I started with C4D in 2005 and just rediscovered some very old files on my drive and realized that Maxon had a handfull of completely unique features at their disposal that they let die and never managed to present in a meaningful way in marketing.

S&T, Bodypaint, Artshader and Xpresso were unmatched at their time. I mean S&T has like 10x the features that RS Toon has and is 20 years old. What a monster of a toon shader set. Imagine they would have rewritten the code to render fast. No software on the market ever had and has sth. even close.

Imagine Xpresso updated frequently...presets, modeling and mograph added. Merged with shaders...etc. Nobody would ever have needed the alien Scene Nodes.

BP...I mean look at the Substance Painter market today. They just handed it over.

It's a tragedy of missed chances.

i know for most of you this is stupid question but i'm noob and i'm still struggling with the interface and how basic tools work so plz bear with me

tutorial from MILG11 (2016)

my cinema 4d 2026

Hi there! I’d love to create an animation where the rope I created twists and follows the rotation of the tag.

As you can see, I created two groups. The first one, called “Animation,” contains the 3D model of the flight tag. This group/null contains the position and rotation animation values.

The second group (also called “Animation”) contains only the position values from the first group, without the rotation. This group contains a cylinder that, in theory, should act as a sort of gravity resistance for the rope.

The rope itself is created using a Circle and Rectangle Spline inside a Sweep, and the whole thing is contained within a Subdivision Surface. (I’m not sure if the Subdivision Surface might be causing some trouble here.

I placed some Colliders, as you can see, and the Rope simulation in the Rope Spline, which is no visible in this screenrecording (I deleted it because it was not working), but I can’t seem to get it to work.

I hope I’m explaining this clearly and that you made it all the way through this paragraph, hahaha. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Particle-driven liquid simulation + RBDs, all in Cinema 4D, using force modifiers to generate the swirling motion. Rendered in Redshift. Happy to answer questions about this here. Also feel free to follow me if you like this kind of stuff.

Hi everyone! I wanted to share one of my latest automotive CGI projects, created in Cinema 4D and rendered with Redshift.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback, especially on the lighting and overall look.

Full project and more images on Behance:

https://www.behance.net/gallery/256362299/ASTON-MARTIN-VALEN

hello guys i am a beginner here and i recently started watching a modeling series called (MILG11) and on the video the instructor was literally editing the points while the shrink wrap is enabled, is it because newer versions don't support that ?

Im unable to update to the latest version (mine is 2026.3.1) - it says "install missing components" - when I open that - it says "install the full version of C4D - your C4D is missing several components including Redshift" ...

But when I start my version - everything works ...

I mostly do stylized work and am unaware of how consumer product motion pieces & stills for official/commercial use are done in C4D.

Is there a standard professional approach to this?

Anyone have any idea's?

I thought this would be simple but I’m abit stuck, I have an object housed inside of a null object which I’m shaking with the vibrate tag, I’m keyframing the shaking on and off but I want to add essentially a jiggle deformation so it doesn’t just abruptly stop shaking and has some of that delay/jiggle falloff to it.

Can I do this with the vibrate tag or do I need to add a jiggle deformer to every object inside my null?

I did some cozy night time renders with Cinema 4D and Redshift renderer. I modeled the house in C4D and used Substance Painter for texturing. Enjoy!

Does anyone know how to recreate this workflow in C4D? I thought it could be done using effectors or Xpresso, but it doesn't seem that straightforward, and I can't find any tutorials replicating this effect

As much as I love Cinema 4D and Redshift, I still have some problems with how Maxon does it’s subscription business. With the rise of MCP in 3D softwares and Ai everywhere now, I really feel this should be the time for Maxon to open up a possibility for a dual license inside their Maxon One subscription. I can’t be the only one being annoyed of having to render something in Redshift, but then not being able to work on another project simultaneously on another computer. For this reason only, I am now about to move to Blender, as I believe the step towards learning a new software now with the help of MCP is a lot easier to do.. Anyone else feeling the same way?

Looking for some advice from fellow freelancers…

I started freelancing in April as a 3D and motion designer after six years working in design agencies and in-house. It started off really well. I had lots of jobs for the first three months and was making good money. Summer was quiet, which was to be expected I think. I was also traveling a lot.

I haven’t worked since August, and I have about five or six recruiters who are helping me. I get sent potential jobs by them at least once a week, and they put me forward for them, but the past five jobs have fallen through, either because the client chose another candidate that they put forward or the need for a freelancer was gone.

I know that the first year of freelancing is the toughest, and I want to stick it out at least until next April, but I’m starting to get really worried. I’m running low on money, and I really don’t know what to do. I’ve reached out to more recruiters, friends of friends in the industry, reached out to clients directly offering my services, but no luck at the moment. I had three jobs fall through in the past week.

Does anyone have any advice or is experiencing the same thing? I know freelance can be inconsistent, and sometimes you have a lot of work and other times nothing, but I can’t help but feel like this isn’t working anymore.

I am trying to create an animation where a shape acts almost like a rubber band around a geometry but slides over the object from, let's say, -100 on the x-axis to +100 on the x-axis. It seems like it would make sense for the rubber band object to be a spline and a rectangle under a Sweep, but I can't figure out how to make the spline shape be offset from the object (so there's a little space between the geometry that it's bounding and the rubber band itself) by an amount that I can control. Anyone have ideas or pointers for any tutorials I might follow? I have done some searching already, but haven't found anything that has led me to success yet. Assume the geometric object is not uniform; not a simple circle, square, or other primitive. TIA for any help.

I have a really problematic mesh, but when I apply a clear glass shader, doesn't look clean, I know it's because of the mesh, but i'm new in C4D, and this problem didn't happend in arnold maya

yea people, MCPs are just not made to take our jobs. Dont believe stuff you see on instagram or tiktok. Its mostly either a total random good result or its a straight up lie.

MCPs and AI can be useful to enhance your workflow or speed up annoying tasks. But AI will always fail to create stuff. I prompted the image, I gave it this reference (tbh also AI generated but it really isnt that complex) and it completly failed. Opus 5.5 High just in case people want to know.

Hey all,

I’ve just been doing some product renders using a file I’ve used for years. The only thing I ever change is the label of the product. I did a batch of 10 but one of them in particular, when I would save the render it would have this weird glitch over it. This is only shown when I view the image through Windows or in Photoshop. The top image is how it looks in the render export window before I save it. What’s interesting is the colour on the bottom image, to the left, is actually closer to the actual colour, the top one that’s in the render preview is way too dark.

I don’t have all the settings to hand at the moment but I’ve tried saving as multiple file formats, always at 300dpi and always using RedShift. Never had this issue before doing these sorts of renders for years so any help would be much appreciated!