Partners

Adobe has been a key partner of Maxon for many years. Our Cinema 4D, Red Giant and Redshift product lines offer the strongest integration with Adobe's widely used graphics applications, helping artists bring their creative visions to life. In addition, a basic version of Cinema 4D ships directly with After Effects to help all of its users get started in 3D.

The high-performance products from the Cupertino-based hard- and software specialists are especially popular with creatives. Apple has always been an engine of innovation and Maxon is proud to support these innovations regularly as one of the first software developers and to make the full power of these developments available to artists.

One of the leading manufacturers for high-quality and high-performance workstations and laptops that are widely used in the creative industry. Their Precision and Alienware product lines leave nothing to be desired, even for the highest demands.

Leading provider of pen and display solutions for artists. Whether sculpting characters or sketching concepts for ground-breaking consumer products, the world’s creatives have one thing in common: They rely on the power of Wacom’s tablets and interactive displays to bring their projects to live in the most natural way.

INSYDIUM was founded in 2013, widely known for its flagship product, X-Particles, which is one of the most popular particle systems available for Cinema 4D. The company and team have continued to grow and flourish, developing a comprehensive list of plugins and assets. In 2021 INSYDIUM Fused was launched, containing all of their plugins and products in one complete collection.

For over 10 years Greyscalegorilla has made training and tools to help motion designers and 3D artists. Their extensive library of free tutorials and the Greyscalegorilla Plus subscription guides you through popular 3D programs like Cinema 4D, Redshift, X-Particles, and much more.

Rocket Lasso is a team of 3D artists and coders who bring a combined 20 years’ experience developing plugins and creating educational content for the Cinema 4D community. With a focus on openness and community sharing Rocket Lasso offers hundreds of hours of tutorials and live streams every Wednesday to answer questions directly from the audience.

Kitbashing is taking multiple models and combine them into something wholly your own. The kits are built modularly to become the building blocks of your creativity. Mix and match the different pieces together: take a roof from one building, add it to another, take off the doors, swap in more windows, the possibilities are endless. The assets meet the highest standards, built with the flexibility to work in a multitude of pipelines.

Sketchfab makes it easy for anyone to publish and find 3D content online. With a community of millions of creators who have published millions of models, they are one of the largest platforms for immersive and interactive 3D. Their store lets buyers and sellers transact 3D models with confidence using a realtime viewer and model inspector.

Puget Systems is a custom computer company located near Seattle, Washington. We believe computers should be a pleasure to purchase and own. They should get your work done, and not be a hindrance. We achieve this through personal consulting and lifetime technical support.

HDR Light Studio is the industry standard for the live creation of HDR lighting in your 3D software. Light shots quickly by clicking directly on the render to position light effects. It's a more creative and fun way to light. HDR Light Studio includes a huge library of HDR lights textures and presets.

GarageFarm is a professional cloud rendering service that has been helping artists and studios around the globe since 2010. Their advanced technology coupled with extensive computing power can help even the most demanding projects. The platform has a reputation for unmatched tech support available 24/7 that ensures projects always get delivered on time.

Supports C4D Standard/Physical, Arnold, Corona, V-Ray, ProRender, and Redshift.

Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem, Nvidia is by far the most popular graphics chip developer in the world today. Their Geforce and Quadro product lines help artists around the globe realize even the most demanding CGI projects quickly and reliably every day.

The Renderosity community is made up of members who have a passion for helping others learn, share and grow in digital art. The participation and interaction among members has slowly built a family and a place known as a "home." The Renderosity membership is a very interactive community with forums, chats, free content and a marketplace for digital products and 3D models.

Ranch Computing is a French provider enabling designers, animators, VFX artists, architects, visualizers, game developers, and more, to tackle the rendering process serenely in order to meet their deadlines and budgets - from big studios to freelancers.

Supports C4D Standard/Physical, Arnold, Corona, V-Ray, Octane, and Redshift.

Drop & Render is a render farm designed for Cinema 4D rendering. With an integrated In-app plugin and support for all major render engines and plugins.

Supports C4D Standard/Physical, Arnold, Corona, Cycles 4D, V-Ray, Octane, and Redshift.

CoreWeave is a modern cloud infrastructure empowering creators, innovators, and tomorrow's world changers with access to the GPU resources they need to work more efficiently.

Supports C4D Standard/Physical, Arnold, Renderman, V-Ray, Octane, and Redshift.

Conductor's DNA is the idea that cloud computing will replace the traditional render farm. Their platform was developed to achieve the scalability, security, flexibility, and economic requirements for A-List feature production.

Supports C4D Standard/Physical, and Redshift.

The makers of V-Ray and Corona create technology that empowers artists and designers to visualize anything they can imagine. Their 3D rendering, real-time rendering and simulation are used by top studios around the globe.

The inventors of Octane Render are pioneers in GPU rendering and cloud graphics technology. Their products are used by leading visual effects studios, architects, engineers and many more.

One of the leading CAD/3D enterprises and makers of the extremely acurate and widely used Arnold Renderer, originally created by Marcos Fajardo. Arnold is tightly integrated which Cinema 4D through a powerful plug-in.

GridMarkets is a rendering and simulation service that supports freelance VFX artists and studios that have complex, time-intensive projects to manage. GridMarkets designed and built their platform by collaborating with VFX teams. They continuously evolve their platform to maintain compatibility with host applications and the plugins relevant to production artist’s work.

Supports Standard/Physical, Redshift, Arnold, and V-Ray.

Making multimedia suitable for everyday use started in 1993, when developers from Technical University of Dresden and three German entrepreneurs started Magix. In the meantime, they offer a wide range of software solutions for video and music editing, photo, graphic, and much more. Among those is Vegas, a powerful NLE which is perfectly connected to our Red Giant tools for editing.

Originally a mere hardware manufacturer for the broadcast industry, Blackmagic has transformed itself over the years into one of the leading providers of all things related to media production. From digital routers and high-quality cameras that are beloved in high-end filmproduction to grading and compositing tools, their portfolio includes just about everything that simplifies the daily production process for media professionals.

Thirty years ago, Avid broke new ground by reimagining editing. Their revolutionary nonlinear editor was the first to digitize video content. It redefined the media industry. Today, Avid is still shaping the media value chain with technology for creating, managing, storing, distributing, and monetizing film, television and music. Our Red Giant products support Avid editors in their daily production work by making many required steps easier and more convenient, while Cinema 4D enables the integration of 3D content into editing and motion design projects.

CGTrader is one of the largest sources for licensable stock and custom 3D models. The self-service CGTrader Marketplace showcases over 1.2 million 3D models. CGTrader Enterprise 3D Modeling allows enterprise customers and online retailers to transform their 2D product images into photorealistic 3D models for Augmented Reality and other 3D customer experiences.

The biggest marketplace for high class 3D assets which can be integrated in any kind of 3D project. Thousands of models from all conceivable areas save 3D artists a lot of modeling time and allow them to concentrate on more creative aspects of their projects.

3D People are photorealistic human 3D models. They are any easy and realistic way to populate 3D environments. 3D People are available as Posed People, Rigged People and Animated People. Renderpeople owns one of the most advanced photogrammetry scanners in the world. 250 Canon DSLR cameras capture even the most subtle details of skin, hair, and clothes for maximum realism.

Originally developed by Oliver Deussen and Bernd Lintermann while at the University of Karlsruhe. Based on their research on natural systems and systematic processes found in nature, Xfrog has become one of the standard applications for procedural generation of vegetation and is widely used in 3D visualization.

With drag-and-drop simplicity, and easy-to-use tools that modify the shape, age, season and level of detail for each of Laubwerk's stunning 3D plants, users can seamlessly add 3D trees to any CG project. New plant kits are released regularly, expanding the possibilities of integrating computer generated vegetation into 3D projects.

Plugins 4D was created by GameLogicDesign Ltd, a company based in Wellington, New Zealand, owned and operated by former Maxon developer Kent Barber. Kent offers a variety of useful plugins for Cinema 4D such as Quadriflow, DICOM, Solid Chamfer and more, which help C4D users to tackle common production tasks with ease.

Paul Everett has been developing plugins for over 15 years and worked as a software developer for MAXON, on projects such as MoGraph and others. Paul’s plugins aspire to provide Cinema 4D users with the tools they need, to go beyond the scope of the inbuilt tool set.

Large Italian Cinema 4D community with forums on various topics, galleries, online marketplace for plug-ins and Octane materials, support area and free downloads. Official language of the forum is Italian, but there are also English language forums on specific topics.

German-language Cinema 4D community with forums on various topics, user galleries, downloads for animation and visualization, as well as information on plug-ins, materials, etc.

Active Italian Cinema 4D community with many tutorials, forums on various topics, downloads and professional training offers.

Lively community in French with tutorials, downloads, forums, gallery and blogs.