The Maze Runner - Beetle Blade Designs

Hello people! Here are a few Beetle Blade concepts I did for ''The Maze Runner'' (2014). Altough they didn't end up in the film, I had a blast designing them. There were a few fun scenes in the movie script.
Director Wes Ball described them as the 'observation cameras' of the maze, therefore I attempted to make the design very functional.
At the very beginning we thought about making them bio-mechanical, similar to the Grievers. Wes wanted something like a mutated and scary looking sowbug. Although we later decided to make them robotic, I tried to give them a scary organic look. I made the shell translucent to show the mechanics inside its body.

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