A LOOK AT OUR PROJECTS

The Challenge

Maxon is the company behind Cinema 4D and Redshift — and Cinebench, the industry-standard benchmark used by hardware manufacturers, reviewers, and enthusiasts worldwide to measure real-world rendering performance. For the 2024 release, Maxon set a new bar: not only would it measure CPU performance (single-core and multi-core), it would be the first Cinebench version to also benchmark GPU performance — supporting both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards via the Redshift render engine.

A new, significantly more demanding scene was needed. The benchmark had to challenge even the most powerful hardware, with a claimed sixfold increase in computation effort and threefold increase in memory footprint compared to its predecessor. And every asset in that scene had to be original — uniquely created, with no borrowed or licensed models.

Our Approach

The project was a genuine collaboration. Oly Stingel developed the overall scene concept and layout, working with placeholder geometry to define the composition, lighting setup, and visual direction. That foundation gave the project its structure — but the real work was still ahead.

Pavel Zoch then took over and rebuilt every single 3D model from scratch. Completely independently conceived and modeled, every asset in the final scene is unique — no stock models, no repurposed geometry. Pavel handled the entire pipeline from polygon modeling through to texturing, ensuring each element was not only visually strong but optimized for the extreme rendering demands a benchmark scene requires.

The final scene had to perform consistently across CPU and GPU rendering paths — a technical constraint that shaped every decision in the modeling and shading process.

The Result

A complete, entirely original 3D benchmark scene that shipped as the heart of Maxon Cinebench 2024 — to date, one of the most widely used hardware benchmarks in the world. The scene measures both CPU rendering performance (single-core and multi-core) and GPU performance for Nvidia and AMD, powered by the Redshift engine.

The work proved so enduring that Maxon continues to use the same scene in Cinebench 2026 — a rare testament to the quality and longevity of what was created.