What’s that rendered in? It obviously does depth of field.
Excellence Work. Thanks for sharing the your artwork.
Yes as Mike said it’s Keyshot. Everything from the last two or three weeks is Keyshot and before that it was Thea for the past 8 years.
Its expensive but it is really good for these types of things, I have not yet tried to do any interiors for my Arch Viz work, I will try that at the weekend.
How did you know it was Keyshot 8?
the little blue diafragma…
Hi Liam
Curious why you went Keyshot and not Blender or Twinmotion render paths…
Was it your company or industry commitment/influence? or purely technical decision?
Thoughts on other engines:
Blender
I do use Blender all the time both in work and at home. For work I need to deal with 3D models of vehicles that are millions of polygons. I usually have vehicles coming in from Catia or Alias and then scenes coming in from SketchUp combining them both for rendering or animation. I was able to Learn the fundamentals of Blender 2.8 in a few weeks by using these tutorials, highly recommended and covers everything:
https://www.artstation.com/vaughanling/store/epv2/blender-advanced-cargo-spaceship
Twinmotion
This is good for real quick tests but the results still leave a lot to be desired, I usually like to render at 8k or 10k so that I can paint with it in Photoshop afterwards if I want and it can be printed out nice at 300dpi. Twinmotion is great if I want to get an animated concept or scene walkthrough done in 30-60 mins. I do this a lot in work.
However my main tool is Unreal Engine, working closely with the Epic Automotive team in London I am in the process of having it installed as the main animation tool at Volvo. I cant share any of those animations unfortunately but they are really cool. I rate it as the best animation tool on the market and I expect it to become the industry standard in the next two or three years (for Enterprise). I know its already heavily used at Audi, Daimler, Mclaren, Porsche and a bunch of other non-automotive companies.
Keyshot
This is a perfect tool for me as its super quick for taking my SketchUp model, keeping the model hierarchy, cameras etc. I can easily drag and drop materials, lighting faster than anything in Blender or Unreal Engine. The drawback is the price at €2000, but well worth it. Ive only had it personally for about 4 weeks so this Amazon Drone is the only real thing i’ve used it for (for my hobby).
Adobe Dimension
I am a heavy use of this both at home and in work, this is really an up and coming tool and ive been following it since it was in Pre-release. By the end of the year I expect it to almost have parity with Keyshot. Out of the all the rendering tools this is certainly the best you can get for the money, it also works very well with SketchUp and Adobe are improving it drastically month on month.
I am working on a tutorial for SketchUp>Dimension but holding off from posting anything online as I will be presenting it next month at a SketchUp event in Beijing. Once thats over I am sure the SKetchUp team will let me post it all here as they did after last basecamp.
VRAY
I like Vray but iv’e never really got into it so much, its much more powerful than any of the other tools i’ve mentioned but I have placed my bets with real time rendering so decided to persue UE over it.
For my job I am a designer at Volvo Group and my main task is visualisation, mainly for Advanced Design projects, so I can never post anything publicly unfortunately. So I cover illustration, 3D models, rendering and animation. I use Unreal Engine as my main tool. This is one of my current projects.
Ive got some super cool rendering machines in work too specifically built for Unreal Engine, unfortunately not the same setup at home 
Wow Liam, more than expected, thank you and very interesting thoughts and experience…
RTX 6000? a different universe !
Thx a lot for the overview about all the renderings tools you use!
I had an early present in work today, nothing to so with SketchUp illustration (except I am using SketchUp heavily for these projects) but I got one of the only non-military retina VR set’s today!
Cant wait until I can show whats getting beamed out of these!!! I will run some hobby SketchUp to Unreal from them in the next few weeks and post it here.
All I can say is that I was an early VR user having worked with WIRED magazine, I thought id seen it all…I had not. These things blow everything out of the water by miles.
What’s this (green)?
OMG 10000euro for 2xGPU only incredible
I am a big fan of green?
You mean these are additional fans for cooling?
Yes, I guess these are the specs:
MSI X399 Gaming Pro Carbon AC, Socket-TR4 ATX, AMD X399, 8xDDR4
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX - 32-Core 3.0/4,2GHz
8 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Non-ECC Unbuffered Crucial
2 Quadro RTX 6000, Cuda cores 4608, Tensor Cores 576, RT Cores72, 24 GB GDDR6
My patriotic feelings have been aroused - Varjo is a Finnish company! (Varjo means Shadow in Finnish) I had never heard of them before. I also recently learned of Multitaction, another startup that makes touch screens that can cover a whole room…
Ha, I was scratching my head wondering how you guessed those things, not realising id posted it before.
They are only €4000 each now, they were €6000 each just a few months ago 
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Yes, for a few reasons the computer is mounted in a server rack rather than a regular PC case, helps with the airflow.
Are you in Helsinki? I will visit them before the year is out.