Sci-fi ball drone

Hey Everyone,
This is a concept design 3d model I created for a short animation I am working on. My design is inspired by the Sunsky foldable drone. I designed my drone to have a rotating camera with lasers and retractable drilling mechanism inside. I used substance painter for texturing and built a simple rig using empties and constraints. This is a part of a bigger project and hopefully the rig should be enough for all I hope to do in my short animation. Its meant to be a drone regularly used so I made it a bit scuffed and scratched from use.
The drone shots are rendered in cycles and I made a short flight test animation in Eevee.

First shot of drone

Second shot with wings open

Top view of drone

A short flight test Eevee animation

Timelapse for making the drone

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awesome work

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Thank you :grinning:

that drone is awesome. What a fun shape!

Thanks a lot.

You’re on the #featured row! :+1:

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aw snap! top row! congrats yo!

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Thanks so much.

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Thank you :smiley:

Nice work, congrats !!!

Thanks so much

WOW!!! amazing art

That was fun to watch. Nice music! Love it.

Thanks so much

Thank you. The music beat is :fire: :fire:

It’s a very smooth and credible design and you’ve animated it well. I have mostly ignored Evee and kept rendering in Cycles but seeing this has persuaded me to spend some time learning more about Evee.

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Thanks. I’m used to rendering in cycles as well but Eevee can give good results especially with volume scatter. Adding motion blur, good color grading and grain effect to Eevee render makes it look a lot better.

I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thanks so much :grinning:

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The detail in your drone materials is so realistic :heart::heart: love it

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