10:00 I am an actual neon glass blower since when Carter was president. Clear glass filled with 100% neon gas electrical discharge glows an orange red. Clear glass filled with Argon and a small amount of mercury metal the electrical discharge will glow blue. In the parlance of the neon industry we call these two. Clear Red. and Clear Blue. Argon and mercury produces UV light therefore if the glass tube is coated on the inside with a fluorescent powder which absorbs the UV which causes it to glow with visible light. By using different fluorescent powders you can have a wide range of colors. The glow inside the tube at 10:00 is the argon mercury electrical discharge visible at the bends where by bending the glass tube the coating is slightly thinner allowing it to be seen slightly.
For anyone who looking at this in 2021, idk if its new Blender or not but for the life of me I couldn't find the middle point to seperate the back and front part when doing color ramp by following Andrew tutorial, it just wouldn't work, its either full black or full white. I found another alternative way which is just convert the whole thing into mesh, press 7 for top down view, turn on transparency mode, use box select to select all the back part, then assign it to a different material altogether and change that to black 👌🏻
@@maxgdh7618 Yeah, but if you're just watching someone else do it, you're going to retain only a fraction of what you'd learn by following along and doing it with him, even if you "paint by numbers" as he calls it (which he repeatedly recommends people not do with his tutorials, because again: if you exercise your own creative ability, you'll get more out of the experience than if you're just following a series of steps, because you're actively thinking about how to use the techniques he's talking about.)
@@TheBoundFenrir I'm a 2d artist, but I often have blender guru videos in the background while I work and sort of absorb information about how geometry works and rules of lighting etc. Stuff that kinda applies to all art. But, I do actually follow along with tutorials when I really want to learn
the glow thingy isn't in cycles but the displacement (for walls) is Eevee needs baking and that is a long process for displacement of textures (yes you can also use the displace modifier)
@@yaminnather521 Light probes work when the objects and the environment is static. But what about animated objects? Does the light probe work for that? I am so confused about that.
iam following your channel more than 6 years and now, with this both parts, i had the feeling, it was first to see you in some case of "forcing yourself to do this - and don't have that fun with and for it - wich you have in the years ago in your tutorials. i hope you find back to your happiness in doing this tutorials for us. sorry for my english maybe (?!) iam native german, and to explain this is literally a bit harder in a crazy way^^
Hey, your English is great. I understand you perfectly. Just to help you a little. "I hope you find your way back to having fun with these tutorials you do for us." Find your way back to is the key phrase I think you are looking for. Like I said, your English is fantastic and the change is minor, but thought I would help you out for reference. I am learning Korean and hope to find people willing to help me out as well.Take care.
💖 *Thanks a lot.* 💖 *Small* examples which concentrate on particular things are usually the best ! So, don't hesitate to produce *even* smaller examples. 🙏
Andrew we love your tutorials and plz keep making them. we are (at least i am) glad to see even promotion to poliigon alongside with them. you can just make tutorials like quixel does. they are heavy user of their own library when making tutorials and that is absolutely totally fine. who dont want to see great products with their superb performance in good hands?
Andrew. This is an awesome tutorial! I just converted from my life-long subscription based Foundry Modo to Blender. I find it extremely intuitive but you help make the learning curve much easier for me. And for what it's worth: Neon and argon are most commonly used for lighting applications. Neon glows an orange-red, and argon glows blue. Mercury is added to the tubing to cause the gases to fluoresce.
Tips for newbies like me- - Change the world color to black ( I noticed this after trying for hours, why the wall is orange color. Its dark so it should be black) - if you are using the free texture scale down the displacement to 0.02 ( works best for me) - Increase the render sample to 300 or something
@@jngvny Try changing the world color to black. You can do that by going to world properties on right side panel and changing the color to black. Without this the scene looks like day.
I know this video is a few months old, but I feel this needs a part 3. What really sells the effect is that camera move and the flickering tube, but being new to blender I am not sure where to start with the light tube flickering.
Just thought I would mention because I feel it's beneficial to know, though using Hotkeys makes for a faster workflow, it's just as integral to know where the actual menu option is as well. One can't be expected to memorize hundreds of Hotkeys, especially if what we intend to use Blender for doesn't use 1/2 of them. Also seeing as how Blender changed their Hotkeys for the new version, it now makes following the tutorials for the older version that much harder, especially if its someone just learning Blender (Unless your target audience for these tutorials are for people already deftly familiar with Blender).
i've created a new glass and transparent tubing ( just set a new material and set transmission to 1. also set the new tubing 2mm thicker than the neon core. it gave me a nice impression imo. but still testing stuff. Thanks Andrew for the lessons and the content
Another well-paced tutorial with the right amount of detail, thanks Andrew! This is exactly why I recommend your tutorials to others. Are you planning on making a new beginner tutorial series for 2.8 as well? The reason I ask is because my girlfriend is interested in learning blender for architecture and I suggested she start with 2.8 immediately, since it is so much more beginner-friendly and it would be silly to start learning everything the old way only months before much of it changes quite substantially.
@19:33 You could just set the SubDiv modifier to "Simple", then it behaves as the subdivide tool, and just does straight subdivisions, so no round corners etc.
Andrew...I'm gonna have to try this again. Ended up with all kinds of weirdness. My wall texture came out looking more like pyramids than bricks and the neon was thinner in some places and fatter in others. But, I'm sure I missed something. Would you consider updating the back catalog of tutorials with the new version of blender? Seems that the updated tools and techniques have changed so much and would be great to see new methods to accomplish those same builds. :D Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
@Suraj Gaudo that channel doesn't have proper tutorials. It has tips and tricks and its course trailers. Wheareas, Andrew's tutorials are more detailed and fun to watch. p.s. also I'm a big fan of this channel!! I hope he reads this comment. :D XD
I like how in the first part he was like, "oh gotta move, cause there isnt something worse than recording a tutorial and then just to discover that your big dumb face covered 80% of it" (his words not mine) and guess what he did in part 2
Hey Andrew, just wanted to thank you for these videos! This tutorial was really great and easy to follow, i've done it 8 times now from start to finish and feel very happy about the end result. Will keep on learning from your other videos after this!
Andy I take it there are some trolls giving you crap about your doughnut tutorial and that's fine but for those of us still learning your vids are important and we appreciate them all- I posted my doughnut today actually even though I did it quite a while ago- on IG. Thanks for the tutt always learn something even if I don't create create neon signs.
Argon is blue if no luminescence powder is used and is pretty much the standard since it makes optimal use of the mercury ion stream required to make the luminescence powders work (cost is also a factor). Neon is red and is the only one that doesn't need mercury to establish a stable electron flow and stays red even if luminescence powders are used, unless mercury is added . Xeon is green and is not commercially used, only in research settings. In the past nitrous gases were used and created a yellow-ish glow, but that was only ever used in street lamps and has been obsolete and discontinued for decades. Many neon signs have an argon/neon mix for winter conditions, so that the sign can glow even in freezing cold weather right from the start when turning on. It will glow red until the mercury starts evaporating, at what point it will gradually take on the colour determined by the luminescence powder.
You can bake mesh light in Eevee! The downside is that you cannot animate the lightmaps so the mesh lights pretty much have to stay static :/ I feel like you haven't researched Eevee enough, Andrew. Tsk tsk.
Right, and then with eevee there's the bloom option which would work for the glow with it having to add the glare node. Maybe I'll give this a go later, over the next few days, but with eevee. :)
Good to see a new Guru tutorial! THX! Couple of things I noticed: 1) I think it might be faster to create the curves by hand and only use the font as a template in the background. 2) I think the tubes should be a bit thicker (looking at your ref photos) and 3) Why not use adaptive subdivisions on the wall? Cheers!
quick note from me: EEVEE now has the capability to cast emissions on walls, but it won't work by default. You will need to use an irradiance volume object to get this to work, it's best to watch a video on how that works since I can't describe it well enough through text. This is far from perfect and it will take some tweaking before it looks the way it should, but in theory it will work in EEVEE that way
I figured I wasnt the only one who would mention irradience volume. And the cube map shadow thing too has helped me when converting from cycles to eevee. Considering I cant afford a proper gpu at the moment. :)
Goddammit, you caught me. I watched part 1 thinking I'll watch part 2 some other day. It has just been a few days though, I don't think I can stay away from Blender. I'm very new, nothing serious, just a hobby, but I have an ambitious goal. I want to model my entire house and every large visible object in it. No deadline and if I lose interest that's fine, every object is a goal by itself though. I have learned A LOT from just a few of your videos, but I know that I know "nothing" about 3D modeling. Love your tutorials, perfect balance between entertainment and learning.
If anyone is trying to render their image and getting a funky double-text sign (the tubes seem to be duplicated next to each other), it's probably because that original backup text layer we created in Part 1 is being rendered, even if it's hidden in the Viewport! In your layer filters (funnel icon), click the Camera icon to show what layers will be rendered out. make sure all layers you don't want (like the original duplicate text layer) is DE-selected. This was driving me crazy for a long time lol. Hope that helps
9:30 on Mac you can hit the space bar to quickly preview any selected file, including images. You can then use the arrow key to navigate. HOWEVER, for some reason, it struggles to preview Raw camera files (.RAW, .CR2 etc). It WILL view them, but Macs just find this really resource-intensive, whereas Windows can just up and show you a raw file no problem. "Easy as Jpegs, what's the issue, mate?"
you can use Emission in volumetric and it has as much off a weigth on render time as surfeace emission. this is how i face mist for my images. i mix emission and trancparency using ligth paths so the emission is only visible to the camera and has no effect on the envrioment. its pretty awesesome
Argon, when lit, is lavender, but with a tiny drop of mercury, produces ultraviolet. Helium produces orange-white, krypton produces greenish-gray, mercury vapor produces a pale blue, and xenon a blue-gray color.
I tried something today and I don't think I've seen it before, but it always bothered me the depth of the neon using mix nodes that combine the glass and the emission. Today I duplicated the bezier path, and made it larger(around the original path with the emission nodes), then gave it a glass texture & I liked the results a lot!
That "inner tube" you mention at around 10:00 is dependent on the thickness of the tube. So it's basically just the wall thickness of the glass, nothing fancy. Neon signs are mostly (well at least where I'm from) are still filled with various gases or the tube itself is coloured. A keen eye can spot the difference at a glance. Interesting topic, worth reading more about. I really like this new tut, I might feel a little inspired even to give it a go too :) Thanks, mate, keep up the noice work!
Olivér Solténszky I think Andrew doesn't research enough sometimes, a critical part if you want photorealism.Watching videos of people making these neon tubes is way better than taking some pictures.
great tutorial as always! I was thinking to let my brother who is still a beginner work through this one. what's up with the low resolution though? 360p only?
Pleas make mor tutorials like this one, I just love them, I feel they are the best way to learn how to use blender. You are very talented, and creative, so please keep it up. Just as an advise, keys on screen would be terrific
I'm new to Blender... kind of. I've fiddled with Blender here and there from the 2.6x series, but the views and everything else had me out of sorts. I'm one of those who doesn't get something unless it is in the right way for me. Western chess, for example, I was not good at. Chinese chess, which is similar but different, turns out that I could see 5, 10, 15 moves ahead. The pieces are flat rather than standing up. After that, I started noticing that I was good at things if the view was different or something like that. So, Blender was confusing me and I kept coming back and now with this new version, it feels like everything has fallen into place. It feels really easy to follow along now, so, with renewed desire, thank you for teaching. Even though I'm familiar with the ideas of 3D, I need to approach this as a complete newbie as I don't know any of the commands or how to maneuver very well, but hopefully I'll pick it up. There were a couple of things that I had to figure out on my own in part like hitting V for structure type. Thank you and I hope you don't mind me asking newbie questions every now and then.
I'd like to disagree on that eever sucks on meshlighting, you can very well make this work. Roughly: use Bloom and turn on screen space reflection. Lastly if you really want to go for it add a colour probe and bake the lighting
Yes! I'm a bit annoyed that Andrew just trashtalk Eevee without proper research. :/ only thing with Eevee is that making the strobe effect is probably impossible cuz baked lightmaps cannot be animated (yet at least). Well i guess you could bake the different lighting conditions into bitmap textures and use them in a material where you animate the mix factor. :p
Am I doing this wrong? An emission object on a large flat plane. Placing an irradiance volume probe with a 20 resolution on X,Y,Z. The light results are pretty blocky and not smooth.
@@Ironpants57 There's a bunch of options in the Render Properties panel under "indirect lighting". You may need to increase the map sizes or use the smoothing: imgur.com/wvEWhNN
10:03 Isn't the gas that is used for neon signs called......... you know...... Neon? Hence the name "neon sign"? Neon (Ne) is the second - from top to bottom - element from the Noble Gases collumn, just under the Helium. Argon is the third on the collumn. I'm not sure if it's also used for light signs. It might be, idk.
Actually Neon causes the orange color like in the picture and Argon is glowing kind of blue, whilst Xenon is glowing Purple. Neon signs usually contain a mix of gases to produce a certain color
This is late answer, but in case someone doesn't know how: You just animate the strength of the Emission shader. (Move to certain frame, set the Strength value to 0 for turning off the light, then right click > Insert Keyframe or just press I when hovering your mouse cursor over the Strength value.) There you go. Don't forget to make the keyframe interpolation as "constant". Just go to another frame, and change the Strength value, and you'll have the light flickers.
Hello, thank you very much for this tutorial! Is it eventually possible to make a short part 3 about the final render or comment on what settings you used for having the same glow effect as in the beginning your "Blender Guru" sign? Eventually also how to apply different colours if you have two words would be great! And do you use additional lights here or is the only light coming from the neon sign itself?
Don't know if it's still relevant, but the only light source here is the neon sign. If you want different colors on different words, make the words be different objects, and use different emission shaders. The effect in the beginning is a simple light on and off animation, and I've seen some tutorials on that floating around :)
On a year old video, I'm sure someone has said this, but in mac os you grab a file, press space and you get an inline preview nad you can press left and right to your hearts content, there's also a gallery view nowadays with visible image metadata (That is editable)
Not that it's really all that important here, but just for people's curiosity: Helium is pink, Neon is that classic red/orange, Argon is purple or violet, Krypton is white, and Xenon is blue. There are other things that you can excite to get fun colors, but these are the noble gases.
my bricks on the wall are something like pyramids or something like triangles and no square bricks. any solution? what i did wrong? i made it many times and the result is the same wrong displasment
Awesome tutorial. Neon Artist here, Ill be making renders of my designs now to preplan my bends. Anyone in LA the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale is awesome. You can learn to make neon to keep. They also have city tours for Neon. Las Vegas has the Neon Museum and New York has Brooklyn Bends. Check them out. There are about maybe in an optimistic view of 400 neon artists left in the US. I love sharing knowledge of the 100-year-old art of neon making. Those are legit Neon in his reference. LEDs are narrow plastics flex light. Neon gas is red in clear glass. Argon is purplish, Krypton is white. There is no gel in the glass. Sometimes there is the tiniest amount of mercury to add to the color. Neon gets different colors based on a phosphor coat in the glass plus one of the noble gases of choice in the bombardment process. You can see the original color near the ends since the Electorods are clear but usually painted. Fun sad Fact? Helium is not renewable. Once its gone, it's gone. It floats out of the atmosphere. So easily the US GOV the largest holder of helium pumped it underground in porous rocks so it doesn't float away. It is apparently a strategic resource. Yet we put it in plastic ballons............ I found a dead balloon in the woods once. They do eventually come down creating litter. Its a bit problematic. Dont buy LED FLEX posing as Neon. Neon is all handmade from skills only learned from feeling gravity pull hot glass. Neon Last 80 years plus and usually it just the transformer that needs to be replaced. LED maybe lasts a year and its made from cheap earth destroying plastic. Nonrepairable. Support your local artist. Keep on learning. Blender is a god send, Neon will forever be cool.
It depends on what texture you have. If they have a displacement map, then make sure you check if it's being enabled in the advanced objects tab right before hitting load/apply. Don't forget to use a subdivision modifier and actually change the output for Displacement strength.
I believe you CAN get mesh lighting... or something similar in EEVEE. Just turn on screen-space reflections. I take advantage of this and other EEVEE features because on my pc, cycles takes FOREVER!
10:00 I am an actual neon glass blower since when Carter was president. Clear glass filled with 100% neon gas electrical discharge glows an orange red. Clear glass filled with Argon and a small amount of mercury metal the electrical discharge will glow blue. In the parlance of the neon industry we call these two. Clear Red. and Clear Blue.
Argon and mercury produces UV light therefore if the glass tube is coated on the inside with a fluorescent powder which absorbs the UV which causes it to glow with visible light. By using different fluorescent powders you can have a wide range of colors. The glow inside the tube at 10:00 is the argon mercury electrical discharge visible at the bends where by bending the glass tube the coating is slightly thinner allowing it to be seen slightly.
I kept reading expecting the copy pasta punchline. But it's just a genuinely informative comment. Nice!
For anyone who looking at this in 2021, idk if its new Blender or not but for the life of me I couldn't find the middle point to seperate the back and front part when doing color ramp by following Andrew tutorial, it just wouldn't work, its either full black or full white.
I found another alternative way which is just convert the whole thing into mesh, press 7 for top down view, turn on transparency mode, use box select to select all the back part, then assign it to a different material altogether and change that to black 👌🏻
“Learning by watching”, he sounded so disappointed in us when he said that. You know who you are.
"Learning by watching" so far is better than "learning by bothering other people with questions, instead of just googling the answer"
@@maxgdh7618 Yeah, but if you're just watching someone else do it, you're going to retain only a fraction of what you'd learn by following along and doing it with him, even if you "paint by numbers" as he calls it (which he repeatedly recommends people not do with his tutorials, because again: if you exercise your own creative ability, you'll get more out of the experience than if you're just following a series of steps, because you're actively thinking about how to use the techniques he's talking about.)
@@TheBoundFenrir I'm a 2d artist, but I often have blender guru videos in the background while I work and sort of absorb information about how geometry works and rules of lighting etc. Stuff that kinda applies to all art. But, I do actually follow along with tutorials when I really want to learn
Whats wrong with watching the tutorial till the end to understand it fully first, then following along soon?
Damn.. haha
In Eevee if you activate the bloom and screen space reflexion setting, the emission shader will be show correctly and it will glow :)
compared to the glow you get from having it in cycles, it doesn't qualify as an alternative, imo
the glow thingy isn't in cycles
but the displacement (for walls) is
Eevee needs baking and that is a long process for displacement of textures (yes you can also use the displace modifier)
But it doesn't technically emit light and the background won't get light from that neon object.
@@NanogalaxyOrgMedia light Probes?
@@yaminnather521 Light probes work when the objects and the environment is static. But what about animated objects? Does the light probe work for that? I am so confused about that.
Wow the video compression algorithm really smooths the cycles rendering rays when you are moving it around.
pretty sure he just has a beefy pc
Me: *Switches to Cycles*
Computer: SO YOU'VE CHOSEN DEATH THEN???
On a Mac, hit to preview the image then use the and keys to view the previous or next image.
Nothing says "next" and "previous" for a Westerner as much as "up" and "down".
Thank you for all of the tutorials Andrew. From my first donut to this one, they've taught me so much. Just thought I'd share the appreciation :)
iam following your channel more than 6 years and now, with this both parts, i had the feeling, it was first to see you in some case of "forcing yourself to do this - and don't have that fun with and for it - wich you have in the years ago in your tutorials. i hope you find back to your happiness in doing this tutorials for us.
sorry for my english maybe (?!) iam native german, and to explain this is literally a bit harder in a crazy way^^
Hey, your English is great. I understand you perfectly. Just to help you a little. "I hope you find your way back to having fun with these tutorials you do for us." Find your way back to is the key phrase I think you are looking for. Like I said, your English is fantastic and the change is minor, but thought I would help you out for reference. I am learning Korean and hope to find people willing to help me out as well.Take care.
@@jmsomps wow i hope u will learn it soon
💖 *Thanks a lot.*
💖
*Small* examples which concentrate on particular things
are usually the best !
So, don't hesitate to produce *even* smaller examples. 🙏
Hey Andrew, Can you make a Video About the Hair Simulations? It will be Veeery Good tutorial I think
Hair sims were just updated in 2.83!
Andrew we love your tutorials and plz keep making them. we are (at least i am) glad to see even promotion to poliigon alongside with them. you can just make tutorials like quixel does. they are heavy user of their own library when making tutorials and that is absolutely totally fine. who dont want to see great products with their superb performance in good hands?
Great 🙏👏!
I take notes and watch it again while working on my project
You can change the SubSurf modifier from catmull-clark to simple if you are just subdividing for extra verticies.
For the past few years i was making donuts, cups and anvils. Now i've made my neon, but now i will wait for flickering effect tutorial :D
ua-cam.com/video/nb6rSMAooDs/v-deo.html it has flickering effect
hey does anybody know how I can change the color of certain parts of the object? :)
You can use noise modifier
Andrew. This is an awesome tutorial! I just converted from my life-long subscription based Foundry Modo to Blender. I find it extremely intuitive but you help make the learning curve much easier for me. And for what it's worth: Neon and argon are most commonly used for lighting applications. Neon glows an orange-red, and argon glows blue. Mercury is added to the tubing to cause the gases to fluoresce.
Tips for newbies like me-
- Change the world color to black ( I noticed this after trying for hours, why the wall is orange color. Its dark so it should be black)
- if you are using the free texture scale down the displacement to 0.02 ( works best for me)
- Increase the render sample to 300 or something
I'm using the free one but it doesn't seem to be interacting with light its just bright.
@@jngvny Try changing the world color to black. You can do that by going to world properties on right side panel and changing the color to black. Without this the scene looks like day.
This was an amazing tutorial. I leaned alot from this and this will be very useful for my project
The Poliigon Material Converter Addon is so awesome!!!
I know this video is a few months old, but I feel this needs a part 3. What really sells the effect is that camera move and the flickering tube, but being new to blender I am not sure where to start with the light tube flickering.
I figured it out!
@@entropy7689 steps pls
@@entropy7689 Please share...
@@entropy7689 please show whit us how can ou made it, I've been trying to make my neon flash for weeks but I can't at all
wow great job!
we will need to have a new donut tutorialfor blender 2.8 because the interface has really changed since then ;)
@@ThanksForAllMyToes the tutorial for making an actual donut, with frosting and sprinkles...its a few years old I believe.
turue
this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen thank you.
Is it NEON Christmas? Two parts on the same day! Yay! :-)
Just thought I would mention because I feel it's beneficial to know, though using Hotkeys makes for a faster workflow, it's just as integral to know where the actual menu option is as well. One can't be expected to memorize hundreds of Hotkeys, especially if what we intend to use Blender for doesn't use 1/2 of them. Also seeing as how Blender changed their Hotkeys for the new version, it now makes following the tutorials for the older version that much harder, especially if its someone just learning Blender (Unless your target audience for these tutorials are for people already deftly familiar with Blender).
THE BEAST BLENDER GUY I EVER KNOWN , I WISHTHERE IS SOME ONE WHO CONTINUES YOUR LEGACY BIG BRO
You've encouraged me to try to learn Blender again please keep up with your tutorials!
Blender 2.8 is looking neat. They added a lot of little things that add up to a more user friendly program.
Thank you for this great tutorial. I learned alot.
Its amazing to see how great Blender has developed.
i've created a new glass and transparent tubing ( just set a new material and set transmission to 1. also set the new tubing 2mm thicker than the neon core. it gave me a nice impression imo. but still testing stuff. Thanks Andrew for the lessons and the content
Thanks for the uploads(parts 1 & 2)! 👌👍
Woopa. I did it. I love it. Thank you !
Another well-paced tutorial with the right amount of detail, thanks Andrew! This is exactly why I recommend your tutorials to others. Are you planning on making a new beginner tutorial series for 2.8 as well?
The reason I ask is because my girlfriend is interested in learning blender for architecture and I suggested she start with 2.8 immediately, since it is so much more beginner-friendly and it would be silly to start learning everything the old way only months before much of it changes quite substantially.
@19:33 You could just set the SubDiv modifier to "Simple", then it behaves as the subdivide tool, and just does straight subdivisions, so no round corners etc.
Andrew...I'm gonna have to try this again. Ended up with all kinds of weirdness. My wall texture came out looking more like pyramids than bricks and the neon was thinner in some places and fatter in others. But, I'm sure I missed something. Would you consider updating the back catalog of tutorials with the new version of blender? Seems that the updated tools and techniques have changed so much and would be great to see new methods to accomplish those same builds. :D Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
I'm having the same problem :(
did you find a solution? i have the same problem
That was AMAZING!! Plz make tutorials on cars and sci-fi characters. Thank You
@Suraj Gaudo that channel doesn't have proper tutorials. It has tips and tricks and its course trailers. Wheareas, Andrew's tutorials are more detailed and fun to watch.
p.s. also I'm a big fan of this channel!! I hope he reads this comment. :D XD
mac solution: just select one image, hit spacebar and you can view the other ones with your arrow keys ;)
I like how in the first part he was like, "oh gotta move, cause there isnt something worse than recording a tutorial and then just to discover that your big dumb face covered 80% of it" (his words not mine) and guess what he did in part 2
I agree, wish you'd included how to make it blink or even record it so you have a looping effect. Or the sounds would have been cool too.
Hey Andrew, just wanted to thank you for these videos! This tutorial was really great and easy to follow, i've done it 8 times now from start to finish and feel very happy about the end result. Will keep on learning from your other videos after this!
Please keep doing all your tutorials in 2.8. This is great. Thanks!
Andy I take it there are some trolls giving you crap about your doughnut tutorial and that's fine but for those of us still learning your vids are important and we appreciate them all- I posted my doughnut today actually even though I did it quite a while ago- on IG. Thanks for the tutt always learn something even if I don't create create neon signs.
Argon is blue if no luminescence powder is used and is pretty much the standard since it makes optimal use of the mercury ion stream required to make the luminescence powders work (cost is also a factor).
Neon is red and is the only one that doesn't need mercury to establish a stable electron flow and stays red even if luminescence powders are used, unless mercury is added .
Xeon is green and is not commercially used, only in research settings.
In the past nitrous gases were used and created a yellow-ish glow, but that was only ever used in street lamps and has been obsolete and discontinued for decades.
Many neon signs have an argon/neon mix for winter conditions, so that the sign can glow even in freezing cold weather right from the start when turning on. It will glow red until the mercury starts evaporating, at what point it will gradually take on the colour determined by the luminescence powder.
Awesome tutorial, Andrew. Thanks!
You can bake mesh light in Eevee! The downside is that you cannot animate the lightmaps so the mesh lights pretty much have to stay static :/
I feel like you haven't researched Eevee enough, Andrew. Tsk tsk.
Right, and then with eevee there's the bloom option which would work for the glow with it having to add the glare node. Maybe I'll give this a go later, over the next few days, but with eevee. :)
@@sambowen Can we compare the results then? :D
@@Lattamonsteri If I ever get around to working on it I suppose lol.
@Namikaze xd ouch how dare you?
@Namikaze Ye but once you get a hold of it, you may be pleasantly surprised about the render times :P But don't get me wrong, I love Cycles.
Finally completed this tutorial. Gracias blender guru.
Good to see a new Guru tutorial! THX! Couple of things I noticed: 1) I think it might be faster to create the curves by hand and only use the font as a template in the background. 2) I think the tubes should be a bit thicker (looking at your ref photos) and 3) Why not use adaptive subdivisions on the wall? Cheers!
Just finished part 1 and then notification came
quick note from me: EEVEE now has the capability to cast emissions on walls, but it won't work by default. You will need to use an irradiance volume object to get this to work, it's best to watch a video on how that works since I can't describe it well enough through text. This is far from perfect and it will take some tweaking before it looks the way it should, but in theory it will work in EEVEE that way
You can get mesh lighting using an irridiance volume light probe
I figured I wasnt the only one who would mention irradience volume. And the cube map shadow thing too has helped me when converting from cycles to eevee. Considering I cant afford a proper gpu at the moment. :)
Goddammit, you caught me. I watched part 1 thinking I'll watch part 2 some other day. It has just been a few days though, I don't think I can stay away from Blender. I'm very new, nothing serious, just a hobby, but I have an ambitious goal. I want to model my entire house and every large visible object in it. No deadline and if I lose interest that's fine, every object is a goal by itself though. I have learned A LOT from just a few of your videos, but I know that I know "nothing" about 3D modeling. Love your tutorials, perfect balance between entertainment and learning.
If anyone is trying to render their image and getting a funky double-text sign (the tubes seem to be duplicated next to each other), it's probably because that original backup text layer we created in Part 1 is being rendered, even if it's hidden in the Viewport! In your layer filters (funnel icon), click the Camera icon to show what layers will be rendered out. make sure all layers you don't want (like the original duplicate text layer) is DE-selected. This was driving me crazy for a long time lol. Hope that helps
Thank you!!
Mesh lighting can be used with light probes... Though, it takes baking and the results aren't the best at times.
Now, you can make this is seconds with geometry nodes, Insane!
Of course we will use Poliigon materials (as long as I don't hear him saying the add in my dreams, like I did when I followed along the donut series.)
As always top notch video!
I recently started with Blender and have watched many of your videos and they are really intuitive. Keep up the great work!
Would love an updated version of this!
9:30 on Mac you can hit the space bar to quickly preview any selected file, including images. You can then use the arrow key to navigate. HOWEVER, for some reason, it struggles to preview Raw camera files (.RAW, .CR2 etc). It WILL view them, but Macs just find this really resource-intensive, whereas Windows can just up and show you a raw file no problem. "Easy as Jpegs, what's the issue, mate?"
you can use Emission in volumetric and it has as much off a weigth on render time as surfeace emission. this is how i face mist for my images. i mix emission and trancparency using ligth paths so the emission is only visible to the camera and has no effect on the envrioment. its pretty awesesome
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Pro trick : watch series at flixzone. Me and my gf have been using it for watching a lot of movies recently.
@Kendrick Roland yup, I've been using Flixzone} for since december myself :D
@Kendrick Roland Definitely, I've been using Flixzone} for since december myself :)
@@kendrickroland7939 um... Is these comments bots or...?
Verrry helpful. Thanks!
bloooooom and screen reflection worked great for me!!! in eevee render settings
On a Mac you can view RAW files in the finder. Try doing that on a PC.
Argon, when lit, is lavender, but with a tiny drop of mercury, produces ultraviolet. Helium produces orange-white, krypton produces greenish-gray, mercury vapor produces a pale blue, and xenon a blue-gray color.
I tried something today and I don't think I've seen it before, but it always bothered me the depth of the neon using mix nodes that combine the glass and the emission. Today I duplicated the bezier path, and made it larger(around the original path with the emission nodes), then gave it a glass texture & I liked the results a lot!
pretty sure one the the gases is neon...
LMAO
Would make sense
mesh lighting can be done and Unreal Engine already did it by using something called Dynamic GI.
Oooooohhhhh
That "inner tube" you mention at around 10:00 is dependent on the thickness of the tube. So it's basically just the wall thickness of the glass, nothing fancy. Neon signs are mostly (well at least where I'm from) are still filled with various gases or the tube itself is coloured. A keen eye can spot the difference at a glance. Interesting topic, worth reading more about.
I really like this new tut, I might feel a little inspired even to give it a go too :)
Thanks, mate, keep up the noice work!
Olivér Solténszky I think Andrew doesn't research enough sometimes, a critical part if you want photorealism.Watching videos of people making these neon tubes is way better than taking some pictures.
Please, do a character or person creation lesson.
Great video mate :) always keen on seeing your practical videos
wow incredibly useful Polligon addon, great video too thanks
great tutorial as always! I was thinking to let my brother who is still a beginner work through this one. what's up with the low resolution though? 360p only?
Wait until UA-cam converts the 1080p for internet viewing.
U could have used bloom instead of switching to cycles. In cycles you need to add glare but in eevee you can turn on bloom
Pleas make mor tutorials like this one, I just love them, I feel they are the best way to learn how to use blender. You are very talented, and creative, so please keep it up. Just as an advise, keys on screen would be terrific
I'm new to Blender... kind of. I've fiddled with Blender here and there from the 2.6x series, but the views and everything else had me out of sorts. I'm one of those who doesn't get something unless it is in the right way for me. Western chess, for example, I was not good at. Chinese chess, which is similar but different, turns out that I could see 5, 10, 15 moves ahead. The pieces are flat rather than standing up. After that, I started noticing that I was good at things if the view was different or something like that. So, Blender was confusing me and I kept coming back and now with this new version, it feels like everything has fallen into place. It feels really easy to follow along now, so, with renewed desire, thank you for teaching. Even though I'm familiar with the ideas of 3D, I need to approach this as a complete newbie as I don't know any of the commands or how to maneuver very well, but hopefully I'll pick it up. There were a couple of things that I had to figure out on my own in part like hitting V for structure type. Thank you and I hope you don't mind me asking newbie questions every now and then.
I'd like to disagree on that eever sucks on meshlighting, you can very well make this work.
Roughly: use Bloom and turn on screen space reflection.
Lastly if you really want to go for it add a colour probe and bake the lighting
Yes! I'm a bit annoyed that Andrew just trashtalk Eevee without proper research. :/ only thing with Eevee is that making the strobe effect is probably impossible cuz baked lightmaps cannot be animated (yet at least). Well i guess you could bake the different lighting conditions into bitmap textures and use them in a material where you animate the mix factor. :p
Am I doing this wrong?
An emission object on a large flat plane. Placing an irradiance volume probe with a 20 resolution on X,Y,Z. The light results are pretty blocky and not smooth.
@@Ironpants57 There's a bunch of options in the Render Properties panel under "indirect lighting". You may need to increase the map sizes or use the smoothing: imgur.com/wvEWhNN
@@Lattamonsteri I've bumped up the res and blur but still lots of stepping. I'll stick with faking it with lamps..
@@Ironpants57 Yes sometimes weird things happen :( I can understand Andrew for that reason. Raytracing feels much more predictable.
Thank you Andrew, learned a ton from this! Keep it up! :)
10:03 Isn't the gas that is used for neon signs called......... you know...... Neon? Hence the name "neon sign"? Neon (Ne) is the second - from top to bottom - element from the Noble Gases collumn, just under the Helium.
Argon is the third on the collumn. I'm not sure if it's also used for light signs. It might be, idk.
I think people use a variety gasses for neon signs, neon being one of them (obviously), because different gases emit different colors.
Argon is also commonly used for neon signs, just like Mr Apple said, I think a varietu of gases can be used for neon signs
Actually Neon causes the orange color like in the picture and Argon is glowing kind of blue, whilst Xenon is glowing Purple. Neon signs usually contain a mix of gases to produce a certain color
10:00 Neon gives the red color, and modern fluorescent lamps are filled with mercury-vapor.
Thank you for this wonderful tutorial
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Can you please make a video on how you animated the flickering effect to the neons? I can"t seem to figure it out or find a tutorial that can help me.
This is late answer, but in case someone doesn't know how:
You just animate the strength of the Emission shader.
(Move to certain frame, set the Strength value to 0 for turning off the light, then right click > Insert Keyframe or just press I when hovering your mouse cursor over the Strength value.) There you go. Don't forget to make the keyframe interpolation as "constant". Just go to another frame, and change the Strength value, and you'll have the light flickers.
@@Yassir.A.P. thanks it will help me ♥️
@@Yassir.A.P. me too thank you
Hello, thank you very much for this tutorial! Is it eventually possible to make a short part 3 about the final render or comment on what settings you used for having the same glow effect as in the beginning your "Blender Guru" sign? Eventually also how to apply different colours if you have two words would be great! And do you use additional lights here or is the only light coming from the neon sign itself?
Don't know if it's still relevant, but the only light source here is the neon sign. If you want different colors on different words, make the words be different objects, and use different emission shaders.
The effect in the beginning is a simple light on and off animation, and I've seen some tutorials on that floating around :)
On a year old video, I'm sure someone has said this, but in mac os you grab a file, press space and you get an inline preview nad you can press left and right to your hearts content, there's also a gallery view nowadays with visible image metadata (That is editable)
A tutorial that focuses on compositing would be fantastic.
thank you for the tutorial man. great as always.
Meshes. The plural of mesh is meshes. And the Singular of vertices is vertex, yes.
And the plural if Axis is Axis albeit pronounced Axeeeeez :-)
@@fiftypnce Almost except that the plural is written "Axes" and pronounced like you said.
@@phillipmcintosh6489 Yes indeed. My mistake.
19:39 Or just select “simple” in your modifier.
I kinda like your "I'm posing for a thumbnail"-thumbnails :D
Not that it's really all that important here, but just for people's curiosity: Helium is pink, Neon is that classic red/orange, Argon is purple or violet, Krypton is white, and Xenon is blue. There are other things that you can excite to get fun colors, but these are the noble gases.
my bricks on the wall are something like pyramids or something like triangles and no square bricks. any solution? what i did wrong? i made it many times and the result is the same wrong displasment
Awesome tutorial. Neon Artist here, Ill be making renders of my designs now to preplan my bends. Anyone in LA the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale is awesome. You can learn to make neon to keep. They also have city tours for Neon. Las Vegas has the Neon Museum and New York has Brooklyn Bends. Check them out. There are about maybe in an optimistic view of 400 neon artists left in the US. I love sharing knowledge of the 100-year-old art of neon making. Those are legit Neon in his reference. LEDs are narrow plastics flex light. Neon gas is red in clear glass. Argon is purplish, Krypton is white. There is no gel in the glass. Sometimes there is the tiniest amount of mercury to add to the color. Neon gets different colors based on a phosphor coat in the glass plus one of the noble gases of choice in the bombardment process. You can see the original color near the ends since the Electorods are clear but usually painted. Fun sad Fact? Helium is not renewable. Once its gone, it's gone. It floats out of the atmosphere. So easily the US GOV the largest holder of helium pumped it underground in porous rocks so it doesn't float away. It is apparently a strategic resource. Yet we put it in plastic ballons............ I found a dead balloon in the woods once. They do eventually come down creating litter. Its a bit problematic. Dont buy LED FLEX posing as Neon. Neon is all handmade from skills only learned from feeling gravity pull hot glass. Neon Last 80 years plus and usually it just the transformer that needs to be replaced. LED maybe lasts a year and its made from cheap earth destroying plastic. Nonrepairable. Support your local artist. Keep on learning. Blender is a god send, Neon will forever be cool.
Hey Andrew, thanks for that displacement clarification! I just needed that. Could u do a tutorial on vector displacement?
Just downloaded Poliigon Material Convertor. By default, there is no "displacement" output coming from my Mapping node. What to do?
It depends on what texture you have. If they have a displacement map, then make sure you check if it's being enabled in the advanced objects tab right before hitting load/apply.
Don't forget to use a subdivision modifier and actually change the output for Displacement strength.
Thank you for your videos! Fantastic work.
Hope fully waiting for the blender 2.8 tutorial series
I believe you CAN get mesh lighting... or something similar in EEVEE. Just turn on screen-space reflections. I take advantage of this and other EEVEE features because on my pc, cycles takes FOREVER!
Awesome tutorial. Hopefully I can follow you, finger cross xx
wonderful neon BG
You select one image on the mac, press space, then use the up and down arrows to go through the images. Best works in list view in finder.
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