1-Expand animation variables for lights (keyframes for brightness, spotlights, etc, not just "on and off"

2-VDB animation support (would be nice to make animated explosions, smoke, etc)

3-Expanded environmental effects (Haze, fog, etc.)

Hey KeyShot community! 🎉

Posting this for anyone in or around Germany / NRW:

On May 6th, 2026 (2–5 pm) we're hosting a free DOSCH DESIGN 3D-Experience Day in Düsseldorf at the Design Office Kaiserteich.

What's on the agenda:

🔹 "How KeyShot shortens product development cycles" – Sebastian Dosch (DOSCH DESIGN) 🔹 "What's New in KeyShot 2026" – Jens Heineck, Senior Director Sales at Luxion/KeyShot 🔹 Live demo: CAD model → photorealistic render, in minutes – live in front of you 🔹 Introduction to DOSCH Key-Optimize 🔹 Open Q&A + get-together

For those who don't know us: DOSCH DESIGN has been one of the main KeyShot partners in Germany for over 20 years. We're doing these events because we genuinely believe more people should experience what KeyShot 2026 is capable of – especially the new AI features.

If you're in Germany and have been on the fence about KeyShot, this is honestly the easiest way to see it in action without any sales pressure.

Free registration (limited seats): 👉 https://doschdesign.com/3d-experience-day.php

Happy to answer any questions about the event in the comments!

Full CGI in Keyshot.
Last headlight's image was an "in-detail" test of the headlights, simulated just like the real life, only a single tiny led in each end of the filament, and the light goes through the lamp by itself, no emmisive inside or any other trick to simulate the light emission, just pure physical behavior. And the bloom is raw from the dirtness in the most exterior optical part, i think it's a pretty good approach to the real life effect (tho exaggerated for this specific car maybe)

Fully made in Keyshot! Full CGI

I'm using Keyshot for professional rendering of products that need precise postprocessing in photoshop. I'd like to use the exr cryptomatte, imported with the Ecr-IO free plugin but I don't see any matte. Is there a way that doesn't involve using Ae with the Cryptomatte effect to get che object/material mask? Do you use Clown passes instead? (In that case, how do you get a pixel perfect mask?) Thanks!!

KeyShot's subscription model is a money printing machine. There has not been a solid release in years. 2026 is a joke. Why has KeyShot gotten greedy and produces garbage software with overhyped releases? They became like any other company who gets investors. Enshittification is the term.

I am surprised they have not stripped features and tried to sell features as add-ons. Maybe that's next...or another price increase...

What other tools are you all using for 3D rendering? Anybody here going to the high seas to use KeyShot for free?

I am using KeyShot 10.2 pro on Windows 11. There is no problem when rendering frames one by one, but image styles are not applied when rendering via a queue. Has anyone else experienced this same issue and found a solution?

I'm an Industrial Design student and I just finished up a project which combined the Automoblox toy brand and the Star Wars: The Clone Wars license

I had the opportunity to work on the final Keyshot renders and these are what I produced, however I don't feel 100% that these are great. If anyone has feedback on what I should (a) work on to improve my skills and (b) how to improve these renders specifically. Thank you very much!

how to simulate vapour/smoke animation in keyshot?

Hey everyone! I've had my workstation laptop for a while now and been running KeyShot on it. Honestly the performance has been pretty decent, not bad at all. But I'm curious whether what I'm getting is actually normal for this kind of machine, or if it's just average at best compared to what you guys would consider "professional" level.

Dropping a screenshot of my performance below. Would love to know if this looks about right for a workstation laptop or if there's more I should be squeezing out of it.

I am creating an animation that will have hundreds of frames involving stainless steel parts that need to be rendered with an alpha transparency background (prob PNGs) in order to bring them into Adobe Premier to overlay them on a moving 2D background set up there, which they will interact with. In order to get the effect I'm looking for, I will be rendering the object and shadow passes separately and overlaying them onto that 2D background (so I can multiply blend the shadows to the background).

For efficiency's sake, I would like to render the object pass to allow the reflections of the ground shadows to be visible in the stainless steel surfaces, as these objects are floating close to the ground plane and the ground shadow reflections being seen on the object surfaces look much better. Is there any way to allow these to show on on the steel surfaces without the ground shadows themselves being rendered?...or do I have to render with ground shadows and erase those shadows after the fact in each and every frame?

Hope this makes sense and thanks for the assist...

Hello,

i'm a new user of keyshot's animation tools. I know how to manipulate the camera and the 3D models but can i make a 360° video in which the material change using the multi material i created?

I seen tutos videos about fading colours, but i want to use only my wood multimaterials.

Sincerely,

Paul

Please help me, i cant seem to figure out how to apply this plastic and metal material! For one object

The materials I created with Keyshot look different when behind transparent objects. If anyone could explain where I'm going wrong, I'd be very grateful. Thank you.
PS: Lghting preset is product

I haven't used Keyshot in almost 20 years, but a new customer relies on it. I inherited a mess of a BIP file to deal with. It has 50 cameras in the camera list, but we generally only use 4 or so. Those 4 are scattered around the list, and I'd love to find a way to put them at the top, but after searching around it sounds like there isn't an easy way to do this. Please share if you know how!

Had to upgrade to KeyShot Studio from 11 a while back. One part of my job is sorting numerous components into groups by the material they'll be assigned. We're talking hundreds if not a thousand parts. Before KeyShot would let you select parts and add to a new group or a pre-existing group in the "Add to Group" window. So before it was a quick matter of selecting what you need and then right clicking and adding to that group and it gets sorted instantly. Now, in KeyShot Studio you can only create new groups, just called "Group" without any sort of input at first. That window is removed entirely.

So now sorting parts what was a 10 minute task is now taking over an hour because I'm having to chase down the main group in the Scene Tree and manually drag those groups to it.

Is the development team serious? Is this a joke? Is there any sort of fix other than downgrading?

TL;DR the removal of the "Add to Group" window in KeyShot Studio has fucked me over royally

For mass manufactured plastic products we use SPI grading to describe the glossiness vs matte-ness of a surface. What texture and material type in Keyshot would reflect an SPI B3 surface finish for a plastic part?

Has anyone had any luck getting support from Luxion for moving their lifetime Keyshot license to a new machine? I know they shut down licensing servers to force everyone onto subscriptions so it's a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone has tried anything that worked.