How to Optimize Your Scene to Render Faster In Cinema 4D

An expensive new computer may make your renders 2-8X faster. But learn how to optimize your scene, and it can speed up your renders 10-100X. In this video, I show you some ways to optimize your scene in Cinema 4D for faster rendering so you can hit that deadline and still make it look great.

Five Likely Render Hogs

  • Global Illumination
  • Ambient Occlusion
  • Anti-Alaising
  • Blurry Reflections
  • Area Shadows

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  1. Laurel says:

    MUCH Thanks Nick, excellent info, as always … saw John Dickinson offering praises!
    You two are so much appreciated in this motion graphic community; real time life savers.

  2. aizat says:

    thanks nick! just found your website and its just like finding golds man!! lots of good stuff here! keep it up man! :)

  3. Alb.' says:

    So much thanks for that tutorial !

  4. Sheldon says:

    Holy cow just by setting the global illumination to low i brought my render time from 25 min to 5 min!!! The video would have taken me 4 days to render but now it will take me 1!!!!!!!! Thanks soooooo much!!!!!!!!

  5. Arif ABdulssatra says:

    Iam fresh into 3d , iam starting with cinema 4d and i want to understand things slowly, i didnt do any
    any 3d ot sum yet , iam reading some infos, and they are very helpful , tnx a lot gorilla u rock. keep with the good work

  6. Marc Foster says:

    i wanna buy you a beer for this. awesome.

  7. yiyomarcelo says:

    hey man! can I make like a lil tutorial bout this, givin you the credis of course but I wanna make it in spanish version, cuz I’m from southamerica… hope you answer as fast you can :)

  8. amberija says:

    That is a good collection of render time savings tips for cinema 4d. Thank you!
    I’d be interesting also to see in that video how render time changes in case reducing in Render settings > Options: Ray Threshold, Ray Depth, Reflection Depth, Shadow Depth.
    But anyway reducing from 61 to 1 is a perfection. Enough said!

  9. Mekael says:

    Thanks for all your tutorials …keep up the superb work !!

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