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Cinema 4D vs After Effects

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In this era, everyone is using digital platforms for one purpose or the other and to make digital presence attractive, posts, images, and videos should be edited perfectly to reflect the professionalism to fulfil this purpose different organizations launched different softwares which are best in editing, motion graphics, visual effects etc. The two most popular software are Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D which are used by individuals as well as by organizations for different purposes like animation, VFX, rendering, modelling, texturing etc. Both of these softwares are multi-purpose software and have a large number of features so we will compare the two to find out the best one.

Cinema-4D-vs-After-Effects

Cinema 4D is a 3D software suite which was built for purposes like modelling, architectural design, rendering, animation, game assets development, VFX, visualization etc. It was first released in 1990 for Amiga operating system later other versions were released which support other operating systems like Windows, Mac, Linux etc. Its stable version was launched in April 2022. It is under the authorship of  Philip Losch and Christian Losch.

Advantages of Cinema 4D

  • It has an easy to use interface which helps beginners a lot. 
  • It has various in built tools like bone structures which make character rigging very easy. 
  • It allows customization using python scripts.
  • It supports importing files from other 3D animation software.

Disadvantages of Cinema 4D

  • It is heavy software which requires dedicated RAM for smooth functioning.
  • Rendering takes lots of time.

After Effects is a motion graphic and visual effect tool which was developed by CoSA, Aldus Corporation and Adobe incorporation. Initially, it was released in 1993 and its stable version was released in 2022. It provides a large number of features for visual effects like composting, tracking, keying and animation also. It was built using C and C++ programming languages.

Advantages of After Effects

  • It is good for creating 2D animation, 3D elements, motion graphics, stop motion animation, etc.
  • It has a chroma key cutting feature for changing backgrounds easily.
  • It has lots of options for text animation.
  • It allows adding motions to images so to give animation effects.

Disadvantages of After Effects

  • It requires dedicated RAM to work smoothly.
  • It does not have many options for audio editing.

Following is a table of differences between Adobe After Effects and Cinema 4D:

 

Cinema 4D

After Effects

1. Cinema 4D can be understood as a 3D modelling and animation software which comes with features like texturing, VFX, animation etc. It can be understood as motion graphic software which helps in visual effects, animation and designing.
2. It was developed by Maxon. It was developed by Adobe Incorporation.
3. It is for 3D animation and does not support 2D animation. It is for 2D animation and a little bit 3D with external plugins.
4. It does not support post rendering effect functionality. It comes with post rendering effect functionality.
5. It is comparatively cheaper than After Effects. It is costly as compared to Cinema 4D.
6. It saves files as C4D files which can be used in after effects as well. Files are saved with the .ae file extension.
7. It was built using Python and C++ programming languages. It was built using C and C++ programming languages.
8. It allows different types of simulations like fluid simulation, cloth simulation, metal simulation etc. It is not good for simulations like fluid simulation, cloth simulation, metal simulation etc.

Last Updated : 10 Jun, 2022
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