Next month, Luxion will be deploying a major overhaul of the Customer Support Portal to make it easier for you to avoid common issues, create and track your cases, and share input on feature requests.
We are upgrading our existing support portal and migrating existing support cases into our upgraded system. When you log in, you’ll see new features to help you resolve issues quickly and efficiently.
These changes are part of our long-term efforts to enable customer success with an inte
When we saw that KeyShot 3D Paint has been the most popular of the new features in KeyShot 11, we had to team of with Render Weekly to see how far designers could take it. Over the past two weeks, the Render Weekly x KeyShot 3D Paint Challenge saw over 100 entries that captured the capability of 3D Paint to be used for everything from design elements to adding that extra bit of realistic wear and distress.
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If you need to apply a seamless texture to your product design, but don’t want to jump between programs to do so, there’s a quick way to blend your texture maps seams, without leaving KeyShot.
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We kicked off 2022, joining Yanko Design, for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge, receiving submissions from designers around the world. For this challenge, five winning entries were chosen – Gold, Silver, Bronze, a special Student prize, as well as a new Honorable Mention that we added at the last minute because of how amazed we were with the entries! Altogether, we had more than 1500 designers sign up to participate in the challenge submitting nearly 400 entries by the time the competi
We kicked off 2022, joining Yanko Design, for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge, receiving submissions from designers around the world. For this challenge, five winning entries were chosen – Gold, Silver, Bronze, a special Student prize, as well as a new Honorable Mention that we added at the last minute because of how amazed we were with the entries! Altogether, we had more than 1500 designers sign up to participate in the challenge submitting nearly 400 entries by the time the competi
One of the most popular workflows for 3D artists and creators is going from Blender to KeyShot. If you're a Blender user, we're excited to finally bring you the KeyShot for Blender plugin. This plugin will help optimize your workflow by speeding up the process of bringing Blender files into KeyShot and updating the files you do bring into KeyShot.
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The relationship between Thomas Burke & Others (TB&O) and NVIDIA goes back to the testing of pre-production RTX family products. In the course of discussing the idea they had for solving a product design challenge, NVIDIA introduced them to Lenovo.
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With KeyShot 11, we have introduced annual subscription pricing, consolidating our product offerings to make purchase and management of license easier. Today, we'll take a quick look at how you can get set up using your KeyShot Pro subscription license.
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With KeyShot 11 released just last month, we excited to bring you the first round of improvements to the new features introduced in the latest version of KeyShot.
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KeyShot 11 introduces the new 3D Paint feature that allows you to very easily paint and stamp textures on the surface of your 3D models. Today, we'll break down the capabilities 3D Paint provides to control the effects through the Brush Shape and the Brush Color.
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When we last visited the Delft Hyperloop team, they were hard at work proving the feasibility of an ultra-fast, climate-neutral Hyperloop transportation system. Now, a little more than half a year later, the team finally unveiled their progress at a design reveal held February 21, 2022 at the Theater de Veste in Delft, Netherlands.
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Today, we're excited to bring you KeyShot 11. KeyShot 11 is a pivotal release aimed at advancements in making product visualization more accessible to design professionals around the world. The features in KeyShot 11 reinforce the focus of streamlining each aspect of creating product visuals to complement the whole of the product lifecycle. Each feature and improvement is a result of working directly with users to solve their most pressing product development needs in the areas of material desig
We're teaming up with Yanko Design and boAt for the #DoWhatFloatsYourboAt Design Challenge. Enter for the opportunity to win a paid internship at boAt, a KeyShot Pro license, Offsite Design courses by Hector Silva, lessons on crowdfunding from Creator Club and a feature on each platform!
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In this tutorial Product Designer, Nadeem Hussain, shares how to use KeyShot Fuzz to create interesting brush and bristle variations. He takes you step by step through model preparation, using the KeyShot Material Graph, and adjusting the settings to get the look you need. We would like to thank Student Design for the collaboration on this tutorial. Follow Nadeem and Student Design on Instagram for more tutorials and design insight.
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In our last quick tip, we looked at how to create surface dust in KeyShot. But, what if you want a bit of dust floating in the air? As with any rendering, the little details add that extra bit of realism, and one way to add more detail to your scene is to add some atmosphere with floating dust. Today, we'll look at how to do that.
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While it seems like surface dust doesn't belong in a product shot, some like the added realism a little surface dust provides. There are quite a few ways to add surface imperfections to your KeyShot scene. Some are quick, simple and to the point, while others are more involved, requiring many nodes within the KeyShot Material Graph. Today, we'll show how to do this using the Material Graph in KeyShot Pro.
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Today, we’re going to explore the Rounded Edges tool in KeyShot. This is a handy feature that simulates fillets on parts, without actually altering the geometry and increasing the triangle-count.
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Among hundreds of entries for the YD x KeyShot Design Challenge that asked participants to redesign the Envoy Helmet to make it safer, Jonathan Hatch’s redesign presented a clever feature – a pair of pull-tabs that allowed the helmet to split into two, making it easy for emergency medical technicians to easily and safely remove the headgear in the event of an emergency.
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Over the past few weeks, we teamed up with @yankodesign as they hosted the YD x KeyShot Design Challenge on Instagram. The challenge was to make our ENVOY helmet safer and render the results. The entries were incredible and the range of ideas was vast. There was loads of creativity, some unexpected ideas, and many impressive KeyShot Animations. We would like to thank Yanko Design and to everyone who took part in the challenge, you amaze us - THANK YOU.
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Today, we have a quick tip to help you create clean, crisp product shots. It's from a question we get a lot: How do I get a super nice, all white backgrounds for my renderings. Well, there are two ways to do it. Let's have a look.
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When you’re working with KeyShot RealCloth, you may eventually want to explore more custom weave patterns. While KeyShot comes with some handy presets for applying weave patterns, KeyShot Pro offers the ability to easily customize these weave patterns.
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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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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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If you’re trying to add some depth to a logo or label in KeyShot, but don’t have the geometry of the graphic modeled on your part, you can easily create the illusion of an embossed or debossed graphic by using a simple bump map.
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