{"id":723,"date":"2006-05-21T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.17\/wordpress\/?p=723"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:21:32","slug":"major-motoko-kusanagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/21\/major-motoko-kusanagi\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Motoko Kusanagi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is actually a present for one of my best friends, who is a big fan of Ghost In The Shell. The work is pretty much based on the box kit of the 2 versions of Motoko released by Takara without too much customization. A lot of time has been spent on research, head sculpt, custom making of the VR goggles, taking photos and finally the photoshop work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The box kit was actually bought 8 months ago. To be honest, I was not all that satisfied with it. The costume is not bad but the headsculpt of Motoko is not impressive at all. I left it aside until recently I have seen some professional basher showed a repainted Motoko and that enlightened \/ encouraged me to give this a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Note: body joints were removed by photoshop on some pictures)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Major Motoko Kusanagi<\/strong>
Takara Motoko Kusanagi OP Limited Version
Cool Girl 2.0 body
Headsculpt repainted (see below)
Custom made VR goggles (see below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Motoko in Stand Alone Complex<\/strong>
Takara Motoko Kusanagi Ninja Version<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CG Scenes (Which one do you like?)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the signature move of Motoko that she jumps off the roof of a building, enter the room from the window to give the criminals a surprise attack. To make this pose with correct lighting, I need to really hang the figure on the legs so it is up side down. Then I applied stronger light from the leg down to match the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This CG scene is based on the Episode 1 of “Stand Alone Complex”. Motoko is rescuing some hostages hold by some Gaisha Cyborgs. The venue is like a traditional Japanese banquet room. She is slicking in quietly and has her “thermoptic camouflage” activated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just trying to pose Motoko with a futuristic city background scene. I also put a couple of images of those spider-like mini tanks, called, Tachikoma to give some feeling of Ghost In The Shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Headsculpt Painting & Hair Treatment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Motoko is an anime character, I use stronger contour and color. I also did a few trials on the eyebrows to give her the cool serious look that best matches her style. Hair styling is also very essential here. First I straighten the hair by pouring hot water from the top of her head and let it cool down and dry over night. This will yield a more natural look of hair hanging down. Then I gave her a hair cut, mostly cutting the hair covering the neck, as supposedly the signal sockets behind her neck should show. Finally use hair gel to keep hair in shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VR Goggles Customization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just can’t bash Motoko without giving her the VR goggles. That took me quite a long time to look for usable material and finally I found some gundam body parts. The green things you see on photo is a pair of knee armour of some unknown robot. I joined them together with some modeling plastic sheet. Then applied some putty to hide the joints. Polish up and paint. The 4 small round sensors on the goggles are gundam loose parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weapon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not too much work here. Just attached carrying stripe to the Seburo C-26A (the long one). The hand gun is Seburo M-5. The black submachine gun alike one was from another Motoko kit that I have no idea what model it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is actually a present for one of my best friends, who is a big fan of Ghost In The Shell. The work is pretty much based on the box kit of the 2 versions of Motoko released by Takara without too much customization. A lot of time has been spent on research, head sculpt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,58],"tags":[32,37,36,38,53],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-custom-figure","category-movie-character","tag-cool-girl","tag-ghost-in-the-shell","tag-gits","tag-motoko-kusanagi","tag-takara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mgbb2005.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}