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A chaotic look at the carving of a pumpkin.
Available on DVD at: orangecorefilms.com/dvdstore.html

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Paul Joy 1 year ago

Fantastic work, love it!
steves ideas 1 year ago

Good stuff. How long did it take you to produce this ?
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks - this one took about 3 weeks to make.
Benjamin Reece 1 year ago

dedication! it shows...amazing man.
Mark Jensen 1 year ago

very cool!!!
ße ωell ;-) 1 year ago

perfect ;-)
Stephen Niebauer 1 year ago

Amazing! I absolutely love it.
subpixel 1 year ago

Remind me not to carve pumpkins. Not that I have before, but just for future reference.
Lucasberg (Joey) 1 year ago

This is one of those videos that is so good it makes me want to cry because I didn't make it.

Awesome
Jordan Megahy 10 months ago

SO true. This and the Carrot Juice one just left my jaw hanging open...
Eldar Bayburin 1 year ago

wow! scary thing! :) nice,,,
fabrizio 1 year ago

Cool Work!
James 1 year ago

I love it!
I want to make something now!
AreYouThere? 1 year ago

that was great!

A+
BumKi Cho 1 year ago

This is unbelievable.
Aaron Freeder 1 year ago

Totally.
Mike 1 year ago

awesome work.. loved it.. thanks
Todd Matthews 1 year ago

amazing !
Thomas Valdez 1 year ago

This is pretty boss. Probably the coolest video I have seen in a long while. Great work!
I will never carve a pumpkin the same way again.
$safraconseta$

safraconseta 1 year ago

beauty! great work. can you tell us a little about the process of making this?
the colour is ... really good, camera?

thank!
Zach B 1 year ago

darkly imaginative
AquaHombre 1 year ago

This was awesome!
TheWakePlace.com 1 year ago

Probably one of the best i've seen in over a year of watching Vimeo....

Nice Job!

Could you list what you used to do it all? Camera, color etc??
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks, glad you liked!
I filmed this with a Canon XH-A1 and all post work was done with Final Cut Pro including CC. I only color corrected a few shots that were really bad and just left the rest. All shots were contrast enhanced using the Levels filter in FCP.
TheWakePlace.com 1 year ago

Thats a good load of color you got from the A1 - i use one myself :)

One more question - did you use a custom preset on the camera when filming?
I don't see much noise in the shots, and from my experience the A1 gets a little noise with any gain increase. So could you also spill the beans on the gain you were using?

Thanks!
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Yes, I always shoot with the gain all the way down to -3 (even with my Letus lens adapter) and then add as much light as needed to brighten the shot.

I also use the '-3 Clean' preset that I found over at DVinfo.net and I have set the camera's auto exposure level to -0.5 which helps to darkness the blacks better without the overall image being to dark.

With this film though I altered the image quite a bit in post but if you want to realy see the results of the setup I mention about see my film 'Canyon Pathway' - that film was shot with the same camera settings and none of the shots were altered at all.

Hope this helps!
TheWakePlace.com 1 year ago

To be a real pain, do you know where the preset info is on DVinfo? I have been looking for a little while and can't seem to locate the '-3 Clean'......

how annoying am i :)

Thanks again
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Yeah, just did a quick search there and couldn't see it either, hmm, not sure where I found it. Sorry, it's actually it's called '-3dB Clean'. Here is the settings for it:

GAM: N
KNE: A
BLK: P
PED: -3
SET: 1
SHP: 3
HDF: L
DHV: 5
COR: -2
NR1: 0
NR2: 0
CMX: 1
CGN: 20
CPH: 2
RGN: -2
GGN: 0
BGN: 3
RGM: 42
RBM: -15
GRM: 0
GBM: 15
BRM: 10
BGM: -1
Nilz 1 year ago

Glad some thing can be so good and still be so fun at the same time.
andre pagliaro 1 year ago

Fantastic!
Benoit Bissonnette 1 year ago

Wow! Amazing work! Congratulations for that one!
The Funky Monkey 1 year ago

When I look at this, I feel like a 28 handicapper, watching Tiger Woods! Fantastic!!
Max kegfire 1 year ago

!!!!!!!
Harry Joaquin 1 year ago

Fantastic! time well spent!
Matthew Schickler 1 year ago

Wow... awesome work! That looked really familiar... except for the cannibal jack-o-lantern of course...
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks everyone for all the great comments - glad you enjoyed the film!
Purity Death 1 year ago

Nice, dude! I enjoyed it. Darkly imaginative, great cinematography, crazy effects. That flashing jack-o-lantern might give a very small percentage of people seizures, but not me. Thumbs up!
Amy Spinelli 1 year ago

This is amazing! I'll never look at a jack-o-lantern in quite the same way again.
Just Science 1 year ago

crazy!
Tom Guilmette 1 year ago

The best part is the audio. Great job recording all that sound and adding it in during the edit.

You have skills man.
Matt LaVoie 11 months ago

I agree with Guilmette- Even if you just listen to the audio without looking at the video, the pumpkin carving sounds are very cool. Very... satisfying.
Richard Mattsson 1 year ago

Astonishing - I would have trouble just separating the seeds from the goop, let alone animating it so cleanly. The breaking up of the carved jack is a really interesting touch too.
Shaun Labrecque 1 year ago

Good Work. Loved the sound.
Lauren 1 year ago

Very cool!!
roberto conti 1 year ago

You are crazy.
But this work is A_M_A_Z_I_N_G !!!!!!!!
Very very COOL.
Scott C. 1 year ago

100% cool!! How did you do the stop animation, is there a feature on the xh-a1? or did you edit out frames where you were moving the stuff in and out? I watched a few times, love it.
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks! The A1 has a photo mode so I use it to snap the individual frames onto an SD card and then assemble them together in post.
Ivan Barajas 1 year ago

that was pretty dam amazing !
Edgar Vasiluk 1 year ago

BRAVO! I like the sound...
Zac 1 year ago

brilliant! very creepy quality...
Florian Narr 1 year ago

just great!
Nicola Di Marco 1 year ago

man! that's cool
Rod Iboshi 1 year ago

That was awesome! I like the way you changed the depth of field focusing on some of the images. Very nice.
Perry Morris Jr. 1 year ago

Woow, well done!
Hayden Campbell 1 year ago

that was incredible! great editing!!!
Aaron Esterling 1 year ago

I'm usually not a big fan of stop-motion, but this is incredible. Very nice work! (Sounds awesome too!)
Jakob H 1 year ago

Excellent!
IreneFace 1 year ago

What a talent! This is so well done!
bzshutter 1 year ago

Absolutely fantastic work. Brilliant !
Orbitgal 1 year ago

I love how you made reference to the other films in this! The Baked Apple and the timer from the other video! I laughed! I really wanna show my preschoolers this one because we had our own gooey carving experience and they would love this!!! I need to get this on disc!

Oh, and the sound effects! Perfect as always! I also like how you make it kinda gory but in a light and fun way...the pumpkin's brain juices flowing at the moment the top was cut! brilliant!
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Hey Kim, didn't realize you were on Vimeo, that's great. Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked!
Orbitgal 1 year ago

I just joined because I am your biggest fan!!! Haha!
Edward Mendoza 1 year ago

Good job buddy! I thought it was shot with a still camera at first, but then read your comments; very smart way to do it and the look is so different, almost looks like an HDRI setup.
ragingmon 1 year ago

love +1
very great piece
michael baca 1 year ago

soo awesome! sound pulled everything together. very different work from the A1- its good to see. keep it up, its innovative people like yourself who make vimeo the best. ever.
Dan Kindt 1 year ago

oh my gosh! its two in the morning and it still looks effin sick! great work :D
gil jillbert tenne 1 year ago

nice and cool
picture-event 1 year ago

What a GREAT job !! Bravo ;-)
Lasertag Cartel 1 year ago

Incredible work!!! Don't know which I like better the video or the audio!
olaf h. ☞ nadu 1 year ago

wow, great work man!
Mark Shannon 1 year ago

Fantastic! Appreciate the work you put into this!
Adriana de Barros 1 year ago

Interesting to watch!
Ser Brando 1 year ago

What they said: Love it!!!!
PictureThis.tv 1 year ago

Wow! what a very creative film.
Marco Aslan 1 year ago

Creative is the right word for this video - sound design, shot design, and editing are really fantastic. Really would like to see your style when directing short films or music videos... that would be interesting
Stacy Moon 1 year ago

amazing. was the stop animation done just by literally taking individual shot by shot or is there some special mode on your camera that sped the process up?
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks Stacy - yes, the stop-motion and pixilation (animation of people) where shot one frame at a time. And for most of the shots I held each image for 2 frames to give a bit of a choppy feel to the motion.
MariaNYC 1 year ago

how could anyone not like this? you are so good at this.
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks Maria, I love your work too!
Eileen 1 year ago

fantastic! Can't watch enough.
Henry 1 year ago

Wow, I never knew pumpkin carving could be so vicious and violent. Was that the mood you were going for?

Great Stuff....Pumpkin Murderer! =)
brett stormoen 1 year ago

ridiculously well done.
Yiahimyr 1 year ago

Very good! I wish you mighty power kick to the pumpkin head :-D
rick ash 1 year ago

i was clued from beggining to end, excellent
bill2468 1 year ago

That was "fantabulose"!
You have a very creative eye and the ability to pull it all together!
I just bought a Canon SD1100is because of its ability to do time lapse, color accent and color swap.
Keep up the great work!

Digital regards,
BiLL
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks Bill - best of luck with your new SD1100is, do let me know how you make out with its timelapse feature. Hope you post some shots too!
Tye Kerber 1 year ago

That was really cool...The camera looks spectacular I am going to have to look into one of those! Great job!
Jan van der Meer 1 year ago

(in)Sights and sounds perfect!
Regi Kono 1 year ago

crazy nice, specially the sound, and the end.
Congratulations Carrotkid!
David Sprankle 1 year ago

very svankmajer, and the colors are so rich that it almost hurts my eyes. almost. great job :)
blis 1 year ago

That was 10 parts entertainement, 10 parts inspirational and 80 parts of invoked jealousy on my part! As the others mentioned, awesome audio, it really made the film's ambience come to the fore and the tecnhnical photography was excellent. I want more! m43 Downunder!
Jay Shropshire 1 year ago

this is so amazing!
Remy Disch 1 year ago

very nice
jonny lander 1 year ago

haha that waas sickkk]
Vivek Beniwal 1 year ago

just amazing
JaconFilm 1 year ago

wow your future holds something. How do you do that kind of film, Stop Motion?
Carrotkid 1 year ago

Thanks - yes, some stop-motion and also pixilation.
Trevor 1 year ago

This is really cool.
Undergrind Music 1 year ago

congrats dude, great work
sebastien vivand 1 year ago

Very captivating. Subtle details fully explored.

Cooking lesson becomes art.