CINEMA 4D Release 17 is the latest and best that MAXON has to offer a professional 3D artists. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics and need a helping hand to ensure you create fabulous graphics quickly and easily, then CINEMA 4D is the choice for you.
Containing all of the features found in CINEMA 4D Prime, Visualize and Broadcast, CINEMA 4D Studio adds advanced character tools, hair, a physics engine and an unlimited client network for rendering.
CINEMA 4D Studio's character tools make it easy to create character rigs and advanced character animations. Adding hair or fur to characters is fast and simple with a powerful suite of hair tools that let you grow, comb, style and animate. The physics engine makes it simple to perform complex collisions and interaction between objects, be it just a few or thousands. Network rendering allows you to take advantage of all computers on your network to help render your animations faster.
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. For example, hair will automatically swoosh and sway as you move your character around; and making thousands of objects collide with each other only takes a few mouse clicks to set up.
CINEMA 4D Studio lets you unleash your creativity and enjoy 3D without limits.
This page will give you an idea of the key features of Cinema 4D R17 and the system requirements of Cinema 4D R17.
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Windows 7 or 8 (64-bit only) on Intel or AMD 64-bit processors with SSE3 support; Mac OS X 10.8.5 or higher on 64-bit Intel-based Macs; 4 GB available RAM, OpenGL Graphics card supporting OpenGL 3.2, DVD ROM drive. A standard DVD installation can require up to 7 GB of hard drive space. The software must be registered for unrestricted use.
Windows 8.1 64-bit (all versions)
Windows 8 64-bit (all versions)
Windows 7 64-bit (all versions)
Windows 2012 Server 64-bit
Apple Mac OS X 10.8.5~(and higher)
Intel Pentium 4
Athlon 64
Intel Core 2 Solo
Intel Pentium 4
Intel Pentium 4 D
Intel XEON
Intel Core 2
Intel Core i7
Intel Core i5
Intel Core i3
Intel Celeron
Intel Celeron D
AMD Sempron
AMD Athlon 64
AMD Opteron
AMD Phenom
AMD FX
AMD Ontario
AMD Zacate
AMD Kabini
AMD Temash
AMD Beema
AMD Mullins
AMD Llano
AMD Trinity
AMD Richland
AMD Kaveri
Intel Core Solo
Intel Core Duo
Intel Pentium M
Intel Xeon Phi
Intel Itanium
Intel Itanium II
Intel Pentium
Intel Pentium II
Intel Pentium III
Intel 486
AMD K6
AMD K7
AMD Athlon XP/MP
AMD Duron
Power 4
IBM PowerPC G3
IBM PowerPC G4
IBM PowerPC G5
ARM
VIA C7
Generally speaking, CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint 3D support all OpenGL 3.2-capable graphics cards. Nevertheless, they recommend using a dedicated 3D graphics card with an AMD or NVIDIA chip set. High-performance graphics chips are currently already available in mid-range laptops.
Make sure that you always use the most current certified graphics card driver (no beta versions).
To find out more about processing speed, CINEBENCH test results can be found online.
MAXON is not responsible for the compatibility of individual graphics cards with the OpenGL mode. Due to the large number and types of available chip sets, operating systems and driver versions they cannot guarantee the compatibility of all systems.
The technical specifications of MAXON products are constantly changing. Please use the most current demo version of the software to test its compatibility on your computer.
A quad buffered graphics card is required to use NVIDIA's 3D Vision Shutter glasses for viewing the stereoscopic display in CINEMA 4D.
An overview of graphics cards that meet all requirements can be found here.