https://youtu.be/ugKyeTSpjRQ
Watch as photographer and artist Sylvain Gautier builds a stunning kinetic whale sculpture in his workshop located in the south of France near Toulouse.
This video is the “Too Long; Didn’t Watch” version making of a mechanical moving whale in wood (also called automaton).
For those of you interested in watching the full version, it’s here:
And here’s a 10-hour video that features the whale swimming: