The Racer A was developed by American artist Doug Chiang. He loves old race cars, so he simply took an old Autounion Bergrennwagen and switched the front and bottom end. I loved it the moment I saw it, so I decided to make it a special image using 3D, photography and sugar. The racing course itself is built of sugar cubes, we ended up using 46 pounds of sugar, because it reminded us of a snowy and icy landscape. The racer was created in CINEMA4D while the pilot was photographed – it was my assistant at the time, Johannes. We showed the image to Doug who liked what we had done with the concept.
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