How to Make a Neon Sign in Blender 2.8 - Part 1

Blender tutorial showing you how to make a striking neon sign using Blender 2.8.

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[LilBigfootOverlanding]

Hey hey, nice to have you back doing tutorials!!!😃👍

[StarlasAiko]

As a trained neon light glass blower journeyman, I can attest that using the skinned or bevelled curves is fully adequate if you know how the glass tubes are bent and connected to create signs. Write a text in whatever font you want and create the curves on top of it to match.
Also, it is possible to create fairly sharp angles, not perfectly straight, there will always be some roundness, but a lot straighter than cheap signs have.
Also, you will never want a single tube system be more than 2 meters in total length, in order to have even luminescence. Longer signs will need to be broken down into several systems.

[alephgates]

Ahhh Change Text and Delete "Text" by entering Edit Mode took me like 5 minutes just figuring out how to do the first thing... egh

[JaredOwen]

My day always gets put on hold when I see a new video from Andrew Price! Thanks so much

[KHALI_SEAWEED]

In case anyone gets stuck at the part when typing whatever kind of text you want your sign to have, press tab! If you do that you will enter somekind of edit mode where you can type!

[mayhem]

For fonts to appear automatically just set up your fonts directory in preferences - file paths.. top one, fonts, navigate to your fonts directory. Save

[martin]

So refreshing to see you post a full-length tutorial, showing step-by-step. I really appreaciate it, and hope to see both full and short tutorials from you in the near future :)

[NeonCipher]

As you could probably tell I had been waiting for this tutorial for months! :-)

[arifbukhari]

Really nice to have these types of tutorials back

[ameeraqel]

Can you add captions for each key pressed?..i would really appreciate it...It makes things a lot easier

[Torikiki]

Thank you so much for all your tutorials. If it wasn't for you, I would have never started my venture into Blender. You are fun and detailed in all your videos, it's really easy and fun to watch.
Thanks mate! ❤️

[fatimamk]

Me: I'm not gonna use blender 2.8 until the final release.
Andrew: hanging around that 2.79 nonsense anymore.
Me: deletes 2.79 and starts downloading 2.8.

[DerekElliott]

Actually loved the ad at @17:30 here. Really great placement/presentation -- nice work as always.

[afterift]

Ive been having so much fun following along the tutorial! I'm also surprised how easy it is to adapt to 2.8 after working in 2.79 for a while!! I really appreciate these tutorials, I'm just learning soo much.
I also started dying when the Poligon ad break came up while Andrew was quickly fixing the edges and curves XD

[hemicshark]

yes Andrew please bring back these kind of tutorials
instant like !!

[KRISHNAVARUN]

Hey Andrew, im glad you’re uploading tutorials again. Learned a few things in blender, thanks to you. You’re a very good teacher 🙂👍🏻

[daan]

I am very proud to have done the donut tutorial about 1 and a half year ago, my passion for 3d has kinda exploded sinds then, Thank you and the rest of the blender community.

[liambuffat]

The Hershey text plug in for Inkscape (located under the render tab) makes a nice single line svg script font which can be imported into Blender.

[YousifPhotoshopTutorials]

Thanks a lot Andrew for this ♥ was awesome
but i have a big problem with ( BOOLEAN )
sometimes i want to do some holes in models and it look so bad in the smooth shading

[yourteacher]

Interviews vs tutorials... In the long run, watching someone who is skillfully and diligently sharing his techniques the results of which are really pleasing to the eye always, always wins over watching someone famous telling inspirational and/or instructive success stories. Why? Cause, well, inspiration gets you to the point where you begin to want to get your hands dirty, and that's about it... Thanks for the tutorials, Andrew!