KeyShot

Inspired by the saying “necessity is the mother of invention”, many entrepreneurs who seek to provide solutions for various societal problems face tremendous challenges and tackle financial risks for the greater good throughout the entirety of a project’s life-cycle. Since convincing investors to contribute to your cause requires a solid, realistic design of the product expected to be ready for mass production, a digital template meant to bridge the gap between an idea and its real-life iteration is essential, and can be achieved through the use of advanced 3D modeling programs such as KeyShot.

Once installed, starting up the program greets users to a straightforward layout powered by a clean design language, quintessential command ribbon and floating toolbars that can be snapped to the window’s margins or placed anywhere on the screen to let you make the most of your screen’s real estate and customize them to match your preferences. Those with keyboard-based workflows will make good use of the app’s impressive array of editable hotkeys to enhance the interaction and increase maneuverability at the same time.

Through the program’s tabbed sidebar, users can not only preview the available shapes and materials required for building the object’s structure by hovering the cursor over their thumbnail, but also add them by simply dragging and dropping the desired item into the project’s blueprint. Color accuracy is an important aspect of most commercialized products, which is why the app lets you adjust the brightness and contrast of the simulated environment to preview what the item would look like under real-life conditions, such as artificial or natural light.

Thanks to the latest advancements, interaction with three-dimensional objects has been taken to the next level through virtual and augmented reality hardware that lets designers, remote workers and end-users preview products at original scale, and the app supports both technologies for a more immersive development experience. Finally, since the advertising sector plays a pivotal role in ensuring the success of a product, users can also create eye-catching animations that reveal the item’s components and features in great detail through the program’s built-in tools.

Whether you wish to create promotional videos featuring detailed animations that do your product justice, or you want to turn a concept into a digital blueprint ready for mass production, KeyShot may be the right tool for the job, given its impressive suite of functions and accessible user interface designed for both professionals and beginners alike.