It has a particularly robust set of Materials for surface texturing (shown below), which comes in handy especially if you’re a new user just trying to bang out a quick flying logo or show title.Īs part of the feature overhaul in C4D Lite 2.0, it appears that many of the presets have been reorganized or “made redundant” resulting in a much smaller set of goodies available in the new Content Brower, as seen here at left.įor example: Among the myriad new features that will be introduced in C4D Lite 2.0 is a Reflectance channel, which combines the old specular and reflection properties plus adds a load of new capabilities to build up quite complex surfaces. Read on to learn how to proactively set these aside so you can still access them when the next update indeed happens.Ĭ4D Lite comes with a nice selection of factory-provided presets underneath the Content Browser tab (shown at left), including some preset animations, camera moves, lighting rigs, and models.

However, some of these updates have obsoleted older features, which in turn means some of the currently provided factory presets for C4D Lite may be lost. This is mostly great news, as this means a ton of new features for us After Effects CC users (see the series of movies Maxon posted on their Cineversity site for R15 and R16).

One of the big additions will be upgrading Cineware and Cinema 4D Lite – the 3D modeling and animation program that comes bundled with After Effects CC – to version 2.0, based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D R16 (Cinema 4D Lite is based on R14).

Adobe pre-announced many of the new features for the next version of After Effects CC 2014 at the just-passed IBC show.

Cinema 4d included with after effects