Customers also benefit from the powerful Projection Man matte painting system, developed by MAXON for Sony Pictures Imageworks, support for the COLLADA file format and CineMan a RenderMan-compliant tool that connects to Pixars industry-leading rendering solution. Additionally, multiple improvements were made to MAXONs popular texture painting toolset BodyPaint 3D Release 4. All of these capabilities and more serve to underscore MAXONs ongoing and deep commitment to helping 3D digital artists further advance creativity and control.

MAXON has spent the last 20 years developing some of the industrys most advanced 3D software technologies; continually raising the bar for 3D animation software excellence, said Harald Egel, CEO and co-founder, MAXON. CINEMA 4D R11 is no exception. This release contains the next-generation features our customers worldwide have come to expect from MAXON.

Among the highlights included in todays release is the highly-anticipated Projection Man tool. Projection Man allows our artists to quickly project a painting onto geometry in a scene, simplifying even the most complex setups which can be easily organized within a single Photoshop file, said Dennis Bredow, Texture Lead at Sony Pictures Imageworks.The flexibility of the tool and its ease of use allow our painters to focus less on the mechanics of the shot and spend more time creating beautiful imagery.

Expanded integration options, new workflow tools and boosts in performance for both PC and Mac users sit at the heart of the new release. On average, rendering speeds are now more than twice as fast as the previous version. CINEMA 4D R11 also boasts an all-new Cocoa-based architecture supporting 64-bit processing under Mac OS X Leopard. "We are pleased that MAXON has created the CineMan connection to Pixar's RenderMan directly from within CINEMA 4D," said Chris Ford, Business Director - RenderMan at Pixar. "Now, MAXON customers can benefit from Pixar's Academy Award-winning rendering technology featured in Ratatouille, The Incredibles and many others."

Our customers told us what they needed and we listened, said Paul Babb, president and CEO of MAXON USA. This exciting new version is as ideal for the novice as it is for the power user who wants to produce compelling imagery in todays fast-paced environments.