Opinion for a Tattoo

diogom

Hello! i'm quite new at the forum, hope u guys can help me with a oppinion, i was thinking about tattooing something about my profession (3D Artist), so i decided to make a gizmo, u guys think is a good ideia to represent 3D?!! it will be in my left wrist, what do u think? i have attached the image... after the tattoo done, i will post here, any other ideias will be very welcome hahaa

DrunkShaman

Hello there!

Personally, it isnt a good idea to just go with the Gizmo of Maya. Infact, it isnt a good idea to use any tool for skin tattoo. However, if you wish to have something relates to your profession I'd suggest that you should have a rectangle mar-key selecting an object in its center. The Object can be anything from a primitive poly sphere to a detailed mesh.

diogom

hmmm thanks Nitewalkr, its a nice ideia! i will think about that! but this kind of gizmo exist in almost every 3d software, or i'm wrong?

Kwramm

I'd respect a guy with a tattoo of the old school maya logo though

JR

Yeah... the old Maya logo was beautiful.



I think what represent 3d more accurately are primitives, like a cube, sphere or cone, showing their wireframes. You could try a composition with them.

Reverenddevil

When it comes to a tattoo do what YOU want and dont be swayed. I think it represents 3d art very well.

beancube

Reverenddevil wrote: »

When it comes to a tattoo do what YOU want and dont be swayed. I think it represents 3d art very well.

Yer for sure man, tattoos are a personal investment - so dont be swayed to get a design because someone else thinks its cool. Of course you can take crits!

Ive drawn and designed half of mine, and let the tattooist add his style or corrections to work with tattooing.

For me personally, ill never tattoo a companies symbol on me. Unless its my own.
Although I think the gizmo is a cool idea.

Wells

this needs to be on your pivot point, not your wrist!

Neo_God

Gizmo? Nah...The Utah Teapot is where it's at, pretty much the poster child for 3d, haha.

seriously though, get what you want.

ZacD

I want a green-tooth.

Cody

Empty and myself got it on lock down already.

diogom

Sectaurs wrote: »

this needs to be on your pivot point, not your wrist!

hahahahaha

diogom

i thought about a gizmo because every 3d program have a move gizmo that looks like that, and have the XYZ too, i was trying to get an ideia in how to stylize it a little bit, maybe the tattooist could give a good ideia too, like beancube said...

thanks for the ideias, it's very nice =]

Ace-Angel

It's true, you should not be dissuaded, but my question is this to you.

If say, about 10 years from now, you look at that tat, will you appreciate it for what it represents or not?

Dudestein

You should get your nipple tattooed blue and pink like it's normal mapped. +Y, no smoothing errors, awww yeah.

thatanimator

loving the normalmap idea!
should have that all over!

got myself a Lightwave logo on my right shoulder..
maya and motionbuilder user now..... *sigh*

almighty_gir

why are you asking what we think?
YOU are the one getting something permanently inked into your skin. only YOU should like it.

TheWinterLord

almighty_gir because sometimes people tattoo the ugliest shit and dont see their error until its too late. I think If I would get a tattoo that it would represent something more important or make me look better. (i dont have any tattoos)
Maybe if somehow my family was dying but I got a job as a 3d artist and they survived because of the money... We all have our stories, if you want one be told by a tattoo then thats cool.

bluekangaroo

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Steve Schulze

I vote for a sleeve of polygon edges following the contours of your arms. You know you want to.

almighty_gir

yeah Jackablade. only to be asked by everyone who sees it, whether you're trying to look like spiderman or not :P

Steve Schulze

Well it'd be more effective on his face, but I thought he might not go for that.

Calabi

Not every software does have the gizmo.

Every software does have the grid or the wireframe though.

Can they not make skin coloured tatoos, so you could be the only one that knows its there(and no problem with it getting old and looking rubbish)?

lampekap

teapot tattoo!1!!

Mark Dygert

When you get laid off for the 6th time and decide to become an accountant you're going to hate it... But at least something so simple can easily be turned into a bunch of other things so hey why not.

Neox

you should do the viewcube :P

Malus

Wire frame your entire body, lets see how efficiently your parents made you.

Ace-Angel

Malus wrote: »

Wire frame your entire body, lets see how efficiently your parents made you.

If polycount didn't have a Signature limit, I would so put that in my Siggy!