The Shaved Bumblebee

By Miss Cellania in Art on Feb 5, 2008 at 11:26 am

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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jack.wh
Feb 5th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Hey, that making-of PDF is quite cool. Now I know how they do it. Cool beans!
BeX
Feb 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
aw, the expression on his face
Tracy
Feb 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?
Thespian24601
Feb 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Yeah, I’m with Tracy. Looks more like flying elephants than bumblebees. Weird.
Abnormally Normal
Feb 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?
Tempscire
Feb 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Bumblebeelephants! The shaved one is disturbing.
andy cochrane
Feb 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
Pudifoot
Feb 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
i think i am going to go out and shave a bee an see what happens
Pudifoot
Feb 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow
G
Feb 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!
artbot
Feb 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
Soupe
Feb 5th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Gives me the willies.
su.wei
Feb 5th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
how cute! weird idea though…i would have NEVER thought of shaving a bumblebee…
Adam Fuhrer
Feb 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Nice, thats pretty cool!
artbot
Feb 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
Miss Cellania
Feb 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.
z
Feb 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.
Alex
Feb 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
That bumblebee, of course, is Brazilian.
Capella
Feb 7th, 2008 at 9:24 am
This is the best thing I have seen all week.

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