3D Painting Apps

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  1. ZBrush icon
     82 likes

    Advanced digital sculpting and painting tool with customizable brushes, real-time capabilities, and powerful rendering. Perfect for diverse creative fields.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPad
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  2. InstaMAT icon
     6 likes

    InstaMAT offers a comprehensive solution for procedural material and asset creation, scalable texturing, and data-driven asset pipelines where instead of texturing a specific asset, you're now texturing an entire class of assets using a previously established workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. Paint 3D icon
     28 likes

    Paint 3D is Microsoft's totally rebuilt and enhanced version of Microsoft Paint built for Windows 10 and with extensive 3D support as well as other helpful, long-needed additions like pen support and easier cropping feature.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    4.2
    Very Good6 reviews
  4. 3D-Coat icon
     45 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. ArmorPaint icon
     18 likes

    Armor paint is a standalone software for 3d texture painting in PBR. It is entirely GPU based, and supports windows and linux.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. MARI icon
     15 likes

    MARI is a creative texture-painting tool that can handle extreme projects. MARI was developed at Weta Digital to handle the massively complex, highly detailed look development work demanded of the texture department by projects such as District 9, The Lovely Bones, and Avatar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Quicker start-up and export
    Better navigation
    Improved UI
    +1
    Enhanced workflows
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  7. Metasequoia icon
     14 likes

    Metasequoia is a polygon modeler for 3DCG and game development. It provides you efficient modeling works. It is very easy to use and learn, and even a beginner of 3DCG will be able to manage it one day.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Interface
    19 alternatives
  8. Pointshop3D icon
     3 likes

    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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. BodyPaint 3D icon
     12 likes

    BodyPaint 3D - For all Your 3D Painting Needs.

    Wouldn't it be great if you could have all your favorite image editing tools in a single 3D environment? Wouldn't it be great if they worked in conjunction with your 3D application rather than against it? Well, that is exact.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    24 alternatives
  10. Sculptura icon
     2 likes

    With an advanced clay engine and artist-tested tools, Sculptura is the most intuitive and powerful 3D sculpting app ever designed for your iPad. Sculpt engaging characters, ghastly monsters, or even intriguing abstract art anywhere you are.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
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  11. CrackArt icon
     10 likes

    CrackArt is a free open source 3D paint and texturing application that includes Texture Painting, Texture Baking, Procedural Materials and Textures, and much more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Texture painting
    Texture baking
    Materials editor
    +2
    Spline modeling
    31 alternatives
  12. 123D Sculpt icon
     5 likes

    Free for a limited time!

    With Autodesk® 123D™ Sculpt you can sculpt and paint interesting and realistic 3D shapes.

    It’s easy to get started. Choose a shape from the library of creatures, humans, vehicles, and more. Then push, pull and paint to make the sculpture your own.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPad
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  13. Sunny 3D icon
     4 likes

    With ultimate simple user interface, you can create 3D model by using freehand sketch and directly apply painting to your 3D model without learning difficult texture mapping.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  14. Putty3D icon
     3 likes

    SCULPT ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

    Putty is the best 3D sketchbook for artists and enthusiasts on the go. Whether you’re on holiday, on the train or just relaxing on the couch, Putty 3D is your perfect companion.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  15. Curvy 3D icon
     6 likes

    3D modelling software for artists. An easy to pick up, fast, non-technical modelling tool, ideal for first time 3D modellers. Draw in 3D, Sculpt and Paint.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
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  16. Blacksmith3D icon
     4 likes

    Paint in 3d across texture seams with ease. Choose from clone & projection tools, paint from a photo resource, make seamless tiles, sculpt existing models with chisels or hammers or make new morphs,.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  17. Corona Renderer is a new high-performance (un)biased photorealistic renderer, available for 3ds Max and as a standalone CLI application. There are also other plugins currently in development: Cinema 4D and Maya plugins are available in public and semi-public alpha stages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Autodesk 3ds Max
    6 alternatives
  18. Artist3D icon
     4 likes

    Artist3D is an extraordinarily easy-to-use 3D polygon modeling tool. It works completely without forms, pull-down menus, pop-up menus and text input. Only one modeling window covers each operation function. Less than 30 operation elements control the active interaction options.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    Introduction to Artist3D, modeling and painting
    Image-based modeling, copying of textures
    Exact modeling with measures and angles
    46 alternatives
  19. Meta 3D Modeller is a three-dimensional modeling tool type modeling clay, capable of 3D painting. 3D modeling to create organic forms with greater stability than the previous version and new tools for painting and texturing facilitating their creativity.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    iDough is your digital sculpting app, letting you bring the art shop along anywhere you go. iDough allows beginners to get into digital sculpting and professionals to do their work on the go.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    9 alternatives