Speed up your workflow with Cinema 4D lighting plugins from Greyscalegorilla

Cinema 4D has slowly become one of the most used applications for many 3D artists and studios on the world. One of the reasons for it is that Cinema 4D has support from many award-winning plugins, which help you work with complex animation or renders in minutes. In this article, we will introduce a list of Cinema 4D lighting plugins from Greyscalegorilla to help you speed up your workflow.

Find out 3 plugins to create realistic and creative lighting for your project.

This plugin helps you create perfect studio lighting for Arnold, Octane, Redshift, and Physical Renderers. It’s most suitable for product renders and Mograph, which is two strengths of Cinema 4D usage.

Some of Light Kit Pro’s prominent features:

• • • • 7 types of studio lights (Softbox, Umbrella, Kino Flo, LED Ring, Ring, Panel, or Ambient lighting options)
      • 9 customizable cyc objects
      • 120 studio presets. All designed and built by working professional artists.
      • Light Kit Browser helps you browse the 120 included studios. Or you can build your own studios and save them as custom presets so you can use them over and over.
      • You can easily switch between Standard / Physical, Redshift, Octane, and Arnold with a few clicks

This plugin is single-user license, and is compatible with Cinema 4D R20+.

This plugin helps you create realistic lighting and reflections for Arnold, Octane or Redshift for Cinema 4D. It browses and connects these third-party renderers to the growing library of Greyscalegorilla HDRI packs.

Some of HDRI Link’s prominent features:

• • • • You just need to connect your lighting parameter to the HDRI Link Tag, then drag any HDRI into your project to apply.
      • HDRI Browser helps you browse hundreds of HDRI in seconds, applying and testing different looks before modifying or picking the best solution for your project.
      • Preview Mode
      • You can benefit from growing library of Greyscalegorilla HDRI, including Pro Studios Metal, Ultimate Skies, Area Light Maps, and more, by connecting HDRI Link to it.
      • You can easily switch between Redshift, Octane, and Arnold with a few clicks in the middle of a project.

This plugin is single-user license, and is compatible with Cinema 4D R20+.

While HDRI Link is for third-party renderers, HDRI Studio Rig helps you browse and add HDRI, then rotate, adjust, and place them in the perfect position for Standard and Physical renderer.

Some of HDRI Studio Rig’s prominent features:

• • • • HDRI Browser (through the Plus Library), helping you hundreds of HDRI in seconds
      • Beautiful seamless floor controls helping you create professional studio backdrops and floors.
      • Render setting presets and simple sliders
      • Separate brightness and reflections, helping you light your project without having to adjust the reflection
      • HDRI blur helping you blur the HDRI in your scene to create better Global Illumination effects
      • C4D Shadow Catcher helping you adjust or remove shadows from your scene
      • Rotation Preview helping you adjust HDRI live and see what you lighting looks like before hitting render
      • Other features like fill light, color correction controls.

This plugin is single-user license, and is compatible with Cinema 4D R20+.

You can definitiely use these Cinema 4D lighting plugins on iRender’s remote computers. iRender provides you a high-performance and configurable server system for 3D rendering, AI Training, VR & AR, simulation, etc. We believe that design and creative activities are private and personal that only you artists will know what you want with your animation.

You can create a machine with pre-installed Cinema 4D, then install these plugins on our remote machine (first time access only), add license, and modify, adjust and render by yourself there.

Let’s see some of Cinema 4D benchmark with Redshift, V-ray and Octane on our package RT4090s:

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Especially, if you use Cinema 4D and Redshift, now you can access our remote servers without having to install the software and plugin. We have an option to choose pre-installed Cinema 4D and Redshift, and now provide you one license free.

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