

After acquiring the Redshift GPU renderer last year, and merging with Red Giant earlier this year, the company is on a fast track to build a powerful 3D and video offering. It’s been a very busy few years for Maxon, the makers of Cinema 4D. That is now a thing of the past, unless, you know, you want to pay for multiple subscriptions. If you dabble in 3D, motion graphics, and VFX, odds are you may already be spending around $49/month for the Red Giant Complete subscription and another $59/month for a Cinema 4D subscription (or $81/month when C4D is bundled with the Redshift render engine). Here’s some good news for those of you who already had separate Cinema 4D and Red Giant Complete subscriptions, all those tools are now moving into one new (and cheaper) subscription called Maxon One. Maxon has released one subscription that includes Cinema 4D, Red Giant, and Redshift. Maxon acquired RedShift in April of 2019.Finally, a subscription that will actually save you some money. Redshift 3.0.12 is immediately available from the Redshift website. Users can now also use any Cinema 4D view panel as a Redshift IPR (interactive preview render) window, making it easier to work within compact layouts and interact with a scene while developing materials and lighting. Redshift is the first to take advantage of the new API in Cinema 4D to implement its own Node Spaces. As well, Redshift materials can use the Node Space system introduced in Release 21, which combines the native nodes of multiple render engines into a single material.

Redshift materials can now be defined using Cinema 4D’s nodal material framework, introduced in Release 20. Redshift 3.0.12 provides content creators deeper integration of Redshift within Cinema 4D. Native support for Cinema 4D noises means Redshift can preserve GPU memory while delivering high-quality rendered results. Cinema 4D offers 32 different types of noise and countless variations based on settings. Procedural noise allows artists to easily add surface detail and randomness to otherwise perfect surfaces. Native support in Redshift means that users of other DCC applications can now access Cinema 4D noises by using Redshift as their rendering solution. Maxon and Redshift Rendering Technologies have released Redshift 3.0.12, which has native support for Cinema 4D noises and deeper integration with Cinema 4D, including the option to define materials using Cinema 4D’s native node-based material system.Ĭinema 4D noise effects have been in demand within other 3D software packages because of their flexibility, efficiency and look.
