Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.2
3D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
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Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023
3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S26.1
Subscriber-only release updates Cinema 4D's cloth simulation tools and node UI, and adds new HDRIs, textures and Redshift materials.
Thursday, June 30th, 2022
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.3
Maya's multiphysics plugin now lets you adjust properties interactively, and see the results in real time.
Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.4 and Maya LT 2020.4
Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, including a big update to its Bifrost toolset.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21
Release scraps the four lower-end editions of the software and introduces new subscription plans. See all of the new features here.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R20
Now available: Update adds node based material system, volume modelling, MoGraph fields, and multi-pass rendering on the GPU.
Monday, September 3rd, 2018
Eye candy: Foam Studio's beautiful C4D R20 demo short
See everyday objects twisted into strange and colourful forms with Cinema 4D R20's fields system.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018