March 2013 Video tutorial: Creating Neon and other Noble Gases

Hi stygg—

You don't have to give away your efforts or tell people to "do what they please" with it!

It's your call, of course. I just wanted a better look at your work!
Now I can see a well-done perspective effect, and an interesting choice of fonts in a well thought-out composition:

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Thanks for sharing, stygg!

—Gary

Glad you like it Gary and I don't mind sharing at all, if someone else learns a little from it as I have done then great. I've posted one more image which is the one I meant to post in the first place :o

Stygg

Your use of very dark and low contrast elements is wonderful, stygg.

I think this could be your artistic "signature". Or "stygg-nature"...

I thought I'd contribute to the overall sense of menace...

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Aaaayyyyyyy! I had to put it off for a few days but I finally finished the diner scene! When I first saw the scene it sparked a memory from my youth, a favourite sitcom :) Do any of you remember the gang that hung out at Arnolds?

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Originally Posted by Gare

Your use of very dark and low contrast elements is wonderful, stygg.

I think this could be your artistic "signature". Or "stygg-nature"...

I thought I'd contribute to the overall sense of menace...

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Love it Gary, that would soon clear the crowds at the central promenade.

Stygg Prince of Darkness >:)

Nice one Francis, it reminds me of an American type diner that was here in England many years ago when I was a lad called Pats'ys and many from the American airforce base at Warrington use to call there with their families on their way into Manchester, they loved their milkshakes, hotdogs and jukebox then shopping in Manchester :D Ahh those were the days, we were never short of bubble gum! :D

Stygg

@ Frances—

I wasn't thinking about the "Happy Days" TV series when I rendered the diner scene, but yeah, I guess it's appropriate for the late 1950s/early 1960s, as would be Mel's Diner from the Lucas film "American Graffiti."

@Stygg—We called them "trailer diners". They were literally moved into place at a shopping center or roadside with a huge truck and a tow, not unlike mobile homes that were very popular in the 1950s/1960s. My grandparents owned a "mobile court", also known as a "trailer park"—a lot of farmers converted land to residential when they retired from farming—and yep, we had one of these aluminum, bullet-shaped, really, really narrow diners not far from the place. Not to be confused with a carhop diner, like the A&W places that are long gone because carhop service sort of begged fuel prices that are long-gone!

People don't even use trailers a lot to tour the US anymore, even though Airstream and other brands used to be designed specifically for travel. You put them up on blocks of cement at a trailer park now, and that's more or less your permanent residence.

So we now have diners and movie theatres...where else might you find a neon sign?

-g

You will find some neons at my Chip & Fish shop :D

Stygg

Oh. Yeah. I forgot.

That used to be a Burger King, didn't it?

:)

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Originally Posted by Gare

Oh. Yeah. I forgot.

That used to be a Burger King, didn't it?

:)

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I think that's what you said it was, we used the image for one of your first tuts. using the mould tool.

Stygg