Adding bristles to a model may seem challenging but KeyShot Pro makes it a snap. Whether it's a pattern of fibers, variations of one style, or multiple combinations of each, KeyShot Fuzz allows you to create a wide variety of brush bristle appearances.
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KeyShot makes it easy to create photorealistic visuals and the user interface is at the heart of making the process simple and intuitive but did you know you can set up and customize the user interface for your personal workflow? Today, we’ll take a look at how to customize the KeyShot user interface to best suit your needs.
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With KeyShot, you're able to create a range of light effects and apply it to a scene or to a model itself. Today, we'll show you how to create glowing, backlit buttons in KeyShot with three easy techniques using physical lights, emissive materials, or emissive labels to softly illuminate a surface.
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Luxion is excited to announce a new partnership with SIMONA Boltaron that brings Boltaron®️ thermoform plastic sheet materials to KeyShot Cloud.
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Motion blur is the streak-like effect that occurs when shooting a still image or animation of a moving object. The results are incredibly dynamic, so here, we'll show you how to use KeyShot Pro to add motion blur to your still images.
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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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Today, we'll show you how to quickly create a perfectly centered, symmetric view using absolute camera values. This is useful for a variety of needs, particularly when working with symmetry or when you need to achieve a perfectly centered front, back, or top view.
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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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Reflections add a sense of depth and realism to your product shots and they are extremely easy to add in KeyShot. Here, we'll look at tow techniques showing you how to control light reflections using geometry and an emissive material or through the HDRI Editor in KeyShot Pro.
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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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There are many ways to streamline your workflow in KeyShot. Today, we'll run through a list of the top 5 most helpful hotkeys to help you manage your scene and work with your models and materials more efficiently. Let’s dive in.
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An important feature and visual cue for many real-world products is light. Effectively demonstrating a product’s functionality by flashing, blinking, or gently pulsing an LED is important. Here, we’ll use the Color Fade Animation available in the Material Graph with KeyShot Pro to achieve a subtle pulsing LED animation.
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Creating an exploded view animation is an eye-catching method to provide motion to your product visuals. With KeyShot Pro, exploded view animations are easy to create and there are some features that make it even easier. Today, we'll run through a few tips and tricks that will help you create dynamic, exploded view animations for models with a few or even hundreds of parts.
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The KeyShot Configurator is a KeyShot Pro feature used to present model and material variations in real-time for design reviews and interactive point-of-sale displays. With the KeyShotWeb add-on, you can take these high-quality, touch-enabled visuals into any web browser, presentation software, or share in KeyShot Viewer.
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Network Rendering is an incredible way to improve your workflow. It allows you to increase your rendering speed and capacity by utilizing multiple computers on one network. All of that hardware combined equals faster output. Plus, sending everything to the network, rather than rendering locally, frees up your computer, enabling you to continue refining your design, adding variations, and submitting additional jobs. Let’s quickly run though the basics of KeyShot Network Rendering.
Enhancing realism in a rendering is something a lot of KeyShot users strive for and one of the best ways to do so is by using Depth of Field. Depth of Field (DOF) is a really important aspect of photography and, therefore, is really important in your renderings.
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When we're asked for technical illustration or product line art, it often requires taking the 3D data into different software. But what if you could create your production visuals and your tech visuals from the same model in the same software? When you need to create dynamic product drawings and exploded views, KeyShot provides a quick and convenient process to do this using the same model you used for your photographic production visuals. And you'll be surprised at how quick it is to set up.
Herman Carlsson, started his 3D career at IKEA a long time ago. Now, as Senior 3D Artist at Spark Vision AB, he develops interior/exterior furniture design configurators for digital showrooms. A recent personal project involved learning Marvelous Designer, optimizing the model in ZBrush, then bringing it into KeyShot to apply RealCloth materials, create the environment lighting, and produce the final renders. Here, he takes us through the process used to go from Marvelous Designer pattern to Key
An investigation of rendering capabilities and results in KeyShot using the 64 core AMD Threadripper 3990X and the 72 RT core NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000.
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Imagine the ease of making design decisions if we could fully experience the final product before it even exists. This “experience” is an understanding stronger than what is seen in a product image; it’s believing what you see is actually there, seeing that product in its actual physical context, and then interacting with people and the product. Photorealistic image synthesis is part of the equation but not all of the answer.
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The KeyShot Color Library contains predefined and standard color libraries with an array of colors you can add to any object in your scene. It's also a place you can create your own custom color library. The Color Library is a part of KeyShot that isn’t the most well known but is capable of greatly boosting your workflow efficiency.
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Today, MAINGEAR, high performance custom PC builder and Luxion hardware partner, has announce the new PRO WS Workstation. The desktop workstation is built for the 3D professionals who does everything from simple 3D modeling to advanced 3D animation. Best of all, the PRO WS is specifically designed and optimized with options for users of KeyShot to achieve the highest performance for their 3D modeling to 3D rendering and animation pipeline.
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Rarely in life do you find a perfectly finished and unmarred surface. Whether its due to manufacturing marks, scratches or fingerprints, surfaces tend to have small imperfections you may not even notice. When you want to add these types of imperfections or create more advance materials in KeyShot, the most flexible option is the Material Graph in KeyShot Pro.
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This week, we released KeyShot 9.3 and with it updates to KeyShot Viewer and its new KeyShot Benchmark tool. KeyShot Viewer is a free, stand-alone application for sharing KeyShot scenes so others can view and interact with your visuals. And KeyShot Benchmark is a simple, yet powerful tool to test your CPU and/or GPU and evaluate their performance.
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Today, we release KeyShot 9.3 with improvements for both KeyShot and KeyShot Viewer. These updates, all of which can be seen in the KeyShot 9.3 release notes, add general stability improvements, UI improvements, and additional support for features across KeyShot.
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