Neon Sign
- February 22, 2014
- 627 Downloads
- 4 Likes
- Blender 2.6x
- Render: Cycles
- Creator: KBeres
- License: CC-0
Description:
I created this neon sign in blender (duh!) for the purpose of showing a technique of using text to create a neon sign. Usually you would have to create bezier curves along a guide, and that can take a while. Fortuanatly I am too lazy to do that, so I set out to find a different way. (Not caliming I am the first person to discover this method.)
The purpose of this scene is for you to see the way of creating tubes with text, and hopefull using this technique to create your own scenes!
I also created a youtube tutorial for it, here is the link:
http://youtu.be/arDsiW2oooM
Comments:
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KBeres
Written February 24, 2014Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback. I tried to explain it the best way I could.
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Gothicmuse
Edited March 21, 2014Looks great! Thank you very much for sharing it. But... the tutorial link seems to be missing?
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KBeres
Written March 23, 2014https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arDsiW2oooM
There is the link to it. And thanks!
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mochicone
Written September 15, 2014This video is soooo useful to me. Thanks!
Here's some notes for anyone who's interested in the neon part(sans screen shots):
Blender you tube neon tut http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/72675
3:10 min in
Shift + A
text - type in what you want
properties panel right side font settings align origin to center change the font. he is not using a default font. provides download link
then convert into a spline/curve Alt + C curve from mesh or text - nothing appears to change but then if you change to edit mode you can see the dots and curves
in edit mode please select the B
scroll down on properties panel un-select The U box it gets rid of faces. do this for all the faces.
Once they are all gone then you want to extrude it just slightly.
in Geometery modification push twice for .002 under extrude add solidify modifier add subdivision surface modifier
change thickness to something thinner and then add subdivision for smooth curve
you can thicken by changing extrude or thickness
done.
out of edit mode Alt +C changes it to mesh surface
8:30 into video: no lights in the scene. he deleted the lamp. select the neon sign split view
arrow is automatically selected in his demo on bottom menu select node editor which is next to view
N add a new material name it neon light on right in panel delete diffuse black box on left create new shader - emission shader connect the black box to the pink box he refers to as the surface
strength 25 in black box color box set up as white emitted auto. up the saturation a bit in that same color boxx just a different tab
you can adda glass shader onto it but he did not do that.
then he goes into how to do the brick wall background
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mochicone
Edited September 15, 2014So I have a question for you. My mission is to take a .svg file of an illustrator design thats already made and make it look like a real neon sign for a client to see in 3D. would this work If I were not creating the text from scratch?
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launok
Edited February 21, 2018I am a newbie and don't know Blender well. The video unfortunately is not available anymore. Any other tutorials for the usage of this neon sign template?
Very good effect.
May I congratulate you on a very well narrated video tutorial. It was very clear and you made sure we could follow all your clicks and button presses, yet without slowing down the pace. Thank you :-)
Thanks also for providing a link to the font.