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What we Do
Imagine if we could digitally clone the world around you and everyone in it. And with AI, those digital clones could come to life, replicating your gestures, voices, and activities.
This is the future we're moving toward: an AI-powered Metaverse—a convergence of artificial intelligence and immersive technologies that is reshaping industries, redefining human interactions, and unlocking virtual experiences once beyond imagination.
On the path toward that vision, at Dronícola, we produce digital solutions for the culture, media, and technology sectors. We digitize real-world environments and objects with great realism, creating digital twins ready for VFX, games, XR experiences, and cultural preservation.
From crumbling structures and inaccessible landscapes to vast terrains spanning hundreds of hectares, we push advanced 3D digitization to the limit, transforming any environment—no matter its complexity—into an optimized digital twin ready for exploration, preservation, or integration into interactive experiences.
🚀 What we digitize today will come to life tomorrow.
3D capture of real world environments
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Real world environment
Discover how Dronícola brings the world to life in our 2025 showreel.
Market Needs We Are Meeting
Moving towards this vision, we are already addressing many market needs that remain unmet today. Sectors such as entertainment, advertising and heritage conservation require more accessible, efficient and accurate digital environments. This is where Dronícola brings a unique solution.
🎥 Film, Television and Advertising
🚫 The challenge
Audiovisual production companies use two methods to shoot in exotic locations:
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Physical on-site filming.
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Virtual production with fully modeled environments (CGI).
Physical filming involves high costs for transportation and permits to access these locations, in addition to the risks associated with the deteriorated or protected state of such sites. Moreover, in physical shoots, there is no way to control environmental conditions during filming.
On the other hand, virtual production with traditional modeling is expensive and slow, sometimes taking months to produce. It also has significant limitations in photorealism, especially for complex or eroded environments.
✅ Our solution
Dronícola captures real-world locations with optimized photogrammetry, delivering high-quality, ready-to-use 3D assets faster.
📌 Faster than traditional modeling → Digitizes entire environments in days, instead of weeks.
📌 Unmatched realism → Preserves intricate real-world details.
📌 Optimized for Unreal Engine & Unity → Seamless integration, reducing post-processing.
📌 Cost-effective alternative → Cuts production costs while enhancing visual fidelity.
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📍 Use Case: Digital Twin of Estación de Gascones
The historic Estación de Gascones-Buitrago in Madrid poses safety and logistical challenges for film production. On-site shoots requires costly safety measures, insurance, and crew transport.
Dronícola's solution offers:
✔ Reduced costs & shoot time → No need to transport the film crew.
✔ Enhanced safety → Lowers accident risks and insurance expenses.
✔ Efficient 3D asset creation → Replaces manual modeling with precise 3D scans.
🏛️ Cultural Heritage and Preservation
🚫 The Challenge
Historic sites are fragile, making documentation difficult without causing damage. Traditional photography lacks depth and interactivity, limiting its use in education, museums, and virtual reality.
Many sites remain inaccessible due to location, funding constraints, or legal barriers.
✅ Our Solution
📌 High-precision 3D digitization with photogrammetry for non-invasive preservation.
📌 Global accessibility through VR and WebXR for remote exploration of historical sites.
📌 Museum & education integration with interactive learning experiences.
📌 Long-term protection against disasters, erosion, and urbanization.
🔹 Use Case: The Dolmen de Lácara in VR
Located in Extremadura, Spain, this remarkable megalithic tomb faces natural deterioration, restricted accessibility, and conservation challenges. Dronícola's solution provides:
✔ A precise digital twin for archaeological study and research.
✔ Global access through interactive WebXR & VR exploration.
✔ An accurate digital reference for future restoration efforts.
🎮 AAA Games
🚫 The Challenge
AAA video game studios often aim to create highly immersive, realistic, and visually stunning environments based on real-world locations such as ancient monuments, archaeological ruins, or breathtaking natural landscapes.
Many of these extraordinary locations tend to be:
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Difficult to access due to being remote, protected, or hazardous terrains.
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Complex to represent using traditional methods because of the challenges of manual modeling.
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Expensive in terms of time and budget when recreated from scratch.
✅ Our Solution
📌 Provides high-realism aerial and ground reality capture using drones, cameras, and scanners
📌 Digitizes complex or inaccessible environments due to difficult terrain, ruinous condition, flooding, etc.
📌 Processes hyper-realistic digital twins with PBR textures, ready to integrate into game engines like Unreal and Unity
📌 Optimizse for games with high-quality, game-ready assets featuring low polycount, clean LODs, and UVs
📌 Delivers production-ready 3D assets faster than traditional modeling pipelines
📌 Supports studios in adapting digital twins to meet their narrative, technical, and performance needs
🔹 Use Case: Castle Digitization as an Alternative to Manual Modeling
A studio is planning to develop a medieval video game featuring real castles and ruins. Manually recreating these environments through modeling can take months and require a large budget.
Dronícola offers:
✔ Scanning castles in a matter of hours, capturing details that are nearly impossible to replicate through manual modeling.
✔ Creating detailed, realistic digital twins from the scans, ready for integration into game engines.
✔ Delivering assets in weeks, not months, significantly reducing production costs and development time.
Why Dronícola?
🛰️ Dronícola doesn’t replicate environments — it documents them with precision.
Our scans, based on real-world field data, ensure geometric and visual fidelity that respects the complexity and historical value of each site.
Due to their synthetic nature, AI and 3D modeling are unlikely to achieve the same level of precision and authenticity.
🌪️ We don’t just solve problems — we digitize the inaccessible.
We push the boundaries of reality capture. We operate in extreme and challenging environments:
✔ We work in unstable ruins, cliffs, collapsed structures, and hard-to-reach areas
✔ We handle high temperatures, low light, confined spaces, and hostile conditions
✔ We adapt our methodology to guarantee precision no matter the challenge
📡 We scan large-scale and complex assets
✔ We've digitized everything from abandoned villages and rugged mountains to hundreds of hectares of terrain
✔ We master the digitization of massive assets without sacrificing precision or efficiency
🚀 If an environment is difficult to digitize, Dronícola is the solution.
Our Technology
Dronícola is a cutting-edge photogrammetry company specializing in large scale high-precision digital twins. Using industry-leading photogrammetry and LiDAR technology, we digitize a wide range of assets—from insects to architectural landmarks—with unmatched realism and efficiency.
We integrate LiDAR with aerial and terrestrial photogrammetry, employing state-of-the-art laser scanners, drones, and high-resolution cameras to capture even the most complex environments.
Our digital twins power 3D animations, video games, and immersive experiences, including virtual filmmaking, VFX, and XR applications (VR, AR, MR).
Currently, we provide high-fidelity 3D models and animations, with upcoming offerings in reconstructions, virtual environments, and interactive digital assets.
Additionally, we now offer a service that transforms our digital replicas of reality into high-quality physical replicas using advanced 3D printing techniques.
This provides clients with a tangible way to interact with and showcase these digital assets.
Our Market
We specialize in the digitization of physical assets such as historical buildings, urban spaces, industrial sites, and exploration areas.
We create digital twins, 3D models, and animations for a wide range of sectors, including cultural heritage, leisure, archaeology, paleontology, tourism, marketing, geology, and entertainment.
Our product portfolio is designed to meet the needs of industries such as film, video games, and advertising, providing innovative solutions tailored to a constantly evolving market.
Mission and Vision
✅ Mission:
To digitize the world in 3D, creating optimized digital twins and developing immersive experiences that transform them into explorable, interactive, and simulated environments.
✅ Vision:
To be the global benchmark in 3D digitization, bridging the physical and digital worlds with innovative solutions for heritage, entertainment, advertising, science, and industry.
