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08/21/2026

Ornatrix App v1.0.7 BETA is out.

The big one this release: a built-in AI Assistant, powered by the Claude Agent SDK and offered as an optional installer component. It runs as a two-way session inside the App, with bundled grooming skills and desktop notifications.

Also new:

- Node Graph rework: vertical layout, filter by operator stack or name, cut connections with a stroke
- Hair Card Atlas: groom presets as card variations, single-click island selection, TGA export
- Graft Groom: auto-fit from a recorded fit, plus mirrored graft surface display
- Viewport: per-view perspective or orthographic projection, per-view backgrounds, gizmo snapping
- A Colors settings tab with theme presets

Plus a large performance pass. Selecting an operator no longer rebuilds the whole object, hidden geometry is no longer rebuilt every frame, and groom files are now several times smaller.

Download:

08/18/2026

08/11/2026

Ornatrix for Cinema 4D V4 is here - a major native evolution of procedural hair, fur, and feather grooming built directly for the C4D pipeline.

Create, style, mesh, and export production-ready grooms without leaving Maxon Cinema 4D, with a fully non-destructive workflow. This release brings curved strand extension, brush textures, automatic hair texture generation, clump manipulators, and improved meshing and export to Unreal Engine, all built specifically for C4D artists.

Full feature breakdown and details on the channel and at ephere.com.

C4D grooming artists, what feature are you most excited to try first?

08/11/2026

Ornatrix V4 for Cinema 4D is here!

V4 brings the full 3ds Max V9 and Maya V5 feature set to Cinema 4D, plus a set of C4D-specific workflow improvements.

Paint textures and decals straight onto hair. Shape clumps with interactive manipulators and build braids from clump patterns. Generate hair textures and hair cards from your groom with Mesh from Strands. Reposition roots with Warp Roots, comb along curved sinks, and extend strands along a curve.

Under the hood: Cinema 4D 2026 support and a native Apple Silicon build that runs natively instead of under Rosetta.

Own a previous perpetual Ornatrix C4D license? Your upgrade is 50 percent off for the first month, applied automatically at checkout.

Watch the release video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOR4yvrtgj4
See everything that's new: https://ephere.com/plugins/maxon/c4d/ornatrix/docs/4/Whats_New_in_V4.html
Get it: https://ephere.com/plugins/maxon/c4d/ornatrix/

08/04/2026

🌟 Ornatrix Showcase No. 52 🌟

Nine artists, nine totally different worlds - from MMORPG heroes to a plush little bird with cute grooming under the hood. Hair, fur and feathers doing the heavy lifting on style.

📌 Featured artists:

🔹 seungmin Kim - 天谕(tianyu) Online MMORPG character
🔹 tiago Oliveira - Captain Fortune
🔹 Julen Urrutia - Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher 3 - Stylized)
🔹 François Boquet - Elf Witch
🔹 Hyojin - God of Plague
🔹 AJ Jefferies - Bo Bo Bon (Ravensburger)
🔹 Alain Berset - Vasquez Aged (Game Ready Character 2026)
🔹 Ju yeong - Metahuman progress (Death Stranding fan art)
🔹 Vardan Gevorgyan - bird

Thanks for watching and getting inspired with us.

07/28/2026

🌟 Ornatrix Showcase No. 51 🌟

Nine looks, nine completely different vibes: elegant elf royalty, gritty pirates, a cheerful curly-haired kid, gothic hoods, samurai poise, and full-on Viking rage. This edition is all about range.

📌 Featured artists / studios
🔹 BG - Ranger: Guardian of Grana
🔹 BG - Pirate Girl
🔹 선우_sunwoo - Cute Girl
🔹 sppo - Rabbit Hood
🔹 SeongJin Hwang - Samurai Lady
🔹 Riccardo Morgia - Great Value Character Artist
🔹 AJ Jefferies - Fuzzball
🔹 Anna Zelenska - Emiel Regis | The Witcher | Fanart
🔹 Ban_c - Barbarian

Thanks for watching and getting inspired with me.

07/27/2026

Ornatrix App v1.0.6 BETA is out!

This build adds a parametric human head generator (HumanOperator), a Random Seed groom parameter, breadcrumb navigation into nested sub-grooms, click-to-switch viewport display modes, and a bunch of grooming and viewport quality-of-life improvements, plus a solid round of crash and stability fixes.

New:
- New HumanOperator: parametric human head generator
- New Random Seed groom parameter that drives every operator's seed at once
- Navigate into nested sub-groom graphs via a breadcrumb path
- Viewport display-mode icons with a click-to-switch menu and in-viewport shading/camera switching
- Geometry transform tool with standard unit spinners (cm/deg/%) and reset
- Scene geometry transform is now persisted as translation/rotation/scale channels
- Operator descriptions shown as tooltips in the operator picker
- Top-level groom parameter edits are now undoable
- Cancel viewport orbit/pan/zoom navigation with right-click or Escape
- Tool property groups dim when their master enable toggle is off
- Copy modal dialog contents to the clipboard with Ctrl+C
- Graft Groom tool: removed the redundant Mirror section
- Groom Properties edit mode layout and usability improvements

Fixed:
- Random crashes when fetching or loading a groom
- A crash when the system sleeps and wakes
- A crash in the Hair Cards atlas tool when no atlas node is focused
- Imported OBJ mesh lost on scene reload, plus a related crash
- Multi-second UI freeze when switching to the Cycles/Realistic view on heavy grooms
- Clump not regenerating when changing Create Method with Dynamic Clumping on
- Clump overlay colors showing on final output when Clump is not being edited
- Named viewport views (Perspective, Thumbnail, etc.) not staying independent
- Jerky camera panning at oblique view angles
- Transform gizmo rendering as wireframe instead of filled shapes
- Operator insertion dialog wrongly splitting a chain above a guides operator
- Paint Texture mirror brush painting the wrong side at angled views
- Holding Shift/Ctrl in the Console view also driving the tool's add/subtract selection
- Houdini Alembic mesh import failing on non-float arbGeomParams

Download:

07/21/2026

One groom, dozens of ready-made looks, without extra clicks.

In the full tutorial Marsel shows how to turn a complex groom built from tons of operators in Ornatrix - into just a few clean parameters, like length, frizz and curliness, then bring it straight into 3ds Max with the procedural behavior fully preserved. Plus a random seed trick that solves variation across a whole crowd of characters in one go.

This is just the teaser, full lesson is live on Ephere channel now, link in stories.

07/17/2026

Ornatrix C4D 4.0.10 (beta) is now available!

This update adds curved sinks and a new Curved Extensions option for the grow/shrink brush, giving you more control when directing and growing hair.

We also fixed a handful of issues:
- Ground Strands no longer changes spline-sourced hair shape after reloading a scene
- Clump manipulator knots no longer disappear
- Resolved a Create Clump / Dynamic Clumping issue
- Fixed occasional drawport crashes

Grab it here: https://ephere.com/plugins/maxon/c4d/ornatrix/downloads.html

07/15/2026

This is the full process of building a Timothee Chalamet inspired hairstyle from scratch in the Ornatrix App beta, from a handful of guide strands to a finished groom.

What you see here is the complete workflow start to finish, guides, sinks, curls, clumping, frizz. A fully polished, production ready result usually takes a lot more time and extra refinement beyond a single session.

Full tutorial is on YouTube now with different voice dub and captions.

Software: Ornatrix App (beta)
Style: photorealistic hair groom, Timothee Chalamet inspired
Instructor: .khad