Maxon Cinema 4D 10

Even better, you can select Projection Painting mode, which keeps your brush from changing size as you paint, or RayBrush Render mode, which lets you paint directly onto a rendered version of the scene. Additional features mean you can paint on multiple channels simultaneously, non-destructively explore effects using layers, and edit your underlying UV mesh directly using BodyPaint's Texture palette and UV tools. This really is extraordinary power, and Maxon is still selling BodyPaint 3D 3 as an add-on module for users of 3ds Max, Maya, LightWave and XSI for a very reasonable £499. This also happens to be the same RRP as for the full Cinema 4D 10 package (which includes BodyPaint). That just shows what a bargain Cinema 4D is.

Author: Tom Arah