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MAXON Announces Availability of Cinema 4D Release 17

Company to present powerful Cinema 4D Release 17 feature set at IBC2015, September 11- 15, RAI Amsterdam.

‘Jellyfish’ by Nejc Polovsak using Maxon Cinema 4D R17.

FRIEDRICHSDORF, GERMANY -- 3D technology developer MAXON has announced the immediate availability of Cinema 4D Release 17 (R17), the newest version of its leading 3D software solution for motion graphics, visual effects, visualization and rendering.

Cinema 4D R17 delivers powerful new features to dramatically increase production pipeline performance and positively impact the creative experience including the new Take System that offers functions above and beyond those of any conventional render layer system; Render Tokens to easily organize rendering tasks and files, with project-file-based names, named object buffers, and folders for each pass; a versatile new Color Chooser; and updated import and export functions. R17 also sports innovative sculpting functions, expanded motion tracking features and completely reworked spline tools that enhance the modeling, sculpting and animation design workflow.

MAXON will debut Cinema 4D R17 in Europe at the IBC2015 conference taking place September 11 – 15, at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam. (MAXON IBC exhibitor booth location: Hall 7, Booth #7.K30)

Cinema 4D R17 Feature Highlights and Tutorials

The complete list of new features in Cinema 4D R17

Cineversity, the MAXON education and resource site

R17 Workflow Presentation by Thanassis Pozantzis

Top Five New Features in R17 Tutorial by Sean Frangella

Cinema 4D Release 17 is available at MAXON or its authorized dealers. MAXON customers with a MAXON Service Agreement (MSA) active as of September 2, 2015 will be upgraded automatically. Cinema 4D Release 17 is available for Windows and OS X. Minimum system requirements.

Source: MAXON

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