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Step 5Halloween 2007 update
I carved another pumpkin in 2007
(below excerpted from: http://www.stripmindmedia.net/blog/2007/11/halloween-07.html )
I kinda felt like this was a practice pumpkin in a lot of ways. What would it be like going for a more minimalist twist?
Answer: I think the level of detail and the complication of the forms on earlier attempts actually resulted in a more effective experience.
Drawings of cubes may be classic optical illusions, but I feel that in this case, the viewer's ability to interpret a "normal" cube in multiple formulations (convex, concave, open, closed) in some way over-rides the sense of distorted space. There are other problems, too.
Ask yourself, is the top of this cube open? or reflective? To my eye, it could be either. This ambiguity somehow makes the form less interesting. In the end, this carving does not make you reassess what the source of the lighting is. While it's possible that the top of the cube is a solid reflective surface, the prior knowledge that the pumpkin is lit from within actually pushes you to interpret that the top of the cube is open, even though this means that there's a missing line. It ends up looking almost like a paper bag with a candle in the bottom of it. And that's not such a leap to make from a pumpkin with a candle in the bottom of it.
Hope you enjoyed! now go make something cool, and let me know about it.
-aaron
(below excerpted from: http://www.stripmindmedia.net/blog/2007/11/halloween-07.html )
I kinda felt like this was a practice pumpkin in a lot of ways. What would it be like going for a more minimalist twist?
Answer: I think the level of detail and the complication of the forms on earlier attempts actually resulted in a more effective experience.
Drawings of cubes may be classic optical illusions, but I feel that in this case, the viewer's ability to interpret a "normal" cube in multiple formulations (convex, concave, open, closed) in some way over-rides the sense of distorted space. There are other problems, too.
Ask yourself, is the top of this cube open? or reflective? To my eye, it could be either. This ambiguity somehow makes the form less interesting. In the end, this carving does not make you reassess what the source of the lighting is. While it's possible that the top of the cube is a solid reflective surface, the prior knowledge that the pumpkin is lit from within actually pushes you to interpret that the top of the cube is open, even though this means that there's a missing line. It ends up looking almost like a paper bag with a candle in the bottom of it. And that's not such a leap to make from a pumpkin with a candle in the bottom of it.
Hope you enjoyed! now go make something cool, and let me know about it.
-aaron
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Oct 18, 2008. 1:28 PMtattooedsappho
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Dude, thank you so much for this! I wanted to do a really cool pumpkin this year but I had no idea how people got the different levels of shading on their gourds. Your instructions were simple and thorough and the part on how to make a template in GIMP was great. I'll shoot you a pic once I get it done. _
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