>>5246073>how are toy companies going to recreate all those tattoos on the action figure?>are we just going to get a pale action figure with random black scribbles on his body?It's called a tampograph.
It's pretty expensive to do compared to normal paint apps, but it pays off really well. To do multiple colors they'd need multiple stamps to layer it on.
They can be extremely finely detailed.
Here's some tattoos on a 4" figure's pecs from the GI Joe line. Note the lettering.
