Pumpkins aren’t just for pies any more

The Animation Society at SFSU has been up to some holiday mischief. President Charlie Corriea dreamed up a crazy idea in a conversation with Chantal Buck: They decided animate the club’s mascot "Lab Rat" as a series of jack o’lanterns, which has to qualify as one of the weirdest mediums for pixelation around.

Charlie explains,"The original design for the logo was created by Cris Wooten and I used that as a template. The pumpkins were bought by the animation club and carved mostly by Animation I students. I photographed each pumpkin with the help of those students—it was a class effort. Carving the pumpkins only took four hours or so, but then they went to waste in the animation lab." (Let’s hope that no real rats got into the act.)

The SFSU animation club holds irregular screenings on Thursday nights in the August Coppola Theater in the Fine Arts Building, and the public is invited to drop in to see what they’re showing. Meanwhile, you can check out the pixelated pumpkins here.