Tutorial: Animating a Traffic Light (and other nonsense) (Patreon)

Published:

2021-06-11 04:21:32

Imported:

2021-09

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A loose extension of the "Animating Complex Neon Signs" tutorial.

Unsurprisingly, I planned out this entire project while sitting at traffic lights :P

Also here's a sampler of the scratched metal texture that ended up working really well for me. I think patreon automatically downsamples images, so here's a full res version.

It's stitched from various images from Photobash.org (not a particular endorsement, but lots of folks ask me where I get these texture bits from, and I do appreciate the variety of stuff they have and their relaxed creator-centric usage agreement (for example: it's totally chill for me to share these textures, which is fairly rare when it comes to texture sources). Whenever I make one of these texture atlas things I'll usually just use a screen capture program to snag pieces and paste them right into a photoshop file- it goes really quickly, and having a lot of textures in the same image file really makes the texturing process go faster.

Also! I think I have some rad stuff to share on the patreon in the next week or so; there are some changes I haven't mentioned yet that are fairly exciting :D.

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Animating a Traffic Light

A loose extension of the "Animating Complex Neon Signs" tutorial. https://www.patreon.com/posts/quickly-complex-42979994 Unsurprisingly, I planned out this entire project while sitting at traffic lights :P Also here's a sampler of the scratched metal texture that ended up working really well for me. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Hw5L-_47raisnbBVRWcJxZxeoGbGoFa/view?usp=sharing It's stitched from various images from Photobash.org (not a particular endorsement, but lots of folks ask me where I get these texture bits from, and I do appreciate the variety of stuff they have and their relaxed creator-centric usage agreement (for example: it's totally chill for me to share these textures, which is fairly rare when it comes to texture sources). Whenever I make one of these texture atlas things I'll usually just use a screen capture program to snag pieces and paste them right into a photoshop file- it goes really quickly, and having a lot of textures in the same image file really makes the texturing process go faster. Also! I think I have some rad stuff to share on the patreon in the next week or so; there are some changes I haven't mentioned yet that are fairly exciting :D.