In the world of design and creativity, visuals hold everything together. 3D rendering software is the gateway to bringing ideas to life. Even more, it’s what makes up the software that brings capabilities to make the design process more efficient, make design teams...

 With the rapid pace of technological change upon us, industrial designers may be wondering what the future holds for their careers. Derek Cicero, KeyShot's VP of Products and Strategy, discussed that and much more in a recent interview with the Industrial Design...

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth (and the Force) be with you. Lucky for us, talented designers and Star Wars fans have created some of the coolest KeyShot renderings on this side of the galaxy. We found these fantastic visuals in the new KeyShot Luminaries...

Back in March, we posed the question: How would you reimagine the K Lamp? We partnered with Design Burger and Vitamin Living for our latest challenge: bring new life to the classic K Lamp while retaining its iconic identity. Judges include the creators of the K Lamp...

Whether you’re an engineer, an industrial designer, or a development lead, you know that the dollars available to develop a new product are always being squeezed. You have to figure out ways to get the most out of the time and money you have. I’ve led product...

We're excited to announce our speaker lineup for our first KeyShot World LA event on April 11 at The Grammy Museum. During the first stop on our tour, you'll enjoy a half day of events and learning opportunities. Then, stick around for a meetup and after-party! We’re...

How would you re-imagine the K Lamp? We’ve partnered with Vitamin Living and Design Burger for our latest competition: Bring some new life to the classic K Lamp while retaining its iconic identity. Vitamin has released the original CAD from the product’s formulation...

A whole lot of work goes into perfecting a jewelry visual — and KeyShot is an excellent tool for the job. You need to consider technicalities such as Abbe numbers (degree of light dispersion) and material accuracy, and you want to get just the right amount of sparkle...

The 2023 Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta, a bold and vivacious red. So we asked members of the KeyShot Luminaries community to submit their most creative renderings featuring the fiery color. It was a challenge to choose from so many vibrant submissions, but...

We’re excited to bring you KeyVR 11.2, which offers features requested by the community, along with bug fixes and quality improvements. Here’s what’s new in 11.2:  A dockable sidebar and fullscreen mode: have it your way  We heard from you: you wanted this feature to...

If you were to think of some of the biggest jewelry brands around the world, what names would come to mind? And would you be surprised to learn that many of them rely on KeyShot to develop and market their products?   While we’re not exactly allowed to name names...

By far, one of the most common pieces of advice we hear from KeyShot artists is to never stop learning — great advice to take with you as you start 2023.  So what was the KeyShot community most interested in learning the past year? We’ve gathered a list some of the...

The weather outside might be frightful, but these renderings are so delightful! We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our Winter Wonderland Design Challenge, which just finished up on the KeyShot Luminaries platform.   Don’t know what the KeyShot Luminaries...

Could we *actually* pick just one favorite KeyShot rendering of 2022? Psh. No sooner could we select a single favorite star in the sky. Still, we made an effort to gather some of our favorites from this year. The following KeyShot renderings caught our attention for a...

Freewrite is a smart, single-purpose tool for those who want to take the next step in writing with full focus, away from distractions. The Ernest Hemingway Freewrite signature edition, Hemingwrite, is an official, limited release from Freewrite in collaboration with...

Product visualization specialist Will Gibbons has just released a new flagship course. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is now available. The KeyShot Animation Masterclass is a 20-hour self-paced online course that will teach you everything you need to know to make...

Next month, we will deploy a major overhaul of the KeyShot 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...

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. Solving...

Image: HELIOS I by team DH06 2021-2022). 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...

The Delft Hyperloop is a climate-neutral, scalable Hyperloop system designed to transport passengers at speeds over 620 mph (1000 km/h). Over the past six months, the Delft University of Technology DH05 team has worked toward proving the technical and commercial...

  When you go from creating sheets of 2D images for layout and viewing on a table to viewing and interacting with the product at any angle in a natural environment, it's truly transformative. It transforms how you experience the product, helping you evaluate...

A recent article on 3Dprint.com described how Rosenbauer, the world’s leading manufacturer of systems for firefighting and disaster protection: "In the process of equipping a truck with the tools requested by the customer, Rosenbauer started to go fully digital to fit...

Mike Jelinek is no stranger to using software to explore the extents of creating concepts and art. His Metasketch research explores the use of KeyShot toon material in the process of rapid ideation and his Machines of Adventure series is his concept of a cinematic...

Sprout Studios has announced their latest business venture building on their expertise in product design and visualization. Sprout Viz is a new Industrial Design-led visual content creation studio using KeyShot to deliver high resolution, photorealistic,...

With KeyShot 10 is just around the corner and we are turning to our talented community of 3D professionals to create the next KeyShot avatar. The winning design will receive KeyShot 10 Pro and play an integral role in the release and throughout the life of KeyShot 10...

  Conceived by Automotive Designer Alessio Minchella and virtually brought to life in KeyShot by Luigi Memola, the Bugatti Type 251 EVO is a one-off, bespoke design inspired by the classic Bugatti racer. The duo shared with us how the project came together and...

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. At the Luxion office, we have a new workstation equipped with an AMD Threadripper 3990X CPU and an NVIDIA Quadro RTX...

At KeyShot World 2020 we had the great honor to have several speakers from the some of the most adored brands in the world. One of those presenters was Jacob Fine, Associate Design Manager at PepsiCo. Jacob not only shared about his journey with KeyShot but also...

KeyShot 9 introduces the ability to harness the full GPU-accelerated ray tracing power of NVIDIA RTX with OptiX. GPU rendering in KeyShot is a feature available for both real-time rendering and local render output. It allows one-click GPU render mode to take advantage...

We're excited to bring you new scene to demonstrate the power of caustics in KeyShot 9. At first glance, there's nothing too out of the ordinary about this scene. It's simply a few cosmetic products on a countertop. They're items you may see off to the side of a...

When you see, I Am Mother, the highly anticipated Sci-Fi thriller from Netflix, you'll notice the eerie natural movement that goes along with the unnervingly eerie voice of Mother. Mother is a robot, designed to repopulate the earth in an extinction event, that is...

Alita: Battle Angel, a live-action remake of the '90s Japanese manga series Gunnm, was released February 14, 2019 to a lot of mixed reviews from fans and critics, but those who know the artist involved can't say enough about, or get enough of, the concepts and visuals...

We wouldn't be able to put on a conference like RenderWorld without the help of our incredible sponsors. They'll be right outside the main session area sharing their latest tech, capabilities and services, but today we want to take an opportunity to let you know about...

 Whenever you see visuals produced by TB&O, you can be sure the utmost care, attention to accuracy and detail  has been taken. You've seen it in the Specialized Venge project, the product visuals for Universal Audio's Apollo Twin and you can see it in others on...

Marco Di Lucca never ceases to amaze us and we're always, always delighted when he publishes new work. That's absolutely the case this week with his latest work that started out of a 'random lunch break sculpt.' Wouldn't you love a lunch break that resulted in this?...

Christoph Kuppert is an award winning Product Designer from Germany. His latest design, Bottlelight, is a portable UV water purifier with a camping light. It's the winner of numerous awards including  the European Product Design Award, IF Student Design...

Thomas Burke & Others (TB&O) straddles the line of photography and CGI, using both to tell the stories brands haven't thought of until TB&O shows them what's possible. One of their latest projects is the Apollo twin for Universal Audio. You may have seen...

Early today, Vitaly Bulgarov shared some of the new personal work for his Black Phoenix Project, Pilot 2. Bringing back memories of his previous Pilot render, this new version brings in more color, less carbon fiber, an insane amount of detail and all the awesome...

This behind the scenes from TB&O breaks down the process of how they bring a vintage beauty to life, the 1960 Aston Martin DB4. "We're often asked, "How do you do that?" There are a number of tools that we use. The heavy lifting is done by KeyShot from Luxion."...

From the real-time viewing to the rendering speed, we're convinced KeyShot gives you the rendering advantage you need. Our customers know this best though, and Tim Feher describes exactly the advantage KeyShot provided on a recent project, a paper towel dispenser for...

If you're a fan of cinematic visuals and want to nail down a workflow from one of the best, you'll want to drop what you're doing and grab Chris Rosewarne's latest tutorial - The ORB SILO Set Design Tutorial. Chris takes you through modeling in SketchUp, rendering in...

The sleek, new Koenigegg Utagera concept was designed by Jennarong Muengtaweepongsa, a 15 year old auto design prodigy from Bangkok, Thailand. He used KeyShot to deliver all the visuals. From Carlist, "[His] sketches on cars have already gotten the attention of...

Star Citizen is one of the most anticipated massive multi-player, space simulation video games created, and with $77.3M in the bank, the highest funded video game of all time. Started in 2011, there's so much to the universe being created by Cloud Imperium Games, with...

Franfou is an illustrator from Quebec, Canada specializing in art and illustration for everything from children's books to website marketing imagery. He has taken his expertise in traditional 2D illustration background, applying it to sculpting his characters in 3D...

Artipia Games is known for their new breed of board games and even more for their artwork, particularly across the sci-fi card and miniatures lines. Among the Stars is their most popular series with players taking on the role of alien races, competing to build the...

Priority Designs is an ID consulting firm that covers the entire product development process. One of their latest projects is the OPTITRACK PRIME 41 Motion Capture Camera. It's used in movies, gaming development, military applications and more. Eddie Gandelman,...

We're not sure how much thought you've put into surviving in space or piloting a space station to Jupiter, but we're fairly certain Jort van Welbergen's 2101 A Space Age Society concepts capture what it could be like, extremely well. In this graduation project he uses...

Last month our customer spotlight series featured MINIMAL, the Chicago-based design firm headed up by Scott Wilson, showing how their latest product was brought to life using KeyShot. They've just launched the Kickstarter project for it and are just about to cross...

This week, Concept Artist, Marc J. Goliszek, made a special guest appearance as Keynote speaker at the INNEO Solutions KeyShot World event, speaking on the process he uses to create the amazing visuals you can view in his portfolio. Using ZBrush, 3ds Max, Photoshop...

This eye-catching chess set was designed, rendered and animated by Alexander Twaddle. Part of a semester project in Digital Modeling I at Kendall College of Art and Design (KCAD), professor Phil Renato gave them the task of completing a chess set design. At the end of...

This month we feature Liz Kirby, Environment Artist at 343 Industries. She has an incredible talent for bestowing a natural, instinctive feel upon 3D objects and in providing the best of advice for future 3D artist, it reveals how her talent has developed. Along with...

Motorola has developed some of the most innovative designs in mobile technology. They've built an empire, inventing many of the protocols and technologies used in mobile tech today. They've focused on solving problems for decades with a unique approach to their...

If you've been a kid or otherwise involved in animations of any sort, you're likely familiar with a thaumatrope--a card with an image on each side, connected with two strings that cause the images to blend together when twisted. Great fun. It's such a toy that served...

One activity nearly everyone at Luxion is involved with is bicycling. So, when we heard one of our customers had launched a new Kickstarter campaign with an ingenious lighting solution, we were all quite excited to see what they were doing. The Indiglo team is now a...

Monster. The name is synonymous with high performance audio cables and equipment. For nearly 40 years they've taken the discoveries in audio technology of audiophile, professional drummer and former design engineer at Lawrence-Livermore Laboratory, Noel Lee,...

We have a wide array of customers from product concept creators to creature creators with KeyShot being used throughout the design and development process of all. The same holds true in the agriculture industry with large equipment manufacturing. Hagie Manufacturing...

This week we have the great opportunity to hear from Guillermo Abalos Ventoso, know online as Millergo. As a 3D modeler and artist in the automotive industry, he's had the unique opportunity to model products and create the visuals for them. He has worked with...

Vitaly Bulgarov is an exceptional artist and a long time KeyShot user. From the Robocop concept visuals to his 10 days of Mech, he provides a level of detail and a level of realism in his modeling and rendering that have fooled some people and have left others...

Every once in while, a product so simple comes along that solves so many problems. There are a lot of iPads and a lot of iPad cases--the options seem endless really. So, standing out in this area is a task in itself. Yet, as simple as Loop by Mozzic is, it solves the...

More and more artists are finding that the combination of KeyShot and ZBrush is perfect for creating visuals for pre-viz and print. Andrew Baker, a character artist at Weta Workshop, has worked on such films as The Adventures of Tintin, District 9 and The Hobbit...

We've used keyboard and mouse for years. That's changing. Inspired by movies and thoughts about the future, some are aiming to break the requirement to point, type and click by recognizing the motion of our hands through the air. Motion gestures are moving off the...

What's modular, configuarable, scalable, locking, colorful and way cooler than any other storage containers on the market. One word. HYVE. HYVE is a new product launch on Kickstarter from design group Herbst Produkt. We talked with Scot Herbst last April about their...

From the Shopify Blog, Dan Wang writes on e-commerce and selling online at Shopify, the world's largest online e-commerce platform. It his latest post, he lays out 13 DIY Tools for a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign. The list is compiled straight from a veteran of...

This month Boxx Technologies, a technology partner with Luxion, published a case study that took a look into the life of Bill Gould (aka Speedster on the KeyShot forum), a Boxx and KeyShot user who has seen the tooling, modeling and design industry change from...

Klaus Rosburg, founder of SONIC Design stopped by the KeyShot forum today and shared some of the new work from the Brooklyn based design firm. KeyShot is used in a variety of ways throughout the product development process, for final product imagery many times, but...

The visuals for hand and power tools has come a long way. Black and white catalog shots are gone, replaced with images that provide a deeper look into the aesthetics and function of a tool. In one of the industries with the fastest product development cycles, we talk...

Do I even need to say what it is? Roy Gilsing has set out to create the most accurate 3D model of the original Star Wars Light Saber. Using reference to parts used on the prop, he modeled this one in SolidWorks, then created this spectacular render in KeyShot. Jump...

The design of sci-fi cars, ships and vehicles is limitless. They're some of our favorite visuals to see and when KeyShot users share any they are working on, it creates a bit of a buzz. Simon Williamson creates some of the coolest concepts you'll see, exceptional for...

Anthony Pinfor and the Pinfor team have been busy forming a very knowledgeable, very creative professional team over the last year. They're experienced, cover a wide range of disciplines and already have several projects under way. They're based in Seville, Spain, but...

The 2014 remake of RoboCop is hands-down one of the best sci-fi movie adaptations of all time. It dispenses with the drivel in the previous hit and brings in more of what's cool about a crime-fighting robot. Even if the storyline misses the target here and there,...

We love finding fresh, new ways people are using the visuals they churn out of KeyShot. Adam Tyler is an Engineer. He's into gadgets and cool stuff like freshwater aquarium plants. He also has a thing for sci-fi and creating animated parallax gif's of the best sci-fi...

The latest issue of 3DCreative is out with a feature story on jewelry design. Not just any jewelry design though. After Ziggy Hentze completed his military service, he discovered a passion for 3D, creating bespoke jewelry in ZBrush. In the article he provides insight...

This month we're excited to feature the work of Bould Design. You may not have heard of them, but you've definitely seen (and likely have) some of the products they have designed. The Nest Thermostat is just one project they've been involved with. Their clients also...

You may remember Hydra Design Labs and Jon Hull from our customer spotlight story on the California-based design firm. With a focus on automotive design and an enterpenurial bent, they were inspired to launch another site which provides resources specific to the types...

Hot off the presses, 3D Creative Magazine Issue 101 is out now and the cover story is all about 'How to Become a Master Modeler' with Senior Artist at Industrial Light and Magic, Marco Di Lucca. If you frequent the KeyShot forums, you've seen Marco's work take shape...

You'll see visuals created in KeyShot all over the place, but it's always nice to here from the people creating them about what they're doing and where these visuals are showing up. Florian Benedetto is the artistic director at Imagecorp, a creative/brand agency based...

Novedge has just posted another great interview, this time with KeyShot customer Crayola where they talk with Anthony Monzo, Product Design Manager with the Crayola Product Design team. We talked with Anthony, not too long ago. He shared some great insight about...

Changing someone's life through design. We wax eloquent at a surface level on how design in general changes lives for the better. For some, those words are lot more significant, espeically when the design helps them get around each day and perform functions most...

It's the whir, the buzz and the click as you climb the hill. The push and the feel of extra power. The feel of quality. The ultimate ride. For the past 25 years, SRAM has been designing and manufacturing high performance bicycle components, pursuing a passion born out...

Landis Fields is a 3D Concept and Visual Development Artist working in the film and entertainment industry. He's also a KeyShot user with work regularly featured on many websites, in various magazines and books. In fact, the image he has shared with us today is...

Franfou is a freelancer illustrator who recently started using KeyShot. Over the course of 20 years--studying graphic design in college, then creating cartoon style images as a freelancer--his focus is on professional illustration for kids, be it children's books,...

Greys. You'll know one when you see one. The fleshy eyes, the deeply translucent skin, their bulbous glandulars and veiny organ case that wraps their immense brain. Thousands of people have created their own versions of the alien visitor, but there's one that I would...

PENSA! is a Brooklyn-based design firm shaking up the design scene with ingenious design that brings beauty and elegance to everyday devices and simply makes common tasks more enjoyable and common needs more accessible. They're a long-time KeyShot customer with one of...

There are a few names that stand out in the world of highly disruptive product design. One of those is fuseproject. Founded by Yves Behar in 1999, they're not only highly involved in civic programs, collaborating with non-profits around the world, but have produced...

Iowas State kicked of their Industrial Design program in 2010. Each year 35 students are accepted into the program with nearly 200 applications submitted. It's no surprise. The Iowa State ID program is very unique, providing a comprehensive approach to teaching design...

Creating inspirational awesomeness is just one application KeyShot has. As you'll soon see, a well articulated narration and explanation of a design add a lot to that. While out at Siggraph 2013, we learned that Phil Renato presented Mutation at the Siggraph Dailies....

We've seen concepts of futuristic vehicles since the dawn of Popular Science and Sci-Fi novels. Now, we see even more with websites completely dedicated to concept ships and vehicles, but among these there are those who stand out. Luigi Memola, a designer from Turin,...

We hunch over our wee mobile devices, but fact is, a DESK packed full of processing power and stacked with screens is much more practical for the day-to-day gaming, modeling and rendering. It's also quite a sight to behold. Red Harbinger is nearing the release of the...

When you take a photo, do you ever think of capturing an entire 360 degree area with one click? It's never been possible, not until now that is. Tamaggo has developed what many are calling the most revolutionary consumer...

During PLM World this week, we visited with a lot of customers, seeing some present and share how they used KeyShot to create renderings of their Siemens NX data. Shulttleworth Design Limited was one of these, telling about the process of developing the Adastra...

When you slide on a set of headphones or feel the vibrations pounding your eardrums through a set of quality ear buds, the details that came together to produce it may not be so obvious. Skullcandy is the designer and manufacturer of headphones, ear buds and head sets...

We're excited to have Fossil as KeyShot Customer of the Month. We've been working with Fossil for a while now, seeing how the iconic brand transforms ideas into the incredible vintage design adored around the world. You know them for their watches, of course, but they...

I know you've seen the masterful modeling and rendering of Vitaly Bulgarov in a previous post where we featured his 10 days of Mechs. He has followed up with an additional model that introduces the aesthetics of gun turrets and... sloths? Yes, sloths. While we would...

It's very exciting to see all the ways KeyShot is use in the design process. Creative agencies around the world deliver ideas to client with visuals rendered out of KeyShot and Herbst Produkt is one of the best. The name may sound familiar. The company has a long...

Toni Sokura is a student at the Lahti Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland and a designer with Unmonday, maker of high-end, ceramic, active Airplay speakers. Even though he specialized in consumer products, he and fellow student Aslak Siimes, recently won a design...

When you've had your fill of beautifully rendered images of hydraulic power units and the like, you may be in the mood for some animated, exploded sequences that show just how these assemblies are put together. Thanks to Scott Malcolm, our mechanical animation craving...

You likely know of Vitaly Bulgarov from his incredibly detailed work as a 3D artist, Gnomon workshop tutorials or the images of his characters and concept design that create a stir across many a CG site. Well, it seems his latest project is no less detailed and no...

There are likely as many problems facing the 15.6 million undergrads moving away from home to pursue knowledge as there are dorm rooms with uncomfortable mattresses and inadequate storage space. It's nothing that a design challenge can't handle though. Massachusetts...

It may seem a bit odd, but 3D rendering and 3D printing go very well together. You take the 3D data from the 3D software, bring it into KeyShot to render and into the 3D Printer software to print. KeyShot gives you the beautiful image, the 3D printer gives you the...

There are a lot of ways to stack and store magazines, files, papers and, yes, even your tablet or mobile devices. Every once in a while a product concept comes along that adds a little style to the possibilities. Over the weekend we heard from Phil Renato, professor...

PINFOR™ Ingenia is a full service Design and Engineering firm based in Seville, Spain. They not only create incredibly iconic design, they're also creating incredibly unique user experiences for their clients and their products as well as demonstrating their product...

In the latest issue of 3D Creative, you'll see an interview with Marco Di Lucca, but there's more. In the same issue, Luca Nemolato kicks off the issue with 8 pages on how to 'Break into the Concept Art Industry' sharing how he kicked off his career designing concept...

This week we have a talk with RenderBox Studio who knows exactly what it takes to produce visuals that leave clients with gaping jaws and wanting more. They use KeyShot throughout the entire design process, bringing in real-time iterations that involves the client....

The PC industry is filled with black boxes and laptops that look and function as well as the wall you throw them against when you get frustrated. Red Harbinger is an up and coming PC-tweakin', tech-designin' powerhouse of a company bent on changing the way people...

Phil Renato is the founding chair of the Allesee Metals/Jewelry Design program at Kendall College of Art and Design (KCAD) and he's been so kind as to share the student work from this fall's 2012 Digital Modeling class. This course explores the creation, manipulation,...

Where concept car designs and car design competitions are a dime-a-dozen, Lovaro is bringing a different design approach and fresh visuals that extend their pallet beyond consumer products and present a classic, best-selling car with an expressive, contemporary...

We've posted the animation and renderings of Simon Williamson in the past and are delighted to feature him as this month's featured Customer Spotlight. Simon teaches at the Wentworth Institute of Technology Department of Industrial Design in Boston. Many are happy to...

Every so often we'll receive a surprise in our email--an image, animation or link to a site and an "Oh yeah, that was rendered in KeyShot." We received such an email recently with a link to Burberry, the British Luxury brand that has been around for over 150 years....

You've seen the amazing work of Mikael Lugnegard here on the KeyShot blog, so it won't be a surprise that we're delighted to have him as this month's customer spotlight. Mikael works from his home in Sweden as a digital artist with a client list featuring RED, cmiVFX,...

This Friday, October 26th, Microsoft enters the mobile device market with their first hardware product, the Microsoft Surface tablet. Microsoft is building buzz around the device calling it a 'new family of PCs for Windows'. The 10.6" 16:9 screen and form factor...

In a recent forum post called 'The KeyShot Fur and Wig Shop', John Seymour posted his experiment with importing hair geometry and rendering it in KeyShot. If you recall some of John's past work and his eye for detail, you know how important the lighting is to the...

SONIC Design is a fabulous boutique design studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Klaus Rosburg is the president, was nominated for the National Design Award in 2007 and is the Gold winner of the Design of the Decade 2010 award by the IDSA. Sonic has taken the CES Design...

Tommy Hawes is a a designer from England who currently lives in Toronto, Canada. His travels have lead him to work with various design firms around the world including Fitch Design in Singapore where he was involved in designing retail spaces as well as fixtures and...

We're proud to feature Unilever as KeyShot's customer of the month. Unilever creates a lot of the brands you use everyday and their design department uses KeyShot to make the beautiful visuals you see. We talked with Joshua Sternthal, Senior Industrial Designer with...

PinforIngenia is a Spanish Engineering and Design agency in Seville, Spain. Their website features many amazing works including design for housewares, furniture, transportation and packaging. They use KeyShot in the creation of their visuals and have just launched an...

Take a look at that vaccuum cleaner. I don't think I've seen a better looking consumer cleaning product in all my life. For over 30 years, Vax Ltd has been delivering the best in floor care products, with a team of engineers and designers that deliver these fabulous...

I absolutely love getting emails from people who are users of KeyShot and those trying KeyShot for the very first time. I received an email a couple days ago from a HiDynamic Productions who create CGI's for Automotive, Urban and Landscape settings as well as...

Sometimes, it doesn't take a whole set of different materials to create an jaw-dropping, incredibly detailed rendering of a 3D model. Maarten Verhoeven is an exceptional CG sculptor and designer. If you frequent the KeyShot forums, there's no doubt you've seen his...

Innovation is a big word. With it, comes a lot of assumption and a lot of expectation. One company meeting those expectations is Sprout Studios, a multidisciplinary Cambridge-based design firm. For Sprout, you can also use words like iconic, creative and wow. They're...

Have you ever thought about what's behind the images of the DeWalt power tools you see online and in the stores? We'll give you one guess. Jason Busschaert is an award winning designer and Sr. Project Industrial Designer at Stanley Black & Decker Inc. where they...

Last week, on July 16th, GRIFITI product design and development group had the TAGTOOL, their first Kickstarter project, successfully funded. The TAGTOOL is a stylus, but so much more. The group loves mechanical pencils, fountain pens & rollerball pens. So, they...

Yesterday, we looked at a few basic tips to help with the KeyShot animation workflow. With that, the ability to copy and paste animations between parts, then mirror animations maked the creation of exploded views extremely fast. Simple assemblies brought in from...

There are many design firms, but few standout as pushing the envelop of design and truly capturing what's possible. EntaStudio is one of these. A design house out of Turkey with deep roots in creating exceptional design, they cover a wide array of design discipline...

KeyShot is used to create 3D rendering all along the product design process. This can be from the beginning, at concept visualization, to the end, when images are needed for marketing or manufacturing. Formation Design is a product development firm out of Atlanta...

There is an incredible amount of work that goes into the engineering of diesel engine system. The process that use to take place on paper and vellum with strait-edge and pencil has been replaced by the 3D modeling and given a photorealistic look before it even hits...

If you're a designer, an engineer or an artist, you probably have a favorite pen. I may completely define you. At the very least, you know the value of a tool that can spill forth your thoughts, ideas and imaginings onto a blank sheet of paper. Alex Tatner explored...

When an image spills forth emotion, you know the creator can capture the essence of the design perfectly. That's exactly what Mikael Lugnegård is capable of. Mikael is an incredible Digital Artist from Sweden, developing design ideas and concepts using KeyShot as part...

Michael Joyce has just launched a Kickstarter project for his B9Creator, a high resolution 3D printer, that, if funded successfully, will provide the ability of creating hi-def 3D prints. Michael shared the unique features of this printer and how he used KeyShot to...

Tim Feher isn't just a CGI artist. he's a sculptor of incredibly detailed compositions that provide a visual feast for the eyes and deliver the message of the product with an impact that is both precise and beautiful. Tim is also a very active participant on the...

Peter Kolus decided to try out KeyShot. This Adidas jacket is one of his first renderings. His girlfriend Ania Mierzejewska modeled the clothes using Marvelous Designer and Peter created the renderings. What a team! Rendering Clothing in KeyShot Peter is an freelancer...

Joy of joys while browsing the forum this morning. Wonderful, new photo-realistic images to feast thine eyes upon. There's nothing better than that. The images you see below are from the first forum post of a new KeyShot user and a great examples of how fast KeyShot...

Matt Tremblay, Chief Designer at RED Digital Cinema and founder of RogueDZN, has been a long time user of KeyShot, bringing incredibly detailed visuals of top-of-the-line Digital Film cameras and custom luxury jewelry to the eyes of people around the world. We caught...

With KeyShot 3.0 we introduced the easiest to use animation system ever fathomed. It uses a simple timeline with animations applied to cameras or objects. No need for keyframes and no need for paths. Clean, simple. Now, with KeyShot 3.1 we've added a few more features...

Perhaps the most substantial new feature to KeyShot 3.1 is the addition of the Realtime Environment Editor. Dare I say, it's magical? I do. It's magical. With a click of a button you can edit any environment, adjusting hue, saturation, brightness and contrast with...

Are there enough 3D renderings of Chevy Camaros in the world? Probably, but what's one more, especially when it's done in KeyShot and screaming across the dusty roads of the Icelandic plains. This one comes from KeyShot users Stef Varga who uses SolidWorks, Pro/E and...

"My passion for film and videogames led me down this path. I can be in both worlds at the same time: making cinematic trailers for Blizzard's amazing games." Vitaly Bulgarov / Blizzard Modeling/CAD software used SoftImage Vitaly began his career as a freelance artist...

There's something mesmerizing about old cars and trucks, especially the ones that have a story behind them. And especially, the ones that people recreate amazing models and renderings of. If you hang around the KeyShot forums you'll know we have some car buffs and...

It hasn't been that long since KeyShot 3 came out, but that's not stopping us from releasing new features and more options for your 3D rendering and animation pleasure. Today, we're announcing KeyShot 3.1 and as you'll see, we've got a whole lot of awesome coming your...

Some of the most captivating 3D renderings I've seen are of creatures, humans and characters, but little did I know the extent of how and where they are being used. Anders Rådén is a KeyShot user. He creates some of the most intricate models of insects and animals you...

How would you like to think of an idea for a toy design, model it up and create renderings of it... every day. Sounds like a tough job doesn't it? Well, that is exactly what Anthony Monzo does. Anthony is an Industrial Designer and the Product Design Manager of the...

There's hardly a day goes by that I don't see a car advertisement on the television or in a magazine and wonder if it's a 3D rendering or a photograph. Odds are it is a rendering and it's studios like Blue Sky CGI who are making it happen with spectacular style while...

Before we exit out the year, we've got to get one more love jab in on GPU rendering and show you the power of KeyShot fully CPU-based 3D rendering. You know KeyShot's real-time ray-tracing is fast, even on a typical quad-core system with a few giggys of RAM. And,...

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...

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...

The sky cracked open, spilling light against the dusted air and silvery layers of the ancient creature's luminous membrane. That may describe the image above, but even more it describes the revelation you're about to receive into how some of the coolest visual effects...

Sure, this isn't the first time we've featured Steampunk style renderings here on the KeyShot blog, but it is the first time you'll see a Steampunk Table Lamp. Designer and KeyShot user Bill Gould is known for his small medical device design and the Edimobile Portable...

Over the past several weeks, many KeyShot customers have been beta testing KeyShot 3, giving the new animation system a spin and helping fine-tune the improved user interface and material options. You'll see more this week (hint-hint) about all the new features in...

It's the details that make the difference and for Rodrigo Sória, it's the minute details in modeling and lighting, along with his eye for composition that makes his 3D renderings stand out. We caught up with Rodrigo to find out more about what he does and why he uses...

A fabulous issue of Develop3D awaits you. Why is it so fabulous? Because it's chock full of product design goodness the likes YOU'VE NEVER SEEN... Oh, and it's also got a fair bit of KeyShot spattered about. For example, you see the image above? That is from page 38,...

If you are a jewelry designer, or involved with any type of product photogoraphy, you know the challenge of getting consistent photos and the time that can go into taking them. Ed Ferguson knows about this all too well. Ed started Cascadia Design Studio in the Great...

A big thanks to Andy Shaw for spotting KeyShot in a new video from Nokia on the design of the flashy, new Windows Phone... the Lumia 800. This week, Nokia World 2011 is going on and coverage on Nokia's new lines of phones and mobile devices is in full bore. Nokia is a...

You can slap brass, gears and goggles on just about anything and turn it more steampunk than your grandaddy's robot leg, but how do you crank a retro-futuristic rendering out of the depths of KeyShot? Magic shine and little time my friends. In other words, you can do...

I'm obsesses with space craft, future ships and anything having to do with racing in the future. Why? Because racing in the future is going to look about 100 times cooler than it does now. How do I know? Because of Harald Belker. He's literally 'rendered' the book on...

John Shuttleworth Yacht Designs (JSYD) is famous for some of the most ingenious yacht, cruiser and racing design in the modern history of seafaring. The Superyacht Adastra is no less impressive. Receiving praise from around the world as the future of boating, the...

If you've seen the previous post on the amazing renderings Uwe Kindler of cetoni GmbH creates, you'll know he's got an eye for rockin' out stunning visuals. Uwe posted some excellent PCB renderings in the forum over the weekend, but that's not all. He ws kind enough...

At KeyShot, we love bikes. If we could all bike together to the office in the morning, we would... even though it would be a little bit weird and a little bit creepy. The bike we would ride would be this sweet concept from the Quirky Moneyball Project, a collaboration...

How do you make an impact with 3D visuals? Not that hard it turns out. All it takes is some imagination, a little 3D rendering... oh, and welding a massive billboard structure to get the message across. It's exactly what KeyShot user, Egon Feldman, and manufacturer,...

cetoni GmbH is a mid-size company with approximately 30 people located in the Eastern part of Germany. The technological focus of the company is on the development and manufacturing of highly innovative and high-¬quality products in the area of laboratory automation....

We were overjoyed to hear that one of our customers recently had a 'behind the scenes' article published about them. Cambridge Audio, a high fidelity audio brand of Audio Partnership, was featured on Electric Pig with a look into their London office and the 40 year...

We love our users, seeing what they're capable of and the renderings they are producing in their line of work. Tim Feher is one of those. Ever since he has been posting examples of his car renderings forums, we've been able to have a little glimpse into his work with...

We love our schools and we love supporting the educational programs. We constantly see an array of talented students creating stunning images with KeyShot. A lot of these are semester projects or final assignments where the students have little time or training to...

There's no doubt that KeyShot can make fabulous 3D renderings, but how you're able to use them is really where KeyShot proves its value. You would be surprised at how many websites use renderings to show off their product. It makes sense too. It reduces cost by...

How fast can you render a helmet in KeyShot? FAST. How fast does KeyShot look on a helmet? How about this? This colorful rendition of a Schuberth SF.1 Racing Helmet by KeyShot extraordinaire Tiho Ramovic not only looks like a helmet sitting on your display shelf, it's...

You know when you see a rendering... you know it's a rendering, but it looks SO real. KeyShot can do that and Egon Feldman is the perfect person to show you the possibilities using nothing more than photos from an iPhone and a little KeyShot magic. He nails everything...

If you live in the UK, there's a floorcare company you've likely heard of and an iconic orange tube emblazoned in your mind. VAX has been sucking the dirt and filth from your floors for the better part of four decades. They have innovative design across floorcare...

You're driving through town. You hit something. You look back. Fortunately, it wasn't old Miss Martin and her dog. You've hit a Sentinel Linsign 300 Visibol. What's that? Only one of Leafield Environmental's highly sustainable, 100% recyclable Polyethylene sign...

Perhaps the most common comment we receive from our users is that KeyShot is incredibly easy to use. But more than that, it's easy to get great results. If you're familiar with the KeyShot interface, you'll know we take simplicity and ease-of-use seriously. Simple,...

How many iPhone cases do you imagine there are? Now, how many iPhone cases do you think there are that protect your sacred device from wind, rain, mud, 30 foot falls and projectile vomit? One. It's the NUT Case from UK-based Okoqu Limited. Steve Jones and Russell...

Your wrists. They're lacking something. No, not the hair you burnt off over the weekend. It's accessories. Your arms lack accessories... blinking, highly durable machined aluminum accessories. The iCufflink design from Adafruit is just that. It's a new, open source...

Sometimes a watch is more than just a watch. Sometimes it's access to your music, your audiobooks, your podcasts, your photos, and your radio. The Quad Mountain Ultimate One iPod Watch is just that and all the stylish design you can pack into a wrist full of plasticy...