Mitsuba

Physically based renderer. Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques and contains...

Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

YafaRay

YafaRay is an open source raytracing render engine. As an open source project, users and developers have free access to the source code and it is free, as in free speech.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Blender

Keyshot

KeyShot is an interactive raytracing and global illumination program developed by Luxion for both PC and Mac that breaks down the complexity of creating photographic images from 3D models.

Commercial

Toolbag

A full-featured, real-time material editor and renderer bundled in a tidy package.

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

appleseed

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based rendering engine designed to produce photorealistic images, animations and visual effects.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Sunflow Rendering System

Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

RenderMan

PhotoRealistic RenderMan, or PRMan for short, is a proprietary photorealistic RenderMan-compliant renderer. It primarily uses the REYES algorithm but is also fully...

Free Personal

Indigo Renderer

Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Octane Render

Octane Render is the world's first GPU based, un-biased, physically based renderer. What does that mean? It uses the video card in your computer to render...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

fryrender

fryrender is the physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl. It is a photo-realistic render engine where all the elements involved in the generation of...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux

Thea Render

Thea Render is a state-of-the-art biased/unbiased renderer with a rich set of innovative features, a powerful material system and its own advanced studio, all-in-one....

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Sketchup Autodesk 3ds Max

Arion

Arion is the hybrid-accelerated and physically-based light simulator developed by RandomControl.

Commercial Windows

Adobe Dimension CC

Create high-quality, photorealistic images with the 3D tool made for graphic designers.

Commercial

Freestyle

Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes. It is designed as a programmable interface to allow maximum control over the style...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Pixie Renderer

Pixie is an open source RenderMan renderer for generating photorealistic images. You can compile Pixie on Windows (using Visual Studio 2005), Linux and on OSX (using...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

NOX Renderer

NOX Renderer is a rendering software based on unbiased methods. The renderer is available as a standalone Windows executable with a plug-in to link it to 3ds Max. ...

Free Open Source Windows

Indigo RT

Indigo RT is a new rendering solution which delivers unmatched value in the high end rendering market. Indigo is an unbiased, physically based and photo-realistic...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows

3Delight

3Delight is a fast, high quality, RenderMan®-compliant renderer designed to produce photo-realistic images in demanding production environments. The renderer was...

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

MiniLight

MiniLight is a minimal global illumination renderer. It is primarily an exercise in simplicity. But that makes it a good base and benchmark (in some sense) for...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux