it cool!
So let's try again:
FRONT:
Probably the most crucial part (to me), so I devided that into different working steps that would make it possible to you to see what I did in relation with your 3D Model.
Facial shape: Must be longer and slimmer. (On the Hot Toys figurine this part is extremely overdone)
Forehead: Needs to be shorter. He is old, though, not that old.
Eyebrows: Drawn down into a serious frown. Peak slightly goes up and widens. (A sign of manlyness in the japanese culture. Take a look at the Mishima family from Tekken to get a better idea what I am talking about. XD)
Eyes: Receding much into the skull, quite small (as a style element), some lines are overdone to make him look even more serious, for instance the lines that you could draw from the upper eyelashes to the bridge of the nose.
Nose: Needs to be much wider, especially the nostrils. It is also a bit longer.
Lips: Left pretty much untouched, just reshapes the lower lip a little and widened the beard.
Jaw: Went for a pretty hard edged, clear shape. You can soften it a little once you apply the details, it'll read nicely in the end.
SIDE:
Face A: Your current WIP
Face B: Your WIP with more features of the ingame model applied. Forehead comes out strong and with a pretty hard edge (a leftover from the bandana days).
Nose is still straight, but has a slight hook. Lips are not so much defined, which is what I don't like about this model.
Which is why I came up with...
Face C: Tip of the nose, lips and jaw are more referenced from the figurine. The nose comes off to be bit longer this way. Lips are also very clearly defined and comes out of the skull a bit more. This gives the sideview a clear and nicely readable look.
Eyebrows and forehead are adjusted like on frontview on both variations of the sideview.
There are two different variants for the beard. B is the grown out I did not shave for weeks look that we can see in the MGSV demo. The other one makes for a very clearly defined jawline. It looks less chaotic/ rugged, however, it might result that the head is not disappearing into the neck too much.
3 / 4:
Pretty much the same corrections as mentioned before, especially around forehead and hair.
Eyes smaller and narrower, the amount that they recede into the skull seems fitting from this perspective.
HAIRSTYLE QUESTION:
You sketched the hairstyle that he is going to have in the final version of MGSV, so he'll go with a ponytail, right?
If you are going with this version I could redesign the initial cross dressing a bit. I saw on some concepts, that Big Boss will/ might be wearing a cloak in the desert, so I could design him one, and this could make itquite epic, since he is usually never depicted that way.
If you go for the ponytail version, e.g. final variant, shall we give him the artificial hand, too, or is the glove that he is wearing magical?
SIDENOTE regarding the legs:
Make them longer and wider. I can adjust them with Photoshop to show you what I mean if you want to.
Are you planning to give him the losely opened shoes in the end?
Yes, I was going for a ponytail, because it looks awesome
As far as cloak goes, I think it might be a good idea if it can look good with the current costume. I guess it an idea worth exploring.
I just forgot about the artificial hand. I think it should be there, it will make the character more interesting.
I can make legs wider(fatter or more muscular), but I don't think that making them longer will look much better, he's already 7.5 heads in proportions and I don't think he needs to be taller.
For shoes, yes they will be loosely "opened" in the end. At least that's why I saw in the concept art.
I am glad that those are helping you. ;D
I will explore around a little with the costume, for the fun, to see where it could go, and post the results here. XD
Yeah the hand would def. make him more interesting especially if you go for the ponytail version which def. is settled at a later point of the story.
I showed the body to a befriended concept artist and we talked about what felt off. We came to the conclusion that the knees are sitting "too higH" within the legs. That makes the thighs come off too short.
The mechanical hand would be the lef tone like seen on the concept and he would wear the "Quiet glove" on the right arm instead of the left.
I also adjusted his face a little to show what it would look like if it went by the pony tail and beard styling like on the concepts. The beard seems to be a bit better trimmed on these, and there seems to be a clear seperation between "mustache" part and "jaw beard".
The idea with the scarf/ "cloak" would be that, of course, it doesn't cover anything, but it floats epicly in the wind. XDDD
Note: Hair and face details are placeholder and will be changed later
Now I will be adding cloth piece to the upper arm and shoulder belts to keep this beast in place.
Have a good day and play Shadow of Mordor, it's awesome :thumbup:
Good going by the way. Keep it up
Finally started to work on detailing, one done and a lot more to go! Woo, I feel excitement in the air, do you?
Here's a little something-something for you, before we all go enjoy our weekends.
Sorry if small details are hard to see, but they are there and look good
Have a good day
Cheers,
Alex
Can't wait to see the materials you'll choose. Besides from all that we had already talked about in private, I noticed one little thing (I am not sure if you were planning to work some more on this later, or if you counted it finished.)
The shape of the shoes. When you look at him from the side you will probably notice that the "front" part goes very "high" up. I know that the peak of such shoes usually is looking up a little, though this has to be treated with care, or elseit looks "dorkly". Just a designer's input though.
I just wonder how would that blindfold-pirate part would look as brown lether. With similar material to that one on stripes.
Just started doing bakes. Finally.
Please have patience:angel:
Loving all the detail you've done on the assets too!