The Mechanical Art of Andrew Chase

By John Farrier in Art on Jul 16, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Andew Chase is a photographer who creates mechanical sculptures of animals and photographs them in different poses. This cheetah is his latest creation in preparation for his photo book Trionic Morphatractable Engineer.

Artist’s Official Website

A motion capture film of the cheetah

Via io9 (which has pictures of some of his best works)

Tags: Andrew Chase, cheetah, motion capture, Photography

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maxipad
Jul 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Cool. I guess.
renderanything
Jul 16th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
That takes some thought to do. None of my metal sculptures have poseable joints, but I always thought it’d be fun to do.
ted
Jul 16th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
What a coincidence, renderanything. None of my poseable joints have any metal sculptures in them.
Andrew91
Jul 16th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
I think the front two legs could look a lil better…
Johnny Cat
Jul 17th, 2009 at 1:06 am
it’s a freakin cheetah.
Alex
Jul 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Get in the car!
renderanything
Jul 18th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Lol @ ted. Now I’m off to survey my collection of roller bearings and fire up the ‘ole thinking cap.

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