The Best 45 K-3D Alternatives

  • Blender icon

    Blender

    Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Haiku AmigaOS MorphOS

    Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable UI customization Lightweight Low memory usage Scripting Non linear editor Animations 3D Sculpting 3d sketching Compositor HD Rendering Intuitive Nodes Keyframe animation Motion tracking Parametric Modeling Physically Based Rendering Powerful render engine Procedural Texturing Real time rendering Rendering with graphics card Texture painting Texturing Video overlay
  • Sketchup icon

    Sketchup

    SketchUp (formerly Google Sketchup) is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design—and available in a...

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Web

    Interior Design 3d sketching Image to 3D
  • Autodesk Maya icon

    Autodesk Maya

    Autodesk Maya software is a powerful, integrated 3D modeling, animation, visual effects, and rendering solution.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Autodesk 3ds Max icon

    Autodesk 3ds Max

    Autodesk 3ds Max, formerly 3D Studio and 3D Studio Max, is a professional 3D computer graphics program for making 3D animations, models, games and images.

    Commercial

  • Wings 3D icon

    Wings 3D

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Art of Illusion icon

    Art of Illusion

    Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with Java 5 or later. The current version is 2.7.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Rhinoceros icon

    Rhinoceros

    Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS* curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Vue icon

    Vue

    Create vast expanses of terrains, add trees, select the best point of view and render hyper-realistic images of your landscapes in moody atmospheres... in a few mouse clicks. Vue Pioneer is a great way to learn 3D.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • Houdini icon

    Houdini

    Houdini covers all the major areas of 3D production, including: * Modeling - All standard geometry entities including Polygons, (Hierarchical) NURBs/Bezier Curves/Patches & Trims, Metaballs * Animation - Keyframed animation and raw...

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 123D icon

    123D

    Autodesk 123D is a suite of hobbyist CAD and modelling tools created by Autodesk. As well as the more basic drawing and modelling capabilities it also has assembly and constraint support and STL export.

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows iPad

  • LightWave icon

    LightWave

    LightWave 3D combines a state-of-the-art renderer with powerful, intuitive modeling, and animation tools.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • iClone icon

    iClone

    Real-time animation evolves with 3D Video FX, motion paths, HDR and rapid drag & drop creation inside iClone. iClone combines video production with 3D real-time animation.

    Freemium Windows

  • Anim8or icon

    Anim8or

    Anim8or is a free 3D modeling and character animation program

    Free Windows

  • Cheetah3D icon

    Cheetah3D

    Cheetah3D is a computer graphics program for 3D modelling, animation and rendering. It is written in Cocoa for MacOS. The program is aimed at beginning and amateur 3D artists.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Clara.io icon

    Clara.io

    Clara.io is a full-featured cloud-based 3D modeling, animation and rendering software tool that runs in your web browser. With Clara.

    Freemium Web

  • RealFlow icon

    RealFlow

    RealFlow is a stand-alone application for fluid and dynamics simulation that allows easy, intuitive control and visualization of the behaviour of fluids and rigid bodies, and their interaction with a surrounding environment.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • DeleD CE icon

    DeleD CE

    DeleD is a 3D modeler and level-editor combined into one. It focuses at game development and is specifically designed to create static objects/worlds.

    Free Open Source Windows