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How did KeyShot help bring your vision into being? Honestly, KeyShot was the most valuable program for my book. I am working with CAD data and KeyShot is extremely fast and amazing at handling and converting my CAD data perfectly into polygons. On top of that, it keeps my Alias grouping and Material groups, and I don’t have to worry about surface normals. This is a massive timesaver and time is the most valuable gift we have. Once you’re in KeyShot, the simple UI and the great shader presets help create great renders extremely fast and very efficiently. Once you’re happy with a shot, you can jump deeper into the shaders and come up with custom shaders super easy. One of the best things for me is the simple application of logos and decals and the ability to set up Studios in scenes with multiple cameras, environments, and model variations. From a single scene, each can be rendered with a click or sent of to the render queue. KeyShot also allows you to split objects/faces to apply different materials making it super easy to make geometry updates without going back to the CAD software. What inspired the shapes, scenes, and stories of Explorer? I loved everything about dinosaurs growing up and dreaming about how it must have been walking amongst those stunning creatures. EXPLORER is the first book of a story about an AI-controlled Arc filled with autonomous vehicles, which hold the DNA and memories of every human on its way through space to find a habitable planet for our species to have a second chance. So this book is focused on the design of those vehicles and what they may need to explore an alien planet and the scenes show my vehicles on their first flight over an unknown planet. The second book will combine my creature design and vehicle