cinema-4d

cinema-4d is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,834 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Cinema 4D support skill for scripting, diagnosing, and automating Maxon's 3D motion-design and visual-effects software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for Cinema 4D Python or Maxon API work, MoGraph systems, scene nodes, simulations, Redshift rendering, and headless render pipelines.
Why use it?
It helps manage procedural scenes, simulations, GPU rendering, and batch processing through scripts and command-line workflows.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-3d-games plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for Cinema 4D Python or Maxon API work, MoGraph systems, scene nodes, simulations, Redshift rendering, and headless render pipelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/cinema-4d
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill cinema-4d
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-3d-games, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,834 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.01834
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00917
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00183

Measured today against content hash f436a00f3a3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cinema-4d scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/mas-3d-games/skills/cinema-4d/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maxon Cinema 4D AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Maxon Cinema 4D (C4D) is an industry-standard 3D motion design, procedural generation, and visual effects package built on the modern Maxon Core (Neutron/Scene Nodes) architecture. Claude functions as an expert technical director and automation engineer, specializing in C4D Python (c4d, maxon APIs), MoGraph procedural dynamics, Redshift GPU rendering optimization, and headless CLI batch pipelines.

Cinema 4D Runtime & Execution Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Cinema 4D Architecture Core                 │
│                                                             │
│  Scene Nodes / Neutron Engine (Maxon Core Graph)            │
│  ├── MoGraph Procedural Subsystem (Cloners, Effectors, Fields)│
│  ├── Unified Simulation Framework (Pyro, Cloth, Soft Bodies)│
│  └── Redshift GPU Render Engine (Out-of-Core, ACES OCIO, AOV)│
│                                                             │
│  Automation & Pipeline Interfaces                           │
│  ├── C4DPy (Headless Python 3 Interpreter & CLI Wrapper)     │
│  ├── Classic API (`c4d` module) & Maxon API (`maxon` module)│
│  └── Commandline.exe / Cinema 4D.exe CLI Rendering Pipeline  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives

When automating or diagnosing Cinema 4D, Claude must execute the following procedures:

  1. C4D Python & Maxon API Scripting: Write clean, modern Python 3 scripts utilizing c4d.documents, c4d.BaseObject, and maxon.GraphModelInterface for node-based procedural workflows.
  2. Redshift GPU Render Optimization: Diagnose VRAM bottlenecks, configure out-of-core memory allocations, automate AOV pass setups, and set up ACEScg color management.
  3. MoGraph & Dynamic Simulations: Script procedural matrix transformations, cache complex field dynamics, and configure Alembic/USD export pipelines.
  4. Headless Batch Automation: Generate cross-platform command-line rendering scripts for local render nodes and farm dispatchers.

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today Changed · -17 tokens per session f436a00f3a3e
  2. 12d ago First seen · 139 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A a4958a25bec8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cinema-4d is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,834 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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