Blender: Create a Jack-o'-Lantern Scene (Beginner Course)

Learn to model a jack-o'-lantern in Blender by creating a UV sphere, beveling its edges, applying a subdivision surface, shaping with proportional editing, and shading smooth before saving.

Carve the eyes and mouth into a pumpkin in Blender using knife tool, auto mirror, and subdivision surface; then add thickness with solidify and deform with a lattice.

Create the stem by selecting top pumpkin faces, extruding, and shaping with a basic bone rig and inverse kinematics, then rig with automatic weights and refine with subdivision.

Create materials for the pumpkin and stem with nodes, using orange base color, moderate roughness and specular, and a subtle noise normal map; duplicate the pumpkin material for the stem.

Create a pumpkin scene in Blender with a floor and backdrop, light it with a point inside the pumpkin and a backlight spotlight, and adjust world color.

Learn to set up a camera and render a final jack-o'-lantern scene in cycles, adjusting focal length, depth of field, lighting, color management, subsurface, and render settings.

Thank you for enrolling in this Blender jack-o'-lantern beginner course; download the project file, open it in Blender, and share your renders on Twitter with Ruan Loter.