Test drive your tattoo

Ninja November 20th, 2007

CG artist Loïc Zimmerman wanted a tattoo of his own design for years, but understood that a complex 2-D design doesn’t easily translate on the body’s 3-D canvas. So Zimmerman set out to create his own CG doppleganger, based on his own body’s exact proportions, to preview what his sleeve and chest piece would look like. The CG result is fabulous, but I’m holding my breath to see how his tattoo artist, Arnaud in Reims, France, finishes workin it in living, bleeding skin. Zimmerman says on the CG Talk board that there have been minor changes to the tattoo design for placement but the match to the CG design is very close.

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