For those who don’t know the tool: Maxon One is a Maxon bundle for 3D, sculpting, rendering and VFX. It includes Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, Red Giant and Universe.
Forty years, one checkout
Maxon is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a 40 percent sale on eligible new annual subscriptions. The offer runs from June 22, 2026, to Sunday, June 28, 2026.
The discount applies to new annual subscriptions for Maxon One and individual non-bundle products, including Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, Red Giant and Universe. That is the useful production bit. The emotional bit is that a 40th anniversary sale now feels less like marketing and more like a calendar-based attack on everyone who remembers beige workstations. And Zip Disks. And rewinding tape.
The promotional rate applies to the first year only. Renewal returns to standard annual subscription pricing. Annual subscriptions are billed upfront for the full year, and auto-renewal can be cancelled before the renewal date. Access continues until the end of the current billing period.
What qualifies / Mind the birthday cake
The discount is applied automatically at checkout. No coupon code is required, which means one fewer thing to remember, which is good when you feel old as dirt.
The sale is limited to 10 eligible product licences at the promotional price. Additional licences beyond that limit are charged at standard retail price. Non-eligible products in the same order stay at regular price, because the cart has boundaries even if the deadline does not.
The offer covers all new annual subscriptions for non-bundle products listed in the promotion. That includes Cinema 4D, Redshift, ZBrush, Red Giant and Universe, plus the full bundle.
The offer excludes Maxon plus Adobe bundles, mobile apps, subscription renewals, RLM licences, educational licences and the Chinese Region. Bundle subscriptions and upgrades are also excluded. In plain language: this is a first-year acquisition deal, not a renewal rescue boat.
The actual tools
Cinema 4D sits in sculpting, modeling and animation in the sale lineup. Its description focuses on motion graphics, procedural workflows and MoGraph for building and animating complex scenes. In daily production, that means it remains the obvious place to put clones, type, product renders and brave client ideas that arrive late.
Redshift covers GPU-accelerated rendering. The sale page lists integrations for more than seven 3D applications, including Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, SideFX Houdini, Vectorworks and Autodesk Revit. Its marketing claim centers on near real-time previews for lighting, materials and camera effects.
ZBrush covers digital sculpting, modeling and painting. It is listed for highly detailed 3D models and brush-based sculpting, with an iPad version mentioned for mobile workflows. That makes it the obvious pick when geometry needs pores, scales, scars or another round of artistic suffering.
Red Giant sits in compositing, VFX and post-production. Its sale description focuses on color grading, stylized film looks and visual effects for editors. Universe adds GPU-accelerated transitions, effects, animated titles and motion graphics directly inside the editing timeline.
Good sale, normal caution
This is a clean anniversary discount with a very simple joke built in: 40 years, 40 percent. The company gets to celebrate. Artists get a cheaper first year. Everyone else gets to remember how long they have been arguing with render settings. Or shouting at the Gizmos. Or cursing Null Objects. Or sacrificing on the Altar of particles.
The offer ends on June 28, 2026. After that, pricing returns to standard annual subscription rates. The knees, tragically, do not.
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