How Japanese Artists Bring Digital Art to Life

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I kept seeing this method called "UV Printing" being used by so many artists like Taiki, Yoneyama Mai, and Mika Pikazo! So I decided to look deeper into it, and give it a try myself! Artists Mentioned: Yoneyama Mai: https://twitter.com/yoneyamai Taiki: https://twitter.com/taiki99 Mika Pikazo: https://twitter.com/MikaPikaZo MON: https://twitter.com/MON_2501 Rella: https://twitter.com/Rellakinoko Teru: https://twitter.com/teru_by_m LAM: https://twitter.com/ramdayo1122 rurudo: https://twitter.com/rurudo_ & BufferinChudoku (Book Designer): https://twitter.com/BufferinChudoku Vincent Chansard: https://twitter.com/Sparkleredpanda BUNBUN: https://twitter.com/BUNBUN922 Levinky: https://twitter.com/levinky_art Artworks That I Used For Prints: [1] [Yoneyama Mai 1] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1649794395368210432 [2] [LAM 1] https://twitter.com/ramdayo1122/status/1681969161092890624/photo/1 [3] [SWITCH Magazine] https://www.switch-store.net/SHOP/SW4010.html [4] [Yoneyama Mai 2] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1651964085054099457/photo/1 [5] [Yoneyama Mai 3] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1377484420613955586/photo/1 [6] Screenshot From Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Ep 17 [7] Various manga : Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man [8] [Yoneyama Mai 4] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1732291005767201080/photo/1 [9] [Yoneyama Mai 5] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1741075169555501493/photo/1 [10] [Wood Levinky] https://twitter.com/levinky_art/status/1780249912766263316/photo/1 [11] [Wood Yoneyama Mai 5] https://twitter.com/yoneyamai/status/1459120734215684101/photo/1 [12] [Wood LAM 2] https://twitter.com/ramdayo1122/status/1784056314483654769/photo/1 —————————————————————————— Helpful Resources For Video’s Research (Books, Video, Stores, Websites, etc) - No Affiliations: Stores & Books: Levinky’s Print Store: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/levinky/mother-20/poster/ SSS Rearise - Taiki Book: https://sss-by-applibot.booth.pm/items/5909029 SSS Rearise’s Book (A lot of info on UV Printing Process!): https://sss-by-applibot.booth.pm/items/4235024 SSS Rearise Store: https://sss-by-applibot.booth.pm/items Yoneyama Mai’ EYE Book (BTS of exhibition): https://www.amazon.com/EYE-YONEYAMA-MAI-Mai-Yoneyama/dp/4756257828 LAM’s Store: https://lamlab.booth.pm/ Mika Pikazo’s Store (Latest exhibition’s merch): https://mikapikazo.booth.pm/ These 2 companies; FlatLabo and SHOEI INC. handled most of the UV printing for illustrator’s exhibitions that I saw: FlatLabo: https://flatlabo.com/work/?t=69 SHOEI INC. https://www.shoei-site.com/works/ Videos: Yoneyama Mai’s Exhibition BTS: https://youtu.be/0n32Pxn9rDg?si=oVfh-IRLOKT2oX9b FlatLabo BTS Vid: https://youtu.be/vKtFGqk1n1g?si=JR1CLEPk8L3BvK-l FlatLabo PV: https://youtu.be/8IewDW_OLQ0?si=k542a8IO2gYXygX1 ——————————————————————————- Big part of this video was inspired by Taiki, Yoneyama Mai, and SSS rearise exhibitions. Their works broke the norm of a typical illustration gallery, which inspires me to broaden my horizon as an artist and illustrator! Taiki Exhibition: https://taiki-exhibition.com/ Yoneyama Mai Exhibition: https://art.parco.jp/museumtokyo/detail/?id=1206 SSS Re＼arise: https://rearise.sss.applibot.co.jp/ 🎵 BGM in this video was from Epidemic Sounds - My referral link: https://share.epidemicsound.com/njdtn9 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:36 What Is UV Printing? 02:38 My Attempt & Experiments 06:17 Conclusion Any questions? Feel free to message me! 🤔 https://twitter.com/_tppo edit: name of mon's artwork @1:58 is 業火 ! edit 2: A lot of people asked about the printer. I think it's a UV printer by Roland VersaUV series.. I did my prints at a school print shop, so I didn't get access to the printer myself sorry!