13 Levels of Pumpkin Carving: Easy to Complex | WIRED
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Pumpkin carving master James Hall explains pumpkin carving in 13 spooky levels of difficulty. The 2-time 'Halloween Wars' winner breaks down a variety of pumpkin carving techniques, ranging from simple to incredibly complex.
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What they don’t tell you is this man is actually level 14 himself. He is entirely sentient pumpkin.
I did level 1 and skip straight to level 14 too
That makes this video way more brutal haha
this is hilarious but why does he legit sound exactly like how a sentient pumpkin would sound
Amazing I love all of the levels 💕❤️😍
He's the great pumpkin
Level 1: ok. we're good.
Level 2: allright, I can do that.
Level 3: aaaaaand I'm out.
Level 1: simple
Level 2: slightly more detailed
Level 3: mythological creature
I was thinking the same thing and then I came to the realization that there was still 10 more levels for me to know I’ll never be able to do
I've done level 3 before with a stencil. Probably could do level 4 as well since it doesn't have any shading either. Finding designs online and printing/tracing them is a great way to impress people with not too much effort.
Try alternative level 3: carved watermelon (it's thinner than pumpkin but can give you white and red translucent parts)
one thousandth like
Level 1: Normal jack o lantern face
Level 2: Detailed jack o lantern face
Level 3: EUROPEAN DRAGON
Right? I'm looking for another ten levels in-between level 2 and 3...
Bob ross: Get some white on the background
Some blue for the sky
And presto you have a beautiful mountain landscape
Step 1: Draw some circles
Step 2: Draw the rest of the Owl
How to draw a rose:
1. Draw lettuce
2. Colour it red
How to draw lettuce:
1. Draw a rose
2. Colour it green
Level 57: "So in this level the pumpkin will actually carve you"
Level 95: “So your going to want to either front flip or backflip for every inch you carve.”
Level 150: you need to carve the seed of the pumpkin before you plant, so it will grow in to the format
Level 240: now this one's gonna be a bit difficult but what you wanna do is find the square root of pi and and use a knife of that length to carve your parents
Level 360: your gonna wanna call Jesus christ to bless the pumpkin for this...
Level 540: " you're going to wait for the planets to align in a straight line to make a 1inch cut "
I wish you'd turned the lights off after he'd finished each pumpkin to see what it would actually look like.
@@ono446?
@@sarkasticc deleted their comment
They show the pumpkins with the lights turned off at 18:10.
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no that’s not with the lights off though, that’s with the lights dimmed.
Wish I got to see what monster pumpkin looked like fully lit up and not just the eye
Gotta love it "Astrophysicist explains gravity in 5 levels" "Pumpkin carver explains pumpkin carving in THIRTEEN LEVELS!!!!"
Lmao underrated comment
OMG. That was my thought too. Lol
Sometimes seemingly complex things can be made simple by a good teacher, but because of the subjective nature of art I think there will always be huge amounts of depth and complexity no matter how much you try to water it down while explaining things.
@@basspuff514 l
This guy really woke up one day and said "imma become a professional pumpkin carver"
Uhhhhh
Bbbbbb
We live in a society
Ikr! !
thats crazy
"this step is gonna be the classic European dragon" DUDE SLOW DOWN ITS ONLY STEP THREE
Level 2 to level 3: Jack o' Lantern to European Dragon
Level 7 to level 8: 3D carved shoulder added to your 3D carved head
"If you don't like it, you can throw it into the neighbor's yard"😁
I read this just exactly when he just said it 😂
That is what I do when I burn my pancakes.
Feed it to chickens 🐔 they love pumpkin 🎃 ❤
I love that level 13 is outright "build a zombie samurai pumpkin Borg". That was an interesting turn of events.
I saw this comment first and thought it was a joke. Then we got to level 13...
This mans skills are miles and miles above the average person.
Indeed. The armature for the mechanical skull is more frightening than the actual finished pumpkin.
is "Borg" a reference to space station 13?
I have 27 years experience of carving level 1 pumpkins lmao
Lmao same
And here I am at level 0 I guess lmao
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My rpg knowledge tells me you should be able to do level 7 now
This is the best comment.
Well done Wired. Just watched 23 mins of how to carve a pumpkin just to find out I'm never gonna spend the time to go past lvl 3. Lol
Just let the kids try
Im necer going past lvl 2 lol
This was more fascinating than I thought it would be…
@Miles Doyle get a life kid!
exactly my thoughts! @Megan Z
@Miles Doyle This is about the scariest thing I'll probably see all Halloween
Miles, living a Christian life with love towards all is going to bring way more people to Christ than a RUclips comment.
Where Charity and Love prevail, there God is ever found.
@Miles Doyle stop preaching man.
People don't care
Level 1: Add eyes nose and mouth
Level 11: SACRIFICIAL PUMPKINS
Level 1: Triangles and wonky curve.
Level 3: A feckin dragon
I loved sacrificial pumpkin 😂🧡
How are his sleeves not even a little bit dirty ?? Like this dude is magical
That's level 16
hes the bob ross of pumpkins.
Unlock it when you reach level 20
He is pumpkin
He Is a pumpkin
Level 97 : So the main thing on this level of pumpkin is to carve the pumpkin that is able to consciously moving a little slower than the speed of light , without making it sentient enough to be able to destroy human race and bent the law of physics.
Level 14*
I can hear him saying this nonchalantly
great soh!
Dang. Just goes to show that even something that looks as simple as pumpkin carving has some incredible depth if you really take the time and effort. Super cool
Lvl 100:
“You’ll need to ride your Jack O’ Lantern car to Pumpkin Planet to make yourself an army”
At his pace it's more like 20
Anyone here after mumbo jumbos different levels of piston doors video?
i!
me
*mumbo jumbo liked this*
I knew I wouldn't be the only one xD
Loved carving pumpkins with my mom growing up. She was always a couple levels ahead of me. Sending this vid over to her.
Haha yep same here, sent to my mom right away lol
i wish i had a mom
@@zyourzgrandzmaz golira 🦍
@@zyourzgrandzmaz sad garbage fire occurred spontaneously. ;_;
I love how every level I'm like "wow this looks really cool" but the next level when you compare it to the previous always looks like the previous version was not that good... this is the embodiment of progress!
Right? I was happy with level 3 and then level 5 happened etc got more and more impressed lool
Idk that dragon looked good at Lv3 and then got worse imo. Everything after that was epic tho
It’s been a year and I am still incredibly proud of my husband James for doing this with Wired. I married such a talented sculptor ! And yes his forearms are impressive 😂😏 ❤❤.
I haven't cut a pumpkin in years and this makes me smell it.
I've always been impressed with people who can draw (in this case carve) in negative!! It's so cool :)
They're like normal carving and sculpting is boring let's make it negative.
sure hes a great 3d sculptor, but if im honest he isnt that good at the negative relief carving
@@PumpkinFreak You're just saying that so he won't carve you
Negative space is something that took me a while to learn.
@@PumpkinFreak not everyone has the same balance of skills. someone relatively more skilled in negative-relief carving might include more of that at the higher levels than is depicted here.
We know why we're here...
Unrelated, anyone like doors?
Yes
The amount if anxiety when he didn't roll up his sleeves...
Unrelated question, can you make a piston door with pumpkins?
Yes in fact you can just make sure to carve them with shears before hand
Swear mumbo jumbo really got me to watch it
Ah, another Mumbo connoisseur
Better show this one to Mumbo
i legit asked my mom earlier, “do you think that there’s a professional pumpkin carver job?” and she said there’s a job for anything.
she wasn’t wrong
I wanted to be professional paper airplane maker guy, personally.
*mum
@@gubgub3275 mamma*
@@polelix1023 there are definitely people who publish books about how to make paper airplanes. there might also be people who make the professionally without publishing books, too.
every level is like "woaw, there's no way he outdoes this!"
- lvl 13, gundam
I've been carving pumpkins every year for about 40 years. I think I'm now experienced enough to try level 2. This guy is a genius.
i came because of mumbo!
Thank you for Inspiring Mumbo Jumbo!
Level 100: At this point, the pumpkins have developed their own civilization and have began their quest for world domination.
Oh, that rhymes.
just doesn’t though does it mate get a job
@@warmmonkey679 it does
@@pizzapleope6595 learn what a rhyme is pls
@@warmmonkey679
Vincent van gogh
Convince a mango
How's this rhyme
@@warmmonkey679 - it does rhyme though lmao.
Whos here because mumbo watch this and got inspired
me
Of course
I love his frankness of the materiality and that level 13 is just showing off
Pumpking carving looks alot harder than building 4×4 Piston door
debatable.
@@muffinadrianweber not even debatle, it's just a fact
@@Uzy_71 it's not not if your dumb like me.
Which seems to be true since you spelled debatable like debatle
POV: you are here after mumbo’s video
Nice piston door
Me at 4 am: I should go to bed.
Also me at 4 am: I must dive into the mysteries of pumpkin carving!
🤣 Same for me at 3 am!
This makes me ridiculously happy. Good job Wired.
By level 8 he was doing stuff I've never seen in a neighborhood.
Who came here becauseof Mumbo Jumbo
I came here cuz of mumbo jumbo
Level 1: Yeah, can do that.
Level 2: Ok, makes sense.
Level 3: ... SCREW THIS, I MAKE A PUMPKIN PIE!
Then carve the pumpkin pie 🎃
@@bluwasabi7635 yeah, pie-slicing levels: 1. radial, 2. concentric, 3. European Dragon
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.” - Steve Spangler
I like how he calls the centre of the pumpkin the ‘guts’ and the ‘meat’, as if he’s done this with people before
Or someone who cooks or works with pumpkins.
Are you telling me people don’t say “pumpkin guts”?
i mean the chunk of pumpkin is called the meat/flesh like any fruit
I've been crying laughing for 30 minutes in my bed at this comment and my wife hates me at the moment but it was so worth it.
hannibal
I like that this dude is sitting in what seriously looks like a dismantled electric chair. Nice detail, WIRED.
I deadass stopped understanding how there could be more levels once he started level 5
He's over here making realistic images on pumpkins and I'm here only able to make level 1 pumpkins 😭
I would do more pumpkin carving if pumpkin guts weren't a thing.
I like to squeeze the pumpkin guts in my hands and feel is ooze and squish between my fingers
@@MikeCheckBiloxi ew
Gloves are a thing. They help immensely
Alternatively: carve watermelon or cantelope
If it's only touching the stuff that grosses you out, there are big plastic spoons (one side serrated, one side forked) you can use instead.
As far as I've seen they are included in most cheap pumpkin carving sets.
Welp, I’ve got about 4-5 days to master pumpkin carving, better get started
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I was joking to myself that level 14 would be robotics but was pleasantly surprised when they actually added it as level 13. Got some Evil Dead 3 vibes with that last masterpiece
Level 14 is just an entire skeleton made of pumpkin that is sentient and very murderous.
MUMBO
JUMBO
YOU
level 10000: we are going to genetically modify the pumpkin and super age it with my special tool so that it actually grows into the model i want... this isn't carving anymore... i'm just playing God for fun
10,000? at the rate he was going at, gmo pumpkins that grow into whatever shape you want would be like level 23 lol pretty sure we'd hit sentient jack o lanterns by at most 100
Who else is learning about professions they never knew existed?
next you should try turn a pumpkin into a door. ditch pumpkin sculpting- Pumpkin house
Level 30: After carving a brain for our pumpkin friend we now teach him how to speak so he can insult people we don't like
Much like the gunk you are going to get on your arm when carving a pumpkin, there's always more that can be thrown at people, don't underestimate the how much a pumpkin can supply
Hmm Piston doors anyone?
hmm yes
Dang, he didn't show off the Projector Pumpkin style, where you carve open the back and an image shows up on the wall. Combine with the other methods here and you get to use all sides of the pumpkin to create something both flat and with depth.
ikr? it's like he only uses pumpkins sometimes, and is more used to other forms of sculpture
Level 30: for this level, we actually need to sacrifice a goat to please the pumpkin god
I believe you mean The Great Pumpkin, and his vessel on this earth, Pumpkin-King Jack.
great soh!
@@RaptorJesus Linus is his humble, faithful, and loyal servant.
So we’re all here trying to learn how to carve a pumpkin last minute?
Last minute? 🤔 I don't carve mine until a couple of days before Halloween because they can rot so quickly. To each their own.🎃 Happy Halloween Everyone! 👻
No, I'm just in bed bored. It's something interesting to watch.
i don’t even celebrate halloween
Great editing, with the split-screen, to see the artist narrating while also showing us the process.
What exactly does a professional pumpkin carver do during the other 11 months of the year
Grow pumpkins, create and sharpen tools, study art and make designs
Step 1 and 2: *makes a simple jack o’lantern face*
Me: alright that’s okay I guess
Step 3: “Now draw this European dragon”
Me: What th-
This is awesome, and his voice is also very Halloween feels 🎃
Red celophane over the eye-light would have made a world of difference too
I’m here for the Mumbo comments, and also the pumpkin carving
Level 1: ok i got this
Level 4: holy crap this is amazing
His forearms are impressive. This was surprisingly interesting
Tf are you talking about.? Forearms?
@@themagicalmilkshake dude
Forearms
@@themagicalmilkshake yeah forearms bro, where is there a question in that?
I can verify this is a certified *mumbo classic*
lol
“He’s a monster but he loves his mom” monsters have emotion too 😩🖤😢
Piston doors!!!!!!!!
This man really did understand the assignment
Thanks mumbo. I now want to consume more pumpkin content.
I'm just here to watch masters show off their mastery. 🤩
He actually does a very great job at explaining the details
I'm somewhere between a 6 and 7. My pumpkins always look like nonsense until the lights make the image visible. Thanks for the info on how to improve my game.
I'm a level 1 haha!
I think I’d be level 4. I was at a level 5 but I haven’t carved a pumpkin in years so I think some of those skills have probably dulled.
I can’t wait for level 9000, a pumpkin with a mustache on it.
by the time you hit level 7 it barely even matters that its a pumpkin :/
Lol
Mmmmm is there redstone in that?
xD
This is the best video I've seen Wired put out. Great stuff and amazing director!
mumbo conspiracy theory: hes "the halloween spirit" and he is currently in body of a mid mid 20 year old british boy that plays minecraft
I watched this whole video and I can say I'm very confident that I'll never make it past level 2.
I can literally see how much effort and time went into creating this video. And Oh my god the background music is totally going with the video!
*Hunting the comments for Mumbo Jumbo related comments*
Level 14: using a projector to display still images onto your pumpkin.
Level 15: using 3D animation to custom map & animate effects onto your pumpkin with a projector like: slight expanding and contacting shadows to mimic breathing. Mapping exactly where the eyes are, and animating jittering eyes - things you couldn't necessarily do with servos.
Level 16: creating an AI algorithm to auto-generate it's own designs and animations to then display via projector onto the pumpkin. You'd of course have to first capture a 3D model of the pumpkin with a LIDAR to 3D model software via scanner/iPhone.
what level is using the pumpkin as a projector onto a screen behind it, which is itself a much larger pumpkin?
Why did you not show each step in a dark room? Show it as it would be displayed irl
Mumbo sent me here
This guy has a nice energy
This dude’s pumpkin carving is on another level🤯
Holy crap, I never knew this craft got so complex. Literally an art form
"12 layers of pumpkin carving and making a sculpture out of a inconvenient material."
Hmm, looks a bit harder than building a piston doors
I carved some pumpkins today and after washing my hands numerous time I still smell like pumpkin lol. This guy has talent!
Pumpkin carving sounds like it could be a sport
This was a pretty interesting video. I always wanted to try my hand at pumpkin carving but I tried a few times when I was younger and they just came out looking horrible. I mean, I guess it's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. They're just too expensive for me to waste keep trying on. But I think this year, I'll go around and collect all the pumpkins that my neighbors are throwing out and practice on them for now.
Also, try carving watermelon. Then you cen to eat the inside! Know though that it is a bit harder than pumpkin carving because it is thinner and more delicate. Maybe chill it a bit once carved to give it more rigidity 🤔
practice makes perfect!
it's easier to carve fresh pumpkins than used ones
@@bluwasabi7635 pumpkin can be eaten, and the seeds are good roasted with a bit of oil and salt&pepper (or whatever seasonings you like)
I've wanted this video for so long
Level 82: Carve the design you want into the seed so that it grows in to the pumpkin you want to display at the end of October.
"even tho his a monster he loves his mom" lol.. Talking about tattoo