Welcome to the Pumpkin Texturing Challenge! 🎃
Enjoy a mess-free pumpkin carving experience this season, and create your most spooky and spectacular designs using Toolbag’s 3D texturing and painting tools. Carve, paint, or sculpt the pumpkin of your dreams. This challenge will run for four weeks and the main requirement is simply that your final artwork submitted is textured and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag!
For inspiration and help getting started, check out the new “Pumpkin Carving” scene available from the Toolbag Library — it’s ready for texturing. We’ve opened new challenge channels on the Marmoset Discord for you to share progress, ask questions, and submit your final entry.
Submissions are open until 23:59 pm CST on Sunday, November 16, 2025.
We hope you have a blast experimenting, learning, and carving your pumpkins!
How to Participate
- Join the Marmoset Discord server, and find the 🎃pumpkin-challenge channels under the “Community Art” category.
- Create (1) one thread in the channel titled “🎃pumpkin-challenge-submissions📥” to share your WIPs and final artwork submission. Make sure your thread title begins with your Discord username.
- Download the “Pumpkin Carving” scene available in the Toolbag Library. That scene has three pumpkin models to choose from, a texture project with input maps already assembled, and contains new pumpkin-themed base materials available from the asset library. But if you wish to use your own models and set up your own texture project, feel free!
- Start carving. Use Toolbag’s texturing and painting features to carve your pumpkin. If using the demo scene, review the layer stack in the Texture Project to see how you can leverage the power of Vector layers and Carve Groups to “carve” your design. If you want to start with a clean slate, delete the existing layers in the project, and start your own painting and designs from scratch!
- Set your stage. Customize the environment, establish your lighting design, and stage your carved pumpkins however you wish. Extra props may be added to decorate it as you see fit!
- Render your artwork using Toolbag’s real-time Raster or advanced Ray Tracing renderer to show off your carving skills in the most spectacular and spooky light.
- Submit your masterpiece! Head back to your submission thread and post at least (1) one image or video render, along with (1) one screenshot showing your viewport and Texture Project’s layers stack, to demonstrate the tricks you used to carve the pumpkins
Have some spooky fun with this challenge, and discover creative ways to carve your pumpkins with Marmoset Toolbag’s texturing tools!
Challenge Requirements
- Only (1) one submission per artist. 1 submission = 1 scene.
- Your final submission must be posted to your own thread in the “🎃pumpkin-challenge-submissions📥”channel on Marmoset’s Discord.
- Your final submission must include a minimum of two images: (1) one final render, and (1) one screenshot of your scene setup, which shows your Scene window, Viewport, and Texture Project’s Layers window in view. Additional rendered images/videos of the same scene are accepted.
- Final artwork should be in a 16:9 ratio at a minimum resolution of 1920×1080.
- Please include your social media accounts (Instagram, Twitter, etc) if you would like us to tag you when we feature the submissions.
- All final renders submitted must be created by the participating artist, and textured and rendered in Marmoset Toolbag.
- All artwork must refrain from including any offensive and derogatory language, imagery, and symbolism.
- By submitting your artwork to this challenge, you acknowledge that there is no promise of prizes received, and you permit Marmoset to showcase your final rendered artwork through their social media and organic marketing channels, but not to be used in any paid advertising or promotional materials without prior agreement between Marmoset and the artist.
- Submissions are accepted through 23:59pm CST on Sunday, November 16, 2025.
