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description: "On this page, you will find brief descriptions of Cinema 4D and the applications closely related to it."
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# Cinema 4D and Related Applications

On this page, you will find brief descriptions of Cinema 4D and the applications closely related to it.

- Maxon App
- Maxon Cinema 4D
- Maxon Redshift
- Maxon Autograph
- Maxon Cineware
- Maxon Cinebench

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## What is Maxon App?

The **Maxon App** is a free management tool for all your Maxon product licenses and subscriptions. The **Maxon App** allows you to install and update all products and provides an overview of which licenses have already been assigned and which are still available.\
You must have the **Maxon App** installed and a user account set up within it to use Maxon products. You can download the [Maxon App here](https://www.maxon.net/en/try).

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![The banner used on www.maxon.net for the Maxon Cinema 4D](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Banner_Cinema4D.png)

## What is Cinema 4D?

**Maxon Cinema 4D** (C4D) is a professional 3D software solution primarily used for modeling, animation, simulation, and rendering. It is one of the established tools in the media and creative industries and is characterized by a user-friendly interface and tight integration with other applications, such as Adobe products, leading 3D, CAD and architectural applications, game engines, and, of course, the many other market-leading products developed in-house, such as ZBrush, Red Giant, and Autograph.

Typical applications:

1. Motion Design & Broadcast
2. Film & VFX (Visual Effects)
3. Product visualization
4. Architectural visualization
5. Games & Real-time content (e.g., using a game engine such as Unreal via Maxon Cineware)
6. VR/AR & interactive Media

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![The banner used on www.maxon.net for the Maxon Redshift](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Banner_Redshift.png)

## What is Redshift?

**Maxon Redshift** is a powerful 3D rendering software that helps visualize your 3D designs, models, animations, and scenes. It is tightly integrated into **Cinema 4D** and is included as a modern rendering engine by default.

By simulating realistic lighting, textures, and effects, **Maxon Redshift** transforms 3D design into high-quality animations or images. Its GPU-accelerated engine lets you achieve photorealistic details, fast feedback, and reduced rendering times.

Since **Maxon Redshift** is also available as a rendering engine for many other applications, it can be used to implement cross-application workflows.

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![The banner used on www.maxon.net for the Maxon Redshift](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Banner_Autograph.png)

## What is Autograph?

**Autograph** is a software solution that combines professional tools for motion graphics, VFX/compositing, and 2D/3D projects across industries. Optimized for speed, **Autograph** uses its GPU-powered engine and extensible capabilities to provide creative tools for anyone searching for a unified toolset.

**Autograph** is free for individual users and teams alike, and can also be used in conjunction with other Maxon products, such as **Maxon Studio** or the **Red Giant** plugins.

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![The banner used on www.maxon.net for the Maxon Cineware](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Banner_Cineware.png)

## What is Cineware?

**Maxon Cineware** provides technology for exchanging data in the Cinema 4D format with numerous third-party applications. These include, for example, *Unreal Engine*, *Adobe After Effects*, *Adobe Illustrator*, *Vectorworks*, *ArchiCAD*, and *Allplan*.

You can find a free [download of Cineware for Unreal here](https://www.maxon.net/en/downloads/unreal), for example, to exchange assets or even animated characters and entire scenes with a single click.

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![The download banner used on www.maxon.net for the Maxon Cinebench](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/Banner_Cinebench.png)

## What is Cinebench?

**Maxon Cinebench** is a free benchmarking tool designed to measure the performance of a computer using real-world 3D rendering workloads derived from **Cinema 4D** and **Maxon Redshift**. In this process, the included projects are rendered by **Cinebench** with various methods (CPU and GPU) to determine the time required to complete them.\
The values obtained in this way allow for a realistic comparison of different rendering platforms and hardware configurations.\
**Maxon Cinebench** can be [downloaded here](https://www.maxon.net/en/cinebench) for free.