Strip Club neon sign:

One of the designs that Ben gave me to do that is a also a neon sign is of a strip club. The design in itself is very detailed and has a very specific design.

This is the original concept art that I was given by Ben:

Because it is a very detailed design I then created some personal blueprints for the design so that when it comes to me modelling the actual sign in maya, I will feel that I have a clearer idea of how I will go about replicating this design in maya.

This is the set of blueprints that I came up with:

From both the original concept art and my own blueprints that I created I then when about creating my first version of the neon sign. I found this design extremely challenging to model as it is a very intricate design and it took me a long time to get it right as I needed to keep it as close to the design as possible.

This is my first initial model for the neon sign:

 

On the initial design created by ben there is also some writing. I did some initial models of some text, first modelling it by hand, and then using the maya text tool:

 

 

We eventually decided that we will possibly not use any text as we feel that the design is striking enough without it. And that the sign might be in a shot that is quite far away from the camera so the text may not be readable.

 

This is an impression of how the end product may look: