Sculptris AlternativesTop 3D Modelers & 3D Painting Apps like Sculptris

Sculptris is described as 'Elegant, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing the artist in you to simply focus on creating amazing 3D artwork. Gone are the technical and often tedious constraints typically associated with digital art' and is a popular 3D Modeler in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Sculptris for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Steam apps. The best Sculptris alternative is Blender, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Sculptris are Wings 3D, ZBrush, 3D-Coat and Nomad Sculpt.

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  1. Blender icon
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    A comprehensive open-source 3D software suite for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and animating. It supports renderings, simulations including fluid and cloth dynamics, complex compositing, video editing, and Python scripting, running across all major operating systems.

    150 Blender alternatives

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    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
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  2. Wings 3D icon
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    Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware.

    It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0.

    There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

    54 Wings 3D alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. ZBrush icon
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    Comprehensive digital sculpting tool offering advanced features like sculpting up to a billion polygons, customizable brushes, real-time painting, and powerful rendering system. Ideal for professionals in film, gaming, and more. Integrates with Redshift and supports Apple Pencil.

    55 ZBrush alternatives

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  4. 3D-Coat icon
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    3D-Coat is the one application that has all the tools you need to take your 3D idea from a block of digital clay all the way to a production ready, fully textured organic or hard surface model.

    70 3D-Coat alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. Nomad Sculpt icon
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    Nomad is a sculpting & painting mobile app, available on Android and iOS.

    9 Nomad Sculpt alternatives

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    • Paid
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    • Android
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  6. Cinema 4D icon
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    CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH of Friedrichsdorf, Germany. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing...

    50 Cinema 4D alternatives

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  7. meshmixer icon
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    meshmixer is an experimental 3D modeling tool for making 3D mashups without too much hassle.

    43 meshmixer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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  8. SculptGL icon
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    SculptGL is a browser-based 3d-modeling application.

    25 SculptGL alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  9. 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.

    13 ArmorPaint alternatives

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  10. Clavicula icon
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    Clavicula is a free 3D modeling software aimed at artists and users of all levels. It allows you to quickly give shape to your artistic, design, or engineering ideas, to create highly complex objects using a relatively simple toolkit.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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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...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  12. Polybrush icon
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    Polybrush is a new 3D editor created specifically for artists. It very useful for 3D concept art, fast modeling and sculpting. The main difference in approach to the creation of 3D models as a drawing. It was created by artist for artists.

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
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