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MAXON is one of the leading manufacturers of 3D imaging and animation software.

MAXON's product line is centered around its core applications including CINEMA 4D, a leading animation package for media production, and BodyPaint 3D, the pioneering 3D painting package. These applications are characterised by their speed, dependability and state-of-the-art technology.


CINEMA 4D R13

CINEMA 4D R13

The next generation of its industry- leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. With all new character tools, integrated stereographic capabilities, stream-lined multi-artist collaboration and physical rendering, CINEMA 4D Release 13 builds on the company’s 25-year legacy of enabling digital content creators around the world to produce highly engaging content quickly and easily for a variety of industries.

  • New and enhanced rendering engine
  • Stereoscopic 3D workflow
  • More Accessible Character Tools
  • Improved Modeling Functionality
  • Improved Animation Functionality
  • Productivity Boosting Features

CINEMA 4D R13 Prime - Professional 3D Starts Here

Renowned for its ease of use, speed and professional results, CINEMA 4D Prime is an ideal choice for all graphic designers looking to add 3D to their toolset.

CINEMA 4D Prime's intuitive interface is designed to ease you in to the powerful and exciting world of 3D graphics. With CINEMA 4D Prime you can start creating great-looking 3D images only hours after getting to know the application. Also included tutorials make understanding CINEMA 4D quick and easy.

Adding CINEMA 4D Prime to your existing pipeline of 2D applications opens up a wealth of new design possibilities. For example: turn 2D artwork into 3D elements using import options such as Illustrator or EPS or simply combine images or movies with 3D objects.

CINEMA 4D Prime's powerful tools let you create images and animations suited to any industry. 3D logo, an illustration, a building, a space ship - or whatever you want to create - you can rely on CINEMA 4D Prime.

CINEMA 4D Prime lets you cost-effectively enter the world of 3D. But if you want more advanced tools it’s great to know that you can upgrade to any of the more powerful versions of CINEMA 4D.

  • Extensive library of objects, materials and presets.
  • Powerful modelling, texturing and animation tools
  • High-quality lighting and rendering

CINEMA 4D R13 Broadcast - The 3D Motion Graphics Powerhouse

CINEMA 4D Broadcast has everything you need to create dynamic broadcast graphics quickly and easily. If you are a motion graphics artist looking to add 3D to your existing suite of tools, then this is the ideal choice for you.

CINEMA 4D Broadcast contains all the features of CINEMA 4D Prime as well as specific tools for creating motion graphics, including industry-leading cloning tools, advanced rendering options such as global illumination, a high-end library packed with 3D models, cameras, lighting setups, video clips, and much more.

If you are already familiar with 2D motion graphics software you already have an advantage! CINEMA 4D Broadcast contains many common elements - and that flattens the learning curve.

CINEMA 4D's powerful export options allow multi-layer image export directly into popular compositing software such as After Effects, Motion, Final Cut Pro, Combustion and others. The huge array of options let you have complete control over the images and animations you export.

This and so much more make CINEMA 4D Broadcast the first choice for professional 3D motion graphics.

  • Connectivity to leading compositing tools – Adobe After Effects, Apple Motion
  • All features of the MoGraph module
  • Extensive library of objects, materials and presets

CINEMA 4D R13 Visualize - The Professional Solution for Architects, Designers and Photographers

Whether you need to visualize a mobile phone, a building, a car or anything else, CINEMA 4D Visualize provides everything you need to produce fantastic images and animations quickly, easily and to any level of realism.

CINEMA 4D Prime, giving you a comprehensive suite of modeling and texturing tools, rendering options. Features like Global Illumination, physical sky,  sketch-style rendering and huge librairies of 3D scene fillers, textures, lighting environments and so much more.

CINEMA 4D Visualize has a massive range of import options that let you work with models from a large variety of 2D and 3D applications. There is file exchange support for many leading 3D CAD applications such as VectorWorks, ArchiCAD and Allplan.

You can create simple walk-throughs and stills in Visualize but you can also create breathtakingly realistic visual animations - in ways not possible in reality. CINEMA 4D Visualize breaks through the limits of your own imagination.

  • Advanced Render, Sketch and Toon and NET Render 3 modules
  • Direct connectivity to many leading CAD applications
  • Includes comprehensive material and object libraries
  • True units of measurement and Double precision

CINEMA 4D R13 Studio - Everything You Need For High-End 3D

CINEMA 4D Studio is the very best that MAXON has to offer for professional 3D artists. If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to ensure you create jaw-dropping graphics quickly and easily, then this is the choice for you.

As well as 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 clients network rendering. The end result is that CINEMA 4D Studio can tackle any project you throw at it with ease.

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, which has been overhauled in R12, makes it simple to perform complex collisions and interaction between objects, be it 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 for advanced 3D, the extra tools found in 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 hard 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.

  • High-End modelling, animation and rendering
  • Includes all features of R12
  • Integrates with leading CAD and Compositing packages
  • Includes all libraries of the Broadcast and Visualize Packages

BodyPaint 3D - For All Your 3D Painting Needs

Wouldn't it be great if you could have all your favorite image editing tools in a single 3D environment? Wouldn't it be great if they worked in conjunction with your 3D application rather than against it? Well, that is exactly what BodyPaint 3D does!

Wave goodbye to UV seams, inaccurate texturing and constant back-and-forth switching to your 2D image editor. Say hello to hassle-free texturing that lets you quickly paint highly detailed textures directly on your 3D objects.

When it comes to texturing tools, BodyPaint 3D is packed with a huge array of popular image editing tools. Brushes, selection tools, filters, erasers and much more. It can even utilize Photoshop .abr brushes. Full support for tablets ensures that painting with a pen feels just as natural as it does in popular 2D image editors. And of course BodyPaint 3D can deal with image files as large as 16k and with 16-bit and 32-bit color depth.

Compared to 2D painting, perhaps the most exciting feature BodyPaint 3D offers is projection painting. This powerful mode eliminates the need to spend hours creating perfect UV maps. You simply paint what you would like to see on your 3D model, apply the projection and then BodyPaint 3D will quickly adjust your painting so it fits your UVs perfectly - even if there are differing UV sizes and seems.

BodyPaint 3D was created for all 3D artists and includes free plugins to connect with 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage and LightWave 3D. All other applications can exchange files with BodyPaint 3D using one of the numerous available file formats (e.g. OBJ, FBX or COLLADA).

  • High-end texturing solution
  • Updated direct connection to 3ds Max, Maya XSI and LightWave 3D
  • Extensive set of UV tools
  • Intuitive Projection Painting
  • Paints inside the rendered image
  • Supports 32-bit colour depth
  • Photoshop compatible

MAXON Sidegrade Offers

If you own a license of the qualifying products listed below you are able to purchase MAXON's CINEMA 4D and BodyPaint at commercial licences at a 10% discount. Proof of purchase of qualifying product is required. This discount also applies for owners of Student licences and earlier versions of MAXON software.

Contact Adimex for full terms and conditions and pricing.

Qualifying products accepted as sidegrade to CINEMA 4D:

  • Abvent - Artlantis Render /-Studio
  • Autodesk - 3ds Max / 3ds Max Design
  • Autodesk - Maya Complete /-Unlimited
  • Autodesk - Softimage / XSI
  • AutoDesSys - Form-Z
  • DAZ Productions - Carrara Pro
  • Luxology - Modo
  • MAXON CINEMA 4D R9.x and earlier and all Student licenses of CINEMA 4D
  • McNeel - Rhino
  • NewTek - LightWave 3D
  • Side Effects - Houdini-Escape /-Master
  • Smith Micro Software - Amapi Pro
  • Smith Micro Software - Shade Pro
  • Qualifying products accepted as sidegrade to BodyPaint 3D:
  • Autodesk - Mudbox

MAXON BodyPaint 3D R3.x and earlier and all Student licenses of BodyPaint 3D

  • Pixologic - ZBrush
  • Right Hemisphere - Deep Paint 3D