Maxon One’s winter release has arrived, with updates spanning Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Red Giant, and Redshift, making it easier for artists to bring their festive ideas to life in time for the holidays and throughout the year (or at least until the next update).
Just in time for the holidays, Maxon has wrapped up its Maxon One winter release. Included are enhancements across the Maxon One product suite that adds new features to Cinema 4D, ZBrush, Red Giant, and Red Shift, as well as ZBrush for iPad (which was announced in the fall).
Cinema 4D 2025 contains a completely new Boolean generator that enables artists to easily create complex shapes from animated elements, streamlining the modeling process through intuitive shape addition and subtraction. This new algorithm is faster and more robust, says Maxon, enabling users to work with complex geometry while maintaining high frame rates, even with intricate animated Booleans. It also allows for multiple inputs and operations in a single Boolean object, whereas users were previously limited to just two inputs.
Also in Cinema 4D, custom properties and the Particle Node Modifier, part of the GPU-accelerated Unified Simulation tool set, give users precise control over particle behavior. The software also contains a number of quality-of-life improvements, including enhanced USD import/export.
Redshift 2025.2 offers improved Toon rendering, with even faster renders in ZBrush and Cinema 4D. It also adds support for fully-3D contours. With Redshift Random Material Switch, it is easier for users to vary materials across MoGraph clones and other objects, while improved cross-platform AI-based denoising enables faster and more efficient renders.
ZBrush cross-platform compatibility has been enhanced, making it easier to transfer creations from the iPad to desktop, where artists can refine, add animation and materials, and render. Artists are now able to exchange creations bidirectionally between ZBrush for iPad and Cinema 4D, with GoZ. Also, with GoZ, it’s easier to send ZBrush sculpts to the 2025 versions of Autodesk’s Maya and 3ds Max.
On the desktop, ZBrush now has faster Redshift rendering, with denoising and separate AOV passes for shadows, reflections, and more, making Photoshop compositing easier.
On the iPad, ZBrush (for iPad) updates include UV and texture mapping, surface noise, localization, and improved support for Apple Pencil Pro.
Red Giant 2025.2 introduces new updates in Maxon Studio and Universe, making it easier for content creators to add on-trend effects, transitions, and motion templates to their videos.
In the spirit of the holidays, Maxon has released a festive video highlighting the new features in the Maxon One winter release. Also, artist Patrick 4D provides an added treat with gingerbread cookies made in ZBrush and magical snowfalls made in Cinema 4D, providing a how-to link on his Instagram page.