An event held in Lisbon transforms tattoos into moving images

Ink Mapping has been the project that has allowed us to use the human body as a canvas for projections and make tattoos come to life. To carry it out, two Christie DWU600-Gs were used. 6.050 WUXGA lumens and resolution 1920 x 1200; and the contents were launched from two Mac Pros that incorporated the Resolume Arena VJ and MadMapper solutions connected with Siphon.

Portuguese projection artists Oskar & Gaspar has carried out the Ink Mapping project, an event held in Lisbon that presents a live tattoo mapping. After scanning and animating the tattoos, they projected them directly onto the original models., with the effect that they seemed to transform into living beings.

The team of visual artists and multimedia professionals had already experimented with projection mapping on bodies and faces. “We are enthusiastic tattoo fans, so the most logical step could not be other than combining the two artistic languages. A couple of years ago we started experimenting with our own tattoos. In this project our objective was, making innovative use of the mapping technique, to merge this artistic language with that of tattooing”, Guillaume Alatak explains account, Oskar project manager & Gaspar.

The Lisbon demonstration was supported by Desperados, and the partner of Christie involved in the event was ADLC Audiovisuals. Billed as “the world's first live tattoo video mapping event”, Oskar's project & Gaspar stood before amazed spectators who were witnessing the transformation of tattooed bodies into spectacular animations.. The ink seemed to flow down the models' bodies, giving movement to static motifs, breathing life into previously immobile portraits and adding depth to an essentially two-dimensional medium.

The result was a show that included games of light, depth and movement to very varied tattoo styles. What at first glance were nothing more than motionless ink drawings turned into sinuous snakes., winking eyes or 3D paper bowties that, flapping their wings, flew away from the bodies they decorated. Even a tattoo with the portrait of Salvador Dalí revives with a slight movement of the mustache and eyebrows.

The tattoo movement is the result of the combined effort of about forty people who worked with the model and were involved in the scenography., image capture, lighting, content creation and projection. “Essentially we use the technique that we had already used in facial and body mapping. First choose the right model, A 3D model of the body and tattoos is generated and 3D animations are created. The content is then mapped onto the body and actual tattoos. It is a long process, and in this case very precise”, Commenta Guillaume A reputation.

All the animations began with photographs of the tattoos, that after being rendered in 3D models were incorporated into a movement sequence. The human model was then placed in front of a projector and, using videomapping software, The animated elements were aligned with the original tattoo, adjusting everything to fit within the projection area. The contents were launched from two Mac Pros, using Resolume Arena VJ software and MadMapper videomapping software connected to Siphon.

The projectors used at the event were two Christie DWU600-G with 1DLP technology, 6.050 WUXGA lumens and resolution 1920 x 1200. “In this specific project we did not need an excessive amount of ANSI lumens. Between 5K and 8K lumens was enough. Y, due to filming imperatives, the more transportable the projectors were, better", Aclara Guillaume A famous famous.

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