Motel Sign (Bed Bugs)

Love the old roadside signs. This is a mashup of several of my favorite retro signs. All modeling done in Blender. Used Substance Painter and Photoshop for texturing. Rendered in Cycles and composited in Photoshop.

Thanks for looking…
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Love the starbursts, and the layers of age in the antenna / cameras and stuff. Nice work!

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Thank you so much!

the bird seals the deal for me lol

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thank you!

nice very nice

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Thank you!

Ha! Yeah, he landed there right before I hit render. :slight_smile:

You’re on the featured row! :+1:

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Wow - that’s great! Thank you so much! :grinning:

Not too far from where I live, there was a spectacular but abandoned sign quite similar to this, in front of an also-abandoned property. One day, the sign was gone, the property was bulldozed, and it has now been redeveloped completely into an AirBnB. I don’t know what happened to the sign. But, I do know that there are still “neon interest-groups” who try to find and preserve these things. I can only hope that this is what happened to this one. (Might the original sign be lovingly restored and re-erected? I would like to think so, but I doubt it.)

Anyhow, this is a great render. “In all of its wonderfully-quirky and very authentic glory.” :slight_smile:

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Thank you for the kind words on the render!
I wish I had the space and time to restore a few of these. I think that would be a fun and rewarding project. There are a couple in our town just waiting for some attention. Luckily we have photographers, and other digital artists, to help preserve them.

Thanks again!