Some shoots ask a lot of a single light: it has to be soft and flattering, bright enough to compete with daylight, full-color for design work, quiet enough to roll sound under, and tough enough to survive a location that isn't a clean studio. The Creamsource Sky was built to be exactly that light. It is a 1200-watt full-color LED softlight that puts out roughly what a 5K tungsten fixture does, runs fan-free and silent, carries an IP65 weather rating, and tunes across an enormous color range. It is a do-everything soft source for crews that don't want to compromise.
What the Creamsource Sky is
The Sky is Creamsource's high-output, full-color (RGBWA) LED softlight, driven by an array of LED engines behind a soft front — so it's a genuinely large, even source rather than a hard point you have to diffuse. The numbers that matter on set:
Creamsource Sky — key specs
- Type
- 1200W full-color (RGBWA) LED softlight
- Color temperature
- 2,200–15,000K, continuously variable
- Color control
- Hue/
saturation + RGBWA, full green/ magenta axis - Output
- Flux equivalent to ~5K tungsten on 1200W draw
- Color accuracy
- CRI ~95 (3,200–6,500K range)
- Cooling
- Fan-free heat-pipe — silent operation
- Weather
- IP65 (rain, dust, all-weather rated)
- Control
- On-board + built-in wireless DMX
The Sky's pitch is no compromises in one fixture. It is soft and big like a panel, but with the output to push through diffusion or balance daylight, the full RGBWA color of a creative fixture, and two practical superpowers most lights don't combine: it is silent (fan-free heat-pipe cooling, so it never spoils a sound take) and weatherproof (IP65, so rain or dust on location isn't a problem). That mix is rare, and it's why the Sky earns a spot on demanding video and commercial sets.
Why creators reach for it
Soft and bright at the same time
Soft sources usually trade away output — the bigger and gentler the light, the less of it reaches your subject. The Sky refuses that trade: it's a large soft front with roughly 5K-tungsten-equivalent flux, so you can run it through heavy diffusion, bounce it into a big set, or balance it against window daylight and still have a usable key. For a soft light you can actually overpower a room with, this is the move.
Full color, accurate white
The RGBWA engine tunes from a deep 2,200K to a cold 15,000K with full green–magenta correction, plus hue and saturation for designed color — and within the 3,200–6,500K working range it holds a CRI around 95, so skin and product render true. One Sky covers both the clean, accurate key and the bold colored wash, which means fewer fixtures and gels on a color-forward shoot.
Silent and weatherproof
Two features make the Sky a producer's favorite. First, it is fan-free and silent — there's no cooling whine to ride under a lavaliere or boom, which matters enormously on interview and narrative sets. Second, it's IP65-rated, so a shoot that drifts outside, into a damp warehouse, or onto a dusty location doesn't put the fixture at risk. Built-in wireless DMX means it still slots cleanly into a board-controlled build.
Shaping the light
The Sky is soft out of the box, and the modifier wall lets you tailor the spread and quality:
- Softbox / snapbag — wrap the front even softer for the gentlest key on faces.
- Eggcrate / grid — control the spill so the soft light stays on subject, not the set.
- Diffusion frame — push the Sky through a larger silk to fake a big, soft daylight window.
- Skirts / flags — shape and feather the edges for a clean, designed falloff.
Studio and video workflow
Because the Sky is continuous, the soft quality, exact color, and falloff are live on the monitor as you light — director and client approve the real frame, not a strobe's guess, which is the whole reason color and video work lean continuous. In the studio, the Sky is the fixture you pull when you want soft *and* powerful: a big, flattering key for product or beauty, a daylight balance against the studio's natural light, or a saturated color build — all without fan noise crossing your audio. Its IP65 sealing and silent running also make it the natural pick when a shoot moves from the studio out to a location.
When to rent it
A 1200W full-color cinema softlight is a serious purchase. Renting is the smart call when:
- You need soft and bright — a flattering key with the output to push diffusion or balance daylight.
- Sound is rolling — fan-free silence keeps the light off your audio track.
- The shoot goes outside — IP65 sealing protects the fixture on damp or dusty locations.
- Color is part of the brief — full RGBWA from the same head that delivers an accurate white key.
On our shelf the Creamsource Sky rents at $450/day, with the smaller, equally weatherproof Creamsource Micro at $160 for accents, backgrounds, or tighter spaces. Browse the full continuous and LED lighting lineup to build the package your shoot needs.