For broadcast studios, VFX artists, and motion designers who ship on tight deadlines.
Create professional 3D animation in minutes instead of hours. Cinema 4D combines character rigging, procedural 3D animation tools, and dynamic simulation in one application. Redshift is a GPU-accelerated, production-quality renderer designed for fast, high-end 3D rendering with full artistic iteration and control. Bring everything together for compositing in Autograph or use Cineware to integrate your Cinema 4D scene directly into your host application of choice.
3D animation software is where ideas take shape in space, letting you build, light, and move characters and fully three-dimensional worlds for film, television, games, and digital experiences. With tools like Cinema 4D, artists can bring everything to life through motion with hand-crafted keyframes or smart procedural systems. Stunning visuals come to life using Redshift for fast, high-quality rendering, and sequences are polished with Autograph for seamless compositing. From cinematic motion graphics to character stories, it’s all about giving you complete control.
Benefits
Changing materials, lighting, or timing used to mean long waits for renders. Redshift’s GPU-accelerated rendering solves this by delivering instant previews and fast final-quality frames while you’re still imagining the next shot.
Cinema 4D’s Mograph is a powerful, artist-friendly procedural animation and motion graphics toolkit that lets you clone, animate, and apply Effectors to objects with minimal manual keyframing.
Repeatedly jumping between applications can be frustrating and slow down the creative process. The Maxon One collection features powerful, curated tools that work together, helping you go from concept to delivery. Whether you start with sculpting or procedural 3D, ZBrush and Cinema 4D provide industry-leading toolkits for crafting stunning 3D visuals. Redshift provides photorealistic, GPU-accelerated renders and Autograph acts a hub for compositing. Red Giant’s comprehensive creative toolkit enhances your footage and sets it apart.
Our Users
Capabilities
Cinema 4D s MoGraph toolkit is the industry standard for motion graphics and procedural animation. Build smart rigs using the following features:
Redshift is a cutting-edge CPU and GPU renderer included with every Cinema 4D subscription. See high-quality render previews in your viewport while you animate. Its features include:
Cinema 4D lets users build a rig once, animate across multiple shots, and export ready-to-composite characters. Its features include:
Cineware links Cinema 4D projects directly into your host application like After Effects, Unreal, and more. Update materials, lighting, animation, or your camera in Cinema 4D and your host app automatically re-links. With our free motion graphics and compositing application, Autograph, you can import USD scenes and EXR files from Cinema 4D and work within the same ecosystem.
Our Solutions
Maxon One brings together a complete set of tools designed to support every stage of the 3D animation workflow. Whether you are sculpting, rigging characters, or adding VFX to shots, Maxon one provides a curated selection of tools that work together to optimize any 3D animation workflow.
Cinema 4D is a professional 3D modeling, animation, simulation and rendering software used in design, motion graphics, VFX, AR/MR/VR, visualization, and game development. Recognized for its unparalleled ease of use and its versatile MoGraph toolset, Cinema 4D is the go-to software for creating complex motion design.
Redshift delivers fast, GPU-accelerated rendering designed for 3D animation workflows. You can preview lighting, materials, and camera effects in near real time, helping you iterate quickly and produce high-quality, production-ready frames without slowing down your creative process.
ZBrush is a digital sculpting, modeling, and painting software used to create highly detailed 3D models. It offers fluid, intuitive features that allow you to model 3D shapes just like sculpting with real clay. Loved by 3D artists and studios worldwide, the intuitive brush system adapts to your style, letting you create with precision and control.
Autograph delivers a powerful unified workflow for 2D/3D motion graphics and compositing, giving artists precise control over layered visuals, procedural animation, and complex scene building for advanced creative storytelling.
Red Giant is a comprehensive toolkit designed for video post-production, motion graphics, and visual effects. It offers powerful tools for color grading, smooth transitions, realistic visual effects, as well as motion design templates and presets to create and edit your visuals.
Access our complete suite of 3D, motion graphics, rendering, and VFX tools in one bundle. Maxon One connects your entire workflow from modeling and animation to final render so you can create without switching ecosystems, keeping everything unified and efficient from start to finish.
Tutorials
Cineversity includes beginner-friendly tutorials, project templates, pre-rigged character rigs, and presets. Start from a working project file and follow along.
Maxon Training Team
Maxon Training Team
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How our tools are used
From our users
How it works
The Maxon One toolset streamlines 3D animation pipelines. Bring in character designs or objects from your favorite sculpting tool like ZBrush or create 3D models in Cinema 4D, build procedural rigs, animate with ease, and render with GPU-accelerated speed in Redshift. Bring your AOVs together inside of Autograph for your final composite and add effects with Red Giant.
Creating a character sculpt for animation in ZBrush focuses on clean forms and deformation-ready anatomy, especially around joints and facial areas. Polygonal or procedural modeling in Cinema 4D allows you to quickly create objects ranging from cars to buildings or general props that can be seamlessly transferred to Cinema 4D for rigging and animation.
Using Cinema 4D, artists animate characters or objects through keyframing and rigging to control motion and performance. It also supports procedural animation, where movement is driven by rules and systems like physics or constraints, making animation more flexible and efficient.
Using Redshift, artists use Redshift Live to preview lighting, shading, and materials in near real time as changes are made. This lets animators quickly refine motion, camera work, and look development without waiting for full renders, making the workflow faster and more interactive.
Using Autograph, artists bring rendered layers together in compositing by combining passes, effects, and animation elements into a final polished shot. It allows real-time, control over color, timing, and visual effects so artists can refine the look of a render without re-rendering.
Cinema 4D and Redshift run on any modern CPU. Redshift GPU rendering requires an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 5.0 capability or higher (Windows/Linux) and 8 GB of VRAM, an AMD RDNA 2 or later GPU and 8 GB of VRAM (Windows), or Apple M1+ (macOS). If you don't have a compatible GPU, Redshift’s CPU renderer works fine but renders will take longer.
A Cinema 4D subscription includes Cinema 4D (professional 3D animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software), and Redshift (cutting-edge GPU rendering software). Maxon One includes Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush (the industry standard for digital sculpting), Red Giant (compositing, VFX, and motion graphics plugins for hosts like After Effects, Premiere, Resolve, and more), and Universe (a growing library of effects and transitions). Our free 2D/3D motion graphics and VFX/compositing tool Autograph is also included in Maxon One.
Redshift GPU renders are typically 5-15x faster than CPU rendering, depending on scene complexity and GPU hardware. A typical broadcast-quality frame on a current mid-range desktop GPU renders in seconds to a few minutes. Redshift Live real-time viewport preview rendering means you see results instantly as you iterate.
Large studios and freelancers alike trust Maxon One tools including Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Redshift, Cineware, Red Giant, and Autograph to deliver high-quality animation on tight timelines.
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