Comments on: Create a glowing neon sign

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:42:13 +0000

Just incredible man!!! thanks
From Mexico

By: bigfoot

bigfoot — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:47:15 +0000

hey,

incredible tutorial, really intense. just wondering, is the link for the download broken?

Can anyone check it?

By: algerien et oui

algerien et oui — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:47:57 +0000

then we can do that in something like a game for example or a film that is true if yes then it’s good news, thank you for respond to and tutorial ++++++++++++

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