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3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software

Maxon Cinema 4D is the professional’s choice for 3D modeling software. With its intuitive, fast, powerful, and stable toolset, Cinema 4D makes 3D modeling and design simpler and more efficient than ever— perfect for unleashing the creative potential of professionals in design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, game development, and more. Any creator will appreciate the stunning results while they work independently or with a team.

Maxon Cinema 4D allows users to animate, simulate, and easily render their designs. Working with the software feels like an adventure as it’s both flexible and robust; integrating high-end features all in one package. Creating extraordinary projects has never been simpler or faster — you can quickly bring any idea to life, thanks to Cinema 4D’s cutting-edge capabilities!

No matter your experience level or skill set, Cinema 4D supports your creativity every step of the way! Its vast library of built-in tools lets users customize a workflow that fits their needs. With such a wide range of versatile features at their disposal and ready-to-use models available for immediate utilization in projects to create objects from architectural plans to costume props – filmmakers, video editors and animators alike can tap into its capabilities to bring their stories vividly alive!

Cinema 4D brings sleek professional-quality film visuals right at your fingertips with refined physics simulations and animations, guaranteed to captivate viewers and audiences! Get ready to take your creations to amazing heights of visual artistry with Maxon’s Cinema 4D.

Award-Winning Mograph

MoGraph is a procedural modeling and animation toolset that gives motion designers the ability to quickly and easily create complex and abstract animations. At the heart of MoGraph is the Cloner object which allows you to duplicate objects in a variety of ways. Add MoGraph’s powerful collection of Effectors to the mix and you can put everything in limitless motion using sound, fracturing, fields, and so much more – often without creating a single keyframe! MoGraph is the go-to system for professional broadcast graphics designers and was recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Technical Achievement Award in 2019.

Easy To Learn – Easy To Use

Cinema 4D is widely recognized as one of the easiest and most accessible 3D packages to learn and use. To soften that learning curve Maxon offers thousands of tutorials on Cineversity and hundreds of Quick Tips. Maxon’s Training team also hosts weekly and monthly live webinars to help new and existing users succeed. Check out Maxon’s archives and events schedule for more information.

What’s New In Maxon Cinema 4D 2024

Cinema 4D 2024 provides unmatched speed and performance for the most sophisticated creative scenes. Rigid Body Simulations can now interact with all existing forces, pyro, cloth, and soft bodies. Pyro shines with a hot new feature that allows fire to be emitted from particles and matrices. And the new Vertex Normal tools offer artists unparalleled precision to perfect surfaces.

Cinema 4D 2024 is more than twice as fast as previous versions – through the power of Maxon’s brand-new core that optimizes speed and performance.
Thanks to the addition of Rigid Body Simulations to Cinema 4D’s Unified Simulation System, solid objects can now interact with all simulation types in the scene – be they soft bodies, cloth, ropes, or Pyro.
Pyro now offers more precise controls for artists to art direct their simulation and ensure it matches their vision. By adding the Pyro tag to standard particle emitters, thinking particle geometries and matrix cloners, they can now emit Pyro. This enables artists to create filmic scenes with fire, smoke trails, and explosions or visualize beautiful fireworks in the night sky. With the help of UpRes, creatives can use a lower resolution simulation for quicker turnarounds during the art direction, and concept stage of a project and then render the simulation in full quality for final output.
Cinema 4D 2024 introduces new vertex normal controls that give artists full control over adjusting vertex and polygon normals to remove shading artifacts.
The new modeling tools in Cinema 4D 2024 will make handling complex tasks a breeze. Select Pattern allows artists to repeat a selection on the surface of the mesh with one click. Projection Deformer gives users quick control and lets them move points from one object to another in any direction.
The Node UI in Cinema 4D 2024 has been revamped. Apart from improving the overall look, the new Notes feature shines with direct annotations in the Node Editor that artists can use to document their nodal network.

Maxon Cinema 4D Features Highlights

For an expanded list of features, see the Details tab.

Placement Tools

Next-Level Set Dressing

Cinema 4D’s placement tools set the stage for creativity with intuitive and powerful tools for placing objects within a scene. For example, creating an environment, adding props, and kitbashing are as simple as dragging and dropping objects onto one another, painting them onto a surface, or allowing them to fall into place with the help of dynamics.

Place Tool

The Place Tool allows efficient and intuitive placement of an object on the surface of existing scene elements. To clarify, it uses handles to easily scale and rotate the elements. Place objects directly from the Asset Browser. They interactively copy and place objects in your scene. Automatically place things according to their bounding box or defined axis, with an optional offset.

Scatter Pen

The Scatter Pen makes it easy to scatter a single object or a selection of objects onto any surface. Simply drag it within the view. Control the spacing and alignment, the frequency of each object, and vary the position, rotation, and scale of the placed objects. Paint random distributions or in clearly defined strokes. So, you painted too many or in the wrong location? No problem, just use the removal tools to clean up your scene or move objects individually with the Place Tool.

Dynamic Placement

Dynamic Placement offers the ultimate option for intuitively placing objects into a scene, with high-performance dynamics providing actual collisions between objects. With the Dynamic Placement tool, clump objects together or naturally drop them onto a surface of objects. Do this with the power of Cinema 4D’s physics simulation. Automatically generate simplified proxy geometry for fast and accurate dynamics.

Asset Browser

Powerful, Flexible Asset Management

The Asset Browser provides easy access to libraries of preset content stored locally or online, including a vast collection of 3D objects, materials, and node capsules available to Cinema 4D subscribers. The library can be browsed or searched, and each asset includes rich metadata and keywords. Assets are downloaded on-demand, so there’s no need to pre-download huge libraries of assets. They’re also cached on your local computer, so your favorite assets are immediately available for re-use.

Keywords, Search, and Filtering

Keywords can be added to your assets to make content easily searchable. Save your frequent searches in smart folders and when assets are added later with the same keywords, they will be added automatically to those folders.

Asset Versioning

Incredibly useful in complex production pipelines. As the project evolves, the asset can evolve with it. Rolling back to a previous version or updating a scene with the latest version is as easy as a few clicks.

Objects, Instances, or References

Insert object-based assets as objects, Instances, or References for extremely flexible and efficient workflow.

Add Your Assets

Create your libraries and add your assets by dragging them right into asset folders.

Maxon Cinema 4D’s Scene Manager

Scene Nodes / Scene Manager (preview)

Experience first-hand how things take shape as work continues on Cinema 4D’s new core. Cinema 4D’s Scene Manager uses powerful, node-based assets to construct procedural geometry or entire scenes in a hierarchy-based view. The Scene Manager will eventually offer a fast and creative workflow much like Cinema 4D’s Classic Object Manager. Furthermore, easily integrate Classic C4D objects by simply dragging them into the Scene Manager. Everything you do within the Scene Manager creates a corresponding node graph within Scene Nodes. In other words, you can choose whichever workflow you prefer or the job demands.

Scene Nodes

With Cinema 4D’s Scene Node core, manage relationships and dependencies between objects. In addition, construct and modify geometry and build reusable assets.

Scene Nodes Debugging

Effectively debug scene node systems with the help of an information overlay. Similarly, port debugs panels within the Node Editor. Finally, use the powerful Data Inspector window for detailed introspection of arrays and other complex data types.

Distributions, Nodes, and Capsules

The true power of Scene Nodes is the ability for TD-level users to expand the ecosystem without a single line of code. Additionally, these both expand possibilities and serve as useful examples of the type of tools users can expect as Scene Nodes continue to mature.

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2024 Feature List

Create

Thicken Generator

Adding extra dimension to models in Cinema 4D is easy thanks to the new Thicken Generator and modeling tool.

Modeling

Creating 3D objects has never been easier thanks to a broad collection of new procedural and interactive modeling tools. Automatically transform the topology of any mesh using ZRemesher. Create entirely new shapes with a bevy of powerful new interactive modeling tools, many of which can also be applied procedurally via Node Capsules. Advanced spline nodes power new capsule possibilities, while improved Vector Import support makes it easier than ever to work with Illustrator and SVG artwork.

Modeling with Symmetry allows mirrored changes on the model. Users can define the symmetry using the world grid, the object axis, a custom workplane, or even the topology of the model. Radial Symmetry makes it easy to interactively model anything round by defining a number of slices and offset.

Select Pattern enables you to repeat a selection across the surface of your mesh with a click of a button.

With the help of the Projection Deformer you can quickly move points from one object onto another in any direction.

Capture 3D Models with Moves by Maxon

Quickly turn photos from your iPhone or iPad into high‑quality 3D models. Using Apple’s new Object Capture API, Moves by Maxon allows you to turn a series of pictures into a 3D model inside of Cinema 4D.

Moves by Maxon is immediately available from the Apple App Store.

Polygonal Modeling

Polygons are the building blocks of 3D, stitched together to create the objects of your imagination. With Cinema 4D’s complete polygonal modeling toolset, it’s easy to craft everything from cars to creatures.

Parametric Modeling

Cinema 4D offers a wide range of parametric objects that give you structure to build from and offer the ability to make changes at any time.

Volume Modeling

Cinema 4D’s OpenVDB-based Volume Modeling offers a procedural way to create complex objects by combining basic shapes in Boolean-type operations.

Sculpting

Create organic models with Cinema 4D’s intuitive sculpting tools. Pull, smooth, flatten, cut, pinch, etc. your meshes like digital clay.

Poly Pen

This is in fact the Swiss Army Knife of 3D modeling. Create, select, move or delete points, edges and surfaces comfortably without changing the tool.

Polygon Reduction

Polygon Reduction quickly reduces the amount of polygons in models while preserving smooth UVs, vertex maps and selections, for lightweight meshes.

Texturing

Cinema 4D’s material system lets you create photorealistic materials with multi-layered material channels, reflectance, procedural shaders and more.

Node-Based Materials

Create complex materials for Maxon’s Physical Renderer. Intuitive, flexible and powerful, as you would expect from a node-based system.

BodyPaint 3D

BodyPaint 3D has a comprehensive set of tools for painting detailed textures directly on your 3D objects – turning models into beautiful works of art.

UVs

Cinema 4D provides everything you need to make the painstaking work on UVs enjoyable – whether it’s for hard surfaces or organic shapes.

Animate

Pyro (New)

Emit fire, smoke and explosions from any object or Spline from Cinema 4D – bring up the heat!

Simulation (New)

With the new Unified Simulation System you can achieve more realistic-looking simulations that incorporate multiple objects with different simulation characteristics such as cloth, ropes and soft bodies. The Unified Simulation System allows simulations to be calculated on either the CPU or GPU and is highly multi-threaded, offering improved performance with complex cloth simulations.

Animation Basics

Virtually any object, material or parameter can be animated. Keyframing can be done manually, with auto-keyframing or parametrically.

Character Animation

Cinema 4D offers a wide range of easy-to-use and reliable animation tools to help you create and animate life-like characters and creatures.

Car Rig

Whether you’re animating cars for commercials or VFX this powerful and intuitive Car Rig preset makes it easy to prep a car for power-sliding action.

Tracking

Tracking of objects or camera positions is crucial for the integration of 3D elements into footage. C4D offers on-board tools to accomplish this.

Character Object

Allows you to easily build flexible rigs for any type of character, based on presets for bipeds, quadrupeds and more, all crafted by top animators.

Mixamo Control Rig

Easily apply motion clips from Adobe’s Mixamo library to your Cinema 4D characters and modify or retarget them in just a few simple steps.

Toon Rig

Animate like in Looney Toons. This versatile character rig offers all the features you need to animate cartoon-style.

Bullet Dynamics

Whenever a large number of objects or particles interact with each other or are affected by forces such as wind or gravity, traditional animation methods quickly reach their limits. Animating these elements individually would be a gargantuan task. This is where simulation is the weapon of choice. Complex algorithms are used to generate the animation and interaction of these elements – and Cinema 4D offers a wide range of functions and presets to create breathtaking physical simulations and realistic-looking effects.

Moves by Maxon

Capture facial and body movements with our iPhone and iPad app and instantly apply them to your characters in Cinema 4D.

Mograph

Fields System

By far the most powerful MoGraph feature and much more than just falloffs. A whol new way of controlling, layering and linking effects to each other.

Voronoi Fracturing

Voronoi Fracture lets you shatter any object into procedural fragments using virtually anything to control the distribution of the shattered pieces.

MoGraph Basics

MoGraph is our unique, award-winning procedural modeling and animation tool, making C4D the first choice for motion designers.

WorkFlow

Scene Manager (New)

The power of Cinema 4D’s new node-based core allows you to use flexible node-based assets to enable procedural geometry creation, cloning and more.

Commander

Cinema 4D’s Commander offers quick access to tools and commands. Easily add Redshift materials, and use the power of Maxon’s Node-Based Capsules.

OCIO Color Management

OpenColorIO (OCIO) is an open-source color management system that allows users to easily manage their color throughout all stages of the production pipeline in a predictable and consistent way. In Cinema 4D, the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) enables content creation without the limitations of small color spaces. If artists have OCIO installed, they can produce in ACES in current or future versions of Cinema 4D.

Track Modifier Tag

Allows you to modify animation tracks in objects in a super fast way.

User Interface Enhancements

The most intuitive 3D application just got better. A modern spin on C4D’s interface shows what’s important and puts more focus on your artwork.

Capsules

Capsule Assets constructed in C4D’s Scene Nodes core offer procedural, plugin-like power.

Spline Import

Import vector art from Illustrator, PDF and SVG files to use in your 3D scenes. Advanced features like symbols and gradient-filled shapes supported.

Adobe Substance 3D

The Adobe Substance 3D Collection provides artists with parametric materials compatible with most 3D applications and game engines. Download compiled Substance 3D materials and utilize them to surface your Cinema 4D objects. This fully-integrated implementation offers outstanding workflow and flexibility plus options to cache Substance 3D materials on disk for better performance.

The free Substances 3D plugin for Cinema 4D offers 3D content creators native support for Adobe’s procedural workflow within Cinema 4D.

After Effects Integration

Maxon’s Cineware lets you drop native C4D projects right into After Effects, manipulate 3D elements and render directly from within After Effects.

Adobe Illustrator

Integration with Adobe’s industry-leading vector graphics software allows native import of paths, type, and vector graphics into Cinema 4D.

Adobe Photoshop

Tight integration to Adobe’s industry standard for image processing allows the import of multi-layered PSD files, e.g. for the easy material creation.

Supported File Formats

Production environments are rarely homogeneous and smooth exchange between tools is essential. C4D supports all common exchange formats.

SDK / Development Community

In studio environments it is often necessary to create own tools to integrate C4D into the pipeline. Our well-developed SDKs simplify this process.

X-Particles Integration

X-Particles is by far the most used simulation tool for C4D. From realistic effects to abstract motion graphics, everything is possible.

Unreal Integration

With the release of Unreal Engine 4.23, Epic Games introduced support for Cinema 4D enabled via the Datasmith plugin.

Unity Integration

The Unity plug-in (available from the Unity Asset Store) is compatible with Cinema 4D R21+ and Unity 2019.3.0+.

Vectorworks Integration

Vectorworks develops all-in-one design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software for the architecture, landscape and entertainment industries.

Archicad Integration

ARCHICAD is an industry-leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solution provider for the architecture and design industry.

Allplan Integration

ALLPLAN is a global developer of open solutions for Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Sketchfab Integration

With the free Sketchfab plug-in you can upload 3D objects and animations directly from Cinema 4D to the Sketchfab platform.

Environment

Modeling landscapes from scratch is hard work, but there are tools that specialize in this and allow you to create worlds in a snap.

Apple Final Cut Pro & Motion

Cinema 4D can generate multi-layered Final Cut Pro 7 project files with just a few clicks.

Nuke Integration

Cinema 4D can render a NUKE project file completely with proper node structure.

Blackmagic Fusion Integration

Instantly render Fusion compositions with Cinema 4D.

Simulation Partners

Whether it’s a spectacular simulation of smoke, water, fire or abstract particle streams for motion graphics, there’s software to facilitate this.

Rendering with Chaos® V-Ray®

V-Ray® is an award-winning renderer for artists, architects, designers, and generalists, empowering you to visualize anything you can imagine.

Rendering with Arnold

Arnold for Cinema 4D provides a bridge to Autodesk’s powerful CPU based renderer Arnold from within the standard Cinema 4D interface.

Rendering with Corona

A high-performance (un)biased photorealistic renderer with a focus on realism, ease of use and affordability, with no compromise in quality or power.

Other Renderers

Every artist has their preferences when it comes to rendering. That’s why Cinema 4D supports a huge variety of external renderers.

Real-Time Graphics

Especially in broadcast production, it is key to be able to quickly add up-to-date graphics. C4D brings 3D objects live into leading applications.

Motion Capture

Motion capture is an easy way to animate characters quickly and realistically. Cinema 4D supports leading manufacturers of mocap devices.

Cineware for After Effects

Since 2013, Cineware has provided seamless integration of Cinema 4D assets into After Effects.

Cineware for Illustrator

Add and edit 3D objects directly within Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 using the new Cineware for Illustrator plug-in.

Rendering with Octane

OctaneRender® is an unbiased and spectrally correct GPU renderer with high output quality and speed, highly appreciated by C4D artists.