Cinema4D Maker Maxon Merge with Red Giant

Maxon, the German company behind the long running Cinema4D 3D DCC software have just merged with Red Giant, makers of various VFX and video processing applications.

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[Ophelos]

Title of this should be "Maxon saves Red Giant from Adobe by Merging ".

[cgzero]

I'm confused on Maxon Cinema 4D not having a big North America presence. Its probably the second most common 3D tool in the 3D DCC world because of how deeply integrated it is with Adobe. In the world of design and motion, Cinema 4D is the king.

[salarycat]

The communities are mostly in the motion design/broadcast area, where it owns most of the market. Not often used for games, but definitely having the potential to do so. It's easy to use and has nice tools to work efficiently.

[GregorMima]

Nemetschek is older then Maxon, started as software package for architects in Europe goes back decades, probably onpar with Autocad. They bought Maxon awhile ago.

[DonChups]

Cinema 4d has an outstanding lightning fast cel renderer I can't reproduce in Blender (pretty sure other expert users can, but using cycles, a much more slow option). I've used it as it comes bundled with After Effects, and it's quite forgiving with newbies.I'd say this is much more oriented to video production than game production, and it makes sense. Probably Red Giant want the ability to embed 3d stuff in their plugins, and Maxon can provide that.

Thankfully the name Nemetschek is only used for the parent company. Maxon, and likely Red Giant, get a small addition to their name, "a Nemetschek company", like the many other companies under the Nemtschek umbrella.

[BxBL]

I haven't used Cinema4D since the days it was 10x cheaper than now..

[bettythomas]

Red Giant are wicked....a nice unison with C4D & Red Giant 👍💕

Good luck guys xx

[ViRiXDreamcore]

C4d is pretty widely known in the motion gfx industry in usa. There are conferences and everything.

C4D is easier to use than blender imo though.

[shayneoneill]

C4D is a great modeller, one of the most intuitive I've ever used and ridiculously capable. But horrifically expensive. Its used more in TV and film than gaming. Your more likely to bump into it at something like Bad Robot or Lucasfilm, than say, Bethesda or Rockstar

[csmemarketing]

I'm strictly a Blender user, but my first serious jump into 3D was with Cinema 4D. Since then, I've always been a fan of their software. I had no clue who Red Giant was because I'm not in the vfx field.

Speaking of Cinema 4D, the Artists I follow who use it professionally, are all in Europe and Russia. It seems that C4D is the 3D package of choice over there, and if you watch any of Maxon's conferences with Cinema 4D experts, you see amazing stuff all the time. Check out the video with Bob Wamsley who makes Cycles 4D and X-Particles. Also "Noseman". These guys are incredible. Check out Mobox Graphics and Twistereli.

Cinema 4D can do anything you need in 3D.

[Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

*As a Cinema4D user, this merger could yield some interesting results ...*
*hmmm ...*

[jurandfantom]

Every pirat knows both things as something out of "being fair" range xD
To be honest when you said they were bought by adobe, i back to video to see wtf? don't make such bad jokes xD
Thanks for video, i love your narrative voice and perfect personal explanation of things. Pure pleasure.
Can i have request about video for frame render video editor? I use olive as free tool because i will NOT pay adobe and DaVinci cost way to much.

[arpiafx]

If they merge with Borisfx.com they will become huge. But they have overlapping products. It is a matter of market share between mergers to see if this make sense.

[AAa-tnrz]

Still don't understand why they merged. Isn't red giant just plug-ins for after effects? So when does Adobe buy cinema 4D?

[DocWolph]

C4D Studio Bundle is about $3500 to purchase.

[sddrx]

It's better than Adobe buying either one of them.

[JamalBakari]

@0:44 :: UE4- "Hold my beer!"

[hellishinc]

C4D is actually a really good cross platform modeling/rendering tool. It's quite pleseant to use. The problem with it is third party support.

[schrodingerscatlps]

This joke was NOT funny! I almost fainted. C4D is my program of choice but i'm little worried since they made the online help in R21. And no... it's not popular in gamedesign, but it seems they're catching-up.