Halloween 2026

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Starting a Halloween 2026 thread for the cool projects celebrating the coolest holiday of the year.

Base skull:

For your carving fun. Skull image generated with Flux.02 Klein 4B, depth map generated with DepthAnything3, cleaned up in Blender, final height map generated using Blender.

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Added the skull to a pumpkin shape. fun times!

For your carving fun.

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I really need to learn how to do this.

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You do. It is a ton of fun to make. Also rewarding making a cool cnc pattern or 3d print.

This is my workflow on making these:

My Current AI To CNC Pattern Workflow

This is now a bit dated. I am currently using AI tools Flux.02 Klein4B and DepthAnything3 instead of Flux.01 Schnell and Marigold though I still use them on occasion.

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Scary clown 001

For your carving fun:

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Evil Pumpkin 001:

For your carving fun:

Here is the original AI generated image if anyone wants to practice making their own patterns. I did add a few features on my version.

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Not cnc but 3d print.

Nerd ghost. Super scary.

Blender cloth physics simulation with a few modeled parts. In the printer now.

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Never mind. Print failed due to bad model. Made the walls too thin.

So made a new model. I’ll print tomorrow.

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Printed at about 7" tall in white PLA. Season favorite so far.

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Another evil pumpkin generated in Flux.02 Klein4B.

My version:

Prepped in my CAM sofware. Cnc model size is 4"x4"x.5".

I’ll be carving this in the next few days.

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Started working on a witch pattern and AI generated some angry weathered old woman images as the base image. I am a little shocked on how different the images are from the AI models. Same prompt used in each model.

In order: Flux01 Schnell, Flux02 Klein4B, Z-Image turbo, Qwen-Image, PixelDit

Scary witch:

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Carved in poplar. One coat of oil based poly just to seal it. Not sure if painting this or not.

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Wife yelled at me for making so many scary patterns so I was made to make a cute one. Happy carving. Default size is 4" x 4" x .5".

P.S.
Carved at 5" x 5" x.5 in poplar. Right from the cnc. Still needs to be sanded and sealed.

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So far this season. Fun little decorations to go around the candy bowl.

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Of course I had to port it to a cnc pattern.