Halloween is around the corner

Got a few suggestions from a number of sites I follow.

Suggestions:
1. Maybe a couple of tombstones with a Ghost floating.
2. Some tombstones with some bats above a scared cat in front.
3. A witch with broom in hand next to a cauldron.
4. Skeleton leaning on a tombstone with one hand
5. Ghost leaning out of the attic window of an old house smiling
6. Nasty witch
7. Halloween pumpkin (mine)

I'll start modeling and see what comes out.

Scary eeeviiil pumpkin for your cnc carving pleasure.

Ghost over tombstone.

Draped a cloth simulation over a low poly/detail head, hands and then cut out some eyes. You get a ghost.

working on the bat model.

Thanks Oscar, but I was looking at making router templates likes these....

(off to find my pics....LOL)

bats around tombstone scene

Also, some graphics to use on your Halloween cards.

Tom, thank you.

This next one gave me a ton of trouble to convert to a bas relief and then to a height map. Had to use multiple programs to finally get something decent. Blender for the model. Zbrush for the bas relief (obj file). Blender for the stl model. STL2png app to convert to height map.

I have not had a chance to run and get some poplar so I have not test carved any of the patterns. Let me know how it goes if you get to it first.

Last one in the series. This is my interpretation of a skeleton leaning on a tombstone. The final height map will have a blank tombstone so you can add anything you want with your cnc software.

Still playing with angles and camera view.

Thank you.

I see there is a small disconnect.

The grey scale height map images are a form of cnc patterns. The grey scale represents carving height data with pure black and white being the bounds of the floor and height of the carve. The grey scale in-between is the rest of the carve height information. The pixel location is the x,y info.

If you click on the thumbnail images to expand to full size, you can save them and use them for carving. I only ask folks don't sell the patterns themselves but anything you carve is your own to do as you wish.

The main issue is one of the most popular cnc software, VCarve Pro, does not give you the capability of converting the height map into an STL file. Aspire does have this feature.

The free program Blender 3d (other free software can be used as well) can convert the grey scale image to STL or other 3d format instead. So the patterns should be available to everyone though a little tougher to convert if you have VCarve.

Hope that helps.

I have a friend on another site who has already carved all these patterns for his grand kids using the grey scale images.

Last one in the series. Skull on grave. This were all a ton of fun to make so hope someone finds them useful.

Happy Halloween 2022!