This award-winning designer loves a challenge

Ratan Pande is finishing up his master's degree at the Strate School of Design, but he's already racking up the prizes: He took Gold in the 2024 International Design Awards and Silver in the KeyShot 2025 Photorealism Challenge. Check out our latest feature to see Ratan's excellent work and how he's grown his 3D skills.

Meet Ratan Pande

We're about to rock your rendering world

Big. Huge. Ginormous. Game-changing. We're about to launch some seriously sizable, helpful and fun features to KeyShot Studio. If you can't wait until June 24, take a peek at some of the updates in the KeyShot Luminaries beta channel.

Take a sneak peek

Level up your lighting with the new Planar Lights and light positioning tools

Have you tried the "whole new and intuitive way of physical lighting" yet? Take it from those who have tried it already and learn the new lighting tools added to KeyShot Studio earlier this year. Watch now to get the hang of the new Light Positioning Tool, which simplifies lighting your scenes with physical lights, and the new Planar lighting type, which mimics real world studio panel lighting.

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🤖 Laser scan effect

Learn how to create a bright sharp beam that runs over your product with the new Planar Light tool.

🔥 Level it up by animating with keyframes or translations — or use the curve fade node in the material graph to emulate a start-up and power-down effect.

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👀 Animation curves

In less than 2 minutes, make your animations look as smooth as Usher roller skating at the Super Bowl.

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Laser Scan Effect - Liam Martin tutorial

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Make your scenes more dynamic with Visune’s animated Shadow Elements

Following customer requests and months of development, Visune have released their Shadow Elements pack: 20 animated leaves and window stencils to add realism to your scenes without the need for complex foliage and window geometry. Alongside the textures, Visune also launched six animated interior scenes which each integrate one of the textures. So even if you don’t fancy rigging them up yourself, there’s an option for you.

Explore shadow resources

Meet Your New Luminaries Manager

We’re excited to welcome Maura Frost to the KeyShot team as our new Customer Engagement Manager! Maura will lead the KeyShot Luminaries community and launch new programs designed to help you get even more value from your KeyShot experience.

Say hello in the Luminaries community and learn more about Maura below!

A note from Maura:
Hi there! I’m so excited to be part of the KeyShot team and to connect with this incredible community.

I’m based in Nashville, TN, where I live with my husband, our son, and two cats. Outside of work, I love exploring new restaurants, relaxing at the beach, reading, and catching local theater productions.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on how we can make your KeyShot experience even better. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Luminaries community and reach out with any ideas or feedback!

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