Cinema 4D 2025.1 Updates: WOW!

Here are my favorite 3 (or 4) additions to Cinema 4D with their new 2025.1 Winter Release, which just dropped. These are absolutely “Quality of Life” updates, which are very useful. Maybe not the most shiny and exciting updates, but incredibly handy day-to-day!

1. New Boolean Object. The update allows you to stack anything inside the boolean, including Cloners, in a very intuitive and fast way. It also adds the new Boolean Tag under the Modeling Tags. This allows you to add a tag to anything inside of the Boolean and change the operation of that object by overriding the main Boolean settings. Very handy! Overall, it is a fantastic update.
2. Custom Templates. Now you can create a custom scene and add it to your home screen so when you start up Cinema 4D you can quickly open a custom template. This is perfect for creating scenes for various project types to give you a jump start. Something like a perfect 3-point lighting setup with cyc and textures and HDRI which you keep coming back to would be perfect to add as a custom template.
3. A new Denoising engine called OIDN. It’s Intel’s latest Open Image De Noiser which is GPU accelerated and AI based. It allows you to navigate your scene and get a very quick response. A huge quality-of-life boost for texturing and lighting since it resolves so dang quickly!
4. And finally, the “Custom Frames” option in the render settings. This is a perfect way to render select frames in your sequence, or even render only missing frames. It’s not too flashy, but it’s SO HELPFUL!