“Cinema 4D has long offered a fantastic, easy-to-learn toolset for product visualisation and graphic design,” says Harald Egel, managing partner at MAXON. Users of Cinema 4D will also be able to create and share their own custom 3D content for use in Illustrator CC. TurboSquid hopes that its input will give users of the plugin a 'jump start' into the third dimension, thanks to a collection of ready-to-use 3D models (opens in new tab).

The creation of Cineware for Illustrator is the result of a partnership between MAXON and TurboSquid (opens in new tab), the leading online source for 3D models.

Changes can be made at any time and the image will re-render automatically. When you’re satisfied with the result, you can render your image directly in Illustrator. With Cineware for Illustrator, you import a Cinema 4D file into Illustrator, where you can rotate, zoom and position the 3D object – and even change cameras, textures or light sources – directly in the app. Using Project Felix, you have to render your finished design into a high-quality asset that can be opened in Photoshop CC or Illustrator CC (and so on) to refine further. If you change your mind about part of the design – or the client requests a new edit – it’s back into the app to make the changes, which you’ll have to render out again. One key difference between Cineware for Illustrator and Project Felix (opens in new tab) – Adobe’s simplified 3D app for graphic designers and illustrators – is that with Cineware you don’t have to leave Illustrator for rendering.

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