CINEMA 4D Studio is the very best that MAXON has to offer for professional 3D artists. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then this is the choice for you.
Modeling
CINEMA 4D Studio can import and export a variety of file formats to integrate in almost every pipeline. The modeling toolset allows to work with parametric or polygon objects, subsivision surfaces and all kinds of deformers and modifiers. CINEMA 4D nonlinear modeling allows changes to parametric objects at anytime and at the same time being lightweight and fast.
Materials and Textures
CINEMA 4D offers all standard and advanced options for creating the perfect surface for your models. Materials have 14 different channels and you can even custom channels for specific needs (such as game engines). Use images or movies as textures or advanced shaders such als Subsurface Scattering or backlight. For high end texturing CINEMA 4D offers an industry standard 3D painting toolset.
Animation
When it comes to animation CINEMA 4D Studio is a Jack of all trades. Of course it features all the standard animation tool you'd expect from a high end 3D package.
But CINEMA 4D Studio has so much more to offer. An advanced character animation toolset, all new rigid and softbody dynamics, a cloth simulation, an event based particle system, cloners and effectors and even natural Hair waving in the wind. To get all the information about the advanced animation features of CINEMA 4D Studio please choose a menu item on the top left.
Lighting
CINEMA 4D Studio contains a wealth of possibilities to light your scene. The various standard light and shadow types already come with a myriad of options to choose from falloff to volumetric, from lens effects to include and exclude lists.
But the Studio version offers tons of advanced lighting tools that go even further. IES lights for real life light distribution, global illumination for indirect lighting, a physical sky simulation to light outdoor scenes realistically and much more.
Rendering
CINEMA 4D's render engine is fast and robust. Optimized for up to 64 processor threads it can render images and animations with multipasses and post effects quick and reliable.
But CINEMA 4D Studio's rendering toolset incorporates so much more. Additional material settings for impressive effects like smoke of steam, subploygon displacement and more let your objects look like in real life. A non-photorealistic render engine can create image like hand drawn and large jobs can easily be handled with the network rendering engine to get our results faster.
Assets
CINEMA 4D Studio also comes with hundreds of 3D objects from the Broadcast and Visualize packages to make your life a little easier when times get rough.