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Experience Redshift, the cutting-edge GPU renderer that brings your 3D visions to life with stunning realism. Used by artists and designers, Redshift elevates your work with photorealistic renders, environment lighting and advanced materials.

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What is Redshift?

Redshift is a powerful 3D rendering software that helps visualize your 3D designs, models, animations, and scenes.

By simulating realistic lighting, textures, and effects, Redshift transforms 3D design into high-quality animations or images. Its GPU-accelerated engine lets you achieve photorealistic details, fast feedback, and reduced rendering times.

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See how Redshift revolutionizes Archviz

Introducing Redshift for Archviz, Maxon's new real-time visualization tool that brings cinematic rendering to architecture by integrating Cinema 4D and Redshift with CAD workflows like Vectorworks. Offering GPU-based, real-time previews, smart object placement, and a library of materials and assets, allowing architects to create immersive walkthroughs and high-end visuals directly inside their existing workflows.

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Workflow view of 3D architectural visualization from BIM model to final render

What's New

Redshift offers artists even more speed and flexibility to render imaginative worlds with cinematic realism. The 2026.4.0 release introduces the Redshift Live rendering mode, which focuses on performance and allows for quick iteration of materials, lighting, and staging while still providing an accurate representation of final frame results. Redshift Live is available as an alternative to Redshift production in all DCCs and powers the interactive architectural visualization workflows offered in Redshift for Archviz. Additional updates include a new Night sky for Redshift’s Sun & Sky in Cinema 4D and improvements to texture displacement in all DCCs.

Night Sky for Sun and Sky system

For Cinema 4D, Redshift’s Sun and Sky system now includes a night sky with an accurate moon and stars. This allows you to quickly fill in the background of a nighttime scene or create a time-lapse animation across multiple days or weeks, with a complete sky system for any time of day at any location in the world. Match your night sky to whatever conditions you choose – whether your scene should be in the middle of a large city where only the moon is visible, or in a rural desert where the Milky Way and stars can be seen.

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Texture Displacement

Watch your vision quickly come to life inside the Redshift IPR (Interactive Preview Renderer) thanks to Texture Displacement. Based on texel density rather than vertex density, this method of displacement minimizes the amount of subdivision levels required. Texture Displacement will now work with polygon selections, so you can apply a material with Texture Displacement only to a part of a mesh. Additionally, it now works with UVs that are outside of the zero-to-one square in the UV Editor.

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Dome Light Baking for Procedural Textures

Redshift Dome Lights can now work with procedurally generated textures in all DCCs. In Cinema 4D, baking the Dome Lights works with the Node Editor and does not require the use of XPresso anymore.

Dome Light Baking for Procedural Textures image

Redshift Live mode

Redshift Live is a new rendering mode built for interactive performance and high visual quality. It serves as an alternative to Redshift Production and replaces Redshift RT technology. Designed for real-time visualization and look development on Windows and macOS, Redshift Live uses ultra-fast hardware-accelerated path tracing combined with advanced AI upsampling and denoising to deliver high quality results in real-time.

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Elevate 3D Art with Redshift

From intricate details to dynamic scenes, Redshift lets you render breathtaking 3D visuals across various industries.

Architectural Visualization

Use Redshift to generate photorealistic renderings for buildings, interiors, or walkthroughs. Create impressive digital projections that bring your artwork to life, from buildings to galleries.

A 3D architectural rendering depicting digital art projected onto the exterior of a modern building, enhanced with dynamic lighting and visual effects, created using Redshift as the 3D rendering software.
© NorthHouse Creative

Animation & VFX

Render lifelike characters, build immersive environments, or generate eye-catching 3D scenes and visualizations for movies, animations and games.

Detailed 3D animation & VFX scene featuring a character with intricate textures and lighting, created with Redshift.
©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

Product & Industrial Design

Use Redshift to showcase designs with aesthetics, functionality, and stunning effects. Bring sleek cars, intricate machine components, or medical devices to life with realistic renderings.

3D rendering of a sleek, modern product design, showcasing smooth surfaces and reflective materials, produced with Redshift.
© SEHSUCHT

Render 3D Visuals with Redshift

Unlock limitless possibilities with its powerful features. Discover what Redshift can do to transform your creativity.

High Rendering Performance and Efficiency

Leveraging the power of your GPU, Redshift delivers fast render times, allowing you to iterate quickly and efficiently. The adaptive sampling helps you to prioritize details, achieving high-quality visuals while significantly reducing render times.

3D geometric shapes within a Redshift software workflow, demonstrating high rendering performance and efficiency.
© Wes Cockx

Seamless 3D Software Integration

Redshift integrates smoothly with popular 3D software such as Cinema 4D, ensuring fast and easy data exchange. This simplifies design workflows, empowering you to collaborate seamlessly on creative projects.

3D rendering over a software timeline interface, representing Redshift's seamless 3D software integration.
© Twistedpoly

Extensive Shader Library

Redshift offers advanced shading capabilities, allowing you to visualize detailed materials like glass, metal, plastic, hair, and skin. Create atmospheric effects such as clouds, smoke, and fire. Simulate real-world lighting effects and shadow conditions to present visually stunning scenes.

A collection of 3D rendered artworks showcasing Redshift's diverse shader capabilities, featuring abstract forms, landscapes, stylized characters, material examples, and more.

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FAQs

Get answers to commonly asked questions about Redshift.

What can I do with Redshift?

Redshift is ideal for visualizing complex 3D designs with exceptional detail. You can apply Redshift to render stunningly realistic images and animations with precise lighting, shadows, and textures.

Why is Redshift a suitable choice for me?

Redshift’s GPU acceleration technology allows rapid rendering of complex scenes. Many 3D artists, VFX studios, architects, game developers, and product designers use Redshift for realistic rendering.

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What software can Redshift integrate with?

Redshift integrates seamlessly with Cinema 4D and various software like Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, Foundry Katana and Blender. For a full list of supported CG applications or devices, please visit our Redshift Requirements Page.

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What devices is Redshift compatible with?

Redshift is compatible with most latest operating systems among Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple macOS. It supports a range of graphics cards, including AMD and NVIDIA models, and more.

For detailed information, check out our list of system requirements.

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