Reminder: Another Mario pumpkin that should win Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles
by Christopher Grant 
{ Oct 28th 2007 at 11:15PM }
You've got until noon tomorrow, after which point we'll select our twenty-five favorite pumpkins before turning the entire process over to you guys tomorrow afternoon to pick the ten winners of Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles. Check out the rules and get those pics in.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
SID SPACE @ Oct 28th 2007 11:21PM
That is amazing.
Abortimus Prime @ Oct 28th 2007 11:32PM
I'd be willing to say that that's by far the coolest of all the pumpkin design entries I've seen so far.
playwhutyalike @ Oct 28th 2007 11:36PM
Effin' sweet.
Hashbrown_Hunter @ Oct 28th 2007 11:47PM
Definitely should win.
Knoxximus @ Oct 28th 2007 11:52PM
Oh man, he wins!
You are WINRAR!!
Knoxximus @ Oct 28th 2007 11:52PM
A winner is you!
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 28th 2007 11:53PM
Maybe it can win this Dracula deal, but the Weighted Companion Cube STILL wins my heart. It has food, ammo, and immortality.
Sieged Eagle @ Oct 28th 2007 11:58PM
Haha. Sir, you just read my mind.
Although that Mario pumpkin is still an impressive work. Let's see which one wins in the end.
Kazi @ Oct 29th 2007 4:51AM
If only they made square pumpkins
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 29th 2007 5:56AM
Square pumpkins? Are you crazy? Are you a G-d?
DWells55 @ Oct 29th 2007 12:34PM
I agree. Companion Cube really made me smile, I thought it was really creative and well done. An homage to the greatest sidekick in the history of video games. However, this thing is pretty much art, that's some really high quality sculpting there. It just looks fantastic.
Companion Cube wins for originality and creativity, Mario wins for artistic ability.
LAZoftheTamarinds @ Oct 28th 2007 11:58PM
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
Harbl @ Oct 29th 2007 12:11AM
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.
Psaakyrn @ Oct 29th 2007 12:31AM
Or that Mario grabbed a smash ball...
embassy @ Oct 29th 2007 1:42AM
He's just doped up on star power.
jopojelly @ Oct 29th 2007 12:23AM
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.
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) @ Oct 29th 2007 12:34AM
Bah. I can't help but consider it cheating if you're sculpting the pumpkin but not really carving it.
Yourself @ Oct 29th 2007 1:29AM
My thoughts as well. This is terrific work, but I can't help but say that the point of carving a pumpkin is to actually cut out pieces. The way this is handled, there's no significance to using a pumpkin - it might as well be a "soft pumpkin-shaped rock."
My vote is still for Wario.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 29th 2007 2:28AM
I'd call it a sculpted pumpkin as opposed to a Jack-o-lantern. Totally cheating, but totally amazing. But hey, Joystiq didn't outlaw pumpkin sculptures.
LaughingTarget @ Oct 29th 2007 3:17PM
A. Wario violated the rules. It used a template easily found on the internet. Bullet 2 can be read that way, it is using someone else's design.
B. No where does it say a carving has to be 2D. This one is freaking incredible. Trying to cheat and use a template is impossible and it shows the artistic talent of the carver.
Grant @ Oct 29th 2007 12:44AM
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!!
Kevin @ Oct 29th 2007 2:58AM
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.
tsyoshi4 @ Oct 29th 2007 4:36AM
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.
Rubang B (NDF - Heart) @ Oct 29th 2007 5:01AM
Voted up and agreed with. It's just a totally different art because it's created in a 3-D fashion as opposed to the traditional 2-D fashion.
Kazi @ Oct 29th 2007 5:41AM
They weren't accusing you of cheating, they were saying it doesn't seem like it's in the spirit of the contest.
Doesn't matter either way to me though, it looks awesome. Though I don't think I've ever had a pumpkin with such a thick wall. Wish I had one that thick so I could carve me out some battle toads in THREE DEE.
Yourself @ Oct 29th 2007 8:54AM
:shrug: Sorry mate, didn't mean to accuse you of cheating. I thought my post made it clear that it was pretty much just my opinion that I prefer classic style jack-o'-lanterns.
Like I said, I never accused you of breaking any rules, but you can't help but see the difference between yours and the others.
Christopher Grant @ Oct 29th 2007 9:03AM
Spirit of the contest? Just because he can outcarve the entire lot of us ten times over doesn't mean his sculptu... err, carving doesn't fit the spirit of the contest to a T (or is that an M?).
joe keene @ Oct 29th 2007 8:07AM
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.
Christopher Grant @ Oct 29th 2007 9:03AM
The picture to the right with a candle in it certainly looks like Mario to me!
Callmesteam @ Oct 29th 2007 8:45AM
omgwtfbbq??? winner. i'm hoping the guy proved it was his somehow, because that thing is amazing.
Fuji @ Oct 29th 2007 10:31AM
to change a quote slightly...
"can't sleep... mario will eat me."
Ben Friedberg @ Oct 29th 2007 9:53AM
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.
HineyWipe @ Oct 29th 2007 10:11AM
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.
FR3SH JIV3 @ Oct 29th 2007 11:47AM
That thing is so unbelievably perfect that it looks like it was cut out using a 5 axis Flow Jet.
Edog Lost @ Oct 29th 2007 12:06PM
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.
Lemmiwinks @ Oct 29th 2007 12:37PM
Bar = raised.
fadeoutagain2784 @ Oct 29th 2007 1:14PM
Damn, that's some masterful pumpkin carving... Good job! I'd say this is a winner.
Joe Smith @ Oct 29th 2007 2:14PM
Damn. Can that guy come over to my house and carve one for my kid?