Maxon Announced Fall Update to Its Products

Maxon, developers of professional software solutions for editors, filmmakers, motion designers, and visual effects artists, announced updates to its products, including Cinema 4D, Redshift, Forger, and Red Giant.

Cinema 4D

Cinema 4D 2023 introduces "dramatic" simulation advancements, modeling with symmetry, improved asset management, and native OCIO support.

Its Unified Simulation System now includes Soft Bodies and new stickiness and mixed animation options. Vertex Maps and Vertex Color tags controlled by Fields now work on most generators. New Symmetry modeling allows mirrored changes on the model. Users can define symmetry using the world grid, the object axis, a custom workplane, or even the topology of the model. 

Other changes include OpenColorIO, which enables artists to fully utilize cinematic ACEScg color space and a unified color pipeline across all Maxon tools. Additionally, the improved GoZ bridge lets artists transfer models between C4D and ZBrush.

Redshift

The Redshift team introduces Material Stacking for decals, material blending, and texture remapping. Moreover, Rounded Corners now work for Redshift CPU as well as GPU. The Random Walk mode can be used for better detail, colors, and more accurate subsurface scattering.

Finally, Redshift received "major developments" to improve volume technology. There are new blackbody shading controls for recreating realistic-looking fire and smoke VDBs with emission colors based on temperature. Volumetric anisotropy now controls how volumes react to the incoming light direction.

Forger

Forger now includes Cinema 4D's polygonal modeling engine, so Polygonal Modeling Tools can be used for extruding points, edges, or polygons, beveling edges, creating insets on faces and bridging parts of a model, and more. In addition, on-screen 3D Gizmo supplies useful actions such as moving along an axis, rotation, scaling, and transforming.

Red Giant

Red Giant added text effects for Universe, new sprites for Trapcode, and performance updates for VFX. Trapcode now provides over 75 new animated sprites for 2D shapes and bursts, while Magic Bullet 2023 adds the Halation and Diffusion tools to Looks in Cinema 4D. Red Giant VFX 2023 offers enhanced performance and stability, and Universe 2023 provides support for alpha layers in Avid Media Composer and comes with over 100 new presets for Generators.

Moves

The latest update for Moves makes it easier to capture face and body movements, as well as brings a new look to the tool.

Capsules

Maxon released a series of eight coffee tables for the Cinema 4D Asset Browser. All coffee tables from the classic Cinema 4D asset library have been optimized and retextured for use with Redshift.
Maxon One and Cinema 4D subscribers get access to these free assets for use in their projects.

You can get all the benefits of Maxon's tools with a Maxon One subscription that costs $149/month with a monthly plan and $99.91/month with a monthly one.

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