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Animal

UMBRELLA MOTIF, not a drawable thing in itself. The repo's style data carries the bare label 'animal' as a common motif, and the trade uses the grouping the same way: an interviewed traditional artist says he loves animals in general before naming big cats, tigers, panthers, eagles, snakes and moth, and a gallery feature groups the classic animals of the traditional Japanese style. Registered so the inherited label resolves and so specific animal motifs have a parent; it carries no symbolism of its own and should never be emitted into a prompt.
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Low confidenceresearched

0 attested · 3 promoted3 sources · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
animal
Variants
quadruped; bird; reptile; insect; aquatic
Common styles
american traditional; illustrative
Common themes
nature

Provenance

3 resolved

  • The lines of Traditional by Mors (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales interviewing the tattoo artist Mors, Tattoo Life

    Artist interview. The interviewer describes the subjects Mors tattoos as "roses, skulls, eagles, panthers… and mandalas"; Mors himself lists his classic design panel as "tigers, panthers, snakes, roses, mandalas, torch, eagles" and says "I do love animals in general: big cats, tigers, panthers, eagles, snakes, moth." A practising artist naming a working motif vocabulary in his own words - used for motif EXISTENCE and style association only, never for symbolic meaning, which the interview does not discuss.

    artist interview · published 2024-04-15 · retrieved 2026-08-29

  • Japanese animals in the traditional and most innovative interpretation of tattooing (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Tattoo Life Crew, Tattoo Life

    Tattoo magazine gallery feature. Verbatim: "The starting subjects are the most classic animals of the traditional Japanese style, from tigers, to frogs, to snakes and all those animals of the mythological tradition that have always accompanied tattooing." Cited to establish 'animals' as a working subject grouping in the trade and to attest tiger, frog and snake as members of it.

    industry source · published 2023-09-27 · retrieved 2026-08-29

  • vibe-ink-flow frontend/src/data/stylePreviewData.ts (in-repo style vocabulary)

    Tier 3

    VIBE TATTOOS (this repository)

    NOT A WEB SOURCE - read in-repo on 2026-08-28, not fetched. The file names 19 style labels including realism-black-gray, realism-full-color, horror-realism, nightmare-realism and photorealistic as sibling entries. It establishes only that these labels exist in this codebase, not that they name distinct styles. Cited by the split-derived theme, mood and palette nodes created to decompose the fused labels per IMPLEMENTATION_NOTE section 5.

    internal expert · retrieved 2026-08-28

Related concepts

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Frequently used in · 2

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_animal ('american traditional'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_mors_traditional; source_tattoolife_japanese_animals; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

  • → outgoingIllustrativeStyleThin
    strength 0.75promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_animal ('illustrative'); styles_seed.common_motifs of style_illustrative ('animal'). Asserted independently from both ends of the relation; deduped to one edge. Confidence is the LOWER of the contributing rows, not the higher. Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_mors_traditional; source_tattoolife_japanese_animals; source_repo_style_preview_data; source_tattoolife_illustrative_dark; source_tattooing101_styles_list; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.75 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by TWO parent rows, one from each endpoint's own association column; the pack's scale reads 0.75 as 'frequent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingNatureThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_animal ('nature'). Provenance inherited from the parent row(s): source_tattoolife_mors_traditional; source_tattoolife_japanese_animals; source_repo_style_preview_data; the first is carried in source_id. No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Narrower concepts · 19