Geeky Pumpkin Carving Designs
If you haven’t started carving your pumpkin yet, it’s time to get started. I found a bunch of geeky pumpkin designs to get your creative juices going . . .
Napoleon Pumpkin
Boba Fett
Firefox Browser Pumpkin
Pac Man Pumpkins
Okay, now back to studying . . .
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October 29th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Awesome carvings! The PacMan ine is just perfect..lol
October 29th, 2007 at 7:16 pm
i love the deathstar one
October 30th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Please tell me “Here’s Johnny” is Photoshopped
It has to be… 
October 30th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Pacman, simple and perfect XD
Love these!
October 30th, 2007 at 6:29 am
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October 30th, 2007 at 6:41 am
AWESOME!
October 30th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
sorry, the ‘here’s johnny’ one is fake….
October 30th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
These are just fabulous! I especially loved the Death Star; it’s downright gorgeous and looks like a lot of work!
October 31st, 2007 at 12:54 am
this is cool
October 31st, 2007 at 7:24 am
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October 31st, 2007 at 3:36 pm
@ “me”
Just because someone has more talent than you doesn’t mean that it’s a fake. You probably couldn’t carve bear out of a stump with a chainsaw but that doesn’t mean it’s not real and sitting in one of my friend’s bedroom.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:44 pm
definetly sick as hell the death star is bad ass but the johnny one is unbelieveable the color tones almost look fake
November 1st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Matt: you can tell the Here’s Johnny is a fake just by looking at the quality of the picture.
November 1st, 2007 at 5:48 pm
Actually, based on the reflection and scale distortion (plus light diffusion of the reflective surface, not to mention the bits of dust near the base of the pumpkin being lighten up accurately), I would say that the “here’s jonny” pumpkin would have been easier to carve than to photoshop that accurately. I would say the creator had a lot of carving skill. My favorites in this order are: Here’s Jonny (for the time taken), Death Star (for the fact that the whole pumpkin is used rather then just an image on the side), and the Pumpkin Pi (’cause it looks delicious in an rather educational way).
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:47 am
if any of them are fake its pumpkin pi i mean realy look at at the edges are grainy
November 3rd, 2007 at 4:49 am
Here in Scotland we traditionally carve turnips. This looks like a lot more fun though.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:20 pm
@ Matt
please, rookie. i photoshop for money, i can spot that stuff right off.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:16 am
@”zugnut”
Factor in the low-light circumstances and any well lit/glowing object will appear grainy, it’s a factor of the camera taking the picture, not the picture itself.
Personal faves is the desth star, whole pumpkin use and
November 4th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
The Here’s Johnny one is most definitely fake, the tones are off, you can see the aliasing, and there are several bits that appear to be floating. I’ll give props to the corpse bride one though.
November 5th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Sorry, I just had to reply. Actually, I think they’re because the picture that is posted on this page is actually bigger, and was forced to display smaller than it is. That leaves your internet browser to scale it down without any anti-aliased effect. Like when you scale something down in MS Paint. To see the image at full size, either open just the image in a new window, or download it (to be veiwed in another program). BTW, I just hate it when images aren’t displayed the way they’re supposed to.. Although, if the full-size image actually did look like that, I would be suspicious. Nice eye.
November 11th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
wow you all are a bunch of losers. especially a critic. a bit of matt, but mostly critic. you sound like this bitch i know; veeran. you’re a smartmouth who says bullshit that nobody understands cause it doesn’t make sense, and of course you love the pi one (veeran would also love the pi one, cause his timid enslaved girlfriend is forced to call him that). so anyways, stop blowing yourself and socialize outside. fag!
November 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
Actually, the Johnny pumpkin is a very real carving, on an artificial pumpkin (rigid foam pumpkins sold at Michaels or JoAnns). It was created by a very talented carver from Clarkston, Michigan. You can see his work and others at my favorite pumpkin carving message board — http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/newqna/ .
If you need more proof, here is a wide shot of his Halloween display this year (Johhny’s on the far left).
[IMG]http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l222/PaulTheYounger/SageDisplay07.jpg[/IMG]
Paul
November 12th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Sorry - the image code didn’t work. Try this link to see it, and his other carves from this year, I think you’ll be impressed.
http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/newqna/viewtopic.php?t=2959&highlight=
November 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Wow… I had a friend send me this link. I am amazed to read the comments about my “Here’s Johnny” pumpkin. Too F’ing funny. Let me set the record straight. That pumpkin carving is NOT photoshopped or doctored in anyway.
Here is a link to all of my pumpkin carvings over the last few years.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sage_82/sets/72157594257250404/
you can view larger version of Here’s Johnny there to prove to yourself it is real.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/284169743_97cba48cf6_b.jpg
If I need to take another picture of this pumpkin with some form of “proof” let me know. This cracks me up. I guess I should consider it the highest form of flattery.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Sorry to burst the bubbles of the little non-creative haters on this site, but, Johnny is real… the man has talent and has worked for weeks doing these carvings every halloween for years. Of course i can’t type for the rest of the artists, but, i can only imagine if one person is that talented (or demented as the case were to spend hours carving this stuff) then there might be others…
FYI he actually shares how he does these with others in case you STILL are a non-believer… don’t hate the carver… hate the pumpkin ~wink~
{Personal note to the carver, nice job yet again … looking forward to next years!}
November 26th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Here’s Johnny looks more like a carved watermelon than a pumpkin.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
hahaha Pumpkin Pie! That’s awesome! I wish Halloween wasnt over..
January 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
“here’s Johnny” is fake. If it were carved, explain why the bottom of the pumpkin (Johnny’s chin) is dark while the top of the pumpkin, which also is not carved is much lighter (light diffusion). Note that the light source is clearly mounted at the very bottom of the pumpkin, so much so that light is clearly and strangely visible below the aforementioned “dark chin region”.
That is all.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Wow…how much TV to you have to watch to be suspicious that a photo of a pumpkin carving is “fake”? Believe it or not, there are people who can…you know…take a lot of time and make cool stuff.
If it’s an elaborate PhotoShop job it might be MORE impressive.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Lol. I can’t believe that my pumpkin is still considered a fake. Take a look at all of my “fake carvings” http://www.flickr.com/photos/sage_82/sets/72157602407599640/ and tell me how Here’s Johnny is fake. As for the lighting it is a Halogen puck light that the pumpkin is put over. The pumpkin obviously has a hole in the bottom to allow the light in. The curvature of the pumpkin and the light from the puck light cause the bottom to be darker than the high wattage light directed at the top of the pumpkin.
That is all. Nothing elaborate like photoshop.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Mark
Kudos for your excellent carvings…I have myself made a few “photo realistic” carvings, and I am very impressed with your work. Perhaps I’ll dig through my old photos to find some examples I can post on the “pumpkin wizard” site.
I find it most amusing that people assume anything they can’t figure out in their tiny brains to be fake or Photo-shopped, as if creating an image like ‘Johnny’ in Photoshop is as trivial as clicking the ‘create Jack-o-lantern’ (OMG, I just got the pun…) menu item. Indeed, creating an image like that in Photoshop requires as much, if not more talent. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the inspiration!