Industries / Aerospace & Defense
Aircraft that do not exist yet.
Pre-production platforms, rugged systems, and defense hardware, visualized for buyers and investors years before first flight.
Selling hardware before it is built
Aerospace programs have a specific problem: the thing you are selling will not physically exist for years, but the funding, the partnerships, and the launch customers have to be secured now.
3D animation is how a platform gets shown flying, loading, and operating while it is still a CAD assembly and a certification plan.
We have built this for a blended-wing cargo aircraft developer, a rugged computing supplier, and an electric seaglider program. See the rest of our industrial and technical animation work.
What aerospace and defense teams ask us for
Platform visualization
The full aircraft or vehicle in operation, from flight and loading through ground handling and mission profile. Used for investor material, partner briefings, and launch-customer conversations.
See the Natilus 3D aircraft animation.
Rugged and mission systems
Hardware built for environments the marketing team cannot bring a camera into. Cutaway and environmental animation carry the durability story better than a spec table.
Product demo for novel platforms
When the category itself is new, the audience needs the concept before the specification. That is a different edit from a standard product video.
See the Regent seaglider product demo.
Trade show and program briefings
Booth loops and briefing-room pieces for air shows and defense expos. Silent, looping, readable at distance. More on trade show media.
Controlled material and NDAs
We have worked under NDA since 2014 and treat it as the default, not the exception.
If your program is export-controlled, say so at first contact. We will scope who touches the files before any material moves, and we will tell you plainly if a requirement is outside what we can accommodate rather than discovering it mid-project.
We wrote more about aerospace and defense animations.
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Aerospace and defense questions
Yes. Pre-production visualization from CAD is the majority of aerospace work we take, because the funding and partnership conversations happen years before first flight.
Tell us at first contact, before any files move. We scope handling and personnel around the requirement up front. If a control regime is outside what we can accommodate, we will say so immediately rather than partway through.
Either. CAD gives you an animation that matches the engineering exactly. Concept art gives you something earlier in the program when the geometry is still moving. We have done both and will recommend based on where your program actually is.
Rarely as a single cut. The investor version leads with market and mission; the technical version leads with mechanism and performance. We usually build one full sequence and edit two versions from it.
Four to eight weeks for 3D depending on shot count and modeling scope. Give us the show date at first contact. We have never missed a delivery date, which sometimes means declining a timeline rather than promising it.
Yes. Booth loops and briefing-room cuts are edited differently from web video, with no sound, longer holds, and larger type. We deliver them as part of the same project rather than as a separate production.
