Comments on: Create a glowing neon sign

By: ash

ash — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:24:01 +0000

i do not know to change the grid size , because whenever i press alt+3 it does work .

By: newbie

newbie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:31:12 +0000

i love ur work…

By: Andrew Price

Andrew Price — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:20:27 +0000

@BenU
Very interesting workflow! Never thought of using AI. Glad you liked the tut

By: BenU

BenU — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:32:15 +0000

I also built my paths in illustrator and exported as SVG. What’s great about this approach is you can build it all off of a single path:
1. Make a single path in AI, all curvy-like
2. Increase the stroke size dramatically
3. Outline those strokes
4. Tweak the shape so you now have two parallel paths.
5. Stroke the two paths with another large stroke
6. Outline and tweak those two paths, and you have four parallel paths
7. Now all you have to do is make the curvy link between the paths, and you’re done.
I also found that doing the “simplify stroke” feature in AI helped before importing the SVG into Blender, especially for more complex paths.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial!

By: ShhadowZ

ShhadowZ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:04:36 +0000

Man.. I recently came across ur site. Your work is awesome. Keep posting.

Nd thanx for this tutorial. ( I modified the neons to write my gf’s name.. she loved it .. thnx ya..)

By: Aether

Aether — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:22:49 +0000

Um, hi. I have a lil’ question. I have modeled my text / name, parented a lamp to it using CurvePath, Snapped origin, though, when I select dupliframe / increase DupOff Nothing happens. Please reply

By: Gekke Pop

Gekke Pop — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:04:14 +0000

Andrew,

Can this be used as a still and a animation or only a still image? Because that would be cool.

Gekke Pop

By: Andrew Johnston

Andrew Johnston — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:14:22 +0000

To add to FunkyDude, you could eve use inkscape (which is also opensource) to set the .svg and then importing it into blender.

Great tutorials, great site! Recommended reading for fellow 3d enthusiast and blender heads

By: FunkyDude

FunkyDude — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:22:53 +0000

I got a black screen too at first, but then I realized the distortion settings were wrong, I distort set at 1 instead of -0.1

Thanks for the tutorial!!! These are great!

Instead of making each letter I set the text in Illustrator, then exported/imported an SVG into blender.

http://www.webkitstudio.com/starstryker.jpg

By: MANTSOA

MANTSOA — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:28:05 +0000

very good work!!! i’d like to do the same things? can u help me?