CINEMA 4D History...

1990 Christian and Philip Losch enter their raytracer into Kickstart magazine's monthly programming contest and win the competition.

1991 FastRay (CINEMA 4D's first name) is released for the Amiga.

1993 CINEMA 4D V1 is released for Amiga.

1994 Release of CINEMA 4D V2 for Amiga.

1995 Release of CINEMA 4D V3 for Amiga

Plans are made for porting CINEMA 4D to the PC platform.

New programmer team begins development of a completely new operating system independent architecture.

1996 CINEMA 4D V4 for Windows, Alpha NT and Macintosh is released.

1997 The development of a production-level version begins, integrating the latest technologies.

The first production-worthy version is released — CINEMA 4D XL V5.

1998 CINEMA 4D SE V5 is released.

1999 CINEMA 4D GO V5 is introduced.

CINEMA 4D NET is introduced.

2000 CINEMA 4D XL V6 is released.

BodyPaint 3D is made available as an integrated version for CINEMA 4D and standalone version for other 3D packages.

2001 CINEMA 4D ART is introduced.

PyroCluster module is introduced.

CINEMA 4D XL R7 is shipped worldwide.

MAXON integrates the shader set Smells like Almonds from bhodiNUT.

Dynamics module is introduced.

2002 CINEMA 4D R8 is released with a modular system.

2003 BodyPaint 3D R2 is introduced.

2003 CINEMA 4D R8.5 is introduced.

Sketch and Toon module is introduced.

2004 CINEMA 4D R9 is released.

2005 MAXON become the first High-End 3D vendor to release a 64bit version of their software with Cinema 4D R9 64

CINEMA 4D R9.5 is released.

HAIR module is released.

2006 CINEMA 4D becomes the first 3D/professional graphics application released as a Universal Binary for Apple's new Intel Core Duo, Core 2 Duo and Xeon powered Macs (even before Apple Universal Binary versions of its own software are released).

CINEMA 4D R9.6 is released.

MoGraph module is introduced.

CINEMA 4D R10.0 with integrated BodyPaint 3D is released.

2007 The service update CINEMA 4D R10.1 is released in late March which sorts out many of the bugs that users and testers have reported to Maxon.

2007 Service Update R10.111 released addressing several problems, that have arose in several areas of the software, such as stability.

CINEMA 4D R10.5 is released and features updates to MOCCA and MoGraph as well as an optimization of the Hair module.