Tattoo know movement

The Portuguese artist group uses a new tattoo technique that combines traditional tattoos and map projection technology to create tattoos moving in the human body.

In July 2015, Portugal's Oskar & Gaspar, a visual and multimedia visual arts group, held a landmark event in Lisbon, called "Ink mapping" , using technology. Plays a map to make tattoos on the human body moving in light.

Map projection technology combines traditional projection technology with the right software to project images onto 3D surfaces, such as the front of a building, instead of a two-dimensional flat screen. This allows artists to design sequences of motion that follow the surface of 3D blocks, embracing the architecture.

The artist has applied this technology to show 3D on body and face combined with tattoos.

"We are the followers of the tattoos, it is reasonable to combine these two types of art together, this project started two years ago, the results are very good," the group shared. with Live Science.

The combined efforts of about 40 people working on modeling and preparation for setup, photography, lighting, content creation and presentation have yielded amazing results. Light effects, depth and movement are incorporated into the tattoos, creating rotating mandala circles, winged origami pigeons, supernovae, or even human faces that blink, such as the images. picture in Harry Potter.

Each motion scene begins with a tattoo, forms a 3D model, and inserts a sequence of movements. Then, one person will stand in front of the projector while the mapping software will arrange the moving images from the original tattoo to fit the presentation area.

According to the group of artists, creating a tattoo on the whole body takes about two hours, while focusing on a certain body part takes about 45 minutes to prepare.