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KeyShot Demo: Real-Time Results for 3D Designers and Developers
What's the best way to spend time at a massive graphics industry conference? Why, hanging out at the Intel booth watching a snazzy demo of KeyShot with Thomas Teger. (I may be biased, but I'm also pretty sure 4 out of 5 conference attendees would agree.) However,...
Some Gorgeous White Aston Martin One-77 Inspiration
This isn't a rendering. This is inside the Aston Martin factory. Yes, that's the factory and the new Aston Martin One-77 Supercar waiting for final testing. Wired has published an article about how the British car maker is taking a new approach to building the One-77...
One Fabulous Power Tool Rendering in KeyShot (and All the Files too)
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...
The New KeyShot Plugins are Live
Our development team has been known to do an awkward little dance occasionally. With the release of KeyShot 3 it happened. And, last night it happened again with the release of the new and improved KeyShot plugins. They're now updated to work in glorious 3D importing...
How to Create Custom Materials in KeyShot. The Very Basics.
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...
First Renderings and Animations in KeyShot
I don't know about you, but I am SO glad there are more animation options in KeyShot than just turntable. Can I get a high five and a bag o' chips on that one? Philip Renato is glad as well. He's Associate Professor at Kendall College of Art and Design you may...
Ferrite – Interactive Liquid Sculpture. Incredibly Cool. Rendered and Animated in KeyShot.
How cool would it be if you could harness the invisible waveforms of the world's magnetic power in a small vessel that sits atop your desk? Then, what if you could shock people into gum-swallowing awe by manipulating the liquid inside with magnets you've implanted...
What Makes Real Real?
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...
Creating the Perfect White with HDRLightStudio and KeyShot [Free HDRI]
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...
KeyShot Animation of the Week: Heads Will Spin
Emil Rindell of Sweden has created a simple, yet stunning animation of a model he created in IronCAD. The animation uses a pivot point animation. Custom pivot point animations are set up through the use of "helper objects". These are objects in your model that are...
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How to use Poliigon Maps to Create Textured Materials in KeyShot
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...
Joshua Dunlop’s ZBrush to KeyShot Process Using a Wacom Cintiq
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...
KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS Add-in, Now with Motion Study Support
Today, we officially announced the release of the new KeyShot for SOLIDWORKS add-in and, with it, the much anticipated support for Motion Study and other great new features. Last month we gave you a preview of a quick import and test. And now, we're...