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Where in your process do you use KeyShot? KeyShot was almost the last step in creating our film “Cornucopia.” The digitized moving images were mapped on the surface of the 3D object and rendered in KeyShot. It was a challenging process, mostly because of the framing. What looked perfect on the paper had, of course, some visual changes after being projected on the 3D geometry. So we had to think about it while drawing. We made some sketches we used as a helping map for the position and movement of our characters. As we wanted to tell this story using the aesthetics and alphabet of the vase paintings, KeyShot resulted as a quite fitting tool for the look we had in mind. What are some of your favorite KeyShot tools? For that project we used mostly the Labels feature combined with geometry and camera translations and environmental rotations. So the whole Storyline is UV-mapped onto the geometry. The Performance Mode was very useful to move the mappings around, as some scenes had a lot of drawings in them. We really liked how realistic it was when the hand-drawn drawings got together with the overall structure of the vase and how the light strengthened the ceramic look. Last time we presented the animation, someone asked us where and how we filmed the animations on the vase. We did not film it, it is all rendered in KeyShot!