The Shaved Bumblebee

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on February 5, 2008 at 11:26 am


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German digital artist Till Nowak (featured previously on Neatorama) created this funny image of a newly-shaven bumblebee and his friends.

This image is telling about the bumblebee Bernard who wanted to impress his friends with an experiment. It was one of these boring days and they were as usual looking for some nonsense to get involved in and succeeded in switching on an electric shaver. And Bernard, for the first time in his life, completely freed himself from his beautiful yellow and black fur. But then, under the shouting and cheering of his mischievous friends, he watched in the mirror and had to recognize that the result didn`t please him as much as he expected. But hey, it will grow again….

There’s also an article (in pdf format) about how the image was made. Link -via Dump Trumpet


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19 comments to "The Shaved Bumblebee"

  1. jack.wh
    February 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Hey, that making-of PDF is quite cool. Now I know how they do it. Cool beans!

  2. BeX
    February 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    aw, the expression on his face

  3. Tracy
    February 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Ummm...I have never sat down and had a good hard look at a bumblebee but...that's a bumblebee?

  4. Thespian24601
    February 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

    Yeah, I'm with Tracy. Looks more like flying elephants than bumblebees. Weird.

  5. Abnormally Normal
    February 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    What did you expect a bumblebee that can turn on an electric shaver and shave his butt to look like?

  6. Tempscire
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

    Bumblebeelephants! The shaved one is disturbing.

  7. andy cochrane
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    awesome!! i love this- would be great to see an animated film in this visual style, its very cool

  8. Pudifoot
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    i think i am going to go out and shave a bee an see what happens :-)

  9. Pudifoot
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

    ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

  10. G
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:28 pm

    When will he ever learn...sigh...reminds me of my friends and the time the home piercing kit got stuck to my ear for a few hours...um...I digress...

    I didn't know elephant bees had butts. Ha ha! That artist is crazy talented!

  11. artbot
    February 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

    This was part of a contest with the theme "Strange Behaviour" held at CG Society:

    http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=65

  12. Soupe
    February 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Gives me the willies.

  13. su.wei
    February 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    how cute! weird idea though...i would have NEVER thought of shaving a bumblebee...

  14. Adam Fuhrer
    February 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

    Nice, thats pretty cool!

  15. artbot
    February 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm

    Link to high res: (Why are all those flickr pics always so small?)

    http://assets.cgsociety.org/challenge/entries/19/13771/13771_119273563 3_large.jpg

  16. Miss Cellania
    February 5th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    artbot, click the "link" and you go to the artist's site, with the original version. I resize pics before I put them on Flickr so the exact size I want to use is available.

  17. z
    February 5th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

    That shave Bumblephant has multiple nipples AND a ding ding. You can see them in the large link pic.

  18. Alex
    February 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    That bumblebee, of course, is Brazilian.

  19. Capella
    February 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am

    This is the best thing I have seen all week.


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