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RocketLasso covering R23 Nodes - Live now

They'll be gold dust for a while no doubt. Hopefully the 2nd hand 2080Ti market might become more accessible though. A rig with two 2nd hand 2080Ti's might be something very achievable shortly compared to just a couple of weeks ago. Even though 3080 outperforms 2080Ti doesn't mean that 2080 is all of a sudden.

Oh too true! 😄

RTX 3080 embargo lifted today and able to buy from tomorrow. RTX 3090 embargo lifted I guess the day before that's released too? Able to buy from 24th. The early 3080 benchmarks out obviously focus on gaming, but Linus did have a couple of Blender screenshots. 3090 should be an absolute beast. Source:

A billion!

With the Cineversity access expiring at the end of the year (for all non C4D subscription users) does anyone have a particular key recommendation to watch before then? I'm nearly finished the School of Motion C4D Basecamp which has been amazing for touching off a lot of the capabilities. MoGraph, deformers, basic animation, basic modeling, basic materials, some compositing with AE (I haven't got there yet), camera's, f-curve/dopesheet, volume builder/mesher, basic xPresso, basic particles, basic premiere pro. At the moment I've chosen the character Rigging / Weighting series to try cram in before year end. It's something I haven't spent any time on previously so is a big gap. Toon Rig Series - https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/toon_rig_series Weight Painting - https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/weight_painting/ Character Rigging Pipeline - https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/character_rigging_techniques_siggraph_2015_rewind/ Biped Rigging - https://www.cineversity.com/vidplaylist/biped_rigging/ There's the introduction tutorial of Nodes available here on the Cafe so I can learn through that route. Has there been any 'wow, I didn't know that' series on Cineversity you think every user should see?

Awesome, I just picked it up now! Thanks a million Dave! Very much appreciated.

Ah OK thanks for clarifying that! Will buzz the office today.

Oh, unless should I choose region as Germany from the dropdown on the contact form?

Is there a specific way to contact MAXON Germany? I had contacted through here When go onto German site and choose contact I think it brings me to same page. Also when I sent in the query I mentioned I'd like to pay the Euro price but got the GBP quote. Thanks Dave

Yeah for sure currency fluctuations will always go in somebody's favour. Having a UK distributor for UK / Ireland is pretty common for hardware but software less so these days. Amazon for instance we buy through Amazon UK and maybe in future will need to buy from Amazon DE after Brexit if no trade agreement in place. Which would also bring into question how I could pay a seller in GBP if there's no trade agreement between UK and Europe. Doubt it'll get to that but 2020 keeps on giving so... The GBP upgrade is £799 so at the moment £799 = approx. €865 (ex VAT). The price of upgrade in Euro is €850 (ex VAT). When the online portal opened to everyone to purchase a subscription / perpetual I could see could pay in Euro there so assumed any future upgrades will be in euro.

Hi Dave, Is it possible for me to pay the upgrade price you quoted in Euros? I'm based in Ireland, part of Europe and deal in Euros. I contacted MAXON directly about upgrade but got the UK reseller quoting me in GBP (at a higher price than the Euro price). I'd rather deal direct with MAXON in Euros if that's possible. Just wandering if new users in Ireland are forced to pay in GBP when signing up to subscription? Seems a bit odd. Thanks Dave

Good point 😄 It's like a peak into the something special and very exciting to be part of.

😲 In the future do you think there'll be a bottleneck with rendering huge object scenes with ambient occlusion etc. Is that something you'd work closely with Redshift team to optimise render capabilities for such large scenes? I guess that's also where the Red Giant capabilities can come in with sort of 'faking it' with post FX. I'm loving the possibilities of what C4D will be able to do, but also love what it can do currently of course. I'm very keen to learn this from its early phase, just need to decide on what path to take.

Pubs have been closed for months so that's a substantial amount of money saved for an Irish person. When the pubs fully reopen in 2 weeks though....hobbyist lifestyle is back in full swing baby! 😉 I hear ya though! I guess I'm just typing thoughts aloud 😆 Today I can afford the upgrade or subscription, but next year I really wouldn't know. I'm a fan of Red Giant Trapcode a few years before I am of C4D so I found it exciting seeing the Red Giant Complete included in the MAXON One for what is a good price when compared to individual app cost. The pricing structure is probably more accurately described as enterprise pricing at the moment. Particularly those single month prices. There are certainly a lot of freelancers hurting right now that will be weighing up the cost of these subscriptions more so than any hobbyists. For us it's entertainment, a past time, an artistic expression. For freelancers it's the difference of been able to pay rent, put food on the table, or pay a bill during a global pandemic with ruined economies. Actually you might have already said something similar to that previously. When reading it back it looks familiar...soz

I think if anything we'll see a more affordable MAXON One subscription to entice people into the entire ecosystem. It'd be kind of like a 3D/2.5D Creative Cloud. The current offer to come off perpetual works out around 40%/50%? less than going individual subs, which is massive for anyone who already has Redshift and interested in the post-production workflow. In saying that, I certainly would love to see an indie license option or more affordable yearly perpetual, but MAXON One looks likely King in the long term.

Yeah it could very well just be my own setup. Always some crazy problem happen with tech whenever I'm near it 😄

Hi @Igor, Not sure if it's just me but I've noticed since maybe yesterday or day before sometimes when I'm posting in a thread a notification appears on the bottom of screen about new post. Only a couple of times when I select to see the post it opens a File Open window on my computer, as if it's looking for a file to actually open. It doesn't happen every time, just a few times. All other times the notification appears it will show the most recent post when clicked.

Pro Render has been removed from R23 - https://support.MAXON.net/kb/faq.php?id=108&lang=en_US But they also say it's transitioned to AMD, so maybe it will be a separate render engine made available by AMD?

Oh wow, I also missed your post of that intro. That is something else. It will be great to test drive this in its early version in order to be more comfortable with it in later versions. The future potential of it is remarkable.

The €1000 region was around what expecting once the single app monthly subs remained at the current prices. I upgraded to R20 from R15. Got R21 under MSA paid at R20 purchase. The €1000 is similar to a 24 month MSA just for my own situation. The MAXON One is very well priced if someone was going down that route. I own a number of the Red Giant plugins already and also have an Octane sub, but want to remain on perpetual so it's not for me presently. It is very good though. The option of genuine monthly payments for apps is also very good imo. If ever I was going to go subscription route then I think it would be with the MAXON One if it remains that price or lower.

I'll take an A please Bob

How are Perpetual users able to find out the price or choose to upgrade? I sent query through the 'contact us' on MAXON website but is that the way to go about this?

Yeah that'd be very concerning regarding access to scripts and tools if they're essential to your workflow.

Don't worry, you're off the hook! 😄 It's bizarre to pay full perpetual price and not have access to the learning resource. I'd be a bit wary about going onto Ciniversity much knowing it'll be taken away. LinkedIn Learning is good as they actively update C4D tutorials, Pluralsight haven't updated C4D really in a few years and Greyscalegorilla is too expensive subscription model for a hobbyist tbh. It's sad that the access to the knowledge is behind so many different pay walls.