Maxon acquires Redshift renderer
Maxon has announced the acquisition of the Redshift Rendering Technologies, creators of the popular GPU-based renderer of the same name.
According to the announcement, there will be no immediate impact of pricing – which will remain unchanged – or support for other applications including Maya, 3DS Max, Houdini, Katana and the Blender plugin that’s in development. Cinema 4D will also continue to support other 3rd party renderers. The current roadmap should not be affected, nor the upcoming release
At this point Maxon has not said that Redshift will be bundled with Cinema 4D, although closer integration with Redshift is likely following the acquisition. Read the full announcement on the Maxon website.
Source: Michael Sokolov, Stefan Kubicek, Nando, Igor Posavec
at least it’s not autodesk or adobe…
You never know….Adobe will get into the 3D business at some point and it will not be by them developing a 3D software so C4D sounds very interesting if I were them.
yes, absolutely. worrying
They are already there with the latest acquisition of Allegorithmic.
oh F**K
“Immediate Effects
Redshift pricing will remain unchanged. Customers can continue to purchase Redshift through their usual channels.
Redshift is and will remain available for Maya, 3dsmax, Houdini and Katana. The announced development of a plugin for Blender will continue as planned. Additional integrations may be considered in the future.
Release plans and development for Redshift 3.0 will not be affected.
Cinema 4D will also continue to support other third-party render engines through its plugin architecture.”
BUT WHAT A ABOUT LONG TERM……..
.. is this another “the future is bright” speech , i worry for the blender version
Don’t need it and don’t worry about it by the time they develop eevee this company will be just acquisition that no one cares about.
Oh yes, APROVED!! <3 I like Cinema 4d so much (tools, stability, usability, plugins), with Redshift it will be unstoppable!! If Cinema 4d buy X-particles yet it would be outstandingly good!!
WOW! Surprising. But good news for C4D users especially if it become free for them.
So Autodesk has Arnold and Maxon Redshift.
I really wonder how it will affect support for other apps in the long run.
I guess ProRender will be removed then.
not a fan of this news.. at all
Think of all the studio HDRI lit shiny spheres and cubes C4D users will use Redshift to render 🙂
So this is it. The future 3d software from ADOBE will already come with a reputable renderer included.
Too bad it’s not SideFX