Hedgehog in the Fog: The Pumpkin
One of my favorite things is Yuriy Norshteyn’s Russian animated film Ёжик в тумане (Hedgehog in the Fog). It’s a stunningly beautiful piece of work: quiet, mysterious, profound, spooky. Hayao Miyazaki has called in an inspiration, and it won a 2003 Japanese award for the “Best Animated Film of All Time.” So, if that’s not enough to recommend it, I don’t know what would be.
Read more on Wikipedia or just watch it on YouTube (10 minutes long, with subtitles).
When carving our Halloween pumpkins, I thought that some of the images from the film might be appropriately rendered in the medium. Here’s the result:
Hedgehog in the Fog Pumpkin
Of all the pumpkins I’ve made, this may not be the best carving, but it is my favorite.
This was the scene that I was copying:
Hedgehog in the Fog
