KeyShot Reviews

The product is mostly drag and drop, some alternatives such as V Ray are much more obtuse with a greater learning curve. KeyShot can be set up quickly and is easy to get a professional looking render out.

The price is quite high and some of the useful features such as HDRI editing are now locked behind the pro license.

I liked that it didn't take me long to become familiar with the functionality and use of this product.

I am not a poweruser when it comes to 3D and maybe this is a great bit of software but we were using it to handle 3D models of cars coupled with backplate images in a teaching environment for photographers. There exists now other software options that might work better that you might already have on your desktop. Highly likely though that if 3D is your thing this might be a great software solution

Keyshot is perhaps one of the most immediate render creation programs. Over the years the quality level has increased considerably, offering the user new and effective features.

Some problems with transparent materials and with the rendering of lights persist.

If you know how to use it well, it can be decisive to achieve a professional quality in your work.

There are times when it is difficult to achieve what you want to do, but nothing that cannot be solved!

While Keyshot has been my go-to render software for the past almost 10 years, the new Keyshot 9 really impressed me. I can now use RGB codes for diffuse of a material, and the color will stay true to the code, it saved me so much time creating new materials. The stock materials are much better too.

I hope Keyshot can add a stock "sunlight" or "outdoors" option for rendering larger objects or environment.

I like that this engine knows how to use the capacity of any computer well when rendering with a speed that cannot be compared. You can create very fluid animations and very realistic images.

The only bad thing is at first it is not very easy to use.

I am a well trained animator come product visualizer.I used Key Shot software since 2015.I like the quality of Rendering and the simple interface of software .I did many product visualizing works using key Shot.and its well co operate with z brush.

Rendering time.It Takes much rendering time than other rendering software but.giving us a mind blowing rendering output.

The software is very complete, I like how the features are set up in different ways, but at the same time makes everything understandable. I really love the cloud library, that makes everything easier for us as a customer, and also it was helpful for me as a student.

Even the cloud library has a lot of stuff to use, there are some things that are just on the web page, so if everything could be in the program, that will be great. Also, it will be cool if there was a page where we can share our keyshot projects, models, textures, etc.
Also, I had some issues while learning the program because yeah, it is friendly but I think just for the people that had used a program like that before, not like for students, or people from another career.

I used Keyshot in school, and now in the startup I am working with. I have always found it to be the best rendering program I could get my hands on. It is easy enough to use that even beginners can get really cool renderings. I ended up getting the keyshot pro version because I felt like having the HDRI editor would be important to get more custom lighting environments. After using Keyshot over the last year, some of the features that I have really appreciated using in my workflow is the model sets and studios. As a designer I do a lot of iterations and so being able to make these different model sets and being able to switch between them quickly for comparison has been really valuable. The keyshot viewer software that goes along with that seems really useful for that too, though I haven't used it very much yet.

You want to make sure you have a pretty powerful computer because it definitely takes a lot. I am running on a windows surface and it works it pretty hard. Sometimes it takes a little while for the renderings to be done, but it works. The only other issue I have had is sometimes when I click to open the render dialogue box, the software will just close/crash and I lose all of my work if I didn't save beforehand. I have lost a couple of projects that way. Of course I should always save often, but I wish they had some kind of recovery method or something.

Before we used this software, we had our CAD-software with the small integrated rendering function. But those never looked good or some realistic. KeyShot is very different, if you are able to set all right parameters, you have to look very often, if it is a picture or rendering! Great!

In the beginning, the software is not that easy to use. There are so many settings and controller you have to move, to get a good looking rendering. And you need a good graphics card or processor, if you do not have it, the rendering time rises much!

The implementation of material libraries and different environments to make a realistic render makes this software a great one to use for rendering. It is very easy to use with a million online tutorials to learn and use. I had to install few plugins and that is all it took to integrate it with my existing workspace.

The software needs to run on a powerful machine to run properly otherwise it takes forever to finish a small render. Other than that I would say it is expensive to get this software.

I love importing an object I'm designing, and within minutes I had the most amazing render setup! Rendering also takes not that long (depending on settings), but you can stop and save the render at any time.

Rendering fabrics or wood on solids isn't easy Keyshot doesn't unwrap the surfaces to apply the texture, instead you have to say it's either a box, plane or cylinder

The best thing about keyshot is how easy the interface is and how simple it is to find the tools and settings you're looking for. The rendering is rather quick and I love just being able to drop materials on to parts of my CAD model based on how it looks in the side bar, which shows the material rendered onto a round ball. The material then assigns in realtime so you can toggle between choices quickly instead of waiting for a high quality render and comparing that way.

Sometimes will not quite understand your 3D geometry but for the most part does well with keeping the entire model structure together.

I love that it's easy to use, love love love the interface. And the features and functions are amazing. Really like how many material there, and also very easy to set up lighting. Plus the quality of the renderings are amazing!!

It's a little pricey but there isn't anything i dislike about it. Maybe if it offers a little more of a modeling side it would be nice.

I liked how easy it was to learn and use. There were also many online youtube videos to help with simple tasks.

Not that great with fabrics, not GPU based rendering and better features added to version 8, but I am stuck on version 7 until I can make a use case for the upgrade.

The huge variety of materials offered and how realistic and dynamic they look.
Barely any changes are needed to create a realistic render.
Even if rendering it takes ages, i love rendering animations sometimes and the fact that keyshot saves every frame as a high quality image helps a lot

The lighting system and HDRI is extremely confusing, specially in terms of placement and direction.
Most of the time, when i need a more complex/personalized lighting, i end up creating objects and assigning them the light material instead of using the actual lighting features.

This is the best studio render software I see in the market can quickly setup and render it out. So much helpful for setting up up for studio shot renders for product shots.

I only the software its bit more expensive when you compare to other softwares.

This is a good tool for rendering and animation of modelled parts/products. lot of materials to choose from. has a a lot of rendering options.

Addition of more background back plates and make the colours more customizable. it freezes when working with larger renders. the various wizards can be improved.

Accuracy in assembly movements. Wide range of materials. Good control over lights. Good rendering performance.

I would upgrade more often if the price was lower.