In Depth: MAXON Cinema 4D Release 18 New Features Roundup

A little about Cinema 4D and Release 18

Cinema 4D is the professional 3D package for your needs. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then Cinema 4D is the choice for you. Despite being designed for advanced 3D, the extra tools found in Cinema 4D Studio are still designed to be user-friendly and intuitive. Generating advanced 3D effects such as hair is surprisingly easy and fast, with Cinema 4D doing much of the work for you.

Cinema 4D Release 18 puts powerful new tools in the hands of motion graphics artists, and makes VFX workflows accessible to everyone. Game designers and visualization professionals enjoy new opportunities, while workflow, modeling, animation and shader enhancements help elevate every Cinema 4D artist to a new level.

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C4D Sneak Peek

Voronoi fracture, Mograph & Viewport enhancements, new Shaders

Found via Lesterbanks.  Dimitris Katsafouros takes a dive into C4D R18’s Voronoi fracture, Mograph and Viewport enhancements and new Shaders available.

Lesterbanks has a very good round up of the new C4D features too.  See it here.

Versus – C4D R18 Promo Video

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7 Incredible 3D Artworks created in Cinema 4D R18 – Digital Arts

Digital Arts posted an article showcasing the artwork of 7 3D artists that MAXON commisioned to create C4D art specifically for Release 18.

Maxon recently released a new version of Cinema 4D, R18 – and, with it, a tonne of gorgeous images to show off what the software can do. Even if you’re not interested Cinema 4D, the update of which includes better tools for destroying and dissecting objects, who doesn’t want an excuse to ogle gorgeous work by brilliant 3D artists?

Along with the artists’ creations, gorgeous and striking animation was also created in Cinema 4D by London-based studio ManVsMachine (shown above), which wonderfully demonstrates the power of the upgraded and new features: a motion tracker, more rendering capabilities with surfaces such as oil slicks, and full support for textures created using Allegorithmic’s Substance Painter.

Here, we’ve collected our favourites of the works that Maxon commissioned, which combine the power of Cinema 4D’s breathtaking tools and features with the bizarre, compelling imaginations of wonderful artists. – Mimi Launder, Digital Arts

See the 3D artwork here:
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/illustration/7-incredible-3d-artworks-created-in-cinema-4d-r18/

Image: by Damian Swiderski

Image: by Cornelius Dammrich

Cinema 4D Release 18 Highlights – Cineversity

MAXON Cineversity created a highlight reel of many of the new features.

Cineversity also has released the Live Cinema 4D Presentations from SIGGRAPH 2016.

• Watch batch 1 here
  Featuring Athanasios Pozantsis, Chris Schmidt, EJ Hassenfratz, and Melissa Oakley
• Watch batch 2 here
  Featuring Nick Campbell, Carlos Ferrer , Sekani Solomon and Nik Hill
• Watch batch 3 here
  Featuring Derya Öztürk, Brett Morris, Chad Ashley and Sekani Solomon
• Watch batch 4 here
  Featuring Robert Paraguassu, Trevor Kerr, Casey Hupke and Ryan Summers

See  the full lineup of presentations here:
Siggraph 2016 Rewinds

Greyscalegorilla C4D R18 Breakdowns

GSG created some quick breakdowns of their favorite new features.

Cinema 4D R18 Voronoi Fracture – Break Objects In Cinema 4D

New Mograph Effector: Push Apart

New Viewport Enhancements

New Mograph Features

New Knife Tools

New Mograph Effector: RE:Effector

New Thin Film Shader

New Bump Map Feature: Parallax

New Vertex Color Tag

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