Computer software market is living according to the laws of fierce competition. Stay "afloat" in such harsh conditions, the strength is not for everyone. Manufacturers of professional package for 3D guided by its own segment of the market. For example, Softimage 3D and Alias | Wavefront Maya engaged in the field of film and video industry, NewTek Lightwave 3D is most often used in television, and 3D Studio Max is primarily focused on the development of games. Today we decided to tell you about another package to work with computer graphics and animation - Cinema 4D <Figure 1>. No additional literature to understand the many features of the program is quite difficult.
The eighth and last version of the program comes just a few months ago. As before, Cinema 4D consists of several modules that can be bought separately if necessary.Among them, the Advanced Render, MOCCA, Thinking Particles, PyroCluster, Dynamics, BodyPaint 3D, NET Render. Minimal cost Cinema 4D - $ 595, but it is usually acquire one of the two sets - XL Bundle or Studio Bundle.
In CINEMA 4D XL Bundle includes advanced rendering (Advanced Render), modules to work with particles (Thinking Particles) and effects of fire and smoke (PyroCluster), as well as character animation (MOCCA). Cost XL Bundle $ 1695.
Package CINEMA 4D Studio Bundle includes modules for computing the dynamics of the scenes (Dynamics), to work with textures (BodyPaint 3D), as well as network rendering (NET Render). In this case, the number of client licenses are unlimited. The cost of this package $ 2,495.
One advantage - Easy to system resources. For it to work enough: Mac OS 9.x or Windows 98/ME, 128 MByte RAM, Intel Celeron or AMD Duron 400 MHz.
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After you install the Cinema 4D on the first run will take off big window where you will be prompted to enter registration information for each of the multiple modules. Of course, you will spend on this for a while, but for that in the future, in the process, to worry about what does not have to - when you want to use one or another module, the serial number will not have to enter.
