Render Battle #7 - Halloween 2025 🎃 (Open Division: any render platform! 📸)

MichaelPascoe

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Render Battle #7 - Jack-O-Lantern!

It's time to wrap up 2025 with the 7th Onshape unofficial render battle!
All forum users are welcome to participate and or judge the renders. (The Onshape team included.❤️)
Thanks @bryan_lagrange for prompting this battle.

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Carving Contest?

Let's see what you can do with this blank pumpkin!
The final entry will be the render of your carved pumpkin.

📸Any Rendering Platform? (Open Division)

That's right, this battle is now open to any render platform.
No longer just render studio. Let's see what you can do!

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Rules: 

1. Render must fall into the specified topic. 
2. You must use the provided pre-modeled studio.
3. Whoever creates the most legit jack-o-lantern render (📸image or 🎥video 😎) using this → Pumpkin will win the battle! The winner will also be added to the Render Battle "Hall of Fame" list for all future battles.
4. Have fun!

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Voting:

• Render submission date November 1st 2025.
• All entries must be submitted here before the submission date.
• Anyone can vote!
  • Voters account must be created before the date of this post to deter self or friend voting.
  • Votes must be from relatively active forum members, not newly created accounts.
• Voting will last for 1 week after the submission date.
• The render with the most votes wins. (Tie breakers will be determined by likes.)

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Hall of Fame:

Winners of previous Render Battles: 

• Winner of Render Battle #1 - June 2022 - @sebastian_glanzner
• Winner of Render Battle #2 - November 2022 - @Axel_Kollmenter
• Winner of Render Battle #3 - June 2023 - @richard_doyle
• Winner of Render Battle #4 - September 2023 - @MichaelPascoe
• Winner of Render Battle #5 - December 2023 - @bryan_lagrange
• Winner of Render Battle #6 - January 2025 - @sebastian_glanzner + @MichaelPascoe

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Derek_Van_Allen_BD

This constitutes my official submission.

Your pumpkin studio rendered in A1008 cold rolled steel and 304 stainless steel lofted sheet metal.

My rendering platform of choice? Welding bench, obviously.

And a vanity shot for good measure. I'll follow up more with the process in another post later but this was a lot of work to get this guy over the finish line so I'm gonna kick back with a celebratory beer for finishing it without too many issues.

Here's my document, for anyone looking to browse the work.

MichaelPascoe

They are indeed! We have a new Render Battle Champion.

Drum roll please: 🥁🥁🥁
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Congrats to @Derek_Van_Allen_BD for winning the #7th render battle and the very first Shapey trophy!! 🏆🏆🏆
Your render will be placed in the hall of fame list with the other previous battle winners. 😎

For some reason the winner gif isn't showing up for me, forums have been broken lately for gifs. ⬇️

Many thanks to everyone who participated. This was a pretty neat battle.
Special thanks to @bryan_lagrange to prompting the battle as well as providing the very first Shapey trophy!

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Derek_Van_Allen_BD

Well now that you've made this an open division event I'll have to participate. I've got just the rendering platform in mind.

MichaelPascoe

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POV of my pumpkin carving:

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Derek_Van_Allen_BD

I'm halfway through exporting my pumpkin. Need to make sure I don't mislabel any pieces or I'll have to place a second order later.

bryan_lagrange

Happy Halloween!

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

Order was placed, rendering in progress.

MichaelPascoe

Nice! @bryan_lagrange This may be the most fun battle yet.

@Derek_Van_Allen_BD what does that mean!? 😆

MDesign

Derek thinks outside the box. You’ll have to wait for the cutting of the box reveal

bryan_lagrange

eric_pesty

MichaelPascoe

In case anyone is using Render Studio, Acoustic textured drywall is a decent pumpkin texture:

bryan_lagrange

EvanReese

Eric I about had a heart attack! So scary! 😱

bryan_lagrange

Winner should get this……..Or do we have to wait for an official Onshape desgin contest for a shot at the title????? Its been a while…….

MichaelPascoe

Hey, if you fund it, I'll help with anything you need to get it done. @bryan_lagrange

bryan_lagrange

Let me look for just a belt. I could make the plates here at Mezco.

MichaelPascoe

I think something that can sit on your desk would be better imo. 😆 I don't really have a good place to put mine =P

bryan_lagrange

You have to wear it until the next champion is crowned. :)

bryan_lagrange

What would be a good desktop item for the winner? Stand alone item like a trophy or something that will have an additional everyday use feature? A phone stand? Multi-tool? A desktop item most CAD users would use? Lets hear the ideas from the forum. Something creative and still within a decent price range for making it.

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

I'm an advocate that any good competition deserves a good trophy. But I grew up in an era where school budget cuts and shrinkflation seemed to hit trophies the hardest and I never got over being given a paper certificate for something that my older siblings got physical shelf decor for 2 years prior.

bryan_lagrange

Movies have the Oscars……Onshape Render Battle could have the Shapeys

MichaelPascoe

@bryan_lagrange That's awesome! 😆Simple, noticeable, and repeatable!

We could do the cell phone stand like mentioned earlier or perhaps even a laptop stand if the winner has a laptop?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e815bff68cd5b49aea3674ac/w/4766e4060488c592074837ca/e/a1…

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bryan_lagrange

I printed the first prototype of "Shapey". :) Maybe we could do an end of the year "Shapeys" User Group. We could have the forum vote on Feature Script of the year, Forum Contributor of the year; Forum helper of the year, Forum Render of the year, etc :)

MichaelPascoe

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Print looks good!

Brilliant!

@bryan_lagrange If you need filament, this stuff is awesome:

https://www.amazon.com/Filament-1-75mm-Geeetech-Printer-Spool/dp/B07RBSGZBM/ref%3Dsr_1_4?crid=E8A6YXCFGW9O&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zeu9tVc0XE0iQRq6HFfxJiS_qR344n8qhGmdypMBRjy8EirSU91w_cxXwNo6tLaV3MchBL23LwltQFm1yuKRB0m1-uJSkwmSbsCihOos5gTShwRVqb3TdCotkKi4OMDdefxOPRW-OsoNlTeW3O7KENLhVA7P38Iwu_AMWFWtrzd0dI_fQHAK9NTkdLfzv6SbJMjgPcMD-kIm5IhJokffDXQYDVYMZOcHTMczLuSvb7Q.6WSbUszDoQY5TR80ajTMky5Aybp-t5dVmpmxtB2ctlE&dib_tag=se&keywords=metallic%2Bfilament&qid=1760557927&sprefix=metalic%2Bfilament%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-4&th=1

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MichaelPascoe

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About

10 days remaining

to get those renders submitted. Remember, ANY render platform and you can choose to do a 📸image and or a🎥video! 😎
I recommend posting on the 31st, that way the competition can't take inspiration from your entry. 😃

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bryan_lagrange

I make the SHAPEY as the trophy for the winner of the battle. I can 3d print the base and SHAPEY with a laser cut tag to mount to the base.

@MichaelPascoe let me know if we want to move forward.

MichaelPascoe

@bryan_lagrange That would be fantastic! Many thanks.

bryan_lagrange

I will get this going.

mlaflecheCAD

I figured I would throw my hat in the ring, just for fun!

This Halloween, we’re not carving pumpkins… we’re configuring them. 🎃

In Onshape, even a simple jack-o’-lantern can become a masterpiece of parametric design — complete with variable stems, spooky shapes, and glowing Render Studio magic.

Create your pumpkin patch, light your candle, and bring it all to life with a flicker of AI animation in Canva. 💀. But other AI tools are out there to give a basic animation to a still image output from Onshape as we have seen in contests past.

Watch how easy it is to go from parametric to paranormal — no file ghosts, no workstation lag, just pure design sorcery in the cloud.

Video of example: https://www.veed.io/view/a106b6f2-9fc3-42ac-8124-261395ae8a41?source=Homepage&panel=share

Onshape Link to example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/819568e1face67a6362770ff/w/24be33040a7b6d95e733f37e/e/af7ba7926a7c3a7f78b03991?configuration=Jack_o__Lantern%3Dfalse%3BList_XWrCOiIiecapZW%3DMedium%3BList_lW17g18REUwVwJ%3DAverage&renderMode=0&uiState=68ffbc5b536f96a24e7dc1ea

MichaelPascoe

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Nicely done @mlaflecheCAD!! 🎃

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bryan_lagrange

The "Shapey" is almost ready.