The Mighty Moose sign is to be a double sided sign. The owner asked that it be old weathered wood, which suits the theme perfectly. First up we created the lettering. I added an outline around the letters in EnRoute using the offset drawing tool.
I then drew a rough broken board using a bitmap of the driftwood from the TEXTURE MAGIC collection. I created a flat relief and then used the bitmap to add some woodgrain.
Then I selected the virtual sculpting tool. I would use it to carve into the ends of the wood background. to give the wood a lot more character,
I sized the lettering to fit on the background I sized the lettering for the l=panel and then created a duplicate of the background. I flipped it to create the back piece of the sign. I then duplicated the lettering and positioned it on the second copy.
The MIGHTY MOOSE letters was created using the bevel tool. The bevelled lettering was created with a 0.2" vertical base.
The letters of ice cream were created with a slight rounded top.
With that the files were ready for tool patching and routing.
Stay tuned as I route and glue them up on top of the moose.
-dan