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1. #Keyshot lighting tutorial full#
2. #Keyshot lighting tutorial professional#
3. #Keyshot lighting tutorial series#

Here you can see my model with the main materials applied to each SubTool. Not all the materials have the same texture slots, depending on their properties.Īdding textures to the material. Still in the Material panel, next to the Properties tab, you will find the Textures, where you can change or add additional textures to your material.

Select the Material of a particular mesh and modify its parameters. All the materials don't have the same parameters in this example, this one has a subsurface property which you won't find on other materials such as metals. Here you will find different parameters to modify its colors, specular, and so on. To modify a material, double-click on the SubTool with the material you want to modify and the Material tab will open in the scene panel. So if you want to change the material but keep the texture, hold ALT then click and drag the material to your mesh.Ĭhoose a material and apply it to a part or your entire model. Upon clicking on a material, KeyShot will remind you to Hold Alt if you want to retain the texture of your model. Alternatively, you can click and drag the material on the name of the SubTool (or on the group if you want all the SubTools to have the same material) on the right panel. To apply a material, simply choose one from the library and click and drag this material to the part of the model you want it to be applied. There are many more things that we can manipulate in our model for getting our desired result, such as light which plays a major role in the rendering process. Model imported in KeyShot and overview of KeyShot's interface. On the left panel is the library where all the Materials, Colors, Environment maps and other textures are located. On the top of this panel, you will find the different tabs where we will modify and create the Materials, Lighting and Cameras. On the right panel, you will find your model, with all its different SubTools, that can still be selected separately. You can see that KeyShot has imported your model perfectly, with its textures applied to it. Just go to the Render menu and in the External Renderer palette, click on the button KeyShot, then, do a BPR render to send your model automatically to KeyShot.Įnable the KeyShot bridge in the Render menu in ZBrush.

Step 1: Sending model from ZBrush to KeyShotįrom ZBrush, it is now very easy to send your finished model to KeyShot with the KeyShot bridge. I will show the different materials I have used and the lighting setup I have created to render my image Mer-Man. Know the Basics: ZBrush - part one: Modeling Know the Basics: ZBrush - part two: Texturing Know the Basics: ZBrush - part three: Posing Know the Basics: ZBrush - part four: FiberMesh and UVs This tutorial will cover the basics of applying and modifying materials, and lighting a scene in KeyShot.

#Keyshot lighting tutorial series#

Lighting is definitely one of the major features of Keyshot that I personally like to play with a lot and being able to recreate complex setups from model to model with perfect angles to match across an entire product line has save myself many work hours.3D art director Gregory Stoffel continues the Know the Basics: ZBrush series by looking at the lighting and materials options using the ZBrush to KeyShot bridge.

#Keyshot lighting tutorial full#

For someone that has a deep understanding of practical lighting, I felt I have been unbound by the natural laws of physics with the ability to create lighting and effects that are otherwise impossible to do with a camera and full studio lighting setups. I was able to achieve lighting that is extremely difficult to do, to some setups that are impossible with features like being able to make the lights completely invisible to the camera or even outright removing their reflections for reflective materials like clear acrylic plastics and metals.

#Keyshot lighting tutorial professional#

As a professional product photographer for 17-years, switching to a 3D workflow with Keyshot, the lighting was probably one of the most attractive things to me.