The ML Prime Light Kit for Cinema 4D and Redshift makes rendering and animating moving lights easier, faster, and more realistic. Designed for illustrators and concept artists, it’s ideal for creating visuals for concerts, events, theater, or any project requiring precise lighting. ML Lights are non-brand-specific instruments that look great from any angle while keeping polygon counts low. Custom user controls put focusing, coloring, and adding gobos right at your fingertips. Built for simplicity, the system streamlines your workflow for maximum efficiency.
Copy and paste units into your own scenes
Target any object in your scene
Add color randomization
Control from one control panel for ease and speed
Animatable and works great with Cinema 4D’s Takes system and Symmetry object
Clean Topology
Requires Redshift 2026.0.0+ and tested back to Cinema 4D R25.
It's not just that LightKit renders instantly, looks amazing, and is easy to control in every way imaginable. But beyond that, it's just fun to explore Evan's techniques and learn for future projects. Great stuff.
-Malte Kreutzfeldt
ML PRIME LIGHT KIT: $75
The full package of all current instruments
ML Prime Moving Head
ML Prime Bar Light
ML Prime Video Wall (1M or 500mm tiles)
ML Target Object (optional - you can target any object in your scene)
See a full walkthrough of all the tools before you buy
ML Prime is the next generation of tools in the ML light kit, simplifying the original fixtures while adding more features.
Such amazing tools! Where has this been all my life?
-Butch Allen
FAQ
What software versions do I need to run this?
Redshift 2026.0.0 or higher is needed. Any modern version of Cinema 4D that can run this version of Redshift should work. We tested back to Cinema 4d R25 with no issues.
How do I install the Kit?
The ML Prime Light Kit is not a plugin - these are native Cinema 4D files that contain the lights and tools. You just copy and paste what you need into your working scene files.
Is this Previz software?
No. These tools are meant to help you with illustrations, concept art and animations inside of Cinema 4d. They speed up your workflow and make “writing cues” easier, but they exist inside the normal parameters of Cinema 4d renders.
Can I use other render engines?
The kit is currently only built for Redshift, with it’s lights and materials. If there is enough interest in other render engines we will explore this in the future. Please reach out to me and let me know what other engines you are interested in for future consideration.
Why can’t I see my light beams in my scenes?
Volumetrics for the lights require a Redshift Environment in your scene. There is one in each ML light file that you can copy and paste into your working scenes.
Can you make me a Sharpie or a Megapointe or a xxxx light?
The kit is specifically designed to be non-brand specific and since they are mostly in the dark, this will work for the majority of use cases. I am staying away from making specific brand fixtures, but you can make them yourself! I have a tutorial on rigging moving lights on my YouTube page.
How powerful a computer do I need to run the light kit?
This is very subjective based on the complexity of your scene and the amount of lights you put in. The units use standard Redshift lights and materials and the controls use Cinema 4d Xpresso in the background - so the kit shouldn’t add much more strain to your system then working in vanilla Cinema 4d and Redshift. For reference, all the training videos and demos are made on a PC with 128MB of RAM and a RTX 4090 GPU.
What is Gumroad?
Gumroad is a secure third party e-commerce platform for selling digital products online.
Are you making more lights?
Yes! I am actively working on more fixtures and other tools for future releases.
Release notes:
ML PRIME v01: UPDATES AND FEATURES: The goal of this release was to add some key new features, but to also streamline the workflow and tighten up the tools where I could.
General:
Only full kit for sale now
All units in one file
ML Prime:
One light for all movers - the ML 01 and the ML 02 combined into one fixture.
Units can be used as Hung or Floor mounted. (C Clamp can be toggled on and off).
All lights can have a target - target can be any object you want.
All lights can have a Gobo and a visible lens.
Focus guide line can be toggled on and off and has adjustable length.
Prime CS and CC has color randomization based on an adjustable gradient or load and save presets
ML Prime Bar:
Units can be used as Hung or Floor mounted. (C Clamp can be toggled on and off).
Focus guide line can be toggled on and off and has adjustable length.
Prime Bar CS has color randomization based on an adjustable gradient or load and save presets.
ML Prime Video Wall:
Now comes in 1M tiles and 500mm tiles
Image auto adjusts to size - no more needing to “Fit to object” when adjusting size
Screen width and height adjust from bottom center of wall instead of center.
Video walls can now have volumetrics
ML Target:
Optional adjustable target object available - though any object can be your target.
Size and color adjustable.