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In this series of videos, Matt Umney from MAXON UK looks at his favourite new features in Cinema 4D R19, which is due to be released in September, 2017. See the full feature list here: https://www.maxon.net/en/products/new-in-release-19/r19-complete-feature-list/

The Polygon Reduction tool has gone through a major update and is now a generator instead of a deformer. It preserves UVs, vertex maps and selection tags. It also updates very quickly as you change the strength, thanks to the reduction being pre-calculated.

"For someone who deal’s in 3D scanning, this little object is a thing of beauty," says Matt. "In just a few clicks I can lower the polygon count astronomically and still retain the general shape and texture. This is going to make the manipulation of 3D scanned objects or heavy CAD data so much easier."

Cinema 4D is 3D animation software that is used for all kinds of artwork. It is regarded as one of the easiest to use professional 3D applications that can handle any 3D task.