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In our last issue of 2025: Rendering for art's sake, tutorials from our favorite KeyShot experts, KeyShot Designer Night 2026 + more

We hope you find this newsletter helpful and inspiring! You're welcome to send suggestions to tara.cavanaugh@keyshot.com.

Meet the 85-year-old rendering art for real life

The goal of 3D rendering is often photo-realism. But for lifelong artist Tom Mason, the focus is representing an artist's vision for a project — whether it's via stills, animations or instruction manuals. Tom, who learned KeyShot in his 70s, is an inspiration for anyone who plans a long career in art and design.

Explore Tom Mason's rendered art world

Get the full power of the newest tools with quick guides from Liam Martin

🔄 Everybody loves Custom Pivot

Create your own pivot points (including axes) from scratch without relying on the CAD application and author. By clicking on “Custom Pivot” from within the Move tool, you can manually move the pivot point for the select part(s) around. Available in Corner, Cylinder and Sphere Mode.

Watch on YouTube or Instagram

🧶 Material updates

Check out the new OpenPBR support and dockable Material Graph + grid option for easier navigation & organization.

Watch on YouTube or Instagram

Join us for KeyShot Designer Night at CES 2026

Going to CES in January? Don't miss out on this fun (and FREE) event. Join the KeyShot team at ice cream parlor/night club We All Scream, where we're welcoming CES attendees to see old friends and make new ones. It all kicks off at 8:00 PM. Space is limited at this event, so grab your spot today. See you there!

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Master the latest updates in 2 minutes

Short on time? Check out the YouTube videos above for a fast intro to the latest features released last month. When you want a deep dive, take the full tour.

KeyShot YouTube

Four steps for realistic water droplets

Ozan Kocaman provides some of the most gorgeous rendering tutorials you'll find. Check out his latest guide for giving products a realistic humid-day look.

See the guide on Instagram

Share your favorite renderings of 2025

KeyShot rendering by Ratan Pande

As we wrap up 2025, we’d love to highlight some of our community’s best work. Head to our Luminaries community to submit your best renderings and animations from 2025 for potential inclusion in a 2025 recap video!

By submitting, you're giving us permission to feature your work in KeyShot marketing materials (with proper credit).

Please submit MP4 files for animations and JPEG or PNG files for still images. If you're already logged in, you can add it right to this thread or you can send files to maura.frost@keyshot.com.

Join Luminaries for free