Keyshot Material Mastery

The most advanced course on creation and creativity with Keyshot

features 3 Master Teachers, 3 Workflows, and 8 hours of Performance techniques.

Although you consistently put forth your best effort, your KeyShot renderings may come across as constrained, mechanistic, or artificial.

Despite your tireless work and countless hours devoted to a project, you find yourself dissatisfied with the outcome. You are aware that you have the capability to achieve more.

Despite having access to top-quality online resources, you struggle to advance to the next level. Your renderings lack personality and authenticity, and fail to fully realize the potential of your creative concepts. Your grasp of the tools and settings is incomplete, leaving you unable to explore and experiment freely.

Your goal is to attain advanced proficiency in KeyShot,

so that it becomes an extension of your creativity and intellect.

You aspire to have complete control over every material, from the initial stages of creation, to mastering the nuanced settings of light and environment. You wish to fully comprehend how each component interacts with the others, rather than relying solely on pre-existing tutorials or features.

You desire a more organic approach to performance techniques, rather than relying on the constraints of ID features obtained from YouTube or work experience.

You aim to elevate the realism of everyday industrial materials, such as rubber, matte effects, cork, and cloudy plastics, from standard to advanced levels.

By studying composition and storytelling, you wish to craft breathtaking scenes for your portfolio, and to feel a sense of exhilaration as you create, confident in the knowledge that you are pushing the boundaries of your abilities.

With the right knowledge and techniques, it is possible to take

everyday industrial materials to the next level and achieve extraordinary results in KeyShot

By gaining a deep understanding of the software and identifying the appropriate tools and settings, it is possible to transform standard materials into advanced ones, and to elevate your skills from “skilled” to KeyShot ninja status.

Breaking down the construction of complex materials and building them up layer by layer is a key aspect of this process. Additionally, mastering the “Color, Material & Finish” techniques that are commonly used in the industry, such as complex rubbers or fibers, as well as creating realistic plastics, corks, and packaging cardboard, will allow you to produce exceptional results.

Rather than simply memorizing a recipe, true mastery of KeyShot involves

understanding how the various ingredients and components interact with one another

This means developing an in-depth understanding of the software’s features and capabilities, as well as experimenting with different combinations of materials, lighting, and environment settings to see how they affect the final result.

By gaining this level of understanding, you can go beyond simply creating visually pleasing renderings and instead develop a mastery of the software that allows you to create truly exceptional, unique, and expressive designs.

In my opinion, learning a creative software like KeyShot should involve more than simply memorizing a recipe. Instead, it’s important to develop an understanding of how the various ingredients interact, allowing you to create your own unique recipes.

This involves delving deep into the specifics of the software, including understanding how to work with specular maps, roughness maps, bump maps, and material graph nodes, as well as mastering material management, organization, and lighting.

By establishing a clear and efficient workflow, you can boost your creativity while remaining highly productive. It’s also important to recognize the factors that can make a significant difference in your renderings, such as the relationship between camera angles, materials, and lighting.

Create realistic simulations and elevate the appearance of matte and cloudy materials

Gain a comprehensive understanding of efficient KeyShot scene settings, including lighting and details, and learn tips and techniques for achieving realism.

Discover the tricks for creating exploded views, detailed internal parts, and other features that give your products a lifelike quality.

Take challenging matte and cloudy materials to the next level of realism with minimal effort, and learn post-processing recipes for KeyShot and Photoshop.

Remember that “delivery beats perfection,” and follow three bulletproof workflows that optimize your time and ensure your project stays on track.

By downloading all the provided materials and assets, you can build your own library of advanced materials and environments to enhance your future projects.

Instead of fixating on limiting ID features, learn performance techniques to fully utilize the potential of the software

Create renderings that immerse your audience and make them forget that it was generated with software.

Discover new performance techniques, including subtle setting adjustments and anticipating key materials and nodes, to optimize your workflow.

Modify 3D surfaces using material graphs without altering the original CAD, providing advanced and unique capabilities.

Explore unseen techniques for multi-CC nodes and learn how to build advanced textures from scratch.

Walk through key advanced materials such as cloud, hand paint, feather, and organic woods to gain complete autonomy and flexibility in your creations with KeyShot.

Achieve realism by introducing accidents and avoiding KeyShot’s signature perfection. Learn how to randomize irregularities using simple techniques to create a natural look.

Learn the art of communicating an idea without words through composition and principles of storytelling

Discover the art of communicating ideas visually without using words through the process of rendering a product and designing an image. Explore the techniques used by movie creators and advertisers in storytelling to bring your idea to life and create unique images for your portfolio.

Learn how to find, clean up, customize, recycle, and improve your 3D assets and work with props and advanced textures. Master the methodology to prepare your shots and compose an image starting with a blank canvas.

Challenge yourself to elevate each shot and understand the difference between simply creating an image and truly utilizing the software to its full potential.

As a bonus, learn the techniques that won the first leManoosh Keyshot contest, including time management and the creative process behind handling a short contest.