Maxon One 2025 brings extensive new features to Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant and Cineware. Of particular note is the introduction of ZBrush for iPad, which fully integrates touch control and Apple Pencil without limiting the performance of the desktop version.
Cinema 4D users will benefit from improved simulation capabilities, and Redshift offers new tools for controlling toon renderings and light refraction. However, each new feature should be tested carefully before use in current projects.
ZBrush for iPad
ZBrush for iPad allows artists to use the award-winning sculpting software on the go, modelling and painting their creations in real time. The mobile version includes many of the features of the desktop version, including over 200 digital sculpting brushes and a customisable user interface that makes working even more efficient. In addition, the latest iPad generation can handle meshes with up to 92 million polygons without compromising performance.
In addition, ZBrush for iPad offers the following functions:
- ZRemesher: Creates a new mesh with an even distribution of polygons while preserving the important details and texture of the surface.
- Sculptris Pro: Automatically adjusts the density of triangle meshes with each brush stroke, making modelling easier without technical limitations.
- DynaMesh: Retopologises the model during sculpting, allowing the digital “clay mass” to be stretched or enlarged without losing detail.
- Array Mesh: Enables real-time creation of duplicates of the geometry in different patterns and shapes.
- Dynamics System: Allows surfaces to be draped over other surfaces to create realistic effects.
- Live Boolean: Combines, subtracts or crosses different geometries to achieve unique results.
- PolyPaint: Facilitates simultaneous modelling and painting without the need to assign a texture map.
ZBrush for iPad is included in the Maxon One subscription or can be subscribed to separately. It offers artists full creative freedom on the go. A free version with limited functions is also available in the App Store. For beginners, ZBrush offers a free version with limited functions and 28 brushes. The paid version offers over 200 brushes and a comprehensive package of functions, which already has practically all the features known from ZBrush – minus a few little things that are to come soon.
ZRemesher, Live Booleans, Sculptris and Dynamesh are already included, ZModeller and the layer system will hopefully be coming soon.
Cinema 4D
Every Cinema 4D subscription renewal now includes Redshift GPU. Simulations and particle effects are easier to control with new tools (Art-Directable, as it is called in English). The Follow Spline modifier allows particles to be routed along vectors, which should please MoGraph people in particular. Finally run PArticles within the vector graphic!
Rigid Body simulations offer improved weight and force settings, while Pyro offers new ways to fine-tune visual effects. A new field driver tag lets you control procedural animations more precisely. Improvements in OCIO colour management ensure consistent colours and the exchange format supports integration with Substance 3D and USD workflows.
Redshift
Redshift 2025 enables GPU and CPU rendering, both photorealistic and stylised. Toon renderings have been enhanced with global contour options that allow precise control of lines and shading.
Brute force caustics allow you to detail light refractions through glass or gemstones. In addition, Redshift now offers procedural shaders as inputs for sprites and a new Volume Depth AOV pass for compositing clouds, smoke and explosions.
Red Giant
Red Giant 2025 brings new features to After Effects, including support for 3D objects and rigged animation features. Improvements to Particular Designer streamline preset handling and colour grading with the new Parametric Curve tool that can precisely control HDR video.
Cineware
Cineware 2025 improves Cinema 4D integration with After Effects and Unreal Engine. With performance optimisations and seamless integration, you can easily work between different host applications.
Capsules
Maxon Capsules expands its library with new scanned materials for Redshift. New additions include scans of outdoor materials such as rock and grass, as well as a large selection of plants from Laubwerk and textures for roof shingles from Fuchs & Vogel.
Maxon App
The Maxon App makes it easier to work on multiple computers by allowing you to quickly switch between licences without having to use the MyMaxon portal administration.
Prices and licences
Maxon One is available as a subscription. Prices vary depending on the chosen package and licence duration, but a monthly subscription of Maxon One costs €195 per month, an annual licence €1425. This package includes access to Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant, ZBrush and other tools. Prices may vary slightly depending on VAT and any exchange rate adjustments. The ZBrush for iPad app is available in a free version with limited features; the full version can be purchased at any time.
