Maxon Cinema 4D - Release 11.5

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The next generation, representing two decades of excellence.

The eleventh generation of CINEMA 4D is another milestone in the development of professional 3D software and a testament to two decades of excellence by MAXON's programming team. Professional 3D animation tools have never been easier to use.

The Easiest-to-Use 3D Application

CINEMA 4D's intuitive interface and logical workflow make it possible for those new to 3D artistry to dive in and be productive quickly. Feedback is smooth and interactive so you can let your creativity run free.

State-Of-The-Art Technology

CINEMA 4D's state-of-the-art architecture means it is always the first to benefit from new technologies and advancements - 64-bit support on Windows and Mac OS or Multiprocessing to name a few. MAXON is a development partner of many leading IT companies, including Intel and Apple. As such MAXON has early access to many future technologies which makes it possible to tailor our products accordingly. Our customers can rely on latest technology and maximum security for their investment.

Modularity Makes it Suitable for all Industries.

The core application contains everything you need to create high-end 3D images and animations. For those artists whose work demands more than the basic application, MAXON provides numerous seamlessly integrated modules. Modules can also be purchased individually or in affordable bundles. For specific industries, such as architecture and engineering, MAXON also offers Editions that contain specially tailored functionality.

There is a CINEMA 4D to satisfy the needs of every artist and industry that utilizes 3D graphics. Take a tour through our solutions pages to see where CINEMA 4D dominates and thrives worldwide - then download a demo version and convince yourself.

CINEMA 4D is available in several languages including English, German, French, Spanish, and more

New in CINEMA 4D Release 11.5

Picture Viewer

Compare Your Test Renders with Ease
Wouldn't it be great if there was an easy way to compare test renders so that you can see which changes to lighting, materials, render settings or other elements work best?

The new Picture Viewer lets you do this with ease. Your renderings are stored automatically to the Picture Viewer's History list where they can be viewed with a single click. The render time is stored for each test render, helping you to find out which render settings work best for your project.

What if you want to take a really close look at the differences between two of your test renders? This can be done with the new AB Compare tool, which lets you you choose any two of your test renders in the History list and blend between them by simply dragging a slider left or using the Difference mode.

Scrub Sound and Play Back Animation
The new RAM Player lets you step through or play back the frames in an animation that have already been finished, even while the rest of the animation is still being rendered. If you spot any show-stopping problems, such as poor timing for the animation, abort the rendering and rescue hours of valuable render time.

Another welcome feature is sound scrubbing. Check how well the audio syncs up with the rendered frames and avoid problems early on.

Rendering to HD and worried your computer won't be able to play back the rendered animation in realtime? For smooth real-time HD playback you can drop the resolution for the RAM player down to half, third or quarter - whatever works best for you.

Fine-Tune Multi-Pass Layers without Switching Apps
Previously when you wanted to adjust multi-pass layers such as Shadows and Reflection, you had to switch to an image editing application and make the changes there, which takes time.

This is a thing of the past with the new Layer list. Here you can adjust the blending mode and strength of your multi-pass layers directly in CINEMA 4D to quickly get great-looking results.

Correct Images Directly in CINEMA 4D
How often have you had to switch to an external image editing application to make slight corrections to your rendered image such as adjusting contrast, brightness or saturation? Now you can save yourself the time it takes to switch applications by making these small adjustments that make a big difference directly in CINEMA 4D. This is made possible thanks to the new Filter tool's image correction controls.

Or perhaps you've gone back and adjusted the lighting or other elements in the scene and re-rendered the image. The new image correction controls can save you lots of time by cutting the need to re-render when the filter does the trick in seconds.

Render Engine

Up to Seven Times Faster Subpolygon Displacement Calculation
Do your renders sometimes have surfaces that look too "perfect" and obviously computer-generated? Could the roof tiles on your 3D house do with sticking out a bit so that they look like the individual, imperfect surfaces that real tiles are?

CINEMA 4D's subpolygon displacement feature, which was introduced in Release 9, enables you to give surfaces an incredible amount of detail, using simple textures and shaders. It works even if the object you apply it to only has a few polygon surfaces. It's like a bump map on steroids...

What's new is that this fantastic effect is prepared much faster - up to seven times faster on a quad-core machine, for example, allowing you to use this feature much more often.

Render Up To Billions of Polygons Faster with Less RAM
When you are working with very complex scenes, chances are you'll have multiple copies of some of the objects in the scene - such as 1,000 copies of the same chair in a scene of a grand hall.

In CINEMA 4D Release 11.5, memory handling has been vastly improved for these object copies (that is, instances, arrays, clones or duplicates). So much so that you can now render billions of polygons on a modestly equipped computer.

Think massive forests, crowds, cities... Previously, these would have eaten up enormous amounts of memory and processing power. The question is: "What could you do with lots of in your scene?"

An added bonus is that CINEMA 4D now requires significantly less time to prepare the clones for rendering.

New Bucket Rendering and Faster Antialiasing
CINEMA 4D doesn't render your scenes in lines anymore. It renders them in tiles called "buckets." The advantages are improved memory handling and faster rendering.

And on the subject of faster rendering - a new hybrid antialiasing mode greatly speeds up the rendering of highly-detailed surfaces.

Motion Graphics Toolset

Full 3D Support for Apple Motion
CINEMA 4D's pioneering 3D support for Adobe After Effects has been a hit. And if you use Apple Motion you can now get in on the act. CINEMA 4D's Motion export has been updated to fully support the exciting new 3D features in Apple Motion.

In addition to your CINEMA 4D renders you can now bring the CINEMA 4D camera, lights and animation paths straight into Motion's 3D space. Freely mix the worlds of 2D and 3D to create attention-grabbing motion graphics.

Export Clones and XRefs
You can now export object clones created using MoGraph as well as XRefs that reference objects stored in other scene files directly into After Effects and Motion. This saves you the considerable amount of time it can take to bake clones or consolidate XRefs for export. With the time saved, you can be more creative.

Another new feature is that you can now create solids in CINEMA 4D and export them to After Effects. Bring the solids into After Effects and within seconds you can put video or pictures onto the faces of rendered 3D objects - even if they are animated.

Effortless Transfer of Multiple Cameras
Do you use several cameras and switch between them when you animate? CINEMA 4D will now export all of your 3D cameras in the animation so that you can bring them into After Effects or Motion in one fell swoop.

What this means is that you don't have to export each camera in the animation as a separate file. Because CINEMA 4D takes over this chore for you, you can spend more time being creative.

Other Features

No-Holds-Barred File Exchange Using FBX 2010.0
How much would it be worth to you if there was an easy way to get a character created in another application into CINEMA 4D so that you could animate it for your biggest customer?

For those times when you need quick transfer of files between applications, FBX is one of the leading file exchange formats you can call on.

CINEMA 4D's support has been updated to FBX version 2010.0. As a result, you can now transfer advanced joint-based character rigs and multiple UV sets using this powerful exchange format.

Now Use QuickTime on Windows 64-Bit
Release 11.5 now allows you to render movies as QuickTime files on Windows 64-bit.

Previously this was not possible on Windows 64-bit and movies had to be rendered as AVI files or image sequences because QuickTime is not available as a Windows 64-bit application. Additional tools had to be used if your end result needed to be a QuickTime movie.

Thanks to the new implementation, not only can you now render out QuickTime movies - you can also render fantastic panoramic and object-based Quicktime VR files to look around a room or view an object from virtually every possible angle.

Improved Project Management
The new tweaks to the Project Settings are designed to make your 3D life easier. A number of settings that were previously located elsewhere but look more at home in the Project Settings have been moved in. And new settings that help you manage your projects have been added, such as Author, Creation Date, Version Number, and Info, where you can enter notes.

Easier Installation
The new CINEMA 4D installer has been designed to make the installation process significantly easier. Companies making use of MAXON's License Server technology can enter the server info directly into the installer to preconfigure each installation. With MAXON's new installer, you'll be ready to render faster and with fewer headaches.

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows XP or Vista running on Intel or AMD CPU with SSE2-Support; Mac OS X 10.4 or higher running on PowerPC G5 or Intel-Mac; 1024 MB RAM, DVD ROM drive