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 KeyShot 10 is just around the corner and we are turning to our talented community of 3D professionals to create the next KeyShot avatar. The winning design will receive KeyShot 10 Pro and play an integral role in the release and throughout the life of KeyShot 10 as the main hero image!
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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
We had an incredible amount of entries for the WellBeings MNML KeyShot Render Contest and are excited to announce the winners. The challenge, to interpret the 'calm' and 'relief' in a beautiful WellBeings inhaler rendering, was indeed interpreted a multitude of different ways with the range of entries showing just how creative KeyShot users are.
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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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Virtual KeyShot World 2020 is all wrapped-up and with nearly 3000 attending across the '9 Days of KeyShot 9' event and thousands more viewing on YouTube, it was an absolute success!
We were so excited to be able to bring many of the speakers and workshops slated for KeyShot World in Huntington Beach to a wider audience around the world and, from the response, you were as well. We would like to thank all who attended, our presenters, our product sponsors, and the people behind the scenes who
Join Us for Virtual KeyShot World 2020!
KeyShot World 2020 is going virtual! Join us online as we bring FREE live sessions of intensive training and insight from the best KeyShot professionals. Each day will feature exclusive KeyShot sessions covering workflow, materials, lighting, and more.
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With KeyShot 10, we introduce a new Light Manager to control all your scene lighting from one locations. Today, we'll learn about the Light Manager features and how you can use it to better manage all types of scene lighting.
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KeyShot works great for generating visuals of one model, but did you know you can create countless variations of a model as well? KeyShot allows you to create independent model variations and do it all in a single scene. Let's have a look at how you can use these to explore different materials and configurations of your model.
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KeyShot's Lighting Presets offer options for a wide range of product rendering needs and the ability to create your own lighting scenarios. Here, we'll compare the differences for each preset and learn how to choose which setting is best for your scene.
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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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Frontplates are images with transparency that are placed in front of your renderings. This is great for enhancing a scene, adding a watermark or, with a favorite workflow technique we'll show below, aligning your model within a graphic layout to ensure its placement before rendering a high-res version.
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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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When you break it all down, there's a simple combination that delivers the ultimate capability to produce photorealistic visuals. I bet you have a pretty good idea about what that combination is. It’s one that doesn’t stifle your creativity but opens up more possibilities to explore your ideas. It’s a combination founded in years of development that brings together groundbreaking design, advanced graphics technology, and real-time visualization.
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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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