Maxon ships Cinema 4D S22
First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
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Download Maxon's free Cineware for Unity plugin
Handy plugin converts Cinema 4D rigs, materials and lights into their Unity equivalents for real-time use.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Maxon and Red Giant merge
Updated: Maxon's merger with the effects tools developer is now officially complete. Key Red Giant executives join the Maxon board.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25
Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 5.0 for Cinema 4D
Popular smoke and fire simulation software now available for Cinema 4D as well as 3ds Max and Maya.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinema 4D R21.1
Update adds support for Redshift materials within the node-based material system, and restores the option to view help files offline.
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
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
Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro
Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Maxon buys Redshift
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Maxon ships Cinebench R20
Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019
Motion graphics tools pioneers win Sci-Tech Academy Awards
Original creators of After Effects, Photoshop and Cinema 4D's MoGraph toolset win tech Oscars.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
Maxon ships more free Cinema 4D plugins via Maxon Labs
New Solidify tool and workarounds for features deprecated in R20 added to online library of add-ons.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018