One Scene, Two Shots: Bunkspeed SHOT and Luxion KeyShot 2

What I like in Bunkspeed SHOT

• Drag handles to move and reposition model
• Easy way to capture screenshots
• Ray Brush, for previewing select regions in magnified, high-res setup
• Single-click button to turn on or turn off ray tracing
• More material and object grouping options at import
• Model tree to navigate scene (with highlights to isolate and view selected objects)
• Option to specify camera type and aspect ratio
• GPU support

• Drag handles to move and reposition model
• Easy way to capture screenshots
• Model tree to navigate scene (without highlights to isolate and view selected objects)
• Easy way to turn any material into emissive (illuminated) material
• Mac support

• Adding and editing new light source to scene
• Positioning decal

• Bunkspeed SHOT uses a hybrid CPU-GPU rendering method, so if you’re using a machine with a powerful GPU, you may get better performance (speedier rendering) in Bunkspeed SHOT.
• Bunkspeed SHOT offers a few interface elements (like Ray Brush and camera aspect-ratio controls) not found in Luxion KeyShot.
• Luxion KeyShot retains the look and feel of HyperShot, so if you’re looking for a familiar look and feel, you’ll probably find Luxion KeyShot more appealing.
• Bunkspeed SHOT is currently available only for Windows OS.
• Luxion KeyShot is available for both Windows and Mac.
• Bunkspeed SHOT standard is priced $995. Pro version’s price is unpublished.
• Luxion KeyShot 2 standard is $995. KeyShot Pro 2 is $1,995.
• Luxion offers HyperShot owners the option to upgrade to KeyShot (price starting at $395)
• Bunkspeed plans to give a license of Bunkspeed SHOT to every HyperShot owner. Those who bought the $200 Web version of HyperShot may be required to pay an upgrade fee.

Bunkspeed SHOT saves scenes as .bif files; Luxion KeyShot saves them as .bip files. They are not interchangeable (you cannot open scenes saved in Bunkspeed SHOT in Luxion KeyShot, nor can you do the reverse).

A review of Bunkspeed SHOT is published here.

For more images rendered in Bunkspeed SHOT, visit DE Exchange photo album here.

A review of Luxion KeyShot is published here.

For more images rendered in Luxion KeyShot, visit DE Exchange photo album here.