Breakthrough Innovations in Modeling, Performance and Product
Integration Bring a High-Impact Creative Experience to 3D Professionals
CINEMA 4D Release 14 Highlights
MAXON
offers four versions of CINEMA 4D, each catering to the needs of 3D
artists in different industries. Note: The features listed below may not
be included in every configuration. Click here for further information.
Key features and benefits include:
Digital Sculpting
Dynamic
new sculpting tools give artists complete control to create finely
detailed models with tools like Pull, Wax, Smooth, Flatten, Inflate,
Knife and Pinch. There are powerful preset options for brushes, stamps,
stencils, and attributes for size, pressure, symmetry options and more. A
powerful layer system allows for maximum flexibility in the creation
process while the Bake option recalculates the millions of sculpted
polygons into displacement and normal maps that can be applied to
low-poly count base meshes for further use in renderings and animations.
Improved Modeling Toolset
New interactive work plane
modes, dynamic guides and a completely redesigned snapping system offer a
powerful, unified 3D workflow to model dramatically faster and
accurately align elements. Controls to interactively position the world
grid to move, scale and rotate objects, as well as the ability to
intuitively snap objects and components to the grid plane, grid lines or
grid points are provided along with other key parameters.
Camera Enhancements
The
new Camera Calibrator in R14 offers an integrated solution to match a
3D camera image to a 3D environment – a perfect solution for architects
and designers to present their creations. Users can integrate 3D objects
into the photographed environment for visualizations or use CINEMA 4D’s
camera mapping workflow to create digital matte paintings and set
extensions.
The new Motion Camera, Morph Camera and Camera
Composition Helper tools in R14 help to quickly frame a 3D scene
following artistic rules or easily create realistic and dynamic camera
animations while the new Camera Focus Picker gives users control to
interactively set focus distances.
Better and Faster Rendering
Multiple
enhancements in R14 bring digital artists a more flexible toolset to
achieve greater rendering realism and compositing control that result in
outstanding image quality. New and improved shaders and materials are
now available for simulating wood grain, weathering effects and normal
mapping. Global Illumination has been enhanced with new technologies
such as Radiosity Maps and the unified sampler from the Physical
Renderer, to let users achieve higher-quality renders in less time and
with greater accuracy. New render effects also power up the
post-processing workflow. Relight scenes, pull position-based mattes and
reconstruct objects with the new Position Pass or perform quick and
easy color correction with new interactive grading curves. New
algorithms in R14 provide up to twice the speed for caustics, while
further enhancements to subsurface scattering render materials such as
milk, wax and skin more efficiently.
Integration
Brand
new to CINEMA 4D, the highly anticipated seamless integration with The
Foundry’s award-winning NUKE compositing application allows R14 users to
directly export a NUKE project file to reconstruct a multi-pass render
and provides full support for OpenEXR and FBX files. The new Photoshop
Extended exchange plug-in opens and manipulates CINEMA 4D scenes into a
Photoshop 3D layer, offering new opportunities to illustrators,
photographers, digital matte painters and motion graphics artists to
share CINEMA 4D files with the broader Photoshop design community.
Enhanced integration with After Effects brings new levels of performance
to directly import and export native CINEMA 4D files.
Misc Productivity-Boosting Features
CINEMA
4D is renowned for outstanding ease of use. With numerous enhancements
to the R14 interface, artists can perform common tasks faster and more
efficiently.
R14 now offers greater levels of realism and control
with increased versatility over dynamics with aerodynamic forces,
plastic springs and breaking connectors. Users can now create much more
believable animations of flying or breaking objects. The improved editor
view now displays soft shadows and features new object highlighting
options. Individuals and teams can manage tasks using the To Do list and
the Commander, a filtered search box that appears directly under the
cursor, which gives quick and easy access to all commands and tags. An
improved XRef system offers options to offset the animation, scale or
pivot of each referenced scene, which is especially useful for team
collaboration. Finally, Arabic speakers can now use CINEMA 4D in their
native language with new Arabic interface translation and a mirrored
layout designed for right-to-left readers.
This is just a brief overview of the 200+ improvements CINEMA 4D R14 has to offer. Learn more about the
new features and watch informational videos here.