Blender Alternatives

Blender is described as 'Free open-source 3D software for modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing, and simulation' and is a leading 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Blender for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Blender alternative is Autodesk Maya. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Wings 3D or Natron. Other great apps like Blender are Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Bforartists and ZBrush.

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  1. Mycosm is a platform for creating 3D applications, designed to be used by a broad range of developers for many industries. For example, games, engineering simulation, education, visualization, decision support etc. Mycosm consists of a studio tool and freely distributable player.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  2. Strata Design 3D CX is our professional-level 3D modeling and animation software for Windows / PC that delivers end-to-end power for the entire 3D design workflow. Quickly bring your creative ideas to life with a simplified learning curve, tight integration with Adobe Photoshop...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Loki Render allows you to create your own render farm, serving Blender render jobs to a group of computers. Loki is easy to setup and runs on Linux, Windows or Mac, making it a quick and flexible distributed network rendering solution!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  4. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Awakening icon
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    Awakening is a powerful professional real-time 3D solution. With it, you can easily create eye-catching interactive 3D presentations, brief films, games...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  6. 3D morphing application available as a stand-alone or part of Blacksmith3D-Suite.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. SDF 3D icon
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    SDF features a standard toolset of modelling functions and high-resolution export for 3D Printers (STL Format). SDF uses the SoftEdge© modelling technique which is memory efficient and adapted to mobile devices respecting their memory and CPU limitations.

    5 SDF 3D alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    enGrid is an open-source mesh generation software with CFD applications in mind. enGrid uses an in-house development for surface meshing and prismatic boundary layers; a module for hex far-fields will be added in the next release.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Dead Deer icon
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    Dead Deer is a 3D modeler, 3D game maker, and a 3D demo maker designed to create games.

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    • Mac
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  10. Solar icon
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    Lightstream Solar is a new GPU-accelerated high-end compositor for VFX work.

    The software provides a node and tree-based workflow, and offers the range of tools one would expect in an app of this type, including layer management tools, colour correction and grading, and addition.

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    • Paid
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    • Windows
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  11. Deep FX Studio is a general purpose 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows and will be ported to Linux in the future. Tools anyone can use and master. Built from the ground up to be intuitive for artists who only want to focus on their art, and technical artists...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  12. Plotagon icon
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    There is power in animation. It captures attention. It stimulates the senses. It’s timeless.

    22 Plotagon alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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