The dog unit has arrived... all made in blender with substance painter for the materials/textures. most of the modelling made with boolean modifieres and there a bit of regular poly modelling too, rendered using the eevee renderer, around 20-30 seconds a frame on a laptop with a 2bg graphics card.
with a little camera truck
eevee realtime viewport render
video of the dog being made all in blender and substance, mostly boolean modelling, sped up from about 1 hour to 5 mins.