Cinema 4D R17 has been announced and will be ready for September 2015

Just an opinion here: I feel like Cinema4D r17 is the weakest upgrade out of all versions so far. It kinda has improvements, but it doesn't pop at me as a upgrade, more like a 0.5 version upd ate. It's the "eh well, not bad" thing. I'd say the spline tools are fantastic, but most people probably work off of Illustrator or something else anyway. I guess a bit of ease with it is nice, but not necessarily worthy of a upgrade price tag.

Note that a lot of the features listed in r17 are very much available in other software packages as essential tools, LONG before this update.

Another critique of Cinema4D, at least for me, has been the real irritating seemingly obscured UV tools. It seems like it's never been the strong point of the program, and given a lot of the cut-n-dash tools like Mograph are strongly in power when it comes to C4D.

BUT, I lately came to conclusion that Maya + Mash plugin = probably better than Mograph over all. Plus it integrates with Maya's existing features which makes this tool seriously powerful. Here's a link to Mash: https://mash.mainframe.co.uk/

In the end I really don't know where C4D is going with their stuff. It's exciting, but also kinda disappointing. It's powerful... but catching up. But I have to say, the simplicity of the program is absolutely fantastic. It's fun to use once in a while, but my primary 3D software is Modo.... you just can't beat the price tag and the feature se t.