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Experience Redshift, the cutting-edge GPU renderer that brings your 3D visions to life with stunning realism. Used by artists and designers, Redshift elevates your work with photorealistic renders, environment lighting and advanced materials.

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What is Redshift?

Redshift is a powerful 3D rendering software that helps visualize your 3D designs, models, animations, and scenes.

By simulating realistic lighting, textures, and effects, Redshift transforms 3D design into high-quality animations or images. Its GPU-accelerated engine lets you achieve photorealistic details, fast feedback, and reduced rendering times.

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See how our clients use Redshift to create industry-leading projects!

See how Redshift revolutionizes Archviz

Introducing Redshift for Archviz, Maxon's new real-time visualization tool that brings cinematic rendering to architecture by integrating Cinema 4D and Redshift with CAD workflows like Vectorworks and Revit. Offering GPU-based, real-time previews, smart object placement, and a library of materials and assets, allowing architects to create immersive walkthroughs and high-end visuals directly inside their existing workflows. 

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Workflow view of 3D architectural visualization from BIM model to final render

What's New

After introducing support for Revit and expanding Redshift’s visualization capabilities, lightning-fast workflows, and rendering quality to more architects than ever before, Redshift 2026.8 lets you achieve greater realism with ease. The new Scratches Shader helps you create worn, brushed, scuffed, and damaged surfaces procedurally, without relying on dedicated texture maps for every variation. Redshift now renders high-altitude cirrus clouds in addition to the previous cumulous clouds, allowing you to easily achieve more realistic skies. Streamlined workflows help you put together architectural visualizations more easily, with improved storyboards, the new Render Queue and PostFX presets in Redshift for Vectorworks and Revit. Additionally, the improved Scatter tools allow architects to populate their scenes with vegetation more precisely in Redshift for Vectorworks and Revit.

Redshift for Revit

Redshift now expands its workflow with support for Revit, helping architects and visualization artists move from design to stunning final imagery with greater ease and efficiency. Bring your Revit projects directly into a high-performance rendering environment built for speed, accuracy, and visual quality. From early concept presentations to photoreal marketing visuals, Redshift enables fast iteration, realistic lighting, detailed materials, and seamless integration into modern architectural pipelines.

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Depth of Field for Redshift Live

Redshift Live, which also powers the real-time viewport in Cinema 4D and Redshift for Archviz, now supports the Depth of Field effect. Use it to mimic a real-world camera and add depth to your renders by blurring objects far from the focus point and keeping objects in focus sharp.

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Scratches Shader

The new Scratches Shader gives material and look development artists a more direct way to add surface wear, brushed detail, and scuffed imperfections inside Redshift. Instead of creating or sourcing a dedicated scratch texture for every asset, artists can generate controllable procedural scratch patterns and route them into the material channels that matter most for the look. Use this shader to make brushed metal or plastic surfaces feel realistic, or on any product visualization where clean surfaces look too perfect.

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High Altitude Clouds

High Altitude Clouds give environment and lighting artists a more flexible way to build skies with scale, depth, and atmosphere directly in Redshift. Make outdoor visualizations more realistic by adding High Altitude Clouds to existing skies that previously only supported low-altitude cumulous clouds. Controls for density, altitude, scale, wind, color, anisotropy, and lighting allow artists to shape both the structure and the mood of the cloud layer.

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Redshift for Archviz enhancements

Redshift 2026.8 speeds up essential workflows of architects and designers working in Vectorworks or Revit, allowing them to deliver final renders faster: The improved scatter tools provide more control over even the largest vegetation and grass systems. Customize how often individual assets are used with the new Frequency Control or instantly remove unwanted scatter areas with the Exclusion List. The new Render Queue allows you to schedule multiple still images and animations to be rendered automatically. Focus on designing instead of babysitting renders or restarting jobs one by one and instantly stylize your visuals by applying PostFX Presets that streamline final look development.

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Elevate 3D Art with Redshift

From intricate details to dynamic scenes, Redshift lets you render breathtaking 3D visuals across various industries.

Architectural Visualization

Use Redshift to generate photorealistic renderings for buildings, interiors, or walkthroughs. Create impressive digital projections that bring your artwork to life, from buildings to galleries.

A 3D architectural rendering depicting digital art projected onto the exterior of a modern building, enhanced with dynamic lighting and visual effects, created using Redshift as the 3D rendering software.
© NorthHouse Creative

Animation & VFX

Render lifelike characters, build immersive environments, or generate eye-catching 3D scenes and visualizations for movies, animations and games.

Detailed 3D animation & VFX scene featuring a character with intricate textures and lighting, created with Redshift.
©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

Product & Industrial Design

Use Redshift to showcase designs with aesthetics, functionality, and stunning effects. Bring sleek cars, intricate machine components, or medical devices to life with realistic renderings.

3D rendering of a sleek, modern product design, showcasing smooth surfaces and reflective materials, produced with Redshift.
© SEHSUCHT

Render 3D Visuals with Redshift

Unlock limitless possibilities with its powerful features. Discover what Redshift can do to transform your creativity.

High Rendering Performance and Efficiency

Leveraging the power of your GPU, Redshift delivers fast render times, allowing you to iterate quickly and efficiently. The adaptive sampling helps you to prioritize details, achieving high-quality visuals while significantly reducing render times.

3D geometric shapes within a Redshift software workflow, demonstrating high rendering performance and efficiency.
© Wes Cockx

Seamless 3D Software Integration

Redshift integrates smoothly with popular 3D software such as Cinema 4D, ensuring fast and easy data exchange. This simplifies design workflows, empowering you to collaborate seamlessly on creative projects.

3D rendering over a software timeline interface, representing Redshift's seamless 3D software integration.
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Extensive Shader Library

Redshift offers advanced shading capabilities, allowing you to visualize detailed materials like glass, metal, plastic, hair, and skin. Create atmospheric effects such as clouds, smoke, and fire. Simulate real-world lighting effects and shadow conditions to present visually stunning scenes.

A collection of 3D rendered artworks showcasing Redshift's diverse shader capabilities, featuring abstract forms, landscapes, stylized characters, material examples, and more.
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FAQs

Get answers to commonly asked questions about Redshift.

What can I do with Redshift?

Redshift is ideal for visualizing complex 3D designs with exceptional detail. You can apply Redshift to render stunningly realistic images and animations with precise lighting, shadows, and textures.

Why is Redshift a suitable choice for me?

Redshift’s GPU acceleration technology allows rapid rendering of complex scenes. Many 3D artists, VFX studios, architects, game developers, and product designers use Redshift for realistic rendering.

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What software can Redshift integrate with?

Redshift integrates seamlessly with Cinema 4D and various software like Autodesk Maya, SideFX Houdini, and Foundry Katana. For a full list of supported CG applications or devices, please visit our Redshift Requirements Page.

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What devices is Redshift compatible with?

Redshift is compatible with most latest operating systems among Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple macOS. It supports a range of graphics cards, including AMD and NVIDIA models, and more.

For detailed information, check out our list of system requirements.

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