Kamis, 29 Mei 2008
An Animated Tattoo?
I get the creeps watching this thing crawl up her back....I can feel it. What would a tattoo feel like crawling through your skin any ways? It would be wonderful to be able to animate a tattoo, but I think I will have to wait until people are outfitted with bio-mechanical flesh surfaces, that could be imprinted electronically in layers, like those old fashioned 3D pictures that animate as you move past them.....
I created the animating designs in Adobe AfterEffects, using a popular plugin called Trapcode Particular. I simulated the writhing particle strands first and then mirrored them to create the symmetrical design crawling up the woman's back.
Luminous Feathered Palm Queen of the Sassafrass Islands
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These inkblot tattoo designs were created in Adobe Photoshop, drawing freehand on a Cintiq tablet.
Although these 'inkblot' designs would be difficult to replicate exactly using a tattoo machine, I am thinking that with some practice, I could get to a point where I would be able to tattoo these designs onto someone's body pretty accurately. I think they would look fantastic as decorative tattoos. I originally created these designs for a film director and producer team, who are creating a movie that features a woman whose tattoos come to life. These were the preliminary designs that I came up with....
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