Best of Oblivion Drones

[@TheDalinkwent]

This movie was reminder of how important sound design is.

[@kxmsmaobsjsosjs7208]

TheDalinkwent I am from the future

[@luiscordova1406]

You are now!!!

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

Heh yea

[@MrSkyY06]

For sure! Sound is one of the most important thing to be totally in the ambiance!

[@cs512tr]

so true!

[@anacondaboom6417]

It's amazing how they could make a hovering ball of metal seem so terrifying

[@zathary564]

right now people have a flying metal stick thats really terrifying

[@ryanwimberley2164]

@@zathary564 The B-52?

[@florians9949]

When said metal balls is equiped with four cannons, yeah it is terrifying.

[@RfdMusicOfficial]

Indeed, I was so "afraid" or rather had a bad feeling about these drones even when I thought they were "on the good side". The sound especially is pure horror!

[@JuliusGrande]

@@florians9949 I agree with you, but the way Drone 172 acted after Jack finished reprogramming it was kinda cute.

[@BKofficer23]

The drones were badass.

[@ThomasAllmer]

totally :)

[@AonnrecordsBlogspot]

Yes, and they all need to be destroyed ...

[@philippaterson5736]

YFLOInternational Jurassic Park quote?

[@pikejohnson6409]

I agree.

[@MrJosh5191]

Hell yeah

[@iwanttolearnjapanese]

The sounds those drones make are the stuff on nightmares. Yeesh.

[@timur5241]

It's been made to scare enemies.

[@Rodiboy60]

Mental warfare

[@Uejji]

I feel like the drones gave us a lot of clues early on--the unearthly noises and their strange "buggy" tendency to target Jack for a few moments before clearing him.

[@Southwestchickensalad]

The sound the drone makes at 1:27 as it immediately switches targets to Jack is so unnerving hah

[@yousaltinessfuelsme5330]

Is it just me, or are the sounds the Oblivion Drones make send cold chills down your spine?

[@doughazzard2532]

You Saltiness Fuels Me

[@doughazzard2532]

Yes. Because these are so close to being reality.

[@MrTmel123]

I think its cute

[@JuliusGrande]

@@MrTmel123 I agree with you. Drone 172 acted kinda cute.

[@lautarogomez9711]

@@doughazzard2532 these drones are what man is really

[@BennerzEC]

Does anyone else have a giant nerdgasm at the sight and sound of these drones or am i alone?

[@TomBom292]

I do too

[@grzib]

I havs exactly the same feeling bro !!!!!

[@BennerzEC]

+grzib they're fucking brilliant

[@resonanceofambition]

I want one. Or an army. They're menacing and the noises they make really tell you not to fuck with them. Perfect for policing crowded cities filled with scum.

[@danielwalker4110]

Alternatively, they're excellent at mad cow noises!

[@McVegas2k]

The way it just receded into the smoke...

[@thedawkturr4481]

" Okay fine ... bitch. "

[@gabbif.6274]

lol and the way it's eye was the last thing you could see of it.

[@MrJosh5191]

@@gabbif.6274 spooky

[@tomb2289]

clear/terminate/clear/terminate/clear/terminate

[@NeosAvias]

I know HAL is probably going to hold the title as the most terrifying machine in cinema, but goddamn it the Oblivion Drones are a very close second. They're like the Terminator with less empathy and more power... and if the Terminator was the size of an SUV. Once they honk, you're fucked.

[@ImbaSoulDC]

The sound is frikken amazing. In theatres it literally made the hair on body stand straight up lol.

[@ToothbrushGuy]

+1 dBFS Obviously none of you guys have heard the reapers from Mass Effect :D

[@ImbaSoulDC]

mbavalo It's about the sound design, not the looks lol. Plus, the reapers are just one sided "bad" things, whereas Hal and these drones have this creepy "take care of you, but kill you" factor to them lol.

[@ToothbrushGuy]

+1 dBFS Yup, so do reapers.. not just the power :D

[@Tuberuser187]

The only thing with them is that they are not as dangerous as they could have been, the direct fire cannons make sense considering they often engage in close quarters but where are the long range guided weapons? Missiles, small diameter guided bombs all that sort of weaponry.

[@KuKoKaNuKo]

I love the sound effects of these drones.

[@JeremyBartels.]

KuKoKaNuKo me too

[@aaronhaikal2031]

Same here

[@mandykarevicius9746]

Beep-boop... POOOOOT! *Gets shot in drone butthole* Squeeeeeeeeee...! *explode*

[@Mjolnir9923]

Mandy Karevicius cringe..

[@MovieJunkieOfficial]

Thanks for this mate, the sound design on these drones deserves way more attention. Nice blending of audio between the scenes.

[@p00pie]

Really some of the best sound design ever done.

[@dennissuper8031]

Yeah! the sound really gave me chills!

[@satanicdude]

Perfectly accompanies the menacing visual design of the drones.

[@MrJosh5191]

Agreed

[@MrJosh5191]

@@satanicdude exactly

[@MrJosh5191]

This movie was so underrated. The drones design and audio effects we're amazingly terrifying. I really hope they make a sequel to this. Which I doubt they'll do. I saw this movie about 5 times in the theater too.

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

I'm watching it the first time now and absolutely love it!

[@mahfojorrohman4735]

Movie name?

[@necrocitus8965]

@@mahfojorrohman4735 Oblivion

[@joshpickles9022]

The drones made this movie. Cold, inhuman, menacing and ruthlessly efficient. They sound like they're communicating but you can never tell what they're saying showing how alien they are. They nailed it with the sound effects.

[@smoggyben]

These drones and the sentinels from the matrix films are by far the most brutal flying death machines in film.

[@samflynn97]

I guess you've never seen my mother in a plane before.

[@baitposter]

smoggyben I like these a lot more. They remind me of Hal of 2001 and David from Prometheus, for the fact that they're on your side, but only by a thread's width. It makes them all a bit creepy, because their threat potential is ambiguous.

[@richardcoles2432]

+JustAnotherGaian agree they are very creepy...I loved this film.

[@MrJosh5191]

@@baitposter more villains should be this way

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

@@samflynn97 also the tripods from war of the worlds

[@kazdoe5943]

The sound design on the drones was epic, especially the noise at 3:04 was my favorite

[@TomBom292]

my favorite was at 3:10

[@DocBrooks83]

+Kaz Doe mine is at 0:17

[@stroggwars]

+Kaz Doe Yes, adding also the get ready for fire is fantastic

[@apexparker438]

3:04 *no targets found, continuing scan* 3:10 *Hostile detected, engaging*

[@MrJosh5191]

Mine too. Eerly similar to war of the worlds tripod

[@Xandermorph]

For me what makes these things so horrifying is the same as it was with the Tripods from the War of the Worlds film... which oddly enough also starred Tom Cruise... anyway, it's the fact that death is so instantaneous and in an instant there's NOTHING of you left - no time for your brain to experience that final "death neurochemistry" experience that dying brains ease with it - you're just... GONE. To others that may seem like the opposite, but to me, the idea of being robbed of that final "death experience" sounds terrible. I guess the same goes for any manner of death that obliterates your brain.

[@Alpharius93]

+Xandermorph Never thought of it that way... I think I would prefer to at least have enough time to realize I will be gone in short time, before being vaporized. I have no idea what would be preferable though. Maybe we should ask the dead...

[@Xandermorph]

+Alpharius93 Haha! Well, if necromancy ever comes in "just add water" form, I'll give that a try... However, going on the basis of the vast majority of near-death-experience reports, it would seem that your brain does indeed have something of a "procedure" for dying, assuming it's intact. While it's a very controversial idea, I personally lean toward the idea that when the brain thinks it's about to die, it starts releasing DMT.

[@Xandermorph]

+Alpharius93 But either way, yeah I agree - final neurochemically-induced transcendental experience or not, I still would want to have at least some semblance of awareness that I'm about to die. To instantly be obliterated and just "switched off" so abruptly is a concept that deeply disturbs me. LOL man, what a weirdly dark topic to get into in the context of a video like this, huh? :P Honestly though, it's almost impossible for me to watch movies with death scenes like this and NOT start contemplating it. When I saw War of the Worlds in the theater, I actually missed around 15-20 mins following the first attack scene because I started contemplating being instantly incinerated to ash XD - in the end, my introspection about the scene scared me WAY more than the scene itself :P

[@Alpharius93]

Xandermorph Yeah, what a topic :S Something similar happened to me on various times after watching a few particular deaths on films and videogames. I remember watching in Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth, in first person (temporary mind projection to other character), being thrown into a rock grinder. The connection broke abruptly after less than a second, but I was left disturbed for the rest of the day. Not a death I would enjoy either...

[@MrJosh5191]

@@Xandermorph maybe that's the point of the drones. Obliterate the person before their soul can leave. Maybe Scientology knows something? Who knows lol

[@wildzach]

Love the sound when its about to fire

[@TheRisingStorm316]

*(loud whirring followed immediately by the sound of a plasma cannon being fired)*

[@Owers100]

0:04 it's a cow!

[@aronzepokemon2619]

Sound like a goat to me

[@AZURA888]

a radioactive mutant alien electric cow.

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

More like the old fashion car noise

[@thelonious2213]

3:20 it's a TIE Fighter!

[@marvinsilverman4394]

chewbacca sound

[@taylorchristensen2843]

Ser Jaime Lannister, the Droneslayer

[@trollardo9720]

Thats Tom Cruise, not Nikolaj Coster Waldau

[@taylorchristensen2843]

@@trollardo9720 Who do you think is shooting at 3:18

[@animeshanandcool]

Jamie fooking Lannister

[@stemakwest7165]

I love it that (despite you being the drone repair guy) they are always on the verge of just ending you anyways. It’s like that dangerous moment when you wake someone from a deep sleep.

[@gnarly441]

These drones are badass! very cool I'd be more scared of one of these then a terminator lol

[@gnarly441]

Top Kat Your right the harvester is pretty scary lol especially with those noises it makes let's just hope robots never take over

[@gnarly441]

Top Kat Sounds like a hell of a party lol

[@MrJosh5191]

Same

[@Isabonsai]

I find the drones a bit scary.

[@k.sallar5218]

you should

[@jalijah03]

Because they blast your ass

[@Isabonsai]

Jalijah austin yes and they make strange noises.

[@jalijah03]

+Isabelle Brockmann the noises dosent really scare me and how's it is strange but it only makes beeping noises

[@fahmimtw3958]

you should man, the fire power, the speed, the tracking device, 360 degress sight, and of course the sound.

[@lermi389]

I you pay close attention to the sounds the drones make, it is almost if you could hear all the little servos moving and mechanical noises a machine that size would make. That and the brutal efficiency they employ to kill humans are what makes them such scary and fearsome antagonists. Truly a highlight of the film, along with many other things

[@Stripcherry3]

The slight echo in the drone's tones make the sound seem very loud and powerful, that's what i think makes them so scary

[@robroy01]

OMG!!! that drones are so scary and super powerful.

[@moshik5]

The visual design of a baseball with cannons with a sound design that is basically a processed sample of a cow! So simple! So good!

[@VII0777]

I love how dissonant and "unmusical" the sounds they make are. Great effort was put into avoiding any sort of coherent chord progression with the beeps and boops, low rumbling, and their strange mooing that is recognizably vocal, but...not. Almost every sound they make, except for the pure tone they emit when all's clear, is ragged. They jam a whole bunch of barely differentiated tones together and it creats highly dissonant "chords" which we do not find pleasant. A bit of sound theory goes a long way and the designers here put it to very effective use.

[@radiantjet418]

The drons in this movie were pretty awesome! In reality a sphear drone with guns that can shoot in all directions would be lethal. I am sure if the made a real weapon system like this they would have long range support drones that all communicate. Our tech might not be able to make them now but in the future we might see something close to this. Have a weapon system work as a team and like a wolf pack. Now that would be lethal! Also what a aweful way for a all machine alien to attack earth! use one of there best to clone and attack the earth. But I tell you one thing. Man, I would love to have a house like that above the clouds! Have a heli pad. It would be a bitch to land on! But that clear pool 3000ft up would be amazing!

[@radiantjet418]

***** WOW! I did not know the Abrams M1A1 had a system like that! Yeah it is scary to think we already have systems like that. Which can carry over to autonomous robots later on. Lockeed/Martin is working on making a nuclear power device the size of a backpack or smaller. When that happens I am sure we will see those power suits the US Army has been testing. They have the tech for the power suit but lack a good power source so it's pretty much plugged into the wall.

[@TevinP]

2:20 This ain't over yet

[@XxBunnytailxX]

they protecc they attacc but most importantly... they like jacc

[@spyrothelegendarypurpledra8786]

Drone: Beep (Identify yourself) Jack: DO YOU NOT REMEMBER ME FROM LAST TIME??? Fuck you, drone

[@TaskSwitcherify]

"Confused robot overrides 3 laws, tries to take out Tom Cruise"

[@Ganon999]

Some of the best sound design in almost any sci-fi movie! So awesome!

[@flame9276]

3:17 these drones were really badass...

[@JGxTech90]

Watching the movie in theatres and at 1:43 some little kid just goes "SPAAAAAAAACCEEEEEEE!!!" I lost my shit I was laughing so hard

[@TheFallen552]

Drone #166 = Jack's Guardian Angel (sort of)

[@aldemola9096]

How???

[@MoretonBaySlug]

Until it tried to kill him, yeah.

[@strangeluck]

Someone online said Jack and 166 have an interesting relationship through the movie. You almost get to know 166.

[@TheRisingStorm316]

Drone #166 didn’t see Jack as a threat until it received orders to kill him. That and #166 was actively killing unconscious survivors of a shipwreck right in front of Jack.

[@benediktk.8228]

If you think about it, instead of leaving scary drawings on the shot down drones, people could just have left text messages on them making it much easier to explain themselves.

[@SpotTiger]

Everyone is commenting on the sound design. I love it too! It seems like some noises are for intimidation (ED209 was based on the same principle. A broken, struggling robot isn't scary... If it screams like a dozen of monsters being tortured, you won't go near that. 😜) , some for interaction with technicians(Like Google Now or siri. The TALK NOW sound is simple and effective.) , and some for scanning the environment! (Basically an audible sonar/ultrasound sensor) I think that's why it shrieked after being shot in the last scene! That would also explain why it's "grunting" all the time! Plus, that shot backwards... AGH! I love those scary, murderous machines! 😆

[@VaeVictisXIII]

Loved these sounds so much I had to get them modded into my Fallout 4 game, nothing more terrifying now than stumbling on a sentry bot that sounds like this!

[@화성진요양병원]

This movie was the best movie that I will remember. The scenario is also a realistic, researched, and adapted version of a possible future situation. I think I've seen it ten times.

[@Xandermorph]

Final word - these drones - also like the Tripods - have the COOLEST sound design!!

[@snoopdogssb2]

but tripods has legs

[@n4ko]

i never realized how many awesome sci fi movies tom has... this minority report and edge of tomorrow.. am i missing any? i hope he keeps releasing movies like this

[@DiiGiiTAL]

Man the sound design of the drones in this film was fucking immense.

[@sebastiana2196]

I never saw this movie but for some reason I had. dream about it... this movie came out like 3 years ago wtf... guess I have to watch the movie.

[@davewolf8869]

MASSIVE nerdgasm from 1:00 to 1:12 the way the screen shakes when the plasma hits the target, exploding it from within is... Ugh I can watch it over and over and I have. And the ways the guns fire sequentially, and the way they articulate is wonderful! I can't get enough of them. The sounds they make is reminiscent of windows sound imo as if bill gates designed the software. "Hello, should I kill you? No? Happy beep."

[@M3iscool]

0:50 I think that one is my favorite scene.

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

SCANNING FOR THOTS

[@TheRisingStorm316]

@@panzerknackerauto8227 *>TERMINATE

[@madjestyy]

I feel like the drones in CP2077: PM have used some inspiration of the drone sounds in this movie

[@Guitarfollower22]

2:23 Yo that gives me the chills

[@necromancer3394]

Wtf i though a spider on my telephone

[@necromancer3394]

But it was ur avatar 😂😂😂😂😂

[@xaptus]

1:38 I love that *hey!* was what granted the drone to recognize his alliance

[@TheRisingStorm316]

Drone #166 must’ve had a short memory as well because it prompted Jack to identify himself twice in the same ten seconds by scanning him.

[@Enemji]

The humanization of the drones is absoutely beautifully done.

[@banhbaothit1629]

The drones are my favorite characters from the movie 🤣

[@HandroXYT]

1:17 i really love the buzz

[@theilliad4298]

I love this movie , especially the design of the home.

[@Megadriver]

Those things were awesome! The drones and the cool VTOL-thing made the movie awesome.

[@MrkiMash]

I love the drones! And the movie is great. There should be another movie.

[@isaiahphillip4112]

Oblivion 2: Attack of the Drones, Lol.

[@MrkiMash]

yeah :D it will be great

[@aldemola9096]

Isaiah Phillip LOL

[@elementseb3735]

Why do they remind me of the gekkos from metal Gear solid 4 , making a death machine sound like an animal is a great use of psychological horror

[@daliilars3350]

The only time Andrea Riseborough has been absolutely gorgeous.

[@AonnrecordsBlogspot]

Watching these drones become a reality ... manifesting ... and materializing in the Real World ...

[@marcusreshoft4959]

I need this for my personal safety. Top 100 pieces to the beginning should be enough

[@filipoberrio8677]

sorry but did anyone else notice at 2:26 the noise it makes sounds like its going "ooooh!" with excitement. like "ooh I gots me a bio-trail betta follow it"

[@jayalston3625]

Olly Dixon ha lol

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

Huh

[@kieranschafer5180]

The tracking and the 360° movement is scary.

[@MrHartApart]

this is one of the better?best sci fi movies of today.. hey Tom.. either keep doing these, or get friends to do a few.... these are fucking awesome!

[@PeterSellers22]

It's underrated

[@MrJosh5191]

Yess

[@MrJosh5191]

@@PeterSellers22 definitely

[@TheVictor639514]

It's not very often you see a war drone killing machine shaped after a B-17's ball turret... :P

[@realMrVent]

So...we're not going to discuss the hauntingly organic screeching the drone made when hit in a weakspot?

[@laszlonagy02]

I always love unique robotic sounds in movies and games. I love this one too.

[@nyusufffff]

One of the most terrifying AI machines in movie history. Others to mention are HAL from Space Odyssey, Metalhead from Black Mirror, and Sonny from iRobot. What other robots do you guys find terrifying?

[@MrJosh5191]

Robot from RoboCop forgot it's name. Creeped me out as a kid... I was like 5 😂. The robot from lost in space. The newer one. He's blue and red

[@TheRisingStorm316]

⁠@@MrJosh5191 You’re referring to RoboCain (RoboCop 2) and B-9 (Lost in Space)

[@JuliusGrande]

Thomas Allmer, why in the world would anyone want this video removed? You have done a great job making the video. Please do not doubt yourself.

[@jacketylon]

Drone 166 is most certainly the most badass of them all

[@JoePorg]

2:20 the way that drone slowly backed into the smoke was so cool

[@kyleman1313]

I love the sounds they make.

[@sksinha1]

I have got to get me one of these!!

[@SmileyDude909]

Tangled is the greatest film of all time 😂

[@BlackSticky]

Please! Never delete this!

[@thelonious2213]

1:23 Man I could listen to that idling engine hum for hours!!!

[@ineedboostsobad]

You know you've made great games, when your sound effects are used in hollywood movies.

[@bakstenenmandjes8702]

3:21 DEJA VU! I'VE JUST BEEN IN THIS PLACE BEFORE! (HIGER ON THE STREET) AND I KNOW IT IS MY TIME TO COME HOME!

[@panzerknackerauto8227]

bakstenen mandjes I WASNT THE ONLY ONE

[@warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898]

That doorbell sound, though..........

[@joellum01]

I like that Oblivion Drones, if they were mass produced, they'll make an aerial combat against air units.

[@Vulpio7775]

They're like the turrets from portal 2, but mobile.

[@samflynn97]

nguyen danny On two separate occasions they only got a hit after missing about 50 times. You call that accuracy?

[@pikejohnson6409]

Yeah.

[@ineedboostsobad]

That's because they were designed with those in mind. They even use the same sound effects.

[@WinderBlitz]

i can imagine the turret voice clips betwen the sound effects

[@TheCoolProfessor]

Those are the most adorable heavily-armed ping pong balls I've ever seen.

[@szamanisticrealistic2659]

could be the most epic fight scenes in a sci fi movie ever. that drone was nuclear f dope.

[@neroxfrostbyte7461]

Another detail that I recently found out, is the main reason on why the Jack Harper clones haven't really seen a Scav up close to identify them, is that with the major of the killings being done by drones, the drones basically disintegrate their all carbon-based lifeforms that they find, mainly humans, so it would be hard for the Jack Harper clones to identify something that is human by their ashes when they go out in the world to run repairs/maintenance on drones as well as have reservations or feel bad/guilty about killing other humans since the Jack Harper clones were brainwashed and told that the Scavs where extra-terrestial aliens that came from a different planet and invaded Earth going with the story the Tet provided all of them when creating the Jack Harper clones

[@samnissan2003]

Love the sound effects!

[@SMVvids]

HAL9000's Great Grandson

[@cuantosinsenntido1682]

The honk is my favourite sound effect, you know something bad is going to happen ;D

[@hydrobazooka]

The “Waaaaawwwwa” is my favorite😁❤️

[@thereclaimer2945]

This movie and those drones are so Awesome. also, notice how it’s always drone 166 that Jack encounters for most of the movie? I thought that was a really cool detail, Drone 166 is also part of the Squad of 3 that chases after Julia and Jack in the Chase scene.

[@IRAFOX888]

3:04 QUAD DAMAGE

[@jakewarren2369]

so if we ever do make fully automated drone weaponry like this i think its mandatory to make them have these terrifying sounds to instill fear into the enemy

[@tlas9574]

It only would it be a weapon of war but a weapon of psychology against humans

[@PolynoxalClementines]

3:11 my favourite part anyone know what sound the second audio piece could be? the first one sounds like a police car horn then the second some sort of fax machine or wild variation of it but i can't figure out what it could be.

[@PolynoxalClementines]

+Polynoxal Clementines So if anyone is interested, I found that if you go to Audacity and Generate > Tone with a square waveform, frequency 890, amplitude 0.5, then create a second one to sound after 1 second with frequency 900 amp .5, it has almost the same sound effect as 3:11

[@apexparker438]

3:11 is that "of fuck!!" Moment

[@fatherstrong6180]

These drones , war of the world tripods , mass effect reapers - scariest sounding enemies

[@Jack458111]

Why does so much of the alien tech have human numbers and letters?

[@wesleymiles8756]

beep beep, bloop bloop, HOONNKKK!!!!!

[@2Fast4U40]

Now thats what I call ruthless efficiency!

[@olternaut]

166 was a bit more ruthless than the average drone wasn't he?

[@tymack5629]

Did you see the drawing on him

[@olternaut]

@@tymack5629 No, I did see the making of video. But I'm going to look at the artist's work more closely.

[@LipticZone]

i love the drone's scanning sound

[@AonnrecordsBlogspot]

After watching this video ... then watch this video titled, "US Air force STEALTH UAV armed with LASER GUN named General Atomics Avenger"

[@Kavilion_]

These sounds are my will to live...

[@JahSoulJah91]

wow thx for uploading this ;)

[@PM9Video]

Cyberdyne Systems should have made these drones instead, they'd have had JC in five mins.

[@mbmajor01]

I don't know why skynet just didn't nuke the resistance again lol

[@olternaut]

Exceptional drone design everything from the hardware design to the artificial intelligence. My version however would utilize anti-gravity fields instead of those thrusters. Although the thruster design does seem to be highly efficient. With a few modifications they would be wonderful at maintaining order during the upcoming global dictatorship.

[@TheRisingStorm316]

Patch the weak spot on the drone’s back as well and there you go