Keyshot for Beginners

◄COURSE DESCRIPTION ►

I am very pleased to announce to you this beginner’s course for Keyshot 11!

In this course you will be taught everything you require to produce your own amazing product visualization in Keyshot.

This course assumes you are completely new to Keyshot, and therefore it will teach you ALL the basics of Keyshot 11.

You will be taken by the hand through 15 chapters of voice overed instructional videos, in which you will replicate the visualization of the drone model featured in the banner of this course. During that process you will be shown all the basics of Keyshot and some more intermediate and advanced techniques. And all of this will be finished by showing you a complete post processing workflow in Photoshop.

You can watch the instructional videos online here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoSQvFgcRFbpT3yopPAWUQQ/featured

I will post a new chapter every week starting September 1st 2022.

◄ INCLUDED ►

Course Videos:

• 4,5 hours of voice overed, step by step, instructional videos in their original 4k quality resolution at 60 fps. Screen captured straight out of Keyshot and Photoshop.
• 15 chapters, with each chapter subdivided into subchapters where relevant.
• Video of each chapter as a whole (15 videos) and each subchapter (75 Videos) provided as a separate video, for your viewing convenience.

Project Files:

• Models: Various versions of the Drone model as featured in the instructional videos:
  • Low poly – OBJ and FBX format versions
  • High poly – OBJ and FBX format versions
• Textures: All Textures as featured in the instructional videos (free Poliigon textures obtained separately from: https://www.poliigon.com/texture/city-street-asphalt-generic-cracked-002/2563)
• Scenes: Keyshot 11 final Drone scene .bip file.
• Images: All renders as featured in the instructional videos:
  • Drone
  • Drone with water effects
  • Ambient Occlusion Pass
  • Drone mask
  • Propellers mask
  • Front screen mask
• Images: Photoshop 2021 final edits .psd file for the Drone render and Drone render with water effects, as featured in the instructional videos.

◄ REQUIREMENTS ►

• No prerequisite knowledge of any software is required.
• Some basic understanding of 3D models and textures is advised.
• Keyshot pro 11
• Adobe Photoshop 2021

◄ COURSE CONTENT ►

The following topics are addressed in this course:

Chapter 1: Course introduction (01:30)

Chapter 2: What is Keyshot? (06:52)

              2.0 Intro (00:37)

              2.1 What is ray tracing? (05:37)

              2.2 Outro (00:36)

Chapter 3: User Interface (30:01)

              3.0 Intro (00:14)

              3.1 Starting up (02:37)

              3.2 Menu bar (09:47)

              3.3 Ribbon (07:49)

              3.4 Library (05:22)

              3.5 Viewport (00:24)

              3.6 Project window (01:44)

              3.7 Toolbar (02:01)

Chapter 4: Creating & Importing 3D models (23:24)

              4.0 Intro (00:51)

              4.1 Keyshot primitives (03:39)

              4.2 Import methods (01:23)

              4.3 Import dialogue window (03:10)

              4.4 Scene & model units (03:22)

              4.5 Model formats (05:11)

              4.6 Model preparation (05:46)

Chapter 5: The Scene tab (12:29)

              5.0 Intro (00:34)

              5.1 Scene & properties (04:56)

              5.2 Position & move tool (03:44)

              5.3 Materials (00:31)

              5.4 Model sets (02:43)

Chapter 6: Materials (15:47)

              6.0 Intro (00:22)

              6.1 Application methods (01:55)

              6.2 Properties (03:07)

              6.3 Materializing the model (08:45)

              6.4 Cloud library (01:36)

Chapter 7: Textures (32:25)

              7.0 Intro (00:26)

              7.1 Applying textures (05:33)

              7.2 Size & positioning (09:18)

              7.3 Constructing a material (17:07)

Chapter 8: Labels (11:29)

              8.0 Intro (00:19)

              8.1 Labels (11:09)

Chapter 9: Camera (11:45)

              9.0 Intro (00:15)

              9.1 Creating a camera (02:31)

              9.2 Positioning (03:50)

              9.3 Focal length (02:00)

              9.4 Depth Of Field (DOF) (03:07)

Chapter 10: Environment (26:44)

              10.0 Intro (00:27)

              10.1 Adding environments (02:59)

              10.2 General settings (07:05)

              10.3 Background (08:26)

              10.4 Pins (07:45)

Chapter 11: Lighting Settings (10:25)

              11.0 Intro (00:13)

              11.1 Settings (06:43)

              11.2 Presets (03:28)

Chapter 12: Image (15:19)

              12.0 Intro (00:32)

              12.1 Resolution (02:27)

              12.2 Basic image style (06:09)

              12.3 Photographic image styles (06:09)

Chapter 13: Rendering (22:33)

              13.0 Intro (00:17)

              13.1 Render output (07:33)

              13.2 Render options (06:47)

              13.3 Render queue (03:45)

              13.4 Render (04:09)

Chapter 14: Bonus content (18:02)

              14.0 Intro (00:23)

              14.1 How to create a water puddle effect (04:31)

              14.2 How to fake water droplets on your model (04:23)

              14.3 Creating a custom Ambient Occlusion pass (04:29)

              14.4 Creating custom masks (04:13)

Chapter 15: Post processing (29:55)

              15.0 Intro (00:25)

              15.1 The output from Keyshot (03:20)

              15.2 Load files into stack (02:31)

              15.3 Camera Raw (01:21)

              15.4 Contrast (curves) (06:16)

              15.5 Exposure (03:18)

              15.6 Glow (02:14)

              15.7 Vignette (01:47)

              15.8 Sharpen (01:55)

              15.9 Ambient occlusion (AO) (00:42)

              15.10 Lens correction (02:30)

              15.11 Transferring edits (03:27)

              15.12 Outro (00:32)

I am absolutely sure that by the end of this course you will be perfectly capable to create your own amazing product visualizations in Keyshot.

If you have any comments or questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me at: info@aero-3dstudios.com

Or check out some of my other work at: https://aero-3dstudios.com/

I wish you all the best,

Michael