We Built A Low Budget SCI-FI COCKPIT & It Looks INCREDIBLE!

[@rangefreewords]

I really want to build one just for Zoom room meetings, video messenger, etc. So many cool ways to take this!

[@InCameraTV]

haha, everyone would be too distracted by the cockpit for the meeting to be productive!😂

[@Anthony53106]

Inner Space is a great movie.

[@InCameraTV]

It’s amazing, right!?

[@chrisose]

Having worked numerous film sets over the years, you would be surprised at just how cobbled together many sets are even on major features. If you pay attention you can see that most sets are made up of everyday items painted and combined so that the majority of the audience would never recognize them. Not that the average audience member pays close enough attention to there surroundings to even recognize these items in there natural form which is exactly why this works.

[@InCameraTV]

Totally!

[@maxchannel4671]

Salute ! We also build a Millennium Falcon cockpit in the Philippines using scraps ( old sound mixer, old joystick, old keyboard, etc.

[@zaptronic]

The Innerspace reference!!!!!!!!

[@InCameraTV]

Yes! Well spotted

[@zaptronic]

@@InCameraTV I don't think many people have seen Innerspace these days. Whereas when I did my military service back in 1988-89, we even adopted the "Zero Defects" as a slogan for our weather radar craw, yelling "Weather Radar: ZERO DEFECTS!" when we lined up in the excercise yard... ah, those were the days.

[@InCameraTV]

@@zaptronic Love it!

[@zaptronic]

@@InCameraTV ...and in the artillery, "weather radar" just means "release tiny baloon and measure wind at different heights using a small portable radar on a trailer behind your army truck" and doens't really have anything to do with *weather* in a traditional sense. That doesn't change the fact that my troups "radar tech" eventually got a job in the Swedish weather service, and is now a well known weatherman in Swedish TV (Per-Erik Åberg) :)

[@DecadesApartProductions]

Oh boy, now I can make my own version of Dark Star!

[@euansmith3699]

Boiler, "What's Talby's first name?" Doolittle, "What's my first name?"

[@vibrolax]

What are you going to use to make the "alien" creature prop? Might have to use CGI :).

[@euansmith3699]

@@vibrolax It is such a cleverly made film, isn't it. The scene in the "lift shaft" really gets my vertigo going.

[@vibrolax]

I own two copies of the DVD. One of my all-time favorites

[@mirozen_]

@@vibrolax One for each eyeball! Nice! :-)

[@Ed-davies]

Oh man this is without a doubt your best work yet. It really hits home with me and takes me back to when I was 7 when I had a big box that I installed lights, switches and dials to like a spaceship cockpit! This is very much a grown up version of this, feeling very inspired now! I love the shots through the washing machine door, they're absolutely epic!

[@indiecinemaster4699]

_Innerspace_ is one of the best and most underrated comedies ever made...

[@stevenr6397]

so glad he went there, use the word pod and its just where my mind goes!

[@InCameraTV]

Fact.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

100% agree. Was a GREAT movie.

[@niallmccaffrey791]

I was delighted to hear that line :)

[@trex6142]

love the sound from a thrown switch

[@BingBailey]

you are knocking it out of the park

[@AnimationGoneWrong]

That is an awesome build! I love the use of old, non-traditional stuff to fill in for Sci-Fi props. Plenty of mainstream films out there that have done it. The end results speak for themselves... impressive!

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you!

[@douglasfreeman3229]

Great video. This is how those clever, inventive designers used to do the old Dr. Who. I love it!

[@InCameraTV]

Thanks, Douglas!

[@AlexCarby]

Lovely to see some Mayall 'n' Edmonson appreciation in there, as well as creative hoarding of things being reused. Vindication for holding on to things for the win.

[@jellybertdelattiba7603]

Amazing what a kid and a grown up man sharing the same soul can do ... Everything, obviously ! Thanks for sharing bits and pieces of your dreams !

[@InCameraTV]

No worries! Hope you liked the video!

[@JoQeZzZ]

Amazing. Those panels are so good too. Loved the sodacan dials. I wasn't expecting the frontal shots to work as well as they did either. You literally can't tell the cockpit is only about a meter and a half deep

[@GeekFilter]

Funny coincidence, I once used a stock image of a guy staring into a washing machine window to represent someone looking out into space through a porthole. Worked fantastically well!

[@splintershield]

OMG the Innerspace reference at the end made me grin and giggle - SUCH an underrated film!

[@kevinski1966]

I know right! I love the effects in inner space

[@timulewicz466]

Wow wow wow…….wow 😎🤘

[@ChristopherCricketWallace]

RESPECT!

[@dskyeproducer]

All of this was awesome. But the best part? The INNERSPACE reference at the end.

[@InCameraTV]

Haha yessss!

[@philippefrancken.]

Your enthusiasm is always infectious. I need to start watching your vids at the beginning of the day so I get inspired and actually get filming or storyboarding myself and the filming. Late at night I just get way to enthusiastic myself and want to do stuff when I should be sleeping! Keep it up. Love your team.

[@MartinFutter70]

Hhhhmmm...the old washing machine sitting on the balcony ready to go down the recycling centre is now saying 'turn me into a submersible !' Great stuff lads 👍🤘🍺🇬🇧

[@InCameraTV]

Haha go for it Martin🤣

[@MartinFutter70]

@@InCameraTV I wish! My partner would soon 'sink' that idea...Christmas day and a large cardboard box is the best I can hope for...keep up the great work 👍

[@Carteblanchefx]

Aha! That's what I'm waiting for! One thousand thanks guys! ^_^

[@LoneWolf-ex5um]

Incredible 👏 👏 👏

[@PatriaSports]

Great episode guys! Greetings from Brazil!

[@InCameraTV]

Obrigado!

[@kingpen]

I love it, loads of greebles and baubles~!

[@MrNeilfatmonkey]

When you brought out that Nimrod panel I got flashbacks of my years on 206 Squadron. If I’m not mistaken it’s a panel from the air engineer’s seat behind the pilots, but I could be wrong; it’s been a long time. Great video; I love your enthusiasm for this stuff!

[@redadamearth]

I'm absolutely going to do this, this year. Have a perfect workspace for it and a place to put it when it's finished.

[@thinkinmonkey]

Big congrats for the result, but, hey, let me tell you: this video, about you constructing the cockpit, reminded me the movie "Explorers" in a very good and happy way. I think I need to rewatch it... one day or another...

[@andrewglazebrook1585]

I believe that lamp housing is the same type Martin Bower and Bill Pearson used on their miniature for the 'Io' Mining Colony in Outland (1981) They used 3 or 4 for some tops of towers ! Fabulous video guys as usual !

[@InCameraTV]

Good eye sir! Yesterday's stuff is tomorrow's cooling tower. (P)

[@EthanfromEngland-]

This is beyond incredible! I want you to use this now and produce an entire mystery/alien underwater series produced by you guys. Your work is so inspiring!

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you!

[@euansmith3699]

There are so many fun details in this set. The washing-machine porthole works so well; especially from the exterior view. Wow! The big sub is paper-craft?! 😲🤩

[@InCameraTV]

Thanks Euan, glad you enjoyed the video!

[@TheMattAbeln]

I'm crapping all over!! I've literally been searching for weeks for inspiration for spaceship cockpits, cyberpunk set design, and the like. So grateful I found this channel , JUST A FEW DAYS AGO!

[@InCameraTV]

That's amazing to hear Matt, hope you found the video helpful!

[@scruffynerd84]

I love this channel, gives mythbusters vibes Tommy is like Adam, kinda goofy and wild and JP is like Jamie very pragmatic. Great stuff as always.

[@morganellieification]

I feel very proud to have wandered into your studio mid-build and had you talk me through the set-up in it's infancy, Amazing work as always

[@InCameraTV]

Thanks Tom!

[@JudgeMinty]

Love it, the haze and lighting make so much difference

[@stinkyham9050]

I love how filming props and sets can be so unfinished as long as everything in the shot looks finished. The cockpit is essentially only half built, it has no exterior at all and some of the screens they installed don't even work yet it all looks so realistic that you'd think they used a real submersible to film in. Awesome!

[@InCameraTV]

As Tommy says, you only need to dress to the camera!

[@Priestbokmei1]

Very, very, cool. I will never outgrow sci-fi stuff! Good job, dudes!👌

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

[@richardhedderly]

Very effective!

[@InCameraTV]

Thanks, Richard!

[@patrickcardon1643]

So jealous!

[@rexjaneway186]

This is freaking awesome!, I will make one sooner or later. Great work mate.

[@mickymouse7717]

wow great video,, i can tell your channel is going to get really big.. good luck to you

[@InCameraTV]

Here’s hoping so! Thank you!

[@mikeparker3865]

Jack... it worked. You just digested the bad guy.

[@madaboutpuppets]

As always, another great video. I did want to give something back in the way of a tip. When cutting with a jigsaw, if you hold it upside down and cut from the underside of the wood, it is easier to see the line and most of the debris then gets pulled away from you, rather than into the air. The first time you do it, it will seem awkward, but stick with it.

[@kleverstudios]

this is easily one of my favorite channels. never miss an upload. can’t wait to see what else you guys do

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you! The support is very genuinely appreciated. (P)

[@RexusKing]

This is so cool! Question: will using flat/matte paint be better for shooting purpose? I'm guessing it's easier to hide brush marks and easier to light?

[@InCameraTV]

Correct!

[@GeahkBurchill]

Tip for removable wall sections in the future is just to use dowels instead of bolts. Drill all the way through with a 6mm bit, then re-drill one side with 6,5mm. Then install dowels. Use c-clamps to hold everything together. It’s WAY faster to shoot when all you have to do is loosen 3-to-5 clamps rather than unbolting 10-to-15 bolts. After all, you can do as many dowels as you want for alignment but you need very little to hold it all together.

[@alexflores7652]

I would love to see one of these cockpit mock-up's look like a battlemech cockpits for that fully immersive experience.

[@ivantheterrible2796]

A dishwasher door! I never would have guessed. This was another awesome watch. Thank you for the amazing content.

[@devin8656]

Brilliant work as always! Thanks for helping keep practical effects and sets alive. It truly is a dying art form despite being more convincing in almost every conceivable way.

[@burtsfilms]

Awesome!! Just exactly what i needed for my planned sci fi short! Thanks!

[@taitano12]

This is actually how most sets like this are built. 2x4s, plywood, greeblies, etc. Add some paint and yer done! TV shows may be built sturdier so it can last multiple seasons, but not necessarily. Just look at old behind-the-scenes images of the Millennium Falcon set; it looks very similar to the frame of what you built here.

[@ShaneBauer7877]

amazing job

[@DanielS2001]

I gave this video a thumbs up for the Innerspace reference. You would have gotten it for the video itself, but the Innerspace reference sealed the deal. :)

[@InCameraTV]

It's really just a brilliant film, LOVE Joe Dante!

[@DanielS2001]

@@InCameraTV I know! :D

[@icklemoo]

so cool indeed ... always love the idea and seeing minatures mixed with live action ... something very physical and warm about models ...

[@JordanWright17]

Amazing video again, can’t wait for the rest of the series!

[@InsidetheBoothTV]

great video! love it

[@sbcinema]

I just revisited this video because I'm currently recreating the interior of a spaceship for a short film I'm making, very inspiring 🙂

[@wickedjuice]

Just more great content from this excellent channel.

[@lachlanmayfield4599]

Loving this series guys, the interior looked fantastic when it was all lit up!

[@InCameraTV]

It was so cool to see on camera after all the work put into it!

[@DavidALovingMPF102]

Dang! I wish we were neighbors! My garage is full of packing material, hoses, electronics, lights, poles, clamps, masonite, paint, fog machine, green screens..and my wife's car! I turned a plastic shed into the helm or bridge of a spaceship. Script is about ready. 3 actors and a robot voice over. Lots of royalty free music and sound effects. Now winter is approaching! Maybe in Spring. Great job!! Lots of movies and tv shows out here in New Mexico.

[@tekkythai]

cant wait to see the film that emerges from this project

[@robholder5825]

Another banger of a video. Love seeing it all come together. And timelapse is the only way to paint....Brilliant work as always, Team.

[@ericvillari8100]

Outstandingly good. I'm certain you'd know the sequence from Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey, where astronaut Dave Bowman has been stranded in the EVA pod and is prepping the explosive bolts for his daring re-entry to the mother ship. Your cockpit gave me a similar vibe. To know that you did it all with stuff you can either find or buy cheaply, and aided immeasurably by your good mates' generosity makes it all the more remarkable. Sensational work.

[@MrJulianguillaume]

Amazing stuff ! luv the woodwork too !!

[@ronnonyabizness5240]

When I was 12, I was stripping junked cars for my dad on weekends. I pocketed switches and lights and wires to make my own BSG Viper cockpit using just the switches lights and a car battery. Using card board, duck take and spray paint, I made my first cockpit. Last project I did was about 10 years ago, converting and old Alphajet simulator (made by CAS) using modern off the shelf USB instrumentation, MS Flight simulator, FSUIPC (.DLL) into a modern simulator with 3 plasma screens (used to be just VFR trainer). Fun stuff! Much easier to make some very functional flight Sims nowadays using off the shelf products.

[@hollybrereton3140]

loving this channel I stumbled upon you are so giving me cool ideas, cherry on the cake it's UK & West country, thanks xx

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you Holly! Very pleased to have you on board! (P)

[@agepbiz]

This is so creative, and the shots through the door looks great. Love it!

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you so much!

[@AnnettesVlogCorner]

❤🤗😉💯👍

[@princearthur4946]

This was one excellent presentation! I would like you to see design the drawings for a similar living quarter as the one on the movie the Martian with Mat Daemon. For the space-pod station, I noticed they used a Boeing 747 galley center with all the wheel carts and the elevated drawers. It would a great idea for micro-homes.

[@AnnettesVlogCorner]

This project was so awesome to watch... I could see this being made into a good budget movie or better... Great Job Guys!!!❤🤗👍💯🙌💋

[@InCameraTV]

Thanks so much Annette!

[@AnnettesVlogCorner]

@@InCameraTV You're very Welcome..Thanks for replying 🙂

[@anthonypc1]

The potential for creating a sci-fi spaceship cockpit was always my go-to reason for collecting and hoarding every unique bit of packaging and other junk I'd pick up on my walk home from school as a kid. ...As an adult in therapy I'm recognizing this was, in part, some pathological rationalization for my OCD. But Ooo it was tough picking which junk from my collection to throw away and which to spare after my parents couldn't store it in their garage and backyard any longer. On the other side of that grieving process now. There's always new treasures to be salvaged.

[@seanparker8975]

So much fun--who doesn't want their own cockpit indeed!

[@13thBear]

So cool! Love to see behind the scenes going on. For years I’ve been thinking of making a starship set for 12 inch action figures, but never knew how to begin. You seem to have re-awakened that idea. Thumbs up, guys!

[@InCameraTV]

That's great to hear, that sounds so cool!

[@thomas_dries]

Ngl that reel to reeel editing monitor you shared would look sick as a steering device for the ship. The little screen in the metal could have some sort of landing interface on it that would assist the pilot in landing and the reel holders off to the side could be grips for the pilot.

[@DeLorean45]

Love it! The washing machine door was genius!! For a while I had been wanting to experiment with something similar to this myself for a sci-fi space shuttle type short, and this has made me want to revisit the idea! Can’t wait for the next episode!!

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the episode!

[@BINDIJUICE]

Incredible effort guys! Been waiting all week for this

[@filmsbydiek7316]

very cool! I've been wanting to do a lonely stranded-in-space short for a while, been dreaming up a capsule. Good inspiration here! I wouldn't exactly call this low-budget though, maybe mid-budget?? :-) Keep it up.

[@MrShanePhoto]

Thank you so much for this. Im literally in pre production on a similar type of set build to go with minatures. 👍👌

[@AllanGildea]

Great video, thank you. Those murky wides work a treat.

[@seanbuckland2712]

Tommy: Let's build this cockpit using things for free, or as close to it. Therefore, we're going to use 2x4s and plywood. Me, an American: So I guess we're spending $2,000 then...

[@pictureeyecandy]

It definitely feels like it these days.

[@InCameraTV]

Tbh 2x2 would be plenty, we just used what we had. But we hear you, we're very lucky to be in a position where we have materials left over from productions. Also hoarding ;)

[@K-Anator]

@@InCameraTV Hoarding is key. Be it scale models or full fledged sets.

[@MelbourneShorts11]

Get old pallets from worksites or warehouses

[@pictureeyecandy]

@@MelbourneShorts11 true

[@danielskubal9757]

So good! Also love the Innerspace reference! hahaha!

[@philipmorison7769]

Fantastic cockpit ! Real movie magic .

[@danielstellmon5330]

I swear there is no difference between movie props and all the toys I wanted as a kid. LOL I love it.

[@makell6597]

thank you you just gave me the idea i needed for the series , only thing is using game footage with it.

[@Shiznaft1]

Brilliant! Thanks for all the hard work!

[@InCameraTV]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MistrE_Official]

This is really cool. It makes me want to completely convert a bedroom or office into a spaceship cockpit/hab.

[@obscurascope]

Cool! You Could re-purpose it as a Spaceship Cockpit by removing the top front plywood and changing some panels around.

[@DarkExcalibur42]

Nothing beats good practical effects.

[@mrwest5552]

Thank You for this, your's is a version of something i would like to build. Cheers.

[@WarrenPostma]

This build makes me wanna get in there with model paints and dry-brush some texture. I love me some verdigris.

[@beautysfield]

Brilliant!. I think I'm going to have to build one of these myself!

[@alejoromero]

Amazing! I would like to see a more in depth video about the control panel wiring and the pilot chair. Absolutely love it. Hats off from Colombia.

[@InCameraTV]

Thank you! There's an episode on building the chair coming up in a couple of weeks! And we'll definitely do more on the wiring side 👍

[@tedwunderlich2741]

Love it! This gave me an idea. Maybe you guys could try in camera force lighting-like emperor palpatine

[@luisderivas6005]

Very nicely done. You just need a few Arduinos, LED expanders and a few networked relay boards to bring all those static lights to life.

[@RakiRalko]

Brilliant video. Thank you for sharing. Do you still have this cockpit? I am looking to film in something similar and was wondering if I could buy or rent yours.

[@johnrisner8649]

You chaps do such great work! Love it!.

[@arodon1989]

ty for this inspirational video! it gave me some useful ideas how to implement some scenery objects to my upcoming flight sim cockpit im going to make :)

[@InCameraTV]

Oh that sounds amazing, glad you found the video helpful! Make sure to show us your cockpit when it's done!

[@thebudgieadmiral5140]

This reminds me of the Y Que from The Expanse. It had a similarly cramped cabin and the set designers likely used some similar tricks and tools.

[@dannyfubar3099]

Excellent post, thank you for sharing.

[@psotos]

Incredible build!