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Oakland Theater: Creating neon

Oakland Theater: Creating neon

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Oakland Theater: Creating neon

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So last week we looked at the Oakland theater and we saw how we created the wall. What we're going to do this week is look at the neons. We're getting a little close here and we start to see how all these neons, these intricate neons, are all just working all through here. There's dirt on them, there's glows, transparency. All kinds of effects happening here. So that's what we're going to do today. So let's go in here, and I got a cropped-in area here, where you can see I have a path. I have a path for that zigzag neon that's going to be going through there. So now, there's our background, there. Now, this is made up of many layers, but, everything's been flattened just for the purposes of just seeing the neon itself. So I gotta get in a little closer here, and I'm going to take my paintbrush, and I'm going to set it up to a nice hard-edge, round brush and make it a little bigger. Let's say we make it about a little smaller. Let's go down. And bring it down to about, oh, about the…

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