Cinema 4D Reviews & Product Details

Cinema 4D has some amazing features including the Mograph tool and others that let you apply amazing effects to your work. I have used it extensively especially for logo design and animation.

Off course the processing time! My laptop crashed a number of times when I applied the mograph tool to animate the logo I had created. It is a heavy software!

Graphic design and animations!

Its very straightforward. It has some very simple tools for you to create amazing renders. Also you have A LOT of control on how materials interact with lights and shadows. I've never been looking for a realistic outcome, so the default tools that C4D has are already more than enough, however, you can also expand your limits with render engines such as octane or indigo to create more realistic renders. Its Mograph module is a time-saver! Very often I find myself in need of creating multiple objects, and the fact that I can create and edit multiple objects really makes my job very easy

The render process is slightly confusing because there's more than one way to export your file, wether its a complex animation or just an image.

One of our clients is a donut shop so I'm able to create 3d-illustrations and animations of donuts and beverages.

What I like most is that it is a very intuitive and very easy to use program, especially if it is the first 3d modeling program that is used. In addition, the interface is very simple and there are many tutorials to learn new tricks.

What I like the least is that the child and parent system can be complicated if you have used other 3d modeling programs. They should improve the render engine that comes by default. Since at some point they may fall short and it is necessary to use an external rendering engine such as the VRAY

I use Cinema 4D to render buildings and interiors. I have also used it to make small animations.

I think it is a very fast software to make the render and motion grafics effects, easy to use you don't need to know everything about it to get interesting results quickly. GI, it's very powerful, flexible ad fast. Help & support it is really easy and accessible.

I do not find very easy to make polygonal modeling in C4D, is cumbersome and unintuitive. Another thing that I find hateful is that Move (E) Rotate (R) Stairs (T) are shifted with respect to all 3D software (Maya, 3DSMAX , SO, UNITY, UNREAL) Move (W) Rotate (E) Scale (R)

thanks to C4D can I speed up many aspects of the work, with other software, would take me a long time.

The interface it’s very user-friendly. I come from Rhinoceros and I felt really comfortable drawing 3D models for little animations. Plug-ins like like X-particle are amazing!

Require a lot of RAM memory and sometimes even 16GB are not enough while rendering at low res.

High quality animation helped to better sell products with amazing sample videos.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise but Cinema 4D is an excellent all round DCC package. It also has the happy accolade of being by far the easiest 3D package to learn. The Object list is a work of sublime genius, and if you have invested in the Studio package, you get a full suite of tools from dynamics through to a robust character toolset. Add to this one of the most vibrant third party plugin eco-systems for ANY application from the excellent X-particles through to third party render solutions such as V-Ray, Arnold and Octane. What Cinema 4D is rightly famous for is it's mograph system which for ease of use, at the moment, can't be beaten

Cinema 4D is expensive, and while Cinema 4D is rock solid stable it's pace of development s glacial and closed off for the most part form the user community. The advantages of having a vibrant plugin eco-system can be outweighed by a lack of development of the core application (as well as the cost of the plugins)

Any complicated Digital Content creation issue, Cinema 4D will have a way to solve it

What I like the best about Cinema 4D is its intuitivity, and the fact that even if you're a beginner you can create cool things very quickly. C4D is one of the first 3D Softwares I learned and I still like to work with this one again sometimes. This software made me like 3D modelling. I really appreciate the ease of the modelling tools even if some of them are not that intuitive. With a good display & processor, you will love C4D (at least I hope so :) )

It's not made for Windows; so we can't use it at work. It is the only bad thing I could say about this software. Of course every little detail could be improved like V-ray compatibility, the UV Mapping, and some of the modeling tools which I use a lot actually.

In terms of business, not that much, but for a personal use I really had fun :) I think that C4D helped me enjoying 3D Modelling, that's why I would recommand it!

I like the integration of animation workflow, with basic rendering that is needed for product shots.

I do not like the enormous toolkit that takes time to understand.

Showcasing new design solutions that we come up with, in an agency setting.

This is an amazing tool for an imaginary person, if you can't think good enough for a scene this application gives you zero help. But on the other hand with Cinema 4D you can make the most good looking scenes for any use you want. You want a nice scene for your small indie game? try this! You want to create a world from your imagination? Then use this!

Honestly the bad things about this program are just because of your lack of imagination, the tools are perfectly placed. The only thing I can think of is just I wish there would have been more courses to learn this program.

I can create my own world! what more can I say honestly?

I like the user interface better than others out there like Maya. I like the intergration with Adobe After Effects to help implement 3D designs into my video work.

The camera tracker via Cineware should import the video file After Effects into the 3D scene in Cinema4D. Makes the placing of objects guess work as to the position in your comp. I really wish that C4D could be manipulated directly in After Effects, using C4D as the modelling software and the engine behind the scnese.

3D modelling and animation for video.

Cinema 4D is an extremely powerful all-inclusive 3D program. While it may not be considered industry standard for the large scale video game and film industries, it is highly regarded among freelancers and small production studios. Cinema gives you the ability to model, rig, animate, simulate, and render all within the same program. There are many advanced features such as sculpting and uvw unwrapping as well. One of the most attractive features of Cinema 4D is the intuitiveness and interface. I have used other 3D programs such as Blender, 3DS Max, and Maya, all of which have a very confusing interface. Cinema lays everything out clearly and makes it easy to find what you are looking for. Maxon is constantly updating their software, so you can be sure that you are getting up to date software and that any bugs will be quickly fixed. All in all, Cinema 4D is a wonderful product, and the sheer power is astounding. There are countless ways to use the software, and you can use it to generate beautiful animations and stunning images.

Cinema has one of the highest learning curves of any software I have every used. I have mentioned before that the interface is intuitive and easy to use. This is true, up to a point. Getting the basics down are easy, but Cinema is such a dense program that it can take a while to learn all of the intricacies. Some of the advanced features, like X-Particles and the physical camera, are extremely complicated and hard to delve into. The constant updates is also a double edged sword. It is good that the company is on top of the game, but new versions being released so quickly means that your version may quickly become obsolete. They phase in and out different features of the program fairly regularly, so you may have to constantly re-learn the software. In addition, it may be pricey to keep up to date.

Cinema is great for quick and dirty animation. We had a CAD model drawn in Autodesk Inventor, and wanted to make a 3D animated presentation. It was very easy to import the CAD model, define the individual pieces, set up restraints, and animate.