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Piranha Plant Sculpture and Baby

Posted by Kalapusa Oct. 8, 2009 @ 4:22 PM EDT

Hello again Newgrounds! It had been a while since the last time I used Flash but I decided to revisit it to create a making-of video of my realistic Piranha Plant sculpture for youtube. The video proved to be quite popular (133,336 views in a little over two weeks and five stars) so I brought it back to its native format (with less of a loss in image quality in key parts). If you have seen the youtube video, the Flash version here ( http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
513884 ) has two shots of my teething baby Piranha Plant as well, together with mama before it got it's own pot.

The Piranha Plant will be for sale on eBay soon, as will its baby version and a baby Audrey II. Stay tuned or contact me at kalapusa@aratamedia.com for info.

It was fun to sculpt this as I pulled off a few successful experiments to get the inside of the mouth to look just gummy enough. Took me a while to finish it, particularly because of the design choice I made for the mouth structure, but it paid off in the end. I wanted the plant to look as if it really existed and the Mario version was a simplified cartoon version based off of it.

Please send all inquiries concerning this original piece to kalapusa@aratamedia.com
I'm currently accepting commissions in various mediums.

For more photos and other pieces, visit:
http://www.flickr.com/pho tos/22648291@N03/sets/
http://kalapusa.deviantar t.com/
http://www.facebook.com/k alapusa

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Oct. 8, 2009 | 6:09 PM Toukeman says:

Must have Baby Piranha Plant. It could go in my dorm room.

Oct. 8, 2009 | 7:04 PM ant109 says:

.....LOVE THIS PIECE OF ART!......but wtf is an evil carrot doing in the picture

Oct. 8, 2009 | 8:10 PM Frakenbourrough says:

Wow, those are both really great pieces! How much would they cost? And have you made any others?

Oct. 10, 2009 | 2:16 PM Kalapusa responds:

Thanks! I have a series of plants. It's been my thing for the last two years.

Oct. 9, 2009 | 7:48 AM Coop83 says:

You know, this would instantly be featured on the Art Portal if you decided to sumbit the pic - perfectly acceptable photography is that of sculptures which yours quite clearly is, especially with the Flash Video to back it up!

Submit it now, you know you want to!

Oct. 10, 2009 | 2:15 PM Kalapusa responds:

Thanks! On it...

Oct. 9, 2009 | 12:01 PM TURDO says:

Awesomeeee

Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:09 PM Luis says:

nice work. i like the baby one. Lookin forward to more of your pieces

Oct. 9, 2009 | 2:51 PM up-a-notch says:

you should sell those plants i would pay tons....if i had 200 $

Oct. 9, 2009 | 3:14 PM MindChamber says:

you should put some hi res shorts in the art portal these are amazing.

Oct. 9, 2009 | 6:12 PM stelfbomer says:

cool rhbtgvdkev

Oct. 9, 2009 | 9:31 PM uminchu says:

wow. you do commissions? how much would you charge to make another baby piranha plant sculpture?

Oct. 10, 2009 | 2:14 PM Kalapusa responds:

Yes, I do commissions, actually making an Audrey II right now but I can make another Baby Piranha Plant. Contact me at kalapusa@aratamedia.com for pricing.

Oct. 10, 2009 | 1:18 PM AlmightyHans says:

you did an amazing job. good work, man!

Oct. 10, 2009 | 3:23 PM NGuard says:

wow this stuff is incredible! You can bet I'll check out the eBay auction!

Oct. 10, 2009 | 9:33 PM KinG-JaKe says:

pretty awsome plant

Oct. 11, 2009 | 5:24 AM SFaPiL says:

Wow... I think you'd make a fortune on ebay if you'd sell more of these.

Hopefully Nintendo won't make you pay for copyright ^__^.

Oct. 11, 2009 | 11:12 AM stelfbomer says:

lllllll

Oct. 12, 2009 | 10:44 PM Neo-Fusion says:

"You know, this would instantly be featured on the Art Portal if you decided to sumbit the pic - perfectly acceptable photography is that of sculptures which yours quite clearly is, especially with the Flash Video to back it up!

Submit it now, you know you want to!"

Lol he was right. This is awsome work and I would love to have someone like you walk me through how to make this, because I would love to make my own.

Oct. 13, 2009 | 7:03 PM Theocerv says:

IMHO The video gave me a better impression of the quality of the sculpt.

Oct. 16, 2009 | 6:01 PM razthespaz says:

Epic I love it and nice mini fingers and scheming lil carrot there lol.

Oct. 20, 2009 | 3:51 PM Coyface says:

has you awesome piranha plant been sold yet?

Oct. 20, 2009 | 4:23 PM walzabanks4 says:

dude u should totolly make more of these video game madel things :D

Oct. 20, 2009 | 6:30 PM grimreaper76 says:

ill buy for 1000

Nov. 2, 2009 | 3:22 PM Voodoo says:

Damn, I love your sculptures so much. I would definitely love to get a commission once I think of something awesome. How much would a sculpture as big as the piranha plant cost me?

Dec. 10, 2009 | 2:39 PM Kalapusa responds:

Depends on the subject, but this one was sold at $1,400. PM me if you think of something.

Nov. 8, 2009 | 7:08 AM ColossusII says:

Quanto tempo demorou para fazer isso?