Maxon's Redshift rendering engine now available under a subscription model

Visual effects artists and motion designers will be able to move to Redshift GPU rendering solution from Maxon paying a subscription.

The price of the subscription to Redshift It is comparable to the old annual maintenance cost. To encourage the change to this new business model, all customers who want to expand their number of licenses will be able to enjoy the new price on their initial subscription. The sale of perpetual licenses has been discontinued, but existing annual maintenance contracts will remain in place and will be renewable until August 31, 2023. Likewise, the team subscriptions They are available for an “additional cost”. This type of subscription includes dedicated training and support, as well as online license management and distribution through the Teams dashboard. Floating license models are also available Teams y RLM.

The availability of Redshift via subscription comes with Maxon's commitment to continue developing and supporting multiple DCC applications and hardware platforms, including CUDA of Nvidia, Apple Metal y Apple Silicon. Efforts will not stop as, as Maxon states, “Redshift's functionality and performance is completely dependent on third-party hardware and software solutions.”