RENDERING
The Key to Ultimate Photorealism
Cinema 4D's
wide range of render options deliver fast and beautiful results thanks
to their linear workflow, support for color profiles, multiple
processors, HyperThreading and Multi-Core technology. The built-in
Advanced Renderer is a professional tool for creating outstanding images
and animations, ranging from standard 2D and 3D to stereoscopy.
Its Multi-Pass rendering allows you to easily render color, shadow, reflection, and other effects to individual files. Multiple object-based alpha channels make it easy to layer elements with other 2D and 3D assets. With direct export to standard applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Nuke, Shake, Fusion or Motion, your Multi-Pass layers will be ready to composite in no time. Cinema 4D supports rendering in 16-bit and 32-bit color depth for high dynamics range images in DPX, HDRI or OpenEXR format.
Physical Renderer
The Physical Render Engine in Cinema 4D lets you render with ultimate realism using real camera settings like focal length, shutter speed, aperture, etc. to add 3D depth of field, optical accurate motion blur, area shadows, ambient occlusion and more to your scene. You can optionally simulate additional characteristics of real-life cameras such as lens distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration for even more photorealism.
The Physical Renderer’s shared image sampler samples the Project just once and shares the result between all these effects, reducing the incremental time and guaranteeing accurate results.
Global Illumination
Achieve greater rendering realism with Global Illumination, which provides a more accurate representation of scene lighting by taking into account light that bounces between objects. The Global Illumination engine can also utilize an HDRI-based sky for outstanding image-based illumination.
Caustics
Caustic effects simulate the specific refractions and reflections of light on shiny surfaces or through transparent objects. Light that reflects from a golden ring or shines through the water to the bottom of a swimming pool – Cinema 4D makes it easy to create these effects, resulting in highly realistic and accurate scenes.
External Renderers
Cinema 4D is also supported by all major third party renderers
Sketch and Toon
With the Sketch and Toon toolset in Cinema 4D you create non-photorealistic styles of 3D renderings.
Architects and engineers enjoy the clean and precise technical illustrations it provides, while artists will appreciate the ability to render 3D scenes as a quick scribble or charcoal sketch. Several settings make it easy to create illustrations ranging from halftone stills to cel-rendered animations and to create almost any desired effect.
And More!
Stereoscopic Rendering
A few simple settings convert any Cinema 4D camera into a stereo rig. Simply enable one of the stereo modes, define the eye-separation and convergence, and choose between parallel, off-axis, on-axis or radial placement. Safe regions can be set manually or defined automatically by Cinema 4D. You can render the merged image or individual channels and preview the stereo effect within Cinema 4D’s Picture Viewer. Stereo previews can be displayed in Anaglyph, Side-by-Side, Interlaced or Active Shutter mode for compatibility with a variety of 3D monitors, projectors and glasses.
Team Render
Team Render is Cinema 4D’s
network rendering concept that uses peer-to-peer communication to
distribute render tasks. Because there's no bottleneck at a central
server, the assets required to render your scene get to each client
quicker, speeding up network rendering of animations as well as still
frames dramatically.
For bigger studios Team Render Server
combines the advantages of a traditional client-server architecture
which allows users to control all the render jobs via a web interface
with Team Render’s decentralized data exchange. Team Render Server lets
you directly upload, monitor and control your network rendering jobs,
and view the log status messages from the server and all clients.
Command Line Render Client
For users whose render jobs exceed the capacity of individual workstations or that of Team Render, Maxon offers the Cinema 4D Command Line Render Client for creating dedicated render farms. The Command Line Render Client uses the Cinema 4D render functions and is managed by render farm admin tools provided by third parties.
Licensing available for Mac, Windows and Linux
Lighting
Let there be light
Cinema 4D offers a wide variety of light and shadow types that can brighten up even the most challenging situations. Cinema 4D’s extraordinarily powerful lighting system offers numerous options to control color, brightness, falloff and other properties, and for adjusting density and color of each light's shadows. Light settings such as contrast, lens reflexes, visible or volumetric light, noise, and the possibility to use Lumen or Candela brightness values provide highly realistic results for your scenes.
IES Lights
Many light manufacturers offer IES data for free download to realistically simulate the look of real lighting fixtures. Brightness, color temperature, falloff and direction are already included in IES lights to produce the most realistic lighting. Cinema 4D already includes several pre-defined, ready-to-go setups.
Physical Sky
Cinema 4D’s amazing Physical Sky makes it easy to create natural outdoor surroundings for your scene. A large collection of presets including clouds, haze, atmosphere and global positioning helps you to set up the fitting environment.
