Full Title: Game 3004 Final Major Project - Decal and Diner Menu Design (Week 7) (20/02/2023)
Material Instances and Setting up Neon Splines)
With my gathered reference I realise with the design and name of the Pink Lady Diner I might as well add pink to the diner. As this design is based much upon Grease and their infamous Pink Ladies gang it would pay good tribute to have actual pink and blue dotted about. Fortunately there was a lot of reference for diners that had already adopted this light pastel colour scheme and all i had to do was set up some clever material instances. With my master material adding control for hue shifts, brightness and even saturation with nodes plugged before the final output of the base colour I could easily manipulate the results to fit exactly to what I needed. Additionally the benefit with colouring the base mesh as red means all hue shifts are of the same value to get the same shades of pink and blue across all my meshes. And so I went assigning every furniture a splash in a recurring pattern of pink or blue. I then moved into the neon as I really wanted to instance some bending neon strips around my scene. However to prevent myself having to manually build this neon line I went for the easier route of creating a blueprint with a spline component. This spline would then build upon its end another neon strip until I met the end of where I wanted to place it. I then ran this strip along the entire upper ceiling much like my references to line the reflective metal walls there with an emissive neon. That I could once again control the brightness of material instances.
Diner Menu Designing and Iterations)
Designing the diner menu was one of the most fun parts so far as it dictated much of everything in the kitchen and front of house. I first began by gathering a lot of reference for simple but effective menu designs particularly taking much inspiration from r/VintageMenus (Reddit, 2023) subreddit of old menus. This also led me to figure out appropriate pricing of food items and how I would bundle them appropriately to make meal deals at breakfast or lunch. I ended up opting for the classic set of eggs and sausage combos, pancakes and hashbrowns and even cereal for an easy breakfast. I figured that for the most family friendly experience as well I might as well cater to all possible taste buds and went the classic diner route of hamburgers, fries and shakes for lunch/dinner. With pricing and items locked down I went to spicing them up with unique names and references to all 1970s pop culture. In total I have around 30+ references. Can you spot them all?
Decals of Best Selling Diner Items) For Whiteboard
With a great menu comes a great board of deals. To seal the deal on many popular items and most likely the best to go food combos I wrote them up onto decals which would further be plastered onto my boards. I kept to 3 key whiteboard pen colours of black blue and red and wrote the deals out by hand to give it that handwritten style. I also drew quick sketches of burgers, coffee and other items. leaving room for one board that would ultimately tell of why the toilets were shut down, Jolene. An infamous leader of the local teen Californian highschool known for causing trouble. With a prank going wrong in the ladies room it's currently shut and undergoing repairs.
Bibliography:
Reddit, R. (2023) R/vintagemenus, Vintage Menus: Do you want celery with that? reddit. Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageMenus/ (Accessed: (20/02/2023)