Tuesday, July 05, 2011

The Pumpkin God



With Horrorthon just around the corner, I thought a little Halloweeny inspiration might be just the thing we all need. If you have never heard of sculptor Ray Villafane (McFarlane toys) you really should check him out here. What he can do with action figures has got nothing on his pumpkin carving skills. Really amazing stuff!

6 comments:

Johnny Sweatpants said...

Wow, those really are amazing.

Catfreeek said...

The way he made the skin texture look just blew me away.

Octopunk said...

Is this the caption contest? Okay, I'll start.

Pumpkin God

"My invisibility has shorted out! I must've got wet! Great Sky Hunter, I'm a fucking pumpkin!"

AC said...

extraordinary.

Julie said...

Okay, now I've had time to actually look at the pix instead of razzing JPX for forgetting what day of the week it is.

Holy carp! That is some seriously impressive sculpting, especially when you consider the material. I've sculpted with a lot of things but I don't find pumpkin very user-friendly.

I want to see pictures of these after they start to rot!

Julie said...

The above comment was actually made by Octo. See...what happens is, I sign in on his computer, when he doesn't know it. I'm like a sneaky little blogger elf!

But anyway, yeah...I see a serious threat to Octo's pumpkin carving dominance here.

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