The Perfect Reusable Light Studio in KeyShot?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- Have you ever wished you had a super-flexible light studio in KeyShot? In this tutorial, I'll save you boat loads of time by teaching you how to use studios as well as providing you with a free studio model I created.
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Time Stamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - Workspaces
2:02 - Import photo studio model
2:17 - Model sets
3:39 - Add light materials
4:59 - Adjusting environment light
4:44 - Adjusting light properties
5:19 - Adding a model to render
5:39 - Cloud library
6:06 - Centering the model
6:49 - Add camera
7:54 - Add studio
8:06 - Refine the lighting
11:16 - Creating a second studio
14:11 - Creating a third studio
17:01 - Crating a fourth studio
18:12 - Image styles
18:54 - Multi-materials
20:36 - Summary
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Will, thank you so much for your generosity in producing such high quality, thoughtful, and insightful videos. Really appreciate the time and love you put into this for all of us
Hey, my pleasure! Thanks JT!
Love it. Nicely done and explained. Happy rendering !!!
Love it! Going to eat these tutorials up to get beyond dragging and dropping materials in a default tent environment :D
Hands down the best rendering video I've seen so far across all different rendering packages. Amazing stuff.
Thank you! :)
Thank you Will! Excellent video. I really appreciate the detailed studio and model set work flow.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for all this information! Waiting new tutorials like this one, I love it.
Okay, will try!
Old habits die hard, with a folder about 8 versions for each product, which also has hidden other models taken 200-500megs as a BIP, then it's fair to say forcing yourself to use this method is absolutely a must..
Wonderful insight to the latest features and workflow time saving tips here Will. Well done brilliant video.
Thanks, and thanks for sharing your experiences here Michael!
Another high-quality tutorial. Love your work!
Thanks Mr. Yoshi!
Absolutely stellar and right on time, Will. This is going into my workflow immediately.Thanks!
Hey Steve! I'm really glad to hear it. Thanks for the comment and good luck!
Amazing Job Will! I was looking for something like this in Keyshot for so long!
Glad to help!
Excellent tutorial; direct and to the point. Will is the man when it comes to stuff like this.
Hey Phil, thanks a ton! : )
Thanks for the tutorial Will! it is very useful and entertaining to watch.
such a cool way to do it ima have to try this out!
Awesome, your tutorials are a blessing Will, thanks so much for the time and efforts to do these 🙏
Glad to hear that! Thanks a lot!
This is literally my 9-5 workflow managing a catalogue of over 100 products! Besides saving time I think it’s equally important that studios insure product images are consistent across packaging/web/socials/etc
For sure. That's another great point. Maybe I'll make a follow-up video to this one that touches on those points.
Cheers for the great video Will! Somehow you always upload a video about a topic I'm about to need! Much appreciated! Keep up the great content
Thanks Scott! It appears that mind-reading class I took back in high school has paid off finally.
Wow. Agreed with JT below. Thank you for taking the time on this.
My pleasure!
Great tutorial, learned a lot!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great way to explain a tutorial, you help me a lot to understanding keyshot workflow, if a I have a bunch of money i'll be one of your membership program but for now it seem impossible maybe in the next few years. Big thanks for a bunch of tutorial you uploaded it's help a lot of people.
I’m glad to help! :)
Awesome work as always!
Thanks Will.
My pleasure!
well done! very clear and concise
Thank you!
This will save me a ton of time in the future - thanks for the awesome content as usual, Will! 🔥
That's awesome, Alex! Thanks for the comment.
Will, thank you for this very useful and great studio setup tutorial.
Not a problem!
i just started with key shot and this is pretty amazing way to work. loved it.
Great!
Incredibly helpful tutorial. I tried to make something similar but I didn't know how to use studios but instead used the model sets and its a gigantic mess. Soooo helpful thank you very much!
I'm stoked to hear this is helpful! Sounds like you were onto the right track.
Thanks will! This ought to help save alot of time.
That's what I'm hoping for. Best!
great tutorials as always, thanks!
You're welcome!
Super helpful!! Thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you Will always learning something new with yours tutorials.
You are most welcome!
Love this one!!!
Thanks for letting me know!
knowledge packed tutorial, great work... Thanks for sharing mate😀
That's what I was going for! Glad to hear it.
Thanks! very helpful
Hi, my name is Arash and I am a student of industrial design in Iran.
And I want to thank you for the rendering tutorial.
Your teaching method is extremely excellent.
thank you so much :)
I'm glad to help Arash!
Amazing!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks Will!
You bet!
This is literally the thing that I've wanted to be able to know how to do for so long and it was just there on my feed, thank you so much!
Hey Sheepdog! Thanks :) I'm glad I can help out. Hopefully it seems easy enough.
Great , thank you
Thank you so much for this! Served as a great introduction to lighting in keyshot! I have been messing with bad environments for too long.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this
You're so welcome!
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This is really good! I like how video is broken up within TH-cam as well.
Cheers Mason! Glad you appreciate it. I do like the timestamps features. Helps people get to what they're looking for a bit faster.
This is huge! I've had trouble with having to turn on 1-10 seperate settings just to use different setups
Glad to help!
awesome!
Thanks!
Thanks a ton!
You're so welcome Jay Dee!
Congratulations!
Have I won? haha
Thanks Will from INDIA....
just what i was looking for
Excellent!
Super helpful! you made my uni project look 10 times better!
That's great! Thank you for saying so!
thankssss
No problem
U're the best. 🌞👍👏👏👏 Thanks
Too kind! :)
will God bless you sir, you are the best
Too kind!
very good
Thank you!
This tutorial is GOLDDDDD. I used studios in Cinema4D. I wasn't too aware of using it in Keyshot. Also, the model sets and render thumbnails is brilliant. I'm gonna save a lot of space-saving multiple Keyshot files. I just had one question. The way you rotated one of the lights on the left at around 16:34, can you animate the same kinda movement using your product as a pivot point? With a few different options available to animate for models which one would be better to use for such a movement?
Hey Jay, I didn't know C4D had this functionality. That's cool. To answer your question about animating lights. Yep, you sure can.
this is nice.
Thanks!
Thank you for your beautiful video, Will. Please enable automatic subtitles.
I don't have access to this feature. Sorry.
Thanks Will, this is a good refresh.
Selecting multi-materials in the studio UI is the worst! I tend to set it up as I want in the environment, then hit the multi-material checkmark as a 'save' function.
One of the biggest problems I have is that I can end up with a studio for each shot in my presentation. So let's say I have 15 studios. Some of those studios use the same camera, some don't. Sometimes I want to adjust one camera without adjust the others and it's difficult to keep track of what is linked to what. It's probably more of a me problem, but I find sometimes keyshot gets too linky. Like maybe it would make more sense if each studio just had it's own dedicated camera and you just turn on which ones are in sync, and which aren't? Do you know what I mean? I just feel keyshot is a never ending list of nested items, items which can be linked or not linked, and then when you break the link, all is lost. I'm ranting now lol
Hey Kevin, I hear you. For this reason, I make one model set for my model, one for my lighting, one camera, one environment if I'm using HDRI lighting and an image style for EVERY shot I do. Sure, it results in what seems like a lot of items, but if model set 1 goes with camera 1, goes with environment 1 goes with studio 1, then it's pretty simple to manage.
This is great. Any idea when your site will be back up?
Yeah, sorry. Relaunched my website. Should be good now!
Thank you so much for the tutorial. Is the step file of the scene setup available for download?
Yes, it is
Will, I owe you at least a coffee, maybe two. Your kindness is going to make me better at what I do. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Chris! Thanks for the comment! Happy to hear that!
nice
So nice. ;)
Hi, I found why thumbnail renders in black for product in Model set. Just add brightness to Environment (when it seted to 0 - happens black thumbnail).
Thanks for the great video! Very helpful. Is it possible to get some captions/subtitles soon? I’m deaf and would love to understand the thoughts process behind the scene.
Hey Matthew, that's a great suggestion. I'm assuming that the ones auto-generated by TH-cam aren't too great? I'm not sure what it would take effort/investment-wise for me to have captions made/added to the videos. For a longer video like this, it seems like it might be tough. I'll see what I can find though.
Will Gibbons Thanks for responding to my comment! Right now the auto-subtitles aren't available in the video yet. Still, you are right - the TH-cam algorithm captioning has mainly been hit or miss (depending on how clear the TH-camr’s voice, accents, or noise in the background in general, etc.). While the thoughts behind the tech are appreciated but more often than not, I've given up watching halfway through the videos in the past because I couldn't follow along with the incorrect captioning.
I totally understand with the time investment and as well the cost of doing transcript your narrative in the video. Hopefully, this should be something to think about later on in your upcoming videos (many more I hope! 🙏) And if you're at a loss on where to go for transcription service; may I suggest to look up Rev.com? It'll cost but according to my colleagues, they are good at what they do.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll give it a look. Best!
It’s amazing video thank you! It would be great if you make a burned wooden door or window tutorial. 😬
Thanks for the suggestion. This is a very specific material. I'm not sure I've ever seen a burned wood door or window.
Hi Will, great tutorial as always!
But I'm wondering if it's not much easier to do without all the physical light sources and just control it with HDRI. Because actually all parameters of light like color, position or size can be controlled by HDRIs. Sure, the disadvantage is that the pins cannot be animated. And some people say that physical light sources provide more realism, but I think there is not much difference.
What do you think?
The ease is a matter of opinion, I suppose. As for realism, the light emitted by physical lights is objectively more accurately calculated in KeyShot, so I don't think there's much debate on this matter.
As mentioned in the video, you can use the studios with HDRIs instead of physical lights if that's what you prefer. I typically use both approaches.
@@WillGibbons hey love this setup, I need to know, would you typically use both approaches at the same time or individually? What I would like to know is, is it required to use HDRI at the same time whilst using this really cool Studio setup? What say you? Your advice would be much appreciated. Cheers
Bro went crazy at 4:30 I had to pause the video like 7 times lmao
Lol... a bit too many shortcuts. Sorry.
Great quality videos and really helpful, just slow down abit haha, give us a chance
hi Will! thank you for this great video! when I turn the panel to an area light it just change the same one, how to i affect all the panels together like in the video? thanks again!
Make sure they're all linked. You can select them all and then right-click and link materials.
Hello, this is my first time ever using keyshot, thanks for the great video, I'm using Keyshot v7.1, every time I try to change something in the material tab, it doesn't automatically change it for all the lights, i have to go through all the lights and manually change it, am I missing something? or is it a parameter that i have to change, thanks a lot
I believe this is because the light materials are unlinked. This might be due to how the file was imported (unlinked by default), or because I never linked them when creating the project file (can't remember honestly). Your fix for this is to select all the lights, then right-click on them (in the real-time view) and choose link material.
can I ask for the over all dimensions for the photo studio model to customize my own on my 3D modeling program ?
Open up the model in KeyShot, select the model and look at the size of it in the properties under the scene tree. It'll have the information you're asking for.
Hi Will. When I open up and use the Geometry View, the navigation is linked to the view in Keyshot. In your video you show the geometry view navigation as not being tied to the view in the Keyshot view. In other words, when I navigate around in the Geometry view the Keyshot view also moves, but in your video, you are able to move the scene in the geometry view without affecting the render view. How did you achieve this?
I think you need to change your camera settings in the geometry view (upper left corner of geometry view) and set it to perspective.
Please, could you do a tutorial on metallic material. type (stainless steel)?
Hey! Like this? : th-cam.com/video/H9Ig62FObCA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=WillGibbons%7C3DRendering
Hey will! I try double clicking on one of the lights as you mentioned to turn into an area light by only one light is then actually converted into an area light, I have to manually change every light, I'm not really sure why, can you help me in this case?
Sure. They're not currently linked. This is by design so you can change the brightenss of each light without affecting the others. You can select all the lights in the scene tree, then right-click and go to 'change material type' and should be able to change them to Area light all at once without linking them together.
@@WillGibbons Thank you so much for responding, I see the reason for not linking them makes much not sense now that I've gone through the tutorial, i was actually going side by side so i encountered this "issue" but it's not an issue haha
10'30'' listen very carefully... PRROOOOAAAAT ! That's a relief :D
lol. That's my dog Deckard groaning in the background!
Wow. Now I slowly get why Keyshot is so expensive. Thank you Will!
Helps to take advantage of all the tools!
@@WillGibbons You do!
hey man,too much thanks for you,and I have a question,the lighting of the behance product is so difficult，so fresh，Look forward to your answer
I'm sorry, what is your question?
@@WillGibbons I am a chinese student，and my English is so poor,my sorry for this，the product lighting of the ins and behance is so beutiful，how the lighting can be implemented
its such a daunting idea to throw away all of my current keyshot habits haha, but Im going to give this a shot. I now realize how much time I waste
Hey Isopon, don't think of it as 'throwing out all your habits', rather just an addendum to what you've found to work in the past. Don't rush it. Over time, the best habits should win out.
hi Will, cannot access this studio setup, by the example it looks great :) , there anyway to test this? Thank you
Can you be more specific? Why can't you access it? Is there a broken link? Last time I checked (a couple days ago) the download worked just fine.
@@WillGibbons hi, thanks for your time, and yes the link does not open... the tutorial reusable one.
The link for downloading does not work. Would you care to have that fixed Will?
Thank you! Great tutorial.
Hey Pece, I just tried it and it works... I'm not sure what error/issue you're experiencing. What browser are you using? Do you have security settings that blocks downloads? Do you have a firewall that might be blocking it?
Hi Will, im an industrial design student form Argentina. I´ve decided to make my own workstation inspired on one of your videos. The problem is that I have a tight budget, and it is not easy to buy a compatible gpu in order to use the gpu mode. So my question is: Could I work professionally just with the cpu? Is it really that neccesary to use the gpu mode? If yes: wich is the cheapest gpu that I can use for the gpu mode? Thanks!
Hi Mateo. I don't use GPU mode for render. I make a living off the CPU in my workstation. It really just comes down to speed. The faster your CPU/GPU, the less time you'll spend waiting for renderings to finish.
@@WillGibbons thanks will, really appreciate your work
hi nice tutorial juste a question : how to reduce the width of the panels?? the cursor appears but nothing happens when I move it? on Mac
You should be able to use the scale feature within the move tool.
Quick and possibly dumb question (new to keyshot) when I double click the light like you do in the video to adjust the brightness only one selects not all so i have to change the brightness one by one?
Edit: i figured out I had to uncheck the unlink materials by part name box on the import
Glad you found the solution! And thanks for sharing it in case someone else runs into that too.
long video? nah we want more!
Hahah, I can understand that. But I also know it's hard for me to sit down through long videos myself, so I try to keep them as compact as I can.
Will Gibbons great mate!
Hi Will, I have a question here. Does Keyshot can do rope animation ?
Hi, not unless you create the animation/simulation in another software (3d modeling tool) that allows you to export the animation in an Alembic format. Then, you can import that into KeyShot.
When importing my model, the label textures get smaller than its original size when imported into your scene. I've converted my scene unit to mm to ensure they keep the same unit. Still with no luck Any ideas?
I'm not sure. This sounds weird. How are you importing your model? For example, you can drag a bip file into an open KeyShot scene. I don't think this should result in any label size changes.
@@WillGibbons The import using drag n drop itself works fine. All label textures are in place til I start scaling the model :) Have tried messing around with the DPI settings among other things. Found this post which seem to address the problem I'm having. Howver with no solution. forum.keyshot.com/index.php?topic=19707.0 . By the way, another thing, what specs do you have for your computer? Edit: Sorry saw the description with all the gear nicely laid out on your site :)
Ah. As far as I know, textures have never scaled along with the model in KeyShot.
which PC specification are you using can you please tell me, I wanted to get the right one !
Check my website: willgibbons.com/computer
Please make one video for proper jewellery rendering step by step 🙏🙏
Not sure that I have anything to add. I did one on a diamond ring recently. What's missing from that?
How can i Insert my own Model Into this Scene ?
Would be nice If someone Help me Out
Just drag your model into the KeyShot interface after opening this scene. Pretty straight forward.
I can't drag and drop the STEP file into keyshot. I also only find 2 possible formats to import bip and ksp?? Using Keyshot 10.1 Pro 64 bit.
Did some more research and it's probably due to me having Keyshot for ZBrush 😞
Yep, looks like you figured it out.
Why the renders in keyshot don't show the same vibrant colors from the keyshot port view when you open the renders in photoshop?, Do you have to do post-production always?
Nope. It sounds to me like this is a color management issue. Do you have any settings in the image styles tab that change the colors in the real-time view? Otherwise, do you have/use custom color profiles in Photoshop? KeyShot outputs srgb images. The way colors are shown in Photoshop depends on the settings you've got in Photoshop.
Can we still be able to download the project files?
Yeah, sorry. Relaunched my website. Should be good now!
Can I assume your free courses can be useful for using vray and 3ds max for example?
Hey! I'm not sure I know how to answer this. Which free courses are you referring to? My free content is all on TH-cam. Sure, you can apply principals to any software, but the only rendering tool I know how to use is KeyShot. So, applying any knowledge I share on this channel to another software would depend on how well you are able to do that. I hope that answers your question.
@@WillGibbons Thanks Will, I was refrencing the turorial that we are watching here... I'm a professional animator and modeller myself for about 15 years but lighting and rendering is my weakest skill. Do you build your models or rely on the client to provide? Loving your manner of speaking and professionalism.
Hi Will, Trying to sign up for your website but it won't let me. Is it still active? Thanks
It should be. I see others have signed up today. You're getting an error? Try signing up at willgibbons.com/learn
@@WillGibbons For some reason the blue sign up or log in button doesn't work for me on my desktop. Maybe it's my network. I will troubleshoot. Great tutorial though!
Sir can you upload animation product
Eventually, yes.
Why cant i doc on the sides? Doesnt give me the option
Hmm. It should. Sometimes it doesn't always snap very easily. Try holding the mouse button down and hovering near the edge and don't let go until you see the side of the window turn blue for a second. Hope it works.
I cant download the sample project😥 Please help me
I just checked and the link is valid. What issue are you running into?
Sir i have problem ...how to keyshot file dispay on maya?
You can't.
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someone know how to do to prepare a model set? i dont know what i have to do
to create a modelset with geometries
I show you how to do that at 3:28 sec in this video.
Hi, the file vault is not working. Please fix it.
What do you mean? Yes it is.
could i get that scene ? i need it LOL
Yeah, you can download it from my website in the file vault