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Now you can surprise and delight your internal stakeholders just like you do your customers. KeyShot’s latest Web Viewer update not only optimizes the user experience with an improved UI and faster load times, it also delivers powerful new features such as automatic...

KeyShot Web Viewer provides the perfect platform to communicate CMF needs and help finalize designs across stakeholders and organizations. Not only does it allow you to package interactive scenes for distribution, but it also allows you to attach support documentation...

If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to stage many products under the same environment and lighting conditions, then KeyShot Scene Templates are the best way for you to accomplish that. This is a new feature we're excited to bring you in KeyShot 2023. Where to Find...

KeyShot 2023 provides plenty of new options, including Multilayer EXR output for post-processing workflows. If you've ever wanted to output multilayer files but weren't a part of the Adobe ecosystem, now you're in luck: the EXR option is just what you need, and it'll...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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.  Create Braided Wire, Hose, and Cable in KeyShot KeyShot RealCloth™ has applications across all types of woven materials. A...

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...

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. Create a Touch-enabled 360°...

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...

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...

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...

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. KeyShot for NX Plugin The KeyShot for NX plugin is a...

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...

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...

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. Adding Fillets in KeyShot Rounded edges on parts definitely add to the...

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. White Backgrounds in KeyShot Why...

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. Custom Weave...

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...

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. Emboss and Deboss Labels KeyShot Labels...

With USDz and GLB export from KeyShot, there are a lot of ways to experience your 3D models. One common method is to share them with a QR code. The person uses the camera on their mobile device to scan the QR code which opens a link and (on modern mobile devices)...

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...

Though KeyShot is able to import and work with very large, very detailed data sets with very complex geometry and textures, there times when you may want to simplify the geometry of the model. Here, we'll take a look at how to access the Mesh Simplification tool and...

KeyShot Pro comes with many geometry tools to manage and work with your imported models. One of those is the Split Object Surface Tool. Today, we'll look at the tool and the Paint Selection feature for quick selection and splitting of model surfaces. Split Object...

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...

KeyShot exclusive Axalta’s coatings have been an incredible resource for renderings of all kinds. Whether transportation-related or product-related, the array of hot hues and other color options can add just the snap of color needed with a simple drag-and-drop. Axalta...

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. You may have used KeyShot geometry, a table or podium model, or...

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...

KeyShot allows you to more accurately communicate the physical properties of your labels by applying materials and textures to them. Of course, you can simply add a label to a surface and run with the default settings but you can push the realism even further with...

When you have unwanted noise or specks of light in your image, Denoise and Firefly Removal will clean it up quick. Today, we'll take a look at KeyShot Denoise and show you how you to use it to smooth out your visuals to produce faster results from your KeyShot scenes....

Today, we'll look at how to create shared KeyShot Resource folders to help organize your assets and collaborate across a network. Shared KeyShot Resource Library Shared folders allow you to point KeyShot to access files in folders that are shared on a server or local...

Today we’ll be looking at KeyShot's Depth of Field setting and the background blur effect called bokeh. We'll demonstrate how to set up a standard bokeh appearance, then use this to show how to create custom bokeh appearances using bokeh filters in KeyShot. DOF,...

Camera mapping of textures and labels has been a feature in KeyShot for quite some time. The Camera mapping type projects your texture or label onto your model based on the camera’s orientation. When you move the camera, the projected texture moves as well. What is...

There's a secret, or rather, slightly hidden feature in KeyShot that allows you to animate the switch from one Studio to another. Imagine having two complementary scenes and instead of creating two different animations, you simply add another Studio and switch to it...

The new features in KeyShot 10.1 bring a variety of improvements, including Move Tool updates that offer basic collision detection and object settling. Follow along as we explore the new capability and show you how to use it for your renderings. KeyShot Collision...

Among KeyShot 10’s new Smart Export additions is a new 3D printing format that allows you to export 3MF files directly from KeyShot. Here, we'll learn how to export 3MF files from KeyShot to significantly speed up your prototyping process. 3D Printing With 3MF Also...

KeyShot's new Keyframe Animation is an easy to use animation feature that allows you to capture your geometry’s position with sequences of keyframes along a timeline. Complex animations would usually take a lot of work with multiple translation and rotation animations...

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...

KeyShot allows you to easily hide and show parts or groups of parts. When you right-click in the Real-time View, you will see the various hide/show options. A new option added for KeyShot 10 is Solo Mode that opens up a new method to work with parts and speed your...

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. KeyShot Light Manager Along with the...

KeyShot RealCloth allows you to create visually accurate woven materials inside KeyShot. It's a game-changer for visualizing everything from complex flannel and fleece to muslin and more. However, it can be used to create other woven materials and with KeyShot 10,...

KeyShot is great to help you visualize 3D prints but did you know you can export files for 3D print from KeyShot Pro? You have several 3D print export options in KeyShot to go from digital prototype to physical prototype. Today, we’ll take a look at how you can use...

KeyShot is commonly used to render product shots with transparent background to use across web, print, and video. Rendering an image without a background also gives you more flexibility for layouts in Illustrator, Photoshop, or your website. KeyShot allows you to...

Today, we'll walk you through two different ways to add text to an animation inside KeyShot. This approach works well when you need to keep everything contained in your scene or simply prefer to use KeyShot for a complete workflow. Add Text to Animations in KeyShot...

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. KeyShot Fuzz...

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...

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...

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. Using Motion Blur in KeyShot...

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...

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....

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. KeyShot...

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 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...

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. What are KeyShot Hotkeys? KeyShot...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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 design configurators for digital showrooms. A recent personal project involved learning Marvelous Designer, optimizing the model...

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...

Rarely in life do you find a perfectly finished and unmarred surface. Whether it's 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...

This week, we released KeyShot 9.3 and with it updates to KeyShot Viewer and the new KeyShot Benchmark tool. KeyShot Viewer is a free, stand-alone application for sharing KeyShot scenes for others to view and interact with your visuals and the KeyShot Benchmark is a...

The KeyShot Pattern Tool is used to quickly create additional instances of your models within a scene. This is different than using Duplicate to make a copy and much much faster than building out each model in your 3D CAD software. Each instance can look different and...

Displacement is a very powerful tool. It allows you to transform the surface geometry of your object and take your renders to the next level of detail and realism. Here's how to bring it to life with animation. Displacement Geometry Animation Animating geometry has a...

Sonos not only creates one of the best audio experiences, they create one of the best unboxing experiences as well. It all starts with the detail put into the design of the packaging. It's a process that has been refined over the years, going from what was a...

Have you ever needed to control color or achieve a specific edge effect? Product Designer and Founder of Sektre Creative, Liam Martin, has a new YouTub channel where he's dishing out sweet KeyShot tips and here, shows you how to get a very unique edge effect using a...

In KeyShot, there are two ways to light your scene. HDRIs are the default method, but physical lights can be used as well. A combination of both HDRI and physical lighting works well too. To add a physical light, simply drag and drop a light material from the KeyShot...

KeyShot comes packed with over 100 textures you can use, including wood, metal, and various types of texture maps - adding just the right amount of realism to your model. However, there are about a billion other textures and appearances out there that might catch your...

So, you've captured the joy of creating a bump, color, specular and opacity map in one fell swoop and now you would like to apply those maps to your model to create the most incredible rendering your customer/client/boss/wife has ever laid eyes upon. It's extremely...

 KeyShot 8 brings us a lot of exciting new features. One of these features is the new geometry node/shader capability. Geometry nodes directly transform your geometry in a non-destructive manner. Geometry nodes are able to add to, subtract from, or reshape the...

Rendering liquids in glass can be challenging, but with KeyShot's support for nested dielectrics it couldn't be more simple. So, what are nested dielectrics? And what works best when setting up the model or adjusting the render settings? Let's answer these and look at...

Recently, Magnus Skogsfjord shared his method for achieving realistic welds in KeyShot from CAD geometry. The quick 15-minute video is not only a look into the process of creating realistic weld textures, but a tutorial chock full of info on preparing your CAD data...

There are so many ways KeyShot Viewer can be used in the product development process. We're learning about new ways people are using it all the time but these five are the ways customer have told us it has helped the most. What is KeyShot Viewer? KeyShot Viewer is a...

Curious about rendering fabric? How about rendering fabric stretched over a speaker grill? Go no further. Esben Oxholm is back with another tip, showing you how to use the Material Graph in KeyShot Pro to achieve a stretched fabric over speaker grill appearance....

If you want to create sense of motion, it's pretty common to use linear motion through a translation animation to make that happen. Radial motion blurs using rotation animations can be added to wheels to provide the same sense of motion. But how do you give the sense...

Multi-Materials allow you to change one material into a group of materials. This can be useful for setting up material variations and color studies or just serve as a method for fast, non-destructive material swapping. Multi-Materials is an advanced material...

Last time we checked in with Esben Oxholm, he shared how to set up Poliigon textures in KeyShot. That's a great method when you need to use textures, but what if you have a simple white product on a white background? Or, what if the edges of your product are blending...

We've touched on using Poliigon textures with KeyShot materials in the past, but in his latest video, Esben Oxholm takes a solid 20 minutes to show you his texture setup process from start to finish for a variety of materials with plenty of tips along the way. If...

You saw our interview with him last month, now get a behind the scenes look at how Joshua Dunlop goes from ZBrush to KeyShot using his Wacom Cintiq. The fine folks at Wacom have just published a tutorial starring Joshua who is best known for his realistic Pokémon...

In his latest video, Esben Oxholm shows you how to create a worn paint metal material in KeyShot. Esben creates the material using the basic materials and the KeyShot Material Graph, breaking down each step and each node in the process. Worn Paint Using KeyShot...

In a new video from Simply Rhino, Phil Cook takes you through the process of creating an architectural exterior render with a 3D model created in Rhino for Mac and importing it directly into KeyShot to apply the Sun & Sky environment, along with the...

So, you're in need of some scratches. Not just any old scratch though - subtle, hairline scratches. As you see in the pool ball example here, a small amount of wear can add an incredible amount of realism. With KeyShot, you can create these scratch effects quite...

Though KeyShot has advanced Volumetric Lighting capabilities, there are some other methods you may want to experiment with when you need to create light rays or light beams or if you're using a version prior to KeyShot 8. To learn how to create light rays with...

Marketing departments produce content in abundance, simply because it’s part of their KPIs. In a B2B research, SiriusDecision Inc found that 70% of content ends up being unused.

KeyShot 7 introduces quite a few workflow enhancements. Among these are new Environment capabilities and the introduction of Studios. You can now use multiple Environments in one scene and use this together with Studios to present different views, materials and...

Esben Oxholm has a new video to take you through the process of creating three-point lighting using the HDRI Editor in KeyShot 7. It's a quick video where he first explains what three-point lighting is, then shows you how to create your HDRI environment and set up...

KeyShot 7 is out. And with that, all the KeyShot resources - the materials, environments, textures and backplates - have been updated to take advantage of the latest KeyShot material, texture and environment capabilities. We've captured the list of updates and what...

If you've looked around online for textures, you've likely come across Poliigon. Their wide array of high quality textures are rich in detail, can be used across different 3D software and come with various map types to get your models looking much more realistic than...

You can use the KeyShot Material Graph to create layered materials. One common material request is to create a glitter finishes on transparent materials like glass or clear plastic. Here's how to do it. How to Create Glitter on Glass To create Glitter on Glass, start...

Out of the millions of materials and material combinations you can produce in KeyShot, one of the most popular in clear-coated carbon fiber.  It can be applied quickly using a KeyShot procedural texture or taken even further using the KeyShot Material Graph. Esben...

What is Scripting? KeyShot Scripting allows you to automate repetitive task and build other customizations for KeyShot. KeyShot uses Python scripting, introduced with KeyShot 6.0, to provide you with more automation and reduce time-consuming processes. Automating...

When we observe materials in real life, transparent materials like glass can vary in color depending on the thickness of that material. Window glass, for example, will show very little color in areas where the material is thin. However, when looking at the edge of the...

Matt Bridges shared his unique approach to a toon-style, cel shaded appearance in KeyShot using one material and a set of custom made HDRI environments. To achieve this look, Matt applied the chrome material to the entire model. Then he used three different HDRIs--one...

When you set out to create a realistic rendering, referencing real life objects, environments and lighting is a great way to ensure your results are accurate. One naturally occurring phenomenon to be aware of is caustics: concentrated light rays from highly reflective...

When you create a KeyShotXR, KeyShot generates a set of static web pages. If you open the html file created, it loads in a browser. However, to share the KeyShotVR with someone else, you need to host it somewhere they can access it. If you don't have access to a...

Sometimes, positioning labels can be tricky. In some scenarios, your geometry is simple, making it easy to apply a label and carry on. But what if you need to accurately position a label on a tire wall, or the rim of any other cylindrical object, such as a camera...

How easy is it to add a layer of dust to your materials in KeyShot? Esben Oxholm breaks down the simple process in a quick tutorial he put together after sharing the image you see above. Apply a texture as an opacity map is all it takes to get an incredibly realistic,...

Often times, designers need to render a white, smooth, product on a white background in a studio setting, lit by white lighting. You’re likely familiar with the challenge this presents. Often the product gets lost among the white background or the image ends up washed...

Let's talk about perspective. Any image rendered with perspective enabled will show convergence, or vanishing points, for all parallel lines. In most cases that is desired since perspective helps us understand scale and proportion, and it’s a realistic interpretation...

Often times an Occlusion Pass is used to add depth to a rendering during post-processing. KeyShot allows you to do this thanks to the Occlusion material. Recently, we took a look at how occlusion works in KeyShot and how it's used when creating your rendering. If...

Material Templates are a powerful feature in KeyShot that automate the materials applied to your model in a KeyShot scene. Anyone working with large assemblies can save time using Material Templates to automatically apply materials to parts in a scene. Once a material...

Material Samples (sometimes called glossy samples) control the amount of information a material collects from neighboring objects or the surrounding environment. Most materials in the KeyShot library include a default sample value for that material, but you can...

In the world of CGI, ambient occlusion is a shading technique used to add depth to a rendering. Occlusion is not a real-world phenomena, but a simple shading technique used by some 3D applications as an alternative to ray tracing to create the illusion of shadows. In...

Metals draw most of their color from the objects around them, which can make them challenging to photograph or render. These materials, such as chrome or stainless steel, are primarily driven by their reflections. We describe metal colors using the Specular parameter,...

When working on scenes in KeyShot with complex lighting or materials, you may notice the Real-time Viewer can take longer to resolve. Real-time Region Render can help maintain a fast workflow by allowing to render specific regions of your scene in...

Many assume Roughness and Bump are the same thing but did you know they are two completely different material properties? We often rely solely on bump textures to enhance our materials in KeyShot but the same texture maps you've been using for Bump can also be used...

There are many ways you can benefit from using Onshape and KeyShot together. Here are a couple tricks that can increase your design productivity. Below is an image that took me less than two minutes from start to finish to complete. Using a few of these simple...

There's one question we get a lot and that's how to create a portfolio that stands out above the rest. With all the creativity out there and all the sites that provide a way to host a portfolio, you would think this one of the easier parts of the process, but since it...

The KeyShot Toon material makes creating Technical Illustrations quick and easy. Apply the toon material, adjust the contours to your needs and save the exact camera view you need. With the KeyShot Material Graph, available with the release of KeyShot 6 Pro, you can...

Nacho Riesco creates incredibly detailed jewelry pieces using ZBrush and KeyShot. His Baroque Skull Ring design is one of our favorites. Recently, he shared his secret for creating a realistic transparent enamel material in KeyShot. You may be surprised, but it's...

Sometimes when you're laying out objects in a scene, matching the model to the perspective can feel like a battle with an MC Escher drawing. KeyShot has a tool to help with this and, automotive render expert, Tim Feher shows how simple it is to use for achieving...

Collaborating on a KeyShot project with a team or customers is fast and easy with the ability to save and share your scene as a single file that can only be opened in KeyShot. Saving your scene as a KeyShot Package (.ksp) allows you to include all custom materials,...

The KeyShot paint material is a versatile material that has simple settings for quick applications of color. You can use paint on vehicles like cars or motorcycles, but you can also use them on any surface where you want a create a solid color with a clearcoat effect....

While using the default ground plane to create ground reflections is fast and simple, creating a custom ground plane is extremely easy and will give you more control over your scene. Use this is as starting point and also experiment with using different material types...

Both Dropbox and Google Drive have ended support for hosting static web pages. Therefore, hosting a KeyShotVR on either of those platforms is no longer possible. However, outside of hosting it yourself, there is a better, easier way to host a KeyShotVR than either of...

KeyShot has several advanced camera settings for fine-tuning the appearance of your visuals. The first one we'll look at is Depth of Field. Depth or Field (DOF) keeps one area of the image in focus while blurring the rest to focus the viewers attention on a...

The Metal material is a simple way to create polished or rough metallic surfaces. It has a simplified UI where all you need to do is set the color and roughness. After that you're all done. Color Choosing Color will tint the metal so you can have rich golds, cool...

When working with a complex model (or even a simple model) it's easy to have multiple copies of the same materials in your scene. For example, when applying a Polished Chrome material to multiple parts you may end up with a Chrome Polished #1, Chrome Polished #2,...

Did you know you can copy and paste materials in KeyShot with a simple hotkey? As one of the most overlooked productivity enhancers, it can save a lot of time on applying materials. Along with copying the material it also links the material with the one copied....

The plastic material provide the basic settings needed to create simple plastic materials. Set the Diffuse (overall color) and add some Specular (reflections) then just dial in the Roughness. You can also create transparent plastics by controlling the Transmission...

KeyShot allows you to add preset types of geometry to your scene with the click of a button. This comes in handy when you need a sphere, a plane, a cube, or in our case today, a backdrop. Adding seamless backdrops in KeyShot is fast with the Add Geometry feature. 1....

If you have a company logo on a product, it's pretty common to need a logo as a material (like a chrome sticker) but not have the logo modeled in 3D. Modeling a logo can create extra work and slow the model down, but KeyShot provides a simple way to achieve the same...

Tim Feher works as a CGI Leader in the automotive industry. If you've not seen his webinar on Automotive Rendering in KeyShot, it's a must. On his new Facebook page, he has published the first tip of many tips to come, beginning with a critical element to the...

During the 2014 KeyShot Render Contest, Doug Didia was asked how he creates the incredible imagery he submitted. He was kind enough to break down the process in several images, showing the stock backgrounds he starts with, the passes he creates, along with final...

Elephorm has just release a new training package from long time KeyShot user and master of advertising visuals, Florian Benedetto. Master KeyShot 5 is available (in French) from Elephorm for €49.90 and includes over five hours of video training that takes you through...

In the KeyShot Render Q&A, Tim Feher, having years of experience of using KeyShot in the automotive industry, provides advanced insight into creating incredible visuals using KeyShot. Although this is focused around automotive, there's no doubt you can use his...

In KeyShot Output for Post-production we continue our master series course with the process that goes into creating output files to bring into post-processing software like Photoshop or After Effects. This includes everything from final scene prep inside KeyShot to...

We love us some mech design here at KeyShot HQ, and we certainly love some mech design tutorial with KeyShot workflow thrown into it. The crew at Ironklad Studios has just released their first tutorial that takes you through the process of modeling, rendering and...

Digital Tutors has a new course up that covers the complete process of developing a product in SolidWorks and creating some hot product shots lickity split using KeyShot. Michael Lozano, industrial designer at LUNAR Design in Chicago, takes you through the process,...

Josh Herman was one of the many amazing artist at the inaugural ZBrush Summit and Gnomon Master Classes 2014. He has a long list of character work in major motion films, known as the creator of Iron Man's power suit and most recently, the magnificent Groot from...

The KeyShot 3D Rendering Essentials webinar is now available and is an absolute must see. Whether you're interested in learning KeyShot quick for a strong foundation in creating strong product imagery or catching a few things you might not have known this 1 hour video...

If you're looking to drop the awesome on some creature visuals, one person to look to is Dominic Qwek. Senior Cinematic Artist with Blizzard Entertainment with years of experience, he has the chops that make the visuals he publishes and the events he shares his...

KeyShot saves you a lot of time with simple set-up and speedy rendering, but there are other things you can do to make your visual creation go even faster. With KeyShot 4 we introduced many new features including Model Sets and View Sets. We also improved Material...

This month we have a KeyShot Pro tip for those who frolic in the joys of working with layers, tweaking their colors and streamlining their workflow when working in an image editor like Photoshop or GIMP. With KeyShot 4 we added a Pro level feature for Render Layers...

I tell you what. There's nothing quite like an adorable, frightened little strawberry character with a dollop of chocolate on his head to bring a smile to your face. Unless, it's learning to model up and render the little guy as well. Nacho Riesco has put together a...

There's nothing like getting your model a little dirty... or, shiny enough to reflect the light of 1,000 suns. Either way, KeyShot has you covered, quite literally, with labels. We've recently had some forum posts discussing labels and how they can be used to create...

Sometimes you just need to bring out the details of your rendering with deeper, darker shadows. Maybe it's to accentuate the texture of the material or just darken the grooves and edges to make the highlights pop a little more. With KeyShot, it's simple to both adjust...

We're in the process of soaking the brains of our development team in a stiff concoction of voice overs and advanced KeyShot functionality to deliver a set of new tutorials. The first one is out, available on our Tutorials page, our Youtube page and embedded below. In...

It's certainly possible to go around willy-nilly slapping labels on every cylindrical surface you come across--some find no greater joy in doing such things. Fortunately, KeyShot makes all that label applying activity incredible easy with a visual mapping tool to help...

You want a perfectly textured, accurately scaled appearance of molded plastic on a new video game controller design. It's not too much to ask for and KeyShot is the rendering software to make it happen. Exclusive to KeyShot and introduced with KeyShot 4, we bring you...

Dries Vervoort has been posting some of his work with the new physical lights and improved translucent materials in KeyShot 4. Some were interested to know how he went about creating water droplets in his 3D modeling software of choice, SolidWorks. Here, he provides...

You could cover your entire upper body in a tattoo that pits the 20+ 3D file formats supported by KeyShot against mermaids and sea dragons--You could do that (and you would probably get a free license of KeyShot Pro)-- or you could just rest easy knowing that you have...

How easy is it to update a SolidWorks model you've already imported to KeyShot? With a single click of a button. How does that sound? The upcoming release of the KeyShot plugin for SolidWorks adds the new Live Linking functionality we're bringing between 3D modeling...

You have the perfect materials, perfect environment and perfect camera angle. Your image is absolutely stunning except for one spot where the model blends into the background. Adjusting the brightness changes how the entire scene looks, so what's the best way to get...

Tiho Ramovic shared a cutaway of a Ferrari F50 he created with renderings out of KeyShot. It's a simple process and he was kind enough to also provide a short tutorial about how he created it. You can download the PDF from the forum post and we've recreated it below...

You've probably seen commercials or animations where the lighting moves across the vehicle or product accentuating its lines and curves. It's a fabulous way to bring life to the product you're showcasing and it couldn't be easier to create in KeyShot. In this three...

There is a lot you can do with KeyShot labels. You may have seen some of our other quick tips that show you how to apply labels to clear materials or use them to create perfect views through interior windows. It makes a lot of sense to use labels for graphics on...

From water spilling forth from a faucet to a refreshing glass of orange juice, liquids are used across a variety of visuals. The liquid material in KeyShot makes creating a liquid appearance incredibly easy, but the translucent material is also an option for liquids....

You know KeyShot has the easiest to apply and most accurate glass material for 3D rendered images. Drag,drop and you're ready to go. You can also achieve a tinted glass effect very easily for older style glass bottle or any object you would like to show just a touch...

When you're looking out the window of your 3D rendered interior scene, you want those trees, the sky, the grassy expanse and any roads to look stunningly perfect. Or maybe, you have a fabulous living area you've rendered and need to show the adjacent room through...

You've spent months, if not years, building a portfolio of your product designs. It's online, open to all who want to feast upon the brilliance of your illuminated perspective on everything from chairs and toasters to the most innovative exploration of medical...

Last week, we fired up the central fuselage of KeyShot development and launched KeyShot 3.3 into the product rendering exosphere. Lots of high-fives and caffeine withdrawals ensued, and we were extremely excited to see the rush of interest in KeyShotVR. We knew it was...

Rendering an image is a lot like taking a photograph. You have to consider your composition, the lighting, the lens - Rendering your 3D models with KeyShot makes that whole process extremely simple, leaving you open to explore more variations and create that...

While updating some of our quick tips, I came across one about creating Frosted glass in KeyShot. We haven't put it up on the blog before, so I thought why not post a little example with a .bip file for people to download and play around with themselves? Heck yeah!...

Labels. While I'm known in some parts of the office as the guy who can stick impressive amounts of labels on the face without suffocating, there are more important objects to consider when applying the sticky back graphics. Those objects are your 3D models. Labels are...

"Really?! It's that easy? You have got to be kidding me." We hear that all the time. If you use it, you know how simple it is, If you've not tried it, it's easy to start and if you are either KeyShot model animating master or just getting started, we're here to give...

Ice. Clear, sometimes smoky with small cracks, pockets and crystals inside. How do you create the appearance of ice in KeyShot? Boaz Zemer, a student at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, has perfected the art of ice appearance through a recent class. The...

Prepare to squeeze the stitching out of your seat, we have a great resource to share and the fait accompli that is the official KeyShot shoe. Now, if you slip on a pair of shoes, a backpack or a stylish jacket, you can imagine how softgoods are some of the more...

You've got your materials set, cameras positioned and an environment that reflects the sheer intensity of the surrounding lights. What do you do next? Render that sucka. With KeyShot, you have a lot of options for image or animation output, including three different...

After you saw the quick tip on Glass and Solid Glass Materials you may have become highly addicted to transparent blue objects and creating incredible 3D renderings of transparent blue objects. That's ok. You're among friends. Now, it's time to take that up a level...

Last week we brought you a brief introduction to using textures in KeyShot. That skimmed the surface of all that's possible in KeyShot. Underneath, lies so much more. So, we've put together a series of video tutorials that takes you through materials, textures and...

It’s true. KeyShot users create incredible 3D renderings and animations. You’ve probably seen a lot of product design images on website and wouldn’t even know that they were once drab, colorless 3D geometry. A few minutes in KeyShot and that drab geometry is turned...

With KeyShot, we squeezed the succulent juice of transparency out of alpha channels to bring you improved opacity maps. There's no need to create detailed holes, repetitive patterns or complicated cutouts in the 3D model. Opacity maps allow you to use a black and...

KeyShot 7 features a brand new Cloudy Plastic material that contains light-scattering particles to replicate complex, scientifically accurate materials such as Polycarbonate or ABS. More info on the Cloudy Plastic material here:...

Have you had the chance to soaked your rendering in the euphoric simplicity of the KeyShot Animation system? Well, you probably know how you're able to make changes to materials and environments as you create the animation in real-time, bobbing your head to the beat...

Skin. It's porous. It's also translucent, sometimes smooth and often bumpy. It's also very challenging to render... but not with KeyShot. Keyshot 2.1 introduced translucent materials that allow real-time subsurface scattering and a fast, simple way to dial in...

With the new Metallic Paint Material in KeyShot 3.1, you can create the most realistic automotive renderings imaginable faster than ever and with complete control over the paint flake size and visibility. If you've seen what's new in KeyShot 3.1 you'll know this...

How would you love to rub 52 minutes of KeyShot exploding animated action all over your eyes? Yes? Well, you're in for a treat as Brian Townsend follows up the previous session on creating exploded view animations in KeyShot with Part TWO. Here, Brian breaks down...

In the last webinar we showed you how to create an exploded view animation in SolidWorks. If you missed it, you can watch Part 1 here. In this second part we will be taking rendered frames into After Effects for some finishing work. We will discuss the benefit of...

Have you ever seen a rendering of water that looks so realistic your eyeballs start feeeling moist? It could be the tears of joy from seeing something so beautiful rendered in KeyShot (and it likely is) but it may also be from the desire you have to create a...

Welcome to the New Year! 2012. Can you believe it? As you finish off those leftover bottles of champagne and bowls of black-eyed peas, thinking about illuminating your designs with a dazzling dose of KeyShot lighting environments, we want to pass along a few KeyShot...

If you use SolidWorks to model up some sweet design, there's an extremely easy approach to import SolidWorks models into KeyShot that will have you creating 3D renderings faster than you can imagine... even faster than setting up materials and using Photoview 360 to...

Power Tools. Hammer Drills. I tell ya what, you can't have enough incredible 3D renderings of drills. Am I right? You also can't have enough KeyShot files (.ksp) to show you how it's done. That's why we're grateful to Tim Feher who has been so kind as to share the...

Materials. KeyShot rocks the materials. There are 700+ materials within 13 different categories for KeyShot 3. All of these existing materials are extremely powerful. Did I say 'powerful?' Yes, yes I did. Why are they powerful? Well, all KeyShot materials are...

Richard Feldman brought up a great question on the forum. What makes real real? If you're going for as realistic an image as possible, KeyShot is certainly up to the task. And, besides doing something like putting a leather material on a car body, there are certain...

We've talked about creating the perfect car paint in KeyShot, but how do you render the perfect white paint material in KeyShot? While it's one of the most challenging colors to render, it's actually not that difficult to create... if you have KeyShot. A nice HDRI and...

As you may very well know, KeyShot 3 is out, with hundreds of shiny, new materials and a rockin' new Animation system. Undoubtedly, it's causing tremors of delight on the faces and screens of users around the world. To compound that effect, we've put together a whole...

Glass! It's a wonderful thing. You can break it over your knee, then use it to cut through the rope holding down a glass box of KeyShot 3. A glass box of KeyShot 3 you need to render a glass box using KeyShot 3... it's a bit of odd, space-time shifting paradox, I...

You probably remember that time you spray painted your kid brother's face to make him blend in with your mom and dad's new electric yellow Cadillac Seville. No? Maybe that was just me. Nevertheless, you've probably become obsessed with creating the perfect car paint...

We've been featuring some free jewelry resources as well as showing a lil' jewelry animation on the blog lately, but we can't leave out this KeyShot HDR Light Studio step-by-step, by the good people over at Lightmap, that takes you through the process of lighting...

If you LOVE to render jewelry, you know the value a few 3D jewelry models have. Well, what would you say to 32 3D models?! Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Thanks to Paul Krush all that precious metal goodness can be yours. He has modeled 32 rings in Rhino that...

The wonderful and talented Craig A. Clark has a very well done article published in the latest issue of 3D Artist magazine (Issue 33). Rendering with KeyShot takes you step by step through model considerations, export, import, material selection, image maps and more....

We've got some great features coming up for materials in KeyShot 3. You'll be able to save them out and share them much easier for one. To create your own materials, it's always been very easy to do in KeyShot. Simply select a material, modify the options and save it...

You know, the material library in KeyShot is quite exceptional. With KeyShot 3, even more so. Lots of options, but even though you may have every sort of plastic and metal material imaginable, there may come a time in your rendering process where you would like to see...

Have you ever wondered how to render perfect looking glass and liquid in KeyShot? It's a topic we're often asked about. Turns out, it's quite easy and we have just the example to show your how it's done. On our forums, Jeff McCartney has created a beautiful rendering...

How do you get started with KeyShot? Very quickly. In fact, you probably don't even need a video to show you how. Nevertheless, we have just the "getting started with KeyShot" video for you. If for nothing else, to show you an example workflow you can use to apply to...

If you've not been to our forum, you may be missing out. Not only do we have some mighty passionate users, we have some mighty passionate users who know how to turn out an amazing rendering in KeyShot. What started as a post on a valve rendering, turned into comments...