--- title: KeyShot Reviews meta_title: 'KeyShot Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 181 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how KeyShot works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 181 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: 3D Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/3d-design --- # KeyShot Reviews **Vendor:** KeyShot **Category:** [3D Rendering Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/3d-rendering) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 181 ## About KeyShot KeyShot is the leading 3D rendering and product visualization software, empowering companies worldwide to seamlessly turn product visions into market-ready realities. By integrating every phase of the product journey, from the initial sketch to the final market launch, KeyShot enables businesses of all sizes to design with precision, align processes with clarity, manage workflows with efficiency, and deliver impactful products. ## KeyShot Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **abundance of assets and HDRIs** available in KeyShot, enhancing their creative projects. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **variety of assets and HDRIs** available in KeyShot, enhancing their design capabilities significantly. (1 reviews) - Users find the **abundance of assets and HDRIs** in KeyShot incredibly helpful for their projects. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report **random crashes** when assigning materials to complex shapes, hindering their workflow and productivity. (1 reviews) - Users report encountering **random crashes** when applying materials to complex shapes, disrupting their workflow significantly. (1 reviews) - Users report **software instability** , experiencing random crashes when working with complex shapes and materials in KeyShot. (1 reviews) ## KeyShot Reviews ### 1. KeyShot **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meg R. | Student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** What I liked best about KeyShot is that its fast and accurate at creating amazing and detailed visuals within a 3D rendering workflow. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** KeyShot only works best with a pretty powerful computer, which is difficult to use outside of a working atmosphere. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Upgrade the use of fabrics **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** The benefits of KeyShot are definitely the quality of work that it produces with its 3D renders. ### 2. An excellent render package for novice users. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is so easy to use out of the box that novice users can create advanced renders on par with experienced visualisers very quickly. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The UI of Keyshot is not the most intuitive, lacking some basic controls. Additionally, custom material creation is difficult without looking up tutorials on the internet. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We created pre-production renders for the purposes of client verification and marketing. ### 3. Amazing for rendering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro G. | Matte Painter and 2D/3D General Artist, Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I love so much all materials in the library for rendering **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Nothing dislike. Is a very easy program **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Very very easy and amazing rendering **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Keyshot for automotive render and organic renderings ### 4. Simple and effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Professional result in a quick way with no courses or lessons. Top for rapid presentation and work in progress phase. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Can be improved in camera controls and the way you save the materials **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very quick for getting 3D things rendered in a good way ### 5. Easy and Powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** It's very easy to use, drag & drop material, rotation, camera settings. It's very fast (thanks to real time rendering) and renderings are good **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Measure unit is hard to understand, when I import a model I don't know how to set textures properly, also HDR images are in wrong scale **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I produce good example for my customer and I impress them ### 6. Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Easy to use software that is readily available **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** N/A I like everting. It is easy to use. Not hard at all **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** N/A **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to communicate through ### 7. The easiest and powerful equilibrated best render motor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** It is very easy to learn it's practical have awesome results, it's is my favorite render motor. it is very powerful and practical. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** If includes an option to create textures from images will be awesome. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy fast an realistic render ### 8. High quality render software for designera **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The easy way to create awesome renders in few minutes and with high results **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The animation part of the software is very primitive right now **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to create renders for high level clients in few minutes with great results an very realistic details ### 9. The best tool I’ve found so far for bringing a CAD file to life in a short space of time **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The speed at which realistic results can be obtained. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Recent versions are less intuitive than Keyshot 6. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** We don’t have to wait for a prototype to know how a particular product or finish will look. ### 10. Keyshot for product renderings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** aditya s. | Industrial Designer, Machinery, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 18, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is superb with product rendering. I don't think it can replace alias which is famous for car exterior modelling and surface modelling. But definitely one of the best software for products. V ray I haven't used so far but soon I will use and see how these two differ? That is the major reason why i am writing this review. I am good with keyshot renderings but have to try something else now for comparison. I don't think that it is easy to dethrone keyshot in terms of product rendering as it gives you perfect studio environment where you can adjust ground - object relationship for reflections and shades. You have freedom to adjust lighting in terms of size, number, direction, intensity, and obviously background backplate images as well, and quality of rays reflecting back from product and ground. So this is just as good as it can get. But..... yes there's always a but. If I am looking to compare it to V ray then there must be some reason and the reason is - **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Keyshot does not make use GPU hence the rendering time is by far worse, specially for animations. One needs to have a super computer like processors with more number of cores. However most of the professionals around the globe rely on GPU's. As we usually require GPU for most of our animation applications. So when you are rendering an animation on this software, its a bit disturbing to see that CPU is being used at its 100% while GPU is not being used at all and as a result you end up waiting too long for the final results. I have a i7 (7th gen) clock speed is average 4.2 but for one simple animation of say - 60 secs. (1080p 60 fps). I have to wait for a few hours. I would definitely like to check V ray and other software and how they stack up against this one in terms of rendering speeds. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** For image rendering of products, no need to think twice. Its all that one may require with all ease of use. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As an industrial designer I take care of all the visual appeal of products that go out of our manufacturing unit so keyshot helps in getting realistic renders even before product is ready for manufacturing. ### 11. Good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Efficient , easy use , well designed, not complicated **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Can be more user friendly and cost effective **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make work easier ### 12. Good rendering software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Rwalstic rendering and can open various formats. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Takes much time to rendering and consuming more memory **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Visualise 3d models ### 13. Still in the working stages **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I think is super efficient for our business **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I think the layout is a bit difficult and not as seamless as other apps **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 14. Keyshot is amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2019 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I can spend so much time in Keyshot- I love how much customization can be done in all aspects of a render (lighting, studio, angles, materials, etc). Very excited about Keyshot 8 and the new features. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I'm still learning to trust that the final render will look as it did in preview while editing. And then, can always wish for rendering time to be faster. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Definitely the program to use for rendering, keep learning about all the new features and things you can do with it! **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product design renderings and preview ### 15. The complicated but beautiful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is an amazing software capable of rendering incredibly realistic characters. It is especially powerful when dealing with substances like skin and metal. I'm highly impressed by the quality of keyshot's renderer. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I don't like that it renders a lot slower than marmoset. My assumption is that it's rendering more data and drawcalls, so it takes longer to view your model-- however, this isn't very useful for real-time applications. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** The program is a bit pricey-- I'd shop around for other renderers before spending a lot of money on this one. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love that keyshot and zbrush are so easily usable together-- being able to send a model straight to keyshot from zbrush has saved me a lot of time in my everyday routine. ### 16. Awesome software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** It it easy to use software to make quick rendering of simple CAD, it is compatible with multiple files and has allowed us to save money. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** There is a learning curve to the more difficult features like animating and changing colors of multiple surfaces, best used allowing with solid works. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Key shot has allowed us to make rendering and animation to used across our social media, website, and tons of our print material. We typically had outsourced this until last year which has been a huge help and saved us thousands. ### 17. Simple Yet Highly Capable for a Rendering Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erdem B. | Senior Industrial Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** - I can easily drag & drop files to import to the scene, without having to open a dialog box. - It supports a wide range of diferent filetypes for importing. - Intuitive and simple ways to assigning, replicating and linking materials. - Materials are classified into different types with different controls. It is very easy to grasp how they work and when to use what. - Setting up a scene is very quick and easy. You just need an HDRI, a background image and of course your subject. - You can just render an image right away with standard settings and it will look wonderful. - You can tinker with a few parameters and get a very quick render or very detailed highly photo-realistic images. - It gets shorter to get renders compared to earlier versions. I have been using the same PC for a long time but my render times got somehow shorter. - You can choose how many CPU cores to use. Very useful when you have to run multiple programs simultaneously. - You can easily prepare simple animations. - Material and rendering quality is great. I had several coworkers and clients mistaking render images for photos. - You can have a variety of channels for post-production. I save a lot of times on my stills using extra channels. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** - Framing, sizing and resizing the software window and rendering area might get hectic at times. You might easily lose your original aspect ratio and image size unless you lock it before moving on to variations of your subject. - It still struggles with interior rendering. Still needs developing. - Clown Pass is very useful but it should let users choose which color to use for different objects. - Sometimes you import the same file but with updated geometry, and suddenly scale of the scene messes up. - You should carefully plan layers and object groups before importing. You can still ungroup and regroup certain objects, but it still needs developing. - Sometimes metallic paint presents a flake pattern that can get annoying in close-ups of hi-res images. But not always. - Interface and mechanics of adding, deleting, naming/renaming and locking cameras need to be developed. - If you want complex movements for camera or objects, you need to work around your way, because animation module is clearly intended for very simple animations. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Keyshot is very easy and it offers very good quality. Realtime ability is very useful to determine if you are moving in the right direction, without having to spend too much time on rendering a still image. If you intend to use it for product rendering, just get it. Bear that in mind that it has a CPU based engine; GPU-CPU hybrid or sole GPU rendering is not available. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I prepare photorealistic moving and still images of new product and architectural designs. Sometimes I use its live view to show and review a project with my clients or coworkers without having to render scenes. Although it got more complicated controls and settings as it evolved over the years, it is very easy to learn and use compared to other rendering engines. This helps a lot while working with new coworkers and interns. **Official Response from Josh Mings:** > Thanks Erdem! We just released an update that improves the speed and handling of complex scenes, brings more capabilities and improvements to clown pass, and adds additional improvements for other materials. We really appreciate the input and I think you will like what's to come. Thanks again! ### 18. KeyShot is the best at creating fast, amazing and accurate visuals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Allison A. | Graphic Design Specialist, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I like that the complimentary trial provides all the functions, so you can really see if the program will be helpful to you. I actually like that it assists offer customers a more sensible visual of my work. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I do not like that it takes a lot area on your computer system, and is quite sluggish to download. It is likewise costly. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I really like that it helps me give clients a more realistic visual of my work. ### 19. Rendering Experiential Marketing Events **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jared K. | MakerSpace Technician, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I absolutely love Keyshot. It's my program of choice coupled with Solid Works for the foundation of the 3D files I use. Using realistic physics engines Keyshot always produces superior quality renderings that blow away clients. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** This may not be as relevant to the program itself and more just my personal system. I run Keyshot on a boot camped MacBook Pro. Probably not ideal for taking advantage of the programs power. With using a MacBook Pro comes slower rendering speeds and a very noisy corner in my office while my laptop prepares for take off. As mentioned previously, this is not as much a Keyshot problem as it is my own. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm provided a brief with an event, whether that be a pop-up experiential campaign or an expo booth, using Keyshot allows me to produce renderings of what that event or booth will look like with a much more realistic visual. Of course this is after a 3D modeling phase and followed by some skinning in Photoshop, however, this program has opened doors to a consistent "WOW's" during client proposals. **Official Response from Josh Mings:** > Thanks for your review Jared! Great to hear how you use it and how it has helped. Just for your reference, on Mac we recommend Mac OS X 10.8 or above. In the meantime, here's hoping we see SolidWorks for Mac in the future! ### 20. Rendering without time wasting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Toni P. | Produc manager , Design, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I've always liked the rendering part, for me and my clients its the best way to represent something. But it's not always easy to find the time to do it properly. Hopefully there's Keyshot, easy to use still giving great results and full with features. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The price is high even if it's reasonably high, reason why I didn't upgrade to the last release on my current job place. Technically talking it could make some troubles between all the file extensions it opens, so it needs practice to find out the best way to export the 3d file. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's easy, it's fast. This is what many works need and Keyshot helps a lot. ### 21. keyshot 6 - A brilliant update to get realistic renders quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ujwal I. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The accessibility to create your own material to get the required visual effect in Keyshot 6 is a very strong plus point that allows to get a very realistic feel of the product to be showcased and convey your ideas more fluently. With this and the ability of Keyshot to get quick renders makes it a versatile rendering tool.The addition of a graphical interface to make materials helps in creating realistic visual effects on materials like dust of a rusty surface. The software also has a great interface to import 3D model files easily and update the same files without the fear of loosing any material changes made. The addition of 'Save as a Package' helps in sharing the keyshot files easily .- with other Keyshot 6 members **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** There are few imperfections still in terms of transparent / cloudy materials but with a little effort and time with a bit of fine tuning the parameters the required realism can be got. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** A perfect rendering tool for product design studios as well as engineers, not that effective for automobile objects but it does do reasonably good job. It allows import of a wide range of 3D files and makes the importing and updating process of the 3D files a breeze with the help of multiple options and features. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keyshot helped me convey my ideas to clients quickly , and allowed me to experiment as well as change ideas and thoughts very efficiently and easily. **Official Response from Josh Mings:** > Thanks for your review Ujwal! If you like the advance material creation, you'll love the new features in KeyShot and the new materials. There is now a Cloudy Plastic material that will give you what you're looking for with transparent/cloudy materials. ### 22. Digital Artist **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nickolas V. | Product Graphics Analyst, Furniture, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The best use of keyshot is for quick renders! Although it is great for setting up your own scene and creating your own lights. I find it shines best when I need to render a work in progress or want to show off a model in a hdri scene. Im able to export a obj from my software of choice, then just bring it straight into keyshot and start applying their premade materials. The program is also very easy to use when it comes to materials and editing them yourself. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** My biggest issue with keyshot is setting up your own lighting. I find it much more difficult then your traditional render softwares such as vray and corona. The pre setup lighting in keyshot is fantastic, however i feel limited because I am struggling to learn how to setup my own lighting scene. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Just give it a try. I was hesitant because of my love for v-ray. However it is truly amazing. The eaze of just dropping a obj into the program and doing quick wip or turnaround renders is so easy and time saving. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** With a company such as steelcase who produces a lot of furniture, it is super beneficial to take a chair and put it into a HDRI room and render it. I have created several renders of furniture in HDRI environments that people have a hard time distinguishing from real life. Another great feature is the turnaround! I can take a product and create a short turnaround animation for customers to view. ### 23. Rendering made simple **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is so simplify it makes rendering easy to have a great image of your product. Plus they are always improving the software for better results. Material modification is great. Their Cloud material library is great. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** When having some parameters as Depth of Field, rendering time takes to long. Material modification is great altough advanced modifications is difficult. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Keyshot meets the expectations that your are looking for for an accesible price. It´s easy to use as the interface is pretty friendly. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quality rendering with a great perception on the materials and reflections. ### 24. Great rendering software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | UX Researcher, Consumer Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** It is very easy to use , and it have amazing results. I think most designers love it. It is easy to make animations and images of your 3D models. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** You need a very powerful computer if you want quick renders in a good quality. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Amazing for your renders , highly recommend. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to get realistic images of my products. ### 25. Powerful rendering software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2018 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Imports a large variety of models quickly from almost any 3d software. Sometimes you don't even have to export the native model as a general format. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** As with all rendering software it can bog down your computer if you're multitasking. I found that the more advanced tasks in the UI weren't very intuitive. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Make sure you get access the cloud and download additional materials and environments etc. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Professional level rendering ### 26. Very easy to use render software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Is probably one of the best render softwares on the market, it is very easy to use and create great images very fast. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Probably the only thing that I don´t like is the constant update that make the software more and more complex without any improve on the result **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Use the trial version first, you will love it **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is great to explore and show a design with a client, render live was the key on some projects ### 27. Fantastic software. Highly recommended. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Grant F. | Founder/CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Not only is it one of the most affordable rendering softwares, but it is also the most intuitive and easiest to use. You can use almost any model from any software and take advantage of a user-interface that is so simple, it almost feels like an app. The rendering is also very quick relatively speaking. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I have noticed that getting light to shine correctly is somewhat odd. I tried to make a video in which a yellow light slowly started to rise on a moving car like a sunrise, but it came out really badly pixelated. It's possible I set it up wrong or used low quality rendering because I was in a rush, but it would be nice to have basic animations in lighting that you can just click to add such as sunrise or a moving light so the user doesn't have to create the light model and everything on their own. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** There is an educational version for very cheap for those who qualify for it and the support people are helpful and will work with you to get it if necessary. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Keyshot to create images and videos for advertising my product. ### 28. Fantastic for Non-Engineers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin M. | Creative Director and Product Maker, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is fantastic because it allows anyone, regardless of skill set, to model and render complex 3D images. It's great because it's not GPU based so it runs on any standard computer with a good enough CPU. Most 3D rendering engines require massive graphics processing so that's a huge plus. The other thing that's great is that it's relatively stupid friendly. You don't need to be a CAD modeler or take long tutorials to do basic stuff. I figured it out and had models rendered and animated in under an hour. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** UX is awful and the pricing model is a bit meh. They badly need to fix bugs and improve performance. You will look over these for the sheer convenience of how easy it is to use though. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Great for beginners, power users will feel constricted. Power users however can use it to texture and render only and model in another software they like. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this mostly to render products for websites and create 360 turntables for users to explore products in greater details ### 29. RealTime Renderer **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zaher M. | Architectural stuff - Freelancer, Architecture & Planning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** well the easy to use and friendly user interface , almost all u need is right infront of ur face , laybraryies , Materials and other tools , it hase a lot of great Materials , it render fast just like realtime renderer vray or light cach in 3Dmax ,, **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** its actully realtime renderer , but it takes a lil time , a lil time that makes me think twice when it comes to 3d presentation ,,, for rendering a standalone shoots , its ok , and fast , but not that enough ,, Lighting ,,, and enviroment HDRI will limit ur design . EDITING and correcting some bugy faces or edges in Modell , will be a pain ,,, applying materials and editing the texture and free form it over the object ,, it is really a pain to do it **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** well , if u gonna use it for draft and concepting , it can really help and give a professional look , but if u going in details and modeling and applying a freeform texture to an organic architecture for example , it will be a really headache , well u gonna use modelling program along side it , so i may recocmend checking Lumion3d ,,, its render so much faster , and give a wide range of options , just check another similer programs and balance ur choices and ur needs , **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** importing and exporting 3d models between Autocad , sketchup , and many other 3d filetype , it helps to take some shoots ,, to illusterate a concept or idea , ### 30. Keyshot has brought a fast solution to send customers more realistic images **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The simplicity of the software to get a rendering done and out using the basic options. When you want a fast turn around for some of your basic images, Keyshot makes it painless to get them done. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The amount of time it takes to get the actual rendering computed can be long. I like the fact that you can put multiple renderings in a "queue" to render while you go do something else, but it does take a while to get done and uses a lot of computing power. You have the option of going to computing "farms" offsite, But I have not tried those as of yet. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting the customer to better understand the end products visually is huge. They can really get a good look at the possibilities of the product before anything has even been produced beyond the digital realm. ### 31. This is great app for render beginner/Junior level designers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan Z. | Financial Analyst, Real Estate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The way that it is very easy to set up and love the drag and drop texture feature which makes it very user friendly. Also the instant render preview is awesome too. The fact that you will be able to see the rendering instantly without waiting or spend hours to render is absolutely great. I was fairly impressed by the new simple animation function added into Keyshot in Keyshot 5 which allows product designer like me create stunning little .gif for my products on crowd funding website. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I hope there are more options to adjust lighting, I meant much more specific lighting placement and brightness etc. Also I wish there will be much more in-depth setting for models and also I think the animation effect can be greatly improved just like cinema 4D. I wish the requirement of rendering can be lower since not everyone has high end computer to run rendering. I wish the rendering setting option can have little thumb nail animation to tell users how and where it will change the rendering effect and end result. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** It's a very user friendly product for new/intro level to industrial/product design. It will take you couple hours maximum to understand how it works and you will be able to use it instantly to create great rendering for your 3D models. Don't be scared of it and just try to use it and it will make your design life so much more easier and the default lighting is already very good I rarely try to adjust the lighting myself. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing business problems but mostly I use it to produce rendering to clients. ### 32. A clever and intuitive 3D render Software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clément B. | Interior Automotive Design Intern / Master Thesis, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** As I said into the title, Keyshot is a great, clever and intuitive 3D render Software. First, I like his installation which is really simple, it's only takes 2 minutes, and take so much place into your hard drive. Then, when you launch the software, you can easily find your way : they explain to you how create an environment or just directly import your file. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The real time render is a bit slow, for sure that will depend on which machine you are running it but if your 3D model is complex, you will way have some pain to use your computer. But the good thing is that you can turn off the real time render and so on , use your computer with all the powerness. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** As you may understood, I really recommand this software for everyone who would like easy, and nice renders for their 3D models. And the cost is not so expensive so get it now !! You can find it on the official website or with resellers on internet. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a designer, it's a really nice software to communicate your ideas in a short time. Freshly picked out from Alias or solidworks, you can in a minute process to a great render and after that put it in photoshop for post treatment imaging. I also tried the animation functionality for a student project and it's works really nice for basic stuff. ### 33. Awesome solution for fast and powerful rendering. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Róger Z. | Freelance Industrial Designer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** What I like the most about Keyshot is the simple workflow offered by the software, everything is clear and intuitive. You probably have to know the 3D-softwares environment basics and if you don't you can pick up the basic rules of the software pretty quick and produce professional quality renders quite fast. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** There are a few details that sometimes interfiere with the softwares, some kind of "bugs" that can provoke the program shutting down unexpectedly. I've had also experience other errors when I update complicated geometries or models with lots of surfaces. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Start picking into the materials and set up your own from the beginning, this way you'll have your own personalized material library in a couple of months. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm currently working for a prototyping company so we usually give our clients many design solutions to the same problem, these solution translate commonly to physical devices. In my experience, a good render can sell ten times more than a written idea. So, fast rendering is good business. ### 34. Keyshot revue **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** julien f. | design internship, Design, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** that i prefer in keyshot is that is very simple to use and its compleat , i'm designer so when i do a render i use generaly photoshop after so i dont nead a perfect rendect softwear very complex , keyshot is perfect , esy toput textures and modified textures (sise, orientation, contrasts etc) , you can modified lights , environements , bacground etc etc so finaly its very cool and symple , permet me to do quick renders before to use photoshop to do a more natural render. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** the principal problem is that is hard for my computer when i use keyshot , the softwear use all the power. but globaly for me its the only big problem , maybe for experts of 3D renders its too much simple but for me its perfect i'm designer i just want comunicate ideas quickly . **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** just looking if is possible to do something more light for computer when is open. for the rest i think its in the good direction ! just continue to conserve a symple and intuitive interface and i will continue to use this softwear **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** esay to use so i'm very fast to do renders , permet me also to test the 3D with real textures and light during the evolution to looking if is ok or not. its possible to do quick animation so its cool to send quickly something in mouvement for the client to more imagine the final product. ### 35. Very usefull sofware for designers. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2017 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I really like the possibility to set your 3D Model with different materials and colors. Especially I really love the way you can see it in real time without doing a proper rendering. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** It's a good software, but some others are more user friendly and professionals. the interface is also not the best. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** You can try it. It's reallay easy to use and you can see the final result of your work in a few minutes. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using this software to realize a lot of renderings for my company. I can easily pass from a basic 3D Model to a Realistic Photorendering in a few minutes. ### 36. Easy and clean Rendering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alice P. | Animatrice périscolaire, Fine Art, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is really easy to use, it's the best rendering software for begginers. It's really intuitive, you basically just put the texture where you want, define a vue and wait. The result is absolutely clean and professionnal. There is a basical white environnement, with predefine lightening that is perfect for showing a nice render of your object for a final presentation in few minutes. You can also change the preset too, you have lots of differents options for the background (pictures,colors..), the lightening ( shadow, contrast, add led, color..) and you can modify your texture (size, color, opacity..). Something that's great about Keyshot is that you can rotate you'r 3d object to change it position. To sum up, It's a very complete,fast, easy to use and proffesionnal software. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Keyshot is less perfect for rendering architecture. I recommand it for industrial design and branding on object. Keyshot does have basic features : if you want to take your project to a higher level you may have to look at more powerfull/complicated softwares such as Maxwell. But in major cases Keyshot is enought. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** It's the very best rendering software for begginers, i recommande it to design student. It's very effective for product design and branding on object. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keyshot can help industrial designer to improve the quality of their presentation/project. It's a very easy to use and offer a fine result quality. I recommand it. ### 37. Keyshot by 3D Macaw **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos D. | Co Founder, Animation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Its a great rendering software and you can achieve realistic high quality imagery with few clicks and simple setup. The way you can use preexisting materials, hdri backgrounds and lights it's very fast and also the way you can customize materials by not only changing colors but importing diffuse, bump, specular maps to have a lot of control in the way that you want the object to look. The rendering time it's very fast and you can export animation and vr renders in a very easy and fast way. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The animation wizard it's still a bit primitive, and it will be and improvement if the user could customize render passes. In the same way when you import models and use the wireframe material it tesselates the model and you don't longer see the good topology in quads but triangles instead. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Get the free trial and see for your self how easy it's to render HD images with a very accurate lighting system and with few clicks. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product visualization and 3D rendering with a fast and accurate lighting set up. You spend less time in solving technical light problems and focus more on a look that you want to achieve and explore. ### 38. Great for Industrial Designers / Product Rendering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Blake M. | Designer & Web Content Specialist, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** KeyShot is an extremely powerful and realistic three-dimensional rendering tool, featuring many tools for creating photo-realistic product renderings. One way to add great dimension to your renderings is using KeyShot's depth of field settings within the camera settings, which adds a great level of realism to any finished product. Additionally the customization of textures and the ability to add your own really can take any great three-dimensional model to the next level, while adding needed contextual evidence that your design is realistic both in physical form and appearance. Another thing I really appreciate when using KeyShot is the ability to customize the lighting effects of each specific material. For example if I want one material to become more matte in finish while another to be more glossy, I can either choose those samples directly or customize them for a higher contrast finish. One last thing that I appreciate about this software is the overall versatility and quality of the results it provides. If I just need a quick rendering to prove the concept to someone, I can choose to use a shorter rendering time and scale the image down to cut down on time waiting for the image to rendering. On the other hand if I need to use my rendering in large format print or for a large viewing experience at very high resolutions, I have the ability to customize those factors in my rendering setup for exactly what I need. As a designer that level of specificity and granularity is appreciated and is really a fun thing to be able to have at my dispense depending on what I need. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** KeyShot isn't particularly user-friendly if you are new to using rendering programs and has many advanced features that can be difficult to learn without someone who already knows how to use it. That being said, there are a lot of great resources available online to help with beginners, because of how widely used KeyShot is in the industry for product designers. Another industry standard for video and photo editing software is growing compatibility with utilizing the GPU as well as the CPU to decrease render times and increase overall efficiency. Unfortunately this is not yet a feature that I have seen in my experience using KeyShot, and it would be great to see this feature come into play in future iterations of the product to take full advantage of the powerful hardware in most designer's workstations. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** KeyShot may not be the most user-friendly rendering program out there beyond its standard features, but it certainly delivers in its professional results and granular controls for demanding users. The customization and control KeyShot offers is next to none in my experience and it is my go to program for any three-dimensional rendering tasks for both professional and personal use. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** KeyShot provides me with realistic product renderings that add value to the final showcase of my work to both clients and peers. It is really invaluable to be able to create a realistic and detailed model that includes realistic textures, lighting effects, depth of field, and showcases the form factor of any design. KeyShot is also great because it is compatible with both of the primary programs I use to create three-dimensional models: SolidWorks (for more detailed/production-ready work) and Rhinoceros (for surface modeling and quick iterations). Another great feature that has improved my efficiency is the ability to queue a number of renderings from various positions around any product that I wish to render. I can set up anywhere from a half dozen to maybe twenty or thirty different camera angles, without having to set up each frame and wait for the rendering to complete before I can work on the next shot. ### 39. Useful render software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Sebastian R. | Monitor Taller Digital, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The best of KeyShot is that is very easy to use. You set materials, environments and other things very easy. The interface is very intuitive, it helps to generate high-quality renders in a very short time. It is also to highlight library materials that KeyShot has. It has a wide range of materials grouped into different categories, where you can find wood, metal, plastics and others. Similarly, create materials is very simple, you only have to have the textures. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I do not like the lights that KeyShot have as a material. I can not use them as I wish into my renders. The **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy and fast. You do not have to set a lot of parameters or technical stuff in order to get a professional render. Unlike other rendering software, KeyShot allows you to generate renders in a very short time, I'm really surprised since I have generated renders of high complexity in a very short time, which allows me to quickly see errors or things to improve in my designs. ### 40. Keyshot- Best rendering software for simple and fast results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gabriel H. | Freelancer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** It has a Material Library easy to customize, Hdri Library. Very easy to learn as begigner, friendly interface. Quite well optimized. Great compatibility (large number of files cpompatible for import) Very easy to setup a simple animation (presets already made) Material editor is very easy to use to edit materials. Camera- very easy to use and have enough adjustments . **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Not too mnay options to deliver a Professional Level Render I don't like that doesn't have an integrated "system of lighting" - Sun / Plane / Spheriphical / Circular LIGHT Final render - usually a bit hard to achieve natural effect. Unexpected system crash **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Best choice for learning to render. Reccomand to small companies that have to provide good quality rendering in good time. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provide real time rendering/ Quick renders. Time saving ### 41. A software tool that quickly became indispensable. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan David H. | 3D Design and Print Intern, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Intuitive creation of shaders which also helps educate on the composition of such materials. Wide array of acceptable 3D formats to render out. Very quick processs from start to finish in terms of creating striking images. It is also worth noting that there is a vast amount of stock material such as textures, materials and environments that enables one to immediately jump into the worl of 3D visual graphics. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** On very rare occasions 3D geometry will not show up; this is often when objects are 'extrusions' and can often be worked around by meshing NURBS surfaces. Sometimes the cameras can also be incredibly glitchy with regards to just losing objects completely in the ether. The orthographic cameras can also be problematic, often intersecting with a model. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** If you are working in product development and looking for imagery that is more than explanatory just, but stunning, then look no further. Get the beautiful and crisp renders you've always dreamed of with the minimum of effort. The official KeyShot videos on YouTube are invaluable as assistance to the learning process and should be referenced immediately; if anything to inspire what is possible. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realising product ideas and giving realistic renders that enable communication barriers to be broken down in relation to talking about material quality, visual impact, form, proportion and finish. Main benefits have included the speed with which I can work as well as an incredibly intuitive interface in addition to tools for creating animations without the need for any complicated workflows. ### 42. KeyShot is simply the way to go! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Edvinas M. | Graphic Designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** As a KeyShot user since version 1.9 (HyperShot-KeyShot) I can proudly state that this real time renderer has aided me a lot trough out the years in 3D scene, not only it is user friendly but also it gives all the necessary tools to bring your 3D object to life within minutes, and it keeps getting better with each new release! Edvinas Mikstas **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Despite the fact that KayShot is the most popular renderer, it still has some things to improve. With that being said, I would like to see some improvements in materials compartment, texture mapping seems a bit to poor, other than that there are no more major dislikes that I have, because renders are being post processed in other applications. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** I definitely recommend KeyShot to anyone starting from beginners to experts who are looking to get 3D realistic renders of their products fast. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Concept design prototyping, is the industry I am in right now, and realistic renders are the must when it comes to presentations. ### 43. Keyshot my rendering tool ! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pierre-Hugues V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is very easy to understand and to use, very interactive and gives quickly good visualisation of your design with just few settings. The menus are easy to indentify and intuitive. You can also easely create some simple animations with an animated tool which helps you to previsualize the animation, and it's still very intuitive. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** The only problem I meet with key shot, is the quality of the shadows which is sometimes not diffuse but in a blocy way, and the quality of lights which sometimes too blade, it need more sensitivity, more warmth, and you need some photoshop corections to realy have a high quality render. We use the expression 'key shot render" to identify renders which are not so charming, a bit too cold, without the sensibility of light shadows and texture you have in real life, and in communication renders. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a transportation designer, I use key shot for all my renders and presentations with few correction on photoshop. I won a lot of time with the simplicity of key shot even if some renders could need photoshop corrections, but regarding more complexe renders, as a designer and not a 3d designer specilized with renders, the simplicity of usage of key shot is very comfortable and so usefull. ### 44. Keyshot is a game changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher S. | Art Director, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The pure speed and versatility of Keyshot is amazing. I'm always a working on multiple projects at once and to be able to texture, light, and render my models in real time is priceless. Keyshot has saved me so much time. Things that would take me hours in other packages with renders alone, take me 1/5 of the time. Just amazing speed and tackles any project like a champ. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I can't think of anything I dislike a out Keyshot but I would like to see a little more options in terms of render passes. I think adding some passes like Reflection, Ambient occlusion, etc... would really help. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in Entertainment Advertising and a lot of problems we face is trying to get really large renders for large prints in a short amount of time. That's why I use Keyshot. Once I started integrating Keyshot into my workflow, I realized how easily Keyshot handles large renders and how fast it can turn them out. ### 45. Simple and user friendly rendering tool with wide features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna A. | designer-freelancer, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The most wonderful in KeyShot is user friendly interface and absolutely simple settings. I'm a designer, creating conceptual visualizations. So sometimes I need to compose many 3D objects in one scene, and frequently the situation requires to compose absolutely various objects with various formats and render it together. KeyShot gives me this opportunity. Besides, I can create many various materials from ready ones without problems and have great result. The big plus is the possibility of integrating of simple geometrical figures into the scene. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Impossibility of simple modelling. This product would be perfect with this feature. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a designer, who creates conceptual visualizations for business presentations in agencies (B2B segment mostly). KeyShot gave me the opportunity to use 3D for my needs without deep immersion into 3D modelling process. But as a bonus, I was inspired to start my study of Cinema 4D after I've worked with KeyShot a lot to create complicated objects by myself, without help of 3D modellers. ### 46. Occasional KeyShot user review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sabolch F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** I think the best feature of KeyShot is how user friendly the lighting environments are, and how they will look pretty much exactly how you'd expect them to in your final render. Some other rendering software relies on the user to place each light, I am not a photographer or lighting expert, so those always come out with intense highlights and dark spots or backgrounds. KeyShot takes all the guesswork out and reliably produces a nice clean soft light for matte objects, with the option for other lighting patterns for glossy objects. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** I find adjusting the scale and orientation of patterns like carbon fibre and wood to be quite tedious. They are often set way too large by default. It is also a pain to move models around in the environment, specifically if they need to rest at a tilted angle. Adjusting the angle as well as the height separately to make sure it hasn't dropped through the floor. And finally, I wish it were easier to layer materials on a model. Instead of always having the next material replace the previous, but to easily add textures or other effects on top of what is already there. Rust for instance. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** If you'd like an easy to use rendering program, look no further than KeyShot. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I render products for display. KeyShot is very fast at giving a very good definition to subtle forms. ### 47. Amazing and surprisingly useful, hope that I could have used it longer:) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yiping X. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** The rendering effect, as well as the possibility of import SolidWorks models. The effects are realistic, the speed of exporting is moderate and higher than anticipated. Moreover, the animation possibilities are also powerful for me to generate amazing effects. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Sometimes the starting up scene might turn black (primarily because of my CPU storage is insufficient I guess), however, it did caused confusion to me for the first few times. Other than that, I believe it would be the short period of trial licence haha! **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** I believe it is worth a try, whichever 3D rendering software you are using. It has a rather fluent connection with SolidWorks, and it has a much faster speed compared with Blender when I used them to export. Overall, the product is amazing. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** This was a huge support for my final year project in Uni. I was able to render realistic models and animations from these effects, and the product looked real and the end result turned out to be good and amazing. ### 48. Very Good Design Companion **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fábio M. | Product Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** As a Product Designer, I love Keyshot, I have tried other 3D rendering software but none comes to the same level of speed and quality of the final image. With keyshot, paired with solidworks, you can, in a matter of minutes, have your model rendered in studio lighting with a very complete texture library to chose from. The textures are very good, very customizable, you can literally replicated any texture you want. Model animations, and turntable effects are very easy to do. The drag and drop interface is very easy to use. HDRI MAP editor is very good and easy to use as well **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Keyshot uses quite a bit of resources, If you have an older computer or a mid range laptop you can forget multitasking while rendering an image, Make sure you have, at least, a intel quad core i5 ou i7, and 8 gb of ram, minimum. Keyshot only uses your Processor, so make sure your have a good one, mine is a mobile intel i7 quadcore (asus N550JK) which is quite fast, bue a desktop sixcore or eightcore would be a lot better. I would like to have Graphics Card support, which would speed up the rendering process. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Very good 3D renderer, recommend it to anybody who works with models and wants to render them quikly and with photorealistic quality **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very Fast and photorealistic rendering. Very easy to use for beginners or professionals ### 49. Incredible rendering quality, really usefull software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mateo V. | 3d Generalist, Animation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** As a 3D generalist I love keyshot because it's easy to use, and you can get the hang of it really quick, I have tried several 3D rendering software, and I found keyshot the most intuitive. With keyshot you can get really high quality renders, Its material and enviroment lightning allows me to spend more time designing than figuring out how to configure lighting or materials like any other software. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Overall it's a really complete software, but sometimes I need to use a displacement map, and keyshot does not have that option. But since every update brings a lot of new features to keyshot I believe they will cover that soon **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use keyshot to create high quality renderings of the characters I design. One of the benefits of using Keyshot is that I don't have to spend time tweaking and setting lights and materials. ### 50. The best way I've found to render. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2016 **What do you like best about KeyShot?** Keyshot is an easy to use, extremely powerful piece of software that works for professionals as well as amateurs. It gives designers like myself an ability to experiement with material, texture, finish and color of parts of a design without having to hand render with markers which can take hours. **What do you dislike about KeyShot?** Rendering is inevitably an extremely resource hungry endevor, and slower computers have a lot of trouble with it. If someone has a slower computer, the live render preview may not be giving them an accurate picture of how the final render will look and they wont be aware of changes they need to make until the render has fully processed, which can take hours. **Recommendations to others considering KeyShot:** Research the minor adjustments that can improve the renderings, like texture scale, depth of field and field of view. **What problems is KeyShot solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving problem of deciding on materials for production and manufacturing ## KeyShot Discussions - [Is KeyShot worth the licence cost for product visualization work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-keyshot-worth-the-licence-cost-for-product-visualization-work) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I make more natural lights inside and out?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36469-how-can-i-make-more-natural-lights-inside-and-out) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I remove the white spots like powder while rendering?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36321-how-can-i-remove-the-white-spots-like-powder-while-rendering) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is KeyShot used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-keyshot-used-for) - 1 comment - [Can you model in KeyShot?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-you-model-in-keyshot) - 1 comment - [View KeyShot pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/keyshot/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-23+11%3A40%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=c2068bd4-8e10-4259-b00e-496f0bc7a520&secure%5Btoken%5D=e532b14d3472e66b155f7bfad20454d7c645c42d062ede04548865a4b6f25819&format=llm_user) ## KeyShot Features **Interface and Performance** - Import/Export - Organizational Interface - Search - File Preview - Analytics **Generative AI** - AI Text-to-Image - AI Text-to-Video - AI Text-to-3D **Generative AI** - AI Image-to-Text - AI Text-to-3D **Asset Management** - File Types - Metadata - File Transformation - Versioning - Expiration - Watermark - Digital Rights Management - Brand Guidelines **Agentic AI - Animation** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Media Types** - Video - Audio - Images **Administration** - Workflow Management - User, Role, and Access Management - Brand Portal - Integration with Creative Software - Integration with Marketing Software **Agentic AI - Digital Asset Management** - Cross-system Integration ## Top KeyShot Alternatives - [Unity](https://www.g2.com/products/unity/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (353 reviews) - [Blender](https://www.g2.com/products/blender/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (310 reviews) - [3ds Max Design](https://www.g2.com/products/3ds-max-design/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (279 reviews)