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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...