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Backlot builds complete film sets in one click: a soundstage or a location, the set itself, and every piece of gear a real crew would bring. Each set is different. Pick a green screen stage, a commercial cyc, an interview, a drama living room, a news studio, a podcast, a music video, a sci-fi corridor, a wet night street or a western backlot, and Backlot places the cameras, lights, stands, grip, power and crew area where a gaffer, a key grip and a camera team would put them.

Everything stays editable. Click any camera, light or cart and swap it for another model from a picture gallery: a different cinema camera, a dolly instead of a tripod, an HMI instead of a tungsten fresnel, a softbox, an octa or barndoors, another stand. Change the height, tilt, gel, Kelvin and brightness of every light; the real Blender light follows, so your renders are lit like the set. Your edits survive when you rebuild the set.

Clean, used or dirty

One switch sets the condition of the whole set or of a single item: rental-fresh gear on a swept floor, a normal shooting day with scuffs and tape marks, or the end of a long shoot with dust, grime, chipped paint, cups and call sheets on the floor.

11 kinds of film set
Green screen, drama set, news studio, night street, podcast, cyc, sci-fi corridor, interview, western, music video or a bare stage.

Swap any light
Change a fixture, its softbox or barndoors and its gel from a picture gallery. The real Blender light follows.

Clean, used or dirty
One switch takes the whole set from rental-fresh to the end of a long shoot.

Any camera, any support
Cinema, film, broadcast or mirrorless cameras on a tripod, dolly, slider, jib, crane, Steadicam or pedestal.

Features

• 11 set types and 13 one-click presets, each a different kind of production
• Cinema, film, broadcast, ENG and mirrorless cameras on tripods, dollies, sliders, jibs, cranes, Steadicams and pedestals
• Fresnels, HMIs, PARs, LED panels and tubes, Kino Flos, COB monolights, china balls, space lights, lekos and balloon lights
• Real Blender lights with Kelvin, gels, intensity and beam; real Blender cameras you can look through
• Flags, frames, V-flats, reflectors, apple boxes, sandbags, ladders and carts
• Generator, distro boxes and power cables routed to every light, rerouted live when you move gear
• Video village, director's chairs, DIT and sound carts, boom, slate and craft services
• Photoreal PBR materials from real photo textures that also work in game engines
• Colors for gear, stands, fabrics, sandbags, tape, walls, cyc and screens

Requires Blender 4.2 or newer. Tested on Blender 4.2, 4.5 and 5.2 LTS.