Neon Art

[William]

I'm playing with a new technique and here are a few images that have come from it. Straight render from LightWave, no post work...

[William]

Setup is fast and renders are even faster....here are two more tests.

[Koster]

Now that is great render style is this animatable as well, think that would be awsome looking animated

[William]

I plan to write a tutorial on this technique if there is enough interest....We are using this technique in the current animated short the Dave School students are making that is a 5 minute 3D Anime film.

[William]

Now that is great render style is this animatable as well, think that would be awsome looking animated

I will make a few quick and dirty anim tests to show...cuz it looks killer animated

[lordiron2k]

wow that is great, plz make a tut proton

[William]

Anim Tests

Head Spin

Bad Neon Walk


Not going to win any awards with the animations but I think you will get the idea of th style of render

[maru]

Hey proton i'm guessing this neon thing has something to do with ?glow?..just a guess but i'm not so sure about the rest hehe...but it'll be sweet if u put up a Tut on it..i would love to play around with it..its looks great

[Koster]

Yeah tutorial would be great ! Looks great and lot's of ideas pop to mind with this kind of render

[aurora]

I'll second or third the tut request!!!! Very TRONish I love it

[GruvSyco]

My inital impression was that it's done with Surface Borders in the Edge panel. Not sure how one would achieve the glow effect with that though. The one render looks like a combo of surface borders and 2 point polys.

[pixeltek]

Very intriguing William. Please do post a tute at some time. This is a wonderful effect.
Karl

[William]

Thanx!

I'm quite excited about it myself. I'll work up a step by step demo of it and get it out soon...glad you like it.

[shwaum]

I'd love to see a tutorial as well.
I noticed in the qt movies taht the models aren't transparent. Could their color be changed and still get the neon effect on top of it? That would be really cool. I loved tron. Does it involve Two point polys?

[Svedle]

To me it looks like it is made up of two point polylines from selected points in the geometry.