These are so cool! Love the concept. #blenderinspiration

It’s pretty sad that I don’t speak Dutch or have live translation and I’m still 99% sure I get what they’re driving at but that’s still not obvious enough for our governments to take basic actions to stop it.

Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt: it might just have been a practical enquiry about whether it’s sustainable in its current form. It might not need to profitable but presumably someone somewhere has to cover the hosting?

I suspect experienced Blender users will be able to tell me lots of reasons why this is a terrible idea 😂 (and please do - that's how we learn!) but I had fun tinkering with it.

I tried to model the pumpkin from scratch. I think the shape was OK but the shader was not great. I used an existing texture file to mix between the light and dark orange for the dappling and used inside ambient occlusion as the mix factor to get the light streaks in the pumpkins vertical grooves.

I would really recommend to tutorial if you're intrested in learning: youtu.be/4haAdmHqGOw

The course is free and so is all the software. Show me you donuts if you do. 🍩😜