The Best 45 LightWave 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
  • 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

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    K-3D

    K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and powerful package.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

  • Silo icon

    Silo

    Silo Professional is the main version of Silo, which gives users access to everything Silo has to offer.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • 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

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    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

  • 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

  • Hexagon icon

    Hexagon

    Hexagon delivers all the tools a graphic artist needs to create complete, detailed, textured 3D models ready to be rendered.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows

  • 3DTin icon

    3DTin

    3DTin is a browser based 3D modelling tool. It gives you a simple user interface to create 3D models, and runs in any HTML5 browser (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safar, IE9), no matter which operating system you use.

    Free Web

  • Rocket 3F icon

    Rocket 3F

    Rocket 3F is polygonal modeller created for Concept Artists and Designers. Modeling with Rocket 3F is like drawing - very Simple and Inspiring! The Most important feature of Rocket 3F is Workflow! It is Fast Fun and Friendly!

    Free Personal Windows

  • 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

  • 3D Model Maker icon

    3D Model Maker

    3D Model Maker lets you create virtual 3D models in your computer. You can create anything your imagination can think of. (Not limited to simple cubes or blocks like some apps!) It uses meshes of polygons just like they used in Toy Story.

    Commercial Windows Android Android Tablet iPad Windows Phone