Thanks! Yeah I’ll try this one in pure KeyShot, good for me to look at the possibilities since I tend to use Substance Painter a lot. Worked already a bit on the record itself.
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Looks awesome so far
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Oh man… This is awesome… You’re killing me;)
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Thanks a lot!
Think it’s also one of my best so far. Normally I use Substance Painter a lot but this is all Keyshot and some manual textures in Photoshop. Nice way for me to learn a bit more playing with the nodes in the material graph.
Dang Oscar you are killing me with those textures! That leather handle is amazing!
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Waw, it looks awesome, even that vinyl LP got so much details, nice job 
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Thank you! I actually draw all the grooves using illustrator and looked a bit about what the normal width of such a groove was. Than I copied that illustration in Photoshop and put a bit of noise into the grooves.
But maybe you can enlighten me. The current version of the bump map has an average grey with darker grooves (pointing down) and at the inner part those lighter squares which should point up compared to a flat surface.
But I get the feeling in Keyshot the bump map is based on a black to white image and the value makes it engraved or embossed. So basically it means that you can’t have one texture which has lower parts and higher parts in one.
Tried to find it in the manual but not much information about that. Also the value of the bump height feels a bit abstract. Now I’m typing this, I maybe just should try it as a normal map instead of black/white image like this.
This is absolutely stunning - thank you so much for sharing!
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Oscar, can you show us some of the secrets of how complex the lighting is in this scene?
It’s actually just a HDR file. It’s from a set I had for a while but I use pretty often. Mainly because there are some pretty weird ones where the lines work well to give some more contrast on glossy surfaces and a less boring appearance.
It’s mainly a thing of trial and error but often I end up using one of this HDRI pack.
It 's from this pack you can buy at ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/L8yg/50-high-quality-studio-hdri-pack
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Did a test render (only 256 samples so noisy) to see if the player actually worked… 
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Whoa Oscar! I cannot wait to show this on stage at KeyShot World! This truly rocks!!
Oscar, absolutely awesome animation, even that small details how volume knobs turn it on, only one thing I would change I will play this song till end
Haha thanks! I think the animation is a bit messy, not sure how to explain in English but a lot happens in a very short time.
Maybe this is a better starting point, maybe just the transistor radio part first (reference image)
Than just let the record come down, start playing and then do some close up, slowly moving, cam shots of details and in end wrap all stuff in the aluminium chassis and take it away.
Keeps the animation maybe a bit cleaner and less hectic, just a lot of render time 
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So, you’re spot on here. When working with displacement, it’ll interpret grey 50% and darker will go negative, and lighter will go positive, in the case of bump… not so much. I’m not sure, but perhaps with a normal map, you’d get what you watned? But with so much detail, you could do it as 2 separate bump maps, one going negative, the other going positive.
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Nice job! I agree that this latest image would be a stronger starting point for an animation. Sometimes less movement is more.
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This is insane!
I wish I could be as good in materials as you are! 
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Thanks a lot! I’m not using KeyShot this way for that long and I think the main ingredient is taking the time and looking at a lot of reference images.
And it’s a bit a matter of taste. Some of the reference images showed the infamous discoloration of grey/beige plastics to a more smokey yellow for parts which were exposed to the sun like those old PC hardware. I decided my version was cleaned since I really don’t like that yellow look. It’s not hard to add it with some labels and masks but it’s too ugly for a nice device 
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