Dozens upon dozens
upon dozens of
pumpkins were cut,
gutted, rotated,
scraped, poked,
slapped, and
banged to make
this stop-motion
animation and the
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Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of pumpkins were cut, gutted, rotated, scraped, poked, slapped, and banged to make this stop-motion animation and the music that bring it to life. It took a few years - pumpkins rot, schedules get busy - but we loved discovering the methods that worked and the many that didn't.
Many pumpkins were photographed twice. First as a nicely lit, carving-free plate. Then again after carving our designs and removing the top or back so we could insert a light. The two were then composited together to remove the lighting equipment. We re-used pumpkins where we could (fronts and backs and sometimes sides) but that wasn't always possible.
We often projected images onto the pumpkins to improve our carvings' consistency between frames, but due to each pumpkin's unique curves, it often took just putting it in front of the camera to check alignment.
There were many animations that didn't make it into the final piece which seemed like good ideas at the time but ended u...
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