Someone once said that excellence isn’t a noun, it’s a verb. In the continual pursuit of excellence, we’re excited to bring you new quality and feature upgrades in KeyShot 2023.2. Check it out:
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The 2023 Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta, a bold and vivacious red. So we asked members of the KeyShot Luminaries community to submit their most creative renderings featuring the fiery color. It was a challenge to choose from so many vibrant submissions, but the heart wants what the heart wants. Here are our favorites:
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We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Yanko Design for our first joint Design Challenge! The premier YDxKeyShot Design Challenge has a broad brief and some exciting prizes! Your mission, should you choose, is to add your own spin to the ENVOY Helmet to make it safer. You can find images of the ENVOY Helmet below, and use this link to download the ENVOY Helmet 3D file for free.
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One of the quickest and easiest ways to give your product or vehicle renderings more realism is to add presence in your scenes by setting them on a surface and adding a nice shadow or ground reflection.
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With the rapid pace of technological change upon us, industrial designers may be wondering what the future holds for their careers. Derek Cicero, KeyShot's VP of Products and Strategy, discussed that and much more in a recent interview with the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA).
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In the world of design and creativity, visuals hold everything together. 3D rendering software is the gateway to bringing ideas to life. Even more, it’s what makes up the software that brings capabilities to make the design process more efficient, make design teams more organized, and provide assets to help companies communicate their products better with customers. It’s critical for design teams to have 3D rendering software that is able to complement their design process. But first, let’s take
Been busy? We get it — we’ve been doing all the things too. If you haven’t gotten a chance to see the most important KeyShot updates, we’ve got you covered. Here are the most-watched tutorials of this year so far.
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By far, one of the most common pieces of advice we hear from KeyShot artists is to never stop learning — great advice to take with you as you start 2023.
So what was the KeyShot community most interested in learning the past year? We’ve gathered a list some of the most-watched YouTube tutorials in 2022. Here’s what you all were most itching to know:
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KeyShot has an array of lighting capabilities from simple drag-and-drop HDRI lighting to physical lights, along with lighting presets to get you started and a Light Manager to make controlling your scene lighting easy. KeyShot also has rich volumetric lighting capabilities that allow you to create light rays (god rays) or lights shining through a hazy scene. Today, we'll show how it's done using KeyShot's Scattering Medium and Spotlights.
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KeyVR Connect is a new feature that allows you and your team to join the same virtual scene where you can collaborate and make design decisions in real time, from anywhere. If you're new to KeyVR, it's a way to go from your KeyShot scene to a VR environment with a single-click. It's made for designers, requires no coding, and is the easiest way to go from 3D to VR. You can find out more and try it at keyshot.com/keyvr/. Now let’s get started!
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KeyShot has all the features that allow you to capture your scene just as you would with a real-world camera. Its ability to add depth to a scene is no different and, it's a whole lot easier. KeyShot’s Depth of Field (DOF) camera settings is a simple, powerful option to bring another level of realism to your product shots. Let's have a look at how to use it.
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A whole lot of work goes into perfecting a jewelry visual — and KeyShot is an excellent tool for the job. You need to consider technicalities such as Abbe numbers (degree of light dispersion) and material accuracy, and you want to get just the right amount of sparkle and shine. So we recently posed a challenge to the KeyShot Luminaries community: Show us your jewelry renderings, and bring on the bling! We're thrilled to see what they delivered. Here are some of our favorites, selected by KeyShot
We're thrilled to announce the YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge, a unique opportunity for you to explore KeyShot's powerful Material Graph and 3D Paint features to create the materials of your dreams. Winners will not only be awarded KeyShot Pro Subscription but will also get to see their material on the KeyShot Cloud certified materials list. Winning renders will even be showcased on KeyShot's startup window to thousands of KeyShot users across the world!
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Product visualization specialist Will Gibbons has just released a new flagship course. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is now available. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is a 20-hour self-paced online course that will teach you everything you need to know to make professional-grade product animations. Take advantage of early bird pricing and special launch event bonuses prizes worth hundreds of dollars.
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We're not going to lie: judging the Core77 Design Awards is a blast... and a challenge! The competition doesn't disappoint and never fails to offer up the most innovative design created today. We're thrilled to share with you the visuals that came out on top.
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We were honored to jointly sponsor the Core77 Design Awards with Stratasys this year. With so many talented designers and teams, and many memorable designs, this was an incredibly challenging design award to single out one winner. What made the Core77 Design Awards unique is the detail that each team provided about how they used KeyShot in the process and what challenges KeyShot helped solve. In the end, we selected three for a variety of reasons but, in the end, had to make one selection to tak
The Stratasys and KeyShot design competition committee is proud to announce the winners of the 2021 Gaming Mouse Design Competition. We received over 80 design submissions! That total includes several ineligible, international submissions that were outstanding nonetheless.
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KeyVR, our proprietary virtual reality platform, empowers users to share, explore and edit product concepts in a connected VR environment.Our most recentKeyVR update, released this month,providesimpressive new tools and user experience upgrades.
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KeyShot World is making its next stop in San Francisco on July 12. You're welcome to join us for this half-day event, where you'll learn the latest tips and tricks from KeyShot experts and enjoy a networking happy hour with fellow design professionals.
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Over the past few weeks, we teamed up with @renderweekly as they hosted the first KeyShot Animation Challenge on Instagram. We were thoroughly amazed with the creativity and unexpected use of KeyShot Animation to visualize so many different products and more effectively communicate design. We would like to thank RenderWeekly and, to everyone who took part in the challenge, you amazed us - THANK YOU.
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Post-processing (editing) a rendering can be useful for many reasons. You may want to tweak the contrast, add some bloom or a vignette, or even change background colors and add frontplates. KeyShot allows you to do that prior to rendering but also after you have rendered your scene, along with creating multiple versions. Let's have a look.
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