Realistic brushed brass door handle with knurling KeyShot rendering tutorial

This tutorial covers lots of tips and tricks when rendering tricky metals such as this brass door handle. You'll learn how to create subtle brushed textures, use displacement for convincing knurling and a bit of lighting to bring it all together.

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Time Stamps
0:00 - Introduction
0:17 - Importing the model
0:37 - Photo reference
0:57 - Set camera target
1:52 - Aspect ratio
2:39 - Lighting setup
4:54 - Anisotropic metal
7:32 - Brushed texture
13:12 - Creating knurled surface
21:02 - Fading knurling edges
24:12 - Blocking in remaining materials
25:54 - Fixing radial anisotropy
29:19 - Lighting
29:59 - Real-time render settings
30:14 - Image styles tonemapping
31:13 - Fixing fireflies and noise
32:54 - Lighting Adjustments
34:06 - Final material color adjustments
34:46 - Adding bloom

[jacks]

Nice one, Good to see you back online.

[csar]

The color gradient method for attenuate the displacement height solve all my problems!
Thank you very much!

[solidworkstutorialswithqad]

That is a hell of a tutorial. I really love your content. Can watch it for hours. Keep them coming Sir.

[SachinPatel-uumo]

You are like mentor and master in key shot

Thanks for the video.
We are learn a lots of from your video

Thanks you so much, I love it

[LordOrangeBike]

Excellent video, really helped me a lot !

[voulazarpani]

A tour de force of a video! What a useful tutorial, full of insights. I would be very interested to hear how you created that custom made pattern for the handle. Thank you

[WhiteDjayanegara]

Awesome tutorial! Thank you very much!

[simklem]

Thank you, Will! This tutorial help me a lot. …..creating displacement maps in Photoshop would be great.

[fotofxd]

Would love to see a video ok how to make the knurling look so good.

[mallias]

Never in a million years I would have thought about the gradient fade on the edges of the geometry always made me avoid the use of this node or at least use it to the opposite I still cannot believe how stupid Keyshot is sometimes in orienting textures on
Amazing tutorial. Thank you.

[gustavojanuario]

Gibbons, can i get an animation Keyshot (.bkp, .bip) archive (like that camera which you have made), change the assembly for my product, do the explode again (because change the components) and render it? Does it work? If your answer is YES, do you have that archive for download (paid or not paid)?

[dalecollison]

Can you do a video on very large objects? I have trouble getting my large machines to look real.

[vitaliyokun]

Hey Will. I'm curious about your 50% CPU usage. Why???

[gauravgandhi]

how to make custom displacement texture, , , TUTORIAL PLEASE

[csar]

How strange! With GPU mode activated, I can't see the "Brushed (radial) texture. It only appears if I switch to CPU mode. I've restarted and started from scratch. Nothing changes. I'm unable to achieve that texture with GPU mode. I'm using Keyshot 2024 and an RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU with 16GB. All drivers are updated. I have no idea how to fix this, and I need to work with the GPU due to rendering times.
If anyone can guide me on how to resolve this, I would be very grateful."

[KoganeNoYubi]

I think the model in your master course is pretty boring and limits ur sales. Take something that looks more wow