Test
Games
A calm browser game went from idea to a polished version in one morning.
ToolsGodot·Blender·MPFB2·AI agents
Case studies
Station Lab
The research and tests our AI station runs before it takes on client work.
Each card shows the tools that ran, what the test proved and where it stopped.
- Tests
- 13
- Categories
- 6
- Original cues
- 5
How the station works
Research becomes skills. Skills meet real tools.
Three parts work together, and a person reviews every delivery.
- Research
- Skills
- Tools
- Production
- Review
- New skills, back to Skills
SynthSkillsThe skill library
Our research and training are written into a library of tested skills, so every agent starts with the studio's know-how. Hundreds of skills across film, music, 3D, simulation, games and web.
SynthStationThe station
Tool profiles give agents real production tools: Blender, Unity, Unreal, Godot, OpenFOAM, Remotion, and voice and music engines, on our own GPU and CPU servers.
SynthDeskThe desk
Many agents work on one board, with reviews and approvals by a person.
Every test on this page went round this loop. What failed went back into the skills, so the next build starts further ahead. That is why the station can do production-level work, with people reviewing every delivery.
The tests.
Real outputs from the station, with their limits stated. Pick a card to see more.
Test
Simulation
A steady wind study on real terrain showed facade pressure, street level wind and flat ventilation.
ToolsOpenFOAM·Python
Test
3D and characters
A detailed creature was built and rendered by script in about one hour, with no AI images.
ToolsBlender·Cycles·Python
Concept
Architecture and visualization
A mixed use plaza on a real plot went from a map pin to a 4K film, with BIM and simulations.
ToolsBlender·Cycles·BIM (IFC)·OpenFOAM·FDS
Shipped
AI systems
Agents from different vendors share one task board, and a clash over the same file is refused.
ToolsSynthDesk·Claude Code·Codex
Test
Games
Film jets, ray marched clouds and missile smoke ran in real time at about 1.8 ms of GPU time per frame.
ToolsGodot·Blender
Test
Simulation
Smoke from a set fire closed routes in a shop, and simulated shoppers turned to the rear stair.
ToolsFDS·JuPedSim·Python
Test
Real-time and engines
A 16 by 16 km piece of real terrain was imported and rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a Linux server.
ToolsUnreal Engine 5·Lumen·Nanite·Python
Test
3D and characters
A narrow body airliner was modelled to real dimensions and lit for golden hour, with no logos.
ToolsBlender·Cycles
Test
Architecture and visualization
Ray traced shadows showed which terraces get two hours of winter sun.
ToolsRadiance·pvlib·Python
Test
Simulation
An AI agent rebuilt five Blender physics scenes from our written skill notes alone.
ToolsBlender·Codex·Python
Test
3D and characters
A true scale shoe was modelled from a single photo, with a 0.92 silhouette match.
ToolsBlender·Cycles·Codex·Python
ConceptAI-made
AI systems
Twelve concept screens explored how people could direct agents to edit film, image and sound.
ToolsAI image generation·Design brief
- Test
- an R&D run to prove a method
- Concept
- a design or idea, not built
- Shipped
- in use today
- AI-made
- made with an AI image tool. Everything else was rendered, simulated or captured on the station.
Original music
Scores we wrote in code.
We compose the music for our product films as code, then mix and master it on the station. Five cues, music only.
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strings, French horn, marimba, upright piano, harp, pizzicato bass, light percussion
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marimba, glockenspiel, strings, synth plucks, soft kick and shaker
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upright piano, marimba, strings, synth plucks, light kick and shaker
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upright piano, harp, marimba, strings, soft claps and shaker
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upright piano, marimba, strings, synth plucks, light kick and shaker
Composed in code at UnboxedAI, played with CC0 sample libraries.
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Start a projectA calm browser game went from idea to a polished version in one morning.
- A boy brings water to six tired travellers before the sun goes down.
- AI agents built it with Godot and Blender on our own servers, between 05:50 and 09:45.
- It passed concept, prototype and slice gates, with 34 automated tests green at the grey box.
- No generated images or video in the game. It runs in a desktop browser.
- Frame rate on a mid range laptop is not measured yet.
- Category
- Games
- Tools
- Godot, Blender, MPFB2, AI agents
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Every surface is a procedural shader. No photo textures.
The boy, version 1 to version 2, built by scripts in Blender.
Grey box at 06:20, finished world by mid morning.
A steady wind study on real terrain showed facade pressure, street level wind and flat ventilation.
- We ran OpenFOAM on the Qaus concept towers, set on the real hills of the site.
- The mesh had about 4 million cells and 800 solver steps, for a 3 m/s northwest wind.
- It shows which faces are pushed, which are sucked, and where the gaps speed the wind up.
- It is a mean flow study with placeholder inputs, not a design sign off.
- Category
- Simulation
- Tools
- OpenFOAM, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Light pulses trace the computed mean airflow.
Wind at walking height. One direction, mean flow, not a comfort rating.
One corner flat, about 22 air changes an hour with assumed openings.
A detailed creature was built and rendered by script in about one hour, with no AI images.
- We studied a public creature tutorial, then rebuilt the method as scripts.
- The blockout came from shape functions, then a clean quad mesh with sculpt detail.
- The render mesh has about 2.4 million quads, with eyes, teeth, claws and ribs.
- Final frames rendered on CPU in Cycles at 1080p.
- It is not rigged yet, and a few crease lines remain at the tail.
- Category
- 3D and characters
- Tools
- Blender, Cycles, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Head close up, 1024 samples with denoising.
Side profile.
The first blockout, built from shape functions.
A mixed use plaza on a real plot went from a map pin to a 4K film, with BIM and simulations.
- Qaus is our own concept project on a real plot in Islamabad. The building is unbuilt.
- The station produced the design, the BIM model, drawings, simulations and a film.
- The full story, with its limits, is on the case study page.
- Category
- Architecture and visualization
- Tools
- Blender, Cycles, BIM (IFC), OpenFOAM, FDS
- Status
- Concept
- When
- October 2026
Roof garden terrace, rendered in Cycles.
A drawing sheet cut from the BIM model.
Agents from different vendors share one task board, and a clash over the same file is refused.
- SynthDesk is the board our own build teams run on.
- Claude Code and Codex agents sign in, claim tasks and reserve the files they will change.
- If a second agent asks for a reserved file, the desk refuses and names the holder.
- A person answers what only a person can, in one click.
- Screens are from the live product with made up demo data. It is in invite only beta.
- Category
- AI systems
- Tools
- SynthDesk, Claude Code, Codex
- Status
- Shipped
- When
- October 2026
An agent claims a task and reserves its files.
A second agent asks for the same file and is told who has it.
Film jets, ray marched clouds and missile smoke ran in real time at about 1.8 ms of GPU time per frame.
- We moved the jets from our Dogfight 5 Blender short into Godot 4.7.
- A cloud deck is ray marched through 3D noise, with a golden hour sky.
- The missile chases the jet and is decoyed by a flare.
- Measured GPU time averaged about 1.8 ms per 1080p frame.
- It is a look test, not a finished game.
- Category
- Games
- Tools
- Godot, Blender
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Missile smoke is billboard puffs lit by the sun.
A flare decoys the missile.
Smoke from a set fire closed routes in a shop, and simulated shoppers turned to the rear stair.
- We coupled FDS smoke results with JuPedSim walkers on the Qaus concept design.
- In the shop case, 267 simulated people re route as smoke makes doors unusable.
- On the main plaza, 2,480 simulated people leave by four assumed exits in about 200 seconds.
- Fire sizes are set inputs, not predictions. Doors, exits and behaviour are assumed.
- Category
- Simulation
- Tools
- FDS, JuPedSim, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Shop fire beside a door. Visibility closes routes as it falls.
Car fire smoke on a parking deck.
People left on the plaza over time, several seeds.
A 16 by 16 km piece of real terrain was imported and rendered in Unreal Engine 5 on a Linux server.
- We built a flight training world in Unreal Engine 5.8 on real elevation and satellite data.
- Lumen lighting, Nanite and virtual shadow maps ran on our own GPU server.
- Rocks and shrubs are placed by procedural rules on the real slopes.
- These frames are offline captures. They are not a measured frame rate.
- Elevation and imagery are soft close to the ground.
- Category
- Real-time and engines
- Tools
- Unreal Engine 5, Lumen, Nanite, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Low pass over a dry wash.
Rocks placed by procedural rules on the real slope.
Ridge view, oblique.
Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025). Rock scans: Poly Haven (CC0).
A narrow body airliner was modelled to real dimensions and lit for golden hour, with no logos.
- We built the aircraft for a short action film called Sky Strike.
- The model was checked against published dimensions and three view drawings.
- Panels, engines, gear and cockpit are modelled, then shaded with a clearcoat paint.
- Traditional 3D pipeline, no generative AI. The film itself is paused.
- Category
- 3D and characters
- Tools
- Blender, Cycles
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Six pane cockpit and nose under a golden key light.
Engine intake with fan blades and liner.
Clay pass before materials.
Ray traced shadows showed which terraces get two hours of winter sun.
- pvlib gave the exact sun path for the site, in local time.
- Radiance traced shadows on the real render model and the finished terrain.
- On 21 December, 91 percent of the main plaza gets at least two hours of sun.
- The north garden gets only 45 percent. Trees and people are not modelled.
- Category
- Architecture and visualization
- Tools
- Radiance, pvlib, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
21 June from above. Shadows stay short and close.
Hours of direct sun on every terrace.
Equinox shadows at 09:00, noon and 15:00.
An AI agent rebuilt five Blender physics scenes from our written skill notes alone.
- First we studied simulation in Blender 5.2 and wrote it down as skills.
- Then a separate Codex agent rebuilt each demo from the skill text only.
- Rigid body passed on a second round and liquid matched its reference frames. Fire, cloth and rain ran but missed some numbers.
- Each gap went back into the notes, so the next build is easier.
- Small 960 pixel renders, made to test the method, not for looks.
- Category
- Simulation
- Tools
- Blender, Codex, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Rain with dynamic paint ripples and wet marks.
Liquid round 2, rebuilt to match the reference.
A true scale shoe was modelled from a single photo, with a 0.92 silhouette match.
- An agent solved the camera from one product photo, then built the shoe at true scale.
- All 12 eyelets landed within about 2.5 mm of the photo.
- Nine versions in under an hour, each scored against the photo before the next.
- Sides, sole and back are inferred, since the photo shows only one angle.
- Category
- 3D and characters
- Tools
- Blender, Cycles, Codex, Python
- Status
- Test
- When
- October 2026
Side view. Hidden parts are inferred.
Six views at the same scale, 274.5 mm long.
Twelve concept screens explored how people could direct agents to edit film, image and sound.
- These are design concepts, not a built product.
- The screens were made with an AI image tool from one written brief.
- A person picks a clip or an object, asks an agent, checks the plan and keeps or rejects the edit.
- A written design contract sits beside the images and is the real spec.
- People, footage and numbers inside the images are illustrative.
Every image in this test was made with an AI image tool. People, footage and numbers inside them are illustrative.
- Category
- AI systems
- Tools
- AI image generation, Design brief
- Status
- ConceptAI-made
- When
- October 2026
Screening room with frame accurate notes.
Change requests sent to agents.
Review on a phone.