The company’s product lines include the 3D software Cinema 4D, the Red Giant tools for editing, motion design and filmmaking, Redshift renderer and the digital sculpting and painting software ZBrush as well as the mobile sculpting app Forger.

The company’s cross-platform benchmarking application Cinebench is used by developers, reviewers and users to evaluate hardware performance.

[3] In January 2000, Nemetschek, a leader in architectural CAD Software, bought a 70% stake in Maxon in order to acquire a high-quality renderer for their CAD models, as well as to enter the multimedia market and later introduced version 6 of Cinema 4D XL Cinema 4D Release 10 was presented in 2006.

The company's program Cinebench is used to test computer hardware capabilities.

[6] Maxon acquired Redshift in mid-2019,[7] merged with Red Giant, creators of unique tools for editors, VFX artists, and motion designers later that year,[8] and acquired Pixologic, the makers of ZBrush in 2021.