Halloween 2006
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Since I had a nay-sayer in my This Year’s Pumpkin Abuse thread, of course I had to carve one of the VGCats Pumpkin Templates. It took me a while to find suitable pumpkin carving tools. Apparently looking the day before Halloween garners limited selection and availability. Fortunately the Eckard’s down the street still had the appropriate tools left and even had them on sale. Here is the uncut gourd, the tools and the template all laid out and ready for business. Here is the uncut pumpkin with the template laid on it. Had I not been as lazy or had niftier tools, I might have tried to transpose it directly onto the pumpkin somehow. Instead I just cut right through the paper. Of course what fun is carving a pumkin without involving real power tools? |
Here is Leo with his mouth, eyes and an ear. This is the finished product minus a little cleanup on the inside. Tommy and his wife came over to join in the festivities as well as see the kids as their neighborhood doesn’t get the little tykes. Here is Tommy’s pumpkin next to his fog machine. They brought over a couple of Color Cubes from American Science & Surplus that did an excellant job of lighting the pumkins up. Here is Tommy’s pumkin in red. Here are both of our pumkins near each other. Here is my pumkin in blue. Here is my pumpkin in green. Here it is again in lavender. Here it is in pink and in tourquoise. Good times and no lost blood or digits in the process! We had 88 trick-or-treaters this year up from 87 last year.
Tommy on the excellant meal he and his wife prepared
Update:
Scott from VG Cats posted a Flickr set of a lot of the pumpkin entries. He liked my Leo in pink. There were some pretty awesome carvings such as this this Phoenix Wright one (alternate view) that is crazy detailed and projects the VG Cats logo on to the wall behind it. Somebody even carved a water melon.
I must admit that I did not think that the design would work.
But I was wrong. So very wrong.
Comment by Tommy — November 1, 2006 @ 11:40 am
I was pretty comfortable with the design, I think it could have been carved a little neater though. The color cube really made it though. Everybody knows changing colors is cool!
Comment by roclar — November 1, 2006 @ 12:41 pm
Shoulda put the camera on a tripod, then took really clear photos of each color, then smash them into an animated GIF, blending between the frames.
Comment by Tommy — November 1, 2006 @ 2:09 pm
Yeah. I got a few disturbingly clear shots, but a lot of mediocre/blurry ones. I wasn’t even aware my camera had a rapid fire mode until I was taking pumpkin pictures last night. I tripod would have been sweet. More ideas for next year!
Comment by roclar — November 1, 2006 @ 2:18 pm
The other idea I had at lunch was to cut a hole in the back of the pumpkin and shove the front of the fog machine in. Combine with a red light inside and red smoke would billow from the holes.
Comment by Tommy — November 1, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
Totally awesome. I also like Tommy’s comment about your counting method over on his blog. LOL.
Comment by DrFaulken — November 1, 2006 @ 4:12 pm