Pop Culture Pumpkin

sketchfab

I'm testing some new emissive materials for the Jack-o'-lanterns Challenge. Not officially entering, since this isn't my pumpkin. Tricks I tried (in Blender with Python): Converting black and white images of Banksy murals to OBJ files using a script based on this project made it easy to carve through the pumpkin with boolean operations. Blender scripting allowed me to import the converted object and shape it into a cylindrical form around the pumpkin, using Solidify and Curve modifiers. I created an interior surface for the pumpkin by merging a flattened sphere with a different material. Next, I baked the Marvel image from a cylinder subdivided and "shrinkwrapped" to the pumpkin's surface to mimic surface carving with an emissive material. To get a more realistic look, I boosted bloom (high intensity and radius), added emissive materials, and placed a point light inside the pumpkin. The original model was created by @miekeroth.