Improved Sampling on Hair Curves in Cinema 4D
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Redshift
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.
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 our clients use Redshift to create industry-leading projects!
See What's Coming in ArchViz
Get a sneak peek at Maxon's new real-time visualization tool that will bring 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.
What's New
Redshift 2025.5 allows artists to work faster, not harder by tackling specific needs from our userbase. Standard Volumes received quality updates and can now be used to render very dense clouds and smoke without artifacts.
Redshift material support in Cinema 4D’s viewport has been improved, with enhanced metalness representation, new per-port shader baking options and improvements to ZBrush workflows with Redshift material baking.
Redshift’s Houdini and Maya integrations offer USD workflow improvements that will make life easier for 3D artists. Additionally, Redshift now supports Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs, allowing artists to leverage the power of the latest high-end hardware to reduce their render times and iterate quickly.
Explore these exciting new features and upgrades in Redshift 2025.5, designed to streamline your creative process and elevate your rendering capabilities.
USDZ Support
Lighter USDZ files are now supported as procedurals in Houdini/Solaris and Hydra – offering smaller file sizes, reducing load times and improving performance.
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Simplified Ambient Occlusion AOV
By enabling the new Simplified Ambient Occlusion AOV, ambient occlusion is applied to the entire frame at render time! This makes adding dimension to a render easier than ever!
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UDIM Support
Textures organized with UDIM tiles can now be previewed in Cinema 4D’s viewport, allowing for a smoother workflow.
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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.
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Animation & VFX
Render lifelike characters, build immersive environments, or generate eye-catching 3D scenes and visualizations for movies, animations and games.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Explore whether Redshift is the right fit for you by starting your free trial today!
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.
Discover the full capabilities of Redshift and elevate your Cinema 4D projects to new heights! Try Cinema 4D & Redshift for free!
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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