Autodesk Mudbox Alternatives

Autodesk Mudbox is described as 'Digital sculpting and texture painting software for creating detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets with efficient layer workflows' and is a 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Autodesk Mudbox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Autodesk Mudbox alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Autodesk Mudbox are ZBrush, Bforartists, Cinema 4D and Paint 3D.

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  1. Comprehensive 3D texturing tool offering advanced brushes, smart materials, real-time rendering, and versatility for both photorealism and stylized designs, making it an ideal choice for artists and designers to create lifelike, detailed assets with lighting and shadow effects.

    15 Adobe Substance 3D Painter alternatives

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    • Steam
     
  2. ArmorPaint icon
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    Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR. It is entirely GPU based, and supports windows and linux.

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    • Paid
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  3. Quixel Mixer icon
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    Quixel Mixer is a software allowing to create and modify 3D textures.

    6 Quixel Mixer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
     
  4. Zmodeler icon
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    ZModeler (or Zanoza Modeler) is a 3D modeling application. It is aimed at modelers who model for computer games such as 18 Wheels of Steel, Grand Theft Auto, Need for Speed, Midtown Madness or similar video games.

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
     
  5. picoCAD icon
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    picoCAD is a program to build and texture lowpoly 3D models. Programs for modelling are overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. This program was made using pico 8.

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  6. MARI icon
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    MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

    32 MARI alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Mac
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  7. Nirvana 3D icon
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    A game engine written in Python, extending support across multiple GPU devices with 3D rendering, PBR Renderer and much more.

    103 Nirvana 3D alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  8. Face Gen icon
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    The easy way to create realistic faces 3D human faces from 1 or 2 photographs or at random. Adjust age, race, gender and 150 other controls. Apply faces to any polygonal mesh and UV map. The free version has the full functionality of the paid version except for exporting to e.

    24 Face Gen alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
     
  9. Pointshop3D icon
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    Pointshop3D is a system for interactive shape and appearance editing of 3D point-sampled geometry. By generalizing conventional 2D pixel editors, it supports a great variety of different interaction techniques to alter shape and appearance of 3D point models, including cleaning...

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    • Free
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    • Windows
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  10. Dilay icon
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    Dilay is an open source, easy to use 3D sculpting application. With an update, roughly, one every 2 weeks, it is well maintained.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  11. MeshMolder icon
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    MeshMolder is a digital sculpting software that works like a clay, adding and removing parts where desired by controlling the thickness and radius of coverage and thus creating the final form. The software is completely in beta, functional and free (freeware) can be used as a...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  12. BodyPaint 3D icon
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    BodyPaint 3D - For all Your 3D Painting Needs.

    Wouldn't it be great if you could have all your favorite image editing tools in a single 3D environment? Wouldn't it be great if they worked in conjunction with your 3D application rather than against it? Well, that is exact.

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    • Paid
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