Reminder: Another Mario pumpkin that should win Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles

That is amazing.

I'd be willing to say that that's by far the coolest of all the pumpkin design entries I've seen so far.

Effin' sweet.

Definitely should win.

Oh man, he wins!

You are WINRAR!!

A winner is you!

Maybe it can win this Dracula deal, but the Weighted Companion Cube STILL wins my heart. It has food, ammo, and immortality.

Super awesome! He did a great job. This almost gurantees a copy of castlevania for him.And I like this one better than the wario one.

- On another note has anyone got to try Super Mario Galaxy at gamespot? I did, it was a fun immersive experience. The good thing was I was the only guy there so they let me play past the ten minute mark. :D

God, is anybody else scared shitless by the horror that is glowing-eyes-and-mouth Mario? It's like staring into the grinning face of Satan.

hmm, is that even a real pumpkin?? It looks too perfect and error free to be real.

If it is real, it's super awesome.

Bah. I can't help but consider it cheating if you're sculpting the pumpkin but not really carving it.

wow, that shit is intense.
it almost looks like they took some sort of grinding tool to it to round it out after they cut it.
Dremeling a pumpkin? Why not!!

This is NESessarily the best pumpkin I’ve ever seen. You’d have to be TOADally Wiierd and DSyfunctional to think this isn’t cool.

i have to defend myself when called a cheater... especially when the arguments make no sense. my pumpkin wasn't made out of play-doh or something you can mold. if it was, i wouldn't have had to use those pesky wood *carving* tools or knives. let me give you a refresher:

sculp·ture: \ˈskəlp-chər\ : noun
a: the action or art of processing (as by *carving*, modeling, or welding) plastic or hard materials into works of art

jack–o'–lan·tern: \ˈja-kə-ˌlan-tərn\ : noun
2 : a lantern made of a pumpkin cut to look like a human face

by reasoning of samfish, Yourself, and rubang b., (1.) sculptures can't be carved, (2.) pumpkin sculptures can't simultaneously be jack-o-lanterns, and that (3.) my pumpkin didn't require any "cutting out of pieces"; sorry but all three of your arguments are totally incorrect as any rational person can plainly see.

i'll defend my pumpkin and any other pumpkin carved in this sculptural manner as a legitimate jack-o-lantern.

I agree w/sam fish isnt the whole point of a jack o latern the internal light of the candle makes the only visable picture or image with the holes carved completly throuh the pumpkin shell? I also think painting and attachments are also grey areas.

Still its a cool looking pumpkin.

omgwtfbbq??? winner. i'm hoping the guy proved it was his somehow, because that thing is amazing.

to change a quote slightly...

"can't sleep... mario will eat me."

Yeah, easily the best pumpkin featured so far... Negative space art is cool, but I would probably classify it as the refuge of people who can't do what this guy did. It's like looking at a master sand sculpture and complaining that the sculptor didn't use the packed bucket method to make his flying buttresses.

This looks great! However, I think a clarification for the contest (revised rules) are that submitters actually carve a "real pumpkin" by hand. Not with a CAD mill machine. Not with a dremel. They can make templates and trace-tranfer design to the fruit. But only sharp, manually-operated instruments may be use (ceramic, plastic and metal).
Photos of the actually progression will be required too.

That thing is so unbelievably perfect that it looks like it was cut out using a 5 axis Flow Jet.

This is a clear winner of the contest. It is clearly a more advanced technique then just tracing a weighted companion cube onto the surface of a pumpkin and cutting it out. I would also like to see some of the process if possible.

Who are you to define the parameters of a jack O'Lantern?

I would also love to see a gallery of the submissions.

Bar = raised.

Damn, that's some masterful pumpkin carving... Good job! I'd say this is a winner.

Damn. Can that guy come over to my house and carve one for my kid?