Cinema 4D and the US

[skala67]

Our firm uses Cinema4D as our primary 3d software. Was just curious if many people in the United States use C4D. I know its much bigger in Europe, but I have not come across anyone in the states that uses it. Just procrastinating the start of a project and weird questions pop in my mind. Thanks

 

cheers,

[Corey Beaulieu]

I can only speak for my own opinion, but as far as Arch Viz is concerned, I have always felt that Cinema 4D has a look to it. Like an un-natural feel that regardless of its strengths, will never provide a photo-real quality on par with the more common 3DS Max.

 

It was meant for Mograph though, as far as I know, and there are a lot of people interested in it on that level. It just seems excessive if you do both Mograph and Viz.

 

again, it's only my opinion.

[Ernest Burden III]

Well rendering with Max means MentalRay, doesn't it? That has a look that will never pass for real. Except if it does, in which case we won't know. Most people who do arch-viz end up using vRay. I do. With Cinema4D. Like Max, C4D is a 3D base. It's really good, but you could use Lightwave, Modo, Maya or even Blender. They are just tools. The end look of your work is much more a product of your lighting, materials-making and Photoshop skills as anything that comes from the base program.

 

I really like what C4D can do with modeling and animation, object managing, it has camera matching for photomodeling (I use that constantly) and camera motion tracking (haven't had reason to use it yet but would love to) sculpting, a direct two-way connection to After Effects, all sorts of good stuff.

Edited May 24, 2015 by Ernest Burden

[skala67]

Ernest. I agree wholeheartedly. I have been using it since 2005 and it has become my primary 3D software. Unfortunately we haven't found many candidates that have C4D experience while building our studio and have had to train from scratch. We find, as expected, that most Americans are 3Dmax trained. I guess I was just wondering if there were experienced C4D users in the US or will we need to keep retraining. I know one answer is to switch over to 3DMax, but that is not an option with the powers that be.

[Francisco Penaloza]

You'll find cinema 4d artist here in the US but most of them will have. Motion graphics background. 3d max is the standard for arch Viz in the US.

Now the switch between 3d max to Cinema is not that hard. After years of working with Max I did a switch to cinema just for the heck of it and it worked fine for me, but since the environment I work is all about Autodesk I had to just stay with Max.

There is very great tools in Cinema that Max can not get even close, and rendering wise, today most of the main render plugins have a version for cinema.