How I Made Pro VFX in a BARN! (New Tech REVEAL)

This video is an overview of Greenscreen Virtual Production, using Lightcraft Jetset, Blender, and Nuke.

This system also exports to Unreal Engine - and Live Link preview is coming soon.

This combination of software, as well as using pratical FX and some tricky compositing techniques, proves that virtual production doesn't require expensive LED stages or millions of dollars. If you have an idea you can make it happen.

Big thanks to the team at Lightcraft for sponsoring this video.

00:00 Introduction
00:32 Final Shot
00:50 Behind the Scenes Intro
01:34 Set Building & Scene Planning
03:13 Practical FX
05:05 Lightcraft Jetset Virtual Production
08:22 Conclusion

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Sony FX3:

FX3 Charger and Batteries:

Sony Lens (Zeiss Distagon 35mm):

Sony Lens 2 (50mm 1.4 GM Lens):

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Ronin RS3 Gimbal:

RS3 SmallRig Attachments for Attaching ATOMOS TO RIG:

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Atomos Ninja-V (For prores raw out of FX3):

Smallrig HDMI (Atomos to FX3):

Cable to ingest footage:

Ninja V Extra Batteries:

AtomX 1tb SSD For Ninja-V (you'll need it for pro-res raw):

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LIGHTS:

BIG LIGHT:
Amaran 200xS:

C-Stand to hold Light

Amaran 200xS softbox:

SMALL LIGHTS (these are great):

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GREENSCREEN:

POP-UP GREENSCREEN:

Tracking markers (Green ducktape):

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MISC
Camera Bag:

Backup Storage Devices:

Laser Measurement for Set Measurement:

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VIRTUAL PRODUCTION ATTACHMENT LINKS COMING SOON.

[CompositingAcademy]

Thanks for watching and sharing! Let me know what you guys thought about this as well, I'm curious to hear others thoughts! If you want to learn compositing, check out our course below:
(This course comes from my experience working on movies like Star Wars, Avengers, Avatar, and more)


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[focusmedia]

This is really exciting and gives me hope at getting into compositing footage. I love that you can see your scene in real time, what an absolute game changer. Thank you for all of your work put into this video. The scene you created was so amazing and detailed as well, very impressive!

[TheDavidTurk]

this may be one of the best VFX breakdowns I've ever seen!! So awesome to see how you made this using so many different techniques and tools! BRAVO!!!!

[InLightVFX]

You were featured in Andrew Price's newsletter that just came out - nice!

[dakshpandya]

I did the excat same setup last year. Connected my iphone with live link camera. And attched it over my dslr. So my dslr shot live action while iphone captured unreal footage. Combined together gave amazingly well made product

[JoshuaMKerr]

Great work on this breakdown, Alex. Im so impressed by what you managed to achieve. It's an amazing system, isn't it.

[luxuryrapchannel]

This is absolutely the best use of JetSet I have ever seen!!

[whypee]

Well, this video has motivated me once again after all the burnout afflicted by writer's strike and extra pressure of work and learning side by side. So good to see that with such small team and assets we can create such a stunning shot.

[snehalkm]

This is really great Alex, Stuff we really dont learn even while working for VFX. Super proud and happy to see you from MPC and watching you here in YouTube. Keep making. Just by making this, made me fall in love in movies again. Thank you so much and good luck for the rest of the videos. Looking forward.

[lucywallace]

This is really amazing! Thanks so much as always Alex for sharing such interesting and exciting VFX techniques 😊 Would definitely love to try out this virtual production workflow.

[buddyfx]

Yea this was great, thanks so much for the thoughtful explanation of the entire process. Instant sub!

[FX_AnimationStudios]

super awesome!! really nice seeing the BTS

[TheMagnel]

The tutorial is very inspiring and the final product looks great! Thanks a lot.

[NirmalVfxArtist]

Fantastic! Manipulating light to our advantage in terms of saving cost and time is something rare these days!

[dr.pixels]

I've been seeing this lightcraft jetset a ton, it seems cool for pro users, I'm a humble vfx and motion designer with a simple greenscreen room, 3 rgb lights for the screen and 4 white led lights for my talent. I use the unreal camera on my android and set it on top of my mirrorless camera, set a few tracking markers and do a live key inside unreal, the plate is there and I can see it on the phone while the main camera is sending the video to unreal, is basic AF but it works and for quick comps is phenomenal at least to me. I also record on camera a full 4k 10 bits video to comp again if needed after I render the plates. if not, is live on unreal and directly to another pc that pics the video signal and recorded on obs is all basic but it works.

[ChronicleMove]

Cool! It would be interesting to hear what difficulties and limitations your team encountered when using this pipeline?

[johnwoods]

Really great advice for people who have a friend who owns an ABANDONED BARN. Lack of physical space is the toughest obstacle to my plans. Can't even use my garage, because it's full of someone else's stuff. I'll call you back when I find my barn

[GabrielMendezC]

For an aspiring VFX artist such as myself, this is really awesome content to learn from. Thanks Alex! 🙌

[SHVWNCOOPER]

this is exactly what i need. now if you have unreal engine tutorials i'm subbing lol

[DEADIKATED]

Awesome! I 'm actually trying to figure out a Solution for a complicated Green Screen Shot at the moment. Very Inspiring. I subbed