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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Sharing scenes across departments, stakeholders and development partners is now easier than ever. The KeyShot Web Viewer, accessible with a KeyShot subscription and KeyShotWeb module, allows you to generate a viewable and interactive web-based scene that anyone can view via a link.
In this blog we'll outline how you set up your scene for export and how to upload and manage your completed scenes.
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We’re excited to bring you KeyVR 11.2, which offers features requested by the community, along with bug fixes and quality improvements.Here’s what’s new in 11.2:
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If you were to think of some of the biggest jewelry brands around the world, what names would come to mind? And would you be surprised to learn that many of them rely on KeyShot to develop and market their products?
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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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The weather outside might be frightful, but these renderings are so delightful! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our Winter Wonderland Design Challenge, which just finished up on the KeyShot Luminaries platform.
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Could we *actually* pick just one favorite KeyShot rendering of 2022? Psh. No sooner could we select a single favorite star in the sky. Still, we made an effortto gather some of our favorites from this year.The following KeyShot renderings caught our attention for a variety of reasons, whether it was stunning realism, outlandish creativity, razor-sharp caustics, or just good-old-fashioned cleverness.
Also: is this list remotely comprehensive? Of course not. Feel free to share with us the
As part of our continued efforts to provide the best 3D rendering software, we've released KeyShot 11.3. This point release of KeyShot 11 includes full native support for Mac computers with Apple silicon(no longer in beta), plus other powerful new features to speed up your workflow.
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KeyShot's Image tab is an easy way for you to reduce time spent post-processing renders. Along with greater control, you also have features like Bloom that allow you to further stylize renders to your needs and liking. Read on to learn how you can leverage KeyShot's Bloom settings to create more dynamic renderings.
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You may be familiar with KeyShot’s Quick Tips YouTube series, where you can find basic tips and deep dives into everything from creating 360° product visuals, making custom lighting with the HDRI editor, connecting KeyShot with Blender, and much more.
Now we’re adding yet another learning series: UI 101. You can check out the first three videos, all around 90 seconds, here.
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Creating accurate and realistic renderings can help entice stakeholders and customers buy into the vision of your product concepts. Achieving accuracy requires paying attention to the little things: small details often make the difference between flat and photo-real. Read on to learn about how you can leverage KeyShot's opacity maps to create worn away edges for both hard and soft touch materials.
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Cables show up in all kinds of products, environments and scenes. Here’s how you can use KeyShot RealCloth™ to create a braided cable effect.
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We’re thrilled to share with you the incredibly creative winning entries of the YDxKeyShot Material Design Challenge. The three winners stood out amongst hundreds of entries for their photorealism, versatility, and potential to be used across various industries. Nacho Riesco, Colin Ginn and Shahin Fathi truly made the most of the KeyShot Material Graph.
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KeyVR users will enjoy OpenXR integration, a cool new Sketch Tool (in beta), as well as several performance and stability improvements in today's KeyVR update.
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We all know that eye-catching images are key to driving online sales. What if they could be interactive as well? Read on to learn how KeyShotXR can help you create interactive 360° point-of-sale visuals for your ecommerce store or website.
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The KeyShot HDRI editor is a great tool for when you want to create real-world lighting but you’re limited by time or computing power. While the Physical Lights capability is the most accurate way to create realistic lighting and shadows, it can require more resources to render. The HDRI editor is the perfect solution for rendering realistic lighting, fast.
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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're excited to bring you a new point release of KeyShot 11 that includes native support for Mac computers with Apple silicon (beta) plus several powerful new workflow capabilities and over 75 bug fixes.
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Whether you’re trying to create weathered effects, wear marks, or fingerprints, controlling surface roughness using an image texture in KeyShot will help add a new level of realism and greater flexibility to your projects. Today, we’re going to add fingerprints to a surface using one of KeyShot's included fingerprint textures.
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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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Freewrite is a smart, single-purpose tool for those who want to take the next step in writing with full focus, away from distractions. The Ernest Hemingway Freewrite signature edition, Hemingwrite, is an official, limited release from Freewrite in collaboration with the Ernest Hemingway Estate that pays homage to the most iconic literary personality of the last century. Hossein Alfideh captures the essence of Hemingway in the device with the visuals created in KeyShot.
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KeyShot provides plenty of tools to create realistic-looking shadows in any setting. But what about ground shadows? And how can you create a separate ground shadow with a transparent background? Read on to learn how to setup a scene to generate a ground shadow layer for ultimate control (without creating a harsh shadow pass) and, as a bonus, learn more about working with Models Sets in KeyShot.
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KeyShot not only allows you to create advanced materials and textures with features like 3D Paint, but also provides rich texturing capabilities to add water droplets and condensation. Today, we go in-depth with a texture combination to dial in exactly the water droplet appearance you need for your product visuals.
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KeyShot imports all major 3D file formats and has plugins for many of the most common. Among those is the KeyShot for NX plugin, a premium plugin that allows LiveLinking capability between KeyShot and Siemens NX.
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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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