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am I the only one wondering how the fuck this thing was made?
that has to be at least a 2 part silicone mold, to get the flexibility and undercuts right
Your bury the trex in cocoa powder instead of sediments and wait a bit
It looks carved to me. People do crazy shit with cake/chocolate. Netflix has a competition show about it that's pretty entertaining.
Those are two different cakes, and the holes look too similarly for them to be carved
Cake molds have existed for at least 150 years from what I've witnessed, wouldn't be out of the question for a T-Rex skull mold to exist. Especially if the mold was somehow disposable but that's moreso based off of my knowledge of metal molds so it may not be applicable.
Wait until you learn about statues. That'll really fuck with you.
I think if you poured that from the back of the skull there aren't that many undercuts except around where the jaws meet. Still likely a 2 part mold but nothing overly complicated and putting the seam around where the jaws meets alleviate the undercuts there as well as helps hide the seam.
Or it could be a single metal mold utilizing the size difference after heat change to help release. Still poured from the back which we don't see in the pics.